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It's just physics. Polarization is nice because it can cut some glare, but apart from that I'm not sure what other drawbacks you'd be referring to of unpolarized. Polarization has a rotational direction to it e.g. vertical vs. horizontal. Two polarizers (such as your sunglasses and altimeter screen) that are 90 degrees apart (one vertical, one horizontal) will block transmission of light. Rotate your altimeter 90 degrees and it may become visible. Get a different pair of glasses with a different angle of polarization and your alti will be visible at a different angle.

You are correct that the polarization is interfering, and the solution is to get nonpolarized lenses.

Thanks, I'll watch the videos for sure. I have a couple more CRW camps before I'll be putting my rig in the shop, so I should be able to get a bunch of throws with a different packing method.

The vaccines have been proven safe and effective in adults. If your position is teenage boys should have different vaccination requirements from adults, I'm not sure I'd argue against that. It has always been true that sometimes people are considered socially inferior for their decisions. This is clearly distinct from people being considered socially inferior for their race. The word you chose to use to describe the unvaccinated is literally a Nazi term for their holocaust victims. The parallel is more than implied, it is quite direct.

Some may regard it as invasive, but those people are wrong. The actual Nazis did actually invasive things to those they called untermensch, and they bear no relation to this vaccine.

None of these things are rights. Bullshit. Nobody is born an antivaxxer and being one isn't unchangeable. This is in no way comparable to Untermensch. It is a completely and utterly absurd thing to say and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Can you cite the patent?

What are your thoughts on real pull out vs. hybrid?

I've discovered that I really, really hate PC hesitations on my Lightning, and I'm planning to convert my CRW rig to pull-out deployment. My understanding is that some people prefer the hybrid because they worry about dropping the handle and not being able to recover it, resulting in a total. That doesn't seem too dangerous to me--I'd just go to reserve. Some prefer the true pull-out because with an accidental pin pull on the hybrid, you're somewhat likely to end up with a horseshoe--this sounds much more dangerous to me, and if you drop your handle with a hybrid, there's a good chance the PC won't pull the straight pin anyway. For these reasons, I'm leaning toward a true pull-out. Is there anything I'm missing or not weighing correctly?

Are you having trouble finding a transparent LCD? I wouldn't expect it to be hard to find, as they're inherently clear anyway and they only tend to be opaque because they're packaged with an enclosure and backlight. But, I haven't really looked.

It seems to me like an LCD might be a better choice than OLED, as it will be illuminated by the ambient light instead of trying to compete with it. Did you consider this?

Thanks! I had less than 100 jumps when I joined my first team last year, so I guess I'm paying it forward

Absolutely. If you don't have the skydivers you want, make them. I started a 4-way team with 2 teammates who had under 100 jumps. Yup, sometimes you have to travel to do the discipline you want. I just got into CRW recently, and it looks like pretty much 100% of my CRW jumps will require travel.

I'll admit that I didn't dig into it, but at first glance this appears to me to say that the initial antibody response correlates with protection, but it does not seem to imply anything about what happens after antibody levels wane.

If we're being fair, a study you can't find has zero relevance to this or any discussion. So why do you keep mentioning it?

"It" has always been about hospitalization and death. Where is this idea coming from that "it" was ever about anything else? When were people not going to the hospital and dying, and what was "it" about then? During a pandemic? You don't say!

And for that reason, it's highly beneficial. Being imperfect doesn't make it useless.

And at the end of the day, considering all these facts, it's stupid and irresponsible to not get the vaccine.

All I see here is incoherent rambling.

Decades.

The vaccine isn't really a drug though. It's mRNA that our body reads to produce an antigen. It's pretty simple actually.

Yes, it does--that's literally the entire point of it.

I imagine I'll probably end up having to buy new unless I get really lucky. But, I do have a couple more Katanas to get through first and it's probably a couple years away.

Maybe, but low turns are one of the most common ways people get hurt in this sport anyway, so I don't think there's a need to go hunting for an exotic reason for it. Unfortunately, it just happens. Maybe different people or people with different canopy combinations might have different issues, but I just can't imagine getting all the way to the ground and being confused about which canopy I was flying or how I should fly it. Lately I've been switching between a Katana 135 and a Lightning 143 and the thought has never even entered my mind that I might mistake one for the other. It's true that if I did I'd probably die, but I just don't see that happening. Like myself and others have said, it's an entirely personal decision.

I assume that was the joke, to illustrate how much money you'd be ahead.