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We’re still on track for the Fisk arrival tomorrow morning. Looks like the big FU is back in the forecast though. Not excited about that; it’ll be interesting to see what the actual visibility is.

He succeeded? Who succeeded? John McCain launched the invasion of Crimea? Shit, I’ve never been a fan of John McCain, but that’s impressive for that old codger, god rest his soul. Who knew he was so high up in the Putin regime! Explain to me what is controversial about that video, or proves there was some conspiracy to start a war in Ukraine? Anyone with access to intel at the time could have told you that as Putin lost grip through his Ukraine puppet government he was interested in reasserting control and specifically maintaining a Russian Navy presence at the port in Sevastopol. Nearly everything that was predicted ended up happening to a T; not because there was some deep state conspiracy to fight Russia in Ukraine, but because the Putin playbook has been open and known for quite awhile now. For god sakes, the man invaded Georgia under relatively similar circumstances in 2008.

Yeah I’m expecting S40 on Monday morning, but we’ll see. My wife and I did just buy some folding bikes that we’re going to have a family member who’s driving in drop off for us at our camp site. Should make the trek to and from the S40 more palatable and also be able get to and from the SOS Bros tent once the busses and trams stop running.

Careful, you’re going to end up on the Pentagon social media monitor calling it Rucker.

What a stupid fucking tweet, acting like there’s some conspiracy that McCain and Graham were over there in 2017 representing the US and defense aid to Ukraine. Do people not remember that Russia unilaterally invaded Ukraine through Crimea and several eastern provinces all the way back in 2014? This country is turning into a looney bin more and more every day. An unending parade of woke and social justice garbage from the left and sound bite conspiracy theories from the right. Awesome.

A man won the Miss Netherlands competition.

Got a late start to watching the Tour De France, but was shocked to see that all the riders and staff for the race are being required to wear masks and apparently the riders are being tested every day and will be kicked out of the race if they pop for COVID. JFC this idiocy will just not die even when you think it finally has.

Appreciate the insight 👍 I didn't even consider the wildfires since we've been pretty much unaffected down where I live. But yeah, looks like everything in WI is MVFR at best right now.

I’m flying in to Oshkosh for the first time this year and looking for some advice from those that have done it. I’m assuming we have a few lurking around here. I’m flying a rental in, so schedule is pretty fixed. Renting from a school that’s within 100mi of OSH, and planning to get up at the ass crack for a morning arrival on Monday the 24th with another first thing in the am departure on the 27th (all weather permitting of course). I’ve been to Oshkosh 10 times now, so I understand the flow of the show, parking/campaign areas, etc… For those that are familiar with how the GA camping fills up, will there still be spots in the North 40 open early Monday morning or am I likely headed to the South 40? That N40 just seems like the primo camping from a show access, off grounds shopping, SOS Bros tent, etc… standpoint. I saw in the ‘23 NOTAM you can request North or South 40. I plan to make a North sign but wonder how I should set my expectations? Any other advice or tips would be greatly appreciated for camping on grounds. Previous years we’ve always done a hotel in Green Bay.

Adam is a desperate, clout chasing piece of shit of the highest level.

And some sort of back channel deal seems to have halted the march on Moscow.

If he is re-elected he will die in office, I feel fairly certain of that. What a travesty our electoral choices are these days.

Ah there it is. The single most dangerous word in use in America today. You got the fairness part right, but there is nothing about Justice that has to be equitable. In fact there has been nothing in the founding of this country that has desired or guaranteed “equitable” outcomes. The left really struck a home run when they realized how easily equitable could be transposed for equality and use it to confuse the masses on what we should be striving for. Btw, here’s Cornell’s definition of justice. “Justice is the ethical, philosophical idea that people are to be treated impartially, fairly, properly, and reasonably by the law and by arbiters of the law, that laws are to ensure that no harm befalls another, and that, where harm is alleged, a remedial action is taken - both the accuser and the accused receive a morally right consequence merited by their actions.” The rest of your post is idiocy honestly. Cops killing anyone they want and eradicating LGBTQ people? Could you be more of a caricature of super leftest speak?

It’s amazing how fast that city has turned into a complete shit hole. My sister and her now husband moved there in 2010 and there were some pockets of this already and probably had been for a while, but it was still mostly just weird Portland. It’s completely off the rails these days and only accelerated after 2020, George Floyd riots, etc… Lots of other Democrat heavy cities and towns are following suit, and not just the expected ones like LA, San Fran, Austin. Asheville NC used to be one of my favorites cities on the east coast and it’s got encampments and heavy drug use now too.

“The military is not pushing woke agendas” - CSAF, Sec Def, etc…

It absofuckinglutely blows my mind that women, and even more crazy, some women athletes, are actually okay with biological men pretending to be women competing against them and ultimately beat them. This is not some gray area of personal beliefs. It’s absolutely solid science that men have an athletic advantage over women. I could give two fucks if some dude wants to cut his dick off, or wear dresses, or take pills to pump estrogen in his body. It’s a free country, do whatever you want. But it wasn’t that long ago women couldn’t even compete in sports. And now we’re going to piss all of that away to appease a fraction of a percent of the society.

One simply cannot support women and also support trans men competing in women’s sports. It doesn’t matter how you feel about transgender people, it is pure discrimination to allow a biological man to compete against a woman. There is nothing more cut and dry if you believe in science and fairness. I ran Division 1 track; our shittiest dude was faster than our NCAA Championship caliber female. If he had decided he wanted to be a woman, he would have won the NCAA Championship the next day. It’s also not a knock against women that they aren’t as fast or as strong as a man. Trust me, no one gave a crap that our slowest guy on the team was still faster than our best woman. Everyone simply thought our best woman was a hell of an athlete, because she absolutely was.

All the back and forth aside, it’s going to be a very sad time for our country if the 2024 election is Trump vs Biden again. I honestly have no idea what I’m going to do if those are the choices. I voted for Trump twice, and don’t regret either one, but I won’t do it a third time because he is not the person to lead the country out of the mess it’s in. I plan to vote in a primary for the first time in my life next year, even though my state’s primary is pretty unimportant, I feel like I need to do something to try and prevent Trump from being the nominee.

ESPN honoring a man who wants to be a woman during Women’s History Month is truly classic.

https://simpleflying.com/guess-which-country-has-the-most-female-pilots/ According to this article, the best ratio in the entire world is Air India at 12%. The other European nations mentioned pretty closely match the ratio in the US. The article mentions the Nordic country of Finland as having one of the lowest percentages, but then doesn’t mention the actual number. I searched myself and found a Facebook post from Finn Airlines themselves in 2017 that said 3% of their pilots are female. That same post mentioned 88% of their cabin crew is female. So is there some global conspiracy against women in aviation now too? There’s a couple “progressive” countries listed in that article with a nearly identical ratio to the United States. This is the problem with chasing “equitable” statistics, they don’t hold up to the reality of what actual human beings desire to do. Like has been said a million times in this thread, there is absolutely nothing wrong with trying to get as many girls and women interested in aviation as possible. I’m certain that everyone in here has flown with some kickass female pilots. But what happens if in 20 years we double the amount of Female ATPs, but they still only represent 10% of the airline pilot community? Instead of celebrating success at doubling the interest of women in aviation, I’d be willing to bet a significantly large sum of money the leftists of the this forum and country would still be decrying the “inequitable” world of aviation.

Seriously dude? Do you really think this is how the real world works? The real world does not have a perfectly symmetrical representation of demographics spread evenly throughout every single aspect of life. Want to know why? Because actual people are not defined by their race, gender, sexual orientation, etc… People are people; made up of their own experiences, desires, and preferences that have absolutely zero to do with their uncontrollable physical attributes. Want to know how stupid your comment sounds? The NBA is 75% black, but 75% of the population is white. Youth basketball should obviously be made up of 75% white kids as the entry point to the sport. Gotta make those demographics even and match reality. Oh wait, no one would argue that.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/florida-bill-require-bloggers-write-governor-legislators-register-stat-rcna73191?fbclid=IwAR2fPxt60T5arwOqe02KRhl-bA4lEnk82G2727d5ueLoxKaRo4DbUnxhG80 Well looks like individuals on both sides of the aisle want to introduce ridiculous bills. This one was just introduced in Florida by a Republican state legislator.

Don’t forget about Sepp Kuss on Jumbo! Already has a stage win from 2021 Tour and two Vuelta stages. None last year in the Tour, but was a huge part of Vingegaard‘s win.

It’s that green in Ukraine in the winter? Old video?

Easy. If people had access to jobs like that in these countries, the mass of humanity that has flooded the southern border over the past decades would come to a halt, thus diminishing the ability of those in DC to play power politics with the demographics and voting trends of certain humans. Certainly can’t allow that to happen.