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Christian - Father - Open to any good faith discussion - Opinions are my own - Traditional Families increase likeliness of happiness - I didn't mean to offend
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@StephenJShaw What possible motive could they have for modifying a long standing survey question? I just don't get it. I could understand adding additional questions, but modifying existing long-standing questions breaks your continuity.
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It’s not happening.
Desire for children among U.S. adults hasn’t collapsed. CDC and Pew know the data problems (I am on good terms and communicate with both), but the narrative rolled anyway.
In 2022–23 the CDC’s NSFG switched to a new survey approach. Response rate collapsed from 63% → 23%.
They explicitly warned researchers: do not compare 2022–23 to prior survey waves.
Pew ignored the warning, pooled the data, and published the “sharp decline in fertility desire” story anyway. I advised they at least add a cautionary note in a call to their research team. They listened. That didn't happen.
A lot of media and academics followed. And now we have this wave of misinformation.
My upcoming paper shows the apparent drop is largely a measurement artifact. When you use consistent CDC data, fertility intentions among 25–35 year olds have been remarkably stable for decades.
The “generational turn away from parenthood” story is a non-story.
Birthrate decline has been at the heart of my ten-year research program, but lack of desire for children is not evident in any of the fifty-plus nations I have studied.
@pewresearch I told you this would happen!
Andra@BioavailableNd
Why do you think this is happening?
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@ThoughtfulSaint I was. It profoundly influenced my life. I don't like to talk about it.
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Have you ever been physically assaulted while trying to share your Christian faith?
I have. And I would bet a TON of the LDS on this app have.
Many people on this app talk a big game, but how many of them have been literally physically assaulted while trying to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world?
This app is full of internet warriors who won’t even show their real names.
But those boys out there in white shirts and ties are the real deal.
Deseret Gothic@DezGoth
Most of us endured worse goy babble every day for two years. We’ll be okay!
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@realDrTT Its so exhausting to try to have conversations on any topic with people who engage in bad faith. For people who engage your way it is always fascinating to chat. And I always feel like I gain more than I give. I love seeing how other people interpret the same information I see.
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@realDrTT See this is why I like you. I can agree to that statement shake hands, give an awkward bro hug, and move on. It's so refreshingly different than the typical responses we get. Something like "you're 1% different so the most core part of your beliefs and identity are lies."
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I disagree with the latter part.
Latter-day Saints sincerely worship Jesus Christ and intend to worship the Jesus revealed in Scripture (just as we, Nicene Christians, intend to worship the Jesus revealed in Scripture). However, LDS theology understands Jesus differently in essential ways—especially regarding His eternal divinity, His relation to the Father, and the nature of God.
We can recognize their devotion to Jesus while also being honest that we do not share precisely the same doctrine of who Jesus is.
Dimitri Federico@DimitriFed
The LDS people I have known are lovely and wonderful humans. I respect them and their right to believe whatever they want. The resistance they're getting online is due to their insistence that they be included in Christendom when they worship a wholly different Jesus and reject the core tenets of salvation.
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@jessegenet Not to mention how insurance made it worse! They pushed anyone hesitant to adopt the safer standards by threatening to pull their insurance.
This is how the diving board died. They misunderstood the data and stopped insuring. “Diving” injuries typically aren’t from diving boards.
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@jessegenet Rather they were being used for their intended purposes or worse used in unintended ways and the injuries came as from the natural and obvious risks.
It’d be like suing a knife manufacturer because the knife was sharp. When you use a knife you accept risk of cuts.
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Let 👏 kids 👏 take 👏 risks 👏
Liz Wolfe@LizWolfeReason
What if we returned some risk—and some old-skool adventure!—to our playgrounds? The Yard, on Governor's Island, experiments w this concept. ("What is the cost to making things as safe as possible rather than as safe as needed?" "Children are fine without advice/suggestions.")
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@realDrTT If you visit SLC DM me. I’d be happy to take you to lunch, show you around town, or just say hi. I love your good faith engagement. I find that people who are actually chill and open-minded are rarer than gold and way more fun to talk to! (Gold doesn’t talk much.)
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@realDrTT We’d love to see anyone join our team. But I suspect the question you’re asking is actually “are you only being nice to me because you have ulterior motive to convert me?”
The answer is no. People don’t believe it but we are just nice. It is our culture, heritage, and legacy.
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LDS friends. Are you a cult? Are you just being nice to me because you want to convert me?
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@RykerJackson97 @Hotchkiz @DezGoth If anyone has names please DM me. I’d love to send this Elder a real life letter. A letter from someone who can still remember the bitter taste at the end of the dark days of my mission.
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@sourpatchlyds @BowTiedRanger I can tell you the actual names of my forefathers who died on the hill of Christ. It’d be my life’s greatest honor to be laid to rest among them one day.
“I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.” Romans 1:16
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@BowTiedRanger Sad. They're nice people. They're great. They're just... Not Christians. Not sure why they'd die on this hill.
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Tough day for the Mormons. Probably 40 years of work blown up in a day.
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@Manhattva I've learned when someone is paying a lot of money while saying they have a solution to an obvious problem that they almost certainly already understand the problem.
The thought that SpaceX and it's peers didn't realize you can't cool via convection in space is laughable.
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This is so embarrassing.
The thermal radiators convert the thermal heat into infrared radiation.
If I were this guy, I’d be offering any amount of money to get this taken off the Internet because this is so cringe.
David Bombal@davidbombal
Why space servers FAIL Execs want to put data centers in space, but there's a massive physics problem: vacuums have no convection cooling. Discover why cooling servers in space relies purely on infrared radiation! Big thanks to @ThreatLocker for sponsoring my trip to ZTW26 and also for sponsoring this video. To start your free trial with ThreatLocker please use the following link: threatlocker.com/davidbombal
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@tabr99 @absurdiumcom I tease, but it is to drive my point home, having defined standards is not the same as creating a "system of mandated ignorance designed so you never challenge their authority."
If you say FSY is this then you must likewise condemn any parent with a curfew, dress code, or chores.
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@tabr99 @absurdiumcom They also insisted that I work hard and I do my school work, chores, and job to a high standard. The craziest thing happened there too, when I grew up I somehow still knew how to waste time and be idle. I could even recognize poor quality work. Maybe my parents just weren't good?
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@Manhattva Can these be deployed by Falcon? Or do they need Starship? If Starship is there a schedule for when we will see the first ones hit orbit?
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Each one of these satellites once unfolded,
Has the wingspan of a 747 airliner.
Starship will take up dozens of these at a time.
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
SpaceX has just officially unveiled its AI1 satellite, the first generation of its AI satellite. Overall Specs: • 150 kW peak compute payload • 120 kW average compute payload • 70 kW per ton • Compute provider interchangeable Dimensions: • Wingspan: 70 meters • Deployed height: 20 meters Thermal System: • 110 m² deployable liquid radiator • Redundant pumping loops • Integrated micrometeoroid shielding • Deployable liquid radiators Solar Power System: • 150 kW solar array • 250 W/m² • SpaceX-manufactured solar technology from Bastrop, Texas Architecture: • Centralized compute module • Large deployable solar arrays • Deployable liquid-radiator thermal management system • AI-focused compute satellite design ("AI1 satellite") Elon: "The AI satellite is much simpler than a Starlink satellite. The AI satellite is essentially a lot of solar cells, you still need some laser links, but you don't have all of the super complex antennas that you have on a Starlink satellite. The easier one to design for is the AI satellite. It's bigger. A lot of this is technology we've already made with the Starlink V3 satellites."
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@maxinomics I will look into it. Thank you! Man I am impressed you actually respond to us nobodies. You keep re-earning that follow.
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@DChexs Planet Labs. This is exactly the product they offer, though it’s not free
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There are only a handful of perfect orbits above Earth. Once they're claimed, they're gone for good
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