Thanks for the chuckle...

For most people, yes. A lucky few are born with the gift of positivity. The rest of us have to cultivate it with avery fiber of our being.

There ate plenty of people going uphill. Would it be more productive to concentrate on how to become one of those people instead of waiting for something to happen too you?

If you are prepared to pull the trigger, you had better be prepared to take their life. Real life is not like the movies. If you put a round through a kneecap, it's highly probable that you damage their popliteal artery which could bleed then out in minutes.
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Even highly trained professionals get excited when they are about go shoot a human. The chances of a home defender keeping their composure enough to pull off a well placed knee shot in a surprise scenario like that is almost zero.

Or Mrs Maisel made the whole thing up so that people would send her tiny little digital approval messages that increase her dopamine flow.

Lol. Oops

Dido

328M people who live an average of 78.5 years would mean that 4.18M of them would die each year if the population remained constant.
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660M ÷ 75 years r 8.8M (which is where i got my 9M figure from.
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4.18M vs 2.8M seems like too much of a discrepancy to be explained by an ever growing population but I haven't given much thought to why.

My mistake. For some reason I had it in my head that the US population was 660M and the average life span was 75 years.

....save even one life is absurd.