Well you don't want them to know where you live! Hard to get rid of those psycho stalkers!

The economy is much more complex then anything stated above, even professionals can not figure it out. Even when the government gives away money to freeloaders it still works it's way around before being collected by the rich, and every time it switches hands the government has its dirty hands out to collect some of it. When the US sends billions of dollars worth of military equipment some where much of that equipment was built in the US so that only the raw materials are leaving the country. The US exports a lot of food around the world, even thou that food is often reimbursed by the US government that money still stays in the US. Unfortunately the top soil used to make it does not, top soil is one of the worlds most valuable resources, unfortunately it is not being respected and many chemicals are being used to make up for it.
The Democrats whom think the "Robinhood" policy of taking from the rich and handing it to the poor is the way to gain control just leads to a socialist and/or communist country which everybody knows just leads to lazy and unhappy, unproductive people as we have seen time and again. So long story short, yes the US is screwed in the long run, unsure when or how, but the US has a good run since WWii, but all good things must come to an end.
The Crypto currency or Bitcoin communities have dreams of becoming the universal currency of the world, it could be very valuable for smaller countries where their currencies take drastic changes, it can go from country to country without exchange fees, and it's digital footprint is more secure. However currently the crypto market is very volatile, day trading is pulling a lot of money out of its market, and it's being used for illegal things as well as funding wars do to people with vast wealth being able to control its market. Therefore it has not gained the traction it needs to become a mainstream stable yet. And it's more like a pyramid scheme then an actual market, a long with throwing those NFT's (or what I call Pokemon cards) into the mix along with some other questionable tokens has really discredited the true value of crypto.

Chicken, Russian roulette, and bumper hitching were fun too!🤪

Choke the chicken to fertilize the egg?

Legally you need to get the divorce before you marry again.

First off you should learn how to produce an actually link, then you should look at the source it comes from. My boat will continue to sail around for a long time. Denial isn't just a river in Egypt. Humans are selfish creatures and change is always happening no matter what you do. Best bet is just to bury your head in the sand and continue to enjoy your life however you please.

Was watching a movie the other day and Morgan Freeman said "God is just an imaginary friend for adults". I laugh at how deeply people get into religion, does Santa Clause still slide down your chimney once a year? Does the Easter Bunny leave you a basket? Not that religion has not done some good things for society, but at some point people need to look at the writing on the wall. Religion is just a grab at power made up by people over time. If you want to have an imaginary friend so be it, if it makes you feel good to talk to yourself then go ahead. But if you are going to start believing some book that has been written over the last 2000 years, and try to interpret that book to your advantage, then you are burning a lot of time and energy that you could be using to do more productive things.

Biden is too old to care about money unless he is trying to build his estate for his children. Biden thinks he can build a socialist legacy like FDR, wants something to be remembered for. Times were much different when Roosevelt was trying to pull the country out of the great depression. Biden's Robinhood approach of taking money from the "rich" (aka middle-class) to hand out to the poor is just driving the United States to a weaker, lazier country.
If Biden wanted to get into a war he would have been more involved in Ukraine or be getting into the Middle East. Nobody is looking to start WWIII, besides Putin whom is also trying to leave a legacy to be remembered by. That is the problem of giving power to people who will be dead soon, they don't really care because they won't deal with the fallout, they just want to make a name for themselves to be remembered for a long time
The people crossing the boarders are also poor, so if he can feed them his Socialist approach that will gain his following.

God, the bible, religion is all made up by man.

Laws are also made up by man.

So for the most part Morality and legality are the same besides the punishments that may be handed down. That being said is we are "man" so we can change these rules at anytime. There are many changes that have taken time thru history such as treatment of women, and some of the things of the past are always, and will always continue to be challenged. To kill somebody is considered to be Morally and legally wrong, yet we go to war and people become "heros" for killing people. Basically we should have both in order to run a civil society, but the people of that society are the ones whom should be making those rules up, not some guys from 2000 years ago who were just in it to gain control and lived in a much different time.

People don't ask to be born, it's a fight from the start to get feed and a diaper change, then they force us to go to school so that we can work for the next 50-60 years til we are crippled and confused, then we die. Do people realize how much better off Earth would be if humans did not exist? Humans are very selfish and destructive, but who cares? We will only be here for a spec of time in the big picture so why not ruin whatever we can in that short period of time? Someday maybe people will learn to show a little more respect, or will be wiped clean off the face of the earth, but til that time we will continue to do what we want, when we want, and how we want.

I agree with all of this, however the military has become more about technology, war used to be hand to hand combat, then guns, mines, bombs, airplanes, and tanks became the tools. Now we rely on drones which we could have these kids run and they wouldn't have a clue, they would just think they are playing another video game. It is scary that China hacks all our phones and knows more about people then what they know about themselves. The hacking of computers, shutting down power sources, refineries, the ability to get information, etc is a scary thought, and wars in the future will not look like any wars of the past. Just a part of advancement.

Also although the US doesn't necessarily control many countries on paper, they do enough with protecting them, sending them resources, and having enough control to keep them on our side.

The US also controls a large amount of the worlds food supply, remember the US population of 350 million (maybe a lot more with illegals) is very small compared to many nations. The US may not be "The Superpower", but it will always play a big part in the game. The US has had a good 250 year run and all things will come to an end at some point in time. We should probably think about getting our own house in order before telling everybody else how to run their lives. But look at the direction the world is heading, most countries continue to become more "Westernized", not because we force them to do so, but more because they want to be "Westernized".

100yrs ago there were 2 billion people in the world, now there are 8 billion people. When it's cold those people heat their houses, hmm maybe that's why it it ends up warmer? When it's hot people run their Air Conditioning, Air conditioners are just heat pumps that push the hot air outside, hmm that would make things warmer outside.

Much of the "Green Energy movement" is just people whom think they are doing good things for the environment. Think of it like the "Recycling movement", you know where most of that plastic goes that you grow in the recycle bin? Sure you feel like you are doing your part but most of it ends up in landfills, the ocean, or burnt filling the environment with plastic, and that doesn't even take into consideration what it took to make the plastic in the first place, or the chemicals that leach off from it often ending up in you body. Things like Ethanol used as fuel take's up crop land, burns up the valuable top soil, and still add pollutants to the air. Hydro power has been used as centuries but now the tree huggers are worried because a few fish can't reproduce, but we've had "renewable energy" for centuries so it's not all bad.

Worried about methane? Well it's more then just farm animals releasing that methane, the 8 billion people are also releasing methane. But the biggest danger is the melting of the permafrost that's releasing way more methane then the animals. Nature has gone thru many changes in the billions of years planet Earth has been around, somethings it can fix quickly, other things take hundreds, or even thousands of years to adjust to. One way nature may try to correct it's self is by balancing the population, however humans have found ways to avoid most of these solutions, but someday nature will come up with something humans can not control.

Should just read "Do you think this country is on the right path?" Biden, Trump, and Clinton should have never been on the ballot for president or any other office for that matter. WTF are people thinking to allow this to happen in the first place? Are the people of the United States that easily brainwashed? Or just that stupid? I can fix a lot of things but everybody knows " you can't fix stupid" so until someone can figure out a way to intelligentize the population, and I'm not talking about free college! I guess all we can do is say it was a good run while it lasted. We can't keep printing trillions of dollars and handing it out without consequences, socialism just makes for lazy people, that is why we have to check out and bag our own groceries at the store. We need to bring back natural selection so if you are too dumb and/or lazy to work then you starve. We are breeding an ever weaker mankind and if a natural disaster doesn't wipe everybody out first eventually humans will become so useless that they will just die off. The only thing keeping the US going besides printing money are the babyboomers whom saved and invested money during a time when they were fortunate enough to do so. When that money has runs out it's going to become a very rough world to live in that most spoiled brats will never understand til it happens. Who's running in 2024? Like it even matters? You don't actually get to choose who is on the ballot much less who wins. It's all rigged, your best bet is to bury you head in the sand and just go out and enjoy your life while you still can.

With one eye open at all times. You never know when a zombie or vampire might attack.

Only time I served on jury duty they called me in for a trial but they reached a plea bargain before trial so i did get like $35 for time and travel from the court, most of the time a plea is come to before going to trial as it gets very expensive to fight for both sides. Many people do come up with excuses not to serve, sometimes they will even keep jurors from going home during big trials because they don't want them getting outside information or talking to outsiders about what is going on.

The last few years I only wear Nike adapt or Nike E.A.R.L. because in this day and age who wants to bend over and tie your shoes like they did back in the stone age? When they have shoes that automatically lace themselves! But I would never go online to promote the shoes, to brag on how much they cost, or to compare myself to a professional athlete.

I was thinking along these lines, lets cut to the case and find out what this job is the "requires high heels?" He/she commented on being called "freakish" but did not comment on the "dude" comment. For somebody to ask a question like this, especially the way things were stated it seems they are seeking attention, or trying to say they are better then others. Then to start comparing themselves to super models? Really? Sounds like maybe they should see a therapist about what shoes to wear instead of asking strangers online?

This topic started out more about street crime as the Democrats have turned a blind eye to arresting and prosecuting people, it's there way of trying to make it look like the crime rate has gone down but instead there are more guns and thugs out on the streets because people are afraid of getting blamed for "profiling", or worse yet have their lives destroyed by one of these punks killing them, or sending them to prison for the rest of their lives for killing the thug in self defense. Suddenly everyone is focused on this "white collar crime". Most of this is just a witch hunt set to destroy the competition. The corporate world (and politics) have a lot of gray areas. Is something misleading corruption? There is a fine line and depends on how far you want to take it. It's like if we started giving everyone going 58mph in a 55mph zone a ticket. Also who knows what in white collar crime is hard to prove and usually it's some poor low level people who end up as scape goats, it's always easier to blame somebody else then to stand up and take the punishment.

Anxiety, depression, addiction can all be passed thru genes or can occur from tragic events or learned behavior. I do not agree with Tom making this out like because the things he has done in life makes him 'normal' and others 'not normal'. That seems 'selfish' to me which is also passed thru genes as well as learned. At this point it doesn't really matter how much of it was inherited, and how much was picked up over time. It has much more to do with learning to adapt to the conditions that exist and alter the brain to recondition itself.

The anxiety can cause a manic state where there are highs and then crashes into a depressive state. I can also trigger a fight or flight response. If the anxiety is not controlled it can lead to rage. This seems like this fetish of being spanked would be counter intuitive like maybe the anxiety and ADHD is just an excuse for justifying the fetish? Or it could be based on something that happened in the past?

First thing to always look at is diet, exercise, lifestyle. If the high blood pressure a result of anxiety and ADHD? Is it diet based? Is it inherited? Often time stimulating the brain without over doing it can relive much of the problem, it's all got to do with dopamine and endorphins and how the brain processes everything. The drugs listed are aimed more at depression so I wonder if the doctor really knows what they are doing or just chasing an easy buck? I would consider look into other doctors.

As far as councilors go what they do is council, not treat. And it is much like a drug addiction where you have to want change, and hopefully can change brain activities to become a little more normal. Drug treatment often fails several times before it takes, that's why they also call it drug counseling instead of drug treatment, and the brain has rewired itself to adapt over time so it can take awhile to get to normalcy. Often learning better ways to deal with the problem and avoid certain situations is the best bet.

Not sure we should say this thread is over just because the sub imploded and the people died. I think there are still things to learn and think about, things like this will always happen but maybe we can minimize it.
As was brought up earlier would you rather live a possibly shorter exciting life? Or a possibly longer boring life? Remember a split second can alter or end anybody's life at anytime.
What gets me is when people do something stupid that endangers others. We shouldn't have to put other lives at risk to save your life. What have we accomplished by putting people into space? It's very costly and dangerous and I don't see any benefits in the near future. Scuba diving you are relying on mechanical functions, something goes wrong and the only hope you have is a back up. Rock climbing, I ain't going to come peel you off the side of the mountain. Skiing or snowmobiling in an avalanche area, who's going to dig you out while risking another avalanche? I'm not saying don't go out and do these things, just don't look for help or sympathy when something goes wrong.
I know a guy who has spent the last 2 years building an airplane out of wood and fabric, people have been doing it for 100 years. I said I have some carbon fiber, there are better ways of doing it now from what we have learned. He asked for my help building it but I don't need that on my conscious, he has offered to take me up in it but I guess I don't have that much of a death wish.
Go out and have fun, just think about what you are doing and what could happen.

Generally migrants flee because they think they will die if they stay where they are at, or their life is so bad that they are willing to risk it to try something new. If we go and save those people that just encourages other people to try and escape, which could cause more harm in the long run. If we are willing to pick them up out at sea, then why don't we pick them up before they get on the boat? Why don't we go to every country and pick up anybody who wants to go? It's where do we draw the line? Sometimes it's because of the government or gangs that run the country. Other wise it can be good shortage or economic reasons. There is only so much that people can do to help these people without having millons of others expecting the same.