I posted a concise illustrated history of South 🇿🇦 Africa's shitty copyright ownership law, going on now for 45 years, on this account's FB page. The link is in the comments.
🚨 A message to all French people 🚨
In the months ahead, you're going to see more and more propaganda about Elon Musk.
Send this to your loved ones. Not tomorrow. Now.
Elon Musk is dismantling, on a global scale, the oldest political lie of the century: the idea that only the State, intermediaries, and credentialed media have the right to say what is true, what is possible, and what is moral.
This lie has a familiar name. We call it socialism when it talks about justice. We call it "consensus" when it talks about science. We call it "protection" when it talks about speech. In all cases, the mechanism is the same: a caste positions itself between people and reality, then sells that position as a public service.
Musk is breaking it.
He has proven that you can launch rockets without Gosplan. Build cars without Detroit's blessing. Connect a village, a frontline, or a hospital from orbit, without asking permission from a ministry. He bought the public square and tore the monopoly away from those who decided who had the right to speak.
That's why the mainstream media, like a beast in its death throes, will try everything.
Not because they've uncovered a secret. Because the man slips through all their levers. You can't buy him with ad revenue. You can't rein him in with a news cycle. You can't quietly unplug him. At this level of power, he's probably the cleanest man in the world: he's put his own fortune on the line, he doesn't need their permission, and he didn't build his position by capturing the State.
They'll call him a Nazi. They'll call him crazy. They'll call him a danger to democracy. They'll trot out the same clip, the same historian from the right side, the same moral indecency.
This isn't information. It's a survival reflex.
The French need to know this before the wave hits.
Elon Musk isn't fighting for a party. He's fighting so that the people can face the machine head-on, build without asking forgiveness, and stop handing over their thinking to those who live off fear and narrative.
The truth is simple.
A builder who opens the game does more for people than a newsroom that recycles slander.
Pass this on. The months ahead will be noisy. The signal, though, won't change.
These are Dave Ramsey’s comments about going cashless. No one has explained it better. He brings up several situations most of us had never considered. For those who may not know, Dave Ramsey is an American radio personality who offers financial advice.
No cash means absolutely NO CASH. So try this… the next store you go in and order a drink or want to buy their product and they tell you “card only”, walk away. I have done this out of principle, and will continue to do so.
Dave Ramsey repost:
HERE'S WHAT NO CASH ACTUALLY MEANS:
A cashless society means no cash. Zero. It doesn’t mean mostly cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means fully digital, fully traceable, fully controlled. I think those who support a cashless society aren’t fully aware of what they are asking for. A cashless society means:
* If you are struggling with your mortgage in a particular month, you can’t do an odd job to get you through.
* Your child can’t go & help the local farmer to earn a bit of summer cash.
* No more cash slipped into the hands of a child as a good luck charm or from their grandparent when going on holidays.
* No more money in birthday cards.
* No more piggy banks for your child to collect pocket money & to learn about the value of earning.
* No more cash for a rainy day fund or for that something special you have been putting $20 a week away for.
* No more little jobs on the side because your wages barely cover the bills or put food on the table.
* No more charity collections.
* No more selling bits & pieces from your home that you no longer want/need for a bit of cash in return.
* No more cash gifts from relatives or loved ones.
What a cashless society does guarantee:
* Banks have full control of every single penny you own.
* Every transaction you make is recorded.
* All your movements & actions are traceable.
* Access to your money can be blocked at the click of a button when/if banks need ‘clarification’ from you, which will take about 3 weeks, a thousand questions answered & five thousand passwords.
* You will have no choice but to declare & be taxed on every dollar in your possession.
* The government WILL decide what you can & cannot purchase.
* If your transactions are deemed in any way questionable, by those who create the questions, your money will be frozen, ‘for your own good’.
Forget about cash being dirty. Stop being so easily led. Cash has been around for a very, very, very long time & it gives you control over how you trade with the world. It gives you independence.
If you are a customer, pay with cash. If you are a shop owner, remove those ridiculous signs that ask people to pay by card.
Cash is legal tender; it is our right to pay with cash. Banks are making it increasingly difficult to deposit cash.
Please open your eyes. Please stop believing everything you are being told. Almost every single topic in today’s world is tainted with corruption & hidden agendas.
Pay with cash & please say no to a cashless society while you still have the choice.
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Folks tried to raise me Catholic.
Sent me to catechism Saturdays.
WTF is a holy ghost?
After, I'd run to the Piccadilly bioscope to watch Spy Smasher.
Far more believable...
Elon Musk was basically using First Principles thinking to fact-check the Bible before he even hit middle school.
He just couldn't bring himself to believe the stories because they completely defied basic common sense. Whenever the teacher brought up miracles, young Elon immediately pushed back.
Ocean splitting in half? "Physically impossible."
Feeding a crowd with a couple of fish and bread loaves? "Matter doesn't spawn out of thin air."
And Holy Communion? He was genuinely confused why drinking wine and eating bread was described as drinking blood and eating flesh—wondering if they were unironically making a metaphor for cannibalism.
In the end, Maye Musk realized Sunday school wasn't gonna work and just let him stay home to read books instead. Say what you want about his personality, but the man has been annoying authority figures with physics logic since day one lol.
I explain why reloading your own ammunition is so important, and why proposals to ban it are irrational, arbitrary, and incredibly harmful.
There is no comment section, but if you have questions direct them at me here.
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‘I think Hemingway’s [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem (..) His titles have a life of their own …’
Sylvia Beach - Shakespeare and Company, 1956
Hemingway and Beach in front of her bookstore Shakespeare and Company, Paris 1944
Poor blood flow doesn't always announce itself with severe pain.
Sometimes, the first clues appear in your feet.
Here are 6 warning signs worth paying attention to 🧵
Respect !!! 🔥 Superbe témoignage 🥰
À 96 ans, Clint Eastwood fait voler en éclats certaines illusions rassurantes sur le vieillissement.
Lors d’une récente interview, il explique comment le corps se transforme avec le temps.
Il brosse un tableau brut et sans concession de ce qui se passe à l’approche des 100 ans. « La lumière vous fait mal aux yeux, et même respirer peut sembler être une corvée », a admis Eastwood, décrivant la lutte incessante contre un corps qui faiblit.
Mais, le véritable fardeau du grand âge est d’ordre émotionnel et psychologique. Une fois passé le cap des quatre-vingt-dix ans, le paysage des relations sociales subit une transformation profonde.
On regarde autour de soi et l’on réalise que la plupart des gens qui nous ont connus dans notre jeunesse
— ceux qui partageaient notre histoire, nos complicités et les épreuves de la vie
— ont disparu. Le cercle des visages familiers se réduit comme peau de chagrin, le téléphone cesse de sonner et le rythme des jours s’étire péniblement.
L’épreuve la plus amère n’est pas la douleur physique, mais l’absence soudaine de quelqu’un qui a vraiment envie de vous écouter !
Eastwood explique que revisiter ses souvenirs n’est pas le signe d’une fragilité mentale, mais une tentative vitale de trouver une continuité dans sa propre existence.
Nous vivons dans une culture qui érige la longévité en trophée, tout en ignorant totalement la solitude écrasante qui accompagne cette survie.
Nous célébrons ce qui brille, ce qui va vite et ce qui est hyperconnecté, ne laissant aucune place au rythme lent et répétitif de la vie des personnes très âgées.
En fin de compte, les rides sur le visage des presque centenaires ne sont pas de simples signes de vieillesse ; elles dessinent la magnifique carte d’une vie pleinement vécue.
C’est un privilège de s’asseoir pour écouter le récit de leur parcours de vie !
@fanamokoena@ErnstRoets You are the comedian, Fana. For a supposedly educated man you're ignorant of the fundamental rights of freedom of speech, expression, association and press enjoyed by all South Africans, including @ErnstRoets and @afriforum . You even have it in your bio. "I write what I like."
@Buyile311214@MaxPatricius Alas, your guess is dead wrong. Nevertheless, you enjoy the right to freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and freedom of association. Guess what! So does everyone in South Africa, including Afriforum. Have a nice day.
The SCA acquitted Doorewaard and Schutte in 2020 because the state’s case rested solely on single eyewitness Bonakele Pakisi. His evidence had material contradictions (e.g. number of throws, firearms, routes, third person) and was found deliberately fabricated in parts, with no corroboration. Cellphone records contradicted his timeline; the police investigation was bungled. All judges agreed the state failed to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
The SCA judgment turned on evidentiary failure, not a finding of racial persecution.
@SpaceGeeking@volcaholic1 The funny thing about climate change is that it's not caused by humans. Government-bought scientists and "experts" just say it is so that they can extract more 'carbon tax' from the sheeple.
@KushiticGyal Signs of a paid but ignorant 🐂💩climate alarmist.
"isn't caused by climate change..." LOL🤡
"...much hotter ..."
Farenheit or Celsius?🤡
"...because of human caused global heating..."
Huh?🤡
"... currently entering completely insane territory."
What does this even mean?🤡