@ms_tourist Removing the bar is a very kind observation, they literally buried the bar underground to accommodate negative IQ and abysmally dumb imbeciles
🇳🇦 BREAKING: Namibia just paid off its entire IMF debt. Zero balance. $23.8 million repaid. No new loans. No new conditions. Freedom.
While other nations drown in IMF austerity, Namibia walked out. No more structural adjustment. No more neoliberal lectures. No more foreign control over economic policy.
This is what sovereignty looks like. Paying your debts. Refusing new ones. Charting your own path.
Namibia is free. Other African nations should take notes.
Question for the timeline: Which African country should be next to tell the IMF goodbye?
Question: are you Gareth Mnisi?
Reply: Chairman let me explain - you see when I was born, my grandfather wanted to name me Daniel, but my grandmother decided that I should be named Samson &So my mother went to register me as Gareth. Technically I’m Gareth
#MadlangaCommission
In order to be born, you needed:
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth great-grandparents
256 sixth great-grandparents
512 seventh great-grandparents
1,024 eighth great-grandparents
2,048 ninth great-grandparents
For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4.094 ancestors over the last 400 years
Pause for a second and really think about this…
How many hardships did they survive?
How many silent battles did they fight?
How many tears did they wipe away?
How many moments of joy did they celebrate?
How many love stories began so that yours could one day exist?
How many dreams for a better future were whispered into the dark?
All of it…
just so you could be here, alive, in this moment
If doctors in 1950 could be catastrophically wrong about smoking, fat, and sugar while being completely confident in their recommendations...
And doctors in 1980 could be catastrophically wrong about margarine, low-fat diets, and dietary cholesterol while being completely confident in their recommendations...
And doctors in 2000 could be catastrophically wrong about opioids, hormone therapy, and Vioxx while being completely confident in their recommendations...
Why would you assume doctors today, working in the same institutional structures with the same pharmaceutical funding and the same regulatory capture, have suddenly figured it all out?
The system hasn't changed. The incentives haven't changed. The conflicts of interest haven't changed.
Only your willingness to believe them has.
Imagine your city has been mismanaged out of water. Your premier then tells the public poor: no, but I suffer as well. I sometimes have to go to a hotel to take a bath. God help us
@TheArsenalMind Playing not to lose is going to rob the team of its likely success. Too risk averse, no game-winners because the players are all over-coached out of their natural skills and creativity. System is regid and predictable
@TheArsenalMind It is more about team's mentality, we play not to lose when we play top6 teams. Manager too risk averse, you saw how he celebrated our equalizer, he was ready to settle for a draw
Donald Trump: “Why can’t we have some people from Norway?”
As a Norwegian, here is my answer:
In Norway, we have permanent employment guaranteed by law, collective wage agreements, and strong unions.
In the US, you can lose your job overnight, without any reason.
In Norway, you can be sick without being financially punished.
In the US, getting sick can mean losing both your pay and your job.
In Norway, we have the right to paid holiday, leave, and a secure pension.
And healthcare and education are free.
In the US, much of this is up to your boss—if you are lucky.
And this is not a coincidence.
It is the result of ordinary people standing together, organising, and fighting for these rights.
So no thanks, I am not moving to get worse rights.
I will stay and defend the working life we have built here.