JoeWeber

Why not call a racist a racist? What's wrong with winning. Seriously Mod's, SC is becoming a reflection of the new crappy world we live in: be nice at TSA, no more back talking the cops, and don't offend aunt Esther who believes unbelievable bullshit. How about a new rule: if you can't take a jab post in Bonfire.

Don't blame the student yet. Often as not what goes on in a DZ's student program isn't the subject of full disclosure. The DZ just figures the student won't ask for an instructors license and no one will ever know. Several years ago I was leasing a Caravan to a nearby DZ. Because it was my airplane someone sent me a picture of the DZO, who was a USPA AFF Evaluator doing a Level 3 AFF out of my airplane with a non-rated reserve side Instructor. I don't go for that shit so 2 hours later my airplane was back home. But for most DZO's the attitude is: not my DZ, not my problem.

No worries. Seriously, one other thing that seemed real to me was that this was a bandit jump. That is a non-rated instructor at a couldn't give a shit DZ. Sadly, there is still a lot of that in our sport.

You're welcome and, as for relying on yourself, you're right. With AFF, yes, we're trained to pull at our hard decks no matter. That said, there shouldn't be any no matter moments. You should be there teaching and acting as a safety back up. Period. The sport needs more people like you who look for deeper understanding. Thanks for asking.

Well, at 35 seconds, where he zooms under the student, he was being dangerous. His inability to control his fall rate or position in the sky relative to the student is dangerous. The video is of a single jumpmaster, harness hold exit, student jump. That's an AFF Level 4 type jump. His skills were not even close to being up to the task of helping or saving the student. That is dangerous.

Same here. But I do get how they choose the information that forms their world views. They aren't searching for facts that should be tested. They are searching for affirmation that should be believed. Facebook's News feed, for example, is tailor made for todays lazy thinkers. So are FOX, MSNBC, OANN, CNN and others truth be known. Seems like the information age renaissance arrived in advance of our capabilities.

Even if he did know how things work, and for damn sure he doesn't, he's not a fact based thinker. Provably true and sounds good are equivalent tests for Qupie dolls.

If they decide? I think a huge percentage of the doofs are secretly hoping to get the chance. ol' Ron might just sit teary eyed behind his tire barricade and wait to be taken to his new job in an abortion clinic but the nitwits who've been practicing Militia in their homemade war suits are a real danger. God, glory, guns and foolish fantasies fulfilled.

????? The idiot instructor did everything wrong except not leave the aircraft. The student was basically looking good. A little in person coaching from someone with more fall rate and body control than the student would have turned this jump into a huge success. Yes, the instructor did gobs of things that were dangerous. I got my AFF rating in 1988. I've done more AFF than most people have jumps. I'm telling you, based on my actual experience, this was horrible.

Of course. You and me, buddy.

Not my point. Simply, people don't rely on facts as much as they do emotion, social media noise, how their team thinks, and information that supports preconceived notions. By and large people are intellectually lazy. Ideas that challenge held views are too often immediately discarded. That's the reason slogans like FAKE NEWS and HOAX are so effective. Believing the slogan is easy and you won't be alone.

Facts aren't widely used to form opinions and make decisions.

I concede your point on the mailboxes. I accept the Snopes analysis that it's mostly bullshit. I confess that against the backdrop of all of the provable impediments to mail in voting Trump has implemented it seemed reasonable to me that if he could engineer fewer mailboxes to drop off ballots that he would in a heartbeat.

Jeez Bill, surely you can see that engaging Turtle is futile if the goal is getting him to understand the obvious. Like the rest of American discourse this forum is being dumbed down by the wrong idea that all points of view have value and must be courteously engaged ad nauseam. Turtle should not need to be told what you told him: he should already know it. The reality is that he's playing you just as he plays others.

DeJoy's testimony wasn't credible. Tweet's like this one are now happening. Could be all bullshit. I'm not making a claim. But I am wondering where this might go. BTW, that's exactly how science works.

So, and conceding I'm both wrong and a moron, if there is credible testimony that it wasn't just routine maintenance but was actually an overt and planned attempt to subvert the democratic process will you also concede you are a moron?

No, he's just got Skydekker attacking out of instinct which, it seems, is all he's got.

Brent buddy, I'm thinking you could power a windmill all by yourself.

All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces Bright and early for their daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere Their tears are filling up their glasses No expression, no expression Hide my head, I wanna drown my sorrow No tomorrow, no tomorrow And I find it kinda funny I find it kinda sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take When people run in circles It's a very, very mad world, mad world Children waiting for the day they feel good Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday And I feel the way that every child should Sit and listen, sit and listen Went to school and I was very nervous No one knew me, no one knew me Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson Look right through me, look right through me And I find it kinda funny I find it kinda sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take When people run in circles It's a very, very mad world, mad world Enlarging your world Mad world -Tears for Fears

Having witnessed the devastation in the Islands first hand, I hope you win.

Happy day before Hurricane Season actually starts. No worries, your prediction is still good.

What about adding right or wrong, true or intentionally manipulative of the gullible? I've got a 2020 news flash for you parson, just increasing the number of voters who believe horse shit for a couple of years or even a couple of thousand years does not make it true.

"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them". But it may be that he made no such statement. It may be a paraphrase from his Notes on Nationalism. "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool." So it may be that his meaning was not the meaning you have taken.

You're right. I'm delusional. It's all just another crappy coincidence that liberals spun into another negative story about Trump. For sure his latest beneficial suggestion that ballot drop boxes must be eliminated so the election is fair will be spun by the MSM into something nasty. NOT FAIR!!!

Not when you must pick and choose facts to support your narrative lest your entire belief system fall apart.