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A senior West Wing staffer told Trump that he had a dream, in which Trump got his huge military parade after all, complete with thousands of cheering, flag-waving people in the streets. "Was I smiling?" Trump asked. "I don't know," the aide replied. "It was a closed casket."

"A pair of studies in Nature have said that, as of 2017, none of the major industrialized nations were implementing the policies they had envisioned and have not met their pledged emission reduction targets,[76] and even if they had, the sum of all member pledges (as of 2016) would not keep global temperature rise "well below 2 °C". Now you are more informed.

Well according to the Paris agreement, its full implementation would result in an unmeasurable impact on climate.....so I don't see how that is relevant.

So you think we will START to have a problem when CO2 hits 2%? I would think that's when all of humanities problems would stop. As would all of humanity. And most mammals.

He also thinks cave divers are pedophiles and child rapists, and that we are living in a giant video game. I wouldn't worship him as the ultimate source of truth if I were you.

Apparently it's 103. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-tandem-parachute-jump-(female) I had the privilege to be on this load. She was incredible!

Nope. She is merely demanding change. It is a fact. If it makes you afraid, fine. There are several ways to deal with your fear. Denying facts is a poor way to deal with fear, IMO. By promising one thing and doing another. Yep. And your generation was attacked back then by "commonsense conservatives" claiming that catalytic converters, efficiency rules, reducing pollution and recycling would destroy the economy and leave us economically crippled. "If the EPA does not suspend the catalytic converter rule, it will cause Ford to shut down." CAFE laws will "outlaw a number of engine lines and car models including most full-size sedans and station wagons. It would restrict the industry to producing subcompact size cars-or even smaller ones-within five years." And they will result "in a Ford product line consisting either of all sub-Pinto sized vehicles." This is nothing new. The previous generation has told the current generation "you just don't have the experience/wisdom/intelligence to know that what you ask is impossible and destroy us!" pretty much . . . forever. Not everyone, of course - my parents (and your parents) did not say that to their kids. But the warnings that we could never replace the horse, that we could never switch to catalytic converters, that we could never make cars more efficient, that we can never switch to a carbon-neutral energy infrastructure without destroying everyone's lives - those have been coming forever. And then the new generation ignores them and does it anyway.

Like a few comments I've seen on here, I'm older and very new to the sport. Made my first tandem for my 50th. I'm 52 this yr & started the reqs for my "A" license. My instructor had concerns about my having a bad left knee. I won't get into the damage, but went to the ortho who told me "if you wanna do it.. DO IT. You already need an artificial joint and you cant really damage it worse." So I'm going forward. I may pick up a little slower, but the way I look at it i wasn't gonna do 50 jumps and quit... so what difference does a few extras in getting my license matter. Yes i know I'm bugging the hell out of a lot of friends who know me & don't share or get the interest. Yes I know I likely sound like one of those annoying newbies who has no idea how silly they sound and don't know what they don't know. SO...? ! I cant let it go... and why should i? Blue skies.

None whinier than DJT himself.

You can only have one or the other.

You get what you pay for.