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lisamarcus wrote: Sun Jun 08, 2025 3:05 am Hii My name is Lisa and i'm new here im from India and im really excited to join this forum

Welcome, find a post that interests you and jump in

I thought Permissive Access very specifically did NOT give right to roam, I thought it was a way of allowing people temporary access whilst retaining the right to revoke that access at any time.

If the right to roam campaign contest this then they will find that, in future, no-one will give ...

Joseph Carter wrote: Tue May 27, 2025 3:03 am You're definitely in the right place, and it sounds like a lovely idea! Creating a comfy, welcoming spot in the garden will make those visits even more enjoyable.

Welcome to the forum - enjoy

LarsMac wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 12:23 pm I think that all the MAGAts are already lining up for their free ride on his new plane.

OH! The Humanity.

Our Standards and Ethics Committee would be having a field day!

Is that Firefox within Ubuntu?

Mine is very similar but is Firefox within Mint Cinnamon :-

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Saint_ wrote: Mon May 12, 2025 7:20 am
spot wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 1:48 pm I shall, mid-May, give a week's notice and then do a new migration.
How will you notify us of the new URL? Or is it an app?

Once migrated the new site will be moved to forumgarden.com

Now cannot log in at all as I’m not receiving any emails - ho hum, I’m probably still in on the phone but wanted to try the iPad.

Talking about the iPad, it’s showing me this page :-

https://meta.discourse.org/t/dropping-ios-15-other-old-browsers-in-july-2025/358131

Poor thing’s not that old ...

"more used to the modern layout"? I've not seen discourse before, I've no idea what there is other than the default theme.

When I'm back - 5pm or so - I'll try logging in an existing FG test account and discover how to login or to reset the password with an email confirmation and login. The only ...

spot wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 2:21 am Welcome to the site.

I shall beat my own trumpet. You speak of a skill I have demonstrated - furniture design. I built my own coffee table from scratch. I may also be a trend, I'm not sure. I look forward to the tips.

I also recall a kitchen from raw planks to completion back in the day.

Selinali wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 10:44 pm Hi everyone! I'm Selina. I'm excited to join this wonderful community and look forward to learning more about furniture design, trends, and tips. Glad to be here with you all!

Welcome to the garden, find a topic and dive in

Damn, just penned a full response only to loose it to a connection glitch!

Very interesting post and most of it appears to make great sense.

Could we quantify how much work would be involved in moving to Discourse? It does suggest that there are conversion aids available. On the other hand, if ...

Damn, just penned a full response only to loose it to a connection glitch!

Very interesting post and most of it appears to make great sense.

Could we quantify how much work would be involved in moving to Discourse? It does suggest that there are conversion aids available. On the other hand, if we ...

Still up around 9 seconds as at 23:35 UTC

And ignoring robots.txt which is bad form

Those planes can be resprayed if they're already painted, and passed elsewhere to reduce the waiting list. But without the removal of export restrictions by America I can't see China continuing to buy Boeing. If any domestic market would improve from buying local it's Chinese aircraft ...

China certainly have the upper hand in this and are starting to hit America where it hurts, 50+ planes ordered from Boeing by Chinese Airlines who are now refusing to accept delivery plus a couple being returned to Boeing post delivery.

And another one bites the dust.

Pope Francis, first of that name, expired within hours of audiencing the Vice President of the United States: "JD Vance granted lightning audience with Pope Francis in Vatican" on Easter Sunday. What the conspiracists will make of that is anyone's guess. "Lightning ...

Is it my memory that’s failing of do I recall Trump boasting that he would bring peace to Ukraine within days of taking power

The problem is he won't walk away at all. He wants bragging rights. Ideally he'd never be seen outside the Homeland again but that won't happen.

The interesting line ...

Is it my memory that’s failing of do I recall Trump boasting that he would bring peace to Ukraine within days of taking power?

That happened in the middle of January, it’s now the middle of April and he’s walking away

The reason I consented to have my records made available through UK Biobank was to improve health outcomes worldwide. China is more than welcome to look and benefit.

No problem with any of that and the additional health scanning has to be a plus for anyone.

I’ve recently (18 months ago) joined ...

spot wrote: Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:16 pm "Search for driver after woman hit on golf course"?

Uncalled for, really.

What you don’t say is that the van was being chased by two police cars

If it’s only just occurred to The Donald that almost all of the smartphones sold in the US are made in China then it is, indeed, outrageous - outrageous that he could ever be entrusted with running the US economy or allowed to sign a presidential order.

And yet he's still going on about Apple ...

Donald Trump’s presidential administration is exempting smartphones and computers from the 125% levies imposed on imports from China as well as other reciprocal tariffs.

The announcement was made late on Friday in a US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) notice that said the devices would be ...

Let's decide what we think about governance in Hong Kong, no doubt at the cost of invisibility to anyone in China.

The story so far - Britain took a forced lease on Hong Kong from pre-Communist China as part of its imperial phase.

150 years later, on the date established by treaty, Britain ...

Given the way the present US administration is going, we need a thread on Taiwan/China reunification.

For one thing, I'm not sure why Taiwan would want to avoid it any longer. For another, Taiwan can quite likely come to a very effective deal with the mainland at the moment if it makes the effort ...

This, for anyone following the game, is still in play:

To follow up on the recommendations of the High-Level Group17, the Commission will present
in the first half of 2025 a roadmap setting out the legal and practical measures it proposes
to take to ensure lawful and effective access to data. In ...

The last sentence says it all.

I had, naively, assumed that the rant about DEI and the subsequent executive order were intended to remove positive discrimination in favour of ethnic minorities and LBTQ until I saw reports emerging that the Arlington National Cemetery had been ordered to remove references to African and Hispanic ...

Single point of failure, zero backup = big problem.

Having not been well for some while apparently. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/feb/24/roberta-flack-obituary

But a singer out on an edge of her own, I thought. Quite clearly herself and sounding like no other performer.

Someone who added value to life.

An amazing singer indeed ...

On Monday, in a joint appearance with France’s president Emmanuel Macron, the US president claimed that he had spoken with Vladimir Putin about the potential deployment of Nato peacekeeping forces in Ukraine, and the Russian president said he “has no problem with it.”

Last week Russia’s foreign ...

Regardless of how Ukraine got itself into its present position, it is going to be presented with a choice to cash in or fight on. The price of cashing in will be abandoning any future claim to the occupied Eastern territory, and guaranteeing to permanently abandon its EU and NATO ambitions ...

As to closing their bases, better they constrain the CIA to working within their own boarders.

Well... no, actually. Within their own borders they have the sovereign right to do anything to their own citizens short of genocide. That, at the end of the day, is up to their electorate. What they ...

Regardless of how Ukraine got itself into its present position, it is going to be presented with a choice to cash in or fight on. The price of cashing in will be abandoning any future claim to the occupied Eastern territory, and guaranteeing to permanently abandon its EU and NATO ambitions ...

LarsMac wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 5:04 pm I suspect that after they have finished with Ukraine, and it is safely tucked away, Vlad will be looking over the menu for other former Soviets to invite back in to the fold.

One of his generals let's slip the proposed schedule, starting with Moldova then rolling through the Baltics

If I may, here's today's view from the incomparable Yanis Varoufakis:

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The possibility that Europeans “can’t make an assumption that America’s presence will last for ever” dangles the possibility, however remote, that America under Trump might withdraw from all its bases outwith the ...

spot wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 12:43 amunable to carry a thought through to its logical conclusion.

Half of ForumGarden's members qualified for that but it would be invidious to name them.

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday, Trump repeated his plan to take over Gaza.

"I'm committed to buying and owning Gaza. As far as US rebuilding it, we may give it to other states in the Middle East to build sections of it," he said, while travelling to the Super Bowl.

Trump added ...

A rough translation of the executive order, “Someone has had the gall to criticise me, and my mate, so I’ll bully them until they stop.”.

I feel it may be the right time for small insignificant fry like myself to declare a punitive financial boycott on President Trump personally. I shall ...

A rough translation of the executive order, “Someone has had the gall to criticise me, and my mate, so I’ll bully them until they stop.”.

spot wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2025 5:40 am

Say what one might in criticism of President Trump's policies, but he certainly has his hands on the levers of state.

But not his eyes on international treaties.

So Israel will “give” Gaza to the US who will ethnically cleanse it for them and then run it as a resort.

After all, who will possibly object to kicking a couple of million inhabitants out of their homes (even if those homes have mostly been destroyed) to make a fancy tourist resort (which some ...

You forgot saturating their beef with growth hormones which is why we banned that.

Couldn't agree more about keeping US Pharma companies out of the NHS supply chain - include allowing US style health insurance companies into the UK health system as well.

Well done Canada.

Annually, always Annually.

Apparently his trial has now started :-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj3nr7nrp1o.amp

Does Trump truly believe that this accident was caused by having diverse air traffic controllers or is he just trying to make political advantage out of the deaths of 67 people - either way he is sick in the head. His speech tonight was disgusting.

Oh, Goody!
This just in.
A new Constitutional Amendment to provide a third term as POTUS has been put up in the House of Representatives.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/constitutional-amendment-to-allow-trump-third-term-introduced-in-the-house/ar-AA1xLeNi?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid ...

Oh, Goody!
This just in.
A new Constitutional Amendment to provide a third term as POTUS has been put up in the House of Representatives.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/constitutional-amendment-to-allow-trump-third-term-introduced-in-the-house/ar-AA1xLeNi?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid ...

The Hero of the week is Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who gave the Sermon at the Cathedral in Washington DC on Trump's second day in office, and asked Trump to be merciful.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/24/bishop-mariann-edgar-budde-sermon-that-enraged-donald-trump

It was ...

The inauguration is in progress. The Guardian just wet itself as usual: "The Clinton's, the Bush's and Barack Obama stand in the Rotunda together". Oh dear.

It's indoors for some reason - there's no snow outdoors. Perhaps the Secret Service decided outdoor events are no longer safe. Or perhaps ...

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