NeuroTypical

Yay it's @classylady! Glad to see you around.

Oh yeah. June 2020 was lit. We forget pretty quickly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests Just my own personal experiences: My uncle was Facebooking live from Provo, the day after the mob shot the elderly guy trying to drive around them. After Colorado Springs had 2 days of rioting and violence, largely centered around a couple of police stations, my kids and I took a drive. We saw the ashes of the torched overturned car. Around the corner there was the police station and some protesters, holding their BLM signs and smiling and waving at the cars that drove by. A big difference between night and day. As BLM tried to close down I-25, my county sheriff's Twitter account had an active day posting pics and video of the overwhelming LEO response to the blockading cars. I guess my county was ready, because people were arrested quickly and the cars were impounded quickly. Just one day. As the Antifa started an effort to "take it to the countryside", I saw a local video of a bunch of black bloc-wearing idiots getting into a fight in a rural field. One large local resident had one of the idiots face down in the dirt, yelling "say uncle!". Again, that only lasted about a day. My buddy @mirkwood was talking about getting training on riot situations. After the Rittenhouse verdict in Nov 2021, I watched some low-information leftie co-workers burst into tears at the terrible injustice. Then I watched Daryl Brooks finally made good on his Facebook threats to start "bakk knokkin white people TF out ion wanna hear it...the old white ppl 2", and he drove his SUV through a parade of old white women in Waukesha, killing 6 and injuring 62. 4 of the dead were with the "Milwaukee Dancing Grannies". The leftie co-workers didn't notice that part. As for holding the left accountable, sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world who watches boring news. All across 2021 and 2022, I saw brief footnote after brief footnote of rioters who were finally receiving their verdicts and sentences. At least 2-3 dozen of them across the country. Lots of Portland, Wisconsin, local stuff from Denver. The guy in Colorado Springs who led the protest against the police chief's family, showing up at his private residence, got his sentence. I watched a lot of the Daryl Brooks trial and verdict - they never mentioned any politics or racial motivation, his Facebook history of BLM support and advocating violence against white people didn't make it into the trial. Nobody mentioned just before his SUV murder spree, he got released on zero bail for trying to run over his girlfriend - a recent change in how Minnesotans were handling bail, reacting to the defund-the-cops movement. But yeah, I get it Mirk. Nobody else seemed to notice any of that but me. And yet we've been force-fed an endless tsunami of Jan6 news and commentary for 3 years now. Well, lots and lots of seditious conspiracy convictions. I guess that's "insurrection light"? I'm not smart enough to know the difference between seditious conspiracy and insurrection. 730 or more guilty pleas, mostly to minor charges. Trump was charged for "incitement of insurrection" by the house, (who impeached him over it and the senate acquitted him of it after he had left office). It's sort of a weak nitpicky point - "inciting insurrection" is not actually committing insurrection. So yeah, Mirk is correct - nobody has been charged with "insurrection", just "inciting insurrection". This point is currently being argued by Trump in his brief to the Supreme Court, as they consider whether he can be on the ballot in Colorado or not. And the current politically-timed charges Trump is facing is also not incitement. - One count of conspiracy to defraud the US - One count of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding - One count of obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding - One count of conspiracy against rights (an 1870-era charge created to keep the KKK from oppressing blacks in the South)

I noticed this for the first time when Hilary was running. The amount of hate directed at her from the hard left surprised the heck out of me. But it made sense after a little thought. 15+ years ago, Democrats were the people-friendly anti-corporatists, and Republicans were the pro-business fans of deregulation. By the time Hilary was on the ticket, we all knew the Dems were all making millions with insider stock trades, in bed with big business and lobbyists. They were livid that Hil and Trump were basically both (in their minds) corrupt capitalists bankrolled by big business. In fact, it was from a hard leftie that I got this pic: Agreed. They're all about supporting the 2020-21 BLM civil unrest, but they do it by wearing blinders and refusing to acknowledge the lawlessness/rioting/looting/destruction/violence. The average democrat or liberal has zero interest in actually moving onto the street and trying to do something themselves. They're all about having government do the things with other people's money. As for J6, I'm grateful they found, arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced so many. 98% of what happened that day was just fine, but holy crap that 2% was a doozie.

Ooh - warning - snark incoming. You're absolutely correct. Other than matters that have to do with State, Treasury, Interior, Agriculture, Justice, Commerce, Labor, Defense, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, Education, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security, executive orders really have no power whatsoever. And with a paltry $105 trillion to spend every year, and a scant 4.3 million employees to do the executive's will, what real impact could executive orders possibly have? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_executive_departments [/snark]

Oh I get it. My guy is an off-grid almost sovereign citizen, who lived in a tent for a year until the county kicked him out of it. Folks passionate about end times predictions tend to be real real interesting folks!

My guy can beat up your guy! My buddy put this together, with 2nd week of December 2034 ad the clear and obvious time.

I read through the highlights of that bill. A handful of millions for wall construction over 5 years, and a several billion for ankle monitors? Yeah, the bipartisanship wasn't there enough to craft a serious bill. And it wasn't the Republicans who refused to fund wall building.

* @Vort (aka Julian Bashir) must be referring to a hyperspace manifold.

It might be one of the most relatable stories about caring for the poor and needy out there. Joseph Smith loved it, and it's been a favorite of the saints ever since. Plus:

In the Barbie movie, the dad was reduced down to the guy who did some of the driving, and did Duolingo so he could better bond with his hispanic wife and her daughter. He meant well.

See that everyone? Australia needs members! Go move there instead of Colorado - then they can have their temple!

I stayed in Canada for 6 weeks for some corporate training once, and we stayed in a mostly-empty Canadian military base that was partially leased out to my company. Before the internet made things easy, so I was calling up the local ward leadership to ask about services and location. The bishop was so excited to hear where I was, he seemed to have the same problem as @Ironhold, with hundreds of students/soldiers on the rolls, but nobody came to church and nobody knew if they were real or not. He was sad to hear I was an American only there for corporate training and had nothing to do with the base.

Here in sunny Colorado Springs, we've been growing for 20 years and show no sign of stopping. My original ward boundaries are now home to 2 stakes and a dozen or more wards. A while back I was talking to a guy who had lived in the same house, but ended up in 3-4 different wards because of all the boundary shifts due to growth. Most of it is people moving here, but also in my ward we've had 3 baptisms already this year. All y'all with shrinking membership, maybe stop sending them to us?

Interesting stuff. We're tinkering with how it's been done in the US and Canada, and we're standardizing things across the whole earth. https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/first-presidency-announces-uniform-worldwide-standards-for-ward-and-stake-boundaries

I'd like to comfort myself with tales of how weird or fringe or troubled or problematic folks associated with this production are. But I'm afraid the story of it's acceptance by the culture overwhelms any relief I might feel at Vivziepop's controversy. The YouTube pilot has 99 million views and counting, 78% RT and 84% Viewers at Rotten Tomatoes, 7.8 at IMDB. It's an indication of how many folks out there lack any sort of Christian worldview or respect for those who have one.

Yeah, once again, the Bee reflects reality. The show is called "Hazbin Hotel", season 1 fresh out on Amazon Prime. Most of the story takes place in hell, but the angels are the bad guys. Our heroine, daughter of Lucifer Morningstar, and her girlfriend Vaggie, on their quest to find a way for sinners to be rehabilitated and allowed into Heaven, via her Hotel. What's currently happening is Heaven's yearly assault, where the angels come down and massacre wayward souls due to Hell's overpopulation. The angels don't want anything to do with her nefarious plot. I am sad, because I absolutely love whimsical eclectic animated shows with catchy songs, but I'm so turned off by the plot and worldbuilding, I am unable to enjoy it. Songs by Parry Gripp (we raised our kids on his songs). I'm a fan of several of the voice actors. The animation is unique. The characters are instantly relatable. And I can't for the life of me find a way to enjoy the show, because it's entire reason for existing is to call good evil, and evil good. I've been known to wade through a manure pile in order to find a precious gem, but this is simply too much. (Mikbone's playlist, however, is top notch! Grabbing it now.)

I had that, and I lost it. My old childhood friend and I were so happy to have found each other on facebook and were gleefully solving all the world's problems by battling it out and arguing online. Dude was disabled former military, who married a lady who transitioned apparently. Then COVID lockdowns and social strife occurred, and my buddy's PTSD kicked in, the conversations got so personal for him he just turned nasty. No more arguing online with the opposite side of the fence. It's one of the reasons I'm glad you're here, PP.

Also, all of these links: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=biden+administration+battery+supply+chain&ia=web

I’ve never served in the armed forces, but I’ve worked at jobs where your coworkers would rather be anywhere else. I’m not saying everyone has to be 100% every day, that’s not reality. But it’s a real morale killer to be with people day in and day out who are only going through the motions or worse, clearly don’t want to be there. I can’t imagine what it’s like if your very life depends on someone like the coworkers I’m describing I guess I should have clarified my thoughts more. It's nice that our government doesn't take our dumbest people, those least-able to advocate for themselves, and train them to act as cannon fodder and run into enemy machine gun fire. There are countless examples throughout human history where nations do exactly that. (Since long before machine guns existed.) Wasn't thinking about morale, was thinking about crimes against humanity.

It's worth noting that you have to take the military ASVAB test to enter military service. And if you don't score high enough, you won't be joining military service. The ASVAB is roughly equivalent to an IQ test, so you roughly need an IQ of 83 or higher to join the military. Maybe the most widely-known event was Muhammad Ali scoring a 78, and not entering military service. "I said I was the greatest, not the smartest." It's a flawed and imperfect process, of course, but not a total failure at only letting people fight and die for our country who can actually choose to do so, rather than just following orders to stand in a line and sign your name and get on a bus.

"The mission of the United States military is to kill people and break things. Anything else is a distraction." - Rush Limbaugh (Holy crap do I miss that guy more every day.)

Yes, well, I'd warrant the fear of Disney lawyers is low on this topic. It ain't stopping anyone from cashing in. I got this for Christmas last year:

There's a bear or three within 10 miles of my house. I hear about them once every few years, loping across the street from one garbage can to another. They seem nice enough. Also, Milne's Winnie The Poo fell out of copyright protection the other year, giving rise all sorts of money grab rebrands, including a horror film.

I've been thinking about @Traveler's dire warning in this thread since he made it in 2021. I note the following story in today's Wall Street Journal: Sounds like the Biden administration is down with all that.

Given how big a stink woke progressive millennial antiracists have made over people failing to capitalize the word black, I'm grateful for this thread.