A total of 33 729 pregnant women participated in the BRFSS and provided information on past-month alcohol use. The adjusted prevalence of current alcohol use increased from a low of 9.1% (95% CI, 7.8%-10.4%) in 2011-2012 to a high of 15.2% (95% CI, 13.2%-17.2%) in 2021-2022, before decreasing slightly to 14.5% (95% CI, 12.3%-16.7%) in 2023-2024 (prevalence ratio [PR], 1.59 [95% CI, 1.29-1.96]; Figure).
Binge and heavy drinking followed similar patterns, reaching prevalence rates of 4.6% (95% CI, 3.6%-5.7%) (PR, 1.77 [95% CI, 1.26-2.49]) and 2.0% (95% CI, 1.1%-2.8%) (PR, 2.66 [95% CI, 1.50-4.72]), respectively, by 2023-2024.
In adjusted trend models, successive 2-year periods were associated with higher odds of current alcohol use (odds ratio [OR], 1.10 [95% CI, 1.06-1.13]), binge drinking (OR, 1.12 [95% CI, 1.07-1.17]), and heavy drinking (OR, 1.16 [95% CI, 1.08-1.24]) in the past month, indicating statistically significant increases over the time frame (Figure).
Arguably if Zionists control banking, entertainment, and media they’re a far more formidable adversary than Muslims. To any Judeo-Christian Americans who may be reading this, you’ve been sold a bill of goods. Sending your tithes to Israel so they can build synagogues on top of Christian churches? Shame on you.
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Dom is correct. Who owns MSM: the ChiComs? Leftist bluehairs?? Where does all this FILTH emanate from?
stock here: Another “news org” that seems compromised. The new Hero is weak and emasculated, by this very article. And the Transgender member, who was never part of the original Homer, and Helen of Troy played by a black (female at least, LOL)
I’ll be missing this one.
Commentary
It’s the fourth-largest box office money maker in history for an R-rated film’s first week. It scored a 94 percent approval rating from film critics and a 97 percent approval rating from audience members on Rotten Tomatoes. Tickets for its IMAX premiere sold out a year in advance, with scalpers getting more than $1,000 for $35 tickets. By all accounts, it is a blockbuster of epic proportions (pun intended). I’m talking about Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” of course, the movie everyone has been talking about since (and before) its official opening on July 17.
The praise heaped upon “The Odyssey” seems, for the most part, genuine and thoughtful. Okay, loving the film because Matt Damon plays Odysseus is pedestrian, but enjoying the cinematography, the effects (Nolan famously refuses to use CGI unless absolutely necessary), the ambitious score by Ludwig Göransson, and the film’s size and scope (said to properly befit an epic) are all legitimate criteria for evaluating the worth of a film.
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Despite all the positive reviews, “The Odyssey” is not without its detractors, and I think their pushback has merit. Some audience members have complained that the film, at just less than three hours, is overly long and that there have been accounts of patrons leaving the theater, unable to overcome boredom. I file this under “You Can’t Please Everyone.” More thoughtful negative comments complained about the woke casting: “white armed” Helen of Troy, for example, is played by black actress Lupita Nyong’o (who has wasted no time in labeling Homer a misogynist); the anachronistic dialogue (“My dad is coming home,” Telemachus said); the Viking ships and Roman helmets; the steel armor in the Bronze Age (a character actually said, “the Age of Bronze is ending”); the exclusion of all male gods, particularly Zeus and Poseidon, central characters in Homer’s poem; and the feminist reading of the poem based on the translation by Emily Wilson.
A little more troubling is the inclusion of a character, Sinon, who does not appear in either “The Odyssey” or “The Iliad” (but you will find him in Virgil’s “Aeneid” and Dante’s “Inferno”). Sinon, played by Elliot Page, a transgender performer whose casting was the source of some controversy (first because he was incorrectly identified as playing Achilles and then because of the casting of a transgender as a Greek warrior). The question, however, is why Nolan chose to include Sinon at all. Nolan claims it is to reclaim the status of Sinon, a notorious traitor in “The Aeneid,” to shine a damning light on Odysseus’s own failings, and to expand Homer’s world to create a fuller mythological world. Despite these explanations, I still wonder “why?” I’m not convinced Homer needs support from Dante in creating a rich and fabulous world.
But the greatest concern many other critics and I have with Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is in the depiction of the central character, Odysseus. Homer’s brave, arrogant, resourceful, scheming, and sometimes cheeky warrior becomes, in political commentator and podcaster Matt Walsh’s view, “an anachronistic whiney, solemn shell of a man plagued by ‘trauma’ and ‘guilt.’” Scholar and translator Daniel Mendelsohn argued that the film’s Odysseus is simply another in the line of Nolan’s tortured characters (Oppenheimer comes to mind), haunted by their past. This Odysseus appears nowhere in Homer.
Edith Hall, professor of classics and a leading authority on Greek drama and epics, criticized the depiction of Odysseus, saying that Nolan’s version “removes the dangerous edge that makes Odysseus Odysseus.” Interestingly, most commentators with these reservations about the film (except Walsh) found the structure and look of the film to be praiseworthy.
When I first saw the trailer for “The Odyssey,” I was excited to see the film, not because of Matt Damon or even Christopher Nolan, but because someone had bothered to film a seminal Western classic. I then started reading some of the legitimate criticisms and almost felt inclined to skip the film and wait for the DVD. Almost. I have come to the conclusion that, despite what I think are genuine flaws in the choices Nolan made, the film is still worth seeing for people who consider themselves traditionally minded or conservative. Here are my reasons:
It’s not a terrible thing to have people talking about “The Odyssey.” Better they should be talking about a classic piece of Western literature than the umpteenth offering of the Marvel universe.
If there’s one thing we need in contemporary America, it is true heroes. Despite his shortcomings, the Odysseus of Homer is a hero and not simply a battlefield hero. Nor is he the weak and emasculated Odysseus of Nolan’s film. Rather, he is the tested, cunning, long-suffering, and ultimately triumphant warrior who is driven by the love of and longing for his family. Seeing this film, especially as a family outing—it is rated “R” but there really is no gore or objectionable language—may make for great conversations on what a hero should be. My guess is that people will be innately more drawn to the classic hero than to the modern conception of the “hero,” whose flaws make him rather anti-heroic and therefore somehow human. We all need some superhuman traits to look up to sometimes. In any event, it makes for great conversation.
We all know that, however faithful film adaptations try to be to their original sources—if they try at all—they always leave something out that enriches the book but cheapens the film. This is certainly the case with Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” as a number of Homer’s episodes are watered down or excluded from the film altogether. For example, the “Nobody” trick in the Cyclops episode is not included, although the Cyclops is. Perhaps the film will encourage others to read Homer’s poem or merely to learn more about it. There are even simple translations geared for children. We can use the film as a jumping-off point to a greater interest in Homer, ancient Greece, or the oft-attacked Western civilization, which has been beaten but not (yet) destroyed.
So rather than rejecting the film outright, perhaps we should see it, critique it, find things to praise about it—Nolan’s a good filmmaker, after all—and apply our sense of what is good, beautiful, and true to the film. Better still, perhaps the film will inspire creativity in conservative or traditionally minded people to take what’s wrong about “The Odyssey” and improve upon it.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
stock here: I have been buying Heavy Cream rather than the store produced Coffee flavored creamers. Have some interest in making my own butter, but it’s always a time and priority thing.
The YouTube channel is LabelLieYT, and they have videos on 16 types of fake food.
stock here: Been seeing this a few weeks, piss poor Iran “reporting”, piss poor coverage of the Trump voting vulnerabilities, piss poor real coverage of the “Democrat Socialists”. Key Signal — When the Biggest Lies need to Be Pushed, it will be Sean Hannity in the spotlight.
Daily Wire was my “most go to” source, listening on the sound bar while showering and morning routine. They may lose that spot. I also got my Jeep to automatically connect to my phone, and thus easy to play podcasts to make better use of driving time.
Yesterday, the Daily Wire trotted out one of their “opinion writers” and pretended they were going to analyze the new film Odyssey in term of the “Modern Commentary”. But it does nothing of the sort, I stuck to the end, waiting for the Odyssey and indeed they took us on a strange and not wonderful journey of how this girl, Chloe, became an opinion writer, and how she does her research on X. There was fake camaraderie between the “interviewer” Tim Rice (Washington DC) and the Chloe, and much in the way of misplaced laughter. Had me thinking more like the fake TMZ.
It seems clear that the Leftists that be, want to create a new “victim class” and indeed they are victims, but they fell for it. The gen-Z 20 somethings that got a shit degree, and now have shit wages, in a high cost world. Yes, they have been abused, so now swing them into Socialism (thinly veiled Communism) to be the new voting bloc to keep that apperently idea free Democrat party in power.
And Chloe, the 23 YO female, Gen Z, could be part of that “plot” to be an influencer of young opinions. We shall see, but be onguard, never listen to TV “in the background”, that is where they “program.
Note: Chloe has not seen the new Odyssey, nor read the story, nor read Homer. And she absurdly states that a big portion of her “research” is watching movies! And she thinks that Ben Shapiro is Brilliant.
What Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Reveals About Modern Commentary
Daily Wire D.C. Bureau Chief Tim Rice sits down with opinion writer Chloe Trapanotto to explore what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey debate reveals about modern commentary, culture, and the way ideas spread. Chloe breaks down how she researches and develops her arguments, why young writers are increasingly shaping political and cultural conversations, and what it takes to turn complex topics into compelling commentary. From her journey covering Ohio State sports to becoming a Daily Wire opinion writer and social media voice, Chloe shares the challenges of defending unpopular opinions, navigating online criticism, and building arguments grounded in facts, history, and personal experience.
Those red lines are tectonic plate boundaries, not a worldwide map of every individual fault. USGS has changed the layer so the boundary type is encoded directly into the linework. The underlying USGS service classifies them as convergent, divergent, transform, “other,” plus microplate boundaries.
How to read the new symbols
Red line with triangular teeth — convergent/subduction boundary
One plate is moving beneath another. The teeth are drawn on the overriding-plate side, and they point generally in the direction the descending slab dips.
Examples in your screenshot:
Aleutian chain: Pacific Plate subducting northward beneath the North American Plate.
West coast of South America: Nazca Plate subducting eastward beneath South America.
Japan–Kuril–Kamchatka: Pacific Plate subducting beneath the plates to the west.
Indonesia: Indian-Australian oceanic crust subducting beneath the Sunda region.
These are the boundaries capable of producing the largest megathrust earthquakes and major tsunamis.
Red line with short marks extending to both sides — divergent boundary
The plates are separating and new oceanic crust is being created. These are spreading ridges.
Examples:
Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
East Pacific Rise.
Indian Ocean ridge system.
Pacific–Antarctic Ridge.
Earthquakes here are generally shallow and usually smaller than major subduction earthquakes.
Plain red line — transform boundary
The plates slide horizontally past one another. No crust is primarily created or destroyed.
Examples:
San Andreas system in California.
Alpine Fault in New Zealand.
Northern Caribbean boundary.
Dead Sea Transform.
These can generate severe shallow earthquakes, but ordinarily not the giant megathrust-tsunami combination associated with subduction zones.
Dashed or very fine red lines — secondary, diffuse, uncertain, or microplate boundaries
The USGS data now includes a separate microplates layer in addition to the major plates. Some faint or broken-looking boundaries are therefore:
boundaries of smaller tectonic blocks,
broad deformation zones rather than one clean fault,
less precisely defined boundary segments,
or lines rendered very thinly at the global zoom level.
“Other” boundary
USGS also has an explicit “Other” classification for boundaries that do not fit neatly into pure convergent, divergent, or transform motion—often because the tectonics are complicated, oblique, or distributed across several faults.
The earthquake dots
The orange circles are earthquakes occurring during the past day under your selected magnitude threshold of M2.5+. USGS uses orange for events during the past day, with circle size corresponding approximately to magnitude.
The striking takeaway from your screenshot is that most earthquakes track the plate boundaries, especially the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” but some occur inside plates. USGS notes that intraplate earthquakes can occur on older faults and zones of crustal weakness even far from a modern plate edge.
So, in plain English:
Teeth = one plate diving under another
Cross-marked/double-sided line = plates pulling apart
Plain line = plates sliding sideways
Fine/dashed line = microplate, diffuse, or less-defined boundary
And the teeth do not show where an earthquake is presently moving—they describe the long-term geometry of the plate boundary.
stock here: Knowing that on a nice sunny summer day you get about 10,000 units of Vit D from the Sun, I decided to make that my dosing around 10 years ago. I was spending some winters in Wisconsin, so the effect on SAD it also important.
They want you sick, profitable for them, then dead. 2nd video is the bizarre “white fibrous clots”
stock here: The discussion is fascinating, within the videos. The comment discussion is also fascinating, less than 2% of commenters consider that a possible unique human place in the universe, could be due to creation, God. See the analysis below the 2nd video.
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The file contains 193 displayed comment entries, representing 192 unique comments. Your comment—“And no one has chimed in ‘What about God’”—appears twice, apparently once as the newly posted comment at the top and again in its normal position in the comment stream.
Likely nature of the video
It appears to be a roughly 32-minute, philosophical science documentary about the Fermi Paradox: why, given the age and size of the universe, we have detected no extraterrestrial civilizations.
Its main themes appear to be:
The Great Filter
Civilizations existing at different times and therefore never overlapping
The rarity of abiogenesis and intelligent life
Technological civilizations destroying themselves
The Zoo and Dark Forest hypotheses
The limits of radio searches and interstellar travel
The possibility that intelligence is an evolutionary dead end
The tone was apparently haunting, existential, visually impressive, and somewhat pessimistic—possibly narrated with an AI-generated or unusually soothing voice. A commenter supplied chapter markers including “Where Is Everybody?”, “The Great Filter,” “The Zoo Hypothesis,” abiogenesis, and “The Long, Dark Corridor.”
Comments referencing God, creation, or Scripture
Direct references to God
@EagleObserver777
And no one has chimed in “What about God”
This appears twice in the captured text but is one unique comment.
@musiclife7251
God the universe is brutal. Beautiful, but brutal. The existential threats out there, especially from ourselves, is ultimately to depressing to deal with.
This may use “God” merely as an exclamation rather than proposing God as an explanation.
@gbuz5789
Almost like God created the Earth and all of the stars just for us.
This is the clearest direct creationist or theistic response.
Implied Creator or divine purpose
@SecureMinded
If only a simple explanation exists! We are created for a purpose, not produced out of nothing.
God is not named, but the comment clearly invokes purposeful creation rather than unguided origins.
Biblical reference
@CarlettoAmadeus
“Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.” — Luke 16:26
This applies a saying of Jesus about the fixed chasm between the saved and lost to the cosmic separation discussed in the video.
Great Spirit
There are no comments explicitly mentioning “the Great Spirit.”
Therefore:
3 unique comments literally contain “God,” although one probably uses it only as an exclamation.
stock here, there is a shorter version on X, but I wanted to go to the source.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, environmental attorney, former independent presidential candidate, and member of one of America’s most influential political families, sits down with Trick Trick for a candid conversation about health, public policy, political independence, and the future of America.
Known for breaking with decades of Kennedy family Democratic Party tradition, Kennedy discusses his unexpected decision to align with President Donald Trump’s administration and the principles that led to that choice. The conversation explores what it means to stand by your convictions despite criticism, challenge political expectations, and work across traditional party lines in pursuit of shared goals.
The discussion also examines the administration’s focus on making America healthier, addressing chronic disease, improving nutrition, reforming public health policy, and restoring trust in government institutions. Kennedy shares his perspective on immigration policy, the federal government’s handling of unaccompanied migrant children, concerns about children who lost contact with federal authorities after crossing the border, and his criticism of policies implemented during the previous administration, including under former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. These issues remain the subject of ongoing public and political debate.
More than a political conversation, this episode explores leadership, personal conviction, public service, accountability, and the importance of standing for your beliefs—even when doing so comes with personal and political consequences.
No scripts. No filters. Just a real conversation about health, policy, leadership, and the ideas shaping America’s future.
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stock here: take one for the team, it’s 20 minutes
ELECTION.🗳️
Here's TWENTY MINUTES of Democrats, Mainstream Journalists and Election Experts admitting America's election system is "vulnerable" and its voting machines can be "hacked" 🔻pic.twitter.com/yyUJhV0VLf
stock here, great time to visit Japan, before the Muslim invasion completely destroys this great and proud nation. The new female prime minister, per Japanese people, is no where near as strong as people thought she would be.
Keep in mind the leftists have plundered Billions and likely 100’s of Billions of dollar in say the last 10 years. They have unlimited funds to distort reality. Systems that fight back against them, must be built to resist financial manipulation. And that includes all the people orbiting the institutions that make and enforce law and policy.
stock here: The Trump administration is effing up big time. We are in Mid-July, mid terms are near. One of the big excuses that the leftist will play, is that “there is not enough time, making changes now, will put the voting system at greater risk, than doing nothing now.”
I think the great AI’s told the administration that they had to “blame it on scary China” instead of pointing directly at the bought out politicians by China.
As to “there is not enough time” that is a good point, running out the clock plays directly into the leftists hands. Rather than screw around with Venezuela, Greenland, Ukraine, Iran, Trump should have put 100% effort into voting security, removal of activist Judges, and deportations. Trump is mentally in the place of “I can do it all, and I can do it fast”.
In the video below, he keeps stating, this is not and should not be a partisan issue. But it absolutely is. I am astounded that the Democrats have adopted such utterly ridiculous standings that they can’t possibly win elections without cheating in a big way.
