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It does look like some sort of bacterial infection, which can sometimes be secondary to a pest attack. I'd put a few leaves in a sealed ziplock bag and see if anything hatches out so you can identify it.

We just found out the cunt hasn't paid any of the workers super for 12 months. He prints it on the payslips and then just pockets it. So now I'm thinking it might be better to jump before she gets pushed, leaving a job because you aren't being paid properly is a lot different to just quitting without a good reason.

That forecast on deagal.com doesn't present a very rosy future for the yanks. Are you familiar with that site TI ? I've never seen it before. I'm just wondering what factors they've figured in to conclude there will be a mass exodus of Australia, South Africa and the UK.

Yeah we're resigned to the fact that the job is on it's last legs, everything seems to indicate that she won't be there too much longer. She was working for an Aussie who was a bit of prick but it was tolerable when he held the lease. Now a Chinese couple have taken over the lease & things have been slowly but surely heading south. The new boss is bringing in Chinese workers who can't speak English & and paying them $8 an hour and giving most of the overtime shifts to them and junior staff who are being paid $10 an hour. It probably won't be long before all the staff are Chinese. It seems like he's just using the few Aussies that are left to train their Chinese replacements. The greedy bastard wanted the bar staff to water down the spirits 50:50 he jacked the cost of all the other drinks up that much that they almost stopped selling. Every chance he gets he finds some way to screw the staff out of working conditions, rights or pay. I've never thought I'd live to see the day when Aussies became subservient to to Chinese overlords but it's happening all over the country. When I grew up Chinese people were peasants relying on pushbikes for transport. Now they live here and drive hot cars, own a large Australian property portfolio and we do their dirty work.

@Northerner Could quite well be bullshit, there's certainly a lot of it regarding the massacre, 1 shooter, 2 shooters, no shooters and it was faked, who knows. The first news report I heard said the shooter was dead when they found him and a later report said he was shot by police. Then I heard another report that said they used explosives to get into his room and he was dead when they found him. That's quite convenient for him to be dead. Alex Jones predicted something would happen this month on his youtube channel. He's blaming the russians. That could well be a diversion as well.

We'll need a false flag like they just had in Vegas to sell the shoot to kill concept. What's the bet the gun debate heats up in the US after the vegas massacre.

It doesn't seem to be happening now, the route to the server is very similar with a few bottlenecks but load times have improved..There's still a several high latency hops at roughly 160 ms that really aren't that bad for forum browsing but it's usable now.

It's not overly difficult to setup, you just need some suitable logs that don't have too many volatile oils and have been aged. Then you soak them for a few weeks in preferably running water and then drill & plug them with inoculated dowels. They need a reasonably shady protected area to grow and once established they only need minimal maintenance to keep them damp and clean up competitor species while they are colonising.

I'd be setting up a patch for some shiitake logs. Once they start fruiting it's easy money. Like @waterboy 2.0 said if you can get a few chefs interested they will be easy to sell. Other gourmet mushrooms like oysters could possibly be established in an outdoor patch of woodchips too. It would cost a bit to get setup but some inoculated saplings for growing truffles could be a crop that will gradually increase in value as it matures. Some timbers command a good price. Cricket bat willow is slow to grow but could be a good investment for your retirement or for your kids.

We've talked about this before and T wasn't keen on switching it over in-case it led to dead links and database errors ect. https can provide a false sense of security in some cases though, feds have devices that can strip the encryption and some of the certificate authorities are dodgy as fuck. Most of the time https prevents eavesdropping by weekend warriors but it won't stop the feds from having a look. That being said https should be standard everywhere these days.

Thanks for the input mate. That sucks that you've been through it twice and it had that effect on you. It's a sad state of affairs when you have to sell your soul to earn a living.

I watch a few of his vids from time to time, I loved the debate he had with a psychedelic user. Not that it was fair debate, the guy he was arguing with was unarmed for any mental endeavor requiring a structured thought process.

Unfortunately she's not in a union. I saw this coming a few months ago and I told her to start a diary back then but she never did it. @Northerner That's the plan so far, to put it in writing and give it to the boss. & you're right the job has become so much of a burden mentally that's she's ready to chuck it in. In my experience when they start giving official warnings then it's only a matter of time before you get the arse. I've quit a few jobs with bullies at the helm too, in those days I had no kids or anyone depending on me, so it was an easy break. It's a bit different with her though, there's not much work she is qualified for around here and I think there's an extended waiting period for the dole if you quit or are fired for misconduct, which it isn't but the butt kissers at centrelink wouldn't see it that way.

I haven't entered one for ages either. I'll throw my ring into the hat #7

Does anyone believe KJU really has a H bomb ? Seismologists in the US reckon the detonation didn't have enough magic pixies to cause a big enough seismic disturbance when he detonated that thing recently. Now KJU is saying he's gonna drop one in the pacific ocean which wouldn't be very good for us here. Trump wants to blow the fuck out of NK, which the yanks could easily do (again) but if KJU gets a few loaded missiles airborne before the country is reduced to dirt car park it could turn into a free for all with all the old enemies launching preemptive strikes against each other. Having those two nut jobs in charge of the public relations and hurling insults at each other from afar doesn't do much to relieve the tension. Anything could happen there. On another topic Large tracts of land have been bone dry for extended periods now so one little outbreak could burn half the country. Now school holidays have started the chances of that happening must be a lot higher than they were last week. & Parts of the US seems to be close to flashpoint these days too with all the polarisation that's been going on. Republicans v democrats, black vs white, etc,etc. Fuck they are copping a lot of natural disasters lately, fires, floods and hurricanes. I'm sure it's not global warming though, an American woman told my mrs on facebook that it's not from global warming and she was willing to defend that statement to the death.

Bring back the polly waffle

It's got rothschilds fingerprints all over it. It's a bit different with bitcoin but the rothschilds have manipulating the stock market in very similar ways since the battle of waterloo when nathan rothschild instigated a selling panic by dumping stock himself. Other traders saw him dumping stock and raced to sell before the arse fell out of it. Then he bought it all back for pennies in the pound.

Is anyone else using any encryption software to communicate by phone ? There are a few kinds available that are all very similar and very easy to use. They replace the standard messenger in your phone and then you can send end to end to encrypted messages (you still have the option to send a regular SMS), SMS,MMS, calls and video calls to other people running the same system. They allow for encrypted group messages and they all have a companion desktop app that runs on your computer so you can send your messages using a computer keyboard and not have to use the dinky little phone keyboard. A few of the more common ones are Signal, Telegram and Whatsapp. Signal and Whatsapp both use the same protocol and all their messages are encrypted by default. Telegram uses a different protocol and you need to choose to send an encrypted message. They all have have features like self destructing messages and the ability to delete messages which has its benefits if you don't want sensitive information hanging around on your phone for someone else to discover. The last time I checked Telegram seemed to be leaving more of a trail of metadata (particularly for unencrypted messages) but Signal eliminates most of the metadata by design. If any authorities want to subpoena Signal for server records etc there is almost nothing for them hand over because their servers don't store calls just connection data. Anyway, I'm using Signal as it seemed to offer everything I needed and also I've got my elderly parents using it so we can do video chats with the kids. Video chats are easy, you just click on the name of the contact and hit the phone button (in the signal messenger) to ring them and then you have the options to switch your camera and/or microphone on and off. Electronic Frontiers - How to use Signal iOS Electronic Frontiers - How to use Signal Android One caveat, you need mobile data switched on your phone (sender and receiver) or you need to be connected to wifi for messages to go through. If either the sender or receiver are not connected to the web either through their router, a wifi hotspot or their 3G or 4G connection, the messages won't get through. So if you are like me and several people I know with limited mobile data plans on their phone and have mobile data switched off by default you can send a regular SMS first and tell them to flick their data on because you are about to send a Signal message (or just text something pre arranged to let them know it's coming - an emoji ect) After you install Signal it will import your contacts list (you still add new contacts there as normal) and let Signal become your new messenger (give it permissions at the prompts). All messages to other people not using Signal will just proceed as normal (you don't need mobile data or wifi for them). Signal will default to sending other signal users encrypted messages but if you just want to send them a normal SMS (maybe you have no data left on your plan or need to tell them to switch their data on) you write the message as normal and then do a long press on the send message button and select unencrypted to send a regular SMS.

Tesla said the curvature of space time was the fantasy of an idiot (paraphrasing) He believed it was a simple electron flow like when you rub a balloon on your hair and place it near the flow of water and bend the flow. If someone can present a plausible unifying theory and prove it both ways I'll back pedal and accept the relativity/curvature of space time fantasy but until then I'll back the electrical model.

It was originally just a joke that vladamir putin played on george W bush. Funny thing is, george still believes it.

Maybe the conditions are better for growing mushrooms than plants. That soil looks fairly good from what I can see in those pics. I'd do a PH test on it with soil taken from near the surface and also do another PH with soil from about 20cm deep to see if there are any problems. Maybe raised beds would give the plants some drainage if it's constantly too wet for plants. Or turn it into a rice paddy.

A soil test is always a good idea before you add any amendments. Charcoal/biochar works best when it's "charged" before adding it to the soil. It can have a negative effect if it's not charged because it absorbs & adsorbs nutrients when it's fresh. I'd mix it into the compost heap/s while it's composting and load it up with nutrients and microbes & fungi first and then mix that along with any amendments recommended on the soil test into the soil.