NeuroTypical
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18 hours ago, LDSGator said:
Our side doesn’t do that either.
Totally agree. My point is, NPR is on one "side", while the chart has it looking nice and centerist.
It needs to be a big handful of pixles to the left, in order to have this chart accurately display NPR's bias. You don't get to be thought of as "Middle" when you:
- Suppress stories that could impact an election and bias voters against the Democratic incumbent
- Suppress stories from reliable science and news sources that jeopardize a nonconservative COVID narrative
- Push shaky and groundless stories about the Republican candidate being a Russian schill
- Refuse to admit any wrongdoing or apologize after the general public eventually catches up and catches on to the truth.
Doncha think?
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Yay - they keep that thing updated!
Yep, everyone and every source has a bias. Every media source has a political bent. Every individual reporter, every news desk anchor, every editorial staff.
Although I'd suppose NPR could be re-evaluated. They suppressed Hunter's Laptop and the COVID lab leak theory, and pushed Trump's Russian Collusion controversy hard. And, when all 3 turned out to be what they are, NPR couldn't be bothered to admit any wrongdoing or apologize.
https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust
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I get much of my geopolitics news from creators like this guy: https://www.youtube.com/@PrestonStewart
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3 hours ago, Carborendum said:
I'm pretty sure they were. But the subtle changes of the artist's hand were just enough to give the "hyper-ideal" figures some qualities that simply wouldn't exist in a real human being.
I must point out again that you've never met me.
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11 minutes ago, Jamie123 said:
No one ever mentioned that no one looks like He-Man either!
Obviously, you've never seen me.
20 minutes ago, Ironhold said:These initially faded away around the end of the 1980s as most of the shows that did these segments got cancelled, but briefly reappeared in the mid-1990s when Congress passed laws requiring that all over-the-air broadcast television stations had to air three hours of "educational and informative" kids' programming a week as stations used these segments to justify tagging whatever show they were attached to as E/I compliant.
And the entire mess has been relentlessly parodied and meme'd ever since. One of the better ones:
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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.
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I watched Raya and the Last Dragon for the 2nd time. Still excellent. All I really remembered from the first time, was best animation I'd seen in a decade, and I won a facebook argument about it's worth. I still find wholesome and correct principles throughout the thing. I had forgotten what a huge emotion dump it is, although some of that is unique to me because I've lost both parents and the movie is filled with broken orphans.
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On 3/6/2024 at 1:40 PM, Vort said:
Laban was just a misunderstood guy with a temper problem.
It's fascinating watching GenZ/Alpha starting to expound on stuff they're learning about the BoM. So much political and social commentary goes with it:
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2 hours ago, LDSGator said:
When it comes to economic predictions, everyone became a prophet in 2009. I met so many people who “knew the economy would crash” and say they saw it coming. Oddly, their prophecies didn’t stop them from losing everything. Or warning the rest of us.
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.)
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3 hours ago, Traveler said:
We are currently experiencing a drop in the money supply.
Is this the drop you're referring to?
If so, I'm having a hard time getting worried about a coming depression. I'd love to see 10x the size of that drop, to get us back to 2020 levels before we shut down the economy and made the money printer go brrrrrrt...
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13 hours ago, mikbone said:
I bet Israel returns fire.
But Passover starts next week, Monday April 18 - Tuesday April 30.
Probably in May.
Well, Israel has been attacking targets in Iran for a lot of decades. As well as killing Iranian targets in other countries for decades. There's a longer history than even this article mentions: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/14/world/middleeast/iran-attacks-israel-history.html Or even this one-sided history from Al Jazeera. The Wiki article does it better justice.
I'm guessing Israel figures this round of tit-for-tat is over. "We finally hit them hard enough, and publicly enough, that they had to give their first actual response launched from their own country. And it was a pretty pathetic response."
Although you read the comments section of the IDF twitter feed, and you'd think it's kicking off armageddon, end times, apocalypse, millennium, and the 2nd coming, all rolled into one. That video of missiles in the background of the dome of the rock, is really riling up the sign-seekers from 3 different world's faiths.
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There's an awful lot of results when you just search for "service missionary" on the church's website.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/search?lang=eng&query=service+missionaries&page=1&facet=all
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Yep. Iran did something similar after the US did some similar attack a few years back. We killed a senior baddie, they threw some token number of missles at some of our bases in Iraq. A few news stories about some of our troops getting hearing damage and a TBI or two, Iran's media crowed to it's own people about how they rained down death and destruction on the great satan in defense and retaliation, and then everyone went back to business as normal.
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Oh, and straight from the horses mouth:
https://x.com/iran_un/status/1779269993043022053?s=46&t=X5qcMifsD8E7ppEtCxaqJw
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Iran, who for a long time has attacked Israel via proxies, finally attacked Israel from it's homeland.
QuoteIran launched a volley of over 200 cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and drones toward Israel on Saturday night, Israel said, in an apparent response to an attack on an Iranian diplomatic complex in Damascus, Syria, earlier this month.
This is the first time Iran has directly attacked Israel from Iranian territory, and the strikes set up a direct military confrontation between the two countries.
Israel's response: Dozens of drones and most missiles fired by Iran were shot down by Israeli, American and other allied forces before reaching Israeli territory, Israeli and U.S. officials said. Air-raid sirens blared across Israel and explosions were heard over Jerusalem as Israel's Iron Dome air-defense system kicked in.
Damage on the ground: A small number of missiles landed in Israel, causing light damage to a military base in Israel's south, Israel said. A child was seriously injured by shrapnel from an intercept. A former senior U.S. official said the attacks so far appear to be largely "performative," although Israel said it expects further waves.
U.S. response: President Biden met with his national-security advisers and reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to Israel's security. The U.S. military in recent days had rapidly repositioned its resources in the region in anticipation of an Iranian attack.
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1 hour ago, zil2 said:Quote
Fifteen years ago, with the world in turmoil, the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles issued “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” the fifth proclamation in the history of the Church. It is a guide that members of the Church would do well to read and to follow.
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QuoteFifteen years ago, with the world in turmoil, the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles issued “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” the fifth proclamation in the history of the Church. It qualifies, according to definition, as a revelation and, uh, would do well
is a guidethat the members of the Churchwould do wellto read andtofollow.By the way, whatever answer you find for the discrepancy here, you should also be applying to the BoM. Thing is chock full of such discrepancies. The scribe's notes don't match the printer's manuscript doesn't match the first copy of the first print run doesn't match the last copy of the first print run doesn't match the copy you have on your shelf doesn't match what you find at www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures.
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20 minutes ago, LDSGator said:
Same. I’ve only met one openly liberal faithful LDS. A former democratic congressmen. I’ve never met an LGBT active member.
I've met two. One married, one not. Both of 'em temple worthy the last time they told me. One of them I know very well.
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9 hours ago, Maverick said:
I am a huge proponent of the Proclamation on the Family and am strictly against gay sex, same-sex marriage, etc. And I do sincerely hope that the church never allows same-sex marriage or gay sex. And while certainly hope this never happens, I think there's a possibility that this could happen one day.
I wonder - what does it mean to you to be "against gay sex", and what does it mean to you to have the church "never allow" it?
Membership in the church is voluntary. People can do whatever they want to in this church, and reap whatever consequences spring from their actions, be it positive or negative. The church isn't our mommy, telling us what we can and can't do. It's not about allowed or not allowed. The church is our guide, giving us counsel on how to be and how to act, inviting us to come to beliefs which our doctrine indicates is true, urging us to gain, maintain, and strengthen our testimonies. It's missions are to perfect the saints, proclaim the gospel, redeem the dead, and care for the poor and needy. It doesn't enforce keeping the commandments, it urges keeping the commandments.
When you talk in terms of "against" and "never allowing", the immediate question is "or what?". The main actions the church can take with members, who either aren't keeping the commandments, or are breaking the commandments, are primarily to urge, proclaim, teach, and love. Some things the church figures are serious enough breaches of community norms (i.e. sins), that the ultimate power - that of removing membership - gets involved. It's like a chess club dealing with a member who wants to play checkers. Ok, you're still welcome in chess club, but you can expect we'll be playing chess, and inviting or even urging you to do the same. And if you disrupt our chess games to push for checkers, we'll probably disinvite you to future meetings and tournaments. Replace chess with bringing unto Christ, and checkers with sins, and there you go.
Another way of thinking about it, is we're also "against" and don't "allow" cheating on a spouse. But there are endless active LDS folks with behavior like that in their past, and that's a good thing, because being LDS and living as one is a blessing that's available to all, just as the atonement is. We're also "against and "don't allow" p0rn or lusting after your neighbor's wife in your own head. But there are endless active LDS folks engaged in it, and we want to keep them in the church, because we believe being in the church is a good thing. Isn't same-sex behavior or thoughts or orientations sort of the exact same thing?
I guess another way of asking my question, how do you know you're "against gay sex"? What sorts of actions or beliefs spring from you when you see gay?
9 hours ago, Maverick said:I wouldn't be shocked if it did happen in the next 10-20 years, especially if there's a dramatic shift among the church membership in accepting gay marriage as a valid marriage and lifestyle. And I think we're already seeing a pretty major shift in this direction from the younger generation.
Something that surprised the heck out of me recently, was found in a recent poll: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2024/03/08/jana-riess-who-is-leaving-lds/
Quote80,000 physical postcards to randomly selected households in the Mormon Corridor — and supplemented it with targeted Facebook ads to a Utah audience. Both methods led respondents to take an online survey that was then weighted to be representative of the Latter-day Saint population. After they removed late and invalid responses, they had a sample of 2,625 current and 1,183 former Latter-day Saints.
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In the survey, only 4% of current members identified as LGBTQThat 4% number floored me. 4 out of every 100 members of the church identifies somewhere in that acronym? With roughly 6.8 million LDS members in America, most of whom live in the corridor, that equals roughly a quarter-million members who might identify as LGBTQ. Who are these people? Are they happy? At what rates do they keep the commandments or break them? Are they active? Do they hold callings? Are they surly teens waiting to age out and leave the church as soon as they can?
I wonder - has the church found a good balance on the issue? Ok, so you like checkers. This is the chess club, and we'll be doing chess club things. You're welcome to come as much as you want, and participate as much as you want, and we'll love the heck out of you. Just don't try to get us to stop playing chess, or force your checkers playing on us, and we're good.
Temples for April 2024?
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Yes indeedily-doodily! Me too. I really caught the temple bug recently, so much that I've now got a spreadsheet that I'll update every General Conference and whenever there's a new announcement. The spreadsheet gives me this chart, which thrills the heck out of me:
That there's what you call exponential growth. I last saw a chart like that, when we were looking at COVID infection rates. One person had it, then a dozen, then the whole world. And now the same sort of thing is happening with temples.
The next 5 years are going to be a hoot. The open question is how long the exponential growth will continue. Someone did a plot - if it continues like it is now, we'll have ~2500 temples in 40 years.