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This mental fallacy is why the US will always be unable to solve this problem.

Hi airdvr, I am convinced that any man who has a good woman in his life is very fortunate. Jerry Baumchen

What else do you expect, given that the basic rules were written some 230 years ago by, and for the benefit of, a bunch of wealthy white supremacists.

My view on this is that I think we should be able to trust by now that the Ukrainian government isn’t batshit fucking insane.

That's "alludes to." Elude means "hide from." I assume you don't see yourself as hiding from that critical mass. But in any case, researchers went back to the original notes on the 100th monkey phenomenon and found out something very interesting. In their own words: In the original reports, there was no mention of the group passing a critical threshold that would impart the idea to the entire troop. The older monkeys remained steadfastly ignorant of the new behavior. Likewise, there was no mention of widespread sweet potato washing in other monkey troops. There was mention of occasional sweet potato washing by individual monkeys in other troops, but I think there are other simpler explanations for such occurrences. If there was an Imo in one troop, there could be other Imo-like monkeys in other troops. Instead of an example of the spontaneous transmission of ideas, I think the story of the Japanese monkeys is a good example of the propagation of a paradigm shift, as in Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The truly innovative points of view tend to come from those on the edge between youth and adulthood. The older generation continues to cling to the world view they grew up with. The new idea does not become universal until the older generation withdraws from power, and a younger generation matures within the new point of view. http://www.wowzone.com/monkey.htm So a more accurate view of that would be that the young learn and adapt, and the older people cling to the things that worked in the past and are often unable to learn new methods/values/processes. Today we see resistance to EV's, renewable energy, nonbinary people, new methods of teaching math and even a changing Disney from the older conservative crowd. And it may be that they will be able to adapt eventually to a changing world, the way their parents adapted to desegregation, interracial marriage, women being able to vote and gay marriage. But that 100th monkey tells us that the solution may just be to wait for them to die off (unfortunately.)

Hi Bill, I think the answer is obvious. Jerry Baumchen

Trump has a long history of either saying what the last person told him, or what he thinks the listener wants to hear. So he should be judged on the actions he has taken and the actual outcomes of his words. Not on what he might have said to Piers Morgan that one time.

Right wing extremists, making America great again, one shooting at at time.

Seriously, a state with less than 4.5 Million people, less than 1.4% of our nations population, a state most famous for Baseball Bats, Horse Racing, Moonshine and Kentucky Fried Chicken, is controlling the future of America? Does anyone else see a problem here?

Exactly. And the Wall will be complete, it will stop all illegal immigration, and Mexico will pay for it. And the big, beautiful Trumpcare program will provide perfect affordable health care for the rich. And Hillary Clinton will be arrested for all the children she sacrificed in her pedophilia ring located under a pizza place in Washington, DC. That is the world these people live in.

There are. But there are far more examples of other homeowners losing their guns through theft, or having them used irresponsibly. When is the tradeoff not worth it? It’s kind of like seat belts. There is the occasional person who is better off without them, but more are better with. Wendy P.

You pretend to save your hope. I'm the only person I know, of all of the gun people I've known, who has ever used a gun to defend my home. In retrospect I am convinced that had I just stayed silent and where I was the intruder would have left without incident. But, I just had to take my .300 Savage off the wall, chamber a round and go down the hall. See? That's the problem. Guns can make you do dumb and unnecessary things like believe you need to defend yourself when you really do not.

I can’t believe I just did that Wendy P.

The hundredth monkey is a largely discredited theory; it’s more complicated than that. But more than anything, if true, the hundredth monkey is only the last one to take some outlandish idea on before it supposedly becomes general. He’s not the harbinger of truth. And an identification with a hundredth monkey kind of implies an outsized sense of one’s influence. This is my perception, not the result of detailed analysis but then most people who come here with lots of claims to true knowledge tend to have an outsized sense of their importance. Among other things, this is the not-quite-moribund political subforum of a skydiving website; it’s where the people who just couldn’t play nicely with the others were consigned to. Wendy P.

It's not just you, it's just that certain political factions have correctly observed that introducing stress into a system makes it easier to cause the rats to bite each other. Then, whilst they are so distracted, their cages can be made smaller and smaller causing more biting and distraction until biting each other is all they care about.

Hi folks, Add another shooting to the list: Mass shooting in Buffalo supermarket leaves at least 10 dead - oregonlive.com From the link: authorities called a “hate crime and racially motived violent extremism,” Jerry Baumchen

Isn't triple jabbed a bit out of date by now? Unless you were quite late getting the first two.

That's obvious and simplistic. We who do this are all, generally, open to risk. But that's not what is the problem here. The problem is that an official of the United States Parachute Association whose family operates a large DZ asked the Federal Aviation Administration for a waiver from the Federal Aviation Regulations to perform the stunt and was denied in writing. He then ignored that denial and went ahead with the attempt over United States soil. That is bad for skydiving and skydivers in America by making us look like scofflaws at the highest levels of our organization. That's the problem.

These are the same people who want to ostracize gay people, yet keep getting caught in bathrooms committing 'crimes against nature'. The same people that claim to be for 'family values', yet support scuzzbuckets like Trump, Gaetz, Rey Moore and a lot of others. They claim to 'follow Jesus', yet behave the exact opposite of what Jesus' teachings espouse. They claim to be "patriots', yet are doing everything they can to destroy democracy in America. So, no. It's not 'just you'. They're a bunch of hypocrites.

So guns are now the #1 cause of death for children in the US. Needless to say, conservatives continue to be opposed to any action at all. "A gun ban will never work" is a constant refrain, along with threats that democrats will try to ban all guns. Now, beyond the fact that no democratic leader is actually trying to ban guns, I have to wonder at their claim that bans can never work. Because apparently, according to republicans: Banning trans people from gendered sports will prevent unfairness and inequity Banning/burning books will prevent white children from feeling bad Banning abortion means there will be no more abortion Banning masks will preserve freedom Banning trans people from bathrooms will prevent sexual assault Banning the teaching of black history will keep the blacks from taking over Banning/canceling Disney will prevent impressionable kids from going trans Is it just me, or is there a huge logical disconnect here? https://news.umich.edu/firearms-now-top-cause-of-death-among-children-adolescents-u-m-analysis-shows/