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Lindy Newsletter: https://t.co/k3A03LYLi1 @lindyeffect
Joined July 2017
thank you for testing this out on yourself so present and future generations know what happens.
Teen who injected himself with crushed butterfly spent 7 agonizing days in the hospital before he died
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I rarely see anyone in these high end stores while at the airport. My guess is they don't make any money. They exist for advertising purposes.
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They're starting to make fun of refinement culture. That's a good sign. We will see what happens.
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Girls with no friends make the best girlfriends/wives.
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He did generic testing and found out he has two copies of APOE4 (I only have one copy) which is highly correlated with Alzheimer's so he quit acting and is just doing endurance running all day now. One man vs his genetics. A sci Fi story . Let's see what happens.
How Chris Hemsworth changed his wellness routine amid Alzheimerās disease risk
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There are some gigs that only exist during a short time period and then the door is closed forever. Rock Rubin got rich producing the beastie boys, rock bands, and hip hop artists at a time when every album cost 20 dollars and streaming didn't exist. That gig is over.
This is Rick Rubin. His net worth is $300 million. He has no technical skills, but he has great taste. He's my hero.
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Duolingo is not a business. It is an absurdist art project. An app for learning languages that no one actually learns a language from. Like a restaurant full of people waiting for their food that never comes.
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Feels like planes should be going faster. We're in the air. There's no traffic. 500mph is baby stuff.
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Cities used to be filled with tight knit communities in neighborhoods where everyone knew each other. Kids played outside and roamed around and no one cared. Then mass suburbanization happened in the 60s/70s. American cities became high crime places. Everyone became anonymous.
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This is essentially wealthy man's video gaming. You don't need to actually make any money doing this or feed your family. There are no stakes. You're just moving things around. Hanging out with animals and making sure the farm doesn't collapse.
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Still kind of crazy that he got away with murder but then decided to do an armed robbery 10 years later and went to jail. Pressed his luck.
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It's an interesting time in Cinema. Actors are literally saying they are doing the films for a paycheck and think the movies they are making are bad. Explicitly. Actors were not saying this decades ago. Even if they thought so, they wouldn't actually say it. I guess it.
Michael Keaton says he doesnāt really care that āBATGIRLā got cancelled. āNo, I didnāt care one way or another. Big, fun, nice check.ā. (Source:
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People are starting to notice stuck culture.
if you stay off your phone, you'll realize it's still 2005 outside.
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Boy, I don't get London. How can it be at New York prices but salaries are half of New York? . No one is saving any money, I assume?.
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This is what salt lake City should look like.
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I can't even order a coffee without downloading an app at LaGuardia airport . What public official approved this contract? . I don't want this app on my phone. This is the airport. We are trapped consumers. We should be able to order a coffee without apps.
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"tell me about a complicated man"
"Oh, you've never read The Odyssey???". Your timing is perfect. Emily Wilson's translation is the best one in literally ages, has that sweet iambic pentameter to give it a "bouncy" feel, & makes dudebros cry that the classic has "gone woke". š
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A good day for guys who get handed a gun and don't use common sense to check if it's loaded with real ammunition. "It's just not my job" wins again.
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The Japanese were still hunter gatherers when Rome was an empire.
What are the craziest two people/things to coexist at the same time in history?.
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they found something in the arctic and they are not telling us.
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Euros are right about this. If you don't get at least 30-40 days of vacation per year you're basically someone's dog and not a human.
There's a European upper middle-class cope which basically says "yes, America might look richer, but there's no work-life balance, culture, or accessible healthcare." What I've learnt moving here is that, no, for genuinely comparable professionals, America is just much richer.
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Depth is underrated. Most desks used to face the room. Humans evolved in environments with expansive views, like open plains or forests. These natural settings provide depth, which is visually soothing and reduces stress. Then the computer came along and we all face a wall and.
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Zelensky really said "you're protected by the oceans, but when the Chinese land their troops on the coasts, you're not going to know how to handle it".
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>when you own 4 other houses around the world.
Mel Gibson loses home in Los Angeles wildfires: "I've been relieved from the burden of my stuff" ā
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Ever notice that TurboTax has this kind of āperformative sluggishnessā to convince you itās doing more than it is? . It utilizes unnecessary loading bars and spinning wheel pages throughout each section, making you feel like processing a W2 is this big intense job. slimy stuff.
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Drinking a sprite once a year is incredible. Clearly the best soft drink. But only once a year.
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Great. Put up marble statues in strip malls or gas stations. Let's decorate this country a little bit more.
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It's like eating a dolphin. Something about it feels wrong. It's the engineer animal. Works all day. Like pushing a man on the subway coming home from work at 5pm.
I have no idea why people don't eat beaver meat more often. Trappers will give it to you in big buckets, often for free, and trapping seasons and bag limits are generous in many state. Tremendously nutritious and tasty meat -- for pennies on the dollar.
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The short sleeve dress shirt . Worn by the people who put a man on the moon. and then it disappeared forever. Powerful garment. America's Toga
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People say the internet is forever but it's just dead links everywhere once you start looking before 2008.
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An underrated reason why you see so many white male with Asian female relationships is because both groups see the other group as attractive and can't distinguish ugliness from beauty within that group.
@Kai_Wong_CN Westerners think Lucy Liu is pretty, but for us Asians, she is far from it. She has the exaggerated facial features of Asians, which is probably why Hollywood made her to fame as the token Asian girl.
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God punished Venice for stealing all the treasures from Constantinople by turning it into a city for tourists only. The ultimate prostitute.
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The great lies of Europe. - Paris is a great city to live in. - Italian women are beautiful. - the Spanish are very stupid . -.
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We've already seen this before. In Scandinavia they give you cash, they give you time off of work. None of it worked. You're going to need something really, really big to change fertility rates.
South Korea goes pro-natalist. With a fertility rate of 0.68 in 2024 they need to get moving. This should be priority no. 1 for the whole society and no cost should be too great. Most Western countries are heading toward South Korean birth rates so we need to get on it too. š°š·š¶
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If you exercise enough during the day (1-2 hours of cardio) you immediately go to sleep when you lie in bed. You actually can't ruminate because your body won't allow you to do that.
I donāt understand people who can fall asleep immediately. When do you do all your panicking and overthinking?.
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No one ever says "this is a tiktok from two years ago you have to see" . Disposable content. Created in 24 hours to be consumed in 24 hours and never seen again.
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The Millenials gave so much to America. They gentrified terrible American cities and made them decent to live in again. They championed the craft movement, revitalizing industries like brewing, coffee roasting, and artisanal goods. They challenged traditional work
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It's so funny he's calling Americans lazy here when they work more than any other people in the world. They have less vacations than any other people in the world. Their is a constant stress in the air of "work" at all times. And yes, it's the richest country in the world with.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over ānativeā Americans isnāt because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if.
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This is a great tweet because this is exactly the opposite of western civilization . Athletics, community, art, joy, literature, culture, aesthetics, pleasure. This is what the Hellenistic ideal is that ran through the Renaissance and today.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over ānativeā Americans isnāt because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if.
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Good design. Hopefully it starts a trend against refinement culture.
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The euro bashing doesn't make sense. Europe has something America doesn't: beautiful cities you can live in, low crime and a general pleasantness in the air. It's like making fun of a poor guy with a beautiful girlfriend. He's happy.
Hey Europe, what did you get done this century?.
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Morocco is a hot country. This is architecture before Air Conditioning. Extremely narrow streets remain cool and well-ventilated even during intense heat. The ground only receives direct sunlight for less than 10 minutes, when the sunlight falls in a slender strip at a 90-degree.
It can be hard to capture just how narrow some of the streets are in Moroccoās old cities.
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It's a high stress job. Your every movement tracked. Repetitive tasks. No slack. Dealing with the public. No future rewards or status or career building. The most stressful jobs I've had were low skilled jobs and the least stressful places are higher level white collar jobs.
You can make $70k a year working at Panda Express ā a low stress job that requires very little education/skills. Instead of seeing that as a fantastic backup plan, low agency people are whining about the lack of prestige. They want exactly what they want handed to them on a.
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The end result of 15 years of Identity Politics and DEI is raising white consciousness in America. Congrats.
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What's nice about Lisbon is they haven't switched to those bright white LED street lights yet. It's a city coated in orange.
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fastest way to feel euphoria and intense energy without drugs is to not eat for 2-3 days.
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you can tell people are drinking less alcohol these days when they don't understand the ice dispenser in hotels are for cocktails or drinks.
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Previously women were just supposed to be hot in their 20s and 30s. But now the expectation is they have to be hot all the way up until they die . That's a tough standard.
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A 60 year old Tom Cruise hands the Olympic flag to the 60 year old red hot chili peppers to play a song 20 years old.
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pregnant Woman goes viral over an incident on NYC streets . Her employer puts her on leave and will terminate her . It turns out she is in the right in this situation. Does it even matter?. The middle class doesn't fight because you will lose everything if you do
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Remember to plug your mouse jiggler in a separate electrical socket. Do not plug it into the USB on your laptop or your company will know you are using one.
Wells Fargo fired over a dozen employees for "simulating keyboard activity" last month, according to a Finra filing. Laid off for just trying to keep the teams status green.
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Hemingway killed himself in Wyoming. Hunter S. Thompson killed himself in Colorado. Richard Brautigan killed himself in Montana. Sylvia Path said New Mexico broke her. Utah made Norman Mailer into depressive person. Cormac McCarthey ended up miserable in Sante Fe.
I never liked the western part of the US. It's very beautiful however, it always felt to me like man never conquered it. I felt entombed by nature. Like I was fighting a battle I couldn't win. Never liked the vibes.
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Locking up everything up behind glass except for the sunscreen is an inappropriate joke imo
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Luigi, Daniel Penny, Jordan Neely,. What do they all have in common?. None of them had jobs. If you don't have a job, wild things can happen in your life. but once you get a job. That door closes.
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4 billion people from around the world would switch places with him tomorrow. That's how bad it is out there. Never forget.
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Grocery delivery for healthy able bodied adults becoming normal for like 20-30 percent of the population. I didn't expect that.
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I've never seen a successful bodybuilder with a really hot girlfriend. It's always a girl that looks "ok". But she's always helping him and is supportive.
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If you slightly mispronounce a french word, french speakers get befuddled and don't know what you're saying. Whereas, in America, you only need to get an english word 20-30% right for people to understand what you're saying. An asymmetry.
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Cars became very good around 2010. They all became safe and reliable. That's when the term the "lemon" disappeared.
Vehicles on the road are the OLDEST theyāve ever been. The average age of cars and trucks in the U.S. has risen to a new record of 12.6 years in 2024.
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He's definetly going to be hunting men on a tropical island when he's 50 with a bow and arrow.
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Most men dont realize how seriously women take astrology now. It's the only relevant belief system left in a post-religious world.
Anne Hathaway talks about being told she had no sex appeal when she started in Hollywood:. āI was like, āIām a Scorpio. I know what Iām like on a Saturday night.ā
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This is what happens when men don't marry waitresses anymore. You're over clocking the machine because "you want interesting conversations".
I have 4 friends with severely autistic children. Doesn't that seem like too many? I don't know that many people.
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It's so weird being a citizen of a global empire. You pay taxes every year and its going to fund like 5 wars across the world. Other countries like Denmark or Albania just spend their money on their own people.
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Relationships are so high stakes now. If you break up with someone they may live the rest of their life alone. There's no community to go back to. Everyone is playing with guns now.
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I'm sick of seeing the depressing wal-mart towns with the obese Americans in flyover country. I'm sick of the dollar stores. Everything has to change. No more cheap goods. No more chinese or vietnamese trinkets. No more obesity. every man must work in a factory or be a cobbler.
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Vulgar Wave. A period of 17 years(1990-2007) when pop culture catered exclusively to men 18-30.
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Twitter got exposed. it's all bots. there's like 100,000 people on here at most.
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you built your brand around being at work. you can't quit or you lose your audience. what a crazy bargain
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Serial killers were not masterminds. They just walked into your house and killed you. And then walked away. It was just very difficult to catch them back then. Once it became easier to catch them they mostly went away.
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Go ahead. Video games never really became the thing we all wished they would become. I grew up playing them in the 90s and 00s. We thought they would be incredible in the year 2024. Turns out VideoGames never became great.
EA CEO says they're looking at putting ads in their video games š®
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Wow they're going to put him in jail for performing the wall. What a time to be alive.
Great news! Berlin police have launched a criminal investigation into Roger Waters following his concert in which he dressed like a Nazi SS officer holding a gun and denigrated the murder of Anne Frank. Shockingly @AMCTheatres is promoting Waters currently.
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The paradox of modern work culture. Real Work happens in bursts. You are dormant for a while and then complete tasks in bursts. Then go back to being dormant. however, there is an expectation you should be actually working the entire 8-10 hours straight or you are lazy
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Dementia/Alzheimer's is unique. - They don't know what causes it. - They don't have any drugs to treat it. - They don't have any drugs to cure it. You're just out there with this disease. Trying to fight it with Lindy means.
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At some point the 9 to 5 became 8 to 5. Not sure why this is. But 8 is now this normal start time. Maybe because society is getting more lamer. Less interesting.
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A shortcut for detecting if something is written with AI is they all use this symbol "ā" throughout the writing. It's relatively rare when a human uses it, maybe once or twice, if that. But AI chats love using it. No clue why.
When Kendrick Lamar declared, ā40 Acres & a Mule, this is bigger than musicā¦,ā he wasnāt merely making a lyrical statementāhe was invoking a profound historical injustice that continues to shape the realities of Black America. The phrase ā40 acres and a muleā references the
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No windows. Low ceilings. Everything colored in grey. Harsh flourescent light. No family pics on the desks.
Northwestern Mutual looks like a dream job work environment
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You can tell they are testing this out. Running it in US theatres only. In a few places. For a few weekends. But it makes money. The theaters may just become places where old movies are played.
Sam Raimiās āSpider-Man 2ā re-release has currently earned over $1M at the domestic box office.
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No you weren't. You did not go to Vietnam. You did not go to Iraq. The Australians did, but you did not. The Australians have always been with us in our insane overseas adventures.
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Anyone who looks into Islam for more than 10 minutes comes to this conclusion. The prophet, the language, the holy sites, the book, the Seyyidis, the pilgrimage, the clothes all originate from one place and one certain people. The only way out is to do what the Iranians did and.
Dr Umar explains why he left Islam š³. āWhy do i need to learn the Arab language to worship Godā
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A West Coast half Asian elite class is slowly forming, right?.
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Moving abroad in 1950. "the people don't speak english". "the people dress differently". "everything feels so exotic" . "The stores are different". Moving abroad in 2024. "It's all the same thing".
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A good time to buy Japanese denim
The Yen is in free-fall and markets wonder if there's a red line. There isn't. The red line that exists is on 10-year JGB yield, which can't rise as this would cause a fiscal crisis. Japan can't simultaneously stabilize Yen and cap yields. Japan's debt put it in a terrible place.
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When people go on vacation they don't snack. They just have a breakfast, then they walk around all day and have dinner before bed. Causing weight loss. When people are back home they live sedentary lives where they work and snack all day. Causing weight gain.
So, Iāve been eating this for breakfast every morning in Italy for about nine days and Iāve lost 3 pounds. The food in America is just poison.
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Zuck tore his ACL 2 months ago. Had to get surgery on it. Today, he shows up with massive shoulders. That doesn't usually happen. My guess is he is injecting Test and HGH in order to accelerate his recovery. Now he's in high test aggro mode telling Tim Cook his product sucks.
šWhich is better? Mark Zuckerberg just tried Apple Vision Pro and says "after using it, I don't just think that Quest is the better value. I think Quest is the better product period.". His entire video was shot on the Meta Quest 3 using mixed-reality passthrough video. This is
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There is a theory that the lack of athletic prowess in indian men (they do not win olympic medals, not represented in pro sports, soccer, etc) is because Circumin is anti-androgenic and their diet is full of it.
My gym is full of Indian men. Great. Now I have to compete with them for the 10-pound dumbbells.
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Saw some German tourists in NYC making fun of the American way of speaking. Specifically they would say "thank you" and "sorry" over and over in an American accent and laugh. Mocking the exaggerated politeness. A lot of that comes from America being one big business. You're.
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One of the weirder inversions is that urban people today have more space to exist in than rural people. You have an entire city to walk around in. Rurals, unless they personally own the land, are surrounded by private land they can't walk on. They can drive around but can't.
The same guy complaining will ask why kids donāt go outside anymore
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2,000 year old seduction manual that still holds up today
The fact that asking a girl out is universally considered a humiliating and degrading act fit only for low-status men implies to me that men asking women out is an unnatural behavior. In a state of nature, women compete for men. The Ancients did not need "rizz".
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Life in prison at 38 years old if Kamala wins or pardoned on day 1 if Trump wins. Hardcore.
Last night, Donald Trump pledged to commute my sentence on day 1, if reelected. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. After 11 years in prison, it is hard to express how I feel at this moment. It is thanks to your undying support that I may get a second chance.
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New York City has a heavy energy. Much more than London, Paris or any other European city. I can see how someone can get engulfed by it completely and lose decades of their life here thinking only a few days passed by.
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Croatians spent 1,000 years living on the Mediterranean and never built a boat.
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