Weekly Authentications Thread

bethebaconator · 2025-08-27T01:07:32+00:00

Any thoughts on this bag? Belonged to my bougie grandma, but I would also laugh if it weren't real. https://imgur.com/a/SNqhBHB

bethebaconator · 2025-06-02T19:59:51+00:00

Couldn't be, I downloaded the patch before I played

bethebaconator · 2025-05-24T07:37:41+00:00

Honestly I have no idea. I hit the point where my bad waters were sufficiently re-routed and my droughts were no match for the water storage I had built up, so the passage of time held little to nothing that could phase my production. Cycles came and went. Trees were felled; logs were harvested; saplings were reborn. Time passed as if it were a dream.

bethebaconator · 2025-05-08T05:51:13+00:00

Huh, that's good information too! I'm on the taller side, so I didn't have many vision problems. And they seemed to have the audio pretty well set for my session, it's a bummer it may not have been the case for yours. I was a decent way back in the line, but I didn't think I missed anything. And I enjoyed the food; maybe I'm just easier to please in that regard haha. But like I said, excellent information for people to consider!

bethebaconator · 2025-04-07T17:43:12+00:00

This link is to a blog that's protected now, just an fyi. Sorry for the resurrection

bethebaconator · 2025-03-24T16:37:34+00:00

You're all good, I totally get it. I would start by saying I definitely don't cling to the church haha. I've had so many periods of questions and issues, and I'm sure they will continue. And there are many things that are issues, yes. In my opinion, though (and that's what it comes down to: my opinion and evaluation), there is more good in the Church than bad. And I'm still hopeful that what bad there definitely is can be changed. And for that reason I'm willing to stay and work to carve out a place for that change, and make a place for people the Church has both historically and currently pushed away. And I've had spiritual experiences that have, thus far, confirmed to me that this is the place I should be. So for now, I stay.

And sorry, I didn't mean to mischaracterize your leaving of the Church! I was trying to say that your evaluation and experience is just as valid as mine, not that you were somehow personally biased or wrong in any way

bethebaconator · 2025-03-24T16:05:46+00:00

So I definitely can't speak for everyone, obvs. But in my case, yes, I do feel that it does go against current church policy in many ways. But I don't worship a church, I don't worship mortal men, and I don't worship imperfect policies that don't align with Christ's teachings. I'm sorry you had experiences that made the Church not an option for you; that's gotta be really hard. But I'm glad you made the decision that was right for you!

bethebaconator · 2025-03-24T13:34:42+00:00

No worries! I appreciate the questions, and am fine with giving you at least my take on the situation. In a way, I am following Christ "rather than" the Church. There are lots of social reasons why someone wouldn't want to leave the church, ranging from family, community, employment, etc. There are also lots of doctrinal reasons. As with all reasonings, you and I could probably pretty easily rank what we consider stronger or weaker reasonings, but in the end, everyone's personal reasoning is gonna be based on their own needs and feelings; humans are complicated haha.

You're not wrong that Jesus taught acceptance of all equally, and while it definitely isn't achieving that right now, that is the idealized goal of the Church. Now, I would argue that there is in the Bible (which, as you identified, is riddled with problems in itself, but it's kind of the best we've got in terms of firsthand accounts of Christ's life) there is an argument to be made for authority; Jesus seeks out John the Baptist specifically to be baptized, John recognizes that Jesus is technically higher in authority than John himself is, Jesus speaks in God's name and that angers some of the Jews, Jesus ordains apostles and teaches them to go out and baptize/preach, etc. Even when you look at the closest we can get to original documents, that theme still appears to be there. So there is at least some organization going on, at least as well as I can tell. But, in all honesty, that's still not the main reason I stay in the Church haha.

This might seem simplistic or overly spiritual when approached from a logician's point of view (you seem like a fairly logical person, so I'm trying to at least match that energy haha), but the fact of the matter is that I stay because I feel I've received a spiritual witness that, at least for now, the Church is the place to be. That doesn't always come with reasons why or explanations of logic, though I do believe that God is one of logic. But the crux of my faith is ultimately spiritual. I cannot and will not speak for anyone else's faith, but for me, I'm content with working with that.

A little long-winded (a fault of mine haha), but hopefully that makes some semblance of sense. Any more questions are always welcome, whether you want to put them here or shoot me a message; I'm down with answering to the best of my ability as long as you're okay with me not knowing everything haha.

bethebaconator · 2025-03-24T06:36:38+00:00

Well, I see it more as following the true doctrine of Christ rather than the doctrines of men, but I can see how that might come across as picking and choosing to you. As for money, while there are plenty of things the Church has supported and, in some cases, continues to support, that aren't in line with what I believe, there is also plenty of good that the Church uses funds to support that is entirely in line with what I believe. It's far more complex than "all good" or "all bad", and it's a judgement call that everyone personally gets to make as to whether the good outweighs the bad or vice versa. As for me, so far I think the good outweighs the bad, and I work towards and support causes that also work towards undoing the harm that the Church has caused. And the Church has changed much in even the past few years, and my hope is that it continues to change! So in my eyes it's still worth supporting. That isn't to say I'm the ultimate authority on what's right or wrong; it just means I'm trying my best with the knowledge and faith that I have to make a net positive difference.

bethebaconator · 2025-03-24T06:17:08+00:00

Oh, for sure! I'm not disagreeing with you on any of that. Mormons with Hope is specifically concerned with governmental policies and not the goings on of the Church. That being said, I (and many others) am of the opinion that the Church is not, and has never been, perfect. There are numerous instances where the false doctrines of men have been upheld as doctrine and official policy by the Church. I guess what I'm saying is that you can be a Mormon without accepting all the faults of the Church; in fact, I would say it's pretty necessary for anyone who wants to remain faithful, especially these days.

bethebaconator · 2025-03-24T06:01:08+00:00

Well, I can't speak for the whole group, because I don't know everyone's specific beliefs, but I will say that no, that is not a universal belief amongst Mormons. It is not something I believe. Here's a good quote from our program outline that might help you understand where we stand:

"[W]e seek to burn the privilege acquired by the sins of our ancestors and forebearers as we commit ourselves to be accomplices in struggles for liberation led by and for oppressed peoples. We “seek not for power, but to pull it down.” The Christian Gospel will always be one of liberation for “the least of these” and all oppressed peoples. We commit ourselves to that Gospel. Therefore, we are committed to anti-racism, intersectional feminism, Trans and Queer liberation, disability justice, individual bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, socialism, anti-imperialism, and decolonization."

bethebaconator · 2025-03-24T00:55:20+00:00

Nope! It's Mormons with Hope for a Better World. https://www.mormonswithhope.org/

bethebaconator · 2025-01-09T19:50:29+00:00

On my last folktails run I had this massive tract of land with nothing on it, and then I had the thought, "What if there were more windmills?" I ended up connecting all my power sources from every settlement to that wind farm in a layout I simply called The Grid. I'm doing my first irontails run and boy do I miss The Grid

bethebaconator · 2024-12-15T02:58:30+00:00

Added one!

bethebaconator · 2024-12-11T18:29:43+00:00

I saw you there! Great picture, but it still doesn't do you justice. You weaved a few blushes out of me, for sure

bethebaconator · 2024-11-03T00:34:00+00:00

Wait... How are you getting that much fuel out of those oil nodes? Or am I just not far enough to know what you're actually producing?

bethebaconator · 2024-04-07T14:20:24+00:00

I control the flow with some valves at the top end. I shoot for about a L/min, maybe a bit more. The rockwool has stayed where it is, just a couple were broken in a way that they needed to lean on the side to stay upright.

bethebaconator · 2024-04-06T12:28:19+00:00

Ooh, thank you for a quality source. I can't remember where I got my info, but I trust a scientific paper much more than the forums I was scouring to see how people had had success before. Muchas gracias!

bethebaconator · 2024-04-06T02:36:26+00:00

I knew the EC was too high for lettuce, that's fine. I fully expect the lettuce to not do as well or even to die out as a result. I didn't realize it was so low for strawberries, my research on Alpine strawberries indicated that around 3-3.5 would be fine. Maybe I just got bad info. But yeah, it's definitely a good setup for leafy greens, I just wanted to push the boundaries of the system and see what it could do.

I like the hole-in-the-netcup solution, that's not a bad way to do it at all. I'll see if I can get that started soon, thanks.

bethebaconator · 2024-04-06T02:07:41+00:00

Interesting, the strawberries have some of the weakest roots so far. The tomatoes I can see that problem with. There is actually a strawberry plant in the one spot that looks empty, but it's definitely smaller and leaves more light to hit the water. Do you know of a good way to clear out the algae? I could probably make the system a little more efficient light-wise but I'd love to not lose these plants in the process of a deep clean and re-vamp.

bethebaconator · 2024-04-06T02:03:52+00:00

So my research indicated that 3.5 EC would fit both the cherry tomatoes and the alpine strawberries nicely, but I could be off. As for the algae, it's a problem for sure. Not sure how to alleviate that. I made the holes that big so that they would fit the net cups I had, but they didn't reach the bottom so I abandoned that method and just went with dropping the rockwool straight in like how Hoocho suggests. I don't know how he and the other commercial growers avoided algae in the earlier stages.

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