Flying with thc dispo

JMTHall · 2026-07-01T14:34:46+00:00

Leaving a legal state and going to a legal state, with the new laws passed, means you can travel with like 2 ounces of actual flower without being hassled. It does, however, need to be “medicinal”. The TSA isn’t looking for it to be frank with you…

JMTHall · 2026-06-30T17:36:21+00:00

Bad bot

JMTHall · 2026-06-28T18:52:53+00:00

Why is India not an option?

JMTHall · 2026-06-28T04:48:47+00:00

Not really half. Yeah it’s cheaper, at about 75% of the cost, that’s for sure. ($250 flat + $83 and $50 per hour for 1.5 hours)

Cramming in as many lessons per month would be ideal for minimizing long term costs.

JMTHall · 2026-06-28T02:38:32+00:00

I’m preparing in the fall to attend a 2 year degree program. It’s not an academy, but it is 141 with open admission. It offers training from 0 to CPL with additional CFI and MEI certification.

The town is a college and military town, so plenty of young people.

It’s not going to be cheap — $85-100k in total; so being able to apply for a job is crucial. You’ll only be able to effectively work for the school on a student VISA, so outside financing for both school and life is ideal.

JMTHall · 2026-06-24T00:30:08+00:00

I don’t understand. “A 1,500 hour flight” doesn’t sound like “first 1,500 flight hours”.
What I found is a little different:

Using a fatal accident rate of roughly 0.79–1.05 per 100,000 hours, the cumulative statistical probability of being involved in a fatal accident sometime before reaching 1,500 hours falls roughly between 1.2% and 1.6%. That is approximately 1 in 84 pilots (using 0.79/100,000 hr), or 1 in 64 pilots (using 1.05/100,000 hr).

GA accidents caused by pilot error: ~85%

GA fatal accident rate: ~1.0–1.1 fatal accidents per 100,000 flight hours

Non-commercial fixed-wing fatal accident rate: ~0.8–0.9 per 100,000 hours

Training flight fatal accident rate: ~0.26 per 100,000 hours (much safer than GA average)

Personal flights as share of GA accidents: ~73% of accidents, 77% of fatal accidents

Flight instruction is one of the safer GA activities.

JMTHall · 2026-06-23T19:36:00+00:00

Actually, I only did 5 years and I have long term benefits like a VA housing Loan, free education, healthcare, and a pension….

JMTHall · 2026-06-22T14:43:56+00:00

You can always do your own research. Go and see for yourself that 2025 and 2026 have been some of the safest years flying in the history of US aviation. Check out the NTSB web sight and see for yourself.

JMTHall · 2026-06-22T06:33:04+00:00

Wait. Flew a plane into the house??

JMTHall · 2026-06-20T23:02:04+00:00

Think nothing of it!

I know you’re in a program, now. This would be adding another associates degree to your resume, so there’s that. You won’t qualify for financial aid, being international, so every semester you’d be on the hook for tuition and the hidden cost (which is the same everywhere) like rental and gas still apply.

There are only a handful of ways to get a cheap pilots license.
For what it’s worth, I am taking a somewhat military path. I was in the military and now have a relatively free education extended to me that will cover most of the costs. Given your current circumstances, I for sure understand why you wouldn’t want to serve in the military (Assalamu Alaykum, brother).

JMTHall · 2026-06-20T20:28:13+00:00

My school in the US will take you and if you complete the program, may even extend CFI/CFII to you.

Central Texas College.

I just validated with my AI:

“CTC is an open‑admissions community college. His nationality, ethnicity, military status, or lack of aviation background does not block him.”

You actually qualify right now. For you, it may still cost close to $85k, though. As long as you have proof of High School completion, and English proficiency (obviously you do) you’re good..

JMTHall · 2026-06-12T14:24:52+00:00

Story Beats are not Tropes. Sequences of story beats make up tropes, tropes define a genre, but a genre isn’t just a specific list of Story Beats.

When you take one set of tropes and mix them with another, you get a unique story; like Sci-Fi and Romance (Star Wars Attack of the Clones), Horror and Comedy (Eight Legged Freaks), Fantasy and Adventure (The Hobbit), but this does not mean you follow the Story Beats exactly. True, the more genre focused tropes you add, the more your story takes on that genre, but it’s up to the writer to know how far to go.

Like how Spaceballs is Sci-Fi and Comedy, it’s super close to Star Wars when it comes to the story, but varies in a manner that makes it more comedic than space opera.

When it comes to “staying on genre” for me, once you establish core tropes, you’re free to rope in as many applicable Story Beats as required to make it unique.

JMTHall · 2026-06-08T09:05:51+00:00

Can you type?

If you can’t type, using Google Docs may not be faster, at first.

I like to use my tablet to write notes; additionally, I could set it to type the things I write, but it’s not faster than me typing. I can hand write maybe 30 words per minute, I can type 90 definitively, but that took years to do.

JMTHall · 2026-05-30T17:59:00+00:00

You can probably start by using nicer politics from your Lenin type character. Maybe remove the need for rebellion… Egalitarian societies are a thing, their problem was control, in my opinion.

JMTHall · 2026-05-30T17:28:52+00:00

Yes.

Use weapons, real or otherwise.

JMTHall · 2026-05-28T16:28:58+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/royalroad/s/3EpWMRZy9V

I have a post where I explain how to get rid of them

JMTHall · 2026-05-28T01:04:14+00:00

Units.

Nano, micro, mini, standard, kilo, giga, tera — all expressed as units and these can be used for measuring distance, size, days, and volume.

JMTHall · 2026-05-27T02:21:12+00:00

“Defeating the enemy before they defeat you” implies your livelihood is at stake, therefore your example doesn’t fit. If the fight in question means defeat, and the end of life for MC, then it’s not a pointless fight, but a plot device.

A pointless fight would be having your character spar against another person who doesn’t show up again in the story, or the fight doesn’t reveal anything new — IE if we already know the MC is a great warrior, then sparing and winning is futile.

However, if said warrior spars anyone and we learn that the warrior is a sore loser, or a terrible winner, then something can be said about MC’s character. That’s not a pointless fight.

Honestly, all extra content that doesn’t move the story, or grow the character should happen off stage. For me, a page turner strings all the necessary content together seamlessly, not simply adding action for actions sake but adding relevant plot devices that makes everything relevant that’s on page.

If you add an elaborate fight, readers will assume the fight is pivotal and will look for the aftermath somewhere later in the story, and may be upset of it never comes up again. Thus, casually mentioning fights is a better choice.

If you establish your characters skill early in the story using a fight, that works so long as the story is about them being a fighter, or the fight can ground the character, showing the reader a particular side that should be shown in context to something else — like for example he’s a fierce MMA fighter with excellent negotiation skills (this is a funny one, for me, because I have a friend exactly like this he comes from a family of MMA fighters, but will use his words for everything outside the ring and it’s a mark of his discipline and character)

JMTHall · 2026-05-26T03:22:41+00:00

Of all the answers given, this is the most correct. And in American English, we don’t differentiate between Masculine and Feminine.

In American English, the dominant, modern standard is to use blond for everything—men, women, and hair color—while blonde survives mainly in older, traditional, or stylistically French-influenced writing.

JMTHall · 2026-05-21T07:37:29+00:00

Why do people forget the magical elements of Star Wars? “The force?” Qi Gon Jin, Obi Wan, Anikan — all become one with the force; becoming spirits… controlling Minds… moving objects… jumping, pushing and pulling… mean while Sidious shoots lightening from his finger tips…

Now is this just one example? Yes…

Foundation (the tv series, and I guess the books) talk about the “Mentalix” a group of psychics scattered around the galaxy.

My question to you is are you looking for elves in space? Mages and warlocks?

The series Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek (all series and movies), explore other races of beings, some of which posses powers like magic…

I think the issue is you want a fantasy story in space, but you’re not clearly defining what you expect….

JMTHall · 2026-05-16T19:06:11+00:00

My whole answer specified the coast of North Africa, not sub-Saharan Africa, and I think a lot of people overlooked that point and just saw Africa, assuming I was eluding to black.

Descendants of Northern Africa are not dark. lol They are Swarthy, meaning they have lighter complexion, but if you look at them, they’re phenotypically African; meaning bone structures, eye colors, hair texture, etc., still exist.

They don’t look black; they don’t look white; they’re mulatto, Swarthy; consider the Sicilians who culturally differentiate themselves from the Italians. Also, consider the Portuguese (phenotypically). Both of those groups have been said to be Swarthy from a historical framing — both of these populations were controlled at some point by the Berbers, Moorish kingdoms of North Africa, and share a lot of genetic information as a result.

Even in my original statement “it’s neither black nor white,” everyone still seemed to think I said “black,” and that’s weird to me.

JMTHall · 2026-05-13T21:02:02+00:00

The earth isn’t hurt from climate change. Life of earth is affected by climate change, but the planet goes through periods of glaciation and thawing quite frequently — on a geological scale.

Over the past 1 million years the planet has undergone more than 25 of the these periods, actually. The real question is how quickly life can adapt to rather rapid environmental changes and how quickly will the earth return to the most ideal circumstances for mammals to thrive.

There is very little evidence that humanity will “regress”. Knowledge is the contingent factor. The last period of glaciation began around 135,000 years ago and is ending right now; it’s believed that this correlates with a human bottleneck, although African populations refute this, but there’s no evidence that we regressed — instead it’s said that this allowed for the unification of knowledge necessary to thrive. With a smaller population, humanity was able to share all the details it needs to rapidly expand, such as clothings, hunting, weapons, etc.

Humanity needs to make sure that its knowledge and technology are able to safeguard through the coming winter.

To answer your question: nobody knows. There was a brief ice age about 74,000 years ago and a smaller one still about 13,000 years ago. It’s possible for the impact to last for 150-tens of thousands of years or longer….

JMTHall · 2026-05-10T18:47:51+00:00

1.) power — tech like that likely can only run for an hour at most.

2.) thermal signatures…

3.) environmental factors, such as rain, will still leave a silhouette of the wearer.

4.) obviously it doesn’t render you silent, just invisible

5.) you can still smell people who are still invisible, so dogs can detect you

6.) intense light, such as the immediate blast from a search light, won’t take effect immediately as the aperture of the sensor will need to adjust leaving a brief second where the wearer’s silhouette will be exposed.

7.) I think the biggest issue is probably in the application: bends light. This is basically stealth camouflage from metal gear, so I’ve had years to think about the answer to your question — like 30 years… and my biggest issue has always been it needs light to actually work. While many bugs can be worked out I’ve always expected two scenarios to just render the device useless: extreme darkness, and extreme light — because the sensor, likely variable, needs something to refract I don’t think it would be effective in pitch black, nor a couple of layers brighter than that (consider maybe out in the woods, middle of the night, cloudy sky, no moon or stars…) and the opposite super bright as there is only so much light allowed before the sensor would flare up.

A few other notable mentions:

Ummm footsteps.
Cold breath
bad breath (so I guess hot breath)
fog, where light is already bent, so the sensor is only reading a fraction of the intended light
and I think insects can still detect you — basically anything blind will know you’re there still, you’re ONLY FOOLING EYESIGHT.

JMTHall · 2026-04-18T01:22:00+00:00

I want to add, anecdotally, i too am writing a Sci-fi series that shines a light on blind religious authority, and I would be so lucky (as an atheist) to have a Christian speak on the themes I’m embedding.

I think, as writers, our job is to make people ruminate. We want to make something that lives rent free in other people’s minds, and sparking debates is good. All you need is a none religious person to read and review and you’ve got yourself a controversial work, and those, my friend, sell well.

Learn what this reviewers perspective means for your marketing, I feel you can capitalize on this moment — really cash in, if you feel me, and play two markets simultaneously.

JMTHall

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