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[ndúngú @nduchela]

@Book_therapy223 This has been one of the crucial skills I have learned. It’s life changing to say the least.

[TuMejorVersion @xavixuan]

Mike Tyson, en su época de esplendor, hacía hasta 500 de estas, las ‘flexiones de Tyson’.

Esto es un ejercicio de cuerpo completo de verdad.

Puedes machacar las piernas y la parte superior del cuerpo al mismo tiempo de una sentada.

[Eric @amerix]

20% of your body's structural integrity is made up of CARBON.

Your food: Proteins, Carbs and Fats are made up of Carbon.

The most important backbone of your life, DNA, is built on CARBON.

But evil climate activists tell you carbon is bad and that carbon should be eliminated.

[Lennox Omondi @_lennoxomondi]

I've just sent someone KSh 23,000 via Pesalink and the transaction fee was just KSh 20

I had to check how much Safaricom would have charged. KSh 108 which is 5x more

[George Njoroge @georgenjoroge_]

THE QUIET FUNERAL OF CENTRAL KENYA

We have a big problem and nobody is talking about it.

Not in church. Not in the county assembly.

Not at the barber shop. Nowhere.

Let me tell you how I found out.

This year I needed to hire people.
A driver. A shamba boy. A gardener. A farmhand for my goats in Kingeero.

Simple jobs. Honest jobs. Jobs our fathers did with pride.

I am now on my TENTH driver. Tenth.

And it is barely August.

I am not quoting a government survey. I am not quoting NACADA.

I am quoting my own payroll.

Driver number one disappeared on a Tuesday. Found Thursday.

Driver number four came to work smelling like a distillery with a birth certificate.

Driver number seven asked for an advance on Monday and a funeral on Friday, his own liver was writing the eulogy in advance.

As I write this, my current driver is sitting in a police station.

Arrested for drunk driving.

From a MORNING assignment. Not a night out. Not a wedding. A morning assignment I sent him.

The sun had barely cleared Ngong Hills and this man was already gone.😕

Walk through any shopping centre in Central Kenya at 6am and count the men leaning on verandas waiting for the den to open.

Men aged 25 to 45.

The exact men who should be marrying, building, planting, carrying coffins of the OLD, not filling them.

These are working alcoholics.

They show up.

They function. Barely.

They drive your matatu.

They wire your house.

They handle your goats.

And every shilling they touch goes through a keg tap before it reaches home.

And here is the part that breaks me.

Go to the villages.

The shambas are being run by women.

The chamas are women.

The church is women.

The funerals committee is women.

The boys are at the base.

An entire generation of Kikuyu men is quietly drinking itself out of history, and we are watching it happen through our car windows on the way to work.

Who will marry the girls?

I am serious.

Our daughters are graduating, working, buying plots and looking around at a marriage market of men who cannot pass a breathalyser at 8am.

We keep asking why our girls are single at 35.

The answer is staggering home right now from a den in Wangige.

Who will cry for the boy child?

Everyone laughed when that phrase started.

Nobody is laughing in Central Kenya.

We buried the boy child a long time ago.

We just haven’t held the funeral, because the men who should carry the casket are drunk.

And the funerals themselves, have you noticed?

A 34-year-old dies and the eulogy says “after a short illness.”

No. Name the illness.

The illness is sold in a 300ml bottle for fifty bob behind the market.

The illness has a distributor, a supply chain, and protection.

We are the region of coffee. Of tea. Of hustle.

Of men who walked from Kingeero to Nairobi barefoot and built empires.

And their grandsons cannot walk from the den to the gate.

So I am asking, honestly, painfully, with ten drivers worth of evidence:

Who will talk about this?

The politicians won’t the dens are voters.

The church whispers about it once a year.

The families hide it out of shame.

We have a problem.

It is not coming.

It is here.

It has a police OB number and it is sitting in a cell wearing my company’s uniform.

Central Kenya is not dying of poverty.

Central Kenya is dying of thirst and it keeps drinking the wrong thing.

[ndúngú @nduchela]

#NewProfilePic

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Aliko Dangote has revealed how he plans to finance his proposed $17 billion (about Sh2.2 trillion) oil refinery in Kenya.

Here's an explanation of how he plans to do it.

Save the thread below:

[Clown World ™ 🤡 @ClownWorld]

A Chinese government official just received the death penalty for taking $325 million in bribes. No plea deal. No book deal. No years of appeals and cable news interviews. No retirement package. Death. Now you can say whatever you want about China but when they decide corruption will not be tolerated they mean it in a way that no western government has the spine to match. In America politicians leave office wealthier than they entered, write memoirs about their service, and get paid $500,000 to give speeches to the banks they were supposed to regulate. The consequences are not even in the same universe.

[Vipin Gautam (Viipin I Gautam) @viipin8]

YOU JUST GOT LAID OFF.

Your laptop is locked. Your access is revoked. Your badge does not work anymore.

You are sitting in your car in the office parking lot not knowing what to do next.

Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours.

[Eric @amerix]

Men,

Isolation is where porn and masturbation addiction grow.

Brotherhood is where discipline grows.

Weak men hide,

Focused men connect, learn and hold each other accountable.

No man beats addiction alone.

No man builds greatness alone.

#MasculinitySaturday

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A guy in Vancouver built an entire operating system inside a Chrome tab.

By himself.

Over six years.

His personal website is the OS.

You open https://t.co/NN8Se1NYiO and a Windows-style desktop loads.

File explorer. Start menu. Taskbar.

You can drag in a zip and extract it.

You can play DOOM.

You can play Quake III Arena.

You can boot Linux from an ISO.

You can run Stable Diffusion locally for image generation.

You can open a Python terminal.

You can edit code in Monaco, the same engine that powers VS Code.

All of it runs in your browser tab.

Nothing installs.

His name is Dustin Brett.

Self-taught engineer. Father. Husband.

4,473 commits. All his.

He had to swap the Windows icon for the π symbol because of legal pressure.

The repo has 12,883 stars.

MIT license.

His hosting bill is one dollar a month.

A single Cloudflare CDN does the rest.

This is what the open web was built for.

(Link in the comments)

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Uncomfortable truths to internalize before you get “lucky” in life:

[Mwango Capital @MwangoCapital]

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤'𝐬 𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬:

1. The Kenyan government has come under fire this week over the proposed U.S.-backed Ebola facility, with critics calling KES 1.7B a poor trade for public health risk.

#MwangoMemes

[Eric @amerix]

If you are an observant person,

A man who is keen, and concerned about his consciousness,

You will realise something unusual is happening,

There is a silent shift going on,

We are moving from an OWNERSHIP ECONOMY to a SUBSCRIPTION ECONOMY.

In a subscription economy, you own nothing, but you pay for goods and services which you consume,

For example,

Back in the 90s,

We bought and owned music hardware like cassettes and discs,

This ensured that the music hardware was yours and nobody would charge you a recurring monthly fee to play music,

We owned newspapers and kept them,

We bought and owned books,

We owned letters written to us,

We bought, and claimed ownership,

But this is changing, and it is concerning,

In a subscription economy, you own nothing, but you pay for it.

MKOPA phones and Electric bikes are examples of how we have lost ownership of what we have bought.

It will reach a time where,

• You won't make a call, unless you subscribe to a calling service, on top of buying airtime,

• You won't send an email unless you subscribe, or you will lose all your emails,

• You won't listen to music unless you pay a monthly subscription fee for streaming,

• You won't send a text or a WhatsApp message unless you subscribe to a monthly plan, or get used to annoying advertisements,

• You won't cook food unless you pay for a monthly gas subscription plan or pay double for electricity,

• You won't drink clean water unless you subscribe to a monthly water delivery plan.

Ultimately, you won't own land or a house or a cow,

You will own nothing, and you will never be happy.

You will become a slave of the subscription economy.

That day is coming.

If you are wise,

• Go to a rural area,

• Own land,

• Get solar,

• Sink a borehole,

• Keep poultry, cows, goats and sheep,

• Grow your food.

Don't sit in the city like sheep.

Freedom will be given to those who will defeat the subscription economy.

WAKE UP!

#ManDay

[Eric @amerix]

Men,

If you have been trying to impregnate a woman for over 12 months without success, stop guessing, go and do a SEMEN ANALYSIS TEST:

This is what a SEMEN ANALYSIS measures and what normal looks like:

Volume: More than 1.5 ml per ejaculate. Fewer than this points to hormonal deficiency, ejaculatory duct obstruction, or retrograde ejaculation.

Sperm Concentration: More than 20 million sperm per millilitre. Below this is OLIGOSPERMIA. The fewer the soldiers, the harder the mission.

Total Sperm Count: More than 40 million sperm per ejaculate. An inadequate sperm count cannot fertilise the egg.

Total Motility: More than 45% of sperm must be moving. Dead or sluggish sperm cannot reach an egg regardless of their number.

Progressive Motility: More than 30% of the population must be swimming forward with purpose. Sperm that move without direction are useless.

Morphology: More than 15% should be in normal forms and shape. A shapeless sperm cannot penetrate an egg.

Vitality: More than 54% must be alive. You can have moving sperm but they are dying.

PH: Above 7.2 is the acceptable limit. Acidic semen kills sperm before they begin the journey.

Your fertility is measurable. Go and test your semen.

KNOW YOURSELF!

#MasculinitySaturday

[Eric @amerix]

Men,

Your grandfather did not fight colonialists for you to fight another man because of a woman.

Your grandfather fought colonialism so that you may have the freedom to appreciate your self-worth as a man.

DO NOT BE A SIMP

#MasculinitySaturday

[Wamutahi @Son_of_Laikipia]

Stranded astronauts thinking they successfully made it to one of the planets safely only to discover they have landed on the Gilgil-Nyahururu road.

[Eric @amerix]

Purple-Pill Men:

Podcasts that purport to talk about relationships or masculinity that borders on not upsetting women are purple-pilled podcasts.

They speak some red-pilled information while buffering with blue-pilled nuance to avoid backlash from the audience.

They will invite women to provide cover and to neutralize the red-pill injection.

Similarly,

Men who know red-pill truths but conveniently crawl into blue-pilled schema are purple-pilled men.

Purple-pilled men are hypocritical, untrustworthy and chaotic men.

They wear a mask of red-pilled truths, but when the rubber meets the road, the mask falls off, and their blue-pilled conditioning shows up.

These men follow me religiously but are so afraid to redesign their mental diagrams.

Sometimes their wives inbox me,

"My husband is a drunkard. He came home last night and beat me up."

"My husband follows you, but doesn't provide for us. He is lazy, drinks energy drinks, and he is FAT."

Purple-pilled men are blue-pilled men hiding in red-pill truths.

Their purple-pilled bipolarity makes them indecisive in relationships.

Women dislike this dichotomy of pretending to be masculine grounded, but you collapse the moment her storm threatens your frame.

These purple-pilled men are the same who sleep with other men's wives and sleep with women older than them.

Purple-pilled men are the enablers of misinformation in the red-pill praxeology.

They are the reason people who don't know red pill praxeology call me a misogynist and a hater of women, because these purple-pilled men engage in hypocrisy, duality and lies, then finish with,

"Amerix said it."

#ManDay

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

https://t.co/DBx1o6QbwF

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

To be “good,” something must operate consistently with the laws of reality and contribute to the evolution of the whole; that is what is most rewarded. For example, if you come up with something the world values, you almost can't help but be rewarded. Conversely, reality tends to penalize those people, species, and things that don't work well and detract from evolution. #principleoftheday