...starting my shift feeling very smart today. gauntlet thrown to the users of this forum who can provide some witty sarcastic comments to help defuse me back down to dumb!

starting my shift feeling very smart today.

Stopped reading right there. You fly a helicopter for a living. Nothing more, nothing less. Doesn't take a lot of intelligence to do that. 

helicopter pilots do have a yen for challenge and tolerance for risk.  In the last 5 decades I've seen many fixed wing pilots dabble in helicopters and return to the runway environment declaring they had 'better' things to do -  I took that to mean money, stability, less threatening environment (aka less challenging and risky).  A testament to either the vibrancy of helicopter pilots or hiwever you wish to denigrate the job, as is normal for those threatened by its existence.

Tree Fiddy!!?????

Chef's Dad is!

Don't have a hard landing

 1 mvt turned into pink mist

Feel smug that you are saving the world.

https://issuesinsights.com/2022/01/20/green-utopia-not/

change is a constant throughout history.  If one looks at emerging countries you'll discover the citizens of the US have been very responsible in reducing carbon emissions.  Not so a lot of other countries.  

Why does the US has to be the "leader" (as our fake political leaders say) in all things global change?  

4% of the world's population?  Wrong.

Pass on to electrification of everything  through technology that consumes more energy to accomplish it than staying in our lane, overload the fairly delicate electric grid, drive an EV in a traffic jam and watch the charge meter inch towards zero, and in cold weather watch it arrive there, imagine the tow trucks responding to thousands of stuck automobiles, the shelters opening to house everyone with heat from their pot-belly stoves - ugh.  

Politicians and big business rely on connivance of the truth.  Their track record is loaded with it.  

Back in the early 80s it was the world will run out of oil, completely, by 2015.  Really?  Of course the answer to that is the emergence of technology previously unknown to man, aka fracking, and all the other bits reflecting the adaptation of known tech such as gas reinjection.  

To me it is pretty much beurocracy breeding more beurocracy, aka fraud.  Rich get richer, government gets more government, middle class continues its demise fleeced by the ruling 1%, and of course, the poor get desperate and grab for the stupidity of violence. 

Don't have a hard landing