Sorry what?

I drilled two holes at the ends of the post. Tied a knot in the top end, wound my way down, then ended with a clove hitch to maintain three tension, and put the excess through the other hole and tied another knot just for extra security

The other one I made has lasted more than a year, and that was not made as well as this one. I’m planning on chopping this one up and tossing it whenever it gets worn out

I’d recommend using something like 3/8 ply, instead of the 3/4 I used, you’ll save a ton of weight. For joining vertical and horizontal surfaces I used a few, small L-brackets and a couple blocks that doubled as reinforcement

I use staples, too. I use them for the primary attachment of carpet, while the adhesive cures. Clamps, too, depending on how aesthetically pleasing the surface needs to be

I didn’t really plan it, so sequencing building the frame vs attaching the carpet was a little annoying, but overall not bad at all.

This isn’t the first one I’ve made for them, but I used spray adhesive on the first, which wasn’t nearly effective enough. This time I used carpet adhesive, which was more cost effective and seems to be much more effective. Downside to that, though is that I had to wait 24 hours after carpeting a piece to attach it

The branching stems at every node make me think it isn’t Goldenrod, but who knows

I just question the aster ID because it doesn’t seem to have the clasping leaves that asters do

I think I got it as a little sprout from a native plant rescue staffed by volunteers, so IDing it was probably questionable

East Tennessee

That’s a good idea, cheap, too

That sounds like a logical combination, thanks for the tip

And the front yard:

Probably being held at gunpoint by a guard at a Jordanian airbase that I was inside of, doing a timed ruck march, as a US soldier.

I didn’t speak his dialect, so I couldn’t pick up much, but my gut said he was pissed he was on guard overnight and decided to ruin my night, too.

Only like the initial 15-30 seconds were really stressful, it was largely just annoying, since I couldn’t communicate with anyone, standing there with my ruck on the ground and my hands up.

I’m with you, that except is just word salad, definitely could use some simplifying

I see your point about the intro, the bait-and-switch was intentional, but I can see how it isn’t the best choice.

Calling out my use of the law of diminishing returns was certainly warranted. I knew that was weak, I just didn’t have the time to rework that point as much as would be needed.

As for the evolutionary disposition points, yeah those absolutely need more evidence before being used as strongly as I did, but my word limit for this was 1000-1250 and it’s sitting at like 1800 as is lol

I do have a question, though. The problem I originally had writing this, was that it felt like a mixed-bag of poorly explained ideas from actual philosophers, with nothing original or convincing to say. I still feel like that’s largely the case, what do you think?

I’m here for the firefly references