LDSGator

Who wanted to regulate tattoos in the 80's?

What a dangerous slippery slope.  Next, they'll be giving left handed people the right to own property.

I’ll stick to gators, thanks. 
 
I know very little about guns, even though I vehemently support the second amendment. Guns are like tattoos were in 80’s. Those who knew the least about them wanted to regulate them the most. 
 
However if I lived in that 10% of Canada where Polar Bears roamed, I’d never leave my house without an M2 Bradley tank. 😉 

Actually, after further review, Polar Bears are the largest land predator in the world. A few other carnivores are bigger, but they hunt in the water.

Thanks bud. I had no clue. 

Polar bears fear no one, largest land predator in the Americas. They are rarely seen however in 90% of Canada. The Browns and Grizzlies are much more prevalent. One of my mission companions was from rural North Alberta, and he told me his neighbor (who lived 10 miles away) once shot a Grizzly going after his sheep/goats, and it took 3 shots from a 30-06 to make it drop. Wolves are also a big problem in many areas, and he saw their tracks all the time.

All joking aside, once again I’m very happy that I live in America. 

All joking aside, once again I’m very happy that I live in America. 

I want to thank @mirkwoodfor his inputs.  There is a lot to think about.  However, I still have questions.  Perhaps I should contact brother Wayne May directly.  I like his demeanor and his approach.
 
The Traveler

I find the topic fascinating.  It does not impact my salvation at all, but it is very interesting to me.

Don’t fall into that trap. Just because Tesla stock is down recently doesn’t mean that the company is falling apart. The right does this with “woke”’companies and all it shows is how little they understand about the markets. 

What do they call a pretty girl in Tallahassee? 
 
A tourist. 
 
😉 

What do they call a pretty girl in Tallahassee? 
 
A tourist. 
 
😉 

There are ways to stay positive.
Elon gave us a precious, precious gift that will stand forever in the annals of good things.  He strode into the woke capital of woke America, fired almost half of 'em and watched a bunch more quit in a zealously idealistic huff, and the place never even experienced a single hiccup in downtime.

I expect he'll hire a CEO with the same priorities he has. Because, of course he will. Those priorities were his whole point in purchasing the thing.

Musk's poll was silly, because he knew full well how it would come out and would not have committed to such inevitable results unless he wanted that outcome anyway. Which he did, and I don't blame him. He should be taking care of SpaceX and Tesla and seeing to Boring Co., not dinking around CEOing Twitter. Nevertheless, I voted in his silly poll, and I actually voted for him to stay, maybe just to be contrary but also because I think that when it comes to protecting open speech on public platforms, if not Elon, then no one.

About 15 years ago, the stake I'm in petitioned Salt Lake for the purpose of creating a young single adult (18 - 30) branch. The reason for this is because according to official stake records we had over 400 young single adults living within the stake.
What the stake officials failed to consider is that this stake is wrapped around an Army base, and the US military reserves the right to transition people between facilities as it sees fit... often with little notice. Because of this, most of those 400 plus records were of individuals who had left the area without being able to request that their records be transferred with them. In reality, we likely only had about 50 at most, and some of these individuals lacked reliable transportation to get them to the site of a single YSA branch instead of their home wards.
Making matters worse is that we had an individual at one point who was the very definition of "toxic". He was an Army officer in a career field recently made popular by a controversial movie, and he let it go to his head. In hindsight it's clear he was called to be elder's quorum president because he needed to learn humility, and he never did. Instead, his arrogance and insensitivity to the needs of others drove quite a few people away from the branch, never to return. 
These two issues were such that even though I aged out a long time ago, I kept coming in order to help out as there were Sundays the branch didn't have enough priesthood to even do Sacrament without me. 
Well, it's officially been announced that the branch will be dissolved after the new year. There will be two final Sundays (the 1st and the 8th), then everyone will be going back to their home ward or branch. I guess it was determined that the branch was simply no longer viable. 
I'm not entirely surprised, as by all rights the branch should have been dissolved a long time ago. But at the same time, I find its dissolution rather sudden. 

There are companies that do that? Not a challenge, just surprised. I honestly didn't think there would be a big enough demand for it. 

No I wouldn’t. 
 
Oh, agree. Jokes about my beliefs aren’t funny, jokes about yours are fair game. 

I doubt that. I always thought I disappointed my old man because he was a good athlete when he was younger and I never had an once of athletic talent. When I told him that I thought I disappointed him he looked at me like I was crazy. Never crossed his mind. 

I have never seen a CEO/business owner do this.  I just can’t shake the feeling that he’s playing with people and laughing at how stupid we all are. 

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af
 
His tail number is N628TS
This took me about 60 seconds to find and paste.  This is not the Musk tracker as far as I can tell and just a public tail tracker.
Edit:  If the site is what it appears, now that I know what the tail is, it may take all of 5-10 seconds.
 

https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-twitter-suspends-another-195922824.html
 
Now it seems he’s blocking people out of spite. Which is fine, it’s his platform. I’d do the same thing too.  But don’t claim to be a free speech absolutist if you’ll do this. 
 
If George Soros bought Twitter and did this, I’m very skeptical that we’d all be this sympathetic. 

Maybe, but I’m old school. It’s just more sad than anything else to see that family estrangement. I don’t care who began it. Really, really sad. 

I used to think "the folks in power usually end up doing the same things" was a decent principle that was usually right.
Then Elon bought Twitter and talked hugely about freedom of speech but not necessarily freedom of reach, and I was enthusiastic and hopeful.
Now Elon is off banning people for exercising freedom of speech, and I'm back to thinking that principle is usually right.  Went from 76.2% a fan of Elon to a 64.5% fan.