VAIL SUCKS

[2Planker]

Actually North America and Europe have done a decent job combating acid rain, maybe that’s why you don’t hear about it as much

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What Did Happen to Acid Rain? (Nature Took Its Course)

Susan Goldhaber resurrected this long-forgotten issue, so let’s take another look. Having spent a good portion of my time at Brookhaven National Laboratory working on the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP), I come with a certain amount of nostalgia. My disclaimer: since this...

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Acid deposition in Asia: Emissions, deposition, and ecosystem effects

We review and synthesize the current state of knowledge regarding acid deposition and its environmental effects across Asia. The extent and magnitude …

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True That !!!
Having gone to college in the MidWest...
40+ years ago, it was the Mid West factories that were being blamed for causing the Acid Rain problem on the East Coast.

 

[thetrailboss]

I don't disagree with that for sure. I believe she was going to Europe to play basketball, correct?

either way, Vail still sucks.

Yep. And I believe she legitimately forgot she had it. Not a great excuse, but she is not trafficking drugs.

 

[djd66]

And I believe she legitimately forgot she had it.

I do not believe that for 1 second.

 

[raisingarizona]

I do not believe that for 1 second.

It’s definitely the go to bullshit line but if you’re a regular cannabis user it’s extremely easy to forget about a small amount that’s buried somewhere in your cloths or gear.

 

[machski]

It’s definitely the go to bullshit line but if you’re a regular cannabis user it’s extremely easy to forget about a small amount that’s buried somewhere in your cloths or gear.

Probably true. However, when you travel to foreign countries, you need to up your game and triple check yourself and gear prior to going. Lest you end up in the slammer in some foreign land. We aren't in Kansas anymore Toto.

 

[drjeff]

Probably true. However, when you travel to foreign countries, you need to up your game and triple check yourself and gear prior to going. Lest you end up in the slammer in some foreign land. We aren't in Kansas anymore Toto.

And I get the impression that while Ms Griner (or is it Mrs Griner??) is a phenomenal women's basketball player, that she isn't exactly the brightest bulb out there. So not exactly sure that she fully grasped the consequences of her choice to bring the cannabis oil into Russia, even if a US physician did give her a legitimate prescription for its use for whatever ailments she was supposedly taking it for

 

[Edd]

Probably true. However, when you travel to foreign countries, you need to up your game and triple check yourself and gear prior to going. Lest you end up in the slammer in some foreign land. We aren't in Kansas anymore Toto.

Yeah, I’d be nervous in Russia for sure. I’m in Mexico now and no way would I have brought edibles here.

 

[thebigo]

Timely discussion. In austria right now with a colleague who uses edibles to sleep. He carried some on for the flight and checked a weeks worth in his luggage. I thought he was nuts but no issues so far.

 

[Kingslug20]

Wonder if Mr Biden would be trying to get one of us back if we did this...
I wasn't that good at throwing a ball...through a hoop.

 

[raisingarizona]

Probably true. However, when you travel to foreign countries, you need to up your game and triple check yourself and gear prior to going. Lest you end up in the slammer in some foreign land. We aren't in Kansas anymore Toto.

And it’s not like we’re talking about any old country, this is communist Russia ffs!

 

[machski]

And it’s not like we’re talking about any old country, this is communist Russia ffs!

Yeah, when I was flying the Gulfstream, Russia, Saudi (any Arab country actually), Israel were the big ones that raised your alert and required a triple check of bags. Hell Saudi would come onboard and lock our liquor cabinets on the jet as soon as we arrived, then scan laptops for pornographic material. Singapore too, they don't tolerate chewing gum over there. You leave the USA, you need to check your US freedom badge at the border.

 

[x10003q]

The Russians claim Griner had .7gram of canabis oil. If she had .6 gram she would have faced an administrative ticket. The idea that they charged her with smuggling a significant amount and it is just over the administrative ticket amount shows the charges are complete nonsense. The amount they charged her with has no value. It turns out many russians who are are charged with possession seem to have just over the .6gram amount. Nobody knows how much she was carrying but we can infer it was less than .7gram or the Russians would have charged her with the larger amount.

 

[cdskier]

I would not be one bit surprised if the charges were inflated/fake/planted/whatever. But that's also exactly why going to a country like Russia was stupid in the first place. Some random US civilian visiting would likely be safe if they followed the rules, but someone with a higher profile that has some perceived "value" as a political pawn needs to know to not even step foot in a country like that at the moment because they can easily be targeted by their government and have little recourse.

 

[urungus]

I would not be one bit surprised if the charges were inflated/fake/planted/whatever. But that's also exactly why going to a country like Russia was stupid in the first place. Some random US civilian visiting would likely be safe if they followed the rules, but someone with a higher profile that has some perceived "value" as a political pawn needs to know to not even step foot in a country like that at the moment because they can easily be targeted by their government and have little recourse.

Yeah not normally a conspiracy theorist, but given Russian involvement it is certainly a possibility that it was planted. They could have taken the cartridge from her trash, stolen it from her home, etc. Then when it turns up in her luggage she thinks she forgot about it because she was high.

 

[skiur]

Yeah not normally a conspiracy theorist, but given Russian involvement it is certainly a possibility that it was planted. They could have taken the cartridge from her trash, stolen it from her home, etc. Then when it turns up in her luggage she thinks she forgot about it because she was high.

I don't buy that, she knew it was there.

 

[drjeff]

I don't buy that, she knew it was there.

She has admittted that she knew she had it with her, and thought that because she had a valid prescription for it from her US based doctor, that she would be fine. So yes, she definitely knew it was there, and she may very well of had the amount listed as she was supposed to be in Russia foe the entire women's professional basketball season, which I believe is a couple of months long.

Now if one wants to go conspiracy theory on this, since as I understand it the majority of the Russian Women's professional basketball teams are owned by various Russian Oligarchs. Wondering if whichever Oligarch own's the team that she plays for did something to piss Putin off, and this is some kind of "2 birds with 1 stone" type of thing where Putin not only pisses the Oligarch off a bit (his team looses it's star player) as well as piss off the US a bit??

Boy do we need some cold air and some snow and snowmaking soon!

 

[raisingarizona]

Yeah, when I was flying the Gulfstream, Russia, Saudi (any Arab country actually), Israel were the big ones that raised your alert and required a triple check of bags. Hell Saudi would come onboard and lock our liquor cabinets on the jet as soon as we arrived, then scan laptops for pornographic material. Singapore too, they don't tolerate chewing gum over there. You leave the USA, you need to check your US freedom badge at the border.

I could get behind outlawing chewing gum, jus sayin.

Seriously though, who the F spits their gum out on to the sidewalk or pavement in say, a parking lot? That's such a dick move or are people that completely unaware of their impacts on others? Ok, rant over, carry on.

 

[BenedictGomez]

Yep. And I believe she legitimately forgot she had it. Not a great excuse, but she is not trafficking drugs.

Let's be honest, she was taken as a political pawn for leverage at a later date.

She's a juicy target as a triple-threat for a Democrat president, black, female, and gay - all key identity politics targets a Democrat has to be perceived by his/her base as caring about (e.g. not rotting in a Russian detention facility).

 

[BenedictGomez]

Wonder if Mr Biden would be trying to get one of us back if we did this...
I wasn't that good at throwing a ball...through a hoop.

The ball and the hoop have nothing to do with it.

If you were Randy Davis from a small farming town in Indiana who played NCAA ball at Wichita State, Mr Biden wouldn't give a ratz azz about your Russian detention for violating that nation's drug laws.

 

[BenedictGomez]

Seriously though, who the F spits their gum out on to the sidewalk or pavement in say, a parking lot? That's such a dick move or are people that completely unaware of their impacts on others? Ok, rant over, carry on.

Literally happened to me 2 weeks ago in Delaware. Took a bit of work getting it off the SUV carpet. Grrrr.....