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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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I'm sure it'd be a hugely important issue were it to involve anyone else, but because it concerns the God Emperor of their cult, it can be nonchalantly swept under the rug. Which is a real pity.

Apart from inviting Mbepe into our lives, I'm actually fairly vanilla.

You aren't ignoring my comment, as indicated by the words above. You are ignoring Donald Trump's predilection for raping 13 year old girls. Why is this behaviour acceptable for any candidate for the most powerful person in the world? Why does this sit well with you? Fine, his covid skepticism and fear of brown people closely aligns with your own views, but how can you overlook this specific aspect of the man? Because for me... that kind of trumps all other qualities.

I'd say the little drone bees from Black Mirror would be the way forward for artificial pollination on that kind of scale. Plus, you could task them with all sorts of other things!

Even just a good jiggle when the majority of flowers on each truss are open helps, and it can easily be done with the spare hand during watering, so it really shouldn't take up any more time. Lance or nozzle in one hand, hose wrapped around your leg to bring it along and free up your other hand, so it can do other tasks as you move down the line. Pinching off shoots, inseminating flowers, rehoming pests, etc.

When you say unpollinated flowers, is it just that they are still present among developing fruits, or is there some other visual tell? I was taught (at tomato growing school, no less), that a good practice to get into is to shake each truss, gently but with a firm intent, to scatter pollen; or if you aren't too far into double figures of plants, just walk along and tickle each flower with a small, soft paintbrush. Sounds like an effort, and it is (just like many of the other repetitive tasks associated with tomatoes), but the noticeable uptick in yield makes it worth it. Edit: the paintbrush technique also let's you reliably maintain the genetics of heirloom varieties and avoid cross-pollination if you are growing many different types in one tunnel, or indeed, allows you to cross-pollinate in a targeted fashion, if you are making your own varieties. Just aim for very new flowers, ideally mature but not yet unfurled, slice the poor thing open to reveal its naughty bits, and tickle the pollen from your chosen donor onto it. Then isolate and label the flower or truss, and harvest the seeds when ripe.

441350969_1163411041359863_4564060609888386060_n.mp4 This popped up on my feed and it made we wince and grit my teeth to imagine the catastrophes it could cause. A non-redundant, rope-on-rope, temporarily-self-equalising-to-destruction anchor? 47 K vues · 478 réactions | Incredible rope skill. #tyingropeknots... WWW.FACEBOOK.COM Incredible rope skill. #tyingropeknots #zeppelinknot #siberianhitch #knottying... The version on Facebook had 47k views when I first saw it. Scary.

Yeah, we all understand it. It's not rocket surgery. That's the sort of thing I expect people who like guns to know. I'd be concerned if they didn't. Edit: Trump: “Nothing you can do folks. All though the 2nd Amendment people maybe there is, I don’t know…” (Bullet flies passed head) Trump: OH WAIT, NOT LIKE THAT!!!

It's funny how he thinks any of that blurb above makes him sound any less likely to have the kind of misadventures that gun owners or those adjacent to them have the opportunity to enjoy. 🙂

Ah you know how this thread will go now, people will just tell you to price it whatever it's worth to you, allowing for overheads, hassle, a little something for yourself, and any number of costs that people would encounter, but they won't really share what that might be for themselves, until people start tentatively suggesting highballs and lowballs until we start arguing about whether some jobs are best charged for big machines or a fella with a ladder.