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Andrew Buonopane
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Andrew Buonopane
@abgoodbread
Seemingly under the impression that God can be glorified with frivolous Red Sox tweets and occasional Star Wars hot takes.
参加日 Mayıs 2011
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@ShaneSchaetzel In 2000-06, OCD baptism totals are about 50% of your "convert" totals. Maybe the other half were baptized protestants received into full communion.
But, in 2020-24, OCD baptism totals are about 25-30% of your "convert" totals. Are there a lot more protestants than nones now?
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@ShaneSchaetzel What are your criteria for "adult converts"? I'd be happy to believe this, but the OCD's datasets for adult baptisms paint a more nuanced picture, with the present day still a long way off from returning to the early 2000s.
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@SonnyBunch @RobGeorge In other words, if Disneyland wants to continue as we've known it, Disney needs to amp up its marketing in Arizona and Texas, at least as a short-term solution.
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@SonnyBunch @RobGeorge Another factor is that the number of kids continues to decrease. The country as a whole sees about 700k fewer births per year than the peak 18 years ago. For California and Disneyland especially, this will be more pronounced due to net negative domestic migration of families.
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As if average families with multiple kids can afford Disney prices.
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
If I were in charge I would send ICE to Disney and arrest and deport all adults who show up without children. Doesn't matter if they're citizens or not.
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We're on the record as being huge fans of non-type themed Pokémon teams, so here's a few fun ideas we had for character archetypes than can be expressed without falling back on a single type:
Pirate
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@megannn_lynne The Pitt but set on the day of the California presidential primary.
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@estherzelda0514 Well, George isn't always right.
We can still appreciate him without taking everything he says as authoritative or dragging him into sequel hot takes.
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Fun fact: Lucas liked The Last Jedi, unlike the installments that Abrams directed. The reason is simple, and revealed here—he wanted something new. Further, the crap that the worst and most negative fans pile on Rian Johnson for Luke Skywalker's arc? That was heavily based on Lucas's own original ideas—a broken Luke in self-imposed exile, haunted by a betrayal of a student, cut off from the Force, and acting as a mentor to a young female protagonist only reluctantly.
Hottest of takes here, but Rian Johnson was simply one of the best directors we ever had on a mainline Star Wars installment, and the fandom is full of childish idiots that should have been ignored. He has the originality of Lucas, respected his vision, and is innovative and the master of his craft. He managed to get more emotion out of the actors for Rey, Kylo, and Luke than Abrams ever did, and his special effects were interesting and spectacular. The throne room scene in particular was truly great.
That more people do not appreciate what Johnson did is because they are philistines. He should have been allowed to direct and write all three installments. Somewhere in an alternative universe, people there got to enjoy a sequel trilogy that wasn't childish and derivative trash. I'm jealous.
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
Bob Iger on George Lucas' disappointment after seeing The Force Awakens: "He didn’t hide his disappointment. ‘There’s nothing new,’ he said. In each of the films in the original trilogy, it was important to him to present new worlds, new stories, new characters, and new technologies. In this one, he said, ‘There weren’t enough visual or technical leaps forward.’ He wasn’t wrong, but he also wasn’t appreciating the pressure we were under to give ardent fans a film that felt quintessentially Star Wars. We’d intentionally created a world that was visually and tonally connected to the earlier films, to not stray too far from what people loved and expected, and George was criticizing us for the very thing we were trying to do." Was George right in his criticism?
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California lawmakers push to strip Cesar Chavez’s name from state holiday dlvr.it/TRZMvk
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@LeahLibresco Could I give you a 10-15 minute presentation on how common abortion at 21+ weeks is in some states where it's allowed?
I'll pay for an hour of childcare if you can make the time.
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If you looked *only* at polls, you would expect nearly every state would ban abortion after 20 weeks, and that most would ban it after the first trimester.
And yet.
Ryan Burge 📊@ryanburge
People were asked at what point in gestation should a woman be allowed to have an abortion. 72% of atheists said it should be permitted after 20 weeks. Only 11% of Southern Baptists agreed with that time frame.
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@TheRewatchables Frasier s1 finale, "My Coffee with Niles"
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If we went to Seattle within the next 4 weeks and did a live @TheRewatchables, what should the movie be?
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@Google @googlemaps How do I disable Ask Maps and Immersive Navigation?
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Learn more about how we’re reimagining @GoogleMaps with Gemini ↓ goo.gle/4cJJpfV
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Today @GoogleMaps is getting its biggest upgrade in over a decade. By combining our Gemini models with a deep understanding of the world, Maps now unlocks entirely new possibilities for how you navigate and explore. Here’s what you need to know 🧵
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@OVTweetmarck Tweetman, if you're looking for an AL team, you could do a lot worse than the one Roman Anthony plays for.
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Yeah Ohtani isn’t stopping this freight train of a US team
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21-year-old Roman Anthony is going to be terrorizing MLB for a long time
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Roman Anthony. You make me feel such special things.
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@callisticbunt @NYMag That is one possible meaning for that word, but not the only possible meaning.
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@callisticbunt @NYMag Here's one possible interpretation of that word.
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@abgoodbread @NYMag Again, you regret your own actions. You don’t regret someone else doing something the same way you don’t regret there was a hurricane or a car accident when you weren’t driving. If you don’t speak English that’s fine, just stop correcting people who do.
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Sooner or later, everyone has to decide whether to give up lazy weekends, disposable income, and overall peace of mind to have a baby instead. For many of those on the fence, one anxiety looms large: What if I make the wrong choice? Parent regret is more common than you might think — the r/regretfulparents sub-Reddit alone gets around 70,000 weekly visitors who anonymously commiserate — though stigma makes it hard to admit in real life. Writer Bindu Bansinath speaks with three moms of young children about why they wish they could go back to their old lives: nymag.visitlink.me/Sv0c_9
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@callisticbunt @NYMag Being born is the result of someone else's action. A more elaborate was to say it is "I regret that my mother gave birth to me."
Typically when we talk about regretting something, it means we wish it didn't happen.
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