New and Experienced Climbers over 50 #35
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This is baffling to me because Kim is a super nice person that I respect. How the heck do you take a dive into fascism? Trump is literally a rapist and is running the country like a black out drunk and here is someone that I like and respect saying that is a good thing. Fucked up. so baffling that I suspect he has been hacked. |
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RKM wrote: US Population: https://www.census.gov/popclock/ ~342 million Votes for Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election ~77 million ~22% voted for Trump I doubt that % is as high among MP participants. But I know actual facts have little interest/understanding of actual facts (or much else) to trump zealots |
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I hate to dive into this, but is RKM the same Kim Miller as the CEO of Scarpa USA and the climate change and natural resources advocate? It would be super weird if so, and another nail in the coffin of my faith in humanity. |
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Biden's infrastructure policies were voted in by LAW, after a 2 year long process of negotiations of Congress & president. Infrastructure spending and incentives are NOT tariffs. They are methods to cause investment and growth in the USA manufacturing and economy and they are working. State investment is EXACTLY what China has been doing on an EXTREMELY LARGE scale for 35 years. Another large reason China's economic growth, besides cheap labor, is state supported theft and copying of western technology. Tariffs, especially when changed daily based on a formula of golf score + trump tribute + insider deals and ginned up on a cardboard whim, |
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I got some bouldering in a couple of days ago. Mostly, I watched the young, strong ones. And then I went off and had more fun climbing with their 7 & 9 year kids. We also had a fire on Hwy 6 and the Owens River. This is a picture a friend took from his campsite. |
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So sad, these personal attacks. Telling people to go somewhere else is just an awful sentiment. I sincerely hope we never loose Kim and Guy and Kris and other people who I know and love. I do have love for RKM and Idaho Bob. Both very good people. With different opinions. I have plenty of political opinions. I really don’t think I will make the world a better place by sharing them. Perhaps I will say more later but I doubt it. I’m in between climbs so goodbye for now. |
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Eric Engberg wrote: Also worth noting that even basing it only on people who voted rather than the full population he didn't get a majority of the votes cast with only 49.8 percent. Harris got 48.3 with the remainder going to 3rd party candidates. So in reality a majority of US voters preferred someone else. |
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RKM. Dodge has zero oversight. there is absolutely zero proof of actual fraud. they slash and burn. fire people for no reason, cancel cancer research. fire forests rangers and fire fighters. You find fraud with accountants not code writers. |
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phylp phylp wrote: You know what's worse than telling people to go somewhere else on an Internet forum? Sending innocent people to a concentration camp. |
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Nick Goldsmith wrote: I've seen people I know and thought well of go down the fascist rabbit hole. There is a famous essay by Dorothy Thompson from way back in 1941. It's dated in some respects but is well worth a read. |
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Alan Rubin wrote: Thanks for the additional context, Alan. This stuff was not covered in my history classes. Switching over to climbing: A stranger contacted me on another forum and suggested that I might climb with them to share my trad knowledge, such as it is. This person is probably genuine, seems new to trad climbing, and has a little bit of sport climbing experience. What would you do? I've been climbing for many years, almost entirely with people at my level of experience, or well beyond it. Many total strangers took a risk and climbed with me when I contacted them out of the blue. Now I'm getting it from the other side - mostly wondering if this person might accidentally get me killed (they will be belaying). This is the first time I've been asked by someone with less experience to act in the mentor kind of role (probably "mentor" is an exaggerated description of what's being requested). I can imagine lots of potential disaster scenarios. Anyone care to share advice, or horror stories? Pic of Ken's Crack today, totally flooding, for the algorithm: |
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Frank Stein wrote: Kim Miller of Scarpa isn’t the same person as RKM. |
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dragons wrote: Dragons, can you bring someone else ( someone you trust) to be a 'third pair of eyes', especially to observe your 'guest's' belaying? If you will be at the Gunks, you could first meet for breakfast somewhere and have a 'chat'--you can often get a good initial sense of them. Then--if you haven't run away already, go set-up a 'sling shot' top-rope --maybe around Brat/Handy Andy and observe them there. If that goes okay, go for a lead climb, but one on which it is highly unlikely that you will fall. But, since, like you, I have often benefited from the kindness of strangers who welcomed me to climb with them when I showed up somewhere new and alone, I think it would be great for you to assist them. |
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RKM wrote:
Originally you said: more than half of the US population Not the voting population. Big difference |
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RKM wrote: Kim … Thank you for saying that. And as far as zero proof that DOGE cuts have produced any results. Politico- leftist’s favorite information spring - they couldn’t even make payroll starting day one Jess Saying And cutting off $$$ to Universities that promote racism! I thought everyone would applaud that development. I know probably 99.9 of you supported the US Government when it defunded Bob Jones U. So I’ll happily go crawl back into my hole and pop up in a week or so… but I’m going climbing now. Later |
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RKM wrote: I would be very much in favor of rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal government. However, sadly, DOGE's stated aims are a hoax. Here is an interesting story about a credible whistleblower who was on site when DOGE forced a "god level" login on an agency and what they did next. Likely this happened at the other agencies where they were known to have inserted themselves, but we don't have whistleblowers at those agencies: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security A few interesting snippets from the article:
Cheers, GO |
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RKM This is a climbing site, there is a political site for climbers and its called widefetish widefetish.com/forum/index.… There is 0 wide content on the WF forum; in fact there is hardly any climbing content. There is a LOT of political yakking though. |
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RKM is no more guilty than many of the rest of us regulars. |
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Please stick around here, RKM. I’m sure we would agree in far more areas than we would disagree, and even where that’s the case, I’m interested to hear rationally-presented views. |
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Dragons- When I started climbing I asked the question to the people who “took me out” - Mark Powell, Bob Kamps, Joe Fitchen - why? Why spend time showing me, taking me, correcting me. And as Alan pointed out it is best to have as many experienced hands around as possible. I would rather teach someone how it works than to trust someone’s word and credentials…. The only time I have ever been dropped to the ground was by a fellow who was a “single pitch USMGA guide.” (Or whatever they call themselves) he failed to “protect the second” and sure enough I popped off the crux and was left hanging in space about 20 feet off the deck. I needed to be lowered a few feet so I could get back on the stone…. The ATC Guide needed flipping over…. I decked. The day was over. Later all |