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Thinking of someone else Wendy P.

Um, maybe no one has told him we're back. Works for me. Wendy P.

Works for me. He's young enough. That's huge for me right now -- I'm sick of old farts. It's not their future. Wendy P.

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I'm sort of assuming you're graduating this spring... Good time for reflection. You've made a life for yourself. It doesn't have room for skydiving -- that's not a problem. And your malfunction really wasn't a beginner malfunction. The correct answer is the one that has to surviving, and that you did. I wish you well, really. Maybe your involvement in skydiving helped you to decide to really buckle down in school -- if so, that's not an entirely negative consequence. But yeah, things can have life-changing consequences. And don't generate a long bucket list -- as you can, do the things that interest you, don't save them up, because they'll keep your life interesting, and the best way to meet interesting people is to have your own interesting life. Enough lecture from the senior auntie Wendy P.

What made Hillary so evil? Obviously you're not concerned about her emails, since, well, Signal and all that... Or is it just a matter of assuming the best for your guys, and assuming the worst for everyone else? Wendy P.

I was going to say you should be proud of what you started with this thread. Now I guess I should be quiet, huh Wendy P.

Editor of The Atlantic added to supposedly secure chat on Signal Yeah. They were discussing war plans, and he realized it wasn’t a dummy chat when the US actually attacked Yemen. But at least they can still talk about Hillary’s servers. Wendy P.

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It really just means fewer tourists bringing their money, and more of them using tour groups that will handle the paperwork. Which means richer, older, tourists most likely. The young vibrant ones will go elsewhere. Kind of like Russia, even 20 years ago (ie before it got really weird). I have a cousin who was with the US embassy there; she recommended NOT visiting Russia, even though she loved it. I guess being like Russia is a stretch goal now Wendy P.

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Parents make life-changing decisions for their children. Sometimes they’re wrong. But it seems to me a little hypocritical to say that working with gender issues is worse than not taking vaccines or blood transfusions. Or vice versa Wendy P.

Actually, it is different; birthright citizenship is pretty rare. But it’s the law. If we’re going to be ruled by laws rather than whims, then we should change the laws according to the law, not by decree. Otherwise the next president can just change them right back. That’s been happening too much as it is, escalating things doesn’t help much Wendy P.

Please post this in the ads. Wendy P.

Come to Massachusetts . Of course, skydiving is seasonal in Mass Wendy P.

I believe there’s a process for changing the law. It doesn’t consist of the president saying “that sucks.” As far as the other post, yeah, but the post Vietnam war era is a little more recent, and the envoy’s original statement never made it onto a t shirt Wendy P.

AKA the peacetime equivalent of that post Vietnam-era t-shirt: shoot them all and let God sort them out Wendy P.

Rich, the reason you don’t get moderated is because you don’t do personal attacks or make jokes about pedophilia. But do understand, no one watches the videos suggested by someone who can’t seem to have two sentences in a row make sense. By and large, I don’t watch videos anyway; they’re almost always narratives designed to convince, they’re not information Wendy P.

I think those ideas sound reasonable. Of course, you’d be excoriated for failing to militarize the border. Wendy P.

It’s really one of the penalties of living in possibly the most successful country in the world, with huge borders north and south (prohibitively expensive to interdict the entire border). We’re attractive. We value money, so if you have it, you can get in. We’re not good at following up on visa dates. pretty much everyone coming in through an airport has a cell phone; it’d make sense to me to call people approaching the end of their visa with no exit yet to warn them. It’d also be cheaper, but less fun in a gladiator way than caging them up and making them miserable. That doesn’t help with the southern border, but if we were to stop exporting so many guns and buying so many drugs, there might just be fewer scared people. Of course, it’s kind of like the US, in that there are so many guns, period, that it’s become virtually impossible to stop the traffic. Prevention is generally cheaper than curing, but sometimes less fun, i guess. Everyone is an above-average canopy pilot, after all, and they’d NEVER make (whatever) that mistake Wendy P.

I prefer to have a country that doesn’t need warnings about arbitrary treatment, just like I prefer not to live in a city where the level of law enforcement depends on the color of skin or perceived ethnic or income group. And we all know those things still happen. To get an idea of living in a sometimes-free but arbitrarily enforced country, watch the movie “I’m Still Here,” about Brazil during the dictatorship and its aftermath. You were free to disagree until you weren’t. I don’t see us disappearing US citizens of note. Yet. But we’re already working on deporting students who have taken part in college protests. The subtext there isn’t just “be polite,” it’s also “be afraid.” Wendy P.

I’ve been to Canada a number of times the last few years. It’s way easier to get into Canada than back into the US. Just based on the length of the lines, and the average time per person when there is a line getting into Canada. Wendy P.

Yep. I can totally understand that. Wendy P.

I’m sorry, you must comply. It’s the American way, even though you’re not Americans Wendy P.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer person. Well, maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene or Nancy Mace. Wendy P.