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. I was a member of a flying club that owned an aircraft. We disbanded after one of the fellow owners flew our plane with his wife in it into a mountain in the clouds. Yeah that is uncomfortable. Sorry about your friend. But if you love flying, then the opportunity to use the plane as a tool in you...

Women aren't being forced to do anything. I think if your post omits critical caveat "Setting aside rape," you aren't making the best argument, but some women and girls are being forced from the beginning. Women with completely nonviable pregnancies are also being forced to carry them unt...

This strongly strikes me as the kind of thing that attracts a certain type of wealthy, careless dude, and you want to be sure your training isn't designed to cater to that type.

Maybe a better question: what should someone be thinking about prior to getting a pilot's license? I have a sense of the cost, and the time commitment where various options make sense, but most people writing about this are recreational and probably have biases.

How would you rate the practicality for travel in the 3-4 hr. flight time range, assuming you get an instrument rating? I know it changes depending on whether you're taking about a 182 vs. a Mooney or Bonanza, but the latter don't seem like they're an optimum choice for people under 500 hrs, so thin...

I recently came across info about the number of airport in the US, and that general aviation, while expensive, isn't as crazy expensive as I thought.

I know we have some ex-military pilots here, but does anybody here fly little Cessnas/Bonanzas/Pipers etc.?

One of the irritating things about interacting with you on these subjects if you take the absolute dumbest strawman possible and ascribe it to people who have already said something different in the same thread. Highland Park is a tiny suburb with no gun stores. An AWB there is meaningless, and the...

I think Sandy Hook, Uvalde, etc. etc. etc. where you see a bunch of American children executed is something worth preventing even if, in the long run, we all die anyway. Were you aware that Highland Park Illinois instituted an "assault weapon" ban in 2013? The shooter who killed six peopl...

Is that just a red herring? Because the point is still valid, if insurance rates were based on actual actuarial data and not politicized, the cost would be relatively small. The problem gun control supporters are trying to address (40,000 firearms death per year) is not relatively small, especially...

These are awesome. a section of dark sky the size of a grain of sand when held at arms length.



Gotta be a ton of intelligent life out there, not yet detectable.

A good summary from Twitter:

Think of it this way: You have a stern “No Dog Shit In My Yard” policy. And your neighbors on both sides have a lax “My 20 Dogs Are Free To Roam And Shit Wherever They Want To” policy. How long do you think it’s going to take before you step in some shit?

From page 10 of the referenced document.... most of the firearms by a single source coming from Illinois I think you're conflating "most" with plurality. 60% of guns used in crimes in Chicago came from out of state. Hammond Indiana is across State Lines. How does someone with an Illinois ...

Illinois has a FOID, required to buy a firearm or ammunition. Where do the guns in Illinois come from? Most came from Illinois, at least as of 2017. Go to page 10 of the 2017 trace report. 40% (see page 7) isn't "most," but still. It's not a walled city. Hammond, IN is 15 minutes away.

JMO, I think this could be a person where "managing up" could be useful, because they actually don't understand. It flips the script a bit and sets you up as the expert explaining to person with authority but not expertise how things work. It helps them, puts you on surer footing. and can ...

LOL never respond to a successful parody account unless you love getting owed.

Spent years trying to figure out a Biblical basis for a ban on abortion. The Catholic Church went back and forth on this for centuries, permitting it before movement could be felt, or not, until one of the Pope Innocents put a stop to it. There's no clear biblical info on this apart from how. In th...

I've shared this here before, but when I was trying to get my suburban PD to arrest someone, I had to eventually get a Chicago cop to handle it, who did so within about 2 hours of my asking. I asked him why my local PD wouldn't do it, and he said, "Guys don't become cops in that town if they w...

He was a law abiding citizen, waiting until he was 18 to legally buy his AR-15 and boxes of ammo. All on the up and up until he shot grandma in the face. How about that Uvalde SWAT team? I've shared this here before, but when I was trying to get my suburban PD to arrest someone, I had to eventually...

MTG is just an indication of which Congressional district you never want to live in. That shit is bananas. With gerrymandering, there is no downward pressure on the fringe stupidity. Looks like The Handmaid has delivered for SCOTUS. JMO, but I think the dog just caught up to the car on that one. GO...

It sounds like Heard has Borderline Personality Disorder, which is no fucking joke. I'd be hard-pressed to feel bad for Johnny Depp, but his living with her would do it.

MTG is just an indication of which Congressional district you never want to live in. That shit is bananas.

Strong finish. A little weird.

It seems like every week another Ukraine invading Russian general is killed. Zero reports on dead Ukrainian generals. WTF?? Makes me wonder if Vlad is trimming the trees. It seems like all the Western military analysis of the Russian military is they are terrible. 20 years of being politically reli...

I dozed off in the middle. Patterson was good I thought the chase scene where you can tell, "this dude is a little nuts and really into chasing bad guys" was well done.

Weird combo of good movie and I won't watch it again.

Slow intro but the last 3rd of the season is awesome. I stopped watching 2x and kept seeing people who were further ahead raving about it.