Desert Fox
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"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
Healthcare thread closed?
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"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
Seriously, why is this forum titled "everything else" if the mods are just going to shut any thread down on a whim. Everyone was being polite and learning from each other. I know they don't like political threads, but it wasn't an overtly political thread, it was about healthcare more than anything. Unless you are making posts with just the purpose of saying vote for such and such a party or spamming political messages, then I say just let people talk about whatever they want. It's not like it was posted in the DJ forum. Jeez, this is the most heavily censored forum I've ever been a member of.
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Yeah they could've kept it open. Or maybe at least post a warning if it was getting too political, which it was not. Or maybe just kindly ask us to be more respectful, which we were.
But I guess that just makes too much sense. Mod fail!
But I guess that just makes too much sense. Mod fail!
**** the mod who closed healthcare...stop getting off on your small amount of power on this forum its retarded and pointless.
btw universal health care sucks
it takes all the incentive out of becomeing a health care professional and you will see the number of doctors slowly be reduced in quality and quantity
the rest of the world has only seen an enormous rise in health care abilities due to technology diffusion from the usa
btw universal health care sucks
it takes all the incentive out of becomeing a health care professional and you will see the number of doctors slowly be reduced in quality and quantity
the rest of the world has only seen an enormous rise in health care abilities due to technology diffusion from the usa
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
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Absolutely.piranha45 said:
Here is probably a good place to talk about the "Tragedy of the Commons."
This was an article published a few decades ago in Science magazine (a top research journal), and essentially explained the demise of a limited resource.
The story goes like this: there is a group of farmers. They own cows. Before, they all had a tiny plot of land to tend themselves and for their own cows. However, they soon decided to merge their grazing land into a "commons" that was tended by everyone, and grazed on by everyone.
It started off alright, but then people started realizing if they put more of their cows on, it would bring them in benefit while the group shared the consequences. Also, if they did not tend the commons, they could go farm and do other things while the other farmers picked up his slack.
One can see immediately the selfish farmer was simply doing what was in his best interest. As people, we always do what is in our best interest. If everyone simply acts in their best interests, as they always do, then the commons will wither, the cows will starve, and we have a tragedy on our hands.
Universal healthcare is like that commons. This simple story illustrates that free access and exorbitant demand on a finite resource will culminate in over-exploitation and tragedy. The end.
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free access and exorbitant demand on a finite resource will culminate in over-exploitation and tragedy.
That pretty much sums up the Anything Else section of sosuave.
That pretty much sums up the Anything Else section of sosuave.
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