Average Citizen

I am an average South African citizen. This account is anonymous to enable uncensored, critical discussions, without imposing my views on my peers or employer.

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@TClaassens1 @BusinessTechSA Fair, I incorrectly assumed four children for some reason. Even assuming your wife earns R20k as well, I just can't imagine feeling comfortable raising two children on R40k (-tax), but that's just my opinion. Respect for pulling it off, and hope your kids have more one day!

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@TClaassens1 @BusinessTechSA Irresponsible. Assuming they didn't have much more substantial income before having four children, and lost it in the meantime.

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@RomanCabanac @SollyMalatsi @ICASA_org Unfortunately the people who need Starlink the most aren't represented in the comments. If only they had access to the internet....

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@MbalulaFikile You're not consistent at much, but you're very consistent at getting ratio'd.

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@MbalulaFikile You stole the needle, along with everything in a 2000km radius of it.

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@ewnupdates @BarbaraCreecy_ Do you drive with your eyes closed, or do you just have selective vision? Crime in the public transport industry has been the norm for many years.

Lying through your teeth.

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@sa_crime No surprises here.

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@MashalaKwape @Rand_Water @superwerner37 @RoxRonza @MosaiSipho_ @City_Ekurhuleni @CityTshwane @MidvaalLM @Thlm_Municipal @GovanmbekiM @LesediLocalMuni @DWS_RSA @VictorKhanyeLM @GautengProvince @GDCoGTA @SALGA_Gov It's quite sad that people are praising Rand Water for good communication, while it's in fact absolutely ridiculous that a multi-day outage is required for maintenence.

In any first-world country this would be considered a disaster, but in South Africa we praise mediocrity.

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@MbalulaFikile Clearly.

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

All these people asking LLMs like Grok to answer deeply nuanced and complex socio-political questions, while having no idea how it works or what an LLM does.

Dangerous territory.

Simplified: a LLM just predicts words based on patterns.

It's not intelligent.

It can't "think".

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@MbalulaFikile Don't talk kak.

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@Abramjee Isn't EMPD considered essential services, and thus cannot legally strike?

Who am I kidding, laws mean nothing in South Africa...

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@Powerfm987 @MbuyiseniNdlozi Please hire someone literate to run your X account.

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@mafiri_vincent @CityTshwane Unfortunately I have no details on these specific outages. If you're affected please report and try to contact your ward counselor for information.

In general: shortage of competent staff, lack of maintenance, lack of equipment upgrades, and corruption.

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@be1_gilly Ignore the people calling themselves "journalists". The person you quoted, and in fact you yourself, are the true journalists.

The days of massive media houses, greedily feeding on our attention for every last cent, are over.

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@jennyvongogh @CilliersB @CityTshwane Thank you! If it's so bad over 100km away, I can't imagine what the people of Secunda are enduring.

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

There's very little talk about this, but the smell of Sulphur is very noticeable in Johannesburg and Pretoria. There was also a clearly visible smog in the air earlier today.

Anyone know if a manufacturing plant or factory is responsible?

@CilliersB @CityTshwane

[Ulrich Janse van Vuuren @UlrichJvV]

Johannesburg is once again shrouded in a stinking sulphur odour - a problem that was confined to some early winter mornings, but now persists into summer. What is the source of this air pollution? This will have serious impacts on our health. 💀😷 @Dr_Dion_George @environmentza

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@Lesufi @GautengProvince @tshwane_mayor - any comment?

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

There's very little talk about this, but the smell of Sulphur is very noticeable in Johannesburg and Pretoria. There was also a clearly visible smog in the air earlier today.

Anyone know if a manufacturing plant or factory is responsible?

@CilliersB @CityTshwane

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

@IvoVegter https://t.co/hfc3vYqxt9

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is false.

Reuters is lying. They are second only to AP (Associated Propaganda) as legacy news liars.

[Average Citizen @AvgCitizenSA]

#PretoriaEast #PowerOutage

Update 18 February 23:00.

Regarding Six Fountains and possibly other areas in immediate proximity to Six Fountains.