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There it is again... that familiar homophobic sentiment... It's almost as if... But no. It couldn't be.

You say that as though you consider gay people in some way inferior to you...

Good try, but no, that's not it. The RNC sausage party was old news by the time the Crowdstrike thing happened. There's stories abound all over the Internet if you'd care to do a little Googlage, but of course, it's probably not the sort of thing you'd want popping up mixed in with your targeted ads in the future is it... with your name, address, and employers details so firmly attached to your non-anonymous internet profile. I think this is one best sliced open with Occam's razor... there were suddenly more closeted gay men present in Milwaukee looking for random hookups during the Republican National Convention because...

Nope, apparently it's a whole thing, there's all sort of closeted self-hating married-to-a-woman gay men there. I won't bother posting the sources I've read it from, because as we all know, it's all leftist propaganda anyway 🥷

Do you have to itemise each log by species as well, or just weight?

Oh jeez!

So, fun fact about the RNC in Milwaukee... grindr crashes due to unprecedented traffic... the number of gay men in the area skyrocketed! Must be all those antifa plants... Or maybe it's Projection 2025.

Jesus, I'd not cope with that. I think it was around 15° here today, and I was already starting to sweat in the sun. Stay hydrated, everyone. Nearly 50° in some parts of Eastern Europe recently I heard...

I was doing a chicken show at a nearby school this morning (I bring a load of the girls and their babies, everyone gets to hold a chick, stroke a rooster, that sort of thing), and one little lad asked the age old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg? He suggested that maybe the first two chickens just sort of appeared out of thin air... maybe God? But then we explored the idea that chickens are just the last of the surviving tiny dinosaurs with 65 million years of experience under their belts, so it was eggs that came first... because dinosaurs have been using eggs for much, much longer. And just imagine the fluffy little rooster with his 3-inch spurs, but instead he's mostly naked and 7 feet tall with his spurs scaled up the same... and you've got something pretty similar to the velociraptor... I think I might have given some of them a slight fear of chickens instead. Whoops!

Then why take such an obsessive interest in all things US, The UK is your master and what nationality are you ?? [Ah, I have to stop the pastiche at this point... ]

Scary beasts!

The Irish question? I thought I'd made my views quite clear. A united Ireland. Brits out! Éirinn go Brách!

Dya remember when you tried using the word hypocrisy a few weeks back? This is that.

Watching chickens chase mice is terrifying. Imagine if dinosaurs hadn't shrunk and grown feathers... Frogs, too. But mine don't seem to like frog meat, they only do it for the thrill of the hunt.

Hmm. Complicated really, isn't it. It would definitely be interesting to build it with a load cell on each anchor to check the numbers. Anyone on here got a pair? We've been tempted to buy one on the MRT for a while, they are hugely useful. But I guess the real lesson here though is don't incorporate random twit-toks of unknown origin into your rigging repertoire, especially when it doesn't really solve any problems.

Jesus, that sucks pretty hard.

Erm... I'm happy to be corrected here... but the number of ropes on each leg doesn't affect the kN on each anchor point... assume a load of 8kN, each leg will carry 4kN, that 4kN will be split 2 and 2 for each leg on the top right, but all 4 through the single leg on the top left... It would be interesting to see a load cell put on each anchor point to see what variation there is as the load shifts around, it would probably wobble a bit, but it wouldn't be 33-66 as I think you might be suggesting? Now, if the sliding knot wasn't there to split the load, and instead transferred it to a non-moving single strand and a double strand, you'd absolutely get a difference in the kN at each anchor point, as the rope would stretch (even what most people call "static rope", which is in fact semi-static)... twice as much on the single strand as the double, because there's half the rope. It only matters when loads get big enough to worry about, but it's still a potential weak point in the system. So in that case you'd definitely want either a pair of single legs, or a pair of double legs; unless you were using truly zero-stretch materials (or as close as possible, aramid, spectra, dyneema etc).

Yep, put a ring or a biner on that sliding butterfly instead of doing rope-on-rope, and it's a fairly clever way to join two marginal anchors together and split the load equally. But it would be interesting to test to destruction the inner tip of the bight after the load has shifted position a few times... how many swipes do you get at different weights?

Understood skipper 👍

Well, that's a rollercoaster ride. Defending Donald Trump's (alledged) paedophilia by outlining a dive risk assessment. Quite the departure!

I have to admit, it does make the problem seem a whole lot easier to deal with. I'm tempted to start applying the technique to some of the other challenges we face 👍 Yep, quite right. And we've got people all over the world trying to ban contraception! Loopy.

Anyway, in other news, Project 25 aims to stop free weather forecasting and essentially eliminate any monitoring of climate change. NOAA Is in Danger - The Atlantic WWW.THEATLANTIC.COM Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Which, let's be honest here, is really only a problem if you believe in climate change in the first place 👍

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