Exactly. YOLO (at least on this earth).
"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.
Meanwhile in Florida...
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"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
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Jumping off a cliff…
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Jumping off a cliff...
Hang gliding's fun. Get out and live.
Hang gliding's fun. Get out and live.
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Paragliding under heavy clouds at the updraft side of a supercell thunderstorm is better. You can be carried up 30,000 feet if you catch it.Jumping off a cliff...
Hang gliding's fun. Get out and live.
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Sounds fun to me.
"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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30k feet could be problematic for a few reasons.
Have to take your own O2 wouldn’t you…
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Definitely. Not being able to breath is #1. The severe cold is #2.
Yep, thick longjohns won’t cut it…
I don’t like temperatures with a big minus in front.
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The health care system is really hurting,’ but Florida isn’t under a COVID-19 state of emergency
Gov. Ron DeSantis declined to reinstate Florida’s emergency declaration, even as the number of people needing to be hospitalized for the virus exceeded previous peaks, and he’s also curtailed the ability of local leaders to craft their own responses.
Gov. Ron DeSantis declined to reinstate Florida’s emergency declaration, even as the number of people needing to be hospitalized for the virus exceeded previous peaks, and he’s also curtailed the ability of local leaders to craft their own responses.
"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
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WAPO? Really?
Pierce Manhammer
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Yeah it's "just like a cold":
The 1,017 coronavirus deaths reported on Tuesday equate to roughly 42 fatalities an hour, according to a Reuters tally of state data.
thehill.com
The 1,017 coronavirus deaths reported on Tuesday equate to roughly 42 fatalities an hour, according to a Reuters tally of state data.
More than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths recorded as US returns to April levels
The U.S. recorded more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday as numbers reach levels last seen in April, largely due to the highly infectious delta variant spreading rapidly throughout the country.
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Florida county declares pandemic state of emergency amid hospital resource shortage
thehill.com
Florida county declares pandemic state of emergency amid hospital resource shortage
A Florida county voted unanimously on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency as hospitals are becoming increasingly strained amid a surge in COVID-19 cases.Palm Beach County Commissioner Meli…
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A Florida county does not equal Florida.
"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.
Exactly! Florida has 67 counties, most of which are similar geographical size. While south Florida and the Orlando and Tampa areas have larger populations, you are spot on that no one county speaks for the entire state.
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I think it just shows more that we are in a Read Headline, React culture, as exampled by Pierce. Which shows that the bar for critical thinking has fallen drammatically. People don't sit and go "Hm...why is this company that has underwent so many lawsuits suddenly in the headline has having safe vaccines?" Or "Hospitals are known for turning people away that don't have insurance. Why now are they suddenly benevolent saints?" Or "5000 people out of a million is still pretty small. Sounds similar to the flu."
I'm pretty sure even CNN was shvtting on hospitals before 2020 when they were making reports of how bad healthcare was or how hospitals were refusing to accept uninsured ER recipients.
I'm pretty sure even CNN was shvtting on hospitals before 2020 when they were making reports of how bad healthcare was or how hospitals were refusing to accept uninsured ER recipients.
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Orlando mayor asks residents to start conserving water immediately due to O2 shortage
www.wesh.com
Starting to reach the point where external information begins to trump all the claims of "my sister is an ICU nurse, there ain't no Covid!" and "Ain't nuthin' happening in Florida we're out here partying!".
Orlando mayor asks residents to start conserving water immediately due to liquid oxygen shortage
Dyer explained that many COVID-19 patients require liquid oxygen for their treatment. OUC has used liquid oxygen to treat the water supply for years.
www.wesh.com
Starting to reach the point where external information begins to trump all the claims of "my sister is an ICU nurse, there ain't no Covid!" and "Ain't nuthin' happening in Florida we're out here partying!".
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More misinformation about what's happening in Florida, I mean everyone knows that a cabal of baby eating Dragonoid aliens that kidnap chodlren by offering them pizzas have used their devil-worshipping Hollywood connections to stage these actors faking being affected by the fake Covid virus that was engineered by the evil Chinese in a bio-weapons lab owend by Bill Gates, right? Sheesh and here the MSM thought it fewld us!
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Demand for COVID antibody drugs soars in hard-hit states
A photograph of people laying down on the floor in pain while waiting for antibody infusions at a treatment site in Jacksonville, Florida, has become a vivid illustration of the huge demand for COVID-19 drugs amid a surge in infections.
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"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.