The whole fake it till you make it thing can be applicable here but therapy is valid and cheaper than you think. You are worthy and deserving of love.

Ask someone out for coffee. Talk about your week. Ask about theirs. Don’t treat the interaction as a pass/fail. Repeat. If you have mutual attraction then nature will play out.

Doing the bare minimum hygiene and the appearance of happiness drastically improves your chances.

Dating is for finding someone you enjoy being around. Sex is a result of growing closer.

Obviously some people have it easier than others but I have peers that just refuse to ask people out for coffee or a lunch. I’m a late millennial if that matters.

Be a decent person and if a love interest doesn’t personally find you attractive they WILL tell their friends. NEVER talk poorly about your previous relationships. Learn a few jokes.

The privatization of love is a real problem but the classic approach isn’t dead.

This is the way.

(Most) Third party voters are like cicadas. They spend the majority of their lives immature and underground. Every 4 years they swarm and die quickly to apathy and despair.

Just like cicadas, third party voters will be heavily affected by climate change.

Your link says the US spent 874 Billion on National defense this year.

https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-defense?fy=2024

This link has a bit of a disparity. I’m too busy to figure out the difference now but maybe you can take a look.

We are slowly trading wars for corpo wars.

Yes.

This is much better but your previous comment was awful. It read like a LLM alone wrote it.

That being said I can’t tell you why specifically it reads like that. I’m forwarding it to my friend who is a English professor to find out. If English is your second language then just keep at it and please don’t take the criticism here personally.

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In the secondary, new-age definition of “literally” yes that’s true.

We lost the war for “literally”. It’s now just an emphasis word. The definition is mind bending:

1)in a literal manner or sense; exactly.

2)informal; used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true.

On the bright side less people use “absolutely” incorrectly than before.

Please tell me of this enlightened place you come from where racism and discrimination do not exist. Surely they also are accepting refugees and I need but apply? No?

Everyone but my tribe are _______. Hehe I’m so clever.

This in reply to someone calling themselves “The Grammar Police” is art.

It sounds like the cost of the air tag would kick the value over 200. Not sure if stealing it by proxy would be considered.

When I was a kid my dad picked up a bunch of political signs AFTER the election to use as free range targets. A cop stopped him and gave him a hard time but nothing came of it.

Plenty of non-americans care about the US election. It has a fairly large impact on US foreign policy. Apathy toward our government is what allowed us to be in such a sorry state of affairs.

I think these stairs are in a hotel in Prague/Praha. I swear I have seen them.

“We must therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate intolerance”

Karl Popper

At least you have decent public transportation. My beach town has 1 bus that doesn’t even run every day.

All things considered I loved my time in Italy but I suppose it’s always nice as a tourist.

I was told in no uncertain terms If I didn’t give them my passport info they would arrest me.

I got a fine for not getting my bus ticket stamped in Florence, Italy. Apparently if you paid it the same day it was one price and that price doubled after a week, month, etc.

Didn’t matter the machine failed when I stamped it because it was out of ink. I even tried to stamp it in front of the officer. He said I could appeal it in person in court. They know tourists aren’t going to appear in court to appeal. I felt scammed but after calming myself down and paying the fine the officer apologized and told me in a few words he hated his job.

All right. You win. I see you’ve played axeyswordy before.