"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.

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Russia is building factory inside a volcano

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Metal rhenium is used in defense industry for creating alloys for aircraft, space, and ship industry. Also used in electronics.



Usual ways of attaining this metal require processing tons of ore. For more than 20 years it was known in Russia that rhenium can be obtained from volcanoes, but the project wasn't sponsored for obvious reasons. Now there is going to be build a factory inside a volcano caldera for collecting rhenium. Factory is going to be unmanned, and process will yield this metal in high quantities and very cheaply.

http://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/5340/
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Кудрявый_(вулкан)
 

"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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Looks like a good location to attain steam and heat.
 
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