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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    It's not much "video" but a scrolling through CAPTIONS. The first 5 minutes well says what has so far been ignored! Noam Chomsky || The Harsh Truth About Trump (Must watch)  Noam Chomsky || The Harsh Truth About Trump (Must watch) #NoamChomsky #TheHarshTruth #TrumpSpeech #AmericanPolitics...
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    Songs of Perfection

    Ha, some of my Simon&Garfunkel favs are already up. Here's some amazing instrumental work by the late Michael Hedges.
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    King Tweetybird, the great truth teller --"like never before" :: Greenland's government flatly denied a claim made by President Donald Trump that officials from the island invited a U.S. delegation led by the wife of Vice President JD Vance, to visit the Arctic territory this week. )-:
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    Simple knots, interesting evaluation of their strengths

    In the meantime, I've had a bit of fun fiddling with these knots. 1) I can redress the Granny so that it holds better, maybe to decent break strength in some materials. 2) I redress the Thief so that it looks to give breaks in the Fig.8 range (which is, yes, high) --tricky to do, but done...
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    Simple knots, interesting evaluation of their strengths

    Although I believe in a thread on how-to-join ropes (for heavy pulls), someone claimed that Thrun's Joint (Z.bend) could jam!? --there is something(s) called a "False Zeppelin", using same-handed overhands, possibly confusing things. But consider e.g. the HowNotTo testing in some rather...
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    Simple knots, interesting evaluation of their strengths

    "Rank these **knots**..." This is starting off already on the wrong foot, sort of :: the better thinking is "Rank this material so-knotted ...". I.e., one might well see different results per different ropes & then also webbing. (I find that most plastic trash bags get tied with a Granny, and...
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    Fascism, American-Style

    And challenges were put through the courts, many times, without finding all this "massive" fraud --which partly was asserted prior to voting, even. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_U.S._presidential_election - - - - -...
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    Lotta Bull : Where's the Beef? (from would-be King Tweetybird)

    As others have said, Trumpism and esp. The Big Lie is appalling. This is the general question to be putting to the would-be King Tweetybird (in pre-X days) :: WE'VE HEARD ALL THE BULL, WHERE'S THE BEEF?! In some details, yet growing in other ways & other subjects ... :: From Wikipedia, the...
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    Request: end line knot for heavy loading

    Some of the replies surprise me --inserting a toggle? Beware, if the rope parts, that might become a projectile! Use "Ashley's Bend" (#1452), shown here by Grog's Animated Knots site : https://www.animatedknots.com/ashley-bend-knot This knot can be dressed to different purposes :: what Grog...
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    Covid Close To You

    Dr. McC is having himself a grand ol' time riding the conspiracy-theory surf. He has his own business set up to *help* people get his snake oil brew, too. Here are some sane reviews of this fabricator's assertions...
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    125' up...while under sail

    Ha! I think of R.H. Dana's classic Two Years Before the Mast, when the sailors --possibly at *inconvenient* hours-- are sent up the mast to take in sails rounding the Horn, because the wind is yet rising, and they don't use their wool gloves as those slip too much on the iced ropes! --banging...
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    Old Valley Oak Retrenchment?

    total non-arborist here (--for the knots!), but I, too, wonder about all the lean in one direction. Someone remarked about less stress given loss of a half, but I'm thinking "less counterweight/balance". Looks as though after the initial bending rightwards of the tree & vertical limbs there is...
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    Maasdam pulled to the max

    It would be wise to tie off any of that stuff that might be launched at supersonic speed! --with something that "shouldn't have" broken doing so, and suddenly that load cell & other metal parts are in rapid transit. *kN*
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    Lift operator bails from bees

    Wow, that cut-&-dropped-from-crab_apple_tree deal looked REALLY needing accuracy to fit INto the awaiting trash can --IMO, it seemed about 50% likely to bounce onto the rim or more, and spill seriously ANGRY hornets all around!! As for "totally unnecessary" on the cut-wrong-branch situation...
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    Alternative to clove hitch for rigging short trunk sections

    There's a lot to comment on in the statements brought out in this thread, but let me take this handy image --I'm continually faulted for using verbal imagery-- to present a way to secure the clove hitch, with a bowlinesque "collar" :: 1) the knot shown above has its "main line" (my "S.Part") on...
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    Knot a splice but a bend

    > I need to take a closer look. "August" :: My, that's been one lonnnnnnnnnnnng l00k !!! (glad I only just read this, and haven't been hanging on in suspense for the unknown knot (UKK) ! (-;
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    Blake's Hitch slipping

    >>> just the wrong rope for your hitch : not really pliable enough to grip well Here's a good case of seeing that "knot characteristics" is often a too limiting view, as Material Matters (much)! As for the OP's problem with the ProhGrip (er, my name for what Heinz Prohaska presented way back in...
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    Stopper knots and screw links for life support?

    The OH is a great, *only* stopper, if one is trying to set one snug to something (as I often do, concluding a whipping) --though it is difficult, at least in fiddly stuff, to get is real close. Which benefit doesn't deny shortcomings elsewhere. "Extra time through" :: strictly speaking, I...
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    Stopper knots and screw links for life support?

    Heck, I took photos so I darn well oughta post 'em! The stopper attachment looked interesting; be nice to see some test data on it. I like how it makes a partial turn around the screw link (in some dressing & settings). So, to be more sure, I tossed in a wrap of the main line, tucking that...
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    Distel hitch... Ba da ba ba ba (I'm lovin' it)

    Wow, I'd think that this will work if the part reaching to the top, mere-turn, is ensured to be mostly UNloaded, so that the compression coil can in fact compress. "Letsid", eh? As in Let Sid try this, and See Sid Slide! (-; But we should note that the OnRope cases were *cow*-, not clove-...

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