Our people keep abusing privilege.
Turkish Airlines used to let passengers check in their hand luggage at their discretion.
Now they changed it two months ago because it started to overload their planes.🤦🏾♂️
Very unfortunate…
Tu Youyou became the first mainland Chinese scientist to be awarded a #NobelPrize in a scientific field - for discovering artemisinin, a malaria cure that’s saved millions. Today we reveal the 2025 medicine laureate. Stay tuned.
I used to work 6am - 6pm, 6 days a week, on a construction site in my early 20s.
Honestly? It fucking sucked, dude. I would sit in my car outside the site at 530am, desperately drinking a coffee, telling myself over and over again, "god I wish I was in sciences"
Because every night when I got home what did I do? Watch Walter Levin MIT Open Courseware physics lectures. I had already exhausted all the popular science books long before so just started on undergrad level physics. The alternative was drinking a six pack of beer like everyone else and watching bullshit TV.
The construction site job was actually better than what I was doing before. Landscaping, stone masonry shit. Backbreaking labor, truly. Breaking concrete slabs up with a sledgehammer and carrying bricks all day. That's literally a punishment in prison.
There was a company event for the property development Corp doing the construction I was working for where everyone talked about their degrees. Most people had been at the company for almost a decade, did random unrelated degrees.
I realized. If I didn't take control of my life the years would tick by. So I went back to school for engineering physics at age, like, 25. I probably wouldn't graduate until I was 30, but shit.
You're going to turn 30 one day anyway. Might as well be doing something you chose.
A year into schooling I had my first paying job in a physics lab, basically minimum wage, but my god. I was getting paid to work in a physics lab. I could drink coffee and read papers, build cool stuff. It was insane.
The kids around me had no idea how lucky we were to be there. They hadn't suffered being trapped in dead end jobs that leave you too exhausted to really think, plan, get ahead. So I viciously worked my ass off through out engineering physics to play the game as best I could. Get the best internships, connections, etc. By the end of undergrad I was taking graduate level classes and outperforming the PhD students at them.
Everything since then had gone better than I could've imagined. I used to think - wow, the dream would be designing fusion reactors, if only. Now I have patents in fusion reactor design. I've worked on particle accelerators, LEO satellite communications, beam driven fusion devices, finite element analysis for RF source design at SLAC.
So no. Fuck mind breaking manual labor. Leave it for the robots. Choose your own path.
I will say though. There are few things as therapeutic and full body workout as shoveling sand. I can show you at least a dozen different sand shoveling techniques to work every muscle in your upper body. Also wheelbarrow technique.
Top 25 Countries with the Lowest Quality of Life in 2025
1. 🇳🇬 Nigeria
2. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
3. 🇻🇪 Venezuela
4. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
5. 🇪🇬 Egypt
6. 🇮🇷 Iran
7. 🇵🇪 Peru
8. 🇻🇳 Vietnam
9. 🇵🇭 Philippines
10. 🇱🇧 Lebanon
11. 🇰🇪 Kenya
12. 🇮🇩 Indonesia
13. 🇵🇰 Pakistan
14. 🇦🇱 Albania
15. 🇹🇭 Thailand
16. 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
17. 🇨🇱 Chile
18. 🇨🇴 Colombia
19. 🇲🇦 Morocco
20. 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
21. 🇺🇦 Ukraine
22. 🇷🇺 Russia
23. 🇹🇳 Tunisia
24. 🇧🇷 Brazil
25. 🇦🇷 Argentina
📌 Quality of Life Index reflects overall well-being using key factors like Safety, Health Care, Cost of Living, Climate, and More.
Source: Numbeo
Forgotten lives: The plight of Katanga mixed raced children by Japanese miner in Congo in the 70-80s...
The Japanese don't get the scrutiny they should be getting.
SAY THESE 3 PRAYERS RIGHT NOW:
1. Dear God: Break every cycle sent to keep me stuck.
2. Dear God: Reveal what I need to release.
3. Dear God: Make room for the blessings I am praying for. AMEN.