Niggas too worried about 50/50 and who should cook and clean and who fcking who. This couple made their own shopping center and you niggas never go there (Iāve been). I remember yāall let Black Wallstreet in Stonecrest shut down. Yall not serious about Black growth.
Full grown adults who canāt vacation, take a gap year, have hobbies, play an instrument, speak multiple languages, swim, cycle, skate, or backpack. Just a lifetime of hustling and trying to escape survival mode. These are subtle poverty metrics no one really talks about.
The risk assessment in this "bear vs man" discourse is fundamentally broken, and watching women confidently choose the bear is peak internet delusion. Y'all will meet up with anonymous Tinder matches every weekend, leave clubs with strange men just because they drive a luxury car, go home with celebrities from backstage, and voluntarily date literal drug lords. You take massive, unchecked risks with strange men every single day. But drop you in a hypothetical forest, and suddenly a man is more dangerous than a 600lb apex predator just so you can win a gender war argument? The performative IQ is completely in the mud. Please rest.
šļø Wayne Rooney & Bruno Fernandes on playing in the same team:
Rooney:
āSo Bruno, Rio says youād walk into our team.
We had some top players back then, lads fighting for places every week⦠so Iām not sure itās that simple. What do you think?ā
Bruno:
āI donāt think itās about walking into any team.
What I know is that top players find a way to play together.
You were more athletic, and for me, one of the most complete players to play the game⦠but we both understand the game and can play in different roles.
And with Alex Ferguson⦠he always found a way to get the best out of his players. Thatās why that team was so strong.
I wouldāve loved to play under him.
And now, with Carrick, itās about building something similar⦠a team where everyone can perform at their best and compete for the biggest trophies.ā
Human beings living their lives and experiencing the world isn't some gross energy inefficiency it's the ENTIRE POINT OF EXISTENCE you creepy, antihuman weirdo.
In 2017, I stepped onto the Facebook campus in Menlo Park. They took us to the Oculus VR lab first. A geeky engineer gave us a demo of the VR features and ended on the haptic gloves that let you "feel" virtual objects without touching anything real. Then he paused, voice almost reverent: āImagine connecting anyone in the world⦠real social interaction⦠without ever leaving home.ā The demo was amazing but I walked out with a strange feeling. This guy is "solving for humanity" and is excited about a world no longer needs physical human connection
We passed a long hall of developers. One guyāBlack, friendlyāleaned over his monitors and asked where the group of us (mostly Africans) was from. We chatted. His desk had big screens, half-eaten snacks, the faint smell of takeout lingering. His neighbor, paler watched curiously but, too timid to join. The desks were comfortable, the food smell everywhere, as it was available in every corner. It all felt⦠contained. Like this campus was its own sealed ecosystem, where the world outside was just data to optimize.
Fast-forward to 2020. I work at Andela, where we placed remote engineers with Silicon Valley teams. Some companies flew their leads over to meet the "remote" teammates in person. When they visited the Kigali campus I went to dinner with them. They were 5. Of this dinner I vividly remember 2 conversations. One guy launched into how "all humans are actually lactose intolerant after infancy⦠we're the only species that keeps drinking milk." They all nodded, confessed their own intolerances like it was a quirky universal truth. Then came the photos: a dog's birthday party. Balloons, cake, friends invited. The owner beamed like it was his kid's party. I love dogs. But something twisted in my chest. These are the people shaping the tools billions use every dayāyet their version of care, connection, family⦠felt redirected, abstracted.
Now it's 2026, and Sam Altman says training an AI costs less than "raising a human"ābecause it takes "20 years of life and all the food you eat during that time before you get smart." He compared childhoodāfirst steps, heartbreaks, scraped knees, bedtime stories, learning trustāto server racks and electricity bills. I think back to that VR promise of connection without leaving home⦠to offices smelling of food and isolation⦠to dogs celebrated like children while real human messiness gets optimized away
Gold is big shiny rock. You trade with your friends.
Big adult see you play with shiny rock. They jealous. They told everyone about how fun it is to play with shiny rock.
everyone want to own shiny rock now. Adult promises to the new people he owns a lot of shiny rock. He doesn't.
He write on a paper to say he owns a lot of shiny rock and will hold for new people. He now controls fake shiny rock quantity.
He trades paper as shiny rock instead of the shiny rock itself. There is plenty of paper, not plenty of rock.
You now own a weaker shiny real rock.