Peter

The Soul of God was his own soul. And he, the man, could perform miracles.

[Derek T @iamderekturbo]

Little happiness

[Niels Hoven 🐮 @NielsHoven]

The best way to calm an upset child is to be unbothered by the fact that they're upset.

Your confidence that they'll be okay becomes their confidence that they'll be okay.

I don't agree that it's useful or healthy to teach kids to dwell on negative emotions

Minor annoyances don't need to get "processed" as through they're moving through some multi-stage factory meat grinder

Especially with little kids, the most useful thing you can teach them is that they can just let those negative feelings go and move on to something else

Glad some many people enjoyed my oldest son getting distracted by a freezer

Here's my younger son getting distracted by a window

[⭒˚ ☀︎.⋆ @khalifaslimxx]

You don’t solve poverty by teaching everyone to become millionaires. You solve poverty by building an economy where ordinary work can produce a decent life.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

You don't need to listen to what wealthy people say about the future of education, you just need to look at what they do with their kids.

[Big Uncle @Usmanashafe]

This will make you laugh so much 🤣🤣

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

She explains it better here….

[Favour Ayorinde @viyancefavour]

I think we've spent too much energy on describing how big a billion is. Let's now focus on how small a billion really is.

If you had a billion dollars and you wanted to feed every starving child, you'd be able to do that once.

Literally just one meal and your entire billion dollars is gone.

How about housing homeless people? In the US alone, there's about 750k of them, with one billion, you'll house like 2000 of them. That's one in 375, less than 0.5%.

What about roads? Maybe you want to go to poor countries and build roads?

Well your billion dollars builds about 2000km of roads, that sounds like a lot, until you realise the poor country you're trying to help has like 150,000km of roads and your contribution is like 0.8% of the road network and it vanishes in like 5 years because there's no maintenance.

What about a powerplant then? Don't even get me started, you can't even build a proper coal plant with that kind of money. Say you did solar and renewables instead, you'll be able to power like 300k homes. Again, sounds large, but there's literally billions of people on the world, hundreds of millions in many countries. Your billion vanishes into thin air.

1 billion dollars is a lot of money for a single person, but it's a drop in the bucket for mass spending. This is why governments spend dozens to hundreds to even thousands of billions every year and even they struggle to get anything done at scale.

[GuruAnaerobic @GuruAnaerobic]

Died..."after years of heat and drought" - absolute garbage.

This tree was right at the edge of it's natural lifespan. The Woodland Trust states that an English Oak lives 600 to 1000 years..."it is often said that these trees spend 300 years growing, 300 years living, and 300 years in slow decline."

And the article itself states:

'Combining the increase in temperatures, conservation efforts dating back more than a century may also have unintentionally accelerated its decline. In 1904, metal chains and wooden props were installed beneath heavy branches to prevent them from collapsing.
Decades later, hollow sections were filled with concrete, while parts of the tree were covered with lead, fiberglass, and fire-retardant paint in an attempt to preserve it.
Experts now believe some of those interventions may have worked against the tree’s natural ageing process, explaining that ancient oaks typically shed limbs as they grow older, gradually retreating into their trunk and reducing the amount of water and nutrients they require to survive, which this tree was unable to do'.

Never let the truth get in the way of a climate change story.

[Aditya Mishra @adityamtweets]

Assume the movie had flopped and the director lost his entire $750,000 investment. How many crew members would have voluntarily returned their fees to help offset his loss?

This is the fundamental asymmetry in risk and reward. When someone puts up their own capital and shoulders the real financial risk especially in a high-failure industry like entertainment they alone bear the downside.

Yet the moment the project succeeds, suddenly everyone who was paid upfront wants a bigger piece of the pie. The same people who would not have shared in the loss now feel entitled to share disproportionately in the upside.

If you accept payment for your work regardless of outcome, you’ve already been compensated for your risk (or lack thereof). Why should the person who risked everything not be allowed to reap the rewards when their gamble pays off?

[pizza mert 🍕 @pizza990]

Speedpaint because uhhhhhhh people might wanna watch how this inspirational piece of Lex Luthor was created

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

Metaphors like eating the seed corn, killing the golden goose, burning the furniture to heat the house - these simply have no effect on people who have never created anything in their life

[Oluwatimileyin✨🦋 @Timmysofine]

If we apologized to children more, we would have more adults that accept accountability for their actions.

[Marie Isabella @MarieIsabellaB]

🕺🤣🤣

[Uncle 𝐍𝐄𝐁𝐎. @uncle_nebo]

Just repost.

[✧.* robin 💌 #1 gregson liker @perhapsGodot]

Slightly annoys me when people post the image on the right (AI-enhanced to look more like water) instead of the one on the left (original, real photo of cheesecake)

[ᥴꪮᦓꪑꪮ @jagrmeister]

My first child had a brain cyst detected in utero, and doctors told us there was an 80% chance she had Trisomy 18, with very little chance of survival. Abortion was never an option for my wife and me.

And here we are today, 23 years later. ❤️

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

I come from a good home. My parents taught me very well. But as I grow older and gain my own agency, I begin to see that many older people have a bit of rust in their heads. Look at the bunch of leaders we have in Nigeria today. Look at Bayo, Wike, Festus and their principal, Bola. All degenerate power drunks who would rather suppress people’s rights and the truth than solve security concerns.

[Jola @Jollz]

Our language around governance is so interesting in Nigeria. We talk like when someone wins an election, the money and resources of the state become their personal largesse and any progress or work that happens is because they’re kind enough to “dash” us.

[Jola @Jollz]

A governor doesn’t donate to security apparatus in the state. State resources are being used to fund the most basic tenet of governance; the protection of lives and property.

[Obasa Olorunfemi @extrafemi]

@NdukaEbubeDike “Nigerians do not know how violent Nigeria’s history is” Yes. There has been at least 24 major violent crisis over the last 95 years (1929 to date) and there are 7 clear repeating pattens.

link: https://t.co/6oO7zWb3qN