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What happened to skydivers having a thick skin? What's hilarious about this thread is that ZoeJD instantly got all bent out of shape with the first line of SB's reply (despite it seeming completely fair to me), but missed the unbelievably good advice contained after. Using skydiving as a tool to help get out of depression is fantastic, but the reality is that you can't do it forever, or even all the time you might want to. Having a backup plan to ensure you don't crash hard if you have to stop and are susceptible to depression is critically important.

I've been saying since year one that the Democrats are focusing on the wrong things and are assuming too much. Their entire focus since 2016 has been on bitching about Trump rather than really pushing any new candidates or any new manifesto. They've been assuming that Trump will self destruct and have been putting all their energy into making that happen, and confident they'll sail through with whatever candidate wins the primaries, which is exactly how Clinton lost last time. When Trump's approval rating was in the gutter (I think it hit 35% at one point?) the Dems should have been shotgunning the media with 'we understand why you voted for Trump and we've listened. Here's how we're changing to represent you, reluctant Trump voters' message. Building an understandable and relatable platform as a party, rather than waiting for the primaries and all the inevitable carnage it would bring. Now the primaries are here their internal efforts are split, and as Bigun says, will probably keep focusing on removing Trump rather than getting themselves elected. To me that makes a Trump victory more likely, not less. That's how the two are related. I've not seen ANY coherent message come out of the Dems in the last three years other than 'Trump is bad, mmkay?' Instead of getting reluctant trump voters invested in the Democratic primary candidates by promoting them and their ideas, they've been doing exactly what they've done for the last 40 years and Trump showed us that in order to win right now, you need to change the game.

It shouldn't be, but I think he might be right.

I didn't even consider this. Giuliani is mentioned so frequently in relation to Trump that I think my brain had come to the assumption that he was a federal employee. Great point!

To quote Stephen Colbert "He's gone full God-Emperor". And I see that we're considering pulling out of the OpenSkies Treaty too. You've got to start wondering if Putin isn't saying 'remember the promises you made me, comrade. It would be... unfortunate if you were to be removed from office without completing them." What an absolute nutter.

There have been crossbraced speedwings - The BioAir Ski'M and the GLX, to name but 2.

Keeble grobble worble urk to you too.

The comments under that article show the problem. Trumps base will simply refuse to accept any idea of wrongdoing, simply because he’s not a Democrat. Unfortunately I suspect many in the senate will act the same way.

Well, yeah. He’s already done it to a bunch of ‘em! “Giuliani? I, I uh, I don’t recognize the name. Maybe he ironed my socks in the morning. But he was a bad guy. I always knew that. He really shouldn’t have any contact with the Bangladeshi king, but you know, he’s just a bad guy. A really bad guy.”

US President Donald Trump called Australian PM Scott Morrison and asked for his help with an investigation into the origins of the Mueller inquiry, Australian officials have confirmed. "Mr Morrison was asked to help find evidence to discredit the inquiry, according to US and Australian media."

I'll vote for voter ID if you'll vote to abolish the electoral college.

But because it isn’t secret they don’t have the fucking spine. It’s despicable.

US to send ‘defensive’ Troops to Saudi Nothing like picking a fight to get them patriotic voters riled up!

I see no difference? The only good reason for either is that we enjoy doing it and it makes us feel good.

Hang on. Let me double check. But I’m pretty sure they contain bad solvents. Edit: Nope. Propylene glycol for the most part. So those aren’t the issue I thought.

6 people dead from vaping this year. Somewhere between 30 and 40 THOUSAND to gun injuries. Sure. Ban vaping. *rolls eyes What? No thoughts and prayers?? IMO vaping is no different to smoking. It’s your choice to do it and as you’re putting chemicals known to cause harm directly into your lungs then there’s a pretty good chance it’ll fuck you up over the long term. But that’s your choice. Whats not Ok would be making me suck up your second hand vape. So no vaping in enclosed public spaces etc.

It's probably Obama's fault.

oooh. cringey. She might well be awesome and a badass, but I'm not convinced vengeance is the policy by which we should elect people... So the CIA taught her driving skills, and presumably covert surveillance ones, but what about ones that would be suitable or applicable as a leader of the country? Why not tell me why you are a good pick to be a congresswoman, rather than 'I've got a score to settle'? That advert is as HOO-FUCKING-RAH as anything Trump put forward. And not in a good way.

I'm not sure you guys understand the manipulation here. He draws a new path to the hurricane and tells everyone it's going to hit Alabama. If it DOESN'T hit Alabama (the most likely scenario), his narrative goes 'I was reacting to what I've been told by several(unnamed) senior people' and 'I'm looking out for the people of Alabama' and so on until people get bored and move on to the next thing... People who hate him aren't going to hate him more because of it. People who like him aren't going to believe that he's manipulating them. They'll see it as him protecting the country. Basically nothing happens to the status quo. If (by some fluke) Alabama DOES get hit, he has all the ammunition in the world to aggrandize himself and discredit the meteorologists. 'I'm the brain-est' would probably be said at some point. There is no way he loses by doing this, except in the opinion of people he doesn't care about anyway. Of course, I don't think he plans it all this way. He works by instinct. He's a conman, and he's really, really good at it.

I think that they know they'll make far more money on the shelf space that has until know been taken up by pistol ammo if they switch it over to selling diapers and formula. By like an order of magnitude at least. Doing it in reaction to a shooting makes them look good to all the diaper-buying parents out there.... Same with the open carry rules. If 0.001% of your customer base does something that makes (random number) 50% of your customers nervous, even if it's within their rights to do so, then it's a no-brainer for the company. 'We're making our shoppers feel safer' translates to 'more people will want to shop here' which translates to 'we make more money'.

This is such an oversimplification. You're completely neglecting the differentiation of material vs sunk costs vs proprietary intellectual property. You're not paying for the physical representation of software because it's digital in the same way you'd pay for a commodity like grain. It has no form (unless you're talking about hard media), but you DO still need to pay for the costs to develop it - The tens of thousands of man hours that has gone into developing and testing. And THEN you're paying for the convenience of it existing at all. I'm not sure what company you ran where you could zero out the cost of software due to its digital nature, unless you were pirating everything or using freeware exclusively, and even then you have indirect costs associated with maintaining those systems. To basically say 'software can be infinitely reproduced with no cost and as such should be infinitely cheap unless an external force is applied' (which is what I think you're saying) is to completely neglect how software is developed, maintained and delivered. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to say?

Holy shit. I’m going to have to re-read Harry Potter. And probably buy a wizard hat from Amazon.

I don't see it happening much. We seem very willing to brush off inaccurate reporting just to get 'gossip' rather than 'news'. When later information comes out that changes the original story that there's very little push back and the damage has already been done.

That's a new one on me. I'll remember that.

Occams razor.