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I don't get sad about these things anymore than I get sad about getting wet if I go out in the rain without an umbrella. Maybe that makes me a terrible person, but this family were given every chance for this NOT to happen and they deliberately chose to do otherwise. I'll save my sadness for people who have terrible uninvited things happen to them, like the family of the baby that was shot in Florida this morning.

I guess the good news is that girls are still allowed to go to school.

Well, the good side items are certainly inspiring for all who favor an open and forgiving society. Sure, there will be a coterie of liberal ingrates who will fail to see how a law prohibiting fatal choke holds by our police is a significant societal advance. But ignore those fools and current events and systemic racism, and women's rights, and instead invest in DMV brochure racks. I am so, so tired of the ignorance.

Folks have got to make choices And choices got to have voices Folks are basically decent Conventional wisdom would say Well we read about the exceptions In the papers everyday It ought to be second nature At least that's what I feel Now I lay me down in dreamland I know perfect's not for real I thought we might get closer But I'm ready to make a deal

Good find! I really like how his meme aged: Well it looks like his luck ran out...meanwhile those of us vaccinated continue to be very, very lucky. Strange huh?

That's my view and I make no apologies. Really they aren't just suicide anti vaxxers they're homicide antivaxxers.

Suicide by religion gets no sympathy from me. No sadness here. I just hope his attempts at influencing others fail miserably.

FIFY If someone puts inflated values on their personal freedoms over the rights and safety of others. There are always other jobs where they don't have to interact with anyone else.

Hi folks, One doctor draws the line: Therefore, as of October 1st, 2021, I will no longer see patients that have not been vaccinated against COVID-19. If you wish to keep me as your physician, documentation of your vaccination will suffice. If you wish to choose another physician, we will be happy to transfer your records. Alabama doctor says he won’t treat unvaccinated people: ‘COVID is miserable way to die’ - oregonlive.com Time for more to get on board. Jerry Baumchen

Exactly. To take a position, then dig in your heels and refuse to change it in light of new information, is not science. It is religion.

A recent Monmouth University poll found that “among those who admit they will not get the vaccine if they can avoid it, 70 percent either identify with or lean toward the Republican Party while just 6 percent align with the Democrats.” All last year Trump delayed, dithered and denied the seriousness of the virus. Meanwhile even now DeSantis and Abbott continue to double down on their anti-mandate agenda. There are people dead today — a lot of them — who should still be alive and who would be if people in the heights of government and the heights of the conservative media had not fed them lies about the virus.

Seen on FB: We need to stop using the cliche "Avoid it like the plague". If we've learned anything in the last year,, it's that people will NOT, in fact, avoid an actual plague.

I've taken a few years off due to work, but I'm getting back. I was jumping a Stiletto 120 at a 1.5 wing loading, but now I'm 62 and don't want to ground surf or slide, in no wind. So I'm looking for maybe a 135 canopy. I want a fast but controlled opening (I hate snivels) and I don't care about anything else other than a super powerful flare, so I don't have to run the dang thing out in no wind. I'm looking into a Sabre3, Storm, Crossfire3. What others? and why? Bruno Schnedl

I've done this using Google Glass and it works well. I'm the developer of BASEline Flight Computer, so it was fairly easy to port the Android app to Google Glass. You can find used Glass on ebay for around $400. As you mentioned, the advantage of a HUD is that you can see horizontal speed, vertical speed, total speed, and glide ratio all at once, and with much faster update than you could ever get with audio. I personally chose to display your speed as a "polar chart". Horizontal and vertical speeds on the axes, total speed equals the hypotenuse, and glide is shown by the slope: To get good data, pair the phone with a bluetooth GPS like the XGPS160. Let me know if I can help with anything. I would love for this to exist! But I don't expect most people to deal with google glass. If interested, the google glass version of BASEline is available on a github branch: https://github.com/platypii/BASElineFlightComputer/tree/glass

Jim Wallace and Bundy Taylor off the top of my head.