grasshopper_mouse @ grasshopper_mouse @lemmy.world

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Oh nice! Finally I can play Backgammon with people (no one IRL ever wants to play)!

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I moved to a new town in 2022 and I STILL haven't been to the local library. I need to get on that. I went to libraries so much as a child and in my teens.

This was over 20 years ago, and I have no pics, sorry!

I used to do dispatching for night-shift security for a large computer-related company in a western state in the U.S. (sorry for vagueness).

One foggy night/early morning as we were nearing the end of our shift, one of the patrol guys calls in from his vehicle and says he found a dead cow on one of the roads that ran adjacent to company property. Our building was surrounded by fields that sometimes had cattle on them, so we figured one must have gotten loose somehow and got hit by a car, probably because it was so foggy and hard to see. The officer was on his way back to dispatch anyway, but 3 minutes later, as he's on his way back and on another road (the company site was several acres), he calls in again to say there are MANY LIVE cattle all over the road and running into one of the parking lots in front of the main building. Turns out they all busted a fence and escaped, and were now freely running around the campus. We have no idea who they belong to, so we call the head of security (who was on his way in as by now it was like 6am), then call the cops to see if they can tell us who owns the land the cattle escaped from.

Meanwhile, other people who work in the building are arriving for the day, and they are calling in to dispatch saying they cannot leave their cars because they're surrounded by cattle. The herd (we later learned it was about 100 head) split into several groups, and started blocking the entrances to the building, and people were just afraid to get out of their cars with them roaming around. The fog made everything worse because you couldn't see very far across the lot before you were suddenly up against a herd of spooked cattle.

Eventually we got ahold of the owners, and they had to come out to the campus with horses and literally round the cattle up with lassos and herd them back into the fields. The cops came to redirect traffic on the highway to avoid the worksite entirely while our patrol assisted with the Jeeps. It was utterly ridiculous. Thankfully the only casualty was the 1 dead cow.

You might just still be processing it all, but I just want to mention that if you ARE okay with it, just remember to be careful about STIs.

That's fair, it does appear that the church itself never owned Ancestry.com outright, so I concede I was wrong on that, however this article from the Harvard School of Divinity states that they did own it (see Mormons, Genetics, & Digitized Data:

" In 2001, Mormon billionaire James Sorenson started one of the earliest genetic test kit companies, Relative Genetics, in part due to his religious interests.It was later bought by Ancestry.com, another Mormon company. While today, Ancestry is a publicly traded company, it uses LDS church records and the IGI. All LDS church members receive free memberships, and they can use their account to send relatives they find on Ancestry.com directly to the LDS church for a proxy baptism with the click of a button."

While yet another article states : Is Ancestry.com owned by the Mormon Church?:

"Since many of the digitized records on Ancestry.com can be accessed at FamilySearch, many people assume that the company Ancestry is owned by the LDS church. This is not the case! However, the two organizations have done massive amounts of collaborative work throughout the years. In fact, if you are an LDS member, you have free access to Ancestry’s World Edition. You can also obtain free access at different municipal libraries and other non-religious institutions.

The company still to this day continues to grow, and though its past was highly influenced by people in the LDS church, the company has never been owned by the church itself.

However, the company has truly been a pioneer in the online subscription business model. Today, Ancestry is considered a major technology company rather than a genealogical company. Though the company has done numerous amount of collaborations with the LDS church’s non-profit organization Familysearch.org, it has never been owned by the church itself."

This article points out how Ancestry.com and FamilySearch are often confused (FamilySearch is in fact owned by the Mo's) Ancestry’s Associations with FamilySearch:

"Ancestry’s Associations with FamilySearch I think one of the reasons that people think Ancestry is owned by the LDS church is that they mix it up with FamilySearch.org.

Who owns Family Search? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Like Ancestry, Family Search is a global online genealogy service based in Provo, Utah.

The two rivals have a history of partnership and collaboration.

The LDS operates a global network of Family History Centres for genealogy research. Members get free access to Ancestry.com services from those centers.

In 2013, Ancestry and FamilySearch started a significant collaboration in access to archives across both sites.

When you’re logged into Ancestry and searching for records, the results may include documents that are indexed by FamilySearch.

Is Ancestry.com Owned By The Mormon Church? Why do people mistakenly think that Ancestry is owned by Mormons?

Is it just because Ancestry and FamilySearch are two online genealogy giants headquartered in Utah? No, I think there’s more to it than that.

The original buyers of “Ancestry, inc” (Paul Allen and Dan Taggart) were both members of the Church of Latter-day Saints.

Also, because the company is based in Utah, many of the staff were drawn from the Mormon community.

Brigham Young University looms large in this regard. Unlike Ancestry, it is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I’ve already mentioned that Allen and his business partner were BYU alumni. A sizeable number of local Ancestry staff are alumni."

So it appears ownership was never their thing, but a heavy influence remains. I assume that if Mo's are running the show, or did at some point, that the church has de facto control over the business, because the people running the company would just bend over for the church at any point, whether that means giving them access to the DNA database unofficially, allowing them to search it any time for any reason, etc.

I love my children so much I chose not to bring them into this fucked up world.

I'm so sorry it had to be part of your life experience, but good on you for getting out of there!

It's owned by the Mormon church, and that alone should steer you away from it. You don't want the Mo's to have your DNA.

Just a quick recap of how shitty they are:

Holocaust victims and Queen Mother posthumously baptized by Mormons

The LDS Church Released "Egregious and Onerous" New Policies Restricting Trans Mormons

Mormon church fined for scheme to hide $32 billion investment portfolio

Topeka LDS missionaries mock Chinese people on camera

Study: Utah women in tech report religious sexism

Bosses that listen to their employees, take their issues, suggestions, and concerns into actual consideration, and who don't have ego/dick-swinging personality issues are the best bosses. Also, they don't yell unnecessarily.

Man, I didn't even wander off, I was looking at something and they were behind me, and when I turned around, they were gone. It was just a sea of adults and I was short so all I could see was people's legs lol

I have a Galaxy Fold 2, had it for 5 years, and just this month, something happened to the hinge and it no longer opens flat. I have no idea what caused it, nothing visibly wrong with it, it just stopped opening all the way. Now the inner screen protector is bubbling at the center because it won't open properly. I'm debating getting a new one, I really like it, it's like having a tablet in your pocket. But they are expensive as hell and I'm gonna be unemployed here pretty soon, so I'm not sure if I'll get another.

That's a good way to put it, I can definitely keep time. But yes, practice makes perfect!

HOLY CROSS and then you throw that shit

I've been in some scary situations, but I don't think anything has ever compared to the fear + PANIC feeling of getting separated and then lost from my parents inside a busy store when I was a child. I feel like I can handle fear and get ahold of it pretty quickly as an adult, even in dangeroussituations, but panic is an entirely different animal and as a kid you have zero reference for that kinda thing.

That's very impressive! We had a swing dance club in my high school and they always looked like they were having a good time. I think the closest thing I've done to dancing is marching in formation in the Army, which does take rhythm and coordination. But there's a certain "fluidness" to some people that my body just doesn't have.

I wish I had enough rhythm to dance, not like some amazing dancer, I'm talking even just a little bit. I dance like Elaine on Seinfeld.

Saaame. A sip of milk is like poison for me, 20 minutes later and I'm stuck in the bathroom for the next 4 hours.

This is the way