NeuroTypical

It's weird. I watched this movie, then 30 years of silence, and then I've seen this clip now twice in as many days. TikTok random #FYP vid, and now this thread. The aliens are tinkering with our algorithms!

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.

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?

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

I get much of my geopolitics news from creators like this guy: https://www.youtube.com/@PrestonStewart

I must point out again that you've never met me.

If you're gonna use anything from that film as an example, you must use this scene where Gandalf scares Sam just because he can:

Ok, now I know the name of my next cat.

Obviously, you've never seen me. And the entire mess has been relentlessly parodied and meme'd ever since. One of the better ones:

C'mon Gator admit it, this is the only reason you never burned yourself on a stove, or bullied people, or huffed the marijuanas.

Not tasteless, not offensive, not even a joke, but I wanted to share: "Yesterday, someone was so wrong on the internet, that I caught a 5 day posting ban!" - NT, to his wife this morning

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.

I'm only 2 years away from starting the first one as a way of coping with the second.

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.

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:

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.)

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...

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.

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

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.

Oh, and straight from the horses mouth: https://x.com/iran_un/status/1779269993043022053?s=46&t=X5qcMifsD8E7ppEtCxaqJw

Since He's one of 'em, it would be sort of hard for Him to be there without Him present...

Iran, who for a long time has attacked Israel via proxies, finally attacked Israel from it's homeland.

Audio: 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. https://criticaltext.byustudies.byu.edu/

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.