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C-Man

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  1. Great post. Last May, my wife and I decided to attend Kilby Block Party in SLC on a whim. In the course of the weekend, we met a really great local couple, who we later found out are directly involved with the group who put on the annual music festival. In other words, good people to know. We've become very good friends with them and their group of friends in the 14 months since. His wife and her friend joined my wife and I in Charleston this April for High Water Fest (they're big music fans like we are). We also went up to SLC last Sept for the War on Drugs/National co-bill show and spent a long weekend with that group. We also went to Kilby this year. Anyway, great folks. They are all ex-Mormons and we have had some very interesting conversations with them. Most are from bigger families (4-6 kids) and in almost every instance, they're the only sibling who has left the church. They're all around my age or a few years younger (I'm 52). To a person, they all said the main thing that made them decide to leave the church was the internet becoming readily available in the late 90's/early 00's. These people are forbidden to read newspapers/magazines (even when on missions) and don't know anything that isn't spoon-fed to them by the Church. But the internet is the wild, wild west and they finally were able to read all this stuff from the outside about Mormonism and it forced them to really take a introspective look at it. So they left. They admit it is 100% a cult. One interesting thing the woman told us when she and her husband came down to Dallas last fall (he was coming for work so she tagged along and we dragged them down to the State Fair on a Monday night) is that they grow up being told things like the sky is yellow not blue -- shit like that gets repeated enough and it becomes the new truth (see Fox News and other MAGA-adjacent peddlers of disinformation, Russia/KGB, etc). I'm not quite explaining it right but essentially elders are teaching an alternative reality. You're right about the crisis facing the church. Members are leaving in big numbers. The population of SLC is only like 20-25% Mormon now. Same for the county as a whole. However, if you go one county south toward Provo and it's in the 80's and higher maybe. It's crazy town down that way.
  2. Kristi Noem Visited Biohazard Lab Day Before Allergic Reaction https://www.newsweek.com/kristi-noem-hospital-allergic-reaction-biohazard-lab-fort-detrick-2087130
  3. Glad this series is over. I’d grown tired of the matchup and had definitively decided Florida was the better team.
  4. Maybe. But I think JJ was in shock after he won.
  5. Nice rack behind Paul Maurice in that interview
  6. Not sure validity but saw the Suns were asking for #2 and Castle for a package involving Durant. Uh, go fuck yourselves on that one.
  7. EDIT: shit, maybe that's old news
  8. The Oilers should be moving heaven-and-earth to go and get a stud goalie. It's definitely their albatross. I bet Skinner gets lit up pretty good tonight as the Panthers smell blood.
  9. My dipshit full-MAGA BIL used to work for them.
  10. The caddy's cut is usually 10% of winnings unless it's a situation like Tiger where he wins so much that they have a set salary situation instead. To my knowledge, caddie is the only one who gets a percentage of winnings in the professional golf world unless you've got a player who is "sponsored" by a group of investors who might have a payout schedule. JJ was T2 at The Cognizant back in early March, then went T31 at Bay Hill/Palmer, lost in a playoff at The PLAYERS, cut in Houston, 50th at Augusta, T42 at Harbor Town, T17 at Truist, T37 at PGA, T6 at Colonial, cut at Memorial and won the US Open. That's a pretty good 3+ month run. JJ's win at the US Open puts him 3rd in the current Ryder Cup rankings -- who would've pegged JJ Fucking Spaun as a Ryder Cup player two weeks ago!
  11. Skinner back in net for Game 6. Hold on to your butts!
  12. I think their hypothesis is that when they got their hands on the election computers (didn't the CO lady go to prison for allowing that access) they were able to reverse engineer the software so that Starlink would be able to "activate" it even though they weren't connected to the internet/WiFi, or at least not visibly so. It's been several months since I had it explained to me so I might be leaving something out. It also would force you to consider Elon's involvement much sooner than the public timeline indicates. (Was he really planning this from the day he took over Twitter? I doubt it because it seems like he was trying to back out of that up until the very last minute.)
  13. So she's back to wearing makeup?
  14. Life is Short and Extras are extremely under-appreciated shows IMO.
  15. Sounds like they're working on it. I saw this person late last week at a luncheon and was told that they posted it the day before (maybe two days) and they've gotten a bunch of people reaching out and giving them donations to investigate further, I guess. This person thinks the DOGE kids are the ones who wrote all the code that set it up so the election computers could communicate with Starlink satellites and not appear "online." Who the fuck knows? I still think there's no chance Trump won the election fair-and-square. I also know that we probably haven't had a truly fair-and-square election in the history of this country.
  16. Then they've been using it wrong. "Salt of the earth" is far from an insult.
  17. I posted this in another thread. I actually know one of the main people behind this (believe it's the person that created the Substack). They are former military intelligence IIRC. This person called me not long after the election with some of the tidbits that wound up in this piece. They were the first to tell me about the "bullet ballots" being wildly more numerous than in usual elections. (They also claim that Allred beat Cruz, which is where I began cocking my eyebrows.) I want to believe this because at least that restores some faith in my fellow Americans but also want to avoid falling down the same "stolen election" BS that we accuse MAGA of doing. Plus, barring something absolutely insane coming out this will have zero effect. I wish them the very best of luck. As somebody said in response to my post the other day, if this is true this is probably the biggest scandal in the history of this country.
  18. He only does favors that result in him getting money
  19. I'm eyeing that one too. Front row in the balcony was like $200. The second row was $130 maybe. I don't think that will be a jam-packed show but I've been wrong before. The Caamp show downstairs was a zoo as I said. That would not have been fun. I'll let you know if my wife and I go. Would be good to see you again.
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