Your fucking brain is a nerve centre, do you understand what a NERVE IS?
It's meant to sense, feel. It's connected to more nerves. So, u can't exist without feeling. You can't just always ignore, let it slide. It's not a muscle! It doesn't get stronger with suffering. It's damage
My mom didn't raise a quitter but she did raise a tactical prodigy that has accessed the situation at hand and has determined that he doesn't really wanna do this anymore
41 ambulances, acquired for R41 million, have been standing idle at the Florida Park Fire Station for six years. The ambulances can no longer operate after Gauteng Health provincialised emergency medical services. Tune in to #eNCA on #DStv403.
Imagine you are Swiss.
Life is good. The climate is great for most of the year.
You are wealthier than the average person in Europe.
You have direct democracy.
And then you find out that 80.5% of asylum seekers from North Africa (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) have been accused of one or more crimes.
For comparison: 12.3% of those from all other countries have been accused of a crime.
Only 0.6% of Swiss nationals have been accused of a crime.
You would think that these North Africans would be deported.
Ah no…not quite.
Because 90% of them arrive without papers it is illegal to deport them anywhere.
Some hang around in Switzerland but many go on to countries (like the UK) where they can get accommodation, money, phones.
Western civilisation is dying because of our addiction to silly laws that benefit criminals over the innocent population.
Informal economy expert GG Alcock shared details about a man who runs a butchery, collects childcare and old age grants, and pays no tax.
https://t.co/n4CQTbOEFW
The Turks have somehow overcomplicated coffee.
In the Netherlands, coffee has a simple purpose. You pour hot water through ground beans, drink it, regain the will to participate in society, and continue your day.
Turkey looked at this and apparently thought: far too efficient.
Turkish coffee feels like a small ceremony where caffeine happens to be involved. Tiny pot, tiny cup, very specific preparation, foam that apparently matters enormously, and then enough coffee grounds at the bottom to resurface a provincial road.
The first time I had one, I genuinely wondered whether I was supposed to drink the last centimetre.
Apparently not.
But I love the ritual around it. Turkey has always fascinated me because it feels like several worlds squeezed into one country. Europe on one side, Asia on the other, the Mediterranean below, the Black Sea above. Geography itself seems slightly confused about where Turkey belongs.
And then there is Turkish hospitality. A Dutchman offers you coffee. A Turk appears determined to feed you until refusing another plate becomes a diplomatic incident.
So yes, Turkish coffee is unnecessarily complicated.
But perhaps that's the point.
Not everything needs to be efficient.
Although I still don't trust the mud at the bottom.
WATCH: Two people killed after their gyrocopter strikes cable car lines in the upper Antrona Valley, on the border between Ossola and Switzerland.
Several helicopters intervened on the spot, including that of the 118 which departed from Borgosesia and the Dragon of the fire brigade from Malpensa, as well as rescue personnel, law enforcement and firefighters from the ground and the Sagf.
The accident occurred in the area of the Campliccioli dam, in the upper Antrona Valley, at about 1,350 meters above sea level. The reservoir is located above Antrona Schieranco, in a mountainous area surrounded by woods and alpine reliefs, which can be reached via the road that goes up the valley. The dam and the lake of Campliccioli are one of the most famous points of the upper valley, frequented especially during the summer season.
Scientists have turned plastic bottles into edible cookies called µBites
They're made by taking the microbes out of the plastic and rebuilding them into “something like a protein”
33 people are shot dead in South Africa every day. This week, the UN handed that country the gavel at its Arms Trade Treaty conference.
South Africa passed some of the strictest gun laws on earth. Citizens surrendered their guns under threat of prison. Then police tasked with destroying those guns sold them to street gangs.
More than 1,000 murders have been traced to those firearms, including hundreds of children.
The state took their guns and armed their killers.
And South Africa isn’t the cautionary tale at this conference. It’s presiding over it.
So I flew to Geneva and said it to their faces.
Full speech below.