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.
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
Air powered car.Wiesman44 said:
YEah. "Zero emissions"? That's disingenuous; it still causes pollution.Alle_Gory said:Air powered car.
I hate these damn things. You need electricity, 50% of which is produced by coal powered generators, 19% from natural gas, and 3% by fuel oil.
http://www.eei.org/industry_issues/industry_overview_and_statistics/industry_statistics/index.htm
Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.
I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.
Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules. Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.
No ****.PSYCHO said:The oil is controlled and artificial scarcity is manufactured and the price is manipulated by the oil company monopoly men.
Really? You are aware that cars (the main users of oil) make up less than 10% of global Co2 emissions.Aboleo said:Bullsh!t. Anyways, it is beside the point... burning oil is killing our planet. It really doesn't matter where it comes from. We have got to stop using it or we are going to kill ourselves.
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.
Bingo. You are one of the ones who gets it. It's simple economics really. They know demand won't decrease so big oil manipulate the supply and prices are increased. Basically they can charge almost any price they want regardless of real supply anyway and consumer will have little choice but pay it. I would wager that illegal price manipulation is going on (there are rules against price fixing etc.) but the government gave them the go ahead and won't ever prosecute.Alle_Gory said:No ****.
Heard of the laws of supply and demand?
When supply goes down and demand stays the same, prices go up. The supply is artificially controlled by the oil cartel (not monopoly).
Here is a little explanation with a chart:
http://www.mikeonads.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/supply_demand_11.JPG
When the supply goes down, the supply curve moves to the left. Notice how the equilibrium (lines crossing) point moves vertically? Results in price increase.
Artificially manipulating the supply curve means $$$$$.
Rhoto said:Really? You are aware that cars (the main users of oil) make up less than 10% of global Co2 emissions.
Want to stop killing the planet? Stop coal.
Big oil cannot just charge what they want or they will endanger their market. Oil at too high a price will cause consumers to shift away from oil in the long run. Look at what's happening now, as oil hits Cdn$1.30+ per litre, people are shifting to alternatives. If it gets way higher, the shift will become faster and eventually, an equilibrium will be achieved. The question is how much and when.ketostix said:Bingo. You are one of the ones who gets it. It's simple economics really. They know demand won't decrease so big oil manipulate the supply and prices are increased. Basically they can charge almost any price they want regardless of real supply anyway and consumer will have little choice but pay it. I would wager that illegal price manipulation is going on (there are rules against price fixing etc.) but the government gave them the go ahead and won't ever prosecute.
And besides oil, markets aren't free and fair all the time anyway. Look how the housing market was over-inflated and countless other examples of stocks. The difference there is the market may correct that. But with a commodity like oil and the cartels manipulating supply and prices, I don't think the market can really correct oil.