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The law of unintended consequences / it's drugs so easy £ strikes again.
Our local spar has a vape recycling tray near the door now, at least it seems some people use it.
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Does anyone want free pink geranium X oxanium? Can pop them in a box and post.
Also have corn marigold seeds going.
Edit: and dahlia, yellow semi pompon. Nothing fancy but good growers so they will outpace the slugs if you grow them out in a 10 cm, then plant.
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Husband got hit with the covid stick.
Christmas party in a hotel so could have been anybody really who passed it on. Headache and cold shivers.
Weirdly enough it doesn't kick off his asthma which is a good thing. So probably my turn in 3 or so days...yippee.
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I sometimes suspect some culture war types are worried about being ostracized for saying the wrong thing.
If it's that type of person, some gentle conversation might reassure them?
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I can try to factcheck for you, but I'm not sure people linking gender neutral pronouns to lack of freedom of speech are open to facts and I can't find anything in Dutch either...
Sounds similar to Jordan Peterson claiming someone in Canada went to jail for misgendering someone but that didn't actually happen so... 🤔
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Saw him in the grand opera house and waterfront hall.
The waterfront hall wasn't that full and the audience less engaged so we got taken the piss out of 😂
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Some were asshole reason voters, some it was a protest vote (fuck Cameron and Osborne), some thought people would get jobs / better pay (which should happen anyway) wages had not gone up in real terms since 2008 , some it was just being old and bitter, some had nothing to lose (pensioners), some don't like neoliberalism and hoped it would lead to an economically left UK (lolsob) , some got screwed as trades people have no wage protection as single traders (as if gov cares about that now nope), some wanted the UK out of the EU as they thought it messed things up, some wanted better immigration rights for their birth country citizens (Brexit wasn't needed for that of course) and so on.
Warning people never seems to work, it has to go wrong first. But now what? Hopefully it's a lesson learned that is permanent...
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ex7e1m13mo
Irish sea Brexit border news.
A big hassle for small traders, not that there is an alternative atm...
Has not (yet?) led to businesses setting up in NI as they can trade with the EU both ways and sell to GB. -
Could be fake and the reasons for killing the man are something quite different, but internet fame is now guaranteed for the shooter.
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They aren't super specific anywhere.
It could have been a lorry turning into the Westlink. Photos suggested the RTC happened at York Street.
Somebody on social media claimed they saw the incident, hopefully they spoke to police.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9ql27y7en7o
A cyclist who died after a collision with a lorry in north Belfast on Thursday has been named as Gary McMahon.
I don't know him or anybody who knows him, RIP Gary.
Very bad junction, busy and with impatient drivers and parked cars. No cycle lane / no bus lane for cyclists and buses only.
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The Dutch government at least tried to find all UK citizens in NL. Its not that hard to send people letters based on their registration details at the local council & tax details.
If individuals have responsibilities perhaps governments should have some too?
I think the UK government really let down Brits abroad and I say that as a citizen of nowhere in the UK. We got somewhat protected as the EU has clout, the monitoring board on EU citizens in the UK is actually not a chocolate fireguard and actively engages.
The Brits were hung out to dry and I choose a bit more solidarity with each other as we all got stomped on by Brexit.
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That is the question: How much grain yield do we lose if we grow food in a way that doesn't trash the soil?
Since a lot of land is used for growing animal fodder/sugar beet (which is also very destructive to the environment due to neonicotinoids) it may not be as bad if some can be re-directed, farmers get help with flooding protection/drainage, but research needed.
The other bread issue is that climate chaos is leading to grain of a lower quality that is not suitable for bread.
I am being a bit tongue in cheek here, but we have low quality food, and regenerative agriculture/old grains can perhaps play a role. But at £4 a bread it's hard to scale up.
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From what I know M&S bread uses these old grains in the mix.
Normal bread is baked with a process that doesn't require a lot of gluten, as post ww2 UK grain wasn't fantastic.
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Do it, only m&s and artisanal bakery bread is edible ;)
Sourdough for the people!
Joking aside, bread baked with old grain species that do not require ploughing is also far more environmentally friendly.
Could be a win for all :)
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Lol 😂
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Surely the friend of small farmers, not? /Sarc
His emotional upset beings tears to a glass eye.. ;)
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Yep, but some farmers have expensive machinery and go over 1 million as it seems that value is added to the estate. Unless the farmers in NI complaint got that wrong too
There is land near us in the Belfast hills for grazing, the plot sold for over a million.
Its grazing land only and yet...
Of course a lot of noise is stirred up by people that bought land to avoid tax, but a little bit of tuning and adding some useful things in the budget for nature farming or whatever genuine small farms need may not be so bad?
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There are cases where farm machinery is high value / the farmer is widowed, so a bit of tweaking may be needed.
But farmers are in general not happy, being squeezed by supermarkets, climate chaos and flooding hitting revenues and the replacement of the EU cap payments is far lower in most cases.
So this is a "final straw" issue and perhaps the budget should include some help too for smaller farms?
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This is of course something his supporters love cos "big pharma bad" and that might be the strategic reason behind it.
Or in a messed up but legal way shorting stock for trump mates.
He's also an hiv causes aids denier, "nice" (sigh...)
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adds to watch list :)
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After his performance at twitter randomly firing developers I'm just assuming any cuts will do.
Of course he's a useful idiot to have "regulations? We don't need no stinking regulations"
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Only pee sampling. Kinda hard to aim in the tiny aluminium cup I was given as a woman...and yes, the disabled toilet. I wouldn't fancy providing other samples in there :)
/Csb
There was this drug testing company at work and it used the shared disabled toilets in the hallway. After lots of complaints they got told to move in a custom built little office in another building. Most days you would see someone waiting outside the toilet door wearing gloves.