Not heard of them, thanks for the recommendation, that’ll be tonight’s listening sorted!

Listening to Tool right now, love 'Maiden but enjoy pre Bruce as much as the rest… NIN, Anthrax, Sick of it All, Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, Sepultura…must be some kinda metal chameleon circa 90s-00s!

Oh that’s Muffit! Enjoy a tipple on me! ;)

Ahh craps, there goes my chance to come passed the line to the field with you.

I think there’s an element of media click bait and finger pointing to funding cuts to sell an otherwise mediocre story.

Something I picked up on at uni re commercial beeking practices is that the cell size is dictated by the farmer by providing a framework for the bees to build around and lay their eggs in (as well as store honey). This cell size is larger than the natural mean size. This results in larger adults that can then forage more and produce more honey. Great! Except that the bees spend longer as larvae and if there’s varroa mite present in the hive the adults come out weakened as the mites feed on the larvae for longer.

For me colony collapse disorder hinges around this, but I haven’t read about this subject in some years so don’t know if it has been discounted.

Very much so an economic problem, commercial honey production is a very intensive type of animal husbandry.

It should be noted that honey bees are not native to the US so are a wholly farmed animal.

The method of fully replacing colonies is one of the issues in commercial beekeeping as the genetic diversity is very poor because there aren’t enough different suppliers.

Edit - just seen someone else has said much the same

At least a decade. I did a small module at uni about a decade ago on colony collapse disorder and varroa mites were a prime culprit, alongside various viruses. Plenty of research already done then, but no concrete answer at that time.

This is hardly news per se, rather a typical attention grabbing media headline saying that they came to a conclusion what the cause was last year after 6 months, whilst blaming cutbacks.

We love strawberries in the UK. Definitely a good option. Pretty sure there are other crops grown using vertical farming by other companies as well.

Missed a trick there, should be reading James Herberts ‘The Rats’!

Go to Scotland and taste the joys of a deep fried Mars bar, now you’re talking!

This was his version of flossing, he had killer dance moves behind the decks.

They don’t exist without them though, and it is sometimes necessary to make a point to all companies and their sentient rulers by e.g. boycotting them, forever.

So they’re recycling…good on them…but there I was thinking they may be creating some Apple-PC steam punk mutant for some specialist market…

The hidden tracks were the best!

Exactly! Which was my original point that this ‘power thing’ is about using/tied to abusive/instluting behaviour rather than something separate.

Nailed on. And that quote, spread it far and wide.

No, the discussion was not about whether different words were of equal or differing offensiveness. My discussion is about what saying ‘it’s a power thing’ actually means and how it relates to abusive behaviour.

I still remember Domesday, it only happened the once before ‘they’ covered it up. I’ll never forget it, so many questions.

1. One thing I agree with you on is that it isn’t necessarily always abuse, however the original post is about that group of friend’s chat, which I believe is abusive in nature from what has been shared (and hence why so many people have disowned them) and which you turned into (and are still rambling on about) some political somethingor another…

2. Again, this has nothing to do with politics.

3. You know nothing about my political beliefs so are shouting into thin air. (I’m not even from the US so can’t even ‘be’ a Dem! Oh boy.)

4. This has nothing to do with politics, did I say that already?!