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Post by writerspanic on Aug 29, 2024 11:53:35 GMT
We are dog sitting this week for my stepdaughter. Looking after a flatulent boxer. I can't wait for this week to end Get some canned pumpkin and mix a teaspoon into the dog's canned food. After a couple of meals the gas attack will be over, and you can storm Normandy! |
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 29, 2024 12:01:43 GMT
I think all boxers are flatulant, bernie it's in their dna. Cris, that C word will not be tolerated, get a grip, man. I didnt say CHRISTMAS I hid the word CHRISTMAS so as not to remind anyone of CHRISTMAS but now ive got no choice but say CHRISTMAS. CHRISTMAS is only 4 months away you know. Im going to have to find the shopping days till CHRISTMAS ticker now to remind you its CHRISTMAS soon 🎄🎄 |
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Post by bernie on Aug 29, 2024 15:49:10 GMT
I think all boxers are flatulant, bernie it's in their dna. Cris, that C word will not be tolerated, get a grip, man. This dog could strip paint. Last night I ended up in the kitchen watching stuff on my phone |
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Post by graceomalley on Aug 29, 2024 17:30:44 GMT
I think all boxers are flatulant, bernie it's in their dna. Cris, that C word will not be tolerated, get a grip, man. I didnt say CHRISTMAS I hid the word CHRISTMAS so as not to remind anyone of CHRISTMAS but now ive got no choice but say CHRISTMAS. CHRISTMAS is only 4 months away you know. Im going to have to find the shopping days till CHRISTMAS ticker now to remind you its CHRISTMAS soon 🎄🎄 NOOOOOOOO!😂 |
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 29, 2024 18:16:29 GMT
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 29, 2024 18:19:11 GMT
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Post by oldkeith on Aug 29, 2024 20:52:33 GMT
Is Christmas still politically correct?
There are those of other religions and of no religion who also celebrate the, err, Midwinter Festival, you know...
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 30, 2024 11:21:01 GMT
Nobody cares.😁 Other faiths or non have Diwali and Eid Vesak and Yule and Happy holidays, Christians can have Christmas.Me myself and I personally dont celebrate Christmas,we do Yule.
Pagan and Buddhist festies for us but each to their own.Political correctness is authoritarian censorship.
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Post by givingitsomethought on Aug 30, 2024 13:02:10 GMT
Happy (probably very) belated birthday gist🍷🎂..off to watch airplanes with the g.kids at coningsby this morning..no sleep,and a heap of stuff to do here first😴 Thanks Grace. Hope you had a nice time with the kiddies x |
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Post by givingitsomethought on Aug 30, 2024 13:03:27 GMT
Putting a dash cam in daughter-unit's car. Doing spousal unit's laundry. Adding a 20w light to the basement stairwell so the dog can see all of the stairs and quit thinking that she's about to dive into a black void (silly doggo). Changing the hornet traps in the garden Adjusting solar panels Toking a rather fat one Considering Ice Cream (Butter Pecan or Peanut Butter Cup) Getting acquainted with UK Hippies after a long time away. (waving from Atlanta) Welcome back and well done on a busy day  |
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 30, 2024 16:41:25 GMT
After getting sacked to celebrate covid, I took on whatever projects I could get. One was a vertical farming group contracting to Bowery. One of the things I write is service instructions. They were using an open source software called FarmOS. As I used it I came up with a plan to automate a home food garden. I have a 1 acre plot with the house, on the side of a hill, surrounded by pines and sweetghums. While I see some advantages to vertical farming, like, if you're going to set it up on Mars, I think it's needlessly complicated. Especially the obscene cost of Fanuc robots. But vertical is great for keeping the crops free from chemicals or bugs. It's like a clean room. What I was thinking was that a small farm, using a limited set of container sizes could be managed literally by remote control. As in, from a tablet. On a beach. In the Caribbean. It would require at least two wireless robots. One configured like a forklift and the other configured for dexterity (operating irrigation hoses, valves and spillways) using articulated arms. </tangent> I like the principle of vertical gardening and farming but i read an article recently that most big vorporate investors are getting out of it bc of the cost of making it profitable on a large commercial scale and going back to investing in normal farming practices. Which is all very well but conventional farming is going to get very difficult if not impossible in areas subject to excessive temperatures weve seen in recent years and months whereas vertical farming can better control its growing environment. I suspect the loss of investors is more to do with current capitalists need for a quick buck return.No one seems interested in long term investment in anything these day,only vacuuming state subsidies as fast as they can and offshoring them to tax havens and claiming for operational losses. |
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writerspanic
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Post by writerspanic on Aug 30, 2024 18:29:12 GMT
After getting sacked to celebrate covid, I took on whatever projects I could get. One was a vertical farming group contracting to Bowery. One of the things I write is service instructions. They were using an open source software called FarmOS. As I used it I came up with a plan to automate a home food garden. I have a 1 acre plot with the house, on the side of a hill, surrounded by pines and sweetghums. While I see some advantages to vertical farming, like, if you're going to set it up on Mars, I think it's needlessly complicated. Especially the obscene cost of Fanuc robots. But vertical is great for keeping the crops free from chemicals or bugs. It's like a clean room. What I was thinking was that a small farm, using a limited set of container sizes could be managed literally by remote control. As in, from a tablet. On a beach. In the Caribbean. It would require at least two wireless robots. One configured like a forklift and the other configured for dexterity (operating irrigation hoses, valves and spillways) using articulated arms. </tangent> I like the principle of vertical gardening and farming but i read an article recently that most big vorporate investors are getting out of it bc of the cost of making it profitable on a large commercial scale and going back to investing in normal farming practices. Which is all very well but conventional farming is going to get very difficult if not impossible in areas subject to excessive temperatures weve seen in recent years and months whereas vertical farming can better control its growing environment. I suspect the loss of investors is more to do with current capitalists need for a quick buck return.No one seems interested in long term investment in anything these day,only vacuuming state subsidies as fast as they can and offshoring them to tax havens and claiming for operational losses. One of the advantages to vertical farming is being able to harvest on a daily basis. Another is the controlled environment that includes 18 hours of light and the lighting is designed according to the wavelength required for a particular part of the growth cycle without hitting the plants with the whole spectrum. One of the problems is the conveyor system, which is very similar to the sort that dry cleaners use, only much larger. Another is the software engineering and I saw this at both vertical farming firms and all of the EV companies I worked for. The software is massive and coordination between teams is meager. As I saw it, the engineers made the system ridiculously complicated because reverse engineering it would take half a century. They cobbled modules together and wrote a huge cheat sheet to go along with the dozens of watchdog timers. The investors are too far removed to realize what a mess it is. Which was also the case with ELMS and became a major contributor to their failure only a few weeks before they were supposed to launch. The company that bought them out had to invest over a year in software engineering just to make the mini vans move. In the case of vertical farming I think maybe they put most of their money into growing and nowhere near enough in the development of a working system. They should have made it work manually first. Then automate it. They have put the cart before the mule. By the way, you can learn a lot about indoor farming from cannabis operations. Where I live it's a serious crime that will have you engaged to several horny inmates! |
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 30, 2024 18:47:05 GMT
The same investment arguments were raised against hydroponics polytunnels, aquaculture,permaculture,forest gardening.. Personally i think its just a method of gaming the investments market,hyping the interest,increasing the stock value and selling quickly...theyre used as pyramid ponzi investment schemes. The long term -just like with the fossil fuel industry -is to keep big agri going as long as possible.There will come a point where any method of food production will be acceptable and investable bc not to do so will mean shortages starvation and death for millions and wealth wont save anyone.With temperatures in the 40's and 50's C over two thirds of the planet and reaching the 60s,growth is not sustainable. You cant eat money.
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Post by oldkeith on Aug 30, 2024 21:27:26 GMT
Whatever farming methods are chosen, they just won't keep up with world population growth under continued adverse climate change. Looking at Africa alone, where it is estimated around 1.5 billion are presently living, this land faces grave climate change in the relatively near future, and is already being badly affected in some areas. So perhaps at some future time over a billion people will eventually be trying to move Northwards into Europe. Making Fugue for a Darkening Island look like a jolly little science fiction novel.... |
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Post by bernie on Aug 31, 2024 6:04:24 GMT
Whatever farming methods are chosen, they just won't keep up with world population growth under continued adverse climate change. Looking at Africa alone, where it is estimated around 1.5 billion are presently living, this land faces grave climate change in the relatively near future, and is already being badly affected in some areas. So perhaps at some future time over a billion people will eventually be trying to move Northwards into Europe. Making Fugue for a Darkening Island look like a jolly little science fiction novel.... The population of Africa is exploding. Nigeria has increased something like five fold since the war The trouble is there is no way they can feed or support all those extra mouths. It's not a problem that's going to be solved by tighter border controls or Keir Starmer saying he is going to get tough with the trafficers |
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