It's not paying. It's spending. National defense isn't just weapons and ammunition. It's not even just the military, and all those NATO members that "aren't paying" are probably still paying--just not in terms recognized by NATO guidelines. Here in the USA, we can easily separate national defense from our daily lives, as we have a huge military and well-defined separation from the public. In some countries around the world, especially smaller countries, people just live with their militaries. We have state National Guards where members have to sign up and get regular training. In other countries, the state reaches out to eligible citizens and issues equipment and time in service may not even be paid. Just because the government doesn't spend 2% doesn't mean the cost to the nation is less than 2%. Either way, Trump is an idiot and misrepresents the situation.

Just because the map is flat (2D) doesn't mean the earth is flat. That map is just a way of representing the earth in a computer system. It's an analog. Here in the real world, the Earth is still round.

The Flat Earth model falls apart when explaining sunrises, or why vehicles disappear over the horizon from the bottom or satellite orbits. But good luck with your criminal charges.

NASA has published numerous photographs of the round Earth. Can you find a photograph of the flat Earth?

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N31S27S/

Good profile. The photos are good and you have all the info in there. Well done!

I like that you kept the blurb short, but still told us about you and what you seek. I also like that you're looking into the camera in the photos and not just off to the side. The only complaint is that you left the headline as the default "Hi.." which is lame. But that's just being super picky.

Maybe the blurb could be more interesting and the headline is lame, but it's still a good profile.

I'd rate it 9.5/10.

Good work!

It's a start. You have some nice photos, and the biographical information is there, but you don't say much about yourself or what you're looking for.

I like that you're looking into the camera in the photos, and you're dressed up a bit. Only all the photos are very similar and because your main pic is cropped very tall and narrow, it can stretch out your face when the thumbnail image is used. Maybe include a photo showing you out doing things. Selfies also look better when you hold the camera at eye level or higher.

Your headline was left as the default "Hi.." which is lame. You could use that to quickly tell people about you. Just a few words, there.

The text blurb is just a warning to not be fake and to message you. It's not very helpful. You should use that space to tell us what you're like and about the kind of person you seek.

You seem like a good-looking guy and lots of people don't even read the profiles so you should do alright, but for the redundant photos and the headline and blurb that needs to say something, I'd only give it 3/5.

Good luck!

You don't seem to understand. NATO is not a loan or a subscription. When the US or any other NATO member spends money on the military, it's not dropped into NATO's bank account. There are no delinquency notices. NATO member states pledge to spend 2% of their GDP on defense. Maybe you can point to where some conservative blogger or Donald Trump said that other nations are behind in their payments, but Trump is a moron. Don't be like Trump.

Defence expenditures and NATO’s 2% guideline

That's not how NATO works. Member countries don't pay into NATO like a country club. They merely pledge to spend 2% of their GDP on defense, and while several countries are falling short, they're not delinquent. They all paid a fee to join.

The Paris Accords is a little different, and it's also way bigger than NATO, and only pledges to work toward slowing down climate change and researching ways to do it. Again, nobody's delinquent in that. Trump claimed that it hurts the US to work toward climate change when other countries don't, but that's not true either. Our research into renewable energy is already paying off, and solar and wind power is now cheaper and employs several times more people than coal and natural gas powerplants. Slowing down climate change helps everybody.

Lastly, helping Ukraine is not about furthering war, but about helping Ukraine resist the Russian invasion and diminishing Russia's ability to extend its war into other countries, including NATO countries.

It's a good profile. The pictures are generally clear and you have all the info there, but your headline and blurb seem to drag on a bit.

I'm glad that you replaced the default "Hi.." headline, which bugs me when I see it, though many other people have zero problem with it. However, your headline seems a bit long.

You wrote: "Looking for a loyal respectable woman. i want something real and long-term no games. "if i go crazy, then will you still call me superman?"". You could've stopped at the first sentence, but then you threw in another and then some lyrics from Kryptonite. You do you, I guess, but it just seems a bit too much, there.

Then the blurb. It seems long, too, but also repetitive. Like you found three or four ways to say you're an easy-going guy and you threw them all in there. It's still a better blurb than most I've seen, but it seems to blather. Maybe add some white space between the topics.

Then the pictures. It seems you don't even own a good shirt. It's alright if you're a t-shirt kind of guy, but it wouldn't hurt to dress better for pictures and smile more. Here's a tip: Figure out where the camera lens is and look into it (not the phone screen) when snapping the picture.

Anyway, you seem like a good-looking guy, so you'll probably do alright. But for the profile with a too-long headline and meandering text blurb and photos that could be better, I rate it 7/10.

Good luck!

P.S.: If you want to be a software engineer for the government, you'll need a college degree.

Weird take. You think Biden will be remembered for things that happened 40 years ago while he's passing laws now? Having gotten his Inflation Reduction Act, and CHIPS Act passed, that pump $trillions into the US economy and return semiconductor manufacturing to the US, with $billions still being spent today, or maybe the $35/month cap on insulin? How about his work to eliminate junk fees from banks and airlines? Biden's the first US President to stand and walk with Union workers. He's the first US President to pick a female VP. A lot of other first go there, too, but until you typed about his votes on busing and desegregation (on which he wasn't alone at the time) I had forgotten about, and I follow politics pretty closely.

I admit that Biden isn't at his best, and some of his positions disappoint me. But this year isn't between Biden and my ideal candidate. It's just Biden v. Trump again. Trump was an unmitigated disaster as a President. DJT lied and cheated every day. Took foreign emoluments every day, and because Republicans controlled Congress, and the Constitution wasn't clear enough, nothing was ever done about it. And even with Republican control of the White House, and Congress, Trump got almost nothing done. They couldn't even make basic government work.

The choice is easy: Four more years for Biden and Trump to Prison in 2024.

I've worked at McDonalds and if I were manager and assigning positions, I would definitely let Biden work the register. Just not have him unload the trucks. I wouldn't let Trump work the register--he'd be pocketing money and would complain the whole time. Probably steal Big Macs, too. Such a criminal!

Counterpoint: Biden is a pretty good president and should run again.

I tried to use the color tag, and it doesn't work, but I figured out it's probably a safety feature so people cannot add a link and color it to mislead somebody.

I can make text colored

I can hyperlink text (goes to Google)

But I cannot color hyperlinks.

So annoying.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/02/joe-biden-30-policy-things-you-might-have-missed-00139046

Since when is paying in cash illegal or even tax punitive? The defense attorneys alleged conflicts of interest, and two attorneys on the same team have no conflict of interest. Then the defense alleged monetary gains, or even kick-backs from Wade to Willis, and they couldn't prove that. The defense hasn't shown any harm to the state or to their case, or in any way how it would be unfair to the defense. Where are the grounds for recusal?

Have you even read the indictment? Trump's charges are nothing like what Willis & Wade are accused of. The defendant's attorneys are trying everything they can to delay the case, but the allegations had no merritt and their witness was soundly impeached. She's just a disgruntled former employee, and even if the allegations were true, they aren't sufficient to support Willis' or Wade's recusal. That case will move forward and Trump et. al., are going to trial soon enough.

While Trump's supporters are losing to a point, they're only losing some money and time and any maybe some friends. Trump's spending their donations on his legal bills. I suspect they know it, and are mostly OK with it.

The fraud case originated when Trump's former attorney testified in Congress that Trump misrepresented his assets as needed to secure loans and pay taxes. Then a complaint was filed and the SDNY investigated. They found enough evidence to indict and the Trump lost the case. The only reason the indictment came after Trump announced is because trump announced early to claim the prosecutions are political. They're not; they're criminal. Trump is a criminal and while this case had no chance of putting trump in jail, that's not true for the other cases. When it's all over, Trump will be found guilty, and while some sentences may let trump serve suspended sentences or parole, others, like the case in Georgia have mandatory minimums. The cases are rock-solid. Trump's going to prison.

Yeah, inflation and crime rates are dropping and Trump's had more than his share of verbal flubs. Give it a few more months and Republicans will have nothing left to say, as Trump's criminal convictions pile up. His case on campaign finance violations starts next month. I get that Republicans like to point at Biden's gaffs, but even Biden can keep Pelosi & Hailey straight.

This case was never about ruining Trump's chances at being President again. It was only about holding him accountable for the laws he broke. Taking hundreds of $millions from the guy while he needs money for his campaigns is just an added bonus.

Judge orders Trump and his companies to pay $355 million in New York civil fraud case

* Trump fined $355 million (not the $370 million D.A. James asked for)
* Not including the $88 million Trump was ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll
* Don Jr. & Eric Trump each fined $4 million
* Trump's CFO Allen Weisselberg fined $1 million
* Trump's lawyers pledged to appeal the ruling.

So Trump's lying and cheating has cost him almost a half billion dollars so far. Ah ha ha ha!

1. Inflation started going up in 2020, and only reached its peak after Biden got to work, but it's back down now.
the annual inflation rates for dozens and dozens of goods routinely purchased by American households - including food - were already at their highest levels in a decade before Biden entered the White House

2. Maybe you could be more specific about world-wide opinions about The United States, but Biden's not the one pulling out of treaties and trying to dismantle NATO. That's Trump. Biden is working with our allies in Europe and Asia and elsewhere, unlike Trump, who was actually laughed at during world summits.
https://apnews.com/general-news-821dafb0b18a4dadb086216c08067df3

3. The US has several allies in the Middle East and while Israel may be the closest, they're not perfect. They apparently commit war crimes, targeting civilians in their fight against Hamas, but Biden is still working to get foreign aid to them and to the Palestinian civilians. Trump would've never been able to handle that kind of diplomacy.

4. And again, you bring up the curious statistic that 7/10 of Americans blame Biden for everything wrong. Got a link for that? Your claim looks like BS to me.