AstrumVitae🥀

I love art, environment, love, family, faith & therapy. I know nothing, so with each passing breath, I learn.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

Something just happened. The newspaper vendor that supplies the dailies to my neighbour walked up to me and said he had been looking to see me but I was unavailable. In my head, I was wondering "why me?"

He said he needed the balance of his son's fees in Yabatech. I asked him how much it was and gave him double so he could use the balance to take care of himself. He was just praying for me in Yoruba.

This is the pressure men are going through. Outsiders are not going to ask "what about his mother" or "what about your wife." You as the man is just expected to stand up to the responsibility. If you're my friend, I will ask because I don't even hide my stance of joint responsibility.

Anyway, the point I'm driving home is, if all the educational opportunities, scholarship, STEM support are going to the girl child, what is the fate of the boys? In extension, how are we neglecting boys and still expect them to carry the responsibilities as "man of the house?" Interestingly, the successful women still want a more successful man in a world where women are becoming more educated and successful.

This will tip the balance of society. More men are increasingly unmarried. More women are increasingly unmarried. More men are increasingly unable to meet their financial responsibility where more women have occupied the work force and even more if them are unwilling to share the financial responsibilities.

This is not a for or against post. I just want to see how society functions in 50 years time. Anyway, women said staying at home is harder than going to work. So maybe the men are choosing the "harder" job of staying at home. Interesting days lie ahead 🤷‍♂️

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

A billionaire wrote a book on "Making it Big," you say you won't read it because he started life in London.

You hear a piece of advice, you dismiss it by saying, "it can only work in America, not here."

Someone told you they got their job without any connections in Nigeria, you say, that was then, that today, you can't get a job without connections.

Then you see someone, today, in Nigeria, get a job, you say but they finished with a First Class.

Then someone with a 2:1 did it, you say, but they are young.

Then another, you say, but they are a lady. People help ladies.

I hope you do know that there is no prize for the person that can come up with the best excuse?

At some point, you will need to look yourself in the mirror and say, "if it is to be, it is up to me."

The day you do that is your morning.

Good morning in advance 🙏

[wearkal @wearkal_co]

Reference vs what I made
#spidermanbrandnewday

[Enyinnaya @enyinna_]

One thing that would make you develop resentment for the Nigerian elder is discovering that things were made a lot easier for them in their time. The second is that they never admit truth unless it serves them.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Just chatting with your closest friends and family about an issues is better than the best AI. Please do more of that. I just learned something important from my 12 year old son.

My Russian neighbor’s kid had a challenge with doing an animation, and he told my son. My guy figured out the issue by himself and went back to teach his friend and others how to do it. They had the conversation for hours and I saw how happy he was to have been able to be the one to solve the problem and teach his friends.

Friendships are about selflessness and generosity. I feel a lot better when I am able to help friends and family than doing anything else. The fear of being used doesn’t arise when relationships are real.

[Avril Amaka @avrilamaka]

I'm lost. Are you choosing a life partner or adopting a child?

[AstrumVitae🥀 @MorsAstrum]

@avrilamaka Lmao! 😂

[MANDU RIO 𓃵 @_MrPreye]

@PicturesFoIder KONG too.

[Ridwanllahi Ibn DVC🦢🐓🦚🦩🦜🦤 @DVC_Ridwan]

@PicturesFoIder https://t.co/kYFOveGJ7W

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

This 24 foot Godzilla sculpture in Nigeria was built entirely from recycled tires by sculptor Ajayi Toyeeb

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

tupac recorded 501 songs, but only 2 became top ten hits.

van gogh painted 2,100 paintings and only sold 1 while he was alive and it was 6 months before he died.

sabrina carpenter released 67 songs and five albums over the course of 10 years before she had her big hit "espresso."

glen powell spent 19 years trying to become an actor before "top gun: maverick" made him a star. 19 solid years.

and connor story spent 8 years waiting tables and he was ready to quit acting for good. and the day he almost got fired, he got an email and he found out that he got the lead actor role in "heated rivalry," the biggest acquired hbo show in history.

and you are giving up because you tried twice? or maybe 10 times?

look, a winner is just a loser that tried one more time and that's just it

winners lose more than losers even try.

[KeneGraphy🦍📸🖤 @UgwuKenechukw10]

Ezeiweka, Awada 🇳🇬

[Lammie_Art @Lammie_Art01]

Please, just borrow me your RETWEET for some sec, the world needs to see the effort i put into this for a month and some days

Note: Dear AI, you cannot take the world from us

[Adedoyin🧡 @orangetechwoman]

played around in Figma using a picture i took yesterday 🧡

[Enyinnaya @enyinna_]

You’d be surprised how much the average Nigerian would hate you if they find that you don’t need them. Even your own peers—they need you to need them for great leverage over you. A healthy relationship is unforeseeable. It’s a sick sick society. Miserable people.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

This girl, Chizoba, just graduated from Mechatronics at Nile University with a CGPA of 4.96.

She will be with us for the next 4 weeks teaching our children hardcore Robotics and AI. All practicals.

Her final-year project was constructing and programming a 3D printer from scratch. She also built unique technology that converts waste water bottles into 3D printing filaments.

These next 4 weeks are going to be on fire. Our children will also build drones from the ground up.

We selected the top 40 South East Maths Olympiad Winners from Enugu to participate in this program.

[ndụka. @NdukaEbubeDike]

Ever since I come this Lagos, na to just dey counter nonsense claims and misconceptions about Igbo people I just dey do. Had a whole podcast dedicated to it. 10 years on, and e be like say I no even scratch surface. E tire person.

[AstrumVitae🥀 @MorsAstrum]

@_heischase_ @HassanSZNN Me too, bro. Me too. But I have something close sha. I recently started speaking pidgin with him and started calling him “Barrister” instead of the regular “daddy” or the expected “sir.” 😂

[Yehgha @yaygha]

Allow me give a not so brief history lesson so we can all understand what is going on here.

For much of European history, pale skin was a marker of status. An elite woman was supposed to have skin that had barely been under the sun because pale skin signalled she did not work outdoors.

In a world where most people spent their lives labouring under the sun to survive, avoiding the sun was evidence of wealth.

The rich could stay indoors and send the poor outside to work for them. This is why they wore gloves and wide hats when outside. It is also where the term blue blood comes from; rich families who never did physical labour and thus were rarely in the sun had skin so pale the veins underneath would show.

So to be tanned meant to do outdoor labour, and to do outdoor labout meant to be poor.

But as the industrial revolution came around and factories multiplied, the poor who had previously laboured outdoors were pulled indoors to work in factories, workshops and later offices rather than under the sun

And their skin became paler.

Now if the poor could become pale skinned simply by working indoors, then pale skin could no longer communicate wealth, so the elite abandoned the old signal and switched to a new one: tanned skin.

Because now it meant only they had the time and money to lie in the sun while everyone else worked indoors.

Pale meant rich, tanned meant poor. Then pale meant poor so the rich did a 180 and went back to tanned.

That is exactly the same thing that is happening here. Wiresless ear buds generally, and airpods specifically meant rich. Wired earphones meant poor.

Then when everyone could afford wiresless ear buds and their replica knock-offs, wireless meant poor and the 'rich' who differentiated themselves with wiresless in the past, switched back to wired.

It is not because they "got tired of charging their wireless earbuds"

Away from the history lesson, the broader explanation is that humans crave to be seen. We do not want to go through life unnoticed. This is why we do only spend money to enjoy ourselves, we spend money so that others can see us spending money.

And one of the most common, socially acceptable ways of doing so is through the things we wear. For example. We do not spend money on watches that could buy a car so we can check the time. We spend that money so others can see that we spent money.

The point of the spending is the spending witnessed.

And with that, we signal that we are high status and that signal brings us attention .

But this flex has a fundamental flaw in the sense that the moment the status signal works, those below begin to copy it until it loses its utility.

So what happens to a status marker when those below can afford it too?

Simple; those above abandon it.

In conclusion, The things we buy, wear, drive, or use are driven by 1) the desire to belong and 2) the desire to stand out.

You want to look like the people above you to feel among, but you also want to look different from the people below you to stand out.

So the rich adopt a signal
The wannabe middle class copies it
And the majority poor copy the wannabes

And once the signal becomes widespread enough, it stops doing the job it was intended to do. Then the elite abandon it and look for a new one.

Sometimes they move to something more expensive or difficult to acquire. Sometimes they move to something obscure enough that the wannabes and the poor can't even grasp it. And sometimes, as with tanning and wired earphones, they do a 180 and move in the opposite direction.

It happens with clothes, bags, earphones, restaurants, language and so on.

The rich keep moving. The middle class keeps chasing, and the poor keep copying. And the markers of status keep changing. And on and on and on it goes.

[𝑒𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑎 @elyradream]

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