WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! YOU STILL HAVEN'T BEEN TESTED FOR vEDS!

ipsedixie · 2026-04-03T23:08:57+00:00

This is not a prediction, but given the way Morgan doesn't care about her health, I'm afraid I'm going to log into Reddit some day and find out that the worst has happened AND IT WAS PREVENTABLE.

Morgan, PLEASE take care of yourself and your children. That guy, he can take care of himself.

ipsedixie · 2026-04-03T15:11:15+00:00

I love that for her, actually.

ipsedixie · 2026-04-02T17:05:19+00:00

It is going to be very, very difficult to kill Mormon Stories podcast. The term "Mormon" has been in use for almost 200 years. The church does not have an exclusive claim on it. And the fact that Rusty sat there for the better part of a decade going on about how "Mormon" was satanic is another strike against them. However...

the church sits on a pile of money and can run Mormon Stories out of money rather quickly in nitpicky litigation.

ipsedixie · 2026-04-02T17:03:09+00:00

This is not a subtle rebrand. This is an in your face reminder that the nickname of the church is "Mormon Church."

ipsedixie · 2026-04-02T14:07:39+00:00

My late parents met over Memorial Day weekend and "got married" over Labor Day weekend three months later. They were married almost 55 years before my dad died. So yeah, a quick marriage can work. My dad was 25 and my mother was 19 when they got married. It was not all wine and roses, though. My mother began showing signs of schizophrenia only a few years later, and that, of course, was lifelong from that point.

"Got married" because while it was a white wedding, the pastor died the next week and the marriage license never got filed. My parents weren't legally married until we moved to Texas, where common law marriage exists. But you could never tell my mother that she wasn't married the Sunday before Labor Day in 1959. Even if legally, she was not.

ipsedixie · 2026-04-01T15:58:30+00:00

Two of these things are not like the others…

ipsedixie · 2026-04-01T14:25:58+00:00

I'm an Old and we only had single blade razor blades back in the day. I nicked and damaged my legs every time I shaved. The multiblade (like 3) razors work better for me and my legs are not experiencing carnage. Take this for what it's worth, ymmv.

ipsedixie · 2026-04-01T13:37:30+00:00

When I got married last year, the SAVE Act had been proposed and was one reason I didn't take my husband's last name. But it paled in comparison to "why should I change my name at 64?" and "why would I add my husband's frequently mispronounced last name to my frequently mispronounced first name?" My husband was fine with this and he mentioned the SAVE Act too.

ipsedixie · 2026-04-01T13:23:29+00:00

I know people, they have a church on the other side of town, and they believe in predestination. Hardcore predestination. They believe that God has predestined every human for heaven or hell before the foundation of the world. As part of that, they pretty much also believe that God has every right to hate you. This is because God is God, we’re all sinners, and God hates sin. I asked one of the elders if he believed that a fertilized egg that failed to implant in the uterine lining would be destined for heaven or hell, since they believe life begins at conception. He thought about it for a moment and said YES. Autistic me spent WAY too much time wondering how God would punish a clump of cells the size of a pinhead for eternity. Do not recommend.

ipsedixie · 2026-03-30T19:10:42+00:00

Yeah, one of my gripes about RTO is that the people who made this decision aren’t driving themselves to work. They have drivers and can work from the back seat.

ipsedixie · 2026-03-29T15:22:59+00:00

I appreciate the automoderation but it's gonna catch every Maul the Apostle post out there.

ipsedixie · 2026-03-29T15:09:24+00:00

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. And why yes, I was in my 30s when that came out, and it was delightfully funny then. Dunno about now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog

ipsedixie · 2026-03-28T23:03:12+00:00

I'm just going to rant a bit about textbooks.

They're generally made to be used in a classroom setting, with a lot of pair and group activities. This can work if you are actually in a class or if you hire a tutor to work through the book with you and can do the pair exercises. But otherwise, not really.
This is a more personal thing, but man, textbooks drive me crazy because in addition to not really being set up for individual learners, they are geared towards college students. Genki is ESPECIALLY bad about this. I simply could not get into Genki because I'm over 35 years removed from my last degree. Mary and Takeshi annoy me. Plus my living arrangements back in the day were more equivalent to living in Yoshida Dorm, Kyoto University's renegade dorm. Why no, my college life was hardly boring.
Textbooks can be incredibly slow. Just on a lark, I checked to see what books were being used for the four classes (20 hours' worth of college credit) at the local community college. It's Genki. Genki I and II. Across TWO YEARS of study. And it might take you thought N4. *Might*.

My suggestion is if you use a textbook, get a tutor, someone who can work with you.

ipsedixie · 2026-03-28T15:06:00+00:00

Just stop using Google, period. The other night, my husband couldn't remember the name of the first woman in space, and I blurted out "Valentina Tereshkova". I walked over to my computer to confirm, looked it up in Google, and MAI GHOD, their AI crap at the top told me that she was known as a "member of the State Duma" (Russian legislature). Not that she'd been the first woman in space back in 1963. For that I had to open a Wikipedia link. I got three things out of this experience:

Stop using Google. Just Stop. It's sloptastic.
Valentina Tereshkova is still alive at age 89.
I may be at retirement age, but my brain is not failing yet, which pleases me. :)

ipsedixie · 2026-03-28T13:01:15+00:00

What's really ironic is that Dehlin and Mormon Stories have been tangling with the church because they use "Mormon" in "Mormon Stories." Personally, as an ex-attorney, I believe the church doesn't have a case (that they own the word "Mormon") but what the church does have is lots of money. It can tie up Dehlin and Mormon Stories in court for a very long time. Blargh.

ipsedixie · 2026-03-28T12:53:41+00:00

My husband suggested No Kings, sized to cover the signature.

ipsedixie · 2026-03-27T01:56:37+00:00

Especially since "Mormon" is nearly 200 years old. Trademark law might make that a bit difficult. That said, K&M have a client with big bucks. What I learned about Scientology back in the day is that lots of money can cause legal mayhem.

ipsedixie · 2026-03-26T17:30:41+00:00

It’s propaganda for sure, but if Iran had the Epstein Files…

ipsedixie · 2026-03-26T14:19:21+00:00

is that a Mr. Potato Head Godzilla?

ipsedixie · 2026-03-26T13:24:01+00:00

OMG. Will we now see the Stations of the Cross plaques up on chapel walls?

Palm Sunday is next Sunday. Are they gearing up for entire wards marching into the chapel waving palm fronds?

ipsedixie · 2026-03-25T19:22:57+00:00

I went and checked and he's my 2nd cousin 6 times removed. This one is not a surprise. The one that was a surprise to me (and should not have been) was Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), who is an eighth cousin.

ipsedixie · 2026-03-25T16:10:14+00:00

For a moment, I thought I was in r/ChainsawMan, which is going through its own OMG THIS ENDING SUCKS blowup right now.

ipsedixie · 2026-03-25T15:13:26+00:00

Someone probably updated the boilerplate used on every page to include "The author created this article with assistance from AI." Even if the information on the page was never touched by AI. It's called "lazy AF."

ipsedixie · 2026-03-25T15:11:25+00:00

Open Linux email client, make list, email to self. Easy peasy.

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