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Sold my Mooney last year. Annuals way cheaper on the 5 inch quad.

The young fly FPV: https://www.reddit.com/r/fpv/ less risk than wingsuit base.

I, being a remote worker and able to afford everything delivered, could easily adhere to the lockdown. The front line minimum wage people and their children you sacrificed could not. There are plenty of places (Sweden) that appear to have done better than the hardest lockdown states when you look at age adjusted death rate. However, optimizing for a signal metric though is short-sighted. Skydivers ought to know quality of life and fun are worthy sacrifices to scary death rates but it's been so long most of us jumped I guess you all forgot it. Look, Mississippi is now doing better in education than California: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/what-happened-to-naep-scores?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

I was not arrested and didn't lose my job or my house, but I knew people that did. I lost coffee shops and restaurants I enjoyed but the people that work there or owned the businesses lost homes and livelihoods..

Because they arrested people outside at the beach and shutdown businesses. 1/3 of the places I regularly went to closed permanently.

My point was that all of this was done to regular people when the Democrats were in power. We know we aren't going to like it because they already showed the worst authoritarian tendencies 4 years ago. Not judges, not people with political power, moms and regular people.

During the Bush years that was the maxim. Give ultimate power to chase terrorists and eventually they'll be scraping your cellphone data. Unfortunately we had a massive authoritarian abuse of power in recent memory. You probably cheered when the government arrested mothers taking kids to parks, arrested surfers, closed businesses, threatened jobs, and bulldozed skate parks. Most Trump supporters aren't going to shed a tear over illegals and judges after the extent they went after regular people.

At this rate it will be the same as 2019.

It started before pedo incident. He grew frustrated with growing negative press and started attacking the press himself which spiraled: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/tesla-hit-lawsuit-called-hotbed-racist-behavior-n820651 https://www.inverse.com/article/31478-spacex-settles-underpaid-workers-lawsuit-for-4-million

Damn! I was going to go pick up some raw milk and help the Mennonites raise a barn this week.

I was adding humor. I'm aware of all the 1 in 30,000 edge cases. Conflating a real thing like androgen insensitivity with a 13 year old girl who wants to be different or a 50 year old man who wants to go in women's spaces as all one homogeneous group is silly. Both sides do it.

https://x.com/xDaily_Know/status/1899455815628538006

Unless the dollar and systems regulating it are already cooked and powers abroad aren't onboarding into our control. The hope is Bitcoin based financial systems founded in the US could be under the US thumb.

This could be a great list! Unhoused Gender affirming care Reproductive rights Undocumented workers Pre-existing condition Gun control Stay home together Mostly peaceful protest Public health crisis Domestic terrorist Current right wing Groomer Election integrity Cancel culture 911 era right Enhanced Interrogation Enemy combatant Regime change From Politics of the English Language, 1984s companion > The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice, have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of régime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using that word if it were tied down to any one meaning. Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means something quite different. Statements like Marshal Pétain was a true patriot, The Soviet press is the freest in the world, The Catholic Church is opposed to persecution, are almost always made with intent to deceive. Other words used in variable meanings, in most cases more or less dishonestly, are: class, totalitarian, science, progressive, reactionary, bourgeois, equality.

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