No entiendo cómo puede ser. Vi a Michael Jackson morir, a Maradona morir, a Pelé morir, a la reina Isabel morir; vi pasar a tres papas. Sobreviví a una pandemia, vi el comienzo de internet. Vi el CD cambiar a Spotify, vi cambiar el DVD a Netflix, vi pasar del teléfono fijo a un iPhone. Y estoy viendo el surgimiento de la IA. Y solo tengo 30 años.
Cacao harvesting is brutally labor-intensive—way more than most people realize. It all starts in tropical regions like Ivory Coast, Ghana, or Ecuador, where smallholder farmers hack ripe pods from Theobroma cacao trees using machetes. Pods don’t ripen uniformly, so machines can’t do it; every one gets cut by hand.
Inside, workers crack the tough husks and scoop out the beans encased in sticky, sweet white mucilage (that milky pulp you mentioned). The beans + pulp get piled into heaps or boxes for fermentation—5 to 7 days of microbial magic that kills the beans and builds those complex chocolate flavors. Then comes sun-drying on mats or platforms for another 5–10 days to drop moisture from 60% to ~7%. Finally, sorting, bagging, roasting at the factory, winnowing, grinding… all before it becomes chocolate.
This chain relies heavily on manual labor in hot, humid conditions, with challenges like pests, disease (e.g., swollen shoot virus), child labor issues in some areas, and climate volatility. That’s why “pure,” single-origin, or minimally processed cacao commands premium prices—low yields, high effort, no industrial shortcuts. Mass chocolate cuts corners; the good stuff doesn’t. Totally worth savoring though!
Matters of the heart are really tricky. One moment you are feeling loved and the next moment, you are stranger and getting that disgusting feel.
The problem with crashing out after a failed relationship is, you might go extremely dirty.
Someone built a fitness app using the same psychological mechanics as gambling
This might work better than every normal fitness app 😭😭
You bet money on whether you’ll hit 10,000 steps today
If you fail, you lose your money
If you succeed, you split the money from everyone who didn’t
So disciplined people literally profit off lazy people
Most fitness apps try motivating you with streaks and notifications
This one motivates you with financial fear
Imagine realizing at 11:52pm you still need 1,700 more steps or you lose $30
Entire friend groups would be outside walking laps around their neighborhood before midnight trying not to lose their steppa challenge
It sounds stupid but this would probably motivate people better than any other fitness product
Would you use this yourself?
I have one piece to share.
I hope all these TL conversations do not poison your heart.
I hope you're not training your mindspace to start choosing partners from a place of fear, or lowered likelihood to cheat. Ask Israel Juju.
These are faulty compasses.
Churchgoers cheat. Atheists cheat. Hijab wielders cheat.
Virgins cheat. Adelebos cheat. 20s cheat. 30s cheat. 40s cheat.
I hope the factors that calibrate your values, are not from Twitter thinkpieces but are strengthened offline. Else, you will end up as a box of ruin.
My safest predicators for relationships are:
- brackets,
- reciprocity.
If you're doing well financially, box within potentials like you doing well financially. Don't be a 7fig earning techie & you'll be hunting smallies struggling with 200L carryover in Laspotech.
Mental brackets. Intellectual brackets. Financial brackets. Exposure brackets.
One of my theories as to why, people (read men) scale way below these brackets is because they're scripting scenarios for control. They're hunting "bendable" women. Chief, she won't be naive forever - but I'll expand on this, some other time.
Be big on reciprocity. As you're doing for your partner in the early weeks, if they like you they would be doing as much.
Using the filters of brackets and reciprocity, are safer predicators than fear and paranoia.
"This is the monster I made. I was angry. I thought I was punishing my dad, but now I miss him. I was always looking for love in all the wrong places. I have been to four different universities, and I always run away. I dropped out of Covenant University because I tested positive for drǔgs. I have been to four rehabs." - Lady shares her experience with drug use
Amazing cocoa nursery.
This is where quality starts. 5,000+ disease-resistant seedlings, grown with care for the next planting cycle.
From tiny seeds to chocolate dream.
#okangfarms#cocoanursery#growwithus#cocoafarmers#scaleup
13 games
9 wins ✅
2 draws 🟡
2 losses ❌
- Beat Man City home
- Beat Arsenal away
- Beat Chelsea away
- Beat Liverpool home
- Secured UCL football with 3 games left
- 16 points above Chelsea
- 6 points above Liverpool
insane turnaround. thank you M. Carrick 💐
@HonitelHQ That your first point, I can give you all my money.
You’re sharing nakedness, bodily fluids, and having genital meet-and-greets, but a piece of gadget is most private.
If my God doesn’t take you, I’ll contact my village people to take you🌝
@Anu_official that’s how I asked this boy that runs errands for me for his contact so I can reach him easier and his reply was ‘add me for snap’. I asked abt his wtsapp and he said ‘I no dey do wtsapp bros, e boring’. I just felt old and confused