I'm not particularly well-rested but I see nowhere in those articles (and I wish five days of uncontrollable diarrhea upon everyone at CNBC involved with deploying an autoplay video) that indicates they were planning to build the cheap model first.
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Grumpiness and off topic discussion from the configuration thread
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I'm not particularly well-rested but I see nowhere in those articles (and I wish five days of uncontrollable diarrhea upon everyone at CNBC involved with deploying an autoplay video) that indicates they were planning to build the cheap model first.
For the record you can pump just as many endorphines and adrenaline by roller blading, skydiving, high performance sailing and pumping weights. Believe me, I've done all of that and more. Today I pump weights and do road cycling. Hoping to do some triathlon next year. In my mid 40s, my knees, and joints and tendons just aren't as strong as they used to be.
Never have been much of a skier, since I'm from a tropical country and lived just for a few years in New England.
So I really don't understand why missing the skiing season is such a big deal, as long as you do other radical activities over the year.
I've been a licensed skydiver for over a decade and jump a lot during spring-autumn. That is my warm weather happy place (I jump enough during winter to stay current, but I dial it back a fair bit), plus wind tunnel training. I also do track days on my motorcycle, so I have no dearth of places to get excitement.
But skiing is my first love, however, and I'm at my happiest when I'm on the mountain either by myself or with one or two close friends of a similar skill level. To get up before sunrise and get there early so I have first chair, and be the first through the new powder that fell overnight and feel really in touch with the mountain and the snow… nothing quite like it. I'm just as happy cruising around on the groomers and relaxing as I am pushing myself to the edge of the envelope in a bowl where an error in judgment or letting my ambition overpower my talent means a spectacular crash. If I had any sense for religion, skiing would be church.
In the sky or on the snow, the rest of life doesn't matter. I don't think about my job, my family, my friends, my bills, my mortality, my health, movies, sex, money, pets, gadgets, cars, politics, or anything else good or bad. These places are why I live.
Edited to add: and really, this has not been a spectacular year for me and I've been looking forward to ski season a lot to help with that. So to potentially have that taken away from me, along with not being able to count on the car which would help with day to day happiness… it's very first-world stress, but it's still stress. The good news, though, is that I was able to walk without pain (under controlled circumstances) over the last couple of days, and today I successfully drove to work, so the knee is on the mend. All hope is not lost.
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Knees are not to be messed with. get in with a specialist and an MRI. Our au pair (very fit 20 year old) hurt hers playing soccer, stayed off it for about a week,felt better, then decided it felt good enough to try a jog. - She ended up needing multiple surgeries to correct displaced meniscus, torn ACL and MCL, and more...
Probably could have been corrected relatively easily after the first injury, but massive damage when she tried to use it. 7 months later and she's only now able to walk up a staircase.
Yeah I'm not normally a person who goes to doctors but I went in immediately when I started having issues. Doc wants me to slowly try and push back to normal usage over these few days and then we're gonna check back in.
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Watch the neck, too. After several decades of jumping (585, early D license holder), I had to have two discs in my neck upgraded to titanium. (All is good.) But I started jumping on the old T-7s & T-10s (huge when the first clouds came out), opening shock was akin to whiplash. Every. Single. Time.
Watch the neck, too. After several decades of jumping (585, early D license holder), I had to have two discs in my neck upgraded to titanium. (All is good.) But I started jumping on the old T-7s & T-10s (huge when the first clouds came out), opening shock was akin to whiplash. Every. Single. Time.
good callout! The modern wings are usually less brutal with the notable exception of certain configs of the PD Sabre… those earned a reputation and I steer clear. My current canopy sometimes errs on the side of too soft, with thousand foot openings. I think back in the days of the rounds, they'd have called that a streamer that happened to inflate
Also, HUGE props for both your taste in cars and pastimes. I was a littttttttle bit envious of your vehicle situation as it relates to the Model 3 but knowing that you're "one of us" helps
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And what about the battery technology, range, price/quality, the charging network to name some more competitive advantages.
Nay sayers do their best to make tesla enthousiasts into some kind of reli fanatics. Another way for those who are short on TSLA to make a few bucks, isn't it @beachbum77.
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