Adriaan Windt

Passionate about improvement science | Retired from Healthcare🩺 | Volunteer for disabilities charity 🤝 | Seeker of wisdom 🧠 | Vision & Values-driven 💡

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@jon_cardinelli The surprise for me; B-J Dixon's performance as #4 lock

That brings into play another lock option for consideration in the future

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@jaredwright17 That will change the dynamics; both locks and the #6 can play 80 minutes.

BJD can play lock or #7

The change in strategy will be interesting to watch

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@SARugbymag I say the exact opposite

We will find out; soon

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@RugbyInsideLine Watch out!

You get grumpy when you get older

Eina!

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@SARugbymag In celebration of Henry Pollock's arrival in SA, Schalk Burger will dye his hair blond

Bring the paintbrush JdV!

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@DaveWessels When I was a team physician, I was ON the team; simply serving in a different capacity; not more/less important, just a different role

From a young age, parents are also ON the team!

[Dave Wessels @DaveWessels]

Privileged to know the support crew behind the Boks. Very special people!

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@Gina_T1 @grok Bombardier

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@ABDanielleSmith You have just said we should be viewed separate from Canada

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@DavidFischer Amplified and NASB

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I read a book with the title The Art of Making Sense in 1975

My impression is that no book on that topic has been written since; sadly

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@RugbyCanada @RugbyOntario @BMOField @CanadianTire @cityoftoronto @ProvOfOntario I watched these 2 teams play in Vancouver (2024?)

If you love rugby, this is a must see

The best 2 teams in the world; take your kids!

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself.

Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.”

Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules.

We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch.

Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”

The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere.

That is not a funding problem.

That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision.

Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”

That sentence should keep you up tonight.

We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not.

It is the opposite.

Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself.

Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”

They did not run out of stone.

They were not conquered.

They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone.

That is the real threat to everything we have built.

Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse.

A quiet forgetting.

Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people.

The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves.

And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud.

We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us.

Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline.

One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken.

You do not lose the future in a war.

You lose it in your sleep.

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@kathyflett1 @johnrbolton01 @stayfreealberta Her real test will come soon: Does she really believe in the democratic process?

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@wealthmoose @elonmusk He is too smart to consider that; wrong question

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@ThrillaRilla369 Yes

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@SARugbymag Lekker

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@SARugbymag Who else thinks he received a call from Rassie?

[Danielle Smith @ABDanielleSmith]

Today, over 2.4 billion Christians across Alberta and around the world mark Good Friday.

It is a solemn day of reflection, sacrifice, and faith. A reminder of the enduring values of grace, humility, and redemption that continue to shape our communities.

To all those observing, I wish you a peaceful and meaningful Good Friday.

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