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    Universal Basic Income

    122mph in some places,
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    Universal Basic Income

    In somerset all the ground is saturated, a lot of the treeses I saw were on the edge of fields on the levels, alongside the drainage canals, but I did see one tree that had a diameter of about 5ft, bit of a monster that narrowly missed a gypsy camp. Willow trees especially blow over at the...
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    Universal Basic Income

    I agree its barmy, ive always had packed lunch since school. Its stupid to waste money at starbucks to get morning cofee on way to work, whats wrong with thermos from home, or wait till work. and going out at lunch to get expensive food, mad. im not saying I agree with it, im saying that people...
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    Universal Basic Income

    Well when I was out working today, saw 18 treess uprooted and blown over, over half my fence was nlown over and all over the road, about 40feet in length. £142 in posts and postcrete I didntw ant to spend. twice had to divert route because roads were impassable with trees. local church lost...
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    Universal Basic Income

    Lol, good luck
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    Universal Basic Income

    You should be outside battening down the hatches, youre in the zone for 80mph winds...
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    Universal Basic Income

    how is it powered, ive got wood so heating and cooking for large house is about £400 a year, cos some of the wood we womble. perhaps 5-600 at most
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    Universal Basic Income

    There various other schemes only seemed to look at employment, more importantly is things like family unity, not needing chilcare, mental and physical health benefits, drain on NHS.
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    Universal Basic Income

    1600 a month was far too much, thats more than I got when I was working 6 days a week, that was 10 years ago tho. a better option would be £1000 a month, but rather than handing it out to specific people, would work better if all income was taxed, rather than 20% of anything over 12k or...
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    LoraWan

    LoRa does seem intriguing long range/low data speed seems very usefull for SAR type, or if you dont want satellite messenger devices. ive always liekd the idea of device like gotenna that turn your phone in to a radio, using ssmartophone processing with just a bit of hardware there are walkie...
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    Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts?

    either using an android arduino serial terminal app, or 1sheeld sends serial data to arduino then it converts the string and triggers a relay to open and close a usb cable conencted to powerbank to turn on and off a small torch I have that just plugs in to the extension cable the arduino...
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    Power pack anker or alpkit?

    Id go Anker, friend of mine works with them in china...
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    Aliexpress- Suggestions.

    Vat is annoying but at least its not hit by customs and processing fees when something is £2 ali express, or £10 from UK, where you are just paying for a reseller if you dont mind waiting, it can save a lot very small window to check for faults tho, have bought lods of pouches from...
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    Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts?

    been using a pi as NAS plugging in 4tb usb hdd, works nicely using a android TV box and vlc to playback loads of arduino, made a morse emergency device that you can type in more on an android phone and it would send it using usb relay and a bright flashing light been spending last month making...
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    Decent pocketable torch

    laptop batteries can be cracked open to provide a load of 18650 batteries I use them to make DIY battery banks they go well with this as well...
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    Tiny Monocular / Telescope.

    In case for anyoneone looking Hawke naturetrek 10x42, awesome, really bright
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    Survival Tins - Updates

    same reason i have survival laying cards, you need entertainment too
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    Survival Tins - Updates

    https://cheapfood.co.uk/relisan-alcohol-hand-gel-500ml-2/ 20p for 500ml alcahol gel fuel! just arrived, tested, flammable
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    Survival Tins - Updates

    I have a seperate fishing kit, but not in survival kit as not enough skill, and UK means protection more important than food. The ducttape i expect would be better tinder than the superglue...
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    The 'I've found a bargain' thread

    Cheapfood have a sale on https://cheapfood.co.uk/box-of-sun-pat-smooth-peanut-butter-spread-portions-3kg-15g-x-160/ also hand sanitiser, paceets of wipes, all sorts of bushy/MRE stuff