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Math is hard for language models but there are a few that do quite well now. The version you tried is like a Wright brothers plane versus the versions out now being more like the jets we fly around today

I’ve moved on to other models

Some do. Your premise is false

Gods are invented by humans. Humans are fallible and subject to bias and inconsistencies. You’re welcome.

Science is a process which helps us to better model the function of the cosmos and more ably avoid blind spots in our understanding. While the outcome of that process can make one’s life more meaningfully connected to reality, it is not in itself a source of meaning nor purpose. They’re distinct magisteria.

Perhaps ”purity” shouldn’t be our goal at all. Perhaps instead we should seek sexual acceptance for ourselves and those around us. Perhaps a better focus would be on mutual consent and healthy practices around sexuality (both physical and mental). Listen, I’m working on it, okay? 🙃

Meanwhile at an event in Pennsylvania, this instant classic flag is waving

This too is plucked from your twisted imagination

I wouldn’t even use Iron Age iron. Our smelting and forging processes are far superior today.

Evolution is a mechanism by which genes get selected. It is not being posited as a source of morality (though I did previously provide you with a potential mechanism that morality gets selected for in local contexts). Evolution happens. It is true. It is established fact. The Bible is a collection of allegories. You may as well be comparing bananas and staplers. Suggesting that the intent behind rules being propagated by religions is rather often a desire for power and control is most decidedly NOT a conspiracy theory.

By choosing to be born into a specific community or family in a specific location, of course.

Citation needed, or silence. Silence works, too.

And they’d be wrong

Desire for power and control? Only bc the larger group does accept them and the subgroup who refuses gets outnumbered.

For the same reason I don’t believe someone telling me there’s an invisible dragon underneath my chair unless they offer good evidence to the contrary.

Also if your idea is that morality comes from the Bible, how then do the theists reading it know which parts to ignore?

It doesn’t need to since norms and mores are context / group dependent. Your implicit suggestion that there’s an absolute morality is childish and silly.

At least she won’t be put in the freezer for future bbq purposes

The source of morality is the same whether you believe in a magic sky pixie or don’t: Existence as a social species with group norms that get reinforced by ostracization from the tribe when they are not followed, thus further reinforcing them through evolution itself since being voted off the island means loss of access to food, group security, and potential mates.

No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night! Hopefully can’t see them, but there’s a shim or two in those laminations Nice work, mate. That looks like the big one you did for the backyard. Love it!

Lol

FWIW, we are all beginners when we first begin. 👊

Thanks! The main two workpieces as you said are walnut. The center inlay is also walnut but was a super curly quilted piece from an off cut I saved. The thick center stripe and mixed in with the curvy strips is cherry. The white wood around the center stripe and mixed into the curvy strips alongside the cherry is maple (same with the outline on the inlay). The circle plugs are a curly fruit tree of some sort either pear or apple maybe (potentially cherry). Let’s just say it presented me with many moments where I had to stop, walk away, and come back to it another time with a cooler head. 😂 Took some planning and multiple small steps. I bought slower setting glue (TB-2 Extended) to help give me more working time, but actually the hardest part was getting the walnut sides to be a perfect puzzle piece match to one another after smoothing out their curved rough cuts from the bandsaw. This was when I taught myself not only how to make a template, but then how to make a mirror of the template for the other side. Ensuring the thick center stripe stayed perfectly aligned during glueing and clamping was a serious PITA, as well. As long we’re on the topic, putting in the second curvy stripe down the middle and ensuring the first wavy stripe it intersected still lined up properly after being cut and getting pushed apart took some effort, but I solved that by getting myself a new router bit that had close to the same dimensions as my lamination strips and used that to make the cut instead of the bandsaw. It was a series of hard slow cuts and the bit def didn’t like it, but it performed admirably. The bent lamination part was actually my primary motivation underlying this piece. I’d never done bent laminations before and used this as an opportunity to finally teach myself how. I will do a few things differently if I ever try doing something similar again in the future, but all in all am okay with the result on attempt number one. ✌️

We’ll have to move forward in disagreement. I just got one. Had one last year and the year before that, too. Is this another one of those times where you believe misinformation cannot be corrected with facts?

Immune? Nope. Aware and actively taking steps to mitigate it? Yes. False. Probably bc the US isn’t technically engaged in any wars right now (outside of some active operations against terrorists in Africa and a few similar places. Only if we abandon our critical thinking and desire to stop them.