wolfriverjoe

My experience is that reserves are generally (not always) solid white or light blue. Very few people jump solid color mains. It tends to make them more noticeable. Of course, I know a jumper who has a solid white main. Yes, it tends to attract attention. Jumpers new to the DZ commonly ask if 'Did he have a cutaway?' We give him a fair amount of shit about it.

Don't forget the mail is rather slow of late. Leaving out the editorial comments on this to prevent it getting moved.

I don't seem to recall anyone vilifying those who legitimately CAN'T take the vaccine. The ones who are getting hammered on are those who WON'T take it. The number of people who cannot take the vaccine is very small. It sure as hell isn't well over half the people in Idaho, West Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, Oklahoma and a couple others. The fools who booed when both Trump and Lindsay Graham suggested folks get vaxxed are the ones that are the 'scum of the earth'. There have been 6.4 BILLION doses of vax administered in the world so far. Almost 400 million in the US. If there were serious problems, they would have become apparent by now. Don't forget that use of the J&J vax was suspended for a bit back in April. One death, a handful more serious cases. The idea that the vax is killing lots of people is REALLY stupid. As is the claim that it isn't effective. The polio vax had a ~60% effectiveness. Yet polio is virtually extinguished anywhere the vax is widely available and administered. Pfizer & Moderna have higher rates than that, even after time has elapsed (they still are very effective against serious infection, even though the ability to prevent any infection drops). But, I'm not totally in favor of the vax mandates. The anti-vax morons are doing a fairly good job of removing themselves. 53k dead in the last month. Virtually all of them unvaxxed. The HCAs are being issued at high speed.

Oh no. He's at least sort of legit. He just doesn't show up very often.

Seriously? People are touting Tonic Water as a cure. People are fighting with health care workers trying to get them to give ICU patients Ivermectin, HCQ and 'intravenous vitamins' as a 'cure'. People are claiming that the vaccine is killing more than Covid. They are posting "Rebukes" on FB, claiming that Jesus can stop the virus. At the same time, the same people are denying science and reality. Pretending that because the understanding has grown and changed since the beginning that the scientists and health care experts are 'lying'. They latch onto blatantly false 'news' from 'sources' that have a loooooooong history of utter bullshit. The gullibility and foolishness and, yes, utter stupidity of some people is stunning. But very real. People are that stupid.

Mine was in the mailbox when I got home yesterday. I was out of town, but it was near the top of the pile, so it came in the last couple of days.

They disappeared. They went away. Not just here. The "Name That Rack" thread is barren. The "Postwhore Glory" thread is equally desolate. All the pics that were posted were lost in the transition to the new format. Absolute tragedy.

It mentions the "Sunday Laws" in the article. I know LOTS of folks who'd like to be able to buy alcohol on Sunday in certain places. Wisconsin isn't one of those places, but we do have the law that car dealerships have to be closed on Sunday. I don't disagree with the idea that used car salesmen are slimeballs who are an offense to God, but I don't like the idea that that "God" can close down a business on a particular day.

Rather interesting that it's a default judgement. The slimeball and his mouthpieces didn't do what they were repeatedly ordered to do. So they lost. Now they're going to scream and cry that they were 'victims'. It's what that type does.

Hi Jerry, Trump rarely wins in court. His primary tactic is to delay and delay. That costs the people suing him more money than they can afford and they eventually give up. Fortunately, he's managed to piss off enough people with the resources to keep fighting. He's just going to lose again. And again. And again.

True, but without some sort of energy storage, the lack of consistency & dependability with typical renewables requires large scale storage. The sun goes down at night and is sometimes obscured by clouds. The wind dies down. Storage is essential for those to become viable alternatives to gas, coal or nuke.

Gotta love how the party responsible for the payment is the Trump Campaign. Not Trump himself. The campaign has lots & lots of money. They begged it from the MAGA idiots.

There is a similar situation in the US. HazMat endorsement has a requirement for a background check with fingerprints every few years. It's kind of a hassle. It's not free. Few companies pay for it. So, as a result, the number of drivers with HazMat endorsements on their license has dropped rather dramatically. There were spot gas shortages in a few different places around the US over the summer due to a lack of tanker drivers.

A large segment of the R base supports this type of "dick move". It's exactly what they would do. And probably have done (your bar tab metaphor, not the national budget part).

Pfft. The professor recently admitted that he taught quantum 'stuff'. Quantum is the study of really small stuff. Nano particles are really small stuff. Coincidence? I think NOT!!!!!

They're going to 'own the libs'. You know, just like all the dead people who refused the vaccine. Seriously, their leader is a petulant 3 year old. So are many (if not most) of their base. So they're throwing a tantrum.

So they aren't 'mysterious' and they are supposed to be there. Unlike what the article says. Got it.

Yes. The "Big Lie". Trump stood up in front of a crowd in Georgia and told them that he really won in Arizona. That the reports of the audit showing he lost is 'fake news'. And the dolts bought it. Just like they've bought ALL OF HIS LIES.

Well, if you take the vaccine, you get poisoned. So clearly you can't take the vaccine. And if you don't take the vaccine, you risk a potentially deadly disease, so clearly you must take the vaccine. Kind of like drinking the wine from the goblet.

Getting everyone to vote? Not trying to stifle the minorities? Or the poor? You're just some sort of liberal hippie type!!! The Rs have openly admitted that the more people that vote, the less likely they are to win. That's why they are putting so many restrictions in place in so many states. https://www.businessinsider.com/us-republican-president-mail-in-voting-lindsey-graham-warns-2020-11 From the article: The really funny part about that quote is that the only person who claimed that there was voter fraud in the 2016 election was... Trump. He refused to believe he lost the popular vote. He claimed there were 'millions of illegal votes' (no evidence was ever produced). Everyone else accepted the election. They just were rather upset that someone who lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes still won because of the rules about the Electoral College.

It's reached the point where Breitbart has published an opinion piece claiming that the Ds are deliberately pushing mitigation methods (vaccines, masks, ect) in order to dissuade Rs from taking those precautions. Of course, Bill Gates is smart enough to know that, so he hid the 5G chips in the Horse Dewormer paste (Note: this is sarcasm). Edit to add: The professor beat me to it.

Good question. No clue. There's nothing scientific or anything about them. It's mostly people searching around for them. It seems like there are a lot of evangelicals earning them, but one common search term is 'prayer warriors'. While that tends to reveal a lot of potential awardees, it also biases the results toward the type of idiot who calls on 'prayer warriors' (evangelicals). The HCAs also have a category for 'redemption', where the people have a serious case, survive and go on to encourage people to get vaccinated.

That's happening more and more. The anti-mask, anti-vax people are the same sort that attacked the Capitol on Jan 6. Many are the same people. The exact same people. I've linked this before. The Reddit sub, the Herman Cain Awards: https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/new/ They are removing themselves from the gene pool at an alarming rate.

He's had it for a fairly long time and has a lot of jumps on it. It's fairly sensitive to body position on opening. Once it twists up and starts spinning, it's not usually fixable.

The US military has a long history of fucking up and trying to hide it. Local to me, quite a while ago, a kid in Para Rescue school was drowned by the instructors, who then covered it up. It took a congress critter investigating it to uncover the fact that it was basically involuntary manslaughter. Several instructors were tried. The explosion in the turret in the USS Iowa was caused by overcharging the propellant. It was a practice that was stupid dangerous, but was known and condoned by the command structure. The Navy tried to blame it on a seaman who had a relationship with another one, and tried to make it a 'homosexual relationship gone bad to suicide". https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/the-navys-investigation-of-the-uss-iowa-turret-explosion-was-seriously-bungled/ And don't forget about the death of Pat Tillman. On a slightly related note, a friend jumps a 170 Diablo. He's had 2 cutaways from spinning linetwists on opening. I often joke that "they call it the 'Diablo'. That means 'Devil'. They don't call it the 'Cute and Fuzzy Bunny'. There's a reason for that."