Thanks for that correction.

If you’re a us citizen, they cannot detain you indefinitely. What that means isn’t legally defined yet, but seems to be around 4 - 8 hours.

Edit: apparently no longer true.

Thanks, I’ll definitely keep that in mind.

Sadly my knee is not weight bearing, at least not yet. They had to go in above the knee to implant the titanium nail because the break was too close to the joint to go in underneath the knee. Anyways, my nail has very little flexibility right now. I’ll probably recover that faster than anything else, so once I can bend my knee and bear weight on it, I’ll get a knee scooter.

Thanks for your kind words.

And yeah, there is something ineffable about hanging onto the outside of a plane at 15,000 ft. Also free fall is the closest you can come to flying outside of wing suits.

I fucked up the landing in two ways that combined to hurt me. You flare right before landing and that converts your downward momentum into forward momentum. I flared a couple feet too low. I also was trying to counter a slight crosswind with harness input, which put my body sort of into a 45 degree angle from the direction of travel with my feet first. Because I planed out about 2 ft off the ground, I didn’t have time to straighten out (and I should have been straight before I even flared, but I was new to harness input and trying to not use toggle input to correct for the crosswind). As a result, I was going 29 mph forward and wasn’t going down really at all.(I have a fly sight which is basically a 3d tracker, hence how I know) when the inside of my right foot, pointed closer to perpendicular to my direction of travel hit the ground.

I remember feeling my foot first glide a bit through the grass tops just after flaring and having time to think “shit” before I hit.

If I flared higher I would have been fine. If it been using toggle inputs rather than harness input, I could have still slid it in on my padded butt. Both together? Ouch.

I fucked up my landing on my 67the skydiving jump, and got a spiral fracture of both my tibia, and fibula. My foot was pointing 90 degrees from where it was supposed to. I received a surgery that implanted a titanium nail through the channel for my marrow in my tibia along with 4 screws and some plates.

I’m 45 and this recovery is the single most grindingly long, and humiliating thing I’ve ever had to go through. I’m so utterly dependent on others. Which is something that is anathema to me, for which I’ve been going to therapy for years for.

And I’m lucky with clean breaks where they occurred (one at the bottom of the tibia, one at the top of the fibula.) This is supposed to be a quick recovery. I don’t even have a cast anymore after 3 weeks.

I guess I’m just incredibily tired, embarrassed and feeling bad for myself. And throwing this out into the void since I literally can’t really do anything other than go to the bathroom and shower by myself. Which, make no mistake, were huge victories.

Do not taunt happy fun ball.

Dude, Jordan Lund called you fascist. You weren’t as inoculated as you think.

This question is so fundamentally wrong, but such a good example of what is wrong with most people.

Most people don’t actually have an ethical system. They simply substitute tribal dynamics or what ‘feels’ right in the moment for ethics.

Loyalty, and most virtues, aren’t about what you get from them. Thinking of them in those terms is itself an example of the lack of any ethical system.

Loyalty, and most virtues, are about having a system of values that you think are right, and then living up to those values. Even when it is inconvenient. Especially when it is inconvenient.

If a system of beliefs, like religion, is something you espouse to believe in then you live those ideals. Otherwise you’re just there to feel like you belong in a group.

The first episode had the ingredients of thermite accurately, and they got sued.

Thermite is incredibly simple and even kids can make it, if they know how.

I’m judgy of people that believe in chemtrails, and HAARP, and juice cleanses to treat cancer, too.

There is an objective world we can learn things about. People that reject that with “have an open mind, man” don’t deserve respect and their opinions are worth absolutely nothing.

Economics isn’t a science at all.

Plus, you guys get your independent and Dependant axis mixed up.

She didn’t bring her supporters around for '08. Remember PUMA’s? Pepperidge farms remembers.

A higher percentage of Bernie voters voted for Clinton in 2016 than Clinton voters voted for Obama in 2008.

You’re literally just making shit up here completely to justify your position.

heavy-handed moderation.

Only a world user would make this comment.

“I just know it, dude. It’s like … the internet, and stuff, man”

At this point, you’re just a troll. You are knowingly spreading the views of someone proven to be a liar, and when asked for any kind of evidence, you just vaguely wave in a direction with a long winded response that is logically indistinguishable from “vibes, man”

Go away. You are not continuator anything to this. I won’t bother calling it a conversation, because trolls don’t have conversations. That would require them to stop operating in bad faith.

Given your lack of reading comprehension, I’m going to stop here.

The NYT is a tool used to sell the American (supposed) left on literally every war in the last 70 years. Including fun ones like Vietnam, and Iraq.

There is nothing left wing about that. It’s not a hard concept. Try a little.

Which wars have the NYT’s been against, again? Which policy of W’s were they against again?

I agree with Cowbees definition, but the NYT’s isn’t left wing BY YOUR OWN DEFINITION of left wing.

Same.

Any system run on AWS in a single az is not reliable.

The DNC is bullshit, but there are also 7 empty houses for every homeless person in this country.

This is a distribution issue. At a national level, at least.

Certain localities will be different.