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Some humor for the technically-oriented. If you don't get it, just google "log4shell".

And yet (and I've mentioned this before) - the vaccine sucked. It only reduced your odds of getting polio by a factor of 4. The COVID vaccine is better than that. The polio vaccine killed 10 kids and paralyzed 200 when a bad batch got out - again, far worse than the COVID vaccine. And it took TEN YEARS of vaccinations to get new polio infections into the noise. And today kids get four polio vaccines - for a disease that has been 99.9% eradicated. And yet anti-vaxxers are screaming bloody murder that some vaccine schedules now require THREE separate COVID vaccines. For a disease that is causing an active pandemic. No one is claiming that the COVID vaccine is the only way to fight this pandemic. But it is our best and most useful weapon - and giving up on it, while getting your kids vaccinated four times for polio because your pediatrician recommends it, is the height of politically motivated ignorance. Your pediatrician actually knows what they are talking about, despite what Alex Jones, FOX News and Rand Paul says.

I think people might hate them because they are a personal manifestation of that system. Nothing good comes from accumulating the majority of wealth in the hands of a very few, IMHO of course.

^This. Vaccines aren't perfect. None ever have been. Smallpox was completely eradicated through vaccination. Polio has been nearly eradicated. Measles, Mumps and a host of other diseases that have plagued mankind (sorry, couldn't resist) throughout history have been greatly reduced (at least until the current antivax idiocy took hold). I never got a smallpox vax as a kid. I didn't learn until fairly recently that they stopped vaxing kids once the chance of catching it went below the chance of serious effects from the vax (the chances are higher and the effects more serious than the current Covid vaxes). The idea of not vaxing kids for Covid because they don't get seriously sick is pretty stupid. The chances of a kid suffering a serious case of Covid is low. But not zero. Certainly higher than the chances of suffering serious side effects from the vax. And none of that changes the fact that a sick kid will be contagious before becoming symptomatic. So Junior catches Covid, and spreads it to Grandma & Grandpa before anyone knows he's sick. Being older, G&G have a much greater chance of getting seriously sick. Since we have, as an overall population, shown a complete inability to mask up, social distance, contact trace infections, or ANY of the measures that could help mitigate this, our only choice left is vaccination. And we're doing a pretty poor job of that. Wisconsin DHS released the November numbers for vaxed vs unvaxed. Unvaxed are: 3x more likely to catch it. 11x more likely to be hospitalized. 12x more likely to die.

Project went silent, but not stalled :) There's been a lot of work behind the scenes and I'm releasing major code update tonight: https://github.com/RomanTheLegend/WingsuitGps * Introduced support for TTGO device * Fully redesigned architecture. Everything is modular: modes, devices, features. Each mode is a separate class so it's easy to develop new ones. * You can switch between operation modes using menu * Support for Bluetooth - you can stream GPS data to BASEline on your phone (friendly waving to @platypii ) It's still in Alpha state - code needs lots and lots of optimizations and stability improvements. I'm a novice C++ programmer, and many things done not the way they should. This will be fixed with time as I gain more experience. Meanwhile code review by someone experienced is really appreciated. Next I'll be focusing on 3D models for the body, buttons for TTV and also rewiring stuff in more optimal way (pieces would be plugged to each other via JST) . First model would be tailored for Kiss helmets, other models to come later. What else on the priority list: * Flash GPS to higher baud rates (by default it does only 2 readings per second, I want 5 like in FlySight) * Switch to UBX protocol which is faster than NMEA and more data-rich (FlySight also uses UBX) * Refactoring * Fonts optimization (currently font file for digits is too big, sometimes program fails to flash) * Multi-page menu Less priority: * Settings * Save data between device reboots

Your concern should be allowing the world to get back to a somewhat normal way of life, which is what would happen if a larger percentage of people were vaccinated. ICU admissions would be down massively, deaths would be down massively, and the rest of us would benefit from no longer being held hostage by fucktards who are either misinformed or disingenuous. For the general population at large the available vaccines have a major impact on reducing deaths and serious outcomes from covid, that is the whole point. There is a viable way to largely eliminate most of the death and serious illness, and people are refusing it, and they are fucking over the whole of society with the consequences of their actions. We care about transmission and lethality, do you think we would have had to live the last two years if this was less harmful than the common cold?

I admire them. I just don't think there should be different rules for billionaires than for the rest of us. (I can't buy senators and congressmen to make special rules for me).

Borowitz https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/nation-shocked-that-jim-jordan-is-capable-of-writing-a-text Nation Shocked That Jim Jordan Is Capable of Writing a Text

Thank you for all who ran basejumper.com thank you to all that arent on social media and thanks for at least preserving the knowledge base. I have spent hours reading incident reports, especially newer, more scientific analysis of what happened. And I know its not unique, many of my BASE friends did the same. I believe I learned so much from basejumper.com and think it played no small part in surviving BASE so to the people who lurk out there, and have outlived many of our mates, we arent all on facebook, so its nice to be able to see whats going on... not spam, true words FlyFreeBASEJUMPER.COM and an open invite to an ex-X athlete rehab center in the Zululand, South Africa. Yes there are exits here, yes they are fun, yes some are legal. and motards and sidecars and cobras (ask chuma) www.instagram.com/snakepharm PC Ian Flanders

Had a ride on a 15 year old Tempo this year, opened superbly well (5 months and 26 days since repack) and floated me down beautifully. Repacked and ready for when it is next needed.

They are generally considered to be good reserves. Younger people who know nothing about them will often say they aren’t. The resale value is relatively low, but definitely not zero. Every year I repack a couple dozen at least. People I know who have landed them seem to like them.

Those images make the point.. Portland and Vancouver blend to make one glow... Rataczak who was flying the plane admitted he knew where Portland was (in Dan's vid) yet claimed Cooper was gone by then and believed he jumped much further North.. If Cooper jumped over the Columbia River then Rataczak would have known it. That is a big hurdle for the Columbia River jump crowd to overcome. Then there is the diatom issue. They would have to discredit Rataczak.

Well then, I'll consider my self, virtuous AF! lol Oh and thank you for the reference, I do love to expand my knowledge base.

Grabs fine. But, Spinoza did it first.

I get that it's easy to hate Jeff, Bill & Elon, but they do a lot of good for the world too. I have reached out to Jeff on more than one occasion to help a disabled veteran and he's responded and helped in less than eight hours. My charity is St. Jude Research Hospital. Not only do I send them money, but use AmazonSmile with SJRH as my preferred charity - for each purchase I make; SJRH gets a small portion. The number of people that do this with me has resulted in SJRH receiving $13,378,531.85 this year as of November. All US charities have received $285,795,312.80 as of August 2021 All worldwide charities have received $321,230,298.08 as of August 2021 Yes, they push the metrics out to you. Do I begrudge any of them for making billions - no, not at all. I was a damn good Operations Guy, but after awhile and some growth it becomes difficult to navigate the tax laws, the legal system, the government, the etc. So, I hired a CFO to navigate the taxes, an Attorney to navigate the legal system, a VP of HR to handle the jobs AND employment laws, and a lobbyist to navigate the government. This way I could focus on growth and doing our job well for our customers - which were the citizens of the US Don't hate them for being billionaires and using the system that congress creates - you voted for them. Hate them.

Eric Ulis throws down, comes in hot on Dan Gryder... Ulis has the date for the tie wrong, not 62-64,, it was 64-65 but his point is still valid. and Ulis still gets the money packets wrong.. they likely arrived on TBAR as one rubber banded bundle just as they went to Cooper.

Gullible.

More so than most people know. "a fact of life: Evangelicals are Republicans, and Republicans are evangelicals" Sixty three percent of republicans believe that declining devotion to god is "a bad thing". So they sold their souls to Lucifer. Gerrymandering, vote rigging, insurrections, etc. a complete scorched earth policy is how they will fight their retreat. trump is not the last to pander to the pulpit of the right who hid behind their gods. The so called "value voters" will do whatever is necessary to maintain their control of the levers of power. There is no such affiliations attributed to non-believers. Certainly atheists don't enjoy the tax advantages and power that those who bow to Lucifer do. Err the GOP party. "Texas prides itself on being one of the most religious -- and down here, that pretty much means Christian -- states in the nation. And yet, collectively, we lead the nation in suppressing the vote of racial and ethnic minorities."

Wow, you found the "Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency" document. When anti-vaxxers give themselves a fancy name and buy a URL with a '.org' domain they can post all types of bullshit and people looking to confirm their biases will eat it the fuck up! Here's a link to the original document: https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf These guys got a bit crafty trying to make it look like a legit Pfizer doc: the header has the research name of the vaccine, they're lawsuit-seekingly close to claiming that the whole thing was prepared by Pfizer on page 1, and they even put a file-path stamp on the side of the document...from that stamp, you can clearly see that it was in the 'approved' folder, so you know it is extra verified and totally good. Come on, Doctor! Put that big, multisyllabic brain of yours to use before you regurgitate this type of shit

You just have not read the bloody accident report that initiated that rule. I read USPA Accident Reports religiously for 30 years. After that AR started to blur together. Ho! Hum! Another low turn. Yawn! But I had to be very careful to not simply quote old rules to young skydivers, because they jsut perceived me as a boring old fart who did not free fly. Unfortunately, young skydivers also lacked the patience to listen to the long version of the accident report.