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For me Bruce Porter's is the outlier in these videos as it's not as well sourced as the other two (or, a least the principles do not come up as often). When it comes to healing, the videos refer to it as the power of righteousness and a product of faith. I refer to it as a gift of the spirit - no complaints there. But Porter talks about specific rites in the patriarchal order and specifically talks about father's (and mother's) blessings. I don't necessarily disagree, but 1) I haven't seen it sourced, 2) it's not currently taught in the Church, and 3) it seems to go against what the Church instructs with respect to father's blessings as performed "by the authority of the Melchizedek priesthood" (not patriarchal).

Sit before. That's why the Church makes presiding leaders sit in front of everyone else.

I think I have an old video of you exiting a class activity.

DEH’s arc is actually around the Murphy family. They produced an unpredicatable son, emotionally neglected their daughter, and in their grief the adults in the room put the burden on a teenager to lead them through it. Say what you will about Evan, these are not good people. Once they made it to the other side and were functional again they ought to have made restitution and offered to provide more stability for the Hansen family.

I also do not like The Greatest Showman. And when Dear Evan Hansen came out I was disappointed that it won the Tony over Come From Away. About the only thing it had going for it, I thought, was the use of digital screens to replicate social media posts going viral. I’m of the opinion that it only won the Tony because everyone assumed that it was about the fallout of a gay suicide (that was one of the hot topics of the time). When I saw the movie it was better than I thought. Not as good as the hype, but still better than I thought.

When discussing sleep in the scriptures, Ether’s a safe bet.

Yeah, maybe. But have you guys considered cat videos on the Internet?!?!

When the market isn’t free, can tariffs be used tit-for-tat? From the first link: Third link notes that reciprocal tariff elimination led to global booms, but in order to have reciprocal tariff reduction, you must first have reciprocal tariffs — or at the very least some other stick to remove. What about as means of enforcing IP internationally? From the second link: Other uses for tariffs (link 2):

There may be. I will say that tit-for-tat is an optimal strategy for some game theory scenarios. I think I’ve shown three uses of tariffs your article does not address. Now it’s your turn to show us the better alternative for these scenarios. I may be a lost cause and not really worth engaging seriously but I hope you do anyways for @NeuroTypical’s sake, who’s looking to learn more on the subject, as well as for the silent onlookers who share NeuroTypical’s interest but are far more shy.

Tariffs inihibit free trade and there’s all sorts of negatives that fall out from that. But as @Carborendum pointed out elsewhere, free trade had already been inhibited. Lining troops along your border with guns pointed at the other country diminishes foreign relations, but if their border is already lined with soldiers and guns pointed at your country I think troops are back in play. Additionally, we learned during Covid that the President should broadly consider the ramifications of his actions. That is, epidemiologists say the best course of action is to lock everyone in their homes. Before locking everyone up, the President should consider what that will do to the economy. Europe has recently seen an issue where they officially support Ukraine but are financially supporting Russia through oil purchases. For the sake of national security, there are some things we want manufactured or extracted domestically — even if it would be cheaper to buy from other countries. Domestic industries would need to be incentivized and a tariff would be one way to do so. Back on the unfree market, we have seen problems with American countries investing in R&D, bake that into the product’s price, and then sell it only to have a cheaper version arrive on the market shortly thereafter. If our companies have to include the cost of research but rival companies in countries that don’t respect IP only need to include cost of reverse engineering, innovation will slow or stop. Domestically we use patents to interrupt free trade in hopes that it will incentivize innovation. Could we use tariffs to do the same with international imitators?

Every year we read the Easter story. Most of the time it’s from one of the Gospels, but I have synoptized it before and we read the whole thing.

Probably not it, but similar thoughts here.

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Sanders is the Ron Paul of the DNC. He may be marginalized among the Party’s power brokers, but he resonates with a sizable portion of the base and is a direct influence of the younger generation of leaders — including AOC.