J. Whitebread

I don't believe that. I was a very femmy young boy, never liked boy things and always liked girl things. My parents said don't worry, you'll figure yourself out, and I did. It used to be we trusted kids to be themselves and not enforce stereotypes. Now we are reinforcing the most regressive sexist stereotypes with drugs and surgeries that are irreversible and turn normal healthy kids into permanent medical cases.

@JWhitebread1 @jkimballcook As someone who is lucky enough to have trans kids in their life, those kids often come out as trans really young, and please trust their parents to raise them supportingly and lovingly

some of you guys seem to think it's the church of no gays of latter day saints instead of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

@TooManyLogans @DezGoth Brigham Tea. Also called whorehouse tea because they used it to sober up cowboys and train engineers after a night out.

Young bucks don’t know.

Mystras. The last capital of the Byzantine Empire. This imperial dress was displayed there. I wanted to see how a modern Greek woman would look wearing it. Klelia Andriolatou as a Byzantine Empress. 👑 #Byzantine #Mystras #KleliaAndriolatou #AIArt #Greece

@1000HolyPlaces @chefsevenn Are you guys all four years old? Broccoli is amazing.

@chefsevenn Broccoli is vile and does not touch my lips!

Be honest here…. does anyone actually enjoy eating Broccoli with food ?

Throne Room - Palace of the Despots Mystras, Laconia, Greece #Byzantium

Water panther pipe from the Moundville, Alabama mounds. This directly relates to the underworld.

@buster_mega45 @instapundit Yes but at the Missouri.

We should build two statues of Lewis and Clark at the head of the Mississippi River akin to the Argonath. "Why?" Why not?

Deep Space 9 is by far the weakest of the 1990s-era Star Trek series.

🥋 The attire of Constantine Palaiologos, inspired by the paintings of Fotis Kontoglou

@FiredUpCoug There are two types of people...and they always end up marrying each other.

We are headed out of town on a road trip. Last night, my wife promised that we would leave the house by 9:00 a.m. You all get to guess when we ACTUALLY leave! Make your guess, whoever is closest wins the free copy of my game Wagon Packin'. It feels thematically appropriate. I'm not going to check to see if you're following me as a rule of entry, but it'd be nice if you were. Oh, and here's a little hint. It's 7:15 and she's still in bed, on her 5th snooze. I'm taking emergency action by cooking bacon—thick cut hickory smoked bacon. That'll have her up in no time!

Once as a grad student I helped a professor set up a trade booth for the Society of Architectural Historians at a convention. It took 15 min. No biggie. Then a union rep came over and chewed us out, told us we weren't allowed to do that, and demanded we take it all down. We did. Then we waited for hours until a union guy from the carpenter's union could put it up. He finally came over, and even though we were trying to tell him how to do it, he was absolutely incompetent and it took forever. We eventually gave up and just let him do it. Finally it was up but was threatening to fall over it was done so badly. So we waited for him to leave, took it all down and put it up AGAIN so it was right and safe. Unions are a racket.

@CerebralCereal0 The only hypocrisy you need to worry about is your own. God will take care of the rest.

BTW i dont say this lightly. I learned this lesson the hard way. I watched as kids would get drunk on saturday night then bless the sacrament the next day. "Im not going to church with hypocrites". How woefully naive that is. We are all hypocrites trying to work our way out of our hypocrisy. I just stunted my own spiritual growth for years because of things other people were doing. I sneered and coped and seethed over these people I hated and I wilted and shrunk for it. God bless the inspired home ward bishop who showed up randomly to tell me to serve a mission. "cleanse the inner vesell" "motes and beams" etc.

@tsumugi_meow Because seeing a simple normal loving family in American advertising is pretty rare. It's always these diverse urban tribes of young people, not families.

@1000HolyPlaces Good luck! In bocca al lupo!

Today I start a new supervisor detail at a post office station I have never even been to! LOL I was personally requested, though, and it is hard to say no to that. I'm excited for the opportunity, and it should be interesting. Wish me luck!

This was a period when the church was trying hard to assimilate and shed the image of being a desert enclave and being a parochial church. Every temple of this era, Mesa, Cardston, Laie, were very modern designs for their period. Laie and Mesa, were borrowing heavily from the Vienna Secession Beaux Artes and Neoclassical Revival, while Cardston was pretty much a Frank Lloyd Wright Unity Temple clone.

@JWhitebread1 Oh, you’re right, they are. It’s certainly one of the more unique designs, both in terms of the exterior and the interior.

🧵Interior Photos of the Cardston Alberta Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: - Waiting Area -

@Axrny1LhEn8158 @Antonis2kk @RomeInTheEast And we should go every year and say "Next year in Constantinople!"

@Antonis2kk @RomeInTheEast Προσωπικά πιστεύω ότι πρέπει όλοι οι Ελληνες οπως πρεπει να επισκεφθούν έστω και μια φορά στην ζωή τους την Ακρόπολη έτσι επιβάλλεται να κάνουν τουλάχιστον ένα προσκύνημα στον Μυστρά.

Yesterday the Palace of the Despots at Mystras in Greece was reopened after restoration. The palace was the residence of the rulers of the Despotate of the Morea, the last province of the Eastern Roman Empire in the Peloponnese. Constantine XI ruled here before becoming emperor.

Από τα ερείπια στην απόλυτη λάμψη! Χρειάστηκαν 42 χρόνια για να ολοκληρωθεί η κορυφαία αναστήλωση στο Παλάτι των Δεσποτών στον Μυστρά. Η ιστορική έδρα των Παλαιολόγων στέκει ξανά επιβλητική, έτοιμη να μας ξεναγήσει στο ένδοξο βυζαντινό παρελθόν. Ένα ταξίδι στον χρόνο😍...🙏🌿🌻

While Keynes blamed the Great Depression on market failures and demanded government intervention, Friedrich Hayek delivered the real explanation in his brilliant 1931 lectures "Prices and Production." The Austrian economist laid out precisely how central bank credit expansion creates unsustainable booms that must end in devastating busts. Hayek explained that when central banks artificially lower interest rates below their natural market level, they distort the price signals that coordinate economic activity. Entrepreneurs receive false information about consumer preferences and available savings. They launch investment projects that appear profitable but consume resources that don't actually exist. The Fed had done exactly this throughout the 1920s, pumping credit into the economy and fueling the speculative mania that Keynes and his followers mistook for genuine prosperity. The inevitable crash came in 1929 when reality reasserted itself. Malinvestments had to be liquidated. Workers had to move from unsustainable industries back to productive ones. Prices had to adjust to reflect actual supply and demand conditions. This painful but necessary correction process would have restored the economy to health relatively quickly. Policymakers followed Keynesian logic instead. They propped up failing businesses, prevented wage adjustments, and launched massive government spending programs. President Hoover increased federal spending by 50% between 1929 and 1932. Roosevelt doubled down with the New Deal's alphabet soup of interventions. Each program delayed the natural healing process and prolonged the depression for over a decade. Hayek's analysis stands vindicated by history while Keynesian demand management continues wreaking havoc through boom-bust cycles worldwide. The next time politicians promise to spend their way out of recession, remember who actually explained what went wrong in the 1930s.

Maybe we should build some cities like Syd Mead imagined them.

@1000HolyPlaces @raven_brah Fast food was vacation food when we were kids. Something we had when we were out of town or just getting back. It wasn't even a weekly phenomenon.

@raven_brah Boomers forget that because it didn't happen. That was not the norm. At all.

Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.