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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.

I’ve been screwing around with some old rotten pieces had laying around for a few years, replacing everything rotten with something pretty. Lots of faults and flaws and material removal and it became a sort of side meditation for me these last few months. Gonna start applying tung oil finish this weekend (which itself will take a few weeks to complete correctly).

A sense of entitlement

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/us/politics/harris-billion-dollar-fundraising.html

I think he has a greater impact by spreading dangerous mind viruses through his engagement platform, elevating certain voices and suppressing others all in the name of free speech and hatred of censorship.

What’s there to debate? It happened and another country did it. The world is complicated and power is shifting. Simple solutions rarely suffice. Too often those offering those faux solutions are snake oil salesmen preying on people who deserve better. And I’d wish you great success in your efforts and be the first to applaud you if you managed to pull it off. Literally thousands of people are trying to do exactly that every hour of every day while we comfortably act like Monday morning quarterbacks here. By tuning your brain like a radio with drip drops of misinformation every few minutes of every single day; leveraging your evolved ape shortcuts and heuristic weaknesses by cultivating themes from trusted sources and preventing counter narratives from entering the bubble. By continuing these efforts across platforms and revisiting them until you’re no longer able to capably separate fact from fiction nor even accept as a foundational premise that objective facts both exist and must inform our critical thinking. But now we’re even more off topic. The pagers were just a first strike to knock the enemy off balance before the broader incursion. Netanyahu is the one who must make peace and every incentive he has is telling him he must not. 1700 Israelis were brutalized a year ago. Since then, 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in response, more than half of them innocent women and children. Trump is a cartoonish buffoon who puts idiot ass kissers in position of power and makes campaign contributors ambassadors. Perhaps if you’re serious about becoming an ambassador yourself you should buy some of his gold sneakers and some of his cryptocurrency before he bankrupts that, too.

A nice article outlining how special counsel Smith is using the courts own immunity logic to press the case against Trump. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/how-jack-smith-outsmarted-the-supreme-court/680149/ Non paywalled gift link for a full read: https://archive.ph/fywL4

This is why I’ve stopped engaging with your threads. It’s like trying to nail jello to a wall

Where I am in the Midwest, militias are very real and far more organized than I’d like. They’re often excellent hunters and have huge tracts of farmland for training and staging of operations. They also have vast acres covered with thousands of barns full of hogs and pigs for feeding dead body parts to.

Trerl probably just doesn’t read much. Terel might’ve just made an honest mistake. Trool surely wasn’t trolling. He certainly wasn’t consciously being disrespectful or childishly dismissive, isn’t that right, Tool? That would be below, Trurl and I trust they recognize a phonetic spelling would be Comma,La.

A good carpenter would first ask you to clarify what type of hammer it is. Framing hammer? Ball peen hammer? Tack hammer? Sledge hammer? Dead blow hammer? Rubber mallet? Etc etc.

One of the problems with this thread is the broad all encompassing use of the word divergent. Divergence includes a vast category of traits and characteristics. Some of those traits might help increase the likelihood of successful reproduction while others of those traits might hinder the ability to secure mates and reproduce. Details matter and you may as well be asking whether detached dangling earlobes are an evolutionary advantage.