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People say "the internet never forgets", but that is bullshit. Archival takes a lot of hard work. Thank your local data hoarder. https://basejumper.net/ This was the main documented history of base jumping from 2002-2021. Incident reports, ideas from jumpers who are gone. I felt it was important to preserve everything, including the attachments, etc. If you see bugs let me know, I might be able to fix them. Hosting provided by BASEline. If you feel like donating, there is a paypal link on https://baseline.ws You're welcome, assholes :-) Kenny / BASEline

Hi folks, Now, that is a definite front runner for UnderStatement of the Year. Jerry Baumchen

Sometimes it gets tricky.

Fucker never drives any tricks to my state.

Some are here to win, some are here to learn. No one should be thinking they can change minds. My arguments mostly come from the heart. I like to express why I believe what I do. And because I am lazy I mostly try to use the fewest words possible.

Somebody has too much spare time.

From early on in the use of vaccines to fight COVID, heterologous vaccination (vaccination series that used two different vaccines) has shown promise. An early study from the NIH showed that substituting one of the mRNA vaccines with J+J improved both neutralizing activity (i.e. inactivation of the virus) and antibody titers (an indication of protection against specific strains of the virus.) Now there's data out of Israel showing that going with a heterologous booster can also help improve resistance. They looked at people who got both doses of the Pfizer vaccine initially, then got either the Pfizer booster or a J+J booster. Both led to boosts in antibody counts, but the J+J booster also showed greater CD8+ T cell responses (one of the cells that recognizes and attacks pathogens) than the people who got the Pfizer booster. The J+J booster was also longer lasting - after 4 weeks, people who got the J+J had higher antibody levels. This reinforces the theory that heterologous vaccinations (including boosters) are somewhat preferable to homologous vaccinations. It also provides an option for the vaccine-hesitant who originally got the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, but have since been radicalized by misinformation. Since the J+J is not an mRNA vaccine, but rather a more conventional adenovirus-based vaccine, they may be more comfortable with that as a booster. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.02.21267198v1.full.pdf

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Unfortunately for me, the people that piss me off are also the ones I find most insightful here. I still highly value their input. I suppose I also like being "set off" in the sense of being stimulated, which can be either good or bad. Many here probably don't care, but it helps me to think of this from a poker mindset. I use a TAG style of play (tight aggressive) which in a general sense means I'm going to fold marginal yet playable starting hands and use those chips, along with an aggressive betting strategy to extract more value from premium hands at the top of my range. During play, if my holding has a positive expected value against a known opponents range of hands in any given situation, then it's profitable to continue the hand. If not than I must fold regardless of how bad I want to play, even if I really think I have him beat and want to get him back for check raising or excessive theft of my blinds. It's just not going to be profitable in the long run. So after all that we come to the obvious conclusion to just choose your battles wisely and limit ego/emotion. This is also a time management issue since I have a tendency of being over stimulated which then bleeds over into my personal/professional life either through a loss of time and/or production. So in this sense, those chips that I'm saving by folding marginal yet playable hands represents the time I could save my limiting unnecessary and petty posts, and using that time to create/relply to more substantive posts. So again, the obvious conclusion being quality/quantity - haste/waste.

Apparently you don't understand the meaning of "eventually". When the far right wing takes over they will be the ones to forcibly disarm the population. People think of an armed population as a conservative thing, but in reality it is an ultimate revolutionary liberal idea. The people in charge will stop it using martial law one day. I have a better grip on American culture than you realize.

By luck; not by design. I really don't know how to address this. My daughter has had the school locked down due to "active shooter" situations at least five times. Around here, "active shooter" is defined as any unknown human threat to the children on campus grounds. In most cases, campus police handle it before they get inside the building. And, our campus police are armed. But, we are fortunate to live in the upper-end of middle class and our school system in one of the best. Having said that, I buy two of those rubberized shove under the door stops for each door for each class (most times two doors, so four per class), that she's in at the beginning of each semester to give to the teachers.

Again, the fact that two people decided to have a duel over 200 years ago has ZERO relevance to someone unloading semi-auto weapons into kids who were just trying to go to school. But it is relevant to the post I was replying to about the intentions of the founding fathers. Hamilton's poor decisions regarding firearms in his personal life provide insight into the gun nut mentality of that time. If two men of that stature felt this was a reasonable solution, then who knows wtf they were thinking. While the number of deaths appear to have decreased, I'd agree that the upward trend over the last several years in the total number of incidents might be a better indicator of things to come.

How about this little theory...I'll just throw it around? The money ended up in the Columbia River because Cooper ended up in the River. The money stayed intact inside the bag (eventually got free from Cooper); the money bag continued to tumble down the River, it got hung up in the River, upstream from Tena Bar. High water event eventually freed the bag, The bag ended up at Tena Bar for just a short time (the water eventually receded, taking the bag back out to the River bottom again), The bag was quite torn and tattered by this time it arrived at Tena Bar. Three packets managed to break free from the bag before the bag got taken back out. The rubber band was still intact as it was protected quite well inside the tightly wrapped money bag. Ingram must have found the money packets not too long thereafter, as the rubber band(s), although very degraded, were still wrapped around the packets, This means the 3 bundles could not have been at Tena Bar for very long before Ingram found them. An estimate: the 3 bundles arrived late 1979, a few weeks before Feb 1980. MeyerLouie

You know, Robert, it wouldn't hurt you to actually show up at some of the Cooper events,actually meet some of the people that you have been at odds with over the years, vice versa. It might good for everybody...I think you would find that they are not so bad and they would find that you are nor so bad either. Your reputation with the Cooper guys over there needs a little help. I would encourage you to make an effort to go. Please don't regurgitate all the reasons you have for never wanting to meet them. Georger is a great guy, Tom Kay is too, so is 377....go meet them, it will do you good. Meyer

Perhaps. But the numbers lately don't look like they are going in the right direction. Gunfire incidents on school grounds: 2021 144 2020 96 2019 130 2018 105 2017 170 2016 61 2015 66 2014 67 2013 51 And looking at victims of school shootings: (graphic below)

Good grief, is that text book reactionary or what? If it makes you think it's healthy. If it makes you angry it is not.

Hi phantom, Proof that insanity is hereditary. Jerry Baumchen

Cory, we’d love to have you here. Look at how Bigun, Airdvr, and Billisle engage. There’s disagreement, sometimes heated, and sometimes walking away. But man this place is more boring when they’re not here. Each site’s culture is a part of that site. There are others who post here too; some favor the “let’s pwn the libs with funny videos” tactic. I know I don’t watch the videos, because in my experience they start like any movie, and assume a suspension of disbelief. Not going there. Just so you know, new people posting, and old people returning, tends to liven things up; that’s a good thing. But trolling, bumping, and name-calling of people (as opposed to ideas) is still points-worthy. Please, oh please, free free to come back. I enjoyed a lot of what you posted. I do come here for intelligently-expressed differing opinions. And it’s not like I get those from FB Wendy P.

Colbert throws down,,, rains on CooperCon and Cooper sleuths in general, claims his team was disinvited.. NickyB and Darren respond... coming in hot with high drama in the Vortex.

Yep. And the reason we do that is because oil (and therefore plastics) is so cheap. It is much cheaper to make new plastic bags than recycle old ones. It is much cheaper/easier to make new straws than to use reusable ones. A very simple way to solve both problems (anthropogenic greenhouse gases and plastic waste) is to price products that generate both by their total cost (including disposal/recycling/remediation) rather than just their manufacturing cost. Doing that would allow market forces to become involved. Want a plastic straw? No problem. But the price you pay will cover disposing of it and/or fishing it out of the ocean later and recycling it. That way, the more plastic straws people buy, the more money there is available to clean up the resulting mess.

Have you (or the loft) inspected all those recent pack jobs to see if other tools/papers/items have been left in reserve pack jobs accidentally? Have they notified people jumping their pack jobs that they may be unsafe until inspected? Is there a plan to do so? A loft that accidentally leaves items like that in a pack job may have other problems (like getting the closing loop length right) that could lead to reserve hesitations. Inspecting other reserve pack jobs may reveal such an issue before it becomes a problem for someone. (And they may find other items left behind.)