I have a theory but I can’t prove it.
And the theory is that what Nigerian telecoms are doing is Monetary-value billing instead of Volume-based billing.
Let me try and explain a bit.
Nobody in 1999 thought finishing Goblet of Fire was remarkable. It was 734 pages and kids read it in a weekend, in the car, under the covers, at recess. It wasn’t a feat of discipline. It was just what a book was. The length wasn’t a barrier; it was the point. You wanted more of the thing you liked.
So the surprise is the actual data point here. Astonishment is a measurement. When a whole timeline reacts to a normal childhood behavior as if it were a stunt, that tells you the baseline moved — and that people have quietly forgotten where it used to be.
Which is the part worth sitting with. We didn’t decide long books were too hard for kids. We just stopped noticing they weren’t, until the evidence looked exotic.
Konosuke Takeshita is genuinely the best wrestler alive right now and the fact that he's doing it in two companies
on two continents in the middle of a G1 is absurd. The man wrestled a PPV main event in Florida and a
tournament match in Japan in the same fortnight and looked fresher than guys who work eight minutes a month.
i hosted a watch party for the Conor McGregor fight tonight for my casual MMA fan friends, just checked my phone and i’ve been removed from all of the group chats
I don’t think I’ve seen anything wreck this kid quite like a girl finding him unappealing, so he’s going to be so gutted when he realizes this IDF kurve isn’t dating him because of his looksmaxxed rizz but because she’s a Mossadist honeypot and he’s her assignment lol
Reports that SummerSlam tickets aren't moving is the funniest possible outcome for a company that spent two
years telling us every show is the biggest show ever. You cannot call it the Biggest Party of the Summer eleven
times and then act surprised when nobody dresses up. Punk vs Cody should be selling the building on its own.
It's a card problem, not a fan problem.
Sami Zayn held the Undisputed WWE Championship for nine days and people are already writing him off. Nine
days. The man got the moment he'd been chasing for twenty years and the company treated it like a bus stop on
the way to Punk. I'm not even mad about Punk winning in Chicago, that's the correct booking. I'm mad they built
Sami up for a decade to hand him a nine-day reign and a shrug.
And as he is walking into that venue with his shaved-down Afro hair, he is going to plop on a mandatory powdered wig because an English king in the 17th century was balding from syphilis.
Are we cursed as a people?
this is hilarious and also proves the problem across all countries is the same: native populations dont want to pay more for services but also dont want to do services for cheap and want an underclass to do it
In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded.
"You type in the question… like 'How can I build a bomb?', and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot. We used it a lot."
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