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I like stuff, mostly.

[I.D. @_I__D_]

Does someone have a non-partisan flow of events cause wtf N9

[BFM News @NewsBFM]

The Negeri Sembilan palace has declared the ceremony proclaiming Tunku Nadzaruddin as the state’s 12th Yang di-Pertuan Besar invalid under the state’s constitution, laws and customs.

It said that by accepting the title, Nadzaruddin had relinquished his hereditary title of Tunku Panglima Besar, leaving the post vacant.

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📸: Kosmo

[Hilal Asyraf @HilalAsyraf]

Makin banyak pulak saya tengok orang AI kan Nirnama.

Bagi saya, jika kita minat, kita kena hormat.
Anda nak ber'AI' sangat, pergi gunakan karya hak milik anda sendiri, IP anda sendiri. Itu keputusan anda.

Tapi jangan guna karya & IP saya untuk di'AI'kan.

Harap maklum.

[aidil @climateaidil]

Good news! Since 2010, the world has been gaining more mangroves than it has been losing them. This is mainly thanks to restoration efforts & the natural expansion of mangroves followed by dropping rates of deforestation.

Look at how mangrove forests in Sabah are recovering!

[BERNAMA @bernamadotcom]

𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗬𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗠 𝗠𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗦𝗜𝗔 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗚𝗔𝗞𝗔𝗡 𝗡𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗥𝗔 𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗨𝗦𝗜 𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗜 𝗦𝗔𝗥 𝗚𝗨𝗔 𝗟𝗔𝗢𝗦

#Sepang : Berbekalkan pengalaman hampir 13 tahun, pakar penyelam gua dari Malaysia Lee Kian Lie tidak pernah menyangka panggilan untuk membantu operasi menyelamat di Laos akan menjadi misi menyelamat pertama dan paling mencabar dalam hidupnya.

Lebih membanggakan, beliau membawa nama Malaysia dalam operasi antarabangsa yang menghimpunkan pasukan penyelamat dari beberapa negara termasuk Laos, Thailand, Indonesia, Perancis, Jepun dan Australia.

Berita penuh : https://t.co/RAg3mqjkRP

📸 fotoBERNAMA

#BernamaImages
#BernamaNews
#Malaysia #SAR

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are.

For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at the time - and probably still is - the most expensive undergraduate school in Europe (EHL in Lausanne, Switzerland).

Needless to say, many of my classmates were from unbelievably privileged backgrounds. Just in my classroom in Lausanne I had the son of a (very famous) Russian oligarch, the son of Italy's largest real estate developer and the son of Spain's largest real estate developer (funnily, the latter two were flat mates).

Another classmate of mine came from the richest family in Naples, Italy and - while we were at school - his father (known in Naples under the nickname "Il Sultano") got arrested for having bribed half of Naples's city council - which, if you know Naples, ought to tell you something.

These were the kids I was doing group projects on business ethics with (literally) 😅

Anyhow, my story, and probably my luck, was that - before going to high school in Paris - I was raised in very normal public schools in the South of France where my friends were anything but wealthy. Their parents were farmers and everyday workers.

Which means - and I'd come to realize this was very important in life - that it was easy for me to understand how big a mistake it is to see money as identity and meaning - and to confuse someone's net worth with their actual worth.

What really struck me at the time was the contrast with my "poor" classmates of earlier in my life. They couldn't define themselves by what they had - by definition - and this forced them to reach deeper for their identity: their skills, knowledge, humor, etc.

Rich kids can skip that entire process, and the tragedy is that most of them do: they reach for the readymade identity that money provides. I remember being incredibly frustrated by many of my classmates, like "ok, I get it, your dad is rich and you own a lot of nice things but who are YOU, what else is there?" The answer, more often than not, was nothing.

To be fair, there were exceptions. One of my classmates I was most impressed by came from one of Zurich's wealthiest families (which, if you know Zurich, means insanely wealthy) yet he was almost OCD in not showing he had money: driving the shittiest car imaginable, living in a small studio, etc. He was very intellectual, very contrarian, and clearly at war with the idea that his family's wealth ought to define who he was.

I only discovered who he actually was when I started my first company and he approached me to invest: to discuss the investment I went to one of his family homes, which it turned out was a literal palatial castle on the shores of Geneva lake. The guy had decided to live in a small rundown studio when he literally had a castle sitting empty a 5-min drive away.

THAT I was impressed by: it's easy to see that money isn't meaning when you don't have any. To see it when you have more than almost anyone - when everyone around you is organized around the opposite assumption - is much harder. But to actually live it, to choose the studio when you have the castle keys in your pockets - with no audience to applaud you for that - that shows real depth.

At the end of the day, I think, the real distinction isn't between rich and poor but between people who exist from the inside out and people who exist from the outside in.

Wealth just happens to make it incredibly easy to be the latter, to skip the work of becoming someone and settle for a borrowed identity that glitters from the outside but is hollow all the way through. A Potemkin village identity.

This is actually a real societal issue, and magnified by social media (with idiotic posts like this one 👇): the more "outside in" folks out there, the less people with genuine internal anchors, the more fragile everything becomes.

When you think about it, everything that genuinely matters in a society is built by people who think for themselves: they take the world in, pass it through something genuinely their own, and give back something that didn't exist before: an idea, a conviction, a stand.

Every reform, every invention, every act of moral courage in history came from someone with an internal anchor strong enough to resist the current. Remove those people and all you have left is the current.

This isn't new, by the way. Most ancient traditions warn against exactly this, from the Bible (the golden calf story) to Confucius, who built his entire ethics around the distinction between the exemplary person (the Junzi, 君子) - oriented around internal cultivation and righteousness - and the petty person (Xiaoren, 小人), oriented around profit and gain. The junzi builds himself from the inside, the xiaoren chases what's outside.

So please, do not make the mistake of being impressed by wealthy people flaunting their wealth. Don't focus on the glitter, focus on the hollowness it's trying to hide.

[I.D. @_I__D_]

@1d6623d83b9046d @kojimbo360 @InfernoOmni Conversely, white people look old as shit when they reach 15.

[I.D. @_I__D_]

@BILGERVTI @kojimbo360 @InfernoOmni Doesn't matter, they want to look that way. Regardless, naturally thai look like "children" when compared to "Westerners" and prefer childlike features, like how Japanese and Koreans do.

"Kids-Face" in western country is "Normal-face" in Thailand.

[I.D. @_I__D_]

@BILGERVTI @kojimbo360 @InfernoOmni Nah they definitely were. Thai beauty standards are HEAVILY east asian coded. 15 year old European children look the same age as Lisa for an extreme example.

And don't even ask why are the old British men doing in the countryside with their brown wives.

[I.D. @_I__D_]

@kojimbo360 @InfernoOmni What kind of asian? Because unless you are South Asian, there ain't no way you have never been exposed to toxic east asian female beauty standards.

[I.D. @_I__D_]

@TachyonRider @CandyStripeNia Asian people in general look "young" to westerners, lest we forget that shift up is Korean. East asian women especially are concerned with looking "childlike".

Being from SEA, I can never accurately tell whether a white/middle eastern person looks 14 or 35.

[I.D. @_I__D_]

@PicturesFoIder Yeah previously the millennials didn't.

[I.D. @_I__D_]

Some edgy kid from the english courses maybe.

[BFM News @NewsBFM]

Taylor's University has confirmed that it was evacuated due to a bomb threat earlier today.

Its Subang Jaya campus has resumed normal operations after police declared the area safe following a security sweep.

[I.D. @_I__D_]

@formularacers_ When someone polishes the statue of liberty

[I.D. @_I__D_]

@J3nnning @bitcoinmalaya Benefit of the doubt, AI text generators doesn't understand Malaysian nuances like how race is explicitly mentioned in cases from the USA.

[I.D. @_I__D_]

I guess fuck class consciousness then.

[Azira 🇲🇾 🌺 @ladymissazira]

The actions of the two brothers who raced on public road in Simpang Renggam is rightfully condemned but it doesn't need to be racially charged.

Stupid, reckless, irresponsible drivers of every background are everywhere. This time people died.

These two happens to have wealthy parents and think they could've gotten away with racing on public roads with no consequences.

That's bad parenting issue.

One brother died. The other will have to live with the aftermath for the rest of his life. A preventable tragedy.

May we all learn from this by raising our children to become responsible adults.

[I.D. @_I__D_]

@wardaddy1970 @bitcoinmalaya This gotta be some PRC psy op cause everyone and their grandmother knew about the Terengganu one.

[I.D. @_I__D_]

@formularacers_ ....no chrome though all the chrome glazing

[I.D. @_I__D_]

@Jeff4Malaysia ... I'm 28, this just seems like a consistent policy dari dulu lagi. For example, People have been talking about the MRCA project for almost a couple decades by this point.

[I.D. @_I__D_]

Ingatlah wahai warganegara Malaysia. Setiap ringgit yang dibelanjakan di kedai achey, akan dibelanjakan jawa membeli kapal udara TNI berjuta-juta.

[𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐔𝐃𝐀 𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐇 @GARUDAMERAH__]

Modernisasi besar-besaran alutsista Indonesia kembali menjadi sorotan media dan pengamat pertahanan Malaysia.
@prabowo
@_TNIAU
#garudamerah

[I.D. @_I__D_]

Wait, we know who that is. Like it's written in the dang article. Why is the face blurred??

[Malay Mail @malaymail]

Perlis Menteri Besar Abu Bakar Hamzah is set to be questioned by police after a video clip showed him shooting a cow with a rifle during an Aidiladha sacrifice ceremony yesterday.

The footage, which has since spread widely on social media, sparked criticism online, with some questioning the use of a firearm during the korban ritual and whether it complied with religious procedures.

Abu Bakar admitted to shooting the cow but said did it to prevent anyone from getting hurt after the animal had broken loose.