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[Head Butterfly in charge @GoffButterfly]

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[Head Butterfly in charge @GoffButterfly]

@iamBigChops Bro, this match no 180s but it was marked as a loss on my ticket. Kim long select gan gan, @SportyBetNG , @SportyBet

[pirate @pirate13313]

Ross Lynch really said “watch this” and then rewrote reality just to get the girl

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[POK @real_POK]

After I saw the evidence Soludo government released about Peter Ob

I regret supporting Peter Obi the way I support him, now I will increase the tempo and support him harder

[Sporting King @sportingking365]

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸!!!

[Head Butterfly in charge @GoffButterfly]

@AkanniiEkun @Drealgabie @erigganewmoney Hard*

[Head Butterfly in charge @GoffButterfly]

@erigganewmoney Abeg, who get this note, mint, I wan buy

[Ugbe Felix @UgbeFelix54]

Did she just ask him that?

[DAVID @donsoj52]

So moving forward in Nigeria, if @PoliceNG invites you for questioning or for whatever reasons, we have to give our terms and conditions just like VDM did. NIGERIA AND NPF AS AN INSTITUTION IS NOW A JOKE!!!

O ma she o! 🙂

[Aji Bussu Onye Mpiawa azụ 🇨🇮 @AfamDeluxo]

One of my sincere prayers for many Nigerians is that they get the opportunity to experience different societies in their lifetime. Some conversations expose just how differently people view the world.

I tweeted that the American who flew in to hand Peller $20,000 in cash struck me as being very un-American and there is more to it. The responses from Nigerians have been genuinely disappointing.

In the U.S., randomly giving someone a large amount of cash would raise eyebrows. People would naturally ask questions about the motive, and in some cases, even wonder whether something else is going on. Some will even report to the police right away.

I think years of seeing fraud money and stolen wealth repackaged as “philanthropy” have normalized certain things in Nigeria. As a result, many people no longer see why an unusually public or extravagant cash gift might invite skepticism. Very sad.

[Yehgha @yaygha]

Allow me give a not so brief history lesson so we can all understand what is going on here.

For much of European history, pale skin was a marker of status. An elite woman was supposed to have skin that had barely been under the sun because pale skin signalled she did not work outdoors.

In a world where most people spent their lives labouring under the sun to survive, avoiding the sun was evidence of wealth.

The rich could stay indoors and send the poor outside to work for them. This is why they wore gloves and wide hats when outside. It is also where the term blue blood comes from; rich families who never did physical labour and thus were rarely in the sun had skin so pale the veins underneath would show.

So to be tanned meant to do outdoor labour, and to do outdoor labout meant to be poor.

But as the industrial revolution came around and factories multiplied, the poor who had previously laboured outdoors were pulled indoors to work in factories, workshops and later offices rather than under the sun

And their skin became paler.

Now if the poor could become pale skinned simply by working indoors, then pale skin could no longer communicate wealth, so the elite abandoned the old signal and switched to a new one: tanned skin.

Because now it meant only they had the time and money to lie in the sun while everyone else worked indoors.

Pale meant rich, tanned meant poor. Then pale meant poor so the rich did a 180 and went back to tanned.

That is exactly the same thing that is happening here. Wiresless ear buds generally, and airpods specifically meant rich. Wired earphones meant poor.

Then when everyone could afford wiresless ear buds and their replica knock-offs, wireless meant poor and the 'rich' who differentiated themselves with wiresless in the past, switched back to wired.

It is not because they "got tired of charging their wireless earbuds"

Away from the history lesson, the broader explanation is that humans crave to be seen. We do not want to go through life unnoticed. This is why we do only spend money to enjoy ourselves, we spend money so that others can see us spending money.

And one of the most common, socially acceptable ways of doing so is through the things we wear. For example. We do not spend money on watches that could buy a car so we can check the time. We spend that money so others can see that we spent money.

The point of the spending is the spending witnessed.

And with that, we signal that we are high status and that signal brings us attention .

But this flex has a fundamental flaw in the sense that the moment the status signal works, those below begin to copy it until it loses its utility.

So what happens to a status marker when those below can afford it too?

Simple; those above abandon it.

In conclusion, The things we buy, wear, drive, or use are driven by 1) the desire to belong and 2) the desire to stand out.

You want to look like the people above you to feel among, but you also want to look different from the people below you to stand out.

So the rich adopt a signal
The wannabe middle class copies it
And the majority poor copy the wannabes

And once the signal becomes widespread enough, it stops doing the job it was intended to do. Then the elite abandon it and look for a new one.

Sometimes they move to something more expensive or difficult to acquire. Sometimes they move to something obscure enough that the wannabes and the poor can't even grasp it. And sometimes, as with tanning and wired earphones, they do a 180 and move in the opposite direction.

It happens with clothes, bags, earphones, restaurants, language and so on.

The rich keep moving. The middle class keeps chasing, and the poor keep copying. And the markers of status keep changing. And on and on and on it goes.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Interpool is up to something here.

Next will be AI companies announcing geo-restrictions to certain products.

But remember they created this generative AI technologies o, but it’s the way Africans use them that is the problem.

Create a loophole, use this loophole to their advantage, accuse Africa of doing the same, then punish the continent in some forms.

Will they withdraw the products totally? No. They will simply limited its usage for African consumers the way it suits them, while allowing the parts of it that will allow them to continue carrying out their surveillance activities and injecting their preferred narratives.

We know this pattern.

[Femi Fani-Kayode @realFFK]

I just watched a secretly recorded video of a Nigerian national being beaten to death by members of the South African police force in his home and I am mortified. The video is online.

I listened to the young man's screams as they put a plastic bag over his head and tortured him and I was badly shaken.

The villification, persecution, targetting, extra-judicial killing, racial stereotyping and murder of Nigerians in South Africa is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

Neither will we continue to be complicit in these crimes against our nationals by remaining silent in the face of them.

That is the new order and I made my position clear on this at our meeting with the South African Foreign Minister yesterday. The hate needs to stop.

Nigerian lives and souls are precious before God and I am not one of those self-deprecating Nigerians who places no value on our people and who sees nothing good in our nation.

Call me a hardliner if you like but a situation whereby since 2022 no less than 90 Nigerians have been murdered by Afrophobic forces, rampaging mobs, South African policemen and others and not one person has been arrested let alone convicted for any of these heinous crimes speaks volumes.

This year alone 6 have been killed and of those 6 three were killed by South African police. Again no arrests and the one person that was initially arrested was released and has now disappeared.

In Cape Town a few days ago another of our nationals was allegedly "tortured to death" by South African police in his own home whilst another was shot in the face with a rubber bullet by the same policemen simply for protesting his friends murder.

If our relations are to stabilise with South Africa this has to stop. We have made much progress and we had a productive meeting with the South Africans yesterday where we agreed to descalate the rhetoric and work closely together to stabilise the situation and build stronger bilateral ties.

This is a step in the right direction and has brought us hope but much more needs to be done. Action speaks louder than words.

(FFK)

[Auggie The Serenading Psychic (🚰❤️‍🔥♣️) @CryptoMuse01]

It's easy to deceive Nigerians.

Just look venerable and polished, and you can scam them eternally.

Because they will keep making excuses for you. They'll keep telling themselves that they, not you, are the problem. This way, you'll have the chance to do it again and again.

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

Cheap Chinese hardware (and pirated software) is the major reason most Nigerians benefited from the IT boom in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Cheap Chinese phones (and Huawei) is the major reason why most Nigerians are now on the Internet.

Something similar might happen with Chinese AI - which is a lot cheaper than American AI.

If the US decides to ban Deepseek, Kimi K3 etc, from Google Playstore (they already did that with Huawei) - then expect the Chinese to focus on software like their lives depend on it.

Give them 5 - 10 years.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

“Don't Allow Any Police Officers To Search Your Phone and we’re saying this due to the abuse and extortive tendencies of some of our officers. No police officer have the right to search your phone”

- FCT Commissioner Of Police says

[Man of Letters. @Letter_to_Jack]

Craziest news from Nigeria yesterday was the report that some rogue police officers extorted N53,000 from the Chairman of the ICPC Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu (a Senior Advocate of Nigeria) at an illegal checkpoint in Abuja. They didn’t know who he is.

They took him to a POS, he withdrew the money, paid the charges and they shared the money among themselves.

[Ada @ada4amaka]

Iran fucked Isreal up so bad, now they don't want US using their country to fire missiles at Iran, the Arab bitches that are allowing it are finding out the same way... By 2027, the entire middle east will be free of US military bases. US is fighting wars everywhere except in USA