Looks like another year without Christmas again as all the deer seem to be getting covid. So now they want to vaccinate deer being how successful and easy it has been to get all the humans vaccinated. Even the zoo's are going to start vaccinating some of their animals. In Denmark they are killing 15,000 minks that have gotten covid and then humans are catching a mutated version of covid from those minks, it's unclear how many types of animals will contract covid or be able to spread it back to humans. What I don't understand is why so many people have been in close enough contact with deer to get them sick? The minks are more understandable, and cats are much more likely to get it than dogs. Seems like there are many people who will make an awful lot of money off these billions of vaccines we will need thru out the world.

This series reminds me a little of the documentary "How Booze built America". At every point in American history Alcohol has been involved although some of it was really a stretch.

There are many countries with great engineering abilities like Germany and Japan and even the Soviet Union and Italy. But there has been so much of little parts of this, and little parts of that, that have evolved into what we know today. Much like the food we eat has history in many places but has evolved differently for different regions. Europe has the biggest effect on the United States becoming what it is, but with out Africa things would have evolved much differently. Now China has also became a big part of what goes on in the US similar to Japan effect in the 1980's only more dramatic mostly due to technology. The world has become a much smaller place with effects coming and going from all places. The world used to be huge and much was found out while looking to track down routes to get spices, some worth more than their weight in gold. Nothing is constant and it will continue to change, Africa may soon become the new manufacturing frontier, or maybe South America? Who knows life could change over night for better or worse.

Jaguar was with Ford for awhile and now they are with Range Rover and I do believe India has a part in all that, car companies tend to become a part of something for awhile and then it changes again. I believe one of the biggest reasons the US car is what it is today is mostly due to Japan. In the 1980's Chrysler was about to go bankrupt and the US government loaned them money to save them. Chrysler brought over Mitsubishi cars and parts and started selling them with their brand on them, they also created the minivan and built some cheap cars that pulled them back up. Fuel economy is far from where it should be by now but that has much to do with strict emissions standards and the weight of safety measures and putting more standard equipment on cars such as AC, power windows, and electronics. The transition to electric cars comes with some major issues too but thing will continue to evolve for better or worse.

Think you may be over thinking things, yes most things have been created from different places and the ideas are brought into something new. Sure we could go back to the inventor of the wheel, iron, horse n buggy. But the true credit for the car starts with Benz, Diamler, and Maybach and developed from there. Formula 1 is almost as bad as Soccer as a sport, these are grown men driving gocarts, US manufacturers are getting away from making "cars" and pushing us into SUV's and trucks. Ferrari and Lamborghini are still hand building their cars, you ever hear of Henry Ford and the assembly line? De Tomaso is another Italian car manufacturer and he used Ford V8's in some of his most popular cars. Japan and Germany have done much more for cars than Italy ever will. Italy does design and build many machines used to automate manufacturing so I can give them that along with pasta and pizza, however even much of that has been tweaked to fit what we want. I'm more likely to give the Swiss credit for clocks and watches in changing the way we live, but in the long run the United States has invented, or come up with more life changing inventions than all the other countries combined, including farming and agriculture, milling, mining, and manufacturing.

She could look thru my phone, that's why I have a burner phone too! 🤣🤣🤣

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Thanks Cat! I would consider moving in with you. The thing is I have become accustom to my life style and that largely has to do with my job, so without finding another source of income or changing my habits there is a good chance that won't happen. The point is we have become accustom to paying a certain amount for something and are disappointed when it cost more or we get less, but many of us have been spoiled for so long with relatively cheap goods, food, and shelter. Most things go up in price over time, however other things go down. If you bought a TV in the 1960's it could have been $300. Now you can get a big flat screen for that. Calls on a cell phone used to be $1.00 a minute, now you can call long distances for the same as local. In the 1990's I paid $2k for a slow computer and now my phone can do more than that can. Back in the day if you wanted a pair of shoes you had to go to the local cobbler and have them made, farming was all done by hand and animals, now they can yield10x as much and use giant machines to process it. Much of the cost is involved with the volume and running on a global ecconomy, we do rely on others more than back in the day when your neighbors affected what you get. If we can afford a roof over our heads, put food on the table (even if it isn't the greatest) and still afford some extras then we are better off than many in the world. The thing is their will always be those who come out ahead, while others take the hit.

And yet apparently there is still nobody that wants to work? The ships are backing up at the Port because nobody there to unload them. It's said we are about 22,000 truck drivers short of where we should be. The stores and restaurants are cutting hours and services because they can't find help, mean time our government is handing out money left n right, but to all the wrong places. Biden wants to spend $3trillion on some stupid projects and they have already dumped $5 trillion into the ecconomy in the last couple years. What do you think is going to happen? The rich will get richer n the poor will get poorer, and the hard working middle-class will get drug down by both sides. "Let's go Brandon" and all his other buddies and their socialist agenda.

What's wrong with that? A couple to cook for you, couple to clean, one to drive you around. Back in the old days it was common, they refered to them as "servants". They got to earn their keep somehow.

I was socially distant b4 social distancing was a thing. Who was that who said all work n no play makes me a dull guy?

If the imperfection is small and I get a big enough discount on it I will always go with the bargain! As far as people imperfections make us who we are.

Maybe you should get a job and/or life? If you find the need to message somebody you can use Fakebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, or one of the many other apps out there. Paid members can write longer messages without it stopping and the need to start a new message. But like Delight says there is always a limit, but I have never come across that limit because I have better thing to do.

When I go get my hair cut the gal always asks for my phone number, but she never calls me? Then I found out that slut asks everybody for their number!

The 3 day rule was definitely invented before the '90s, and when you mention "swingers" I am definitely not thinking about dating, that is generally an orgy or couple swapping. Pretty sure the 3 day rule was mentioned in "About Last Night" in the '80s, they covered it pretty well, and I knew about it from other places too, so it has been around for a long time. But remember that was when you had to go home or find a pay phone and hope they had an answering machine or picked up. It was nothing like today with cell phones and texting. It was designed so they guys did not come off as too desperate, and generally woman would not make the first, or second move. Maybe we do need to slow down and think about something's sometimes, everything is so rushed nowadays.

I would like to know if it was the date, or the sex that turned her off. If it was the date then that is not an issue because after that we would just be hanging out. If it was the sex, well sometimes it is a little awkward the first time so think it would only be fair to give it a few more tries before she gives up on me.

"Absurd misinformation" like if you are vaccinated you can not get or spread covid? Or if everyone was vaccinated covid would not exist? Or we won't need vaccine passports?🤣 I think there is BS thrown out by both sides. There is no way to track all the people who have gotten covid, or will get covid, and where they contracted it at. The only "hard facts" are the number of people who die and have an autopsy done, and even that if there is a trace of covid in their system it is listed as the cause, but no doubt the amount of deaths are way higher then in the past. It was said early on it doesn't matter what you do people will second guess it, and there is no way to know how things would turn out on one path once another path has been taken. And shouldn't we be more concerned about Murder Hornets than covid? After all when all the bee's disappear we won't have anything to eat!

Pretty sure the micro chips are too small for a magnet to stick to🤣 The guy probably just has sweaty arms. There really is no iron or metal so pretty sure that is just a myth. Mostly they are glycol like antifreeze is made out of. They claim there is no lead or Mercury which was found in many of the vaccines from our childhood, and it would appear they only temporarily change our cells as they lose effectiveness over time. At this point and time it is hard to really believe anything, remember back when they told us how bad butter was and we should all eat margarine until they figured out natural is better than artificial. Or they used to encourage people to take aspirins, but that's a no no now. And now people have used so many antibiotics that they are becoming ineffective and they just are not trying to make new ones. Some countries do have a vaccine made with the virus and if we are all going to get covid anyway it would seem to me that would be a much better tried and tested route to go.

We are way more formed before we are even born than most people believe, instinct just like other animals are born with. Our brains are wired in a certain way to create much of how we turn out. Some people have much more ability to learn than others, some are programed and more likely to become addicted to something, others are born with depression or mental disabilities, not all men are created equal, there are many factors involved with the most prevalent being the genes you are born with. Siblings sometimes turn out to be complete opposites even when raised in the same surroundings due to how they were programed prior to birth. Your ping pong balls may appear to be round when you first glance at them, but if you look closer the are not as round or smooth as the appear. They are more like snow flakes and no two are a like. Humming birds are born knowing not to poop in their own nest, humans are born knowing they can get things by crying, they know where the food is and how to drink and swallow. There are many more instincts, attitudes, quirks that we are born with but never think about.

Affirmative Action. Remember when Joe Biden passed legislation that put millions of black men in prison for low level crimes leaving black youth without father's around? Apparently people do not want to feel responsible for making that mistake again, instead they would rather see 4 officers go to prison because some black guy overdosed, so they let thousands of people riot, loot, and burn cities with out any recourse.

The US was worried about the cold war with Russia for decades, what happened with that? The US was in Vietnam fighting against communism and lost without a huge impact. In the late '80's into the 90's people thought Japan would own the US with all the money we were spending buying their crap, then their ecconomy took a hit. Many people said that Trump would be the end of America and possibly the world, didn't happen. So, yes there could be some changes that happen, but the end of the world as we know it? I'll believe it when I see it and by then it will be too late, however we can't get worked up at every little bump or curve in the road.

How many people here get a flu shot every year? They claim about 50% of the US gets a shot each year, which means about 50% do not. You can still get the flu, you can still spread the flu, if everybody got the flu vaccination there would still be the flu. The covid vaccine is similar, it lessens the symptoms of covid, but if people don't know they have covid they are more likely to spread it. The vaccines may make people safer, or a new mutation could form and things could get a lot worse in a hurry. The vaccine is generally given in 2 doses and they have taken their time to give it to children. Is this is because a single dose would be too dangerous? Or that the body needs to adapt? And after 8 months the effectiveness begans to fall and now they are talking about doing booster shots. Will everybody need 2 shots a year for the rest of time? This isn't the first Corona outbreak, the SARS outbreak in China is basically the same thing. China was very slow to respond and publicise that outbreak similar to the rest of the world to the covid outbreak. However the big difference was they were able to eliminate SARS by having testing stations and quarantines. Thus far we can plan on having covid around much like we have influenza around unless they come up with something much better then these current vaccines and this joke of wearing a mask. You understand if you touch your mask then the contaminates are now sitting right in front of where you breath and it incubates inside the mask? We have been able to for the most part do away with such things as small pox, polio, and other infections. But other things such as influenza and HIV we have only found better ways to live with them. So before people start praising the vaccine just maybe we should let things play out for awhile before we judge the importance of it?