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Which chemicals are known to cause harm?

Yeah, I have all the devices that do those huge annoying clouds, but I only ever use the small devices now that are salt-nicotine based.

I don't hate gentrification. I am also at work and it's loud in here so I can't watch the video for reference. I know that gentrification is usually considered a bad thing when you ask most liberals, but I also don't hold every single liberal position. I just happen to have more in common with liberal values than conservative. If conservatives returned to sound fiscal policy instead of marrying with the church, I'd have a harder time voting Democratic. That said, I wanted Abdul to be the Governor, not Gretchen. And while I voted for Gretchen this past go-round, I will not be voting for her again. She has lost my vote altogether due to her overreach with regards to the vaping ban. Might seem trivial, but it's the only thing that I was successfully able to use to get off of cigarettes. She's quite literally bad for my health.

Yeah to me it doesn't matter what color the person who's using it is. However, that being said, I also can't stand the disparity that exists between it being "OK" to have the hashtag #wypipo or #wypipobelike or any iteration of that bullshit, while we decide as a society that we're going to put the N-word in the dustbin of history (or at least try). I don't like inconsistency.

I apologize for not asking for clarification earlier. My bad! I’ll need a surgeon to remove my foot from my mouth. Smoking is not allowed on the line post-2010 ban. Vaping just recently got banned on the line in the last few years, but it’s not really enforced at all. I like you too, although I deplore the use of the word you used to address me just there. But I’m not the speech police. We’re all good bro!

This might be a case of simple miscommunication. When you said "No," was that intended to mean you don't have thoughts on it? Or was that intended to mean "No (I don't support the ban)?"

Trigger alert! Generally when people don't care about a topic, they don't take time to type it out. That's not a dumbass assumption; that's just basic human behavior. If you're not just trolling, maybe do us both a favor and ignore me. Otherwise, you're kinda proving me right.

WaPo did a pretty good article about this: the common link they've found so far is a Vitamin E acetate and other lipids, which so far have only been found in black-market thc products. My issue is that a 6 month ban puts a lot of people out of business, and potentially puts a lot of people without an alternative to cigarettes. I'm one of those people (not the business part, but the smoking part). When they find romaine lettuce contaminated with e-coli, they don't ban the sale of all vegetables, either. That's a more appropriate analogy, imo.

Then simply don't reply. You're so transparently desperate for attention right now.

Thoughts?

You spelled "Motherfucking badass" wrong.

You're trying so hard. Bless your heart... Timestamps are everything, amirite? At NO POINT after the 8/31 forecast was any part of AL in the path. Then President Dipshit tweets 27 HOURS after the latest projection does NOT include AL that AL is going to get hit much harder than previously thought. If he spent less time fucking around on the golf course and more time making the barest attempt at presiding over the affairs of the country writ large, this wouldn't have been an issue.

The common problem is that a lot of older folks will show up, take the ground course, do one or two AFF jumps, and then never come back. It's unfortunate, but you have to understand that that is the reason for the feeling that they're not "friendly" to older divers. You just have to keep at it and prove you're not one of those "one-and-done" types. It's a pretty selective community, and filled with alphas who have strong opinions.

For perspective, I've done around 70 jumps in the last 3 months, and for the first time ever I was able to participate in a 4 way that hit all our points. Round-->Open Accordion-->Middle piece 360 turn-->Open Accordion-->Opposing Diamond-->Round. That's not a lot of points to hit; it's a pretty basic jump. But it took that long and that much frequency for me to be able to hit those points. And I was definitely the limiting factor on the jump.

I was having the same problem, and still do to some extent. But I'm getting better, only because I've been working with organizers doing as many 4, 5, and 6 way jumps as I can. It's frustrating, but if you have a good coach, they'll be briefing you every time you get to the ground and working on one small thing at a time, which will eventually aggregate into you being a more dependable member of a formation. If you're only jumping a dozen times over the course of several months, the skills will take much, much longer to develop. A good coach will keep challenging you every jump to add to your toolbox of skills.

Also good advice.

The feeling I got when I was going up for my first "solo" jump (AFF with 2 instructors holding onto you the whole time until canopy deployment) was that everything in my brain was firing telling me "You don't have to do this; pick a different hobby." That kicked in at about 10k on the way up. I forced myself into a kind of robot mode, telling myself to just remember to do the things they told me to do in ground school. Do three practice touches, do your circle of awareness, do it again, do it again, 6k: lock your eyes on your altimeter, 5500: pull. You will be nervous, no doubt. It's way different than the feeling before a tandem. Incomparably different. And you will fail at some point during your AFF. It's not easy to make it through. Most people get discouraged and quit, or they realize that it's just not that exciting for them and they quit. The reward of staying with it and the new community you become a part of is well...it can't be matched. Just remember: when you fail a jump, you still will learn something valuable that you'll take with you as long as you stay with it. I've been at it a little over a year, and have 126 jumps in my log book. I'm still a rookie; I still suck at skydiving. But it's ok. It's a journey. Let us know how it goes. Blue skies!

It is horrifying how utterly stupid and incompetent he is.

I lengthened my closing loop because I was having the same thing happen to me. Contrary to popular belief, your hands should not bleed from your pull-up cord. You should be able to move your closing pin with medium effort using your fingers once the container is closed. Obviously, if it's too easy to slide back and forth, there's a problem. Also, when you have to exert that much pressure to close your container, you're likely causing premature damage to your grommets as well. I never had a rigger say anything about this to me either, but I ran across a safety segment at my home DZ about this topic, and when I checked out my owner's manual for my container, I realized that it was initially put together with the closing loop way too small. There's a lot of debate on this topic, however. I wouldn't be surprised if someone blew me up on this topic. It's definitely a good bonfire argument to have at the DZ. All I can say is that you should be able to utilize your common sense on the issue. The concern about closing loop tightness is premature openings, which are a huge deal. If you can reasonably think of a situation where your closing pin can slide out unintentionally, you should probably shorten your loop.

The answer for me was just to watch a shitload of videos on youtube, and then to repeat in my head over and over when I was up in the plane watching people gleefully and confidently dive out the door: "What one man can do, another can do." Self-talk was probably the key ingredient for me with regards to getting over the fear of the "door monster." Just remember - self-talk can work both ways. If you tell yourself you can or can't do a thing, you're bound to prove yourself right.

It's a frog in a pot of water with the flame on high underneath.

When scientists say that there is a hurricane approaching, people rush out to stock up fuel, water, and bread. When scientists say a tornado is coming, people shutter themselves in the cellar and hold their loved ones close. When scientists say you have cancer, you bombard your body with radiation and chemical poison in a desperate attempt to go into remission or at least claim a few precious years more than if you hadn't. When scientists say the world is on fucking fire, republicans shrug.

I overheard some conversation about it this past weekend at the boogie, but I'm not "in the know" enough to really comment at all. The above posting is the prelim report on NTSB.

On August 20, 2019, about 1118 eastern daylight time, an Aero Commander (Meyers) 200D airplane, N200HS, impacted terrain shortly after departing the Livingston County Spencer J Hardy Airport (OZW), Howell, Michigan. The pilot and pilot rated passenger received fatal injuries and the airplane was substantially damaged. The airplane was registered to Southern Aircraft Consultancy, Inc, Trustee, Norfolk, United Kingdom, and operated by a private individual. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed for the Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 maintenance test flight. According to initial reports, the airplane had recently undergone maintenance, including the installation of a new field overhauled engine and a 3-bladed propeller. The purpose of the flight was for a maintenance test flight for the airplane. The pilot-rated passenger, seated in the right seat, was also a mechanic who had performed the recent work on the airplane. The pilot, seated in the left seat, owned a similar airplane make and model. The airplane was flown earlier in the day. The airplane was then fueled with 34.4 gallons of fuel. It is unknown if any adjustments or maintenance items were accomplished before the second flight. Witnesses reported that the airplane departed runway 13 at OZW; they added that when the airplane was about 200 to 300 ft in the air, the airplane appeared to stop its climb and was silent. One witness reported that it looked like the airplane tried to turn back to the runway, before entering a rapid decent. The airplane impacted terrain and came to rest about 600 ft beyond the departure end of the runway. The responding Federal Aviation Administration inspector, the NTSB Investigator-in-Charge, and a technical representative from the engine manufacturer examined the airplane wreckage on site. The examination found the engine air filter element was displaced and in the engine intake tube (see figures 1 and 2). Figure 1: Air intake Figure 2: Air intake and air filter element

That's an awesome story. I didn't know either of the guys, but apparently they're both considered OG's at my home DZ. I didn't get into the sport until memorial day weekend 2018, and wasn't licensed until last September, so I am sure that's probably why I didn't get the pleasure of knowing them.