You don’t need to be cold. Just inaccessible. Respond slower. Reveal less. Be polite, but unreadable. When people have to guess how you feel, they start treating you like someone they can’t afford to miscalculate. That’s how distance breeds influence.
Some people out there genuinely still think that one Bola Tinuboobooroo somewhere is the one making these decisions.
I am tired of explaining what should be obvious to anyone but the world's most hard-headed people...
@DanielRegha You guys have to understand that sometimes not getting too involved in the game is part of Messi tactic. Moving the 4 man block defending him away for his team to play is what he did the most in the game. Good play from both sides tho.
@nodenerd_Dsgner@OtitoNosike And David is telling you that you don't write your own policies. So tell me how you can get accountability or good regulations when the people who write your own policies are sitting in DC, Paris, London.. Etc?
Let's be precise about what propaganda can and cannot do.
Propaganda can shape the information environment. It can make certain questions unsayable and certain assumptions invisible. It can manufacture genuine belief in false things.
It can make violence look like protection and extraction look like generosity.
It can do all of this and do it effectively across generations.
What propaganda cannot do is remove the capacity for doubt.
Every society under heavy propaganda produces dissidents.
People who noticed the gap between the official story and what they could see with their own eyes.
Who asked the question that wasn't supposed to be asked.
Who followed the evidence past the point where comfort stopped.
These people existed in Nazi Germany.
They existed in apartheid South Africa.
They existed in the antebellum American South.
They exist in every heavily propagandized society in history.
They were a minority.
But they existed.
Which means the propaganda did not make critical thought impossible.
It made it costly.
There is a difference between impossible and costly.
The difference is called courage.
And a framework that erases that difference, that says "propagandized population, therefore no accountability, therefore no courage required," is a framework that has decided in advance that courage will not be asked of anyone.
That is a very gentle framework.
It is also a framework in which nothing ever changes.
All that the colonial masters has left for Africa is all to protect their own interest..
Their caretakers (the politicians)
Their police force..
Their educational system..
Their religion..
None of these institutions serves the interest of Africans.. we need to wake up to the reality that we're still been colonized.
They will tell you the people resisting are being manipulated.
By Russia. By Iran. By China. By radical clerics. By socialist ideology. By algorithms. By "misinformation."
The one explanation that is never on the list:
By memory.
The memory of what happened to their parents.
The memory of what happened to their country.
The memory of which foreign power backed which dictator.
The memory of which sanctions killed which children.
The memory of which promises were made and which helicopters left the rooftop.
Memory is not propaganda.
Memory is the most anti-imperial force that exists.
Which is why the empire works so hard to replace other people's memories with its own version of events.
And why it calls the people who refuse to accept the replacement "radicalized."
Every man must meet his humbling phase in life, it’s better you meet your own quicker and when you’re young so you can get back on your feet than to meet it at the later stages of your life.
Now we completely understand exactly why the United States frantically placed a sweeping ban on the sale of advanced Nvidia chips and high-performance semiconductors to China.
The real threat to Western hegemony was never DeepSeek, Qwen, or other AI chatbots generating text, translating languages, and writing code. The real, terrifying threat is the massive supercomputers on the ground in China.
If China builds faster and more powerful supercomputers on their own soil, they can effortlessly run highly complex, real-world, and strategically vital simulations that have direct and far-reaching military and industrial applications.
And it is absolutely not surprising, nor is it a mere coincidence, that this historic, major spaceflight breakthrough involving the successful sea-based recovery of a reusable rocket booster comes practically alongside China’s unveiling of LineShine. LineShine is currently the world's fastest exascale supercomputer, built entirely with domestic components, running purely on homegrown CPU microprocessors without a single Western GPU, and completely outperforming El Capitan, the flagship national security supercomputer belonging to the United States. Clearly, it is now obvious that the aggressive export controls and tech sanctions being placed on China by Washington are not about AI safety, ethics, or international standards. They are designed strictly to slow down, sabotage, and cripple China's domestic production of these massive supercomputers.
The critical reason for this high-stakes global race for exascale supercomputers is basically the computational capacity to solve the notoriously complex Navier-Stokes equations. These Partial Differential Equations(PDE) are the absolute keys to the kingdom for all of aerospace engineering, advanced weather prediction, stealth submarine design, hydrodynamic modeling, and hypersonic weapons development. There is currently no known general solution to these equations in three dimensions, and you will be handed a whopping $1 million prize by the Clay Mathematics Institute if you can find a general formula or prove the existence and smoothness of these solutions. Since no such general formula exists, sovereign nations are completely dependent on using massive, raw computing power to numerically approximate, simulate, and solve these equations.
Before China unveiled LineShine, the previous, under-powered supercomputers at their disposal would take weeks, months, or even years of non-stop computing to numerically solve these Navier-Stokes equations. This is because the chaotic fluid dynamics, supersonic aerodynamics, and thermal turbulence of a massive rocket booster descending vertically through its own burning exhaust during retropropulsion, descent, and sea-based net-capture are so insanely complex that older supercomputers would literally choke on the math, taking months just to simulate a few fleeting seconds of flight. With exascale, GPU-free giants like LineShine running over two quintillion calculations per second, those exact same complex equations are now solved in real time, providing their engineers with the precise, high-velocity, and flawlessly accurate simulation data needed to successfully land, recover, and reuse an orbital booster on a platform at sea.
The wildest part about POVERTY is how much time it steals. Waiting for buses. Calling assistance offices. Comparing grocery prices. Fighting insurance. Sitting at laundromats. Being poor is a second job nobody pays you for.
Capitalism has the strangest survivorship bias. It celebrates the handful who made it as proof the system works, while the billions who didn’t are treated as personal failures, not evidence of design
Nigeria resumes large importation of Soybean after 6 years break!
So Nigeria has resumed large-scale importation of U.S. soybeans after a six-year break, with 62,000 tonnes shipped into the country in 2025
Nigeria remains the leading market for U.S. Soy in Sub-Saharan Africa although Nigeria produces soybeans locally, rising consumption especially livestock sector means domestic output alone will not be sufficient to meet future demand.
The US said there are plans for U.S. soybean industry leaders to collaborate with Nigerian farmers by introducing improved technologies and strengthening capacity development to boost local soybean production (Yeye dey smell)
Who will leave his daily bread to grow another man's daily bread.
As much as I do not support importation of locally grown food, I understand the pressure Soybean can cause in key livestock value chains especially the massive poultry sector.
Anyways, now that we have started importation of key livestock feed, it'll be cheaper, livestock sector go boom. Soybean farmers will pack up and we will move back to sole importers.
Merry go round on policy, rural socioeconomics & self sustenance.