Hold on though progmos calling for DEI quotas is sort of like the NBA calling for more representation of short people in the NFL.
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Proud of church members who closed ranks in Idaho to defeat a popular but extreme abortion ballot measure.
Here is TFR to 2023. You can see Utah has converged in absolute terms with the rest of the country (and has gone from highest TFR to about 8th). Since Utah County is falling at same rate as the state (above), it's probably not driven by composition/falling LDS share in Utah.
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I'm seeing a decline from 3.99 to 3.76 for family size among married couples between 2010 and 2024 for Utah County. The numbers I had for TFR are dated but there was a steep decline in Utah County between 2015 and 2020. Partly a tempo effect (births shifting to later ages).
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He then says that the common motivations, like loneliness and feeling a burden to others, are actually different between the two cases because suicidal people are typically being irrational while MAiD applicants are *rationally* motivated. Oof. 6/
For one thing, there’s this sort of dark apparent Freudian slip, where he means to say that MAiD has very different motivations from suicide, but instead says that suicide has very different motivations from suicide. I mean, yeah, that’s what you’ll basically have to argue. 4/
Architects won’t like the idea they aren’t aesthetically conscious. They are, but they’re in this cult where you have to oppose building new attractive buildings.
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I don’t think the plots are tepid: she really does, despite all the plot holes, have an incredible gift for narrative.
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Stockard et al (2018) is a huge meta-analysis of hundreds of studies over decades and the conclusion is unambiguous. DI works, higher doses work more, and effect sizes are huge, no matter where or when. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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She went to a doctor when she had anxiety about returning to work. Later she told docs the new meds they gave her were causing intrusive thoughts. They told her that was probably PPD and to keep taking the meds. But maybe it wasn’t PPD at all, but just the meds.
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In an alternate universe Emperor Flowers has just achieved a peaceful unification of the two countries
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Reich talks about this. 2-3k years ago genetic mixing abruptly stopped with the start of the caste system.
Elder Faust’s 1987 talk “Will I Be Happy?” is one of the great conference talks of all time. It would be seen as very conservative today but it wasn’t—Faust was a lifelong liberal Democrat. Much to consider.
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Example: Elder Andersen asked us last year to speak more openly about abortion and other issues in church meetings. After that conference, my EQ asked the men which talks they wanted to hear in EQ the next six months. One person asked for Elder Andersen’s talk about abortion.
In the church we can and should focus on the things that unite us.
And that is why our discourse is often becoming more shallow.
As we become more ideologically diverse, we actually have less in common and you have to walk on eggshells and keep things pretty bland because someone might get offended.
One of the consequences of ideological diversity.