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Awful start. Down 4-0. TO Texas.

Some hot takes on here. Jesus.

Naomi's message to Serena: "I love you?" 😂

She's adorable.

Departure Procedures (DP)/Standard Instrument Departures (SID) and Standard Terminal Arrivals (STAR) utilize transitions to help facilitate the flow of aircraft between the en-route and terminal structures. In the case of a STAR, by allowing aircraft coming from many different areas to ultimately flow over the same point/points, you simplify air traffic procedures and create more structure/organization in and out of busy terminal environments. Take, for example, the DODJE5 STAR into KDAL. The "catchment" area for that STAR is immense, and has transitions that begin all the way over in Alabama. In the case of SIDs/STARs, the word "transition" is used because it helps transition aircraft to/from the en-route structure. In the case of a transition level/altitude it is simply the altitude where you switch (read: transition) to/from standard pressure (29.92). In the US, it's FL180, but in Europe it's much lower (can't recall where).

Holy shit! What a finish! Way to go, ladies! And thanks for the updates. Paid $6 for an hour of wifi just to get 'em. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Keep the updates coming! I'm on a plane and can't watch. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Sucks that it ended that way, but you have to play to the whistle.

I love 7s. I love all rugby, but 7s is a wide-open, free-flowing style of play, that makes it accessible to the casual fan. The speed of the games is also a plus for the casual viewer; I get why they made it the Olympic sport.

Meh. Trying too hard.

Go to Slovenia. It's a 4-season destination. Lake Bled and Lake Bohinj are beautiful (Bled is particularly beautiful in the winter from the pictures I've seen), and the Soca Valley is just stupid pretty.

Can somebody tell me how I'm supposed to feel about last night as someone who would like to see MLS in Austin? I don't have the time to go read through a full meeting minutes to understand the different items up for discussion. Something about 60 being bad until it was watered down, and now it's more palatable? From what I can gather, we just kinda kicked things down the road another month and a half. Cliff's Notes?

You are correct. 91.113 doesn't say anything about different categories of powered aircraft (e.g. airplanes and helicopters).

I play rarely, but I can attest that it is legit. One of my best friends had $50K paid off her student loan. In fact, her video just featured on their website/Facebook page a couple of days ago. She was in at the ground floor, and once they changed the rules to limit the amount you could pay per week, figured out she could secure a top funder spot by paying into it each week. She got out a lot more than she put in. It's a pretty cool concept, and given the only mandatory cost is time, no one is really being hurt by it.

For the first time in quite a while, John Carter has a legitimate challenger. He is a spineless weasel, so I hope some of the moderate Rs in this district come out and vote for a real American hero, rather than a self-serving blowhard.

Good thing we used a starter here. Game, blouses.

There's a reason you don't see many big-breasted tennis players at the highest level. I can imagine it would be absolute hell on the body with the constant change of direction. Even as it stands now, they're not exactly small.

I was just hunting for this, as well. I *think* I agree with you, but given that the context for that "some portion of the cost" was related to rebates, frequent flyer miles, etc., I still have enough skepticism that a partial payment would be covered I would call the benefits administrator and seek additional clarification before banking on it.

I get where you're coming from, but I don't know if "morality" is the right word to describe the thought process. I think they may decide that it is the "right" thing to do, but it has a fundamentally different connotation to me than "morality." Which, admittedly, is weird as I typically think of morality as, simply put, a sense of right and wrong. It could be the overtly religious undertones OP had that I'm pushing back on.

The result may be immoral, but you're assuming that he was acting rationally. Suicide in cases like that is not rational. It is an irrational response to [XYZ]. I just think people of sound rational mind (myself included) can't fully understand what it's like to be suicidal, and approaching it in any way from a rational perspective will leave more questions than it answers.

With due respect, you're begging the question. You've got a hypothesis (which I suppose is a fine one to have), but then making assumptions about something that is far from proven (which, to your credit, you acknowledge). I really think you're underplaying the mental aspect of it in an attempt to "overplay" the moral aspect of it. You seem to be arguing (correct me if I'm wrong) that mental illness isn't the distal cause of suicide; or that there's some process between the two that can change the outcome (and it seems to me that you're arguing that is a sense of morality). I have as much evidence to support my claims as you do (i.e., 0), but I don't think people who are mentally ill enough to be considering suicide would stop and think "is this the moral thing to do?" before carrying out the act. To your question about rates of belief on the moral nature of suicide, I think it's possible. I also don't think it matters at all. People who have planned and attempted suicide are far more likely to be compassionate and empathetic to others in that mental space. Another thing worth pointing out is that morality is far from a uniform idea. There is no universal morality. I think there are some basic tenets of any human morality, which is why irrespective of one's upbringing, humans tend to be have the same way (and seek the same things in life [e.g. life, love, prosperity, meaning, companionship, friendship, etc.]), but two people can have different views on, say, suicide, with each coming from a "sound" moral perspective.

And lest my comments imply otherwise, I think this is a good topic and a conversation that should be had.

This is an honest question, and it's not directed at you specifically: Who gives a fuck if it's moral or not? It doesn't change a thing. I'm certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that shaming people considering suicide (or posthumously if the deed is done) and telling people it's immoral is the exact wrong way to combat it. As you said, be patient and kind with one another. I 100% agree with that. Framing the discussion as one of morality or shame is the absolute wrong way to go about it. The morality aspect should be as far from this discussion as possible. We will lose more people if that gets injected into the discourse.

Just wanted to reiterate my thanks to everyone for this thread on TOS. It was life changing.

Is Hillary in prison yet?