Ibrahim Khalid

Patriot, Entrepreneur, Old Ravian, Bs (Hons) Acc & Finance graduate & MBA

[Words & Wisdom @WordsnWisdom26]

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."

— Charles Bukowski

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.”

- Carl Jung

Jung viewed life as having a psychological “morning” and “afternoon,” with the transition into middle age beginning roughly between 35 and 40.

In his 1930 essay The Stages of Life, Jung argued that the first half of adulthood is largely focused on establishing yourself in the outside world: building a career, relationships, a family, and a social identity. Around midlife, he believed these goals could become less psychologically fulfilling, prompting a growing shift inward toward meaning, self-understanding, and what he called individuation.

Jung famously described this transition as entering the “afternoon of life.” He warned that people often entered this stage carrying the same ambitions and assumptions that had guided them in their youth, even though the second half of life demanded a different set of psychological tasks.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“Nature does not punish the evil, it punishes the weak.”

- Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche argued that nature exists outside human concepts of morality. In his view, ideas such as good and evil are human constructions, not universal principles that govern reality. Nature does not recognize moral virtue, meaning it offers no guarantee of cosmic justice for those who do wrong.

Instead, forces such as disease, environmental change, and predation test an organism’s physical strength, resilience, and ability to adapt. Survival, in this sense, depends on an organism’s capacity to endure and adjust—not on whether it is morally good or bad.

[Ali Khan Tareen @aliktareen]

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[NiK @Oye_Nik]

Growing up is understanding that in Titanic, Rose decides to throw away a $250 million pendant in memory of an unemployed man who she had sex with one time.

Meanwhile, her husband worked hard all his life to maintain her and give her and her children a life of luxury, who would surely have also appreciated the inheritance and lived peacefully.

She could of also given the pendant to her Granddaughter who took care of her, her whole life.

The real villain of the movie gentlemen, no doubt it was Rose.

[AnderSon @Ambrose0_X]

"Sorry for the late reply" makes you look junior.

Senior leaders never say it.

Here are 6 things they say instead:

[Craft Gallery @5min__crafts]

You should know 😯

[The Data of Everything @TheDataHubX]

When Did These Things Come Into Existence?

1. 🌐 World Wide Web - 1991
2. 📱 Smartphones - 1994
3. 📺 Digital TV - 1998
4. 📀 DVD - 1996
5. 📶 Wi-Fi - 1997
6. 🔌 USB - 1996
7. 🟦 Bluetooth - 1999
8. 📷 Camera Phones - 1999
9. 📱 BlackBerry - 1999
10. 📱 Nokia 9000 Communicator - 1996
11. 🔳 QR Code - 1994
12. 🔎 Google - 1998
13. 🛒 Amazon - 1994
14. 🛍️ eBay - 1995
15. 💳 PayPal - 1998
16. 📧 Hotmail - 1996
17. 💬 ICQ - 1996
18. 🟨 Yahoo! - 1994
19. 🎬 Netflix - 1997
20. 📹 TiVo - 1999
21. 🎵 Napster - 1999
22. 📝 Blogger - 1999
23. 📖 Wikipedia - 2001
24. 🎵 iPod - 2001
25. 🎮 Xbox - 2001
26. 🎮 PlayStation 2 - 2000
27. 💼 LinkedIn - 2003
28. 🎮 Steam - 2003
29. 📞 Skype - 2003
30. 👥 Facebook - 2004
31. 📧 Gmail - 2004
32. 📸 Flickr - 2004
33. 🌐 Google Earth - 2005
34. ▶️ YouTube - 2005
35. 🗺️ Google Maps - 2005
36. 🎮 Nintendo Wii - 2006
37. 🐦 Twitter - 2006
38. 💿 Blu-ray - 2006
39. 📱 iPhone - 2007
40. 🤖 Android - 2008
41. 🛍️ App Store - 2008
42. 📚 Kindle - 2007
43. 🎵 Spotify - 2008
44. 🏠 Airbnb - 2008
45. 🚗 Tesla Roadster - 2008
46. 💻 Google Chrome - 2008
47. 📂 Dropbox - 2007
48. 💬 WhatsApp - 2009
49. 🚕 Uber - 2009
50. ₿ Bitcoin - 2009

[ZEShan ⚫ @zeshmohmand]

دوبئی UAE کے بارے میں انکشافات!!

دوبئی کو عمارتوں، سڑکوں اور جدید ٹیکنالوجی سے لیس ریلوے سسٹم سے بھر دیا گیا۔ یہاں بڑے بڑے ہوٹل، برج خلیفہ اور پام جیسے بڑے پراجیکٹس کھڑے کیے گئے، لیکن اب یہ بڑے بڑے ہوٹل خالی پڑے ہیں، کئی ہوٹلوں کو بند کر دیا گیا ہے اب (UAE) دن بدن خالی ہوتا جا رہا ہے, وہ دوبئی نہیں رہا جو 2022 سے پہلے ہؤا کرتا تھا, اور یہ ایران جنگ کی وجہ سے نہیں بلکہ دوبئی کو اب پوری دنیا دیکھ چکا, ایک چھوٹا سے شہر اس میں عمارات ہے, ایک بیچ ہے بس اب لوگ دیکھ دیکھ کر تھک چکے ہیں!!

[Mir Mohammad Alikhan @MirMAKOfficial]

یہ جنھوں نے بنایا نہ اٗس وقت اُن کے پاس یونیورسٹیز کی ڈگریاں تھیں نا کمپیوٹر تھے نہ ریسرچ کے لئیے Ai تھا نہ فورا اطلاع دینے کے لیئے موبائل فون تھا نہ کرینز تھیں وزن اُٹھانے کے لئیے نہ کیمرے تھے اپنی کاریگری کے شاہکاروں کو محفوظ کرنے کے لئیے۔

مگر پھر بھی ریناسانز کا دور وہ شاہکار چھوڑ گیا جو آج کی ترقی یافتہ دُنیا سوچ بھی نہیں سکتی بنانے کا۔ آرٹ۔ سائیٹس۔ فلاسفی۔ عمارات۔

کیا وہ دور آج سے زیادہ ترقی یافتہ تھا ؟

[Mind Matter @MindMatter28]

You are bored because you are not doing side quests.

Life is not just work and lying in bed doing nothing.

Here are 50 side quests every man should complete:

[South Asia Index @SouthAsiaIndex]

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are to announce a trilateral defence pact today, termed as “Mecca Agreement.”

◾“Mecca Agreement” will form a joint "Muslim-NATO" like Force, amid the rapidly changing security situation in the Middle East and beyond.

◾ “Saudi financial muscle, Turkish defence tech & Pakistan's military might and Nuclear umbrella will make this a game changer alliance.”, - Experts

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

Before 2008, the world satisfying pitied China.

After August 8th, 2008, at exactly 8:08 PM, the world satisfying feared it.

WHY?

This one ceremony satisfyingly changed everything.

The 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony wasn't actually about the Olympics.

It was a masterclass in a country announcing itself to the world in a way that couldn't be ignored, misunderstood, or forgotten. Every element served a single purpose: to convince 4 billion people watching that China had arrived not as a developing nation seeking permission, but as a civilization reclaiming its place.

Most Western observers watched it as spectacle. They counted the performers. They marveled at the coordination. They noted the absurdity of 2,008 drummers doing precisely the same thing, or 897 actors forming perfect geometric shapes without a single body out of place. It felt inhuman. It felt controlled. It felt dystopian to audiences raised on the myth that freedom means chaos and individuality means imperfection.

That was the entire point.

The ceremony wasn't designed for Western sensibilities. It was designed for a Chinese audience, for Asian audiences, for developing nations watching, and for the message underneath all the spectacle. That message was simple and devastating: we can coordinate at a scale you cannot. We can move bodies through space with precision you cannot achieve. We can plan something this complex and execute it without deviation. We do not ask permission. We do not wait for international approval. We simply do.

Zhang Yimou, the director, wasn't trying to make Cirque du Soleil in a stadium. He was orchestrating a four hour argument that began when the first drum hit and didn't end until the cauldron lit.

Consider the opening segment. Thousands of people moving in synchronized formations, each person occupying a specific position, each gesture timed to the microsecond. In the West, we saw this as oppressive. In China, in much of Asia, audiences saw something different: proof of capability. Proof that a system could move millions of people with intention. That efficiency and scale weren't just economic concepts but cultural values made visible.

The technological innovations hidden inside the ceremony operated at levels most viewers never consciously registered. The moving LED floor alone required coordination between dancers, light operators, and computer systems that had never been attempted at that scale before. One mistake, one miscalibration, one person three inches to the left, and the entire visual effect collapsed. They rehearsed for months. They trained thousands of performers to execute movements with Olympic athlete precision, except they were artists and soldiers and students, not just elite specialists.

What China was saying without words: we can train anyone to do anything. We can take ordinary people and turn them into perfect components. That's not dystopian if you believe the collective good matters more than individual expression. That's simply efficiency. That's power.

The narrative arc was equally deliberate. It didn't begin with modern China. It began with ancient China, with calligraphy and silk and the inventions that shaped human civilization centuries ago. Confucius appeared. Traditional instruments filled the stadium. The ceremony was saying: you think we're new? You think this is an aberration? We invented civilization. We invented printing. We invented gunpowder. We invented paper. We were doing this when your ancestors were figuring out agriculture.

Then it pivoted. The ancient merged into the industrial. Performers became machines. The visual language shifted from organic to geometric. The message became clear: we have transcended tradition. We are modern now. We are not choosing between old and new. We are synthesizing both.

The economics underlying the entire production went largely unremarked. China spent an estimated $44 million on the ceremony. That was roughly the entire Olympic budget for many countries. They were literally spending money at a different scale, on something that had zero direct economic return, just to make a statement. That capability, that willingness to deploy resources for symbolic power, said something crucial about where China existed in the global hierarchy.

Western media coverage focused on the human rights angle, and that criticism was legitimate. But it also missed something crucial: the ceremony worked. It fundamentally shifted how the world perceived China in a single evening. Before 2008, China was the factory of the world, cheap labor, pollution, human rights abuses. After 2008, China was a civilization that could coordinate at continental scale, that could produce spectacle and technological innovation simultaneously, that could make its citizens move in perfect unison and call it beauty.

That reframing didn't happen by accident.

The ceremony revealed something about power that we still don't fully process. Soft power, cultural influence, the ability to shape perception without military force, requires resources and will and vision. It requires understanding that sometimes you spend enormous amounts on something that produces no widget, no product, no measurable economic output. You do it because the image, the memory, the shift in how people perceive you, is worth more than the money.

The United States understood this in 1984 when Los Angeles hosted the Olympics. The opening ceremony was a statement of American technological confidence and cultural exuberance. It worked. It changed how the world saw American innovation and optimism.

Beijing learned that lesson and executed it larger.

Seventeen years later, we're still living in a world partially reshaped by four hours in August 2008. China's confidence in its own system increased. Investment in the country accelerated. Western corporations decided this was a market worth entering seriously. The psychological permission structure shifted. A country that could pull off that ceremony could pull off anything.

We forget that ceremonies, symbols, and collective performances aren't just cultural artifacts. They're instruments of statecraft. They move capital. They shift allegiances. They change which countries investors bet on and which ones they avoid. They make populations believe things about themselves that they then make true through effort and confidence.

Zhang Yimou understood that when he choreographed 15,000 people to move as a single organism. He was writing a chapter of history in real time. The chapter was about a country that had learned the language of power and decided to speak it fluently, perfectly, and loudly enough that no one could pretend not to hear.

That's why it can't be forgotten.

[چوہدری شاہد محمود @CSMR786]

یہ مولانہ طارق جمیل کے چھوٹے بھائی کی حویلی ھے۔ زرا شان و شوکت ملاحظہ فرمائیں۔۔ اتنا پیسہ کہاں سے آتا ان لوگوں کے پاس؟؟

[Miftah Ismail @MiftahIsmail]

In the year 2000, Pakistan’s per capita GDP, at purchasing power parity, was $2880, higher than India’s at $2010 and Bangladesh at $1620. We were 43% richer than an average Indian and 77% richer than an average Bangladeshi. Today we are at $6480, Bangladesh at $9180 and India at $12,560. So an Indian is 94% is richer than us and an average Bangladeshi is 42% richer than us. This is the most important story of our national governance system over the last 26 years.

In the last 4 years we have taken debt of Rs 40,000 billion. In the first 75 years we took debt of Rs 45,000 bn. Our tax revenues have doubled over the last four years and yet people today are poorer than in 2014/15 and 2018/19. 29% Pakistanis are poor (with monthly resources of less than Rs 8485). We eat less of all commodities, including atta and rice, meaning Pakistanis are going hungry. Of course we spend over Rs 400 crore to run the PM house and the President house.

Over this period we have seen Gen Musharraf, President Zardari, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Imran Khan and Mian Shehbaz Sharif at the helm, along with a few caretakers. We have seen military, civilian and hybrid governments. What we have not seen is progress. None.

Education: 39% or over 2 crore 60 lakh kids are out of school. And a majority of kids in school cannot read, write or do arithmetic at their class level. Our education system is failing our kids and we are just spectators at this dismal state of affairs. Is there anyway a nation can develop without its kids being educated? Also Sindh govt just released billions in media ads.

Health: 7500 kids have been infected in Pakistan with HIV (that causes AIDS). Mostly due to used needles and unscreened blood. Pakistan has the second highest neonatal mortality rate in the world, worse than South Sudan, Eritrea and Chad. 40% of our children are stunted. 42% of our women have iron deficiency. 1 in 5 people in the world with Hepatitis is a Pakistani. Also Punjab govt recently bought a Rs 1100 crore plane and 4 Mercedes cars for over Rs 100 crore.

Our provinces are under civilian control since 2008. The NFC making them flush with cash came in 2009. The 18th amendment giving them new authorities came in 2010. But there isn’t a Provincial Finance Award in a single province. No political party (PTI, PPP or Noon) has established empowered local government. They won’t let go of power and cash.

Our system of governance has failed and failed completely. Awaam Pakistan party has been saying it from the day the party started.

Where do we go from here.
Empowered, federally financed and constitutionally protected LGs. Failing which smaller provinces. But now. We cannot afford to wait forever.

Direct elections to all executive offices in local governments and provinces. Essential for breaking the hold of fossilised political parties.

Reform of NFC. School vouchers for all poor kids. Forming of school boards with hiring and firing powers all in govt schools composing of parents and officials. Badly run govt hospitals to be transferred to trusts and govt to keep funding at current levels. Ending of lifetime employment for bureaucrats. You work, you stay. Or go home. No ghost workers or teachers.

Reduce the size of government. Move to economically efficient way of pricing power and gas so they become cheaper.

But parties that are part of the problem and beneficiaries of the system will not want to change. So they need to be removed from the govt. They weren’t fairly elected anyway.

National reconciliation.

Continuous and major reforms.

Otherwise our relative decline will continue. Hunger and illiteracy will become more widespread.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

People often underestimate the true size of Australia. It is the only country in the world that is also considered a continent, covering an enormous landmass despite being surrounded by ocean.

Australia is the sixth-largest country in the world and is roughly 95% the size of the contiguous United States. Despite its massive land area, it has a population of only around 27 million people, with most residents concentrated along the coast while much of the interior remains sparsely inhabited.

The distance across Australia is difficult to grasp. A drive from Perth to Sydney covers nearly 3,900 kilometers (2,400 miles) and takes around 41 to 42 hours without long breaks, which is comparable to driving from Los Angeles to New York City.

For comparison, a carefully planned 41- to 42-hour road trip through Europe could take you across roughly 16 different countries, highlighting just how vast Australia truly is.

[Today I Learned @TodayiLearrned]

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[Shahid Chaudhary @Fani2536]

اشرف مخلوق تو انسان ہیں نا؟؟
پھر یہ مخلوق اعلی معیار پہ کیسے پہنچ گئ؟؟؟

[Omni™ @smokelessworld]

80% of American physicians still believe nicotine itself causes cancer.

This week, Elaine Round, SVP of Science & Regulatory Affairs at @RAI_News, joins Dr James Murphy on The @SmokelessWord: Live from the Lab to dismantle misconceptions with evidence.

Trailer below