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Cake day: August 13th, 2023

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  • I didn’t think I had one, but when I read yours I remembered mine.

    If I see someone parked carelessly all the way over in the side of the space, I’ll park nice and neatly right in the middle of the space next to them, not allowing any extra space for their selfishness. I’m OK with squeezing in and out, and my car is much older and less valuable than any of theirs if they damage it, so I feel like I’m doing society a small service by making my weird passive-aggressive point this way.


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    2 days ago

    I’ve heard their wings can break your arm, so it might not be just as simple as that. Still probably a good first step. But if this happened when he’s out swimming where he can’t stand, that would be an advantage for the swan.







  • UK forestry (as far as I’ve seen) mostly consists of felling sitka spruce and lodgepole pine monocultures that were planted right after WW2 and never taken care of again. As a result the wood is shit quality and mostly goes for pulp/chipboard or biomass.

    Higher grades of timber need to have straight grain and less knots, so that is achieved by selectively thinning out the forest maybe every 10 years, and pruning off lower branches. But this adds a lot of man-hours and cost, so I’ve never seen anyone doing that in UK. Tbf I haven’t been around the industry at all since COVID, and the price of timber went up so much maybe things are changing.