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  3. Russia-Ukraine conflict

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    1 hour ago, NeuroTypical said:

    Doncha think?

    It’s complicated. Much more so than both sides want to admit. 

    NPR knows who their audience is, and so does Fox. Neither side is going to go out of their way to show stories their audience doesn’t want to hear. NPR has a liberal bias in their reporting, but since we have 10,000 news sources, their power is virtually nil. So it’s not worth getting fussy over.

    Bernard Goldberg, himself no leftist, said it best. “Some conservatives think Al Roker is out to get them if he forecasts rain on the 4th of July.”  If you are way far right wing (and yes, way far leftwing) you’ll make things up in your head or misread them to satisfy your own confirmation bias and reassure yourself that you are correct.  It saves you from having to think or ask uncomfortable questions.  

  4. Someone flirted with me…

    in Advice Board

    Posted · Edited by LDSGator

    On 4/23/2024 at 4:30 PM, Still_Small_Voice said:

    try not to be alone with a woman if it can be avoided as I am married.  Personally I believe it leads to nothing good. 

    Two of my closest friends are women, and I totally agree. My wife is friends with them as well and we just had dinner with one of them and her brother on Sunday. 

    I’m NEVER alone with a girl. It’s a combination of paranoia, common sense, and an understanding of our current climate.    

  8. The Berenstain Cross-dressers

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    56 minutes ago, Ironhold said:

    Actually?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

    Filmation used an early form of motion capture known as "rotoscoping" in order to produce He-Man and She-Ra. 

    Filmation's facilities weren't that far from places where athletes, bodybuilders, and weightlifters liked to congregate (remember, this is in California), so what they'd do is whenever new characters were to be introduced they'd send some people out as talent scouts. These scouts would then hire some of these individuals and bring them back to the facilities. The individuals would then dress in costume, pose for reference photos, engage in a series of relative basic & common actions that Filmation expected the characters to engage in quite often, and went from there. 

    So when you're watching the old 1980s Filmation cartoons, you are in fact essentially watching real people. 

    I was waiting for you to post my friend. The two comic book fans on the forum have to stick together! 

  10. The Berenstain Cross-dressers

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    1 hour ago, NeuroTypical said:

    The Berenstein Bears was a staple of my childhood, and my kids' as well.  Honest look at family life, dealt with real issues.  Before congress got involved and made GI Joe devote a portion of each episode to some stupid messaging directed at how kids shouldn't bully but should brush teeth or whatever.

    GI Joe was my thing and I still collect the comics. I don’t like the “Now I know” socially responsible stuff either. I found it silly, even as a kid.   

  13. Question concerning “Continuing Revelation”

    in LDS Gospel Discussion

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    10 hours ago, Maverick said:

    I also want to add that Brigham switching topics and then returning to the previous topic is a very common occurrence in his many discourses. He did it all the time. 

    There are also several other records of his discourse on Adam-God in Journal of Discourses 1:50-51 in journals of people who were in attendance and they all agree with how it is recorded in the Journal of Discourses. 

    Is there a reason why Adam-God is of such great importance to you or am I missing something? Totally curious. 
     

    I’m a convert and I don’t think I even heard about this doctrine until I joined TH. Never heard about it in church either. 

  18. The War in Israel may be at it's end.

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    Posted

    14 minutes ago, Phoenix_person said:

    One of my all-time favorite movies is The Big Short. It's the story of a few guys who saw the cracks in the CDO dam and got rich off of it. And according to the movie (grain of salt, I know) at least one of them DID try to raise alarms at the SEC and WSJ.

    That’s right up my alley. Thank.

     

    There was a whistleblower for Madof that tried calling the SEC several times as well. 
     

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Markopolos

  19. The War in Israel may be at it's end.

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    Posted

    1 hour ago, NeuroTypical said:

    Saddest thing in the world - I saw a post from someone near the bottom of the 2008 economic downturn, saying he was selling all his retirement stock while he still had some left and putting it somewhere safe.    

    The market has gone up roughly 500% since the 2008 bottom.   If dude put it in cash or gold or something, it's probably lost like a third of it's value, because of inflation.

    And that's how you end up spending your golden years working, unable to retire.  (Divorce is the other reason people end up there.)

    To be fair, I’m sure some people probably did see it coming, but it’s like a historic college football game-more people say they were there then actually were there.  

  21. The War in Israel may be at it's end.

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    3 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:

    I'm having a hard time getting worried about a coming depression.

    Agree. I think that predicting the future of the economy is a fool’s game. If I wake up every day and say “today is the day the economy will crash.” I’ll eventually be right. If I also say “Today is the day I’m going to die.” every day, eventually I’ll be right about that too. Neither statement makes me a prophet. 

  22. The War in Israel may be at it's end.

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    33 minutes ago, Traveler said:

    The economy and commodities are such a weird confusing mixed bag of conundrum in my mind – I am not sure how good of an indicator (especially in the short term before the election) such things are.

    While I basically  agree with you, I think we’re in the minority. At the end of the day voters care about guns, LGBT issues, and abortion rights-but they care much deeper about feeding their families and retirement. If the economy is lousy in November, it generally means the voters are going to “throw the bums out.”

  23. The War in Israel may be at it's end.

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    9 hours ago, Vort said:

    If the enemy attacks on the Sabbath, you defend yourselves on the Sabbath. Israel should not be waiting until May to respond to such aggressions.

    that, and from what little I know Israel is a secular state with a large non-Jewish or “Jewish in name only” population. The citizens probably care more about not getting blown up or shot more than not fighting back on the sabbath.