Michael Webber

Billionaire philanthropist, motorcycle athlete, model and liar. Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

[Scoop 🐻 ☕️ @Rugby_Scoop]

Herchelle Gibbs was better than Sacha & Willemse at Craven Week

[Ronald Christ @RonaldCHRIST12]

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

[Richard Spoor @Richard_Spoor]

An almost unbelievable story. Local amateur pilot and professional drug smuggler did 30 x 40 hour Atlantic crossings, Brazil / SA, alone in a tiny SA built Sling 4 aircraft. Truly astonishing. https://t.co/WMZwdngpch

[Michael Webber @MichaelWebber76]

@nickchmi @wil_da_beast630 And yet, at the same time, they reject that allowing unchecked immigration that degrades a countries native culture is "genocide" despite it meeting their own definition.

[Michael Webber @MichaelWebber76]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Michael Webber @MichaelWebber76]

@baylissbaghdad I've found this in many '3rd world' places. They genuinely seem to comprehend 'paying it forward' in interpersonal relationships.

[XX-XY Athletics @xx_xyathletics]

In honor of #XXDay tomorrow, please join us in asking @Nike to do the right thing & stand up for girls, by sharing our new ad, "Dear Nike".

[kalpesh @Kalpeshtweets]

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That Australian team was something else, and defeating them by chasing down such a huge total is a remarkable achievement. 💥

[Conor Moore @ConorSketches]

Zero margin for error as the second half of the f1 season is here! Let’s G0.0 #ad

[Lewis Pugh @LewisPugh]

“It’s a careful balance of wanting that medal but not needing it.” Such inspiring, wise words from Jemima Montag in her post-race interview. Every parent should share this with their children 🥇🎥

[Arjun Khemani @arjunkhemani]

Peter Thiel on many great startups being run by people suffering from a mild form of Asperger’s and how we should view this as an indictment of our society.

[Michael Webber @MichaelWebber76]

Interesting new term being used in the 1st world: 'Driving manually...' not to be confused with 'Driving a manual'. Tesla is redefining what 'driving' is.

[Michael Webber @MichaelWebber76]

@bronwynwilliams Its a trap.

[Bronwyn Williams @bronwynwilliams]

Hey, people of the East Coast (I’m looking at you @JamesPrestonZA and @KirstyBisset and @BarryTuck )

If you’re interested in The Future, how about you come say hi to @fluxtrends and @heavychef next week?

https://t.co/lxFZn0AleX

[Bebé @NoozBebe_]

Shortened #SONA2024

• Mourn thy neighbour- Namibian prez.
• Remember that horrible time in 1994? 😉 Vote emotionally.
• Cue in Mandela's name and that one famous Zulu king.
• Talk of the constitution and imaginary kumbaya session between South Africans of different backgrounds.
• Bragging about creating opportunities that, and I quote, "never existed before."
• 2008 global recession blamed for local poverty.
• Putin and Zelensky's war also got stray bullets.
• Money was stolen from the government, by government. Everyone knows all who are implicated, but we're all just gonna wait for one of them to die off or something. State capture!
• More thinly veiled jibes at Jay-Z now that he's got a new gig.
• Covid. Bladdy covid.
• Men are beating and killing women. Guys we gotta do something about it. Anyway...
• Climate change, hey.
• Tinswalo was born in 1994 and we're going to use her life as an analogy for this country's devolution. (I'd hate to be Tinswalo)
• Tinswalo lived a state-funded life so she's lucky to be alive because we funded her existence.
• I'm mentioning some facts that you're aware of as an ordinary South African so that you can see that I'm aware of things. Unemployment. Uhm... youths are unemployed. The Unemployment of youths. Yes.
• We have more black managers in the country (the country where the majority is black. Yes that country.)
• Let's rebuild (the things that our government neglected for years)
• State capture! Again.
• We're going to end loadshedding. One day. Some day. At some point in time.
• We're building more power lines over the next 5 years. 😉 vote for my party.
• There's a new fund to steal from: the Climate Change Response fund. Yay!
• There was traffic at our ports. We haven't fully cleared it, but we want you to know that we know. Also, the war in the Middle-East means we can gain by being a docking station. Hello Vasco da Gama.
• More people have Internet because of us (✋️😀 daddy, that's a global thing hey.)
• There will be a really really fast train between Joburg and Durbs. (But sir, the slower, cheaper train has failed for years now...)
• We're going to end loadshedding. You'll see. Stru. Mafra. I swear.
• On employment, we're doing great guys. Forget what I said earlier. We created jobs. We're also giving out free money.
• People are dying later in life now (so that they can enjoy this pitiful existence for an extended period. Yay)
• You think you have no water? Huh?! Apartheid was worse. Enjoy watershedding, you thankless lot.
• Political jargon and gibberish to pass time and make the speech longer.
• Crime! Ohhh we're definitely dealing with those guys hey. Look at all the security forces we're forming. We're fighting crime. Bringing our bicycles to an F1 race right here, baby. Winning!
• We are solving global wars! Well, not solving, but saying something about it. (READ: We are writing stern letters to the BBC.)
• Mention of Africa, for ambiance.
• Covid again.
• Cue in the violins as I speak like we're equals.
• We've been through a lot together, guys.
• I know what you're thing through.
• Democracy. My party. Economic growth.
• Apartheid. Jibe at EFF.
• I was physically there when the constitution was penned. In not your mate. I'm superior.
• The next 30 years are gonna be a jol, guys. (lol)
• Cue in the Mandela quote. Blah blah, fishpaste.
• "Like Madiba, we must keep moving, always forward." (Does he know about 5 Dec 2005? 👀)

[Michael Webber @MichaelWebber76]

@whyvert I think Johann Ruperts' net worth is $12bil now. I would class the Oppenheimers' as Afrikaaner from German roots.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

This report is wild.

From about the 20th to the 85th percentile of the income distribution, growth in South Africa is down to redistribution.

[Michael Webber @MichaelWebber76]

@bronwynwilliams Related post

https://t.co/Iru6kiY9BX

[Luis Cuende @luisc]

1. Easy question with a hard answer: if you are someone bright in your 20s, where should you live?

The “first world” is rapidly decaying, while promising developing countries aren’t quite there yet.

We might still be in the first rectangle, but we might drop into the reds soon.

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

The Male vs Female Brain: Key Differences

Females: Superior episodic memory, language abilities, emotional processing, social cognition. Optimised for language, social information, emotional experiences.

Males: Better spatial abilities, decision-making in risk, object feature processing. Optimised for object analysis, spatial navigation, social hierarchy cognition.

Takeaway: Interventions to get more women in STEM fields that are object-focused & not people-focused are probably a waste of time.

https://t.co/2ucX1EEv3g