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In Season 2 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the story picks up where Season 1 left off. Nori and the Stranger journey to the Eastern land of Rhûn, while Isildur is presumed dead in Middle-earth. The Númenoreans, including Elendil and the recently blinded Queen Míriel, return to Númenor. Arondir aids the displaced Southlanders, and Prince Durin faces conflict with his father, King Durin III. Meanwhile, Galadriel grapples with the revelation that her friend Halbrand is actually Sauron. The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power (Season 2: Episodes 1-3) Review So far, this season is a Frankenstein’s Monster of plot contrivances stuck together by Knievel chasm-leaps of logic. As middling performers espouse a 7th grader’s attempt at Tolkien pros, and unlikeable characters perform uncharacteristic actions, The Lord of The Rings has been gloss-filtered into a sepia-toned billion-dollar soap opera. WOKE ELEMENTS Orcs Are Victims Perhaps nothing so clearly illustrates the showrunners’ complete lack of understanding of the source material, so much as this debacle’s portrayal of orcs. No longer are they evil monsters created for no other purpose than the destruction of everything good. Now, they are unwitting victims who want nothing more than to raise their families in peace, far away from the men and elves who would persecute and murder them for no other reason than the way that they look. Modern filmmakers’ constant desire to blur the lines between good and evil and right and wrong is what makes this woke. Orc mother and father lovingly cradling their baby More Victims Last season’s girl bosses are this season’s persecuted victims of toxic masculinity. Low T In addition to the evil machinations of only male characters, one of the main and most overly dramatic subplots so far has been that of the estrangement between King and Prince Durin. A strong, independent female dwarf constantly reminds them that they are nothing more than stubborn and foolish men who need to hug… which they do after having a good cry. DEI Nothing has changed here. Every nation is still a multicultural hub. The post The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power (season 2) first appeared on Worth it or Woke.

Lucille Ball is a comedy icon that has always had a way of telling stories. She was a bit a head of her time on many things and wasn't afraid to let people know her thoughts but her delivery was almost always comedic even when she was being serious. It's like the joke softened the edges of her more serious musings.Watching her old videos help to showcase this unique talent and recently one of her interviews resurfaced where she mentions her temporary fillings picked up on radio signal on the Dick Cavette Show in 1974. At the time, the temporary fillings were made out of led which may have aided in the conduction of radio frequency. Ball explains to the host that she had never gotten had that level of dental work done previously so wasn't quite sure what to expect when both upper and lower teeth were filled with the temporary led fillings. This also happened around the time of the second World War, shortly after America removed Japanese citizens placing them in holding camps. Ball casually mentions this fact in the middle of her story along with her disapproval of the practice presumably to provide more context to what was to come. File:LDBALL1950s.jpg - Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org "This particular night, it was about 1:15 and I was driving alone, I had 35 miles to drive and it wasn't any fun. It was just a normal night, I wasn't frightened or anything. I was just driving along," Ball shares with the audience and host. All of a sudden Ball hears music but notices her radio isn't on when she reaches to turn it down. After checking around to see if the music could be coming from another car or somewhere outside, she realizes as the music kept getting louder that it's coming from her mouth. Her eyes go wide while she mimics the beating of base beating against her jaws by tapping her fingers on her face. "I could hear the tune and everything. I recognized the tune," Ball reveals to audience laughter. As she continues driving the tune fades out until she can no longer hear it. But the next day when explaining her experience to a coworker, he tells her that she drove by the radio station and her fillings picked it up. Ball jokes that she could "hardly wait to go by there again." Cbs No GIF by Paramount+ Giphy But that wasn't the only time she picked up something she shouldn't have while those temporary fillings were in her teeth. Turns out several days later while still waiting for her permanent dental work to be completed, she was driving near her home and picked up what sounded like morris code. This time instead of continuing to drive, she backed up so she could hear it more clearly."Morris code-like and I backed the car up and it got stronger and stronger. And I kept on backing it up until it really got strong and my whole jaw was vibrating," she demonstrates the vibration. "And then I got the hell out of there." File:Lucille Ball John Wayne 1955.JPG - Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org Ball went back to work the next day at MGM where she informed the security office of what she heard. They must've called the authorities because Ball says shortly after her informing the security office, they found an underground Japanese transmitting radio station. The actress doesn't share any further details on what happens in the clip, though the jury is out on if the the events actually happened the way she described. Watch the clip below:Lucille Ball talks about how her metal dental fillings helped capture Japanese spies during WII pic.twitter.com/CxoLGVfvj7— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) August 29, 2024 Many people have tried to verify if this was even plausible with "Mythbusters" claiming they've debunked it as they were unable to reproduce the results, while Snopes says it's undetermined. Bradford Family Dentistry located in California dove into this story citing other instances when this has happened while also getting information from an expert. "A radio receiver is made up of an antenna, a detector to convert the radio wave to an audio signal, and a transducer, which is anything that acts like a speaker. In very rare cases a person’s mouth can act as the receiver and their body acts as the antenna. A metallic filling can act as a semiconductor that detects the audio signal, and the speaker would be something in the mouth that vibrates enough to produce noise, like bridgework or possible a loose filling," Robert Hunsucker, a professor at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, explains to the dental office. Season 5 Idk GIF by Paramount+ Giphy So is the story true? Possibly. The average American will likely never know since anything dealing with spies is usually kept pretty top secret. Either way, it's a wild story and Ball was an incredible storyteller.

The prompt was simple: "Y'all ever got chewed up by Twitter?"A user that goes by micah (@Shadowized) replied even more simply: "oh boy"Then they shared a screenshot of an old Tweet that had ignited discussion and controversy over a year ago.And what happened? The same Tweet started a firestorm — again!The polarizing opinion that got everyone in a tizzy?"Having sex when your children are in the house is weird. full stop. if you want to have sex that bad do it when no one's in the house. have someone babysit your kid. rent a hotel. they don't need to hear that because it can be incredibly traumatic. do better." — (@) Though the category was "controversial Tweets", at least a handful of people agreed with the sentimentA not-insignificant number of people chimed in to say that they agreed — sex when your kids are home is weird, traumatic, gross. You name it. — (@) Some folks mentioned hearing or seeing their parents having sex with lots of different partners during their childhood which, admittedly, is probably a lot for a kid to process. — (@) But it didn't take long for Twitter, or now X, to start "chewing" Micah up. Again.A user name Sarah wrote: "no couple should just stop having sex and being intimate because they had kids and if you can’t do it quietly or think you’re gonna “traumatize them”, then have fun renting hotel rooms once a month and planning out your sex based on if a babysitter is gonna be there for you or not on a friday night"Another joked: "these kids can't know that you love each other. It'll traumatize them for life." — (@) Micah clarified later in the thread that all the people commenting were missing the original context of the hot take."The context was that a child woke up sobbing because she heard her mother screaming during sex. she was terrified and thought something was wrong!" Micah wrote, referencing an old viral TikTok that made light of that poor child's horror.But it was too late. The Tweet was already off and running — steamrolling its way to over 23 million views (and counting). @jayciunderwood Omg ??????‍♀️ Who knew people had so many strong opinions about parenting? And sex? And trauma?!So... is getting caught having sex by your kids really traumatic? Or is it just kind of embarrassing?Almost everyone has a story about hearing or, unfortunately, seeing their parents having sex when they were a kid — a story they wish they could forget.When people live in close quarters together for years and years, it's bound to happen!Expecting parents to keep the romantic side of their relationship a secret is unreasonable, unrealistic, and — if we're talking about overnight babysitters and hotel rooms — financially laughable.To Micah's original point, though, there's obviously a line.If you're screaming so loud that your child wakes up and thinks you're being murdered, maybe tone it down a tad! But it's fair to ask just how hard parents should really be trying to stay discrete.Limited research shows that parents who love each other can have a profoundly positive impact on their children later in life. Allowing children to witness that affection and love in the form of "I love you's" and kisses and physical touch is a good thing and helps promote healthy emotional development, even if it makes them a little squeamish.Maybe it's even a good thing for them to know, on some level, that you do have sex — even if you'd rather them not see or hear it. But if you get caught every once in a blue moon? They'll be fine — as long as you talk to them in an honest and age-appropriate way. After all, it'd be way more traumatic to grow up in a household that demonizes sex than one that discusses it openly.As for the original poster, Micah, they're taking all the discourse in stride."as much as i don’t 100% agree with the way i worded things i’m keeping this tweet up because it’s really funny to see people get mad!!!"If that's the goal, then mission accomplished!

There are certain moments in life that determine your character. This was definitely one of those moments for Maurice Rowland and Miguel Alvarez. Rowland was working as a cook and Alvarez as a janitor at an assisted living facility when suddenly they found out that the facility was going to close.The Valley Springs Manor assisted-living facility was shut down by the California Department of Social Service in October of 2013, prompting a "chaotic mass evacuation" of staff and residents. Staff left because they weren't getting paid, but Rowland and Alvarez stuck around. There were around 16 residents left at the home with nowhere to go and nobody to take care of them. Some of them were sick and bedridden and some had dementia. Rowland and Alvarez, who have been friends since middle school, had a conversation about what they were going to do. They decided they couldn't in good conscience abandon the residents who were left behind, so for the next several days they stayed and cared for them, making sure they were bathed and fed and got their medications—all without pay."I just couldn't see myself going home," Rowland said. "Next thing you know they're in the kitchen trying to cook their own food and burn the place down."Alvarez said he would go home for one hour a day to take a shower and get dressed and then head back to the facility. His wife was upset at first because he missed a planned family trip during that time, so she drove to the center to see what was more important than time with her and their kids. What she found when she arrived left her "heartbroken," she told SF Gate.Alvarez told StoryCorps that he'd been abandoned by his parents when he was young and knew how them leaving would make the residents feel. "I didn't want them to go through that," he said. "If I would have left, I think that would've been on my conscience for a very long time," Rowland added. - YouTube www.youtube.com The facility had a history of regulatory violations and inadequate care that led to the shut down, but the transition for the residents who needed to be transferred to other facilities was fumbled by the authorities. "“The Department fell short of its mission to protect the health and safety of residents in Valley Springs Manor,” the Department of Social Services said in a statement after the fact. “The Division erred in not ensuring, through successful engagement with local partners, that relocation arrangements for all of the residents were complete.”When one resident started to deteriorate, Rowland and Alvarez called 911, which alerted authorities to the situation the men and residents were in. A proper evacuation of residents then began, relieving the men of the duty they'd taken on to care for people who had no one else."Even though they wasn't our family, they were kind of like our family for this short period of time," said Rowland.According to SF Gate, Rowland and Alvarez were honored for their sacrificial service with an award from the American Veterans Association, a certificate of special recognition from Rep. Eric Swalwell's office a commendation from the California Legislature, and a wave of donations from people who were inspired by their selflessness. ""We didn't expect any of this," Alvarez said. "We've never expected anything from anyone in life."They may not have expected anything, but their big-heartedness paid off not only in recognition and financial support, but in the satisfaction of putting other people's humanity before themselves. This story originally appeared on 9.29.16 It has since been updated.