Ok, funny story I guess. I lived through the 2000s in the church, and yes, Africans were considered the most highly exalted people group alongside Jews. My friend's father was one of these people. He loved Africans and talked about how awesome they were. He once enthusiastically talked about how a buff, shirtless black angel statue was how he imagined angels to be. He had a Ben Carson for President magnet on his fridge in 2016. He took his daughter on a one or two week trip to Africa to help villagers and then showed people a slideshow he made from the trip, because did you even help villagers in Africa if you didn't take a bunch of photos to show people? In the 2000s he said that he met a black celebrity and talked about how he radiated power when you were in his presence. I was a kid when he said this, and I remember him smiling in awe as he told the story. Even back then I thought it was bizarre. Back then you would meet Christian families that specifically flew to Africa to seek out and adopt a black kid, instead of adopting an American kid. And look, their heart was in the right place, but I always thought it was bizarre they weren't looking to foster or adopt American kids. My pastor growing up adopted two girls from Sudan whose parents were killed by Muslims trampling them with horses. That was a sad story, and those girls were really nice, and yes, my pastor's heart was in the right place. I still respect him for that. As Christians we are all equal in the eyes of the Lord, and we are all going to Heaven. I am not trying to diminish that. I am just saying that, much like Jews, Africans were almost worshipped during the 2000s. I personally don't see it anymore, and I wonder why it was such a trend in the church back then. The only family I know in 2026 adopting kids is fostering and adopting American kids.

so much to unpack here

Evangelicals are one shotted by this archetype.

YOUNG WHITE GUY FACING THE REALITY OF HIS ENTIRE SOCIETY RIGGING IT AGAINST HIM: hey suck it up buddy, you’re not a victim FAT BLACK GUY WHO OVERSTAYED HIS VISA: you are literally perfect and I will give you $5,000 right now

Last week, friends with young kids came to visit us from the suburbs in California. As we ran around Manhattan together, they looked at us and asked, “How do you do this all the time? How do you raise young kids in New York City? Do you have to get in the car every time you go somewhere? This seems crazy.” I smiled and told them that, for us, raising kids in the city is actually easier than raising them in the suburbs. We never think about getting in the car. The grocery store is two blocks away. The kids’ doctor is two blocks away. There’s a Barnes & Noble six minutes away on foot. We walk to the Met, the Natural History Museum, and Central Park. We walk to get coffee. There are playgrounds and playdates everywhere. Our building is full of kids their age, and so is our block. Once you get past the idea that raising kids in the city must be complicated, the day-to-day reality is pretty simple. We just walk out the door. And honestly, raising kids in the city is actually a whole lot easier than raising them in the suburbs.

Im a member. I get why some people dont like Mormons. Yes, the Gospel can be odd to some.I so get it. But, Im real. I also grew up in the SM/Venice skate/surf/punk scene. I see disrespect to ANY Christian, I have your back, even if you disagree with those weird Mormons.

It’s actually insane driving through Garden Grove. They just have giant demon statues out in the open. A lot of these cash only business are probably employing illegals as well. We cannot have multiculturalism.

The US military gets over 80% of its dogs from Europe, and fewer than half of them turn out fit for service. South Korea hit the same wall back in 2007, and their fix sounds like a movie plot. They took their best drug-sniffing dog, a Lab named Chase, and cloned him seven times. All seven puppies got the same name, Toppy, short for "tomorrow's puppy." They went through the customs service's detector dog program like any other recruit while researchers tracked how they did. Regular puppies made the cut about 30% of the time. The clones made it 86% of the time, and by 2009 they were working airports and harbors across the country. That's the business case for what Palmer Luckey and Colossal's Ben Lamm just launched. Training one of these dogs can run past $60,000. When half your dogs wash out, every dog that graduates is secretly paying for the one that didn't, so each graduate really costs you something closer to $120,000. Get the pass rate up to Korea's 86% and that drops to about $70,000. You'd knock roughly 40% off every working dog the military buys before the dog does a single thing better. And Warhound wants the dog to do things better. Korea could only copy a great dog. Lamm's team is banking cells from top German Shepherds and Belgian Malinois and then editing the genes. According to Lamm, the dogs that fail usually fail on stuff they were born with, like bad eyesight, cancer risk, hip dysplasia and muscle wasting. So the plan is to copy the best dog they can find and fix whatever would have ended its career. The cloning runs through ViaGen, a Texas company Colossal owns that has spent years cloning people's pets for around $50,000 a dog. Anduril builds what goes on top of the dog, like vests with sensors that feed data back to the handler. For the record, Palmer doesn't own any of it. Colossal holds the equity, and the CIA's venture fund In-Q-Tel is in the $200 million round with Sequoia. First puppies are due early next year. Korea's clones needed 16 months of training to prove themselves. If Warhound's dogs put up anything close to those numbers, the next generation of America's war dogs gets born in Texas instead of bought from Europe.