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  2. billvon
    Or . . . . not.
  3. Coreece
    Perhaps read his reply again, and see if you can figure out what rhetorical device he was using there. Like many liberals, I think he feels that brothels are probably a good thing. Doesn't matter tho, he was wrong. The effect was people leaving sex work, which is always a good thing. You can call me the type 3 denier if it makes you feel better.
  4. billvon

    Nude Jumping

    billvon replied to oldwomanc6's topic in The Bonfire

    Not that I've heard of. Some incidents of the sort you'd expect, but nothing deadly.
  5. billvon
    Perhaps read his reply again, and see if you can figure out what rhetorical device he was using there.
  6. Coreece
    Turning street prostitution into brothels.... No. The story is about male sex workers deciding to man up and get real jobs. It says they were sick of the shitty rainy season, but I think they were just sick of. . . .sex work. (had to keep it clean) According to Bill, that would make you a Type 3 Denier - Believing that the effects of climate change would be good. I don't see anything wrong with it, but the left can't have that. It would dampen alarmism, complicating efforts to evoke sympathy from the emotionally retarded (college students, Gen Z, etc) and garner their votes. But as I've already explained, this story doesn't really have anything to do with climate change. It's almost like the writer was playing a game of Mad Libs, and decided to use it as the headline.
  7. dudeman17
    You only need 3 like-minded people. Maybe find people who are thinking of taking an AFF instructor course. It's good practice for them.
  8. Yesterday
  9. jimjumper
    The book Skies Call 2, has pictures of the Skyvan "The Herd" used (possibly owned?) and its first copyright date is 1979. So, it was in regular use prior to that. I believe it crashed around '80 or '81. But that was a year or so before I started so I only herd the stories of the Skyvan and "Rent a Base".
  10. rangel300

    Contrail 390

    rangel300 commented on pirch's advert in Tandem

    OK my brother. Give me two weeks and a deposit for the 330 and its lines, is that okay?
  11. SkyDekker
    He could try OnlyFans. Some Australian Rapper is making $36 million a year of the platform....I am sure with a little ingenuity he could do the same thing
  12. jakee
    Everything outside the suburbs is a farm. You elitist city folk wouldn’t understand.
  13. billvon
    But influencers get free tacos I hear . . . .
  14. BIGUN
    Shit. Guess I'm gonna have to change my plan from "Social Media Influencer."
  15. SkyDekker

    Ukraine

    SkyDekker replied to SkyDekker's topic in Speakers Corner

    the Freedom Caucus is like Libertarianism. The sound bites are fun, but when you dig in, there is nothing.
  16. SkyDekker
    Turning street prostitution into brothels.....another clear win for Climate Change.
  17. Cola
    I don't think they could have made a run for it, honestly it took till 6:24 to confirm the passengers were loaded on a bus. During that time the crew was freaking out over the passengers just milling about the airplane, the fuel truck and active runways. Further, Coops initial instructions were for the crew to remain seated. According to Tina’s 2nd interview Coops reiterated this to her when she went to get the parachutes. When Tina returned to the jetliner she noted placing the parachute in the seat next to Cooper this suggest to me that he was seated and possibly he was watching the door with his hand still inside the case while she went to a fro. I have spent the time with the records but don’t care to lay out and post every movement of the stews beyond what has been put down by Sluggo. For me I don't think there is any further warmth that could be brought to the case "today" in covering and recreating at an intuition, assertion, and reference level where the girls were or weren't and what the opportunities of escape could have been.
  18. gowlerk
    At our small Cessna DZ we still do 4 way. But our average age is quite high and the younger jumpers we do have are not really very interested in it. Not yet dead but definitely dying.
  19. gowlerk
    So, after reading up on that I find that the common term for that is basically "heat". Now I'm thinking about being outside on a warm day and feeling the power of the Sun 93 million miles away. And that makes we wonder why some people think we can only power our civilization with fossil fuels. Just because that is what we have done for about 150 years. Talk about a lack of vision.
  20. billvon
    I get all my power from solar. California now goes hours getting all its power from renewables for weeks on end - and all that is time we are not burning natural gas, thus saving that gas for the less developed parts of the US. As a result, natural gas prices are dropping, and air quality is improving. Solar fabrication equipment is one of the few things we export to China. US companies that make solar equipment are making billions and employing hundreds of thousands. So the citizens of the US will - and are already - benefiting from this. Jealousy is such an ugly emotion. Become a scientist or engineer, discover/invent something important and you too can be a millionaire! Only in your imagination. I am perfectly happy for you to think I am stupid. Like George Santos calling someone dishonest, or like Trump calling someone a liar. It's more a badge of honor than anything else.
  21. billvon
    The Sun gets its energy from a lot of different fusion reactions, many of which release neutrons - but the primary reactions (proton-proton and proton-deuterium) are aneutronic. All that fusion heats up the sun, reaching temperatures of millions of Kelvin in the center, and about 5500 Kelvin at the surface. The surface radiates that heat away as blackbody radiation. which is what we see as the energy from the Sun. So we're really seeing the heat from the reactions rather than the light from the reactions themselves, although some of the gamma rays (and almost all of the neutrinos) generated during the fusion process make it out of the Sun as well.
  22. SkyDekker
    We are spending billions in putting up Stop signs and guess what, people still run stop signs, sometimes even killing other people. Clearly they aren't working. Why are we doing this? The answer is the friends and cronies who are pushing the traffic law and regulation agenda. Now some sign company owners have become rich, went from nothing to millions. Now that these guys are rich, no way to halt the stop sign train. Next we get yield signs, speed limit signs and the stupidest of all, slow moving vehicle signs. Anyone who can't see the dark money secret traffic sign agenda is either naïve, stupid or in on it! Sheeple.
  23. billvon
    And he has an MBA. They cover farms so he BASICALLY grew up on a farm.
  24. Chaucer
    The jetliner landed at 5:41. Tina retrieves the money and parachutes between 5:50 and 6:10. All passengers are off the aircraft by 5:57 Alice and Flo depart the aircraft at 6:44. The plane departed at 7:36. Based on this timeline, the pilots and Alice and Flo could have escaped the cockpit while Tina was on and off the aircraft getting the money and chutes during the time period of 5:57 and ~6:10. In fact, I think in a later interview, Rataczak laments this fact. https://norjak.org/timeline/
  25. Phil1111
    Like Santos, trump, MTG, etc. facts amount to nothing. Santos was run out because the had actual criminal charges. But when climate change deniers, theocratic government lovers, etc. are the base. As long as McCormick peddles the goods "exaggerated resumes" are a part of the process for GOP carnival barkers.
  26. wmw999
    There's something called the Cloud Games, where newbie 4-way teams (with a ringer) compete at their own drop zones, using the video to compare times etc. It's one way -- yes, it means competition, but newbie teams are pretty laid back. Wendy P.
  27. bdb2004
    Is it? Particularly at smaller seasonal dropzones across the country? I really have no interest in freeflying or angles or tracking jumps. I'm unlikely to ever want to get into wingsuiting. I don't want to just go out and screw around playing freefall games or flying through hulahoops. I just want to find a few people who want to dedicate two or three weekends a month to turning some points, debriefing the video, and then doing it again to try to improve as a group. Apparently that just isn't what most people think of as fun anymore.
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