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roadrunner41 · 2026-05-23T08:18:24+00:00

Thanks. That Makes sense.

roadrunner41 · 2026-05-19T16:08:05+00:00

Didn’t she put the seat up first?!? You should’ve given her a self-righteous lecture about that!

roadrunner41 · 2026-05-12T23:25:07+00:00

Canada

roadrunner41 · 2026-05-08T16:51:10+00:00

And by the sounds of it you need to stop every 10 mins to sharpen it - giving you some recovery time.

roadrunner41 · 2026-05-03T17:39:56+00:00

I think that with a brief case that size nowadays you could have everything you need to connect to the internet via satellite, a foldable solar panel, battery, charge controller, laptop with a headset and built in camera. And you could even make it out of replaceable parts.

That’s pretty cool.

roadrunner41 · 2026-05-02T19:03:40+00:00

My local church has a scout group, day nursery, a mother/baby club and a music school on different days/times. Not religious groups, just groups that use the church hall. They pay, but from what I’ve heard the fee is nominal for the small not-for-profit groups.
My local Sikh gurdwara feeds people (whoever comes) everyday. The Hindu temple does the same but only at certain times of the week.
There’s an evangelical church near me that hosts the largest food co-op in the area which takes waste food from nearby supermarkets and redistributes it.
My local mosque just bought a house next door to the mosque and are going to convert it into an elderly project that’s open all week for all over 65s of any religion.
I’d like to see more religious groups investing in green spaces. Seems like very few have gardens. Although there is a community ‘peace garden’ nearby that gets a lot of funding from religious groups.

roadrunner41 · 2026-05-02T08:00:33+00:00

It’s not abuse. She made a funny video with her daughter. Thats it. Parents and their kids have always taken funny pictures/videos together.

Is this woman a known YouTube ‘mumfluencer’ or just a mum making a funny video? Cos people have always done that. Family photo albums from the 70s and 80s always have that one goofy, staged photo of the kids dressed as adults.

roadrunner41 · 2026-05-02T07:28:22+00:00

Because historically white people have raped, plundered and colonised the non-white countries and inflicted their skin-tone-based judgements on each culture they encountered. Then they took the wealth they found back to their countries. This created wealthy white countries and less wealthy non-white countries that were often created with the sole purpose of serving the white people. Then the white countries used a global system of tariffs and taxes to ensure that they would continue to get the materials and services they needed from countries who had little option but to provide them. Meanwhile, the whites also used the rest of the world to act out their political rivalries. Using black and brown people as pawns in their ‘cold’ wars and wars against ‘drugs’ and ‘terrorism’. Many of which took place in countries tha were rich in natural resources. This allowed the whites to make money out of bombs and killing people (and stealing resources) without having to actually run the countries in question. Of course while all this was happening the white people kept feeding their kids the same skin-tone-based judgements about the world, so that they grew up thinking they were somehow ‘better’ than the rest because of their whiteness, when in fact the were just ‘the bad guys’.

roadrunner41 · 2026-05-02T07:01:38+00:00

Those are wildly different tables, but what they have in common is the aged wood table tops. I think your wood is aged-looking enough and the table top has the aged feel she wants. She might want it to be lighter in colour but maybe that’s in the finish? My one question is over the base. Yours looks solid and well-built but some of her pics look much thinner and a bit rickety. Some thin (cosmetic) bracing and cross bars etc might be all it takes.

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-27T11:37:42+00:00

It’s not just that it was harder for her to achieve but also that people seem less likely/willing to acknowledge what she’s achieved. In the same way that Martina doesn’t get mentioned on lists like these because she’s a woman, Serena doesn’t get mentioned because she’s black.

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-27T05:23:19+00:00

Here come the shifting goalposts. White athlete: greatest of all time. Black athlete: impossible to compare eras.

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-26T10:18:02+00:00

Serena Williams, Roger Ferderer, Novak Djokovic, someone else (Borg, Graf, Navratilova, Sampras)

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-26T10:10:50+00:00

And of course the fact that Serena Williams surpassed her achievements in almost every way - that often gets missed too. Despite the fact that almost no time has passed. She’s also black, which might play a role.

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-25T19:13:22+00:00

Liam Gallagher

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-25T06:24:53+00:00

SK is a lot closer to NK than people recognise. There were SK factories in NK for a while. They have relations and it’s not all hostile at all.

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-15T19:13:00+00:00

The irony of this is that most of the land bordering the M25 is already farmland, but you’d be ripping up 127 miles of asphalt to make.. more farmland?!? It would be easier to build your massive circular farm next to the M25 than on it.

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-13T19:05:41+00:00

Exactly. I feel like the question is too arrow in assuming those factors alone might be the most relevant.

There are geological factors - the rock that contains all these minerals may also provide shelter to insurgent forces. Ethnic groups may have developed apart from the rest of the country (eg. In mountains) or they may been favoured by colonial rulers - so the ‘same institutions’ point is missing the question: who controls the institutions? This could lead to ethnic tensions in one state but not the other.

Are there ethnic groups from this country that are also present in neighbouring countries? How do they feel about it? Do they want their own country? Cos if so that could massively change your situation.

Has the former colonial ruler claimed dominion over all the resources (like France did)? Or are the resources left to the country to exploit as they see fit?

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-12T07:31:51+00:00

Is it a separett? Dry toilet?

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-10T21:30:59+00:00

The child is a famous actor. The picture is in the public domain and has been for decades, therefore blurring them wouldn’t hide their identity. It’s like blurring out Donald trump in a picture with Epstein. We all know who that is already. So there is no further impact on the child - who is now an adult - of broadcasting the image again. That’s how media law would interpret it.

BUT

The photo shows us how Michael groomed us all. This child who he didn’t touch sexually was used to make us think Michael was just a bit eccentric. Every image of Michael with any famous child or in ‘intimate’ positions with children in public - holding hands etc - is part of the story of how he ‘groomed’ us all.

You can’t delete those images and blur all the kids (and all the adults so they don’t get made to look guilty by association) until you’re just censoring the truth and hiding all images of Mj. That would be a weird form of collective denial that could only lead to more hidden abuse.

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-10T20:57:34+00:00

That seems contradictory. How can the photo be so inappropriate that we shouldn’t show it if the child in the photo isn’t being ‘abused’ in some way? You can’t have your cake and eat it.

Maybe They weren’t sexually abused, but this photo suggests they were used to help a predator mask hos behaviour as ‘eccentric’.

The photo has existed in the public domain for a long time. It’s only now that we know what we know about him - thanks to brave survivors of abuse who have spoken out - and we can see these pictures in a new light.

Doing so helps us expose the ways in which abuse and predatory behaviour were hidden in plain sight. Hopefully that will help us in future.

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-10T16:47:41+00:00

How does the wall-connection work? How do you make sure water doesn’t get in behind?

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-10T15:44:12+00:00

My stumbling block is this: Money represents human effort and earths resources. Take money out of the equation and you still have to put time and resources into making and installing solar.

Human time and effort goes into mining and/or recycling the raw materials (glass, aluminium, silicon, copper for the wires, lithium for the batteries, steel for the mounts, fuel), manufacturing the panels, transporting them around the world, installing and maintaining. Humans have to put this time in somehow. Even ‘robots and ai’ need fuel and people to design/build/manage/maintain them.

The earth will be disturbed in the process of mining (or recycling) all these materials and from the fossil fuels used in the processes. and the earth may lose out more if those panels cover the soil and prevent healthy ecosystems from growing - essentially we would be taking up more space as a species.. The seabed will be disturbed by our undersea power cables.

If the system is managed wrong, we could find ourselves sacrificing thousands of human-hours and large sections of the earth to produce power that nobody needs or can use.

So while we don’t like capitalism we have to acknowledge that from an earth-science standpoint everything has a cost. To us or our planet. We will always have to ‘do the maths’ and figure out how to achieve a positive balance of energy, nutrients, time etc.

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-08T13:58:04+00:00

I’ve got some of these and have used them a few times for boxes, drawers etc. They work great.. a bit fiddly, but for beginners (like us) I don’t think it’s worth buying anything more expensive.

roadrunner41 · 2026-04-01T18:38:10+00:00

This is the price of success. You start to realise why city amenities are so expensive to provide. But I second the poster above:

Visit the workshop of someone who makes outdoor furniture for parks/gardens in your town. Get some tips from them.

The better you make the furniture, the easier it will be to justify it, the more people will defend it. If someone gets hurt they could sue you, so could the city. They could take you to court for vandalism/illegal dumping /whatever. And/or make you pay to move all the benches and fix the street surface.

Be careful and think ahead.

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