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This video is the most informative I've seen about the biology of the virus itself. Good stuff if you can follow the science (don't let the thumbnail fool you - one of the scientists likes to surf):

Interesting. My mind works by interpreting things through a mechanical lense. I struggle to accept vaguer notions. I think the atonement can make sense mechanically. I think moral laws govern the universe just as much as physical laws and God is subject to both. D&C 19:16-17 is one of my favourite passages for this line of thinking: Moral law is satisfied at the final judgement because: A) Those who follow the Gospel are saved B) Those who do not receive some kind of punishment. I don't think it's the eternal kind, Christ's suffering in Gethsemane didn't last forever. So suffering as he did, seems to imply a one time punishment for an unrighteous life, followed by eternity in a lower kingdom of Glory. This is just how I interpret it. Your theory makes a lot of sense now that I reframe things. I was seeing the atonement and resurrection as completely separate entities. The atonement mechanically provides us with forgiveness, and then the resurrection gives us the victory other death (somehow). But perhaps the victory over death started in Gethsemane. As a result of the cleansing effect of accepting the atonement, our garments will be white enough to receive an inheritance. No unclean thing and all that. Thank you for your insights.

Re: automotive tariffs, it's important to keep in mind that most "American-made" cars are assembled in the US, but various parts of the car will come from other countries, including Mexico and Canada. Domestic manufacturing relies heavily on international commerce, in the auto industry and many others as well. That's not exactly something Trump (or anyone else) can change overnight, or even in 4 years. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2025/03/29/made-in-america-cars-impacted-by-tariffs/82690031007/

I'm the last person on earth to give a crap about what famous people wear to important events, but for whatever reason, I was struck by Melania's choice. - Mob boss wife - Starting mourning her husband early - "You [beep]s tried to kill my husband" The outfit made an impact on me. And I've never had an impact made on me by anyone's outfit before in my entire life (with the obvious exception of my wife on our sealing day).

Ever since around the first week of February, I got the impression that Trump doesn't really expect to survive this term. If he does, great. But he is going forward at ramming speed because he doesn't think he has time to get it all done before he gets killed. He feels like he has nothing to lose. And he's bound and determined to fix the world before he is killed. That gives him tremendous drive to implement the agenda. But it also means there is a degree of wrecklessness.

What happened was that in the 1960s Detroit got complacent. Even with Volkswagen, Renault, and other European car manufacturers slowly moving into the United States the Big Three truly believed that they were untouchable. As part of this, they utterly ignored and rejected the various efficiency experts that came in to try and explain what and how they could improve everything. Well, those efficiency experts went to Japan, where the automakers there were quite eager to hear about these new proposals. Couple this with a variety of other factors going on, like the difference between the yen & dollar, and by the late 1970s Japan was flooding the United States with competitively priced vehicles that were often just as good as, if not better than, their American counterparts. By the time Detroit actually managed to come back with better-quality vehicles, it was too late and the Japanese companies had gotten a permanent foothold. As it is, I'm presently chipping my way through Lee Iacocca's "Talking Straight", and he devotes an entire chapter in there to warning about the nation's growing trade imbalances, especially with how countries like Japan put up barriers and whatnot to make it difficult for American products to be sold abroad. This was 1987 when the book was published, so it's been an known issue for nearly 40 years now. Trump, it seems, is trying to force a resolution of some sort, but he is doing it in a rather ham-fisted fashion.

As I've explained on Twitter - In the kind of business environment Trump came up in, aggression of the type he's been showing is a feature rather than a bug. This aggression can and often does include bluffs, outrageous bids, outrageous demands, and other bits of game theory. The idea is for both parties to throw out ridiculous proposals and then haggle their way down to where everyone is actually wanting to be. The problem is that the last 5 years have broken something inside of Trump. He was done dirty in the 2020 elections, with evidence surfacing to the effect that the Hunter Biden laptop story and several other bits that could have hurt Biden were deliberately suppressed through orchestrated campaigns. [1] He was nearly assassinated due to incompetent Secret Service agents allowing a shooter to get dangerously close to him, with a civilian being killed in the process. He's been the victim of outright lawfare in which various people went to legally questionable lengths to try and destroy him. His family has been the subject of vile comments and the like from ostensible "progressives" who would scream themselves unconscious if the same level of abuse was heaped on them. Various reports are now claiming that the "lab leak" theory for the origin of Covid was indeed more than likely correct. Et cetera. Now reports are coming in from across North America and Europe saying that Tesla owners are being targeted and that Tesla vehicles & facilities are being vandalized or even set on fire, a repeat of the left-wing violence that the nation suffered through in 2020 and years prior. This has ramped his aggression levels up beyond what is normal even for this kind of environment while also blinding him to the fact that he's dealing with individuals who aren't from his same business background and so don't know how the game is played. It's possible that some of these nations will work out compromises that will lead to these tariff issues being dispensed with. But it's just as possible that people will overreact to his intense aggression and make a trade war out of things. [1] Yes, at this point it can indeed be argued that 2020 was stolen due to how much was forcibly suppressed to help Biden out.

I agree it's incomprehensible but this is what I was trying to say earlier. I can't and won't accept that as a final answer, and so I will probably spend the rest of my life trying to make it make sense, which is in no way a bad thing. To just accept it's too hard to fully understand and stop there is lazy in my opinion.

https://general-history.com/why-are-tariffs-bad-according-to-milton-friedman/?amp=1 Let’s ask the Chairman of the Board.

We're told that it is incomprehensible to us. But scriptures give us analogies and metaphors. Summary: Death is a prison. Christ was given power to lay down His life and to take it up again. By doing so, He obtained the keys to the prison gates. Now there is an order to the resurrection. The righteous will be resurrected first (morning of the first resurrection, etc.). The wicked will be released from that prison last. A slightly altered version of this also explains how the Atonement works to save us from sin.

I have a 3 month old girl and she's our first, that's why I'm struggling, I have literally no idea how to live with a baby.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1977/04/our-great-potential?lang=eng You may find this conference talk enlightening. It discusses the Keys of Resurrection.

This is an interesting question. 1) We could go the "easy" route and say that the resurrection is simply a gift from God given to all who kept their first estate. That it has no mechanical connection to the resurrection of Christ, but that there was a rule or order set saying that Christ would be the first resurrected and all others would have to wait for that event. Or it could be that the sequencing of resurrection is because the Atonement had to be completed before any could enjoy the blessings that would allow them to inherit a kingdom of glory, and thus their resurrection had to wait until that was completed since the resurrection would raise them to a particular glory. But other than this sequencing requirement, it's a pure gift from God and there isn't anything mechanical tying it to Christ's resurrection. 2) Another possibility is that there's something we don't understand in Christ's resurrection. That just as the Atonement gave Christ the authority/right (Moroni 7:27) to save us from spiritual death, His resurrection gives Him authority/right to save us from physical death. 3) The final is that there is some "mechanical" relationship. Christ's Atonement satisfied the law of justice, paid the price of sin, and allows us to be forgiven of a debt we cannot pay. We don't fully understand how that works, but we have these vague analogies. Perhaps the resurrection, like the Atonement, satisfied a law, or paid a price, and because of that, we can receive the resurrection... I tend to think it's a combination of the first two: 1a) It's a pure gift; 1b) the gift must be delayed because resurrection involves receiving glory, and that can't happen until after the Atonement is complete; 2) by successfully completing His Atonement and resurrection, Christ has gained the right to extend the benefits to us - benefits we would have no other way to receive. If there's some mechanical connection, I'm having a hard time imagining it.

There is a global anime epidemic. While the rest of the world is working on weapons of mass destruction, Japan is producing some of the most lethal fiction to ever be seen on earth. Just last week I saw an anime fan and have never felt so afraid in my life. Japan needs to be stopped. This is all part of Japan's plot to weaken the USA after the failure of pearl harbour.

The Secret Service behaved in *such* an incompetent fashion, such as by not inspecting or securing that roof despite it being plainly visible, that there are conspiracy theories about whether or not the attempt was allowed to happen, especially since agents who had originally been intended to be there got pulled away at the last minute for a Biden event. Not helping matters any is all of the Democrats who insisted that the incident was staged because Trump was up and around soon after; in their eyes, he wasn't injured enough for it to have been a real attempt, and they had no comeback for the civilian who had been killed. Things are only going to get worse before they get better. That's the one guarantee we have right now.