"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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Goodbye Free Speech, Hello Corruption

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Ruling Limits Free Speech at Work
Whistle-blowers in public jobs no longer safe from retaliation
by David G. Savage


The Supreme Court restricted the free-speech rights of the nation's 21 million public employees Tuesday, ruling that the First Amendment does not protect them from being punished for complaining to their managers about possible wrongdoing.

Although government employees have the same rights as other citizens to speak out on controversies of the day, they do not have the right to speak freely inside their offices on matters related to "their official duties," the Supreme Court said in a 5-4 decision.

"When a citizen enters government service, the citizen by necessity must accept certain limitations on his or her freedom," said Justice Anthony Kennedy, rejecting a lawsuit brought by a Los Angeles County prosecutor.

Lawyers for government whistle-blowers denounced the ruling as a major setback. They said it could threaten public health and safety. Hospital workers who know of dangers may be discouraged from revealing them, while police and public employees may be dissuaded from exposing corruption, they said.
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"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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It has aways been like this. In school do you think they let kids cuss or speak their mind?
 
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Anomalous said:
It has aways been like this. In school do you think they let kids cuss or speak their mind?
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I think it's funny that you coupled cursing and speaking their mind as free speech for kids.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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I dont care, as long as I'm getting a check, I'll be fine
 
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Dimebag_Darrell said:
I dont care, as long as I'm getting a check, I'll be fine
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You mean as long as they dont try to silence your rights. Typical american apathy here... "its not my problem" until you wake up and realize that they have stripped your constitutional rights and you are no longer a free citizen. Welcome to 1984, DD. You are Big Brother's best friend
 
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Don Ronny said:
You mean as long as they dont try to silence your rights. Typical american apathy here... "its not my problem" until you wake up and realize that they have stripped your constitutional rights and you are no longer a free citizen. Welcome to 1984, DD. You are Big Brother's best friend
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As I noticed the thread on Real Dolls has twice as many replies I was thinking the exact same thing :nervous:
 
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