NeuroTypical

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
 

This won’t satisfy every one of course, but it’s a good indicator of bias in the news. 

Count your many blessings, name them one, by one...........   

These are my personal observations. Take them for what they seem worth to you.
There are two types of men:
Those that understand women on an emotional level Those that do not understand women, but naively assume that women are emotionally pretty much like men, only more prone to tears The second group is far larger than the first. Most temple-worthy Latter-day Saint men find themselves in Camp 2. Your husband is statistically likely to be a Camp Twoer.
Men can also be divided (roughly) into two camps along another axis, namely, how they feel toward women:
Those that respect women Those that do not truly respect women as people, but see them as things to be used to achieve their own ends. Call these Camp A and Camp B. Curiously, at least in my experience, Camp A seems at least as large as Camp B, and probably larger, both inside and outside the Church. To hear women talk about it, you would never guess that to be the case, but I think it is.
Some men call themselves "pick-up artists". These men are usually from Camp 1 and almost always from Camp B. Women find these guys irresistable. Why? In part at least, it's because they are from Camp 1 and understand women. And because these men are also from Camp B, they use their understanding of women to get into their panties. For them, that's the game. They are expert flirts.
For women, flirting is a game to see if they (the women) can garner external validation. For men (at least for the PAs), flirting is a game to see if they (the men) can successfully seduce the women. This is a dangerous, volatile situation. The women involved in flirting may not consciously be looking for a sexual "hook-up", and may even believe they want to avoid that. But they are craving that emotional validation, and the men (at least the PAs) know exactly how to feed that hunger. Many women have found themselves in bed with a man they don't know and/or don't even like because they "followed their heart" (meaning their emotions) into the bedroom.
Odds are that you would not follow through and cheat on your husband. But let's be clear: You're playing with fire and stand a nonzero chance of getting burned. If you view your marriage through a gospel lens, you will consider it of infinite importance, and would not risk its integrity to get some attention any more than you would risk your child's life to get some thrills. Whether or not the other guy was a PA is beside the point, at least as far as that goes.
(By the way, women divide into the same two sets of camps as men. Like men, most women dwell in Camp 2, which is why women so often naively and wrongly claim that men are "emotionally stunted" or some nonsense of the sort; they expect men to be women that shave their faces. However, my observation is that women are pretty equally divided between Camps A and B, and if anything tend more toward Camp B. Men are and always have been viewed by women as caretakers. As a result, women view men quite dispassionately—many men would say ruthlessly—as to what the men can offer to the woman. This is most obvious when talking with young women in their late teens and twenties. If Carb had listened to his sister's friends much longer, he likely would eventually have heard conversation that would have included the women objectifying men, including their husbands, to a shocking degree. Not all women do this, of course; my wife never does. But if men stay quiet and pay attention to what women say in public and in private, many of them will be amazed at what they hear. Women are not the people we men often think they are. More to the point, women are not the people we men have been taught that they are.)

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

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Pictures

Just got home this morning from my own eclipse trip to central Tx (hill country). Clouds cleared at just the right moment to capture this shot with my telescope.
 
I arrived a few days early, and left a few days later, so I never had to fight any traffic.

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/sites-released-for-three-temples-in-florida-and-utah

If the entire movie had been up to the standard of that scene it would have been awesome indeed!

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:
 

Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings was another example.
Although Bakshi's movie is a mess, I think this scene was way better than Peter Jackson's. It is much closer to the book, and Annette Crosby has the perfect voice for Galadriel.

Death cults gotta death cult.  It's always fun to ask these folks about their proposed solutions.  The decent ones say "I'm not going to have children and contribute to the problem."  The problematic ones propose all sorts of things from expanding access to birth control, to outright forced sterilization and murder.  But they never see it that way.  It's always couched in innocent terms like "we need to create a society where all couples have one or two children max".  You get to asking them about the details.  What happens if a couple ends up with three, or five, or ten?  Do you want to convince people to join voluntarily, or do you believe in using government force like China?

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

By coincidence, I was asked to teach Enos - Words of Mormon on Sunday. The regular instructor will be out for a scheduled event, and so I'll be handling matters. 

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. 

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

Last year as I was reading through the Book of Mormon again, I was inspired to really notice all the father-son(s) dynamics, I then realized that beyond being the "keystone of our religion" and our "latter-day survival guide", it is specifically directed at men. I believe Mormon was inspired to include the things he did because the Lord knew in the days it would come forward masculinity and manhood would be under attack and the accounts in the Book of Mormon can help to counter that trend. The Book of Mormon addresses:
*how to be a good husband (Lehi)
*how to be a good father (Lehi, Jacob, Enos, King Benjamin, Alma(s), Helaman ben Alma, etc...)
*how to be a good mentor (Captain Helaman)
*how to be a good friend/companion (Ammon ben Mosiah, Alma ben Alma)
*how to be a good leader and citizen (Chief Captain Moroni)
The Book of Mormon is literally a "How to Manual" of being a man.

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.

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.

What happened was that when Filmation was about to ship He-Man out the door they realized that the violence in each episode was on a rather higher level than what kids' shows of the era normally contained. 
As a result, they devised the PSA bit at the end of each episode in order to put the violence in some sort of context as part of a larger moral bit. 
This "halo effect" concept caught on, and soon a number of cartoons were doing some sort of PSA or educational segment at the end of each episode. 
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. 
Nowadays they're more of a meme than anything else, although there are G. I. Joe fans who are open to the idea of the PSAs returning at the end of future content.  

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

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.