Ochieng

The Man in the Mirror.

[Ochieng @ochieng562000]

Analyzing U.S. Airline Delays in 2024 with SQL 📊✈️
After digging into national flight data from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) using SQL, here's what I discovered about air travel delays across the United States in 2024👇:
#SQL

[Ochieng @ochieng562000]

Usman never disappoints with the entrances. Classic Kamaru Entrance with Yaba Buluku. Showtime! #UFCOKC

[Daggie @daggieblanqx]

@Mr_Guantai Sir I'll hold your hand and tell you; in text, there's no such thing as an AI checker.

No tool can determine whether a piece of writing was created by AI or by a human.

Any tool claiming that it can figure AI-generated text is lying. Anyone using/paying for it is being scammed.

[Ochieng @ochieng562000]

The referee wanted Montes dead….the stoppage was way too late IMO #UFCOKC

[Ochieng @ochieng562000]

This is a proper fight to open the main card!!! McMillen gotta go on a body assaulting spree in the second and it’s a wrap. Easier said than done though. #UFCOKC

[The Alchemist @Wekesa_14]

The older I get, the more I realize Proverbs has timeless wisdom its basically a masterclass in leadership, relationships, money, and wisdom.

[purple🍃✨ @doseofpurple_]

George Orwell worried that a shrinking vocabulary would eventually produce a shrinking range of thought.

It is difficult to think a nuanced thought with a blunt language.

[Steph @StephHay6]

There are two types of people. The people who opened their door to kindness because, they too, have tasted affliction. And the people who closed their door on kindness for the exact same reason. Which one are you?

[Ochieng @ochieng562000]

@consiliencilize They bring to mind a sentiment about the difference between being willing to kill vs willing to die for something. Argentina are the latter in soccer terms. Til The End.

[consilience @consiliencilize]

what Argentina do on a football pitch is spiritual. they stare death in the face and just refuse to die. life lesson in there.

[Fernando Rommel @Romme1andre]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again if you’re still arguing with people about Messi being the best player ever, cut them off. You don’t need liars in your life…

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

You give Messi space and time, he walks you like a dog. He’s a very wicked man.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

The entire spiritual industry is a coward's invention, designed to package the most violent undertaking a human being can choose into something palatable for soft hands and weekend schedules. the actual practice, the original practice, before it was gutted and resold as self care, involves deliberately breaking your body down as an offering to something that will never confirm it's received the gift. fasting isn't intermittent caloric optimization, it's starving until something inside you cracks open that eating kept shut. prayer isn't meditation apps with bells, it's grinding the same fucking words into your teeth until they bypass your intellect entirely and enter the bloodstream. the desert fathers lived in holes in the ground eating insects, not because they were performing piety, but because they discovered that comfort is the single most efficient mechanism for keeping a man from encountering anything real about himself, or god, or both. every generation produces fewer thousands willing to pay the actual price, and more millions willing to purchase the aesthetic of having paid it

[“Bad” Billy Pratt @KILLTOPARTY]

One of the cruelest things a person can do is refuse to let their current life count as their real life.

[Steph @StephHay6]

It's important to know when you've outived your usefulness in a room. They may not tell you, but the signs will be there. In the way they constantly disrespect you, it is. In the way they consistently disregard your opinion, you'll know. It's up to you to stay or leave.

[Ram @MeticulousViews]

Nothing beats the dopamine rush of realizing this narcissistic psychopath will never lay his hands on football's greatest prize, while his cult spends the rest of their lives writing conspiracy theories to cope. Good riddance.

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“a wound in the exact shape / of your words.”

— Sean Thomas Dougherty

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This poem appeared in The Second O of Sorrow by Sean Thomas Dougherty, published by BOA Editions Ltd., 2018. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[dro 🇲🇽 @FutbolFax]

Argentina probably won’t win this tournament, and when they get eliminated, what will happen to the opinion of the tournament being rigged? Is the tournament conveniently not rigged anymore once they’re out? I’m interested to see

[dank @cptdankkk]

Jaylen Brown says he used the NBA Players Association instead of hiring an agent for the NBA Draft because they're paid to help players

“When I entered the draft, I didn't have an agent. I'm probably the highest picked selected ever that didn't enter with an agent. When I was evaluating, I went through the whole process and sat with a bunch of people, and what they was offering I ain't really need. It was kind of already slotted, so I leaned on the union a lot more”

“A lot of the agents came and was like, ‘Yeah, we'll move you to L.A. We'll get you a trainer, put some money in your pocket,’ and I was like, ‘For what? Do I gotta give the money back?’ They was like, ‘Nah, but standard agent fee is 4%.’ I'm starting to do the math, and a house, car, and all that, whatever he was offering, is a lot less than what 4% would have been”

“Long story short, the math wasn't mathing for me. I ended up being the third pick. I think because I came in like that, a lot of people, I think it was the agents, they tried to slander my name a little bit, put it in the media that he's too this, he's too that. Ended up backfiring. It all worked out in the end”

“With the union, we pay dues. All the players in the NBA pay dues. We all pay like $10,000 out of our salary that goes to hiring lawyers, hiring staff, CEO, everything that you need to lead a company that works for us. So all of that is our resources that we all pay for, that we agree to. Once I learned that, I just started using it”

“I'm talking about you can get private investigations done. They give referrals for financial advisors. All type of stuff. Foundation wise, health insurance, whatever you need. They have a liaison that's paid to make sure that you get it done. So I put it on their desk like, ‘I need you to get this done.’ And they do because that's their job”

[Oliver Kay @OliverKay]

Even now, after all these years, there are underrated aspects to Messi’s game.
One of them — something his detractors in Argentina used to say he lacked in comparison to the great Diego Maradona — is his ability to find another level, to draw on something deep inside him to bend his games to his will, rather than just his genius as a footballer.

Watching in the studio for U.S. broadcaster Fox, Thierry Henry said it reminded him of times playing alongside him at Barcelona. “You do not (want to) wake up the beast,” Henry said. “You look at his eyes, and he switches. When he goes into that mood, it’s very difficult to stop him.”

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[𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒕 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉 @Shadaya_Knight]

The child who tries to save everyone also delays their own success. Supporting family is noble, sacrificing your financial future is not.