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Any here I thought you just wanted to come here to talk about skydiving.

That's not how maths works. 6,800,000 in 331,449,281 is 2.05%, but that's not the ratio. It's just a random number you've invented by smooshing two other unconnected numbers together. The ratio is 1 in 6,800,000. 1 in 6,800,000 is 0.00000015% In other words, 1 in every 550 people in the USA have died of Covid. If 1 in every 6,800,000 people in the US died of the vaccine and every single person in the US was vaccinated then 50 people in total would die. So tell me again how close those percentages are?

Hi folks, Good for her. I can only hope that she suffers no consequences: The speech that high school valedictorian Paxton Smith pulled from inside her graduation gown was not the one she had shown the school. High School Valedictorian Swaps Speech To Speak Out Against Texas' New Abortion Law : NPR Jerry Baumchen

Aside from his silly comments, it was a 2nd amendment decision. This should be a wake-up call to the liberal left that your strategy for attacking the 2nd is not and will not work and your focus should be on "Well-regulated." One can go out an buy an M2 Browning Machine Gun that shoots 1,300 rounds per minute with a max effective range of ~2,000 yds. Yes, you too can own one of these. But, you cannot own one unless you're willing to fill out the paperwork, lotsa paperwork, get the tax stamps, etc. To own one of these is not only bureaucratically filled with mind-numbing paperwork, but costs lotsa money, and time (talk about your waiting period), and the penalties for not doing it is more time than one gets for murder. The question becomes if for machine guns, why not for weapons that can become machine guns with some easy garage re-tooling. Give a guarantee that you'll leave the 2nd alone in exchange for more regulation like the machine gun tax law. Or, are you guys just going to keep bitching about it on the internet every time there's another incident. The right is NEVER going to do anything about it, cause they're winning.

It often seems that for many of my fellow Americans, because of their religious beliefs, school must have been about memorizing fictional characters and stories. Sort of it's like the second week of algebra when you're sitting there thinking that all you need to do is get your grade and you'll never again need to factor in anything hard to understand.

It is sad to watch the effects of the US education system sometimes.

Naw, just a longtime Texas skydiver. I went to a Texas Skydiving Family reunion last month (I’m one too), and the room had a lot of people of similar opinion sets. Just think of the range from (say) Billvon to funjumper as left-wingers when classifying “right-wingers.” Wendy P.

Right on cue.

And thank you for confirming your position as just another FOX News sycophant. We've had a lot of em here. They are fun; you can figure out what they are going to post on a given day by looking at the FOX News headlines. (Note - this is where you claim you are an independent thinker who never watches right wing media, and the fact that your positions are identical to those right wing media talking points is 100% coincidence.)

Oh I understand it very well. Mask wearing is something that affects men, so republicans demand control over it. Sure, not wearing a mask might kill someone else, but not your problem, eh? As long as you don't have to do something you don't want to. Abortion is something that affects women, so republicans demand that that right be taken away from them and given to the government. As the woman in the original post explained very well.

I used to work for Mike Hayden; and by that I don't mean that I just worked for organizations led by him. My function included one-on-one meetings with him. Relative to the levels of his positions, he's an idiot.

As Attorney General, Abbott unsuccessfully defended Texas's ban on sex toys.[44] He said Texas had a legitimate interest in "discouraging prurient interests in autonomous sex and the pursuit of sexual gratification unrelated to procreation."[44] Jade Helm 15 See also: Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theories Abbott on April 28, 2015, asked the State Guard to monitor the training exercise Jade Helm 15 amid Internet-fueled suspicions that the war simulation was really a hostile military takeover.[132][133][134][135] In 2018 former director of the CIA and NSA Michael Hayden said that the conspiracy theory had been propagated by Russian intelligence organizations and that Abbott's response convinced them of the power such a misinformation campaign could have in the United States.[136]

I was thinking that it was a rhetorical question. Texas and Florida set new benchmarks each week for stupidity of governance. Ms Smith appeared on BBC. It seems as if the newsworthy stupidity of Mr. trump has been replaced by the GOP on the world stage. Abortion, no-license open carry, etc. etc.

Could it be possible that a high school valedictorian has more guts and brains than Greg Abbott?

A true man of the people. He's just dealing with problems everyday Joes have to deal with. You know, like being accused of sex trafficking of underage girls, having trouble buying himself a yacht, getting your contributors million dollar marijuana deals, things like that. Not like these out-of-touch liberal elitists who worry about climate change, COVID-19 and crime!

Let's see if I can remember this off the top of my head .... Back when I was the busiest Rigger Instructor in Canada, I followed CSPA's Rigger A Course outline: Introduction course outline regulations What do riggers do? Basic parachute design and configurations Materials Harness/container components Pilot chutes Deployment devices with emphasis on D-bags Risers and 3-Ring releases Square parachute nomenclature AADs with emphasis on Cypres 2 Packing demonstration (by an instructor) followed by practical exercises Assembling components Minor repairs Equipment selection exercise Written exam Final practical exam Wrap up

That was my sarcastic opinion of round reserves built during the acid-mesh-era of the 1980s. All that tensile-testing and bromcreasol green testing were only short term measures to get skydivers back in the air ... IOW ... not ground an entire sport. As soon as the acid-mesh problem became known, busy skydivers traded their round reserves for square reserves and sales of round reserves plummeted to the point that Square One refused to sell new round reserves by the mid-1990s. During the 1980s, plenty of manufacturers introduced square reserves mad of F-111 fabric but never intended to be loaded more than 1 pound per square foot. Circa 1990, Performance Designs introduced the first reserves designed to be loaded more than 1:1. Most subsequent designs - from other manufacturers - can be safely loaded more than 1:1 provided the user has plenty of experience on similarly-loaded mains.