As this horrific and unnecessary war enters its fifth year the West and especially the United States needs to understand the truth: Putin does not want to end this war. Putin does not want peace.
Putin will not stop the slaughter until he faces much greater pressure. So for heaven’s sake let’s get on with it.
Impound his entire shadow fleet. Unfreeze all his frozen assets and give them to Ukraine. Give the Ukrainians the weapons they need to take out all the Russian drone factories.
Do all of it now. Putin will not negotiate sincerely until he feels he has no choice.
That moment could come soon. The Russian economy is reeling. Russian casualties are enormous. But on this miserable anniversary of Putin’s invasion the fundamental problem is the same as it has been for the last four years.
The Ukrainians fight like heroes while we in the West pussyfoot and delay. The West can end the war this year - if we stop pussyfooting around.
@MKBHD@adcock_brett The car requires a specific form factor. If that form factor is being created anyway, make it a robot. Having a humanoid shaped robot drive a car would be silly though may eventually happen for older vehicles in special cases.
This is a message for single men that are tired of online dating
I made a post 6 months ago about what I should text a woman that I was going on a date with
The date was great. In fact we have spent almost every day since then together
Now she’s my girlfriend
Guys if you’re frustrated with online dating I have some advice
Delete your dating apps and start going out every single day
You need to the gym, go to the grocery store, go work from cafes
You need to try a new group fitness class every other day, go to yoga and pilates, and join meetups for things you’re interested in
Be someone who is out and about
Talk to strangers, make friendly conversation, add value, and don’t be sketchy
Find fun things happening in town that you can invite people to
I guess that’s pretty complicated so try this for now:
Start saying yes to every single invitation that you get
What you want as a single guy- and this is key- is IRL surface area
You want to get out of your home and off your phone so that you improve your odds to meet someone special in real life
That’s what I am calling your IRL surface area
I knew I needed this IRL surface area because I do bad on dating apps
See I’m not 6-feet tall and I don’t have a chiseled jaw
But I do feel comfortable talking to strangers
I met my girlfriend at the pool on a hot summer Tuesday evening
My friend Katelyn invited me to come hang out with her and her friends
I was busy with work and I didn’t want to go but thank God I did
I went to the pool that day because I wanted to say Yes to everything that would help me find a girlfriend
Sitting at home doing work = No
Going to Barton Springs Pool = Yes
She was sitting up on the hill reading a book. I mustered up the courage to go chat but that’s another story
For now just go out. Every day.
Make it a challenge if you want: Go out every day for 10 days straight starting tomorrow
Try new restaurants, coffee shops, all the things I said above
Just start talking to people and doing the things that the person you want to date might do too
You can find a girlfriend if you get more IRL surface area
Here’s a photo of us on the beach yesterday
Good women are out there. You just have to put in the work
Let me know if you can relate to this:
- USPS delivers piles of garbage to house in form of spam mail
- Person walks to place where garbage is delivered, either front of home or mailbox outside
- Person walks back and sorts through garbage
- Person finds 2 pieces of mail amongst 20+ pieces of garbage
- Person opens 2 pieces of mail and realizes it's also garbage
- Person then puts the entire pile of garbage delivered by USPS into the garbage
- The cycle repeats
USPS is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded garbage distributor in many instances.
How do we fix this?
I think that neither Trump nor Harris will destroy America if elected president.
Call me crazy, but I think that Trump is not a fascist and Harris is not a communist.
I think this is a reasonable rational position, but according to the internet it's insane 🤣
Either way, getting attacked by both sides has been mentally exhausting for me. Perhaps that's the design of the current political climate: anyone with moderate open-mindedness needs to be pushed out in favor of a "battle" between dogmatic extremes. This doesn't seem like the right path toward truth.