Random stuff worth reading on the internet thread

[Pelado]

Take 15 minutes sometime this weekend and read this story. And be grateful you weren't born out of wedlock a couple of generations ago in Ireland:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...dren.html?_r=0

Crazy.

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[Northwestcoug]

Take 15 minutes sometime this weekend and read this story. And be grateful you weren't born out of wedlock a couple of generations ago in Ireland:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...dren.html?_r=0

[Scott R Nelson]

This is making the rounds on my facebook feed today. I thought it was pretty good.

https://mormonhub.com/blog/life/morm...gs-use-church/

That's pretty good. Definitely worth reading.

[snowcat]

This is making the rounds on my facebook feed today. I thought it was pretty good.

https://mormonhub.com/blog/life/morm...gs-use-church/

As I’ve gotten (much) older, I’ve realized that there are a lot of things that we need more of, not less of, in Sacrament meeting, and that the idea of packing the chapel with 200 people waiting with angelic patience to get translated probably is misguided and unrealistic. Perhaps the Savior would handpick a far different crowd than we would, and I expect He wouldn’t so much as blink at the things that give some of us apoplexy.

[Topper]

He's a commissioner, which is a psuedo judge. His decisions are really "recommendations" to the judge. In practical effect, the judge's just rubber stamp the commissioners' decisions.

She did but no longer. The probate commissioner is rubber-stamped.

[falafel]

I'll take your word for it. I'm not going to read that long article again!

He's a commissioner, which is a psuedo judge. His decisions are really "recommendations" to the judge. In practical effect, the judge's just rubber stamp the commissioners' decisions.

[Northwestcoug]

Not a judge.

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I'll take your word for it. I'm not going to read that long article again!

[CardiacCoug]

an unflinching look at the death of Tim Piazza - the freshman at Penn State who died during a fraternity party.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...-state/540657/

So awful. I read the whole thing. A young strong kid that could have been saved easily if not for 12 hours of delay after his fall. Such an unnecessary tragedy.

[Pelado]

Sounds like needed progress then. From what I understood in the article, it was just one judge over the guardianship cases.

Not a judge.

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[Northwestcoug]

The Guardianship Court has changed significantly since the events detailed in that article. There is no longer a guardianship commissioner and we have three judges who adjudicate guardianship matters.

Sounds like needed progress then. From what I understood in the article, it was just one judge over the guardianship cases.

[Art Vandelay]

an unflinching look at the death of Tim Piazza - the freshman at Penn State who died during a fraternity party.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...-state/540657/

Fraternity brothers with garbage bags appear in the footage and start cleaning up the evidence. Brothers try to prop Tim up on the couch and dress him, but his limbs are too stiff and they can’t do it. Someone wipes the blood off his face, and someone else tries, without luck, to pry open his clenched fingers. Clearly the brothers are trying to make this terrible situation appear a little bit better for when the authorities arrive. But they do not use their many cellphones to call 911. Instead one brother uses his phone to do a series of internet searches for terms such as cold extremities in drunk person and binge drinking, alcohol, bruising or discoloration, cold feet and cold hands.

[Topper]

I'd like to see one of those Forbes top 10 places NOT to retire because you might have your assets and freedom taken away.

The Guardianship Court has changed significantly since the events detailed in that article. There is no longer a guardianship commissioner and we have three judges who adjudicate guardianship matters.

[Bo Diddley]

This is a terrifying article about guardianships of the elderly. It focuses on the system in Las Vegas/Clark County, but there are problems like this in other places.

I'd like to see one of those Forbes top 10 places NOT to retire because you might have your assets and freedom taken away.

[mtnbiker]

Japanese speakers, please explain the use of no ni in this phrase. I thought yokatta meant something like "was good" and sometimes "is good." Renraku means contact but how does one know who is the subject and who is the object?

連絡してくれればよかったのに

The translate app on my phone says "You should have contacted me." It's probably pretty accurate. So 'yokatta no ni' essentially means 'should have' or 'would have been good if...'

[Topper]

Japanese speakers, please explain the use of no ni in this phrase. I thought yokatta meant something like "was good" and sometimes "is good." Renraku means contact but how does one know who is the subject and who is the object?

連絡してくれればよかったのに