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He was murdered as a result of murdering murderers torturing and murdering him Winsor. He was not murdered for being friendly, he was murdered for being a black male. And once again you are blaming the victim who was completely innocent of any wrong doing in the incident. Open your mind up to the fact that you are completely and totally wrong here. It is not a grey area. YOU ARE WRONG. Can you hear it clearly now?

Okay Winsor, since you don't seem to get it or to be willing to get it I will make it simple. At the time of Till's murder the people who did it and the larger community were allowed to get away with the evil deed by telling each other that he deserved it. What you said in your post was pretty much a repeat of what they told each other at the time. It is sickening. You are perpetuating the evil. It is that simple and no amount of explanation of your reasoning will change that fact.

The same mindset that thinks immigrant farm workers are here to "steal their jobs".

All wrong. The republicans are preparing McConnell for the future with AI. His pauses will progressively get longer and longer. When he dies the republicans will get him stuffed and put a speaker in him. AI will take care of the rest. With current technology its a very short leap between live republicans and dead republicans.

I can remember SkymonkeyOne, a swooper, saying “I can swoop the shit out of a Navigator.” I’ve seen people swoop seven-cells (not brilliantly by modern standards, but they walked away.” Part of learning swooping is learning the specific canopy-human combination; where someone who weighs 100 lbs more starts their turn is probably different, too. So I’ll come down on the side of “better to learn the mechanics with a more forgiving canopy.” If one wants to focus on swooping, then one with good swooping mechanics (not stilettos or navigators), but of a size to allow for the inevitable mistakes Wendy P.

This thread is starting to get way too personal and that is mostly my fault. So I will just say that like most of us I find victim blaming to be wrong and in this instance more than a little offensive. Winsor is a complicated person.

Maybe I'm just not as generous as you when it comes to interpreting Winsor's posts, but I was operating under the assumption that he carefully chose his words just before he pulled out the lawn chair and popcorn to enjoy the fruits of his post.

Much of the content in this thread is ridiculous, incorrect, and deadly. I would encourage anyone wanting to learn high performance canopy flight techniques to seek the advice of a professional canopy instructor and ONLY a professional canopy instructor. Swooping is damn dangerous. Learning from the keyboard is a recipe for death.

Nurses and doctors work hard enough already. The last thing they need is frivolous accusations of mal-practice. Please note that the majority of mal-practice law-suits are launched by people who have no intention or means to pay their medical bills. The leading cause of bankruptsy - in the USA - is a major accident or major illness. Welcome to the only country in the First-World without federal health care insurance. Make no mistake, Canadians, Swedes, etc. pay heavily for medical insurance, but we also enjoy tiny medical bills after even the worst train-wreck.

Wow.

A. As someone who speaks a couple of languages better than she understands them, depending on the accent, slower and a little louder can help — in those languages. Doing that in any other will be met with a blank stare. The moral of the story — the person you’re talking to is the target, and comprehension is as much the speaker’s responsibility as it is the listener’s. Which might even mean (god forbid) adjusting one’s actions, re-wording, using a dictionary, or acting out — or apologizing if none of those work. Because the speaker owns the initiation of the action. So don’t double down on “I said it right the first time, you just don’t understand.” B. I completely took the original Emmett Till post as victim-blaming, and I’m a pretty good reader Wendy P.

Oh, you get to set the standards now? That''s rich... 2 years ago NASA and other agencies predicted that the La Nina was forming and would make 2022 only the 5th hottest year on record. Instead of impressing you, all you did was crow and pat your own back that "it's not the hottest year despite record CO2". Early this year you "went out on a limb" and predicted this year won't even hit the top 5 hottest, but you know what you're doing? GUESSING. (And you already have a 97% chance of being wrong). Yes you edited it out, but this shows what you think scientists do, because you have to think you're at par somehow, and "just guessing" the absolute limit of your ability.

Rum-inate on it

It might be that the push to Tokmak I was hoping for is underway. It seems the Ukrainians are rotating front line troops and bringing up some western trained and equipped armored brigades. It's a high stakes play but taking Tokmak puts critical Russian assets in Crimea in range of tube artillery.

Back to the critics corner, did I miss where Brent or BillE posted that McConnell is obviously demented and needs to go after freezing up during his presser? No? Then never mind.

Odd, I didn't know he was a DZO.

My impression of him is mainly his smug superiority and his willingness to suffer us fools enough to share tidbits of his intellect and accumulated life wisdom. Which seems these days to have developed into a fine sense of which groups in society are the most deserving of utter contempt and hatred. The impression I get is of a shrinking man in a shrinking world nearing a very bitter and angry end.

I really think there is fine line for this, one can practice anything up high on any canopy but trying to get anything good out of it down below on actual landing if it is 1.2 or even 1.5 is scary... I also don't believe in small turns 90-180 they are or used to be step in progression but in my opinion they are more difficult/dangerous then let's say 270. I don't teach swoop, but I saw one guy learning it and I feel like that is very smart and relativity safe way. In short, he was videographer at my old DZ, so he was already good skydiver with many jumps, he was jumping alot back then and that was large landing area with not too heavy canopy traffic. Anyway he got himself something like velo 90 and I doubt he even loaded it higher then 1.8. maybe 2.0. so he started to do 270 and every single time I saw him doing it he was super high, literally to the point when there was nothing left from whatever extra speed he got from the swoop. I was wondering myself what the heck? But he was very consistent in what he was doing and after like 100 jumps or so he lowered it so now he was not super high - just high... And he made another 200 or so jumps like that. Then in about half year or something he got it good and consistent and from that point on he was always right on the money. I feel like that was very smart way to learn things. I have no idea what kind of instruments he used, but if I would suggest it to someone I would probably mentioned optima 2 and GoPro. So one can try consistent altitudes for swoop pattern and initiation point and use GoPro to time the turn. Idea is that one has to be consistent - same turn takes same time and same altitude every single time.once u get consistent u can lower all altitudes little by little. But that is just my opinion, maybe there are better ways to do things.

That's sad for anyone. Not good.

Rudy and Trump should pay these poor ladies millions of dollars for ruining their lives.

Emmett Till was 14. Nothing Till did was illegal. His killers, however, got away with murder. Totally inappropriate to blame the victim. Who here as a teenager didn't show poor judgment at times? Probably frequently. It's a feature of the teenage years. No one posting here was beaten to death for it.

Sir this is America, anyone with a beer belly, general disdain for other people's happiness, a bad attitude, and some austere story about once being good at something (think Al Bundt QB story) can be one HELL of a DZO.

Unlike other ex communist European governments Russians have always loved two things. Authoritarian governments and rewriting history to suit their needs. The always have a list of enemies usually made up to blame everything on. "A record 70 percent of Russians approve of Soviet leader Josef Stalin’s role in Russian history, according to a poll published by the independent Levada Center pollster on Tuesday(April 2019). They also have a long history of using food as a weapon: "In 1932 and 1933, millions(about 4-7 million) of Ukrainians were killed in the Holodomor, a man-made famine engineered by the Soviet government of Joseph Stalin."

You do understand the difference between and owner and a manager don't you? Our DZ was owned for a couple years by an investor who was feeling flush at the time he bought it. Skydivers ran it and he was almost never there. He approved or did not approve major purchases. When he got tired of it and realized it didn't really impress his friends he unloaded it to the people who were running it.