This has to be one of the saddest moments in Game of Thrones.
Watching young Wylis collapse and suffer a seizure as Bran accidentally breaks his mind across time. while in the future, Hodor is dying holding the door to save him.
The boy lost his entire identity in the very moment that would one day kill him.
“Hodor” was never just a name. It was a tragedy.
#GameOfThrones
This is equivalent to the e-levy cake situation in my books. So out of touch with reality.
The country is flooding and you’re awarding yourselves for, *checks notes* doing your job???
You’re stuck in traffic, your area is flooded and you’re getting home past 9 pm on a work night but you also believe we should speak politely to politicians because they are older people in authority. Haha
This is such a reckless post
What do you want to achieve?
You know the festering menace of galamsey we’re dealing with but no, go ahead and post “the shimmering satellite image of gold” surrounding the “sacred lake of souls”
Just tone deaf and reckless
You should be ashamed
If I told you that back in the 1700s, British plantation owners in Jamaica were so terrified of enslaved Ghanaians that they tried to pass an actual law in parliament to ban the import of people from the Gold Coast, you’d think I’m lying . Below is the story of the Coromantees…
A fiery speech by South Africa's🇿🇦 EFF leader Julius Malema, over xenophobic attacks targeting foreign nationals.
“You say Zimbabweans take your jobs. Nigerians take your jobs.
You march, close shops and beat up people. Tell us after doing that how many jobs have you created, by beating up these Nigerians, Zimbabweans and Ghanaians?
You beat people because they took your jobs.
You close a shop that hires people. How many have you created after beating and chasing them?
Unskilled men, with no skills, none whatsoever, say somebody took away their jobs. I don't want your votes if you behave like that. Take them away.
Pushing out of school an African child that looks like you, I will never do that. You can take your votes. Make me die with my conscience very clearly.
I will never refuse a pregnant woman of African descent to give birth in the clinics of South Africa. Never!”
Vuyo, you’re wrong! There's a massive difference between enforcing immigration laws and telling a legal resident to fix your country. The Ghanaian national attacked in KwaZulu-Natal had proof of legal status. This wasn't immigration enforcement, it was harassment, pure and simple. You're conflating lawful policy with mob justice. Governments across Africa do enforce immigration laws through due process, not street intimidation.
Don't cloak xenophobia in the language of policy failure.
There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.
He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.
When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.
Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.
The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.
Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.
The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.
That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.