Science advances one funeral at a time -Max Plank

What he was saying is that we can discover all the new things we want, but the people who have respected and established careers who don’t believe the new science tend to block/slow down it’s acceptance and further application until they die, then science advances…

I think that’s all of society, not just science though…

I’ve been welcomed in feminist spaces. Don’t try to take center stage or make it about you and you’ll be fine in the vast majority of them.

They point at imagined or minor hypocrisies on the left to make themselves feel like their own is ok or that everyone is a hypocrite

Unfortunately I’ve met a few.

I was a search and rescue mountaineer/EMT for a decade. There are bigots in the field. You get a lot of “conservatives” with military or law endorsement backgrounds.

Also, to take something like this down, you’d start from the top and rappel down to it. It’s how they do most rescues on El Cap (or any cliff for that matter)

You’re spot on about wisdom, but it’s not like people in non combat jobs aren’t there to support the mission of killing people the government wants killed. Just because they aren’t holding the gun, it doesn’t mean they aren’t sharing responsibility for the bullet

I had a job that paid 2x/month 20 years ago. I think the one before that did the same, but… That was a long time ago and I’m not sure if I remember

It’s a stretch, but you could say it’s uplifting that other retail CEOs can see this and learn from it

Do you have the numbers you ran 6 years ago? I’m not that organized.

I ran the numbers per hour on mountaineering (related to rock climbing, but not exactly the same) and driving is more dangerous as of about 6 years ago (when I ran the numbers).

I believe the fatality rates on rock climbing are similar, but don’t quote me on it.

The bottom line truth is, mountain recreation isn’t nearly as dangerous as people think it is.

I was a search and rescue mountaineer/EMT for a decade. I’m an engineer/analyst for my day job. I am good at math and interpreting data, interested in the mountains, and fascinated by risk/perceptions of risk.

The most dangerous part of most mountain trips is the drive to the trailhead. Driving is so much more dangerous than just about anything else in our society, but everyone does it all the time so most people never think about it.

Your attitude is only warranted for really high risk level activities, like wing suit base jumps. Rock climbing and mountaineering are generally quite safe compared to risks that most of Western society fully embraces.

Better than it would have been if we were voting for the greater evil.