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1. Why is turtle bringing this up now? Didn't this get beat to death back in the election aftermath, back when the clip was created? 2. I voted for Clinton, and I do think that she lost not because she was a woman, but because of the baggage she carried from 25 years in politics, and just a personality/character problem from both sides of the divide. The famous Obama quote from 2008 campaign comes to mind: "You're likable enough, Hillary." Face it, elections are popularity contests. The campaign trail is full of bullshit and some people just can carry off spouting the nonsense and promises that all pols put out and some people can't. But I don't really give a shit about Hillary anymore. If she runs again and gets some traction then I will start to care.

Yeah, ZoeJD seems like a pretty emotional person, which makes sense if she struggles from depression, and having a negative reaction to some "innocent" comments may be part of the package. It is interesting though that she is a lawyer, as I would having a thick skin / emotional resilience would be part of the job requirements for that. I was hoping she would come back here to stir up some shit and drop some f-bombs, but not going to happen it seems.

I don't think ZoeJD's post really was advertising, more like a product announcement, so calling that out was unnecessary. Having said that, I don't think what Lisa said was actually negative. ZoeJD, if you read this, this site could use a little spicing up, so I for one hope you don't run off.

it takes me 5 minutes to walk from my house to the bar it takes me 25 minutes to walk from the bar to my house the difference is staggering

Three guys are on a boat with four cigarettes, but have nothing to light them with. They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.

whoa. I am you are still in the hospital. I figured a post for Jimmy needs some . Get well soon.

Give him a break. It's not like he's on trial.

The tax credits were for any electric car manufacturer if that is what you are referring to, so if you are annoyed at them it is not Tesla that should get your vitriol but any manufacturer of electric cars. I would say that at this point the credits seem to be doing what they were intended, which is jump start that market. Tesla has brought a lot of $ to the US in terms of jobs, so seems like a win for the USA at this point, as most of Tesla's buyers would have bought European or Japanese cars if they didn't have Tesla as an option. As far as only 1 second faster than a Civic, that is misleading. I assume you mean in 0-60mph time, and 5.3 sec vs 6.3 sec is a lot more noticeable in terms of power than 1 sec would imply.

Why did the chicken cross the road? (Middlebrow edition) Plato: For the greater good. Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained. Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas. Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD! Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out. Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take. Douglas Adams: Forty-two. Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you. B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will. Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being. Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road," and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence. Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference. Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature. Salvador Dali: The Fish. Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees. Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death. Epicurus: For fun. Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it. Johann Friedrich von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it. Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain. Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast. David Hume: Out of custom and habit. Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road? The Sphinx: You tell me. Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life. Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated. Dr. Seuss: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed, I've not been told! Captain James T. Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before. Freud: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity. Grandpa: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.

Apparently they are going to fix it, as it is currently in the air to Atlanta: https://onemileatatime.com/delta-damaged-757/ https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n543us#222031b8

From the article: "unless your static line or IAD student exits the airplane with a fully deployed parachute, the skydive counts toward the freefall requirements for an A license." - Ron Bell USPA Director of S&T Mr. Bell cites the definitions of free fall: "portion of jump between exit and deployment" and deployment:"after activation, extraction of the parachute from the container..." so according to USPA, the period of time between exit of the plane and container opening is now freefall, and if time in freefall > 0 (even if less than 1 second) it is a freefall jump.

I see in Sept 2019 Parachutist that USPA has clarified that all jumps are freefall jumps (even static line and IAD), so this change is a moot point.

Heard in the Good one podcast, Jesse's Bubbe's favorite joke: SO, a nun passes away and finds herself up in the clouds. There, she is greeted by an angel – halo, wings, the whole nine. “Welcome to heaven. We are so happy to have you here. Follow me.” So she does. A few minutes pass and the nun hears in the distance the worst screams she’s ever heard. Just terrible, awful screams of pain. “What is that?” the nun asks. “Oh, they are just drilling the holes for the wings,” the angel smiles. That seemed reasonable enough, so they keep on walking. Another few minutes pass and then the nun hears even louder screams than before. Just horrible, blood-curdling screams. “What is that?” the nun asks. “Oh, they are just drilling the holes for the halo,” the angel responds calmly. The nun nods and continues to follow the angel. After a few more minutes, the two arrive at the Pearly Gates. Saint Peter greets the nun, “You lived such a good and wonderful life. Let me welcome you to heaven.” The nun thinks and responds, “I think I’m going to pass.” “What?” Saint Peter says shocked. “You know the alternative: Hell. You’ll be raped. You’ll be sodomized.” The nun nods slowly and says "At least I already have the holes for that"

I listen to "Good one" the vulture.com comedian interview podcast. The one released yesterday was with Gilbert Gottfried. They reminisced about the joke he told to a roast in NYC a month after 9/11. He went there with the line "I have to catch a flight back to LA after this. It is going to take longer than usual because we have to stop at the Empire State Building" And he completely lost the room. And completely got it back with "The Aristocrats". Even with 9/11 18 years removed, his joke feels a little raw, so it was interesting to listen to their discussion of what is "too soon", and what is a joke "so wrong it is funny in its wrongness". Billy V. would I think approve of it all. https://headgum.com/good-one-a-podcast-about-jokes/gilbert-gottfrieds-the-aristocrats

No idea if the Toronto school is a lot farther for you than the "no seniors" dropzones, but it may be worth going to the places that turned you down, show up, maybe do a tandem and tell the instructor you want to learn to skydive and for him / her to evaluate how you do. Maybe you can convince them to make an exception. (or maybe not, but worth a try)

I am not the one to ask about how it will feel, as I have never done a tandem and never done an AFF jump either. (I learned via static line method) You say the instructors will be watching you, but they will also be holding on to you as well, maybe until they are sure you are falling stable, but I don't know exactly what is planned for your next jump. But I can confidently say your next jump will be more fun than a tandem, because it is new and different. Flying your parachute will be all you of course, and that is cool too. After the first few solo jumps you will start working on maneuvers like turns, moving "up" and "down" and forward and backward. That is where the fun really starts to come in.

Have fun and don't die. or Don't Panic or seriously, don't worry too much. you will be very nervous in the door, but once you leave the plane, it won't feel too different than the tandem ride, so relax and follow the plan for the dive.

IMHO, I don't want to pay for college students to jump. They should be saving their pennies and learning how to make a living. Once they have some $ saved up, they can pay for their own damn jumps. I'd rather fund a museum.

a baby's laughter is one of the most beautiful sounds you will hear. unless it is 3am, you are home alone, and you don't have a baby

Ouch. The question is, is the universe telling him to give up riding, or just get a new bike?

I'll be there. only on thursday though.

I like the c7 pic! The green paint looks great in the sun, and mt rushmore in the background says "this baby is on a road trip!"

Having watched a bunch of Jay's videos on Youtube, I am not surprised by this. Jay has a vast collection of vehicles, from every era of auto history including early electric and steam powered cars and turbine powered cars. He strikes me as someone who can appreciate and even be excited about the evolution of the car and not tied to any particular technology. So I don't think that his acceptance of electric vehicles means most people are going to be hopping on board soon. The vast majority of people will be won over by one thing, cost. TCO has to be equal to or better than ICE.

I was going to tell a time travel joke, but you guys didn't like it.

I think one thing to keep in mind when arguing on the internet is that your posts are not read by only the person you are arguing with, but others who may share some of their concerns. This site doesn't get the traffic it used to, but you never know who is following a thread here, and what they think of the discussion. In most cases, arguing with the OP of any political thread is fruitless, but the discussion can benefit others nonetheless. (or not. changing anyone's political views is really hard). as an aside, it is interesting trying to follow this thread because I have Ron on ignore, so I can only see what others quote him, and I don't care enough to click on his hidden posts to see them. I get the gist I think.