Bit of a touchy subject, but I think members should take this seriously. The church has made a point of bringing it up repeatedly. Elder Cook has been beating this drum since 2012. Yesterday's video is here: newsroom.churchofjesuschrist…
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Elder Cook notes that the mob that tarred and feathered Joseph Smith covered their faces with soot, but also that JS still recognized some of them the next day. Often anonymity leads someone to do something regrettable but then doesn't even protect them in the end. 7/
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BREAKING: Utah has filed felony and misdemeanor criminal charges against prediction-market platform Kalshi and two of its top executives, Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara. abc4.com/news/local-news/uta…
As much as I don’t want people to yell hateful stuff at us, I also don’t love this crackdown on it. When you’re an unpopular minority group I think you take it on the chin. If you spend your leverage punishing people for it they just hate you more.
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My god. “I just was in full panic, like, ‘No, there’s children, there’s babies in there.’” opb.org/article/2026/10/23/b…
The church’s official account just ratio’d a sportsbro?? This and flying cars in the same week
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Spots in heavily subsidized systems are always scarce because paying providers enough to keep enough of them in the system to meet demand would cost way too much.
The system only serves people with 9-5 schedules and favors those with the wherewithal to navigate it.
Just now, David Eby confirms that he has his kids in $10/day taxpayer-subsidized daycare.
Approx. only 10% of BC daycare spots offer $10/day daycare. Most families who want in can't get a spot.
As Premier, Eby earns $227k/year. Eby's wife is a doctor. Their household income is likely well over half a million dollars per year.
We don't resent British Columbians who are successful (we want more people to succeed).
But where there are wait lists, surely a wealthy family like Eby's shouldn't be taking advantage of $10/day daycare. Think about a working single mother? David Eby deserves the spot more than her?
On this note, appears to me Latter-day Saints are going through the decline in children per couple and rise in marriage age that the secular culture went through a few decades earlier. But we have not (yet) seen the collapse in pairing off and big rise in never-married people.
This MAiD supporter is in favor of removing the part of the criminal code that allows people to stop others from committing suicide. Points for consistency: if you support MAiD for mental illness it’s hard to see why you wouldn’t be.
If the person's suicide isn't endangering others, or causing serious inconvenience, then I'd prohibit that. Arguably if the method that they are using is more likely to maim than to kill, then that might also constitute arguable welfare grounds for intervening. But that shouldn't even be the case if there was a negative liberty right to suicide, which would have to include the freedom to access reliable and humane methods from a willing supplier.
This guy is a psychiatrist who specializes in suicide and also feels strongly that MAiD should be allowed in mental illness cases. Here he’s saying that deciding to MAiD a dementia patient who previously gave a directive to be euthanized but is now fighting it is “not hard”. 1/
If my advance directive says "please give me MAiD when my dementia gets to the level that I'm a burden on my loved ones", them the answer is you give me MAiD, not respond to my delirious protests.
If you don't know how to "interrogate delirium or confusion", you shouldn't be a doctor.
There is NOTHING HARD about this scenario, except if you don't understand how brains work.
What does this imply for suicidal people? What if somebody who calls the hotline is controlled, not chaotic, and has “rational” I’m-a-burden motivations? Transfer them to the MAiD line? 8/
Anyway, it’s all here in 11 pt Calibri, next to figures spilling over the right margin. Can you imagine having a relative struggling with suicidal thoughts and they end up getting referred to this clown? 9/9
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