Midwest LDS

Not really. I answered your question as to why I wear a mask. You want to argue about it. I could dive into google, throw out a whole bunch of research that supports my viewpoint. You'd do the same. 100 posts and 2 hours later neither of us will have succeeded in convincing the other one of anything. We will pat ourselves on the back and brag to our friends about how we totally owned this random person online. I'm not interested in having a pointless argument today. I'm sure you can find 100 million other people ready to throw down with you about this on any site you care to visit. I'm just not one of them.

Fether in real life: "No one signed up to clean the temple? Dang you all! Dang you all to heck!" 😁
Just kidding. I'm sure Fether only curses when moved upon by the Spirit to do so.
I actually like the sharing of examples. Sometimes when the answer to a question is a little obvious or something that is talked about a lot it is better to just simply teach the doctrine and then move on to examples and application. Not to say that this is necessarily one of those cases (you know your audience better than I) but it's an approach that has worked well for me at times.

Not really. I answered your question as to why I wear a mask. You want to argue about it. I could dive into google, throw out a whole bunch of research that supports my viewpoint. You'd do the same. 100 posts and 2 hours later neither of us will have succeeded in convincing the other one of anything. We will pat ourselves on the back and brag to our friends about how we totally owned this random person online. I'm not interested in having a pointless argument today. I'm sure you can find 100 million other people ready to throw down with you about this on any site you care to visit. I'm just not one of them.

The thing is that most of the better CPAs will be able to contact the IRS when the lay person cannot.  And they may know how to file electronically when you do not.
You could at least talk to one and find out if they can call or not.  You could also ask if they can e-file it or not (even with those extra deductions).  If they can, try to do it before the deadline.  If they can't then you're stuck wondering if it just got lost in the mail or if it got lost at the IRS or if it is still being processed.
I remember one year where everyone around me said they got their returns.  I didn't get mine for another couple months after the last person seemed to get theirs.
I can send you the info for my accountant (He's in Denver).  He'd normally talk to you.  But being this close to tax day, he might be too busy.

I did that the same way I passed the bar exam.  Sadly, I can’t talk about e either test  until all of the other parties involved have been dead for at least ten years . . .

It's not virtue signaling if I legitimately believe it's better to wear masks. I do and I don't mind telling people that.

It depends. They weren't perfect, but I enjoyed them, and I thought they set up the rest of the series nicely. Plus I'm a sucker for political and military sci fi. However, many Dune purists will argue that Frank never intended there to be an actual robot war, and feel like the Butlerian Jihad series dumbed down something that was supposed to be more philosophical than physical (please correct me if I'm wrong fellow Dune fans like @NeuroTypical). If you liked Hunters and Sandworms though I think you would enjoy the Jihad series.

I have a Smith and Wesson myself but I'd like a Glock.

I think everybody should buy a Glock.

I see well I didn't mean to get involved in your discussion, I only responded because you tagged me. However, I was serious when I said have a blessed day. We are on the same side more often than we are not☺

I obviously disagree with you about masks, but we do have one point we share a common belief about. I don't believe it should be mandated by the government either. Government mandates are impossible to properly enforce, usually grossly oversimplify the problem, and lead to further lawlessness when people realize the can get away in mass with breaking the mandate (see the failure of Prohibition).

@Midwest LDS I may read it, only time will tell for sure. So many times, it seems that I find prequels disappointing. The original Star Wars trilogy made vague references to a sequence of events that caused Annakin Skywalker to become Darth Vader. I can imagine all kinds of vague stories and events and myths that lead up to it, but something seems lost when all of that gets pinned down to one canonical story arc (that wasn't really executed that well, IMO). In the same way, I can imagine so many vague, mythical ways for the human vs. machine conflict to play out and lead to the commandment to never make a machine in the likeness of the human mind. Even if it is a good story, I fear I will be disappointed to pin it all down into one concrete story arc rather than think through the myriad plausible variations that exist in my head.
Still, with the way Sandworms ended, there is enough curiosity about Omnius and Erasmus and Serena Butler to maybe want to see how Brian and Kevin (and maybe Frank, if Frank had any notes on it) really envisioned the Butlerian Jihad.

All Hail Shai-Hulud! Kneel before the Old Man of the Desert! Pay your respects lest the Divided God visit you in His wrath!

Politicians tend to be hypocritical...so nothing new there...
That's an interesting take on the gender differences...and while it is actually true that it is a social construct in many ways, the way many see it is not.  I'm not sure how to explain it right off, plus it probably is lengthy enough to be another thread.
I'd say there could be different points of view, one of which you mention which I assume you disagree with, and one which I assume you would agree with regarding boys, girls, and gender.
Short answer, the one the media doesn't want to touch upon...Protests.
A mask, like a seatbelt may offer some protection, but it's not going to stop injury if you ignore all other safety measures and ram your car into a concrete barrier at 120 MPH (193KPH) right at the edge of a 1000 foot drop which when your car jumps the barrier due to the speed, you also fall into.  A mask is not a magical spell which makes one immune, it simply offers some protection when used with other measures (social distancing, etc).
That said, I'm not a doctor, so I don't know all the exact percentages a mask will or will not help.  However, using your number you presented above (and I think that's a BIG IF), if it only helps prevent 20% transmission, that's still a significant enough percent that I'll use a mask.  With Social distancing it will increase my odds.
On the otherhand, if we go to in class instruction this fall, I fully expect that I'll have the Corona virus within a month if I haven't had it already, even IF I wear a mask and we social distance (studies that I've seen show that if you are inside for over 15 minutes, that the recirculated air and other items increase your risk.  With hour to 1 1/2 hour long classes, I'd say it's almost a guarantee that I'm going to get it eventually, with or without a mask).

And just like that, I've reached my limit for contributing to this thread.

It depends. They weren't perfect, but I enjoyed them, and I thought they set up the rest of the series nicely. Plus I'm a sucker for political and military sci fi. However, many Dune purists will argue that Frank never intended there to be an actual robot war, and feel like the Butlerian Jihad series dumbed down something that was supposed to be more philosophical than physical (please correct me if I'm wrong fellow Dune fans like @NeuroTypical). If you liked Hunters and Sandworms though I think you would enjoy the Jihad series.

You do realize I wear a mask because of recommendations from medical experts not politicians right? https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/about-face-coverings.html. When a majority of doctors tell me it's not helpful I'll stop wearing one. Oh and using a video of AOC means nothing to me. I'm a conservative. 

COVID may have delayed the release, but it's still coming!  Only fake trailers so far, though.  

My knee-jerk reaction is to agree with this, at least using modern US-based definitions of "liberalism" and "liberals". But I know it is not true. People like you and me tend to think that the opposite to "liberalism" is "honesty", because we see the deep corruption in leftist thought. But the corruption is on all sides, not just "theirs".
For an oversimplified example: Even if you dislike unions and see them as an obstacle to progress and honest work relationships, the fact remains that unions did not arise in a vacuum or because Satan's minions created them. Unions arose because people were being badly used and, in essence, extorted into working under deplorable conditions. In Zion, there will be no unions—because there will be no money-worshiping employers who value profit over human life or health.
If all the leftists went off and formed their own nation (or equivalently, if all the conservatives did so), we conservatives would find plenty of corruption still plaguing us. Our self-congratulations at having finally rid ourselves of those brain-dead leftists would last all of a few months before it became obvious that the profit-taking had begun in earnest. Though it's entirely likely in such a scenario that the leftist "liberal" nation would take a self-destructive path that would ultimately mean their demise, we might be shocked to find out how close on their heels our supposedly "conservative" nation would be.
Politics is not and never will be the permanent answer to the world's woes. Ultimately, repentance is the only answer. Without repentance, all is irretrievably lost, no matter which political affiliation you choose. With true repentance, all is hope, sunshine, and butterflies. Even for Democrats.

Here's the doppelganger of Brad Pitt, the concubine of Angelina Jolie... oh, wait... 

People today harbor the notion that concubines were "kept women", more or less slave sex toys or glorified prostitutes. I do not know the general status in ancient times of everyone called a "concubine", but in the Bible, the term denotes a WIFE—a lesser wife, to be sure, someone who is socially inferior to and subject to the full wife or wives, but still a wife. Sexual relations between a man and his concubine were considered completely moral. Children of a concubine were considered the man's children, legitimate and not bastards, though their inheritance rights may have differed from those of the children of a "full-status" wife.
To be sure, the distinction was preserved and sometimes used as a justification for this or that. The Nephite prophet Jacob taught his people the word of God, that each man was to have no more than one wife, and no concubines. Obviously, the Nephites were already tending toward wickedness and sexual license. Had Jacob stopped at teaching that they were to have only one wife, doubtless some of the men would have gone ahead with other women, then said, "Hey, they aren't really wives, just concubines." Jacob taught implicitly that the Lord demanded that the whole institution of "lesser marriage" was to cease, because there was no "greater" or "lesser" marriage, just one marriage between one man and one woman, and no other marriages for that man (or woman).
This is something of a pet peeve of mine, like people who insist that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was an "unwed mother". Such mistakes might be well-intentioned and even honest, but they are still mistakes, and propagating them leads to dark places where we don't want to go.

The Vikings notoriously raped and pillaged for centuries up and down Ireland's western coast, and were not shy about kidnapping slaves (and wives). There's a fair amount of Irish blood in present-day Iceland.

They say that George Washington may have been the father of America, but Ben Franklin fathered more Americans.
It's like they say: The Vikings weren't French or English, but the French and English are Vikings. Or as a Mongolian noted, "Mongolians aren't east Asians, but east Asians are all a little bit Mongolian."

In all this racism and politics, can we take a moment and think about the police who have been murdered since Floyd's death?
Note: the link here is ALL 2020 police deaths.  But as we get further into the year we see more and more.  A great number of them COVID deaths.  They are pretty much always out in the public.  They have to expose themselves.  But how many gunfire deaths?   A LOT.
https://www.odmp.org/search/year
At the same time, all across the country, police are not only applying for retirement benefits at record rates, but they are experiencing PTSD and similar mental incapacitation problems in record numbers.
https://meuserlaw.com/

Thankfully, belonging to an ideologically consistent political party is not a litmus year for Church membership; or we’d all have been exed years ago.