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I thought about that too. This has been different from my experience as an adult. Every ward I’ve been in has had its share of low-income housing or welfare recipients. They have also been in some affluent areas. So I would expect to see some income disparity in the data. The fact that it doesn’t tells me that either (1) in the wards I’ve been in the haves vastly overshadow the have-nots, or (2) the saint density in the Wasatch front is so tightly packed that the other US wards aren’t making a dent in this study (I never lived in a Utah family ward).

From what I can tell, this is the primary difference in the two organizations preventative steps. I’m not sure how substantial it is. I certainly don’t think it’s significant enough to warrant the extensive praise you heap on the BSA (but that’s just a difference of opinion). Do you know who else has two-deep leadership? As long as we’re misrepresenting requirements, the Church calls for two “responsible adults”. The BSA does not require responsible leaders. For what it’s worth, I specifically posted the link so you would see that the Church requires two-deep leadership. Please stop saying it doesn’t. Do you know what it means to be a mandatory reporter? That is a legal term for people who may be charged with a misdemeanor if they keep their mouth shut. The State determines that, not the organization. Now, the organization can require someone to report abuse, but the worst they can do is kick out the person who failed to report. It’s good that the BSA tells its leaders to report abuse when they see it. Do you know who else does? “If you learn of abuse, you should immediately contact legal authorities” @NeuroTypical may be able to shed some light on the annotations on Church records. NT, if someone is known to have an abusive past would that show up in the records? Also would other criminal charges (such as fraud) make it there? Yay!!! I didn’t know about this BSA requirement. It looks like the differences between what the Church requires and what BSA requires is BSA has more frequent training and separate tenting for large age differences. As you note though, “the two deep leadership (meaning you ALWAYS should have another witness of what is happening, and hopefully at least one sane adult is there) and background checks, it does a LOT to curb situations where bad things could occur.” And the Church has this or something similar in place. So the Church does a LOT to curb bad situations where bad things can occur. As needed the two differences can be tweaked. Funny you should say that. An analysis of the BSA’s P-Files shows that The Church of Jesus Christ has a rate of abuse far below average when compared to other religions in Scouting. So would I, but because there are evil people in this world it’s good to know the Church has instituted safeguards to protect children and youth.

First pagers then walkie-talkies. They’re throwing out their telegraphs as we speak!

Huh

Did you ask her how she stores her ketchup?

What was she supposed to do — rub the muffin directly on the butter? They’re not Cornish Muffins you know.

Ever been covered in kisses by emotional support leeches?

Put on a few more pounds first to guarantee you won’t run out of canvas.

I trust ChatGPT’s facts even less than I trust Wikipedia’s. It is optimized to sound like natural language (I think it’s well on its way but still sounds like a high school essay in every response). It is not optimized for accuracy. The content is filled in based on what sounds “right”, where “right is defined as “I can imagine a person sayin this” and “a person” ranges anywhere from an expert to your loony uncle at Thanksgiving after 3 drinks.

99 plus 1?? I see now.

Looking for more puzzles, eh? Here's a pizza puzzle (logic): https://gamesworldofpuzzles.com/february-9-pizza-day/ And here's an Easter Bunny-themed logic/math puzzle: https://gamesworldofpuzzles.com/march-29-mr-e-bunny/ You can find a greater variety here: https://gamesworldofpuzzles.com/category/puzzles/ (first page is mostly trivia... skip ahead to page 2 for the pencil puzzles)

That really is the best way if you can’t guarantee the consistency of the parts. If your 1” diameter rod can differ by 1/8” in either direction, and the hole it goes through also differs by 1/8”, you’ll get slowed down applying some sort of adaptation. If that was the only problem then an assembly line is still better because you become expert in the domain’s problems and adaptations. But the downside is that adaptations compound. A previous line worker welded on a piece that’s longer but you need it shorter. Can you trim it? Or do you need to build around it? If you welded it on yourself you may actually remember that it needed the additional weight the extra length provided. Or another way to think of it might be on an even larger scale. We’re able to specialize because we trust others to provide high quality within their domains. Imagine a 30% catastrophic failure rate. People who install water lines fail 30% of the time (either they used lead pipes or they connected the wrong house). You probably will dig your own well. 30% of fruits, vegetables, and meat carry some disease. You take a look at the 100 salad bags on the shelf. 30 of them have diseased vegetables. Another 21 didn’t seal the bag properly and the whole thing is rotten (really wish these bags had windows). Somewhere in this pile of bags there’s 49 good ones. You’ve suddenly embraced the life of a subsistence farmer. You’re manufacturing your meals one at a time. The assembly line works if the whole is broken down to enough discreet steps, and each step has precisely defined prerequisites that can be and are consistently met.

ESPN? This looks more like TBN!

@Vort didn't realize it but he got me hooked on Cracking the Cryptic. This one introduced some new cleverness and is approachable: https://sudokupad.app/e3dz5lytps (note the rule about Region Sum Lines is meant to imply that the line crosses at least one box border). I'll admit it took me about 40 minutes to solve. The professional solve is here:

At one point in the puzzle I had determined that the sparrow did not prefer the apple, but didn't know where the Finch stood. I secretly hoped that my next passthrough of the clues would make no progress so the intended conclusion was that the finch could not support White Millet and that would unlock the next steps. I was disappointed but still enjoyed it.

Good news. Scholars tell me it’s talking about Mexico.

Don’t the scriptures say it’s a bad idea to have women govern?

Does @zil2 get any royalties for her correction of the timeline?

Monolatry and henotheism also come with polytheism baggage and can only be adopted by recontextualizing beyond the point of most discussion. Israel’s god, Jehovah, will fight their battles and defeat the armies of Baal, the Canaanites, or the armies of Ra, and so on. These gods each champion their own lands and their own peoples. Without redefining the terms, saying Latter-day Saints are henotheists suggests we believe there is one god over the US, one over Canada, another over Australia (wait, this is making so much sense now), and so on. A looser interpretation might be that there is one god over the Christians, one over the Jews, another over Muslims, Buddhists get one too, and so on. Applying these terms to Latter-day Saints because Abraham has earned his exaltation and is a god is like trying to apply physical laws to a multiverse—that is outside of our observation and revelation. If instead we prefer these terms because the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God, then I don’t think we need to abandon the monotheist moniker since Trinitarians cling to it as well. 7 statements most Christians agree on Trinitarians and others (moralism is generally considered heresy, but it is what most people learn first)): 1. The Father is God 2. The Son is God 3. The Holy Ghost is God 4. The Father is not the Son, and the Son is not the Father 5. The Son is not the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost is not the Son 6. The Holy Ghost is not the Father and the Father is not the Holy Ghost 7. There is one God / God is one Reconciling the last statement with the other 6 is where all the credal feuding comes from. You may want to look into Social Trinity if you’re still researching terms.

It’s never too early to start rough housing with your baby. You know how cats like to play whack-a-mole under your covers? Babies in the womb love that game too! If they push out you push in—endless hours of fun! Mothers may complain but that’s just because they don’t fully understand how fathers bond with their children.

If you want to see the papyri Joseph purchased that has since been recovered, you can find it here: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/the-papers/revelations-and-translations/jsppr6/jsppr6-SUB01 Facsimile 1 is copied from the Book of Breathings A. The Book of Breathings usually contains a vignette that matches facsimile 3, but that papyrus hasn’t survived. Facsimile 2 was copied from a hypocephalus, but we don’t have the original for that either. You can access other related documents (such as the Grammar and Alphabet gif the Egyptian Language) here: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/the-papers/revelations-and-translations/jsppr6

We could, but I don’t think she’d like that either.

First off, if I need to point out that anyone who decides Nephites are racist in any way similar to the racism that’s almost universally decried today, then they are tacitly admitting that “skin of blackness” was a literal change of Lamanite’s literal skin. After all the Matrix-level dodging of a literal reading, do they want to return to that to give Nephi this flaw? Second, who was Nephi racist against? His own brothers, nieces, and nephews? We’ve assumed cultural and societal intermingling and even intermarriage into the text, but that first generation married within the two founding families (plus Zoram). Is racism the right word to throw around here? Nephi falls in love with Isaiah’s prophecies and especially seems to favor the pro-gentile message. Gentiles readily fall outside of Nephi’s race.

Mine were way off.