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Very difficult, but with a bit of sandpaper or a shooting board (and a metric assload of patience) you can likely get super close. As studiot mentions, the type of plywood involved matters, too. Avoid OSB, and even some of the cheaper plys found at Lowe’s/Home Depot etc. Get a type made of better wood more commonly used in furniture making from a dedicated wood store, but even then your risk of tear out and splintering is high. https://www.popularwoodworking.com/article/the-genius-of-miter-shooting-boards/

Technically, I already have. Thanks, though

As noted above, nobody cares what you believe, but just so you’re aware… humans ARE apes. You may as well be saying you refuse to believe flowers evolved from plants. Lol. Anyway, apologies for continuing the off topic tangent. Cool article in the OP, joigus.

As was this entire post. Don’t comment if you don’t care, and at least try to offer something even vaguely relevant when you do.

Soviet Union dissolved 30 years ago, but it sure feels QAnon is going strong. As your first ever post to,this community, you really should’ve tried harder. YouTube isn’t a good source, but at least link to a specific video when mentioning it. You may as well be saying “I understand from google search engine that…”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/30/majority-americans-support-bidenomics-pandemic-changed-minds-dramatically/

Perhaps bc that bridge has already been built hundreds of times over.

It may, but my intuition here is it’s about enforcing existing tax laws more comprehensively. A study came out recently from Larry Summers and another economist currently working in Treasury that showed additional revenues of up to $1.5T could be secured just by chasing down current cheats under current law. This seems like something that’d be easier to chase than tax increases. We’ll see. Perhaps they do have a point, but it’s a red herring. A semantic game. It’s a jobs act with elements of infrastructure, not just infrastructure focused alone. Also, even if I stipulate it is and should only be infrastructure, it’s hard to argue against needing childcare, and safe schools, and family leave protection, and high speed Internet in rural areas, and cyber security, etc. to enable those workers and women to get working on these various projects. Roads aren’t the only thing underlying all other transactions any more. There’s hard / physical infrastructure and there’s soft / social infrastructure. This ridiculous focus on the 1950s definition of the word (“No, only bridges and roads!!”) is a false dichotomy and a distraction from investing in the USA so it can compete 10 years from now with China (who’s most decidedly NOT playing these childish word games to avoid doing what will help society as a whole). Another example? Extending the current K-12 public education to instead be preK-14…. Those 2 years of community college really will setup the future for success, even if the “infrastructure” being invested in is skills and knowledge across the workforce.

Lol. Okay, chief. Lol. Okay. I agree, I guess?

And since he was alive all those 230+ years ago, we’ve since learned a rather significant amount in the interim. We’ve revised and improved upon the understandable flaws in his original thinking, and we have fairly significantly broadened and amplified our understanding of the first draft knowledge he originally shared. You may as well be discussing alchemy in chemistry threads or phrenology in neuroscience threads at this point. Did you intend to reinforce my post about how ridiculous and predictable your posts have become? Because whether not this was your intention, this is what you have done… yet again. Yeah, that was TOTALLY it 🙄

Interestingly, every. single. post you make every. single. time… does

He renewed calls tonight for infrastructure investment, $15 minimum wage, labor unions protection legislation, climate change jobs, and more. Let’s get to work. Doing nothing is not an option. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/upshot/biden-economic-plan-chart.html There’s also education funding directed to community colleges, free preschool, affordable childcare, and National paid family leave. If even 1/3 if what he proposes gets done it will fundamentally transform the United States in ways not seen since the New Deal and WWII.

Yes, but what about: Order !! . . . .. . . . . . !!! . .. . and . .. . rec omm end . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . ??? ????? 😵

OMG. Please go away.

Well, I suppose if you ignore reality and discard physics, then anything you can imagine is possible. It also moves you rapidly from the realm of nonfiction into fiction.

I hear that eating paste and paint chips with lead in them generally leads to similar outcomes.

Don’t laugh too hard if you have asthma, but when I eat too many chilies it’s plasma

This is an excellent point worthy of a response. For convenience in case that’s a path one wishes to follow: https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/124518-transgender-athletes/ There are others... But this is all only in the news and being discussed by us here again because the powers that be are trying to distract us from focusing on real issues and prevent us from coming together to fix real problems. You see... If we keep fighting with each other over non-issues like this, or about abortion, or guns, etc then we’ll never focus the fight on “them” in such a way that we could revoke their current well-financed control of our shared governance. Not only is this last part on topic, but it’s a conspiracy that is supportable, ta boot. 😎

Absolutely agree. Couldn’t resist taking a shot at my BIL, though. I’d be much more sympathetic if he’d mastered dovetail creation by hand first, or at least made the jig himself. I also acknowledge I’m being needlessly a jerk on this. I’d use the jig too if building drawers or boxes, for example.

My brother in law makes perfect dovetails. It’s just a bit sad that he paid a ton of money for a fancy jig and a brand spanking new router to enable him to do so. 😂

I haven’t yet mastered the art of hand cut dovetails. Admittedly, I stopped trying for a while when my first 3 attempts turned out so horribly. Good luck!

If someone submits a new math textbook saying "2 + 2 = banana" and "the square root of 72 = mushroom," would it be a conspiracy for that to get deleted and removed by the publisher? If not, then why is doing the same on the web about actual news and events any different? IMO, the problem here isn't conspiracy or corporate agendas. It's how easily otherwise intelligent rational people like yourself are so willing to believe them and incorporate them into your mental model of the world. With this foundation set, bad actors around the world don't even have to disprove or refute news stories or limitations placed on them by the press and public. All they really need to do is convince large enough percentages of people that NO claim out there can be treated as valid or true... convince people that 2+2=banana is a perfectly valid stance. Why worry about the which chess move is the best one to make next when you can erode the entire playing board from below until it disintegrates entirely and all the pieces fall down. Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

I'm 100% aligned with both Klaynos and Swansont above. It really depends on the details of the situation and varies case-by-case. There is no way to remain reasonable and rational when attempting to apply "one size fits all" thinking on this type of issue. It's also no longer "whistle blowing" when the information is being cascaded through external channels or media outlets without regard for the safety of our personnel or our country. If the internal processes (or local ombudsmen) in place to address these sorts of ethical issues have already been tried and failed, then it MAY be appropriate to take other steps outside the system, but this once again returns us to the "it depends on the details of each individual case" territory. After that, and beyond the process focused discussion, these decisions all occur within the subjective territory of what constitutes the "public good," and "which" public is benefiting or being harmed by the release / leak. This obviously will differ from one person to the next. Ask 10 people what's in the public good and you'll get 10 different answers. Finally, I'm also far less sympathetic to the leaker and their good intent / positive motivations when their source (and/or their funding) is from some other nation state which has a clear agenda... where the leak is basically being used as a soft / non-kinetic attack on another nation state or on democracy itself (like the Podesta emails or disinformation campaigns on social media, for example). Worse yet... even I myself am inconsistent on this subject within my own thinking. By example, I'd be far more open to an attack on another country launched by my own than on an attack launched on my country by another... or from my employer on to a competitor. This is anything but a simple question which leads to simple and binary yes/no answers. Nuance matters here, and the ONLY correct answer is that "it depends" and varies case-by-case.

This will quickly go off-topic if we let it, so let’s be sensitive to that, but here’s what I saw: OP: “I’d like to discuss green tech and ways to minimize our impact on the environment.” YOU: “For tech to help us, we’ll need to change how we impact the environment.” OP: “Yes, I agree!” YOU: “You’ve missed my point.” OP: “I don’t really see how. Will you explain?” ME: “You’re new here. Don’t worry too much. Dim is our local riddler and poet.” Hope that helps, bud. No offense intended. ✌️

QFT “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."