@greenonionlives @IAmLilRico They know from the speedy the demand level, so it's entirely possible they've cranked the factory up in advance.
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@IAmLilRico I know it’s not gonna happen, but I would absolutely love it if swatch flooded the market and mass produced these. So all the jobless, incel resellers who plan to buy them all up get stuck with them 🤣🤣
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Man goes viral after getting a ApXSwatch early before the release date…😳🔥
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The 300/400$ AP swatch is nothing to flex unless you care about the name. It’s way different from the quality and craftsmanship from the 100,000$ AP watches. This is just a display of upcharge and the poor trying to glorify the name because of the price tag but in real the watches could of been down priced but they kept it inflated because
Commoners don’t
Know how to act rich or be rich.
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@Veronicathanks @brianatheroux I can believe it, if you're as you say, I wouldn't pay for your hair but all the dinners etc, just for the company of a top end woman, and I'm 39. I've found that as I earn more I don't buy things but I'm happy to pay alot for experiences.
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@brianatheroux I am 50 & exceptionally attractive. Never married. No kids. I have a few men who pay for my hair, take me to dinner etc because they like the company & ego boost of being seen out with an attractive woman. I pay attention, can converse at their level & would never sleep with them
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This is a very common arrangement actually. Especially in larger cities. I’ve had multiple friends in setups like this with men who were either 1) married, or 2) aged out of the competitive dating market.
My guess is a lot of the married men didn’t want the moral implications of sleeping with another woman, but still wanted female company, emotional intimacy, validation, novelty, etc. And a lot of the older men likely had ED or lower libido but still wanted proximity to women and femininity.
And per yesterday’s post… this is the reality of waiting until you’re decades past your prime and then being told you’ll suddenly have unlimited authentic romantic options because you accumulated money or status. A lot of what actually ends up available is negotiated companionship. Not raw mutual desire.
FortWorthPlayboy@FWPlayboy
“A girl I’m seeing has a Sugar Daddy arrangement. He’s an older guy who pays her rent and buys her stuff, but they don’t have sex” Strike from your mind that they’re NOT having sex. To believe that is to be willingly naive. YOU don’t have to call her out on it, your smirk is enough.
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@LifeMathMoney Thanks for the perspective, I now feel grateful. I suppose I have the best of both worlds. Grew up in immense privilege, but spent my young adult years poor.
I do want to have 50m million as a tool, but for options not flash, and I don't get stressed about status and money.
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If you were born poor, and you live a middle class life now, you probably feel happy and want to relax
If you were born in the upper class, and you live a middle class life now, you probably feel unhappy and want to achieve more in life
This is the importance of having high standards
It pushes you to do better
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Let me tell you a story why Wayne is wrong that his advice is the only advice, and how a father ought to look out for his son, and how men ought to guide and protect younger men.
A woman I know owed $75k in student loans. Her boyfriend loved her and wanted to marry her. His dad believed they were a great match, but was concerned about his son starting off life $75k in the hole.
What did his father do? His father approached the young woman’s father about her debt. He respectfully told him that his daughter’s debt was his since she accrued it while under his authority, and that his son should not be burdened with such at the beginning of building their life together. The girl’s father disagreed at first, but over time came to realize that his future son-in-law’s father was right.
Rather than passing on the debt to the next generation at the beginning of their marriage, the young man’s father ensured the right man took responsibility for his daughter’s debt.
Wayne Rowcliffe 🦬@wrowclif
@41KOOR @PhilosophyDad1 It's the only advice
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@planet_nerf @sighswoon When I was a young and fairly good looking lad, I went to a goth rock club with my pal who was into that music. It was like being a girl who's a 9 for the evening. Every option available but nearly all unattractive
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@sighswoon This is what happens in every scene with a costume
It makes hot ppl way hotter and everyone else look gay / fat
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I remember in 7th grade , there was this super emo boy who was the king of the emos. Every emo girl wanted to be his gf. His name was Danny. And they all put so much work into getting to know him and being emo like him. One day, this girl with tits and ass and a cute little face decided she had a crush on him. She bought a My Chemical Romance hoodie the day before and showed up to class. They were holding hands by lunch time. In a couple days, she’d be wearing his fingerless gloves. It raised hell in the emo community. And you could tell she just loved it
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@Pat_Stedman Emotional issue, yeah right. Men didn't have that issue when marriage afforded them the status of head of household, and was not a threat of ruin.
It's really simple, traditional marriage doesn't exist anymore for men, just an indenture contract, so the offer is unattractive.
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Male romantic indecisiveness is a serious problem. Guys waste YEARS stringing women along because they are too afraid of both marrying the wrong girl yet are also scared of losing or disappointing her
It's an emotional issue masquerading as a logical vetting one. And women need to screen for it early
However women kill all attraction and polarity when they create too many hard rules and try to control a relationship's progression. This only drives men away
So they need to strike the balance of giving men space and opportunities to choose them, while also being willing to extricate themselves if the man won't pull the trigger
That means no pushing in general and broaching the topic of marriage once, MAX twice. The timeline for this varies based on her age but it's reasonable for women in 30s to do this after a year. Basic compatibility should be assessed by then
If no movement on his end to a proposal after a season, then end things and move on, telling him the reason
If he realizes he made a mistake he'll try to remedy things quickly. If not then he was never going to propose
Lukas (computer) 🔺@SCHIZO_FREQ
In general, men don’t like women who hypercalculate in relationships. It destroys a lot of the romance But if women aren’t merciless hypercalculators about this now, they often just timerug themselves and waste 15 years perma-dating We used to fix this by letting parents shoo away guys who wanted to waste their daughters time This was pretty ideal. It let their daughter be whimsical and carefree in the relationship while offloading the less romantic details to dad We stopped doing this partly because feminism made it illegal to tell women what to do, but also because parents became retarded and forgot how to screen anyone properly Now the choices women have are: 1) Be a calculating bitch and hope you can find a guy capable of pretending this doesn’t instinctively disgust him Or 2) Be whimsical and carefree and likely just date some guy who doesn’t propose for 7 years 1) is better most of the time but 2) has the highest ceiling if you get lucky and randomly commit to a guy who still thinks it’s the 1960s Both obviously still worse than the forgotten holy grail option of “listen to your dad and don’t worry about it”
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@0x49fa98 the real red pill is that AI companies are secretly salting their models so they can identify AI content when they're scraping the Internet and discard it.
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@Hispeedlowdrug Surely you've got to make a pile, dry it out, then have a small fire.
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My son discovered a spot behind the barn where there's chunks of coal mixed in the soil. He's enthusiastically digging coal in the cold rain, coming into the house to show me with his face all smudged by coal dust and mud. The children long for the mines.
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@swanlake322562 @0x49fa98 Ah so that's what the use of the double dash is all about.
I do this at work. I add subtle codes to customer files, pricing, file names, without colleagues and prospects knowing my system. Helps me rapidly identify things but others can't interpret my notes
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@ThinkCoalition This is just normal banking, but with state power to deem an asset value. They created a company and deemed it an asset, against which they extended credit of 900bn, which was then used to buy the bonds. The only difference to normal banking is deeming the company credit worthy
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The Bank of England lent this company with no trading history and a hundred quid in capital up to £ 895.3 BILLION to buy government paper (gilts). This is the key part of the huge con that underpins the fiat ponzi scheme. Note the digits used in the company number 😲 (exposing this via a 👀💥 Substack series). @JMCDelingpole @DocAhmadMalik
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@Bogachan_1971 Those cruisers would be sent to the bottom by missiles though. The Americans can't defend against eastern missile technologies, thats why they're all hiding offshore
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More explosions in Sirik, #Iran.... Red Point on map..
CENTCOM Commander and Netanyahu's buddy is Admiral Brad Cooper. He is a Navy officer unlike his predecessors in CENTCOM and a Cruiser Skipper...
If he attacks, he will attack where he can use his cruisers in close proximity...
I was handed over a mortgage passthrough desk in early 2006... desk lost $25 million for 2 years in a row... each year... they were basically checks written by one of the traders to a large asset manager... they tried a lot of pressure for me not to fire her but I managed to do it... problem was not to make it flat... but profitable... I already made it flat by firing the person responsible.
So, I decided to do what I know best... after spending a few months with the traders on that desk, I realized that I can trade the current coupon fnma bonds and they can trade around me the rest. Since current coupon fnmas traded like 10 year swaps or bonds, I was in my backyard.... it worked perfectly until some young traders grew balls to trade it all.
Cooper, if he is ordered to fight, will attack exactly where the fireworks are now... where he can use his cruisers...
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🚨A powerful new Swedish study delivers a clear message for the UK: inheritance tax is damaging growth.
🇸🇪Scrapping inheritance tax in 2004 didn't cost tax revenue - it increased growth, investment, profits and jobs in family firms with heirs. Even corporate tax receipts went up.
🇬🇧Family businesses are the backbone of Britain. It's time to scrap IHT and stop punishing success.
Full study: hhs.se/en/about-us/ne…
My CapX piece: capx.co/its-time-to-sa…
@handels_sse @FamilyBizUK @KarlGustel
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@ZeionAchillor @jerr_rrej A herd of cattle will stampede if a predator attacks one of them, but if you shoot one with a suppressed rifle, the others just look slightly confused for a moment, then carry on eating. They don't get scared of another one dying if they don't understand what just happened.
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You ever notice that whenever an indian dies, the rest of them don't even react? It's like watching their friend die and be lost from this world is the most typical thing in the world for them. A White woman spilling her Starbucks would warrant a more hysterical reaction than them.
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You might not believe this, but…
In the heart of Japan’s bullet train culture — a country obsessed with speed and punctuality — there’s a train that does the complete opposite.
It costs up to $13,000 a ticket.
Bookings are decided by lottery.
The first trip was oversubscribed 76 to 1.
It’s not a high-speed train.
It’s the slowest one.
The Train Suite Shiki-Shima takes 4 days to travel a route the Shinkansen covers in just 4 hours.
Only 34 passengers.
Designed by the man behind Ferrari and Porsche.
Private suites with cypress wood baths.
Meals by Michelin-starred chefs.
All-glass observation cars at both ends.
People are paying premium prices just to fall asleep to the rhythm of the rails.
In a country that moves at 300 km/h, the slowest train in Japan is the hardest one to book.
Japan didn’t just build another luxury train.
It reminded the world that sometimes the journey itself is the destination.
Would you take a multi-day luxury train trip across Japan? 🚄
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@jasonmauck1 Thank Jason, short and snappy but very educational. The swinging the camera around made me dizzy though, maybe slow it down so we can enjoy the view. Great job overall though.
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Why do I grow most of our wheat in a 25% planted fashion?
Less N, seed, has less disease, and higher test weight
AND I can grow as good or better soybeans on the same acre in the same year.
110 bu wheat
40 bu soybeans $1140
80 bu wheat $1320
70 bu beans
$200 less +$380/ac
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@TheGeoMethod Sure, if you're selling used cars or insignificant b2b budgets. Once you're selling for substantial contract values, say, over 500k, pushing a close prematurely is counterproductive.
The best salesman of 5k spends can't sell for 5m, and vice versa, for this reason
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You’ll never close a deal by being authentic.
Many salespeople I train complain that the “script doesn’t fit them.”
“I don’t want to come across too aggressive.”
“That sounds too scripted for me.”
“I’d rather keep it natural than force it.”
Bullshit excuses.
They want to avoid anything that creates tension, because it’s uncomfortable.
They soften their language, because it feels safer.
They let the prospect lead, because it’s easier.
And then they wonder why it’s so hard to close…
You’re not on sales calls to express your “true self.”
Your job is to move the situation forward.
That means:
- Saying things that feel uncomfortable at first.
- Being direct when it matters.
- Holding your ground when the prospect pushes back.
Every top closer you look up to sounded “off” in the beginning.
They said things that didn’t feel natural.
They pushed through it anyway.
And over time…
The script became their new natural.
If the version of you that closes deals doesn’t exist yet, every “unnatural” step is a step in the right direction.
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To elaborate further,
Most men believe that telling a girl they're married or in a serious relationship will turn her off. But that never happens. Instead her interest in you spikes up. No one is more desirable to a woman than a man with a woman.
Similarly, most guys believe that telling a girl they looking for a serious relationship will get her hooked (since society told him women seek commitment above all else). But that rarely happens. Instead she quickly loses interest in you, for you've subverted the roles—which is, a man must seek sex, while the woman seeks commitment.
Bambulu@Bqmbulu
Everything you think repels women turns them on Everything you think excites women turns them off
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@StephenThomasHC @aruvinchan Stinky pussy. When it's only at the last minute they all make excuses, it's because it's once she opens her legs, the room suddenly stinks
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@aruvinchan Wait a second.. she's 4 for 4?
That's not statistically probable.
If 4 different men cannot get hard with you during PiV sex. The problem is YOU.
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This is what I meant by guys must fix their ED issues if they want to play the game.
Don't go through the entire gauntlet of approaching a chick, talking to her, getting her number, texting her, setting up a meeting, taking her out on a date, asking her to come back, she agrees, you escalate, she gives in, you guys get naked, etc. only to not seal the deal at the last step because your dick doesn't want to fucking cooperate.
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@TheGriftReport Easy enough, just get some goats or sheep in there a few times a year, walk with a machete for higher branches, until it's all grass and no sprouts left.
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Pensioner, 76, and neighbours face five-figure bills after council invokes centuries-old law.
Graham Ottaway from St Neots, Cambridgeshire, has been told by Cambridgeshire County Council he and nearby homeowners are responsible for maintaining Duloe Brook, the stream that runs outside their properties.
The ancient riparian law, which dates back to Roman times, means they must clear vegetation, debris and trees to prevent flooding and pollution or risk prosecution.
Graham said: “When we did the searches on the property, if something had come back saying we’re responsible for thousands of pounds worth of upkeep… we probably wouldn’t have bought the house.”
He added the council appears to be offloading costs onto residents, noting mature trees on the bank could cost tens of thousands to remove if they fall.
Residents have until 15 December to carry out the work. The council says it is simply enforcing long-standing legal responsibilities.
Sounds to me like they are trying to save money and force the locals to PAY for what they should be doing, this is what council tax is for!!
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