"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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Rainman4707

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If you don't go to war you're a coward. You have to join up and blow another innocent man to pieces.

I do not think I'm a coward. I have done lots of brave things in my time. Why should I be forced to kill another human being!? For a war over money
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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Rainman4707

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First, war is wrong for the same reasons that murder is wrong. Because war is murder.
A strategy that kills ten thousand people is not somehow less wrong than killing just one person. The colossal scale does not make it noble. The idea that countries rather than people are the “agents” is also irrelevant. Someone gave the order to go over there and start shooting, and if that person caused ten thousand people to die that’s ten thousand times as criminal as someone who caused only one person to die.
Second, war is the probably the worst possible solution to whatever problem you’re trying to solve. It’s worse than wrong, it’s idiotic.
Nothing broken can be fixed by killing people. In the future when someone suggests a war others will look away in embarrassment. And one of them will say: “I’m sorry, but that’s just stupid. Why don’t you go off and think for a while about exactly what the problem is that you’re trying to solve.
 

"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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Imagine a biological weapon which affects every country in the world economically, stays on surfaces 72 hours, and spreads 4 meters in the air. Countries will have no choice but to replace their currencies with virtual money and virtual wallets, and the citizens will be for such measures in order to save their lives. China to replace cash with virtual money, a google search. Name of the game is control, not total destruction, son. Nuclear war can happen, but it will be the end of the world, nobody wants such war, not even a devil worshiping world manipulating sect of extremely rich people.
 

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UN is predicting 100's of millions of people are going to starve to death because of global economic shut down. We are seeing china start to flex on Taiwan while our super carriers are out of commission in the china sea. Not to mention the wide spread misinformation and deception about the virus from China. Trump had to issue an order for the US Navy to sink Iranian boats that were harassing US ships. Not to be alarmist but as the economy stays shut down, supply chains continue to dissolve, and tension continues to grow, war seems like a growing possibility in the near future.
 

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We (should have) learned in the 1930s that global economic depression breeds nationalism. Every world leader will want to point at another country so that the people do not blame poor leadership for their suffering.
 

taiyuu_otoko

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vs.

All Islamic countries
Islamic countries are Sunni (Saudi Arabia) and Shia (Iran).

Those dudes hate each other.

Not to be alarmist but as the economy stays shut down, supply chains continue to dissolve, and tension continues to grow, war seems like a growing possibility in the near future.
I tend to agree. I think the odds are very high that the next decade, starting soon, is going to suck, and a lot of people are going to die.

Unless the Fed buys everybody's debt, companies overloaded with debt are going to start dropping like flies.

Dudes in India are on the verge of starving to death because of the shut down.
 

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Rocket man might be dead or in a vegetative state ... China will try to seize NK due to it having previous metal deposits. S Korea, The US and Japan will try to prevent this.... The South China Sea is also a hot spot....

....if WWIII breaks out it'll be in Asia....
 

"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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HaleyBaron

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UN is predicting 100's of millions of people are going to starve to death because of global economic shut down. We are seeing china start to flex on Taiwan while our super carriers are out of commission in the china sea. Not to mention the wide spread misinformation and deception about the virus from China. Trump had to issue an order for the US Navy to sink Iranian boats that were harassing US ships. Not to be alarmist but as the economy stays shut down, supply chains continue to dissolve, and tension continues to grow, war seems like a growing possibility in the near future.
UN is always saying something. They act like they're the judges of the global world, when they're nothing but virtue signalling group of useless individuals that never made any actual innovation in the world.
 

Alvafe

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rule to follow is never trust goverments, even IF it looks like it had good intentions, remember hell is full of it.

now about wars is never go to war because of goverment told you so, only go if goverment start to push they luck.

in a perfect world when goverments start to become corrupt and power drunk, people would rise kill all politicians then restart, over and over.

but in the end, in the real world, just do what works for you not because someone told you so
 

Who Dares Win

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Country lines are either crossed from trade vehicles or tanks...one or the other.
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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