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    • travisdh1T
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      It's 7 PM, and if everything goes well, I'll actually get to clock out and head home by 8. I think Friday and Monday decided to trade this week, all our issues cropped up today.

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      • jt1001001J
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        Is Canada allowed here thought the borders closed still

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        • RojoLocoR
          RojoLoco @travisdh1
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          @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          pokes MangoLassi

          wasup 🙂

          Canada!

          Sorry, can't help myself sometimes.

          Oh..... Canada.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            Good morning everyone! I'm doing data entry while drinking my coffee.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @MattSpeller
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              @MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              pokes MangoLassi

              wasup 🙂

              We were too cold to write much yesterday.

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              • scottalanmillerS
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                Today I did the math and the "skydiving danger equivalency" is 416miles by car.

                Meaning... you run the same risk of a fatality from doing a proper, licensed, professional skydive experience vs. the risk of driving yourself on a trip (or combined trips) totally 416 miles.

                Of course, if you have to drive TO the skydiving location, all the math goes out the windows.

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                • JaredBuschJ
                  JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  Today I did the math and the "skydiving danger equivalency" is 416miles by car.

                  Meaning... you run the same risk of a fatality from doing a proper, licensed, professional skydive experience vs. the risk of driving yourself on a trip (or combined trips) totally 416 miles.

                  Of course, if you have to drive TO the skydiving location, all the math goes out the windows.

                  That is a weird way to compare that. Because that does not actually define the risk to anything tangible

                  Like miles per fatality or anything.

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                  • siringoS
                    siringo @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    Today I did the math and the "skydiving danger equivalency" is 416miles by car.

                    Meaning... you run the same risk of a fatality from doing a proper, licensed, professional skydive experience vs. the risk of driving yourself on a trip (or combined trips) totally 416 miles.

                    Of course, if you have to drive TO the skydiving location, all the math goes out the windows.

                    So are you saying that it's thought that for every 416 miles you travel in a car, you die? So if you travel 834 miles, you've died from skydiving twice.

                    I would have thought, if that's the case, it's an extremely high risk pass time.

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                    • siringoS
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                      11:22AM sunday here, just had breakfast on the verandah, now do my quarterly tax stuff. Coffee #2 not far away I think.
                      Weather is overcast and still. Very quiet, the boss has locked the state down again, but only until Thursday.

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                      • nadnerBN
                        nadnerB @siringo
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                        @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        Today I did the math and the "skydiving danger equivalency" is 416miles by car.

                        Meaning... you run the same risk of a fatality from doing a proper, licensed, professional skydive experience vs. the risk of driving yourself on a trip (or combined trips) totally 416 miles.

                        Of course, if you have to drive TO the skydiving location, all the math goes out the windows.

                        So are you saying that it's thought that for every 416 miles you travel in a car, you die? So if you travel 834 miles, you've died from skydiving twice.

                        I would have thought, if that's the case, it's an extremely high risk pass time.

                        If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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                          @JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          Today I did the math and the "skydiving danger equivalency" is 416miles by car.

                          Meaning... you run the same risk of a fatality from doing a proper, licensed, professional skydive experience vs. the risk of driving yourself on a trip (or combined trips) totally 416 miles.

                          Of course, if you have to drive TO the skydiving location, all the math goes out the windows.

                          That is a weird way to compare that. Because that does not actually define the risk to anything tangible

                          Like miles per fatality or anything.

                          People don't tend to understand that kind of comparison though. They resort to emotions. But in this example... my wife thinks people are insane to skydive because it is so risky. But she thinks nothing of a weekend drive of 500+ miles. It's an important comparison because it's the only thing she can compare to that she does every day as an optional thing.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @siringo
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                            @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            Today I did the math and the "skydiving danger equivalency" is 416miles by car.

                            Meaning... you run the same risk of a fatality from doing a proper, licensed, professional skydive experience vs. the risk of driving yourself on a trip (or combined trips) totally 416 miles.

                            Of course, if you have to drive TO the skydiving location, all the math goes out the windows.

                            So are you saying that it's thought that for every 416 miles you travel in a car, you die? So if you travel 834 miles, you've died from skydiving twice.

                            I would have thought, if that's the case, it's an extremely high risk pass time.

                            No, for every 416 miles you drive you run the same amount of risk of dying as skydiving once. You are approaching it with the assumption that you die EVERY time you skydive. But in reality, skydiving is quite safe.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @siringo
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                              @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              I would have thought, if that's the case, it's an extremely high risk pass time.

                              In reality, skydiving is far safer than people think and driving is far more dangerous.

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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                Today I did the math and the "skydiving danger equivalency" is 416miles by car.

                                Meaning... you run the same risk of a fatality from doing a proper, licensed, professional skydive experience vs. the risk of driving yourself on a trip (or combined trips) totally 416 miles.

                                Of course, if you have to drive TO the skydiving location, all the math goes out the windows.

                                I've skydived 5 times, so I'm good for driving 2000+ miles, right?

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                                • siringoS
                                  siringo @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  Today I did the math and the "skydiving danger equivalency" is 416miles by car.

                                  Meaning... you run the same risk of a fatality from doing a proper, licensed, professional skydive experience vs. the risk of driving yourself on a trip (or combined trips) totally 416 miles.

                                  Of course, if you have to drive TO the skydiving location, all the math goes out the windows.

                                  So are you saying that it's thought that for every 416 miles you travel in a car, you die? So if you travel 834 miles, you've died from skydiving twice.

                                  I would have thought, if that's the case, it's an extremely high risk pass time.

                                  No, for every 416 miles you drive you run the same amount of risk of dying as skydiving once. You are approaching it with the assumption that you die EVERY time you skydive. But in reality, skydiving is quite safe.

                                  what's the diff??? I fail to see it.

                                  I'd much prefer my chances crashing at 100mp/h (1) that both shutes failing on a sky dive (2).

                                  1 = possible chance of survival
                                  2 = zero chance of survival

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @siringo
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                                    @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    Today I did the math and the "skydiving danger equivalency" is 416miles by car.

                                    Meaning... you run the same risk of a fatality from doing a proper, licensed, professional skydive experience vs. the risk of driving yourself on a trip (or combined trips) totally 416 miles.

                                    Of course, if you have to drive TO the skydiving location, all the math goes out the windows.

                                    So are you saying that it's thought that for every 416 miles you travel in a car, you die? So if you travel 834 miles, you've died from skydiving twice.

                                    I would have thought, if that's the case, it's an extremely high risk pass time.

                                    No, for every 416 miles you drive you run the same amount of risk of dying as skydiving once. You are approaching it with the assumption that you die EVERY time you skydive. But in reality, skydiving is quite safe.

                                    what's the diff??? I fail to see it.

                                    I'd much prefer my chances crashing at 100mp/h (1) that both shutes failing on a sky dive (2).

                                    1 = possible chance of survival
                                    2 = zero chance of survival

                                    Right, that's the difference. You are seeing skydiving as the same as death. It's not. It's really, really safe. You are more likely to die driving to go skydiving than skydiving itself.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @siringo
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                                      @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      I'd much prefer my chances crashing at 100mp/h (1) that both shutes failing on a sky dive (2).
                                      1 = possible chance of survival
                                      2 = zero chance of survival

                                      Sure, but that's unrelated to the risk scenario. That's "failure mode risk". That's very different, and generally only loosely related, to real risk.

                                      That's how people get risk wrong. It's like obviously getting hit by a meteor has a near 100% chance of death while eating a hot dog has a near 0% chance of death. But your chances of eating a hot dog are like many trillions of times higher than your chances of encountering a meteor.

                                      So while meteors kill every time, there's no real risk of being hit by one. And while hot dogs rarely kill you, it's a real risk because most people eat so many of them.

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                                      • siringoS
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                                        hmmm, time for lunch, think we're out of hot dogs ...

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                                          Getting some TAKP Everquest time.

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                                            Troubleshooting MS Teams issue, some users not getting presence and unable to chat. Most likely a Microsoft issue.

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