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Since I grew up Catholic I've been around a lot of believers throughout my life. I've yet to encounter a theist who didn't tweak the 'official' version of god to accommodate their own personal beliefs. "Well, god would make an exception if I was suffering." "I don't believe god would oppose contraception if wearing a condom prevents AIDS." "There is no way god would make someone doing a mercy killing go to the same hell as Hitler." And without fail the change a person finds in god from the 'official' version just happens to be in line with the thoughts of the person suggesting the change. Either an amazing coincidence, or people are making god in their own self image. I've never seen a person change religion from a god whose rules aligned with their own world view to a religion/god whose rules did not match their world view. But I've seen plenty of people move in the opposite direction.

I'm not familiar with this, thus my question: So that is what happened? The writer said essentially "don't believe what I am about to say as it is not true and only made up"?

What is your evidence that they are all made up?

The title statement is not true. Surely we don't need to exaggerate wrt the things McCarthy has said to make a point.

Tit for tat always feels good, which is why we'd all like to see it. Fortunately cooler heads prevail. Just as not sending that email when you are angry is always the better idea, not responding in a tit for tat manner is also the better idea. Whether or not attacks inside Russia's borders occur will likely be decided based on the overall view of the war at the time, and whether or not it is believed it will lead to the best outcome. At the moment, the people who are best at this type of thinking are saying 'no'. I don't know if they are right but they are in a better position to make the decision than me and I am happy to defer to them. Nukes have kept us out of a war with Russia and the Soviet Union for 75 years. I'd say it's been working well for defense.

The center line of the barrel in many guns is above the center of mass of the weapon resulting in the muzzle of the gun to rise.

What sort of privileged Russian access are you thinking of here?

Does that really matter? If a majority of the people in London decide they want to be an independent country, is their right to do that a 'grey area'? If I decide I want the land my home sits on to revert to Native American control, is anyone going to argue my desires should be taken seriously, and that perhaps my wishes should be allowed?

Ukraine cannot defeat Russia without help from the West. The West wants to help Ukraine, but not at the risk of a direct conflict with Russia. The feeling is that if Ukraine attacks Moscow while the West is helping them, that the risk of direct conflict with Russia will become reality. Therefore the West is doing what they can to prevent Ukraine from striking Russian territory by threatening to withhold support, and Ukraine is keeping their attacks in check so they don't lose support from the West.

Sounds a lot like a religion. Or maybe political party. Certainly not science.

You are describing an escalator but are using cannon balls instead of steps. How do you intend to get up to the speed the cannon balls are moving, which you will of course need to do before walking from one to the next.

Sure, sort of like a medical test that gives you a snapshot of their health at the time of testing and maybe that will hold up for a while. People's personalities will change just as their health does. And while a 30 minute personality test may be a blunt instrument, so is a medical test that simply screens for cancer cells; it doesn't tell you anything about pre-cancerous cells present or genetic disposition. I understand that many personality tests may be no better than a horoscope (like a lot of medical tests it turns out), but I believe one well done can be a very useful tool. So while I now know more about the weaknesses of personality tests than I did before I read this thread, I still think they have value.

After reading the Vox article and how MB is outlined I think perhaps I misremembered which personality test I took. My test included endless questions asking how you feel about or would respond to certain situations. Similar questions came up again and again, worded differently or with slightly different scenarios. At the end of the test you were given a chart showing where you fit into the different 'personalities'. Some of us were more or less evenly distributed across all personality types (perhaps as much an empathetic person as a logical person as a rule following personality), or you could be heavily focused in one area. The benefit as I saw it was that sitting in the room, you saw that while you might be a rule follower and data driven ("Of course we'll just change how we do everything tomorrow because management says that is the new way!"), your co-worker might be highly empathetic and a visual learner ("You can't just throw out how things are done without asking for feedback, allowing people to first express their concerns, etc.!"). Once you knew how you and your co-worker viewed the world differently, you understood that to influence others, you had to speak in terms that they understood and communicate more in their preferred learning manner.

So you don't think they do a good job of identifying personality types? Why do you think that?

I took the test years ago and don't remember the results for me, but I do remember that I thought they correctly identified me. I thought it was a great exercise as we took the test as a team and learned the personality types of each other which made for much better communications amongst the team members. I also remember I was kind of shocked that people looked at the same situations in such different ways. Here I thought everyone would think sort of like me. 😳

No but we had previous related experience with our alpaca fiber. 😀 Yes, but mainly because we already had the crates. Not sure what our solution would have been if we started from scratch. We had a broody chicken and had her hatch a dozen guineafowl chicks as guinaefowl are notoriously bad mothers. Sat on the eggs for 21 (?) days, took care of chicks and every night two or three would actually sleep on top of the chicken with the rest trying to get under her wings. The night before we were going to give the chicks to a friend as they were old enough, a raccoon killed 10 of the chicks by reaching through the 1" hardware cloth. That's why the rabbits got 1/2" hardware cloth, and why we subsequently modified the chicken coop. Did they have the run of the house or just the run of the storage room?

We use these for our German Angora rabbits. https://www.chewy.com/frisco-fold-carry-single-door/dp/239206?utm_source=google-product&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=12613349483&utm_content=Frisco&utm_term=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyMOPlvP0-gIV04ZbCh00kQCYEAQYASABEgKbXvD_BwE We built an elevated floor out of 1/2" hardware cloth (so the poop drops through but their feet don't) and also covered the cage in 1/2" hardware cloth to keep the raccoons from trying to reach in and grab the bunnies.

I'm not sure trucking poor soil in and good soil out would be feasible. Seems like an awful lot of energy would need to be produced for the movement of such a heavy raw material/product. Is there a market for arable soil? I make my own on-site thanks to my garden and animals. Quality soil I've bought did not need to be manufactured as it was just shoveled into a truck and brought to my house. Depending on what you are growing you may be converting sequestered CO2 (coal) for CO2 that will shortly be in the atmosphere.

From what I've read the Alcubierre drive seems at the moment to not violate the laws of physics (although a better understanding of quantum gravity may change that). That of course doesn't mean it can be built, but not being impossible is obviously a positive first step for such an exotic machine.

So what do you believe now? And since it was only "nearly" impossible to survive, then how do you know your survival was miraculous?

I believe that people tend to think there is something mystical to 'time' rather than simply what it purports to do. It is simply a measurement used to sequence events, determine duration, intervals, rate of change, etc. For some reason people get hung up on time, but have no such issues with length, amount, current, luminosity, temperature or mass. No one questions whether or not any of these are 'real', or 'made up'.

Heat and lack of water generally result in the demise of mold. If you've run the pillow through the dryer and it is now dry, as long as it doesn't have any odor I would feel just fine using it. I was down pillows and comforters all the time. Washing and drying is often on the care instructions. I also include three tennis balls in the dryer as they help loosen up the down as it is drying. Ducks get their down wet all the time and it dries just fine.

I make holy water at home. I simply put tap water in a pot, place it on the stove, then boil the hell out of it.

I have a couple of Stihl gas powered chain saws but last year I bought a chain saw that runs on a Li-ion battery. I am shocked how well it works. It maintains maximum power until it just stops. I can fell, limb and section a 20' (or so) tree on one battery charge. It cuts a little slower but other than that it works like a charm.

Girdling typically cuts into the wood about 1 1/2 inches deep, and about 2 or more inches vertically. If you make a narrow cut with a bowsaw it may not be enough to keep the tree from healing itself before it dies. Almost the entire trunk of the tree inside the bark contains vessels which are capable of transporting water. Over time the vessels closer to the center clog up and no longer transport water. This area is called the heartwood, and can usually be identified once the tree is cut as it often has a darker color. The outer portion of the trunk is the sapwood and this is where most of the water flows. So, the deeper you cut through the sapwood, the more you cut off the water flow. Once the leaves die there is really no outlet for water moving up the tree and the water flow stops.