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Yes, happy birthday! Wendy P.

If you go to Strongparachutes.com they have a real website, with commercial as one of the options. He said they were very responsive in the past. He said call, don't text. Wendy P.

I have a Strong (but haven't needed a freebag). I have a couple of friends who have them, and have been in touch with Paradigm within recorded history. I'll ask who they contacted. Wendy P.

It does depend on the poster, and the summary that Murps gave was enough, but yeah, I'd rather read than listen when I'm on the computer. I normally have it turned to silent. Even captions are preferable to spoken word as a rule. Wendy P.

But you regularly mention the EEO-types who fall short, and never the white males. Wendy P.

I insist on the right to be judged using the same standards, and not to have to exceed the dominant majority in every way to be judged as adequate. Wendy P.

Nobody on this forum disagrees with that. It’s a straw man. That said, as someone who is part of the dominant culture in many ways, it’s easier to find the faults in the different. I’ve worked with at least as many marginally competent or incompetent white men as all other incompetents combined. Thats partly because of my industry in the latter part of my career (computer science), and partly because management (overwhelmingly white male) could understand the problems of men. But women being bullied or talked over in meetings? Minorities not even being invited as optional, only mandatories? They should just grow some balls or thicker skin or something. The obviously superior in all ways will stand out. It’s just that sometimes it’s easier to see the faults in someone who already stands out, because you don’t understand the unique problems they may face — only the ones you share. So many men don’t think that an always-adversarial testosterone-laden environment is as issue. Except that it silences anyone who isn’t that way. Why shouldn’t the dominants have to step out of their fucking comfort zone sometimes? Wendy P.

The reason he's the victim is because no one is making him and people like him the automatic deciders. "Other" people don't have to PROVE they're better in in every way in order to be considered before a white male, and it just chaps some people. Wendy P.

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Maybe just not here... We have one who's certainly in his 50's where I jump, and he has no intention of quitting. His wife is the chief AFF instructor, too. Wendy P.

If it bleeds (or might make someone else bleed), it leads. Wendy P.

A friend of mine from high school (definitely not Mormon) has lived in Utah for many years; she and her husband just retired, and definitely plan to stay. She said Utahns are wonderful neighbors, and Utah as a state has the highest volunteerism rate in the country (and not just church members serving church members). So there’s that. Wendy P.

Well, that just means it’s mental illness, and you can’t do anything about mental illness. If it’s a left-leaning person then it’s political. Wendy P.

I was just thinking how useful it’d be in evaluating potential jurors. Wendy P.

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