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Sorry; I usually answer, but, well, missed this one. But yes, welcome back, and don't be a stranger. You back in jumping, or never stopped? Wendy

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.

But he passed farms; he's smart enough to understand farming from that, right? Wendy P.

Energy transition will never be total and complete. I guess that means a win for you, and the people who still use kerosene lamps, too Wendy P.

Yeah, the fact that there are only roughly 50 when 35 years ago there were 350 is irrelevant. And if I gain enough weight to be obese, but not super-obese, that means I'm not fat, right? Wendy P.

OK, idle curiosity -- what happened in Fort Bend County? Wendy P.

Someone else being wrong doesn't actually make you right. Kind of like how pushing someone else down doesn't actually make you taller or stronger, or calling someone else stupid doesn't make you smarter. Wendy P.

I was told that a picture of a 12-way made Skydiving, but no one has ever actually seen it in there. Taken from above, so not much but ass cheeks, backpacks, and one dangling dick are visible Wendy P.

Shit, where's that eye-rolling emoji when you need it! Wendy P.

Basically, there are a lot of assumptions in the Constitution that the majority of government actors are basically trying to do the right thing. Wendy P.

And some people never saw a dead horse that didn't need a few more blows Wendy P.

They are better than nothing, and they're not too bad at stopping someone who's breathing out from having their every breath (possibly contagious) enter the fray. Not as good against coughs and sneezes, but most people breathe a little more than they cough or sneeze. Once N95 masks and foreign equivalents appeared, plenty of people started wearing them. The others can still screen out some allergens as well. Wendy P.

You mean the side that a diminishing minority of scientists go to? Forbes (that liberal rag) source: 80-90% accept anthropogenic climate change, and that was a number of years ago. How many doctors does it take saying something is good for you to accept that it might be — especially if you see it as something good? Wendy P.

You can improve your part of it, in ways that you think improve. It's better than nothing. Wendy P.

They're disproportionately impacted by nearly every negative. Wrong decisions, illness, and bad luck have far greater consequences when you're already working two part-time gig jobs with no insurance and limited or no sick leave to make ends meet, and have a $100 savings account. And no one is immune from either wrong decisions or bad luck. Just my fortune to be born to good parents, be exposed to what I've been exposed to, and having a reasonable native intelligence has made the negative aspects of some wrong decisions or bad luck less likely to hit me. Like, yes, the times I drove while intoxicated (not a lot, but it happened, and I didn't get caught). Like, yes, the times I shoplifted as a kid (again, far and few between, but I'm a middle-class looking white girl, not a minority who gets scrutiny). And countless other infractions of good sense that nearly everyone in the world has committed, but that people who are under additional scrutiny, or who don't have the resources to deal with it, can't afford to make. Wendy P.

The thing is that USPS has to subsidize the delivery of packages to very remote places. It's kind of like public schools -- they have to be able to educate virtually everyone, while private schools can screen out the more expensive kids to educate (or simply open a super-expensive school). With USPS, you can have your letter (which admittedly is getting to be an anachronism) delivered anywhere in the US, including via bush plane in Alaska, for the same price. That has to come somehow. Or we can just say something like "well, you chose Alaska, sucks to be you." Wendy P.

Holy crap I thought this was a joke. Wendy P.

The choice is between Biden and Trump; based on the way they take care of themselves, Biden stands an excellent chance of outliving Trump. That said, your comparison of polio and leprosy is kind of apt. Because polio can be mild and even undetected, but there’s nothing really we can do to fix it until it’s run it’s course, and that course can have devastating consequences. Leprosy, on the other hand, is slow, and for the vast majority of people, cured with treatment. Especially if they comply with the treatment, and don’t use chloroquine and ass lights instead, or simply deny it because Rush said it’s not real. I agree this isn’t a great choice. I’m on the record after the last election as saying the absolute last thing I want is a repeat. If Trump is elected, the 22nd amendment is a part of the constitution he’d probably try to “suspend.” Wendy P.

Yeah, but I’d bet you’d vote for her over pretty much any possible democrat. Wendy P.

Yeah, dogpiling is the absolute best way to get someone to do something. Wendy P.

Along with eugenenics advocate Donald Trump, as quoted in Minnesota Wendy P.

Ok, you deny her existence, along with the existence of every intersex and hermaphrodite out there. What are your well-considered and erudite thoughts on the topic of men who have had to have their lenisses removed for health reasons? Its probably a good thing you were equipped with a penis. I doubt you have the kind of fortitude it takes to have a vagina in a gendered society Wendy P.

You've never answered the question about people who have penises AND vaginas (and the accompanying sex organs) at birth. I have a sample size of one (my friend) who assured me that removing the vagina and leaving the (functioning) penis did not make her feel like a man, even though she lived as one most of her life. Maybe, just maybe, there's something more to that than our social construct of what it means to be a man or a woman? Wendy P.

Well, some folks I knew complained mightily. But when you consider that our parents (the Greatest Generation mostly, or their Lost or Silent post and pre-generations) were very much of the "suck it up and pretend nothing happened" types, it's not surprising that Ford did that, or that there was as little pushback as there was. Wendy P.