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AFRICAN SOCIAL OBLIGATIONS
Author Theodore Dalrymple, working in Rhodesia as a Doctor a few years before its fall, describes the African Conception of Social Obligations:
“Unlike in South Africa, where salaries were paid according to a racial hierarchy, salaries in Rhodesia were equal for blacks and whites doing the same job, so that a black junior doctor received the same salary as mine. But there remained a vast gulf in our standards of living, the significance of which at first escaped me; but it was crucial in explaining the disasters that befell the newly independent countries that enjoyed what Byron called, and eagerly anticipated as, the first dance of freedom.
The young black doctors who earned the same salary as we whites could not achieve the same standard of living for a very simple reason: they had an immense number of social obligations to fulfill. They were expected to provide for an ever expanding circle of family members (some of whom may have invested in their education) and people from their village, tribe, and province. An income that allowed a white to live like a lord because of a lack of such obligations scarcely raised a black above the level of his family. Mere equality of salary, therefore, was quite insufficient to procure for them the standard of living that they saw the whites had and that it was only human nature for them to desire—and believe themselves entitled to, on account of the superior talent that had allowed them to raise themselves above their fellows. In fact, a salary a thousand times as great would hardly have been sufficient to procure it: for their social obligations increased pari passu with their incomes.
These obligations also explain the fact, often disdainfully remarked upon by former colonials, that when Africans moved into the beautiful and well-appointed villas of their former colonial masters, the houses swiftly degenerated into a species of superior, more spacious slum. Just as African doctors were perfectly equal to their medical tasks, technically speaking, so the degeneration of colonial villas had nothing to do with the intellectual inability of Africans to maintain them. Rather, the fortunate inheritor of such a villa was soon overwhelmed by relatives and others who had a social claim upon him. They brought even their goats with them; and one goat can undo in an afternoon what it has taken decades to establish.
It is easy to see why a civil service, controlled and manned in its upper reaches by whites, could remain efficient and uncorrupt but could not long do so when manned by Africans who were supposed to follow the same rules and procedures. The same is true, of course, for every other administrative activity, public or private. The thick network of social obligations explains why, while it would have been out of the question to bribe most Rhodesian bureaucrats, yet in only a few years it would have been out of the question not to try to bribe most Zimbabwean ones, whose relatives would have condemned them for failing to obtain on their behalf all the advantages their official opportunities might provide. Thus do the very same tasks in the very same offices carried out by people of different cultural and social backgrounds result in very different outcomes.
Viewed in this light, African nationalism was a struggle as much for power and privilege as it was for freedom, though it co-opted the language of freedom for obvious political advantage. Of course, the solidarity and inescapable social obligations that corrupted public and private administration in Africa also gave a unique charm and humanity to life there and served to protect people from the worst consequences of the misfortunes that buffeted them. There were always relatives whose unquestioned duty it was to help and protect them if they could, so that no one had to face the world entirely alone. Africans tend to find our lack of such obligations puzzling and unfeeling—and they are not entirely wrong”
Author Theodore Dalrymple, working in Rhodesia as a Doctor a few years before its fall, describes the African Conception of Social Obligations:
“Unlike in South Africa, where salaries were paid according to a racial hierarchy, salaries in Rhodesia were equal for blacks and whites doing the same job, so that a black junior doctor received the same salary as mine. But there remained a vast gulf in our standards of living, the significance of which at first escaped me; but it was crucial in explaining the disasters that befell the newly independent countries that enjoyed what Byron called, and eagerly anticipated as, the first dance of freedom.
The young black doctors who earned the same salary as we whites could not achieve the same standard of living for a very simple reason: they had an immense number of social obligations to fulfill. They were expected to provide for an ever expanding circle of family members (some of whom may have invested in their education) and people from their village, tribe, and province. An income that allowed a white to live like a lord because of a lack of such obligations scarcely raised a black above the level of his family. Mere equality of salary, therefore, was quite insufficient to procure for them the standard of living that they saw the whites had and that it was only human nature for them to desire—and believe themselves entitled to, on account of the superior talent that had allowed them to raise themselves above their fellows. In fact, a salary a thousand times as great would hardly have been sufficient to procure it: for their social obligations increased pari passu with their incomes.
These obligations also explain the fact, often disdainfully remarked upon by former colonials, that when Africans moved into the beautiful and well-appointed villas of their former colonial masters, the houses swiftly degenerated into a species of superior, more spacious slum. Just as African doctors were perfectly equal to their medical tasks, technically speaking, so the degeneration of colonial villas had nothing to do with the intellectual inability of Africans to maintain them. Rather, the fortunate inheritor of such a villa was soon overwhelmed by relatives and others who had a social claim upon him. They brought even their goats with them; and one goat can undo in an afternoon what it has taken decades to establish.
It is easy to see why a civil service, controlled and manned in its upper reaches by whites, could remain efficient and uncorrupt but could not long do so when manned by Africans who were supposed to follow the same rules and procedures. The same is true, of course, for every other administrative activity, public or private. The thick network of social obligations explains why, while it would have been out of the question to bribe most Rhodesian bureaucrats, yet in only a few years it would have been out of the question not to try to bribe most Zimbabwean ones, whose relatives would have condemned them for failing to obtain on their behalf all the advantages their official opportunities might provide. Thus do the very same tasks in the very same offices carried out by people of different cultural and social backgrounds result in very different outcomes.
Viewed in this light, African nationalism was a struggle as much for power and privilege as it was for freedom, though it co-opted the language of freedom for obvious political advantage. Of course, the solidarity and inescapable social obligations that corrupted public and private administration in Africa also gave a unique charm and humanity to life there and served to protect people from the worst consequences of the misfortunes that buffeted them. There were always relatives whose unquestioned duty it was to help and protect them if they could, so that no one had to face the world entirely alone. Africans tend to find our lack of such obligations puzzling and unfeeling—and they are not entirely wrong”
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Thread No : 60 - SreeLeela
Oka Producer Son Hero gaa launch avthunnaadu, ahh movie lo SreeLeela ni heroine gaa pettukunnaru, romance scenes kosam extra remuneration ichi maree pettukunnaaru, money matter motham leela valla amma deal chestundhi,
Oka Producer Son Hero gaa launch avthunnaadu, ahh movie lo SreeLeela ni heroine gaa pettukunnaru, romance scenes kosam extra remuneration ichi maree pettukunnaaru, money matter motham leela valla amma deal chestundhi,
One fine day
Leela : amma ee cinema nenu cheyyanu
Mom : Emaindhi leelamma?
Leela : First lo just Romance ani annaru gaa, ippudu bikini 👙 veyyali antunnaru
Mom : Bikini ahh?
Leela : Haa
Mom : Contract lo ledhe...
Leela : Nuv velli maatladu amma Director & Producer tho
Leela : amma ee cinema nenu cheyyanu
Mom : Emaindhi leelamma?
Leela : First lo just Romance ani annaru gaa, ippudu bikini 👙 veyyali antunnaru
Mom : Bikini ahh?
Leela : Haa
Mom : Contract lo ledhe...
Leela : Nuv velli maatladu amma Director & Producer tho
Mom : Sare nuv worry avvaku nenu velli maatladi vostha
(Leela vaalla amma producer deggariki vellindhi, few hours discussion tarvatha leela ki call ochindhi)
Mom : Ahh leelamma, nenu motham maatladesaanu, manaki payment double isthaaranta ee okka scene kosam-
(Leela vaalla amma producer deggariki vellindhi, few hours discussion tarvatha leela ki call ochindhi)
Mom : Ahh leelamma, nenu motham maatladesaanu, manaki payment double isthaaranta ee okka scene kosam-
Buenas, soy Enan con la exposición de otra familia: Los Afton 🐇
#FNAFHS #FNAFHSPTS
(Y Don Toño coleado porque no le iba a hacer ficha en solitario 💋🍎)
#FNAFHS #FNAFHSPTS
(Y Don Toño coleado porque no le iba a hacer ficha en solitario 💋🍎)
Empiezo por la mami, no tengo mucho de qué hablar. No estudió en la HS ni en ningún colegio así super de renombre. Una señora muy inteligente y super buena para tratar con la gente, era la que trataba con los clientes e inversionistas 🙂↕️
Adoraba a Spring y siempre se enfocaba
Adoraba a Spring y siempre se enfocaba
En enseñarle lo bonito de la vida. Le gustaba pintar, sobre todo paisajes
Le cedió su collar a Spring el día que se vieron por última vez 🥀
William 🗣️ sí estudió en la HS. Estaba en la división de ciencias y era un genio de la robótica. Formó una empresa de robótica 🙂↕️
Le cedió su collar a Spring el día que se vieron por última vez 🥀
William 🗣️ sí estudió en la HS. Estaba en la división de ciencias y era un genio de la robótica. Formó una empresa de robótica 🙂↕️
I think I cracked code to predict Gold & Silver 🧠
Thread 🧵
Thread 🧵
In the chart you can see Gold & Silver have better correlation with “Real Interest rates” than “Dollar index”.
While everybody sees dollar index to predict gold & silver rally, we should now note that we should use “real interest rates”.
⭐️ So now it is important to know ; what is “real interest rate” ?
Ans: It is the interest rate “adjusted” for inflation to reflect the actual change in purchasing power.
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While everybody sees dollar index to predict gold & silver rally, we should now note that we should use “real interest rates”.
⭐️ So now it is important to know ; what is “real interest rate” ?
Ans: It is the interest rate “adjusted” for inflation to reflect the actual change in purchasing power.
2/n
So gold and silver are “inversely” correlated with “real interest rate”.
Falling real interest rate causes rally in gold & silver as you can see in circled 1 & 2 phases on above chart. 📊
In 1 & 2 phases gold & silver rallied when real rates fell.
⭐️ But important is the phase no. 3 shown on the chart. In that real rates have remained flat but still Gold & Silver have rallied sharply. Why ?
Ans 👇
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Falling real interest rate causes rally in gold & silver as you can see in circled 1 & 2 phases on above chart. 📊
In 1 & 2 phases gold & silver rallied when real rates fell.
⭐️ But important is the phase no. 3 shown on the chart. In that real rates have remained flat but still Gold & Silver have rallied sharply. Why ?
Ans 👇
3/n
Here is everything I know about tapering psych meds. I've come off benzos, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and anticonvulsants. I've done it right and I've done it catastrophically wrong. This is the thread I needed years ago. 🧵
Tip 1: Get metabolically stable before you start. This means keto, sleep, exercise, substance abstinence, all of it locked in and consistent before you reduce a single milligram. The more stable your metabolic baseline, the easier your nervous system handles the change.
Tip 2: Taper by percentage, not by raw amount. Dropping from 100mg to 90mg is a 10% reduction. Dropping from 20mg to 10mg is also a 10mg reduction in absolute terms but a 50% reduction relative to the dose. The impact on your brain is proportional, not absolute.
The mistake my doctor made with me was thinking "it's only 200mg" without thinking about what percentage of my total dose that was.
The mistake my doctor made with me was thinking "it's only 200mg" without thinking about what percentage of my total dose that was.
I've spent four of the last seven years living in Mexico's second poorest state. People eat at restaurants all the time. Mexicans get 10x more food delivered to their homes, same in India & China. The reason you can't afford living in the US has nothing to do with buying a coffee
going to the doctor is free btw, no wait, no scheduling weeks out. often there's a doctor's office attached to the pharmacy. It used to cost $2.50 but now it's free. They will see you, diagnose illness, prescribe drugs, etc, and there's a little cup to donate money if you want.
Couple months back, I had age-related health checkups done there. I explained to the doctor that if I get seriously ill in the United States, my plan is to buy a pistol and end it in the woods. I told them how gringos die of tooth infections and pay $25k/year for 'access'
Babe wake up, the 22-year C-section follow up data just dropped, and it’s *much* worse than the public was led to believe.
1 in 3 American babies are born this way.
1 in 3 American babies are born this way.
প্রিয়নাথ বসুর জন্ম ১৮৬৫ সালে পশ্চিমবঙ্গের উত্তর ২৪ পরগনার ছোট জাগুলিয়া গ্রামে। তাঁর পিতা মনোমোহন বসু ছিলেন একজন বিখ্যাত কবি, বিশিষ্ট নাট্যকার এবং 'হিন্দুমেলার' অন্যতম প্রধান সংগঠক। ছোটবেলা থেকেই পড়াশোনার চেয়ে শরীরচর্চা ও জিমন্যাস্টিকসের প্রতি তাঁর তীব্র অনুরাগ ছিল।১/১২
তিনি কলকাতার মেট্রেপলিটন ইনস্টিটিউশনে পড়াশোনা করেন। পরবর্তীতে বিখ্যাত কুস্তিগীর গৌরহরি মুখোপাধ্যায়ের আখড়ায় যোগ দিয়ে কুস্তি ও জিমন্যাস্টিকস শেখেন।২/১২
বাবা মনোমোহন বসু ছেলের এই রূপ দেখে খেলাধুলার ভবিষ্যৎ নিয়ে চিন্তিত হয়ে তাঁকে কলকাতার সরকারি আর্ট স্কুলেও ভর্তি করিয়েছিলেন। তবে প্রিয়নাথের মূল আকর্ষণ শরীরচর্চাতেই সীমাবদ্ধ ছিল। তিনি সিমলে পাড়ায় (বর্তমান বিবেকানন্দ রোড) বন্ধুদের নিয়ে নিজস্ব আখড়াও গড়ে তোলেন।৩/১২
According to psychology, being the "good, low maintenance" child isn't a sign of innate maturity. It is a survival strategy known as parentification or fawning. You subconsciously recognized that your caregivers were too emotionally overwhelmed, volatile, or fragile to handle your age appropriate needs. You swallowed your own childhood and became invisible just to keep the peace
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"Princess Eugenie's charity faces further scrutiny from Charity Commission"🤔
The Charity Commission has opened a case into Princess Eugenie's anti-slavery charity, Anti-Slavery Collective, over concerns relating to its spending."..
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Earlier this year, the watchdog confirmed it was "assessing concerns" about the charity which the princess co-founded in 2017.
founded with business consultant Julia de Boinville
> Afiniti > David Cameron
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founded with business consultant Julia de Boinville
> Afiniti > David Cameron
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Millennials can all remember their parents affording a house and three cars on a modest income when we were kids and they really expect us to just forget and believe their lies
We lived in a very modest suburban town and neighborhood. The actual rich people a few towns over all had BMWs and Mercedes and houses twice the size of ours.
BRICK SUIT ORIGIN STORY.
It's been seven years and a day since I became Brick Suit at a rally in Montoursville PA.
A thread🧵
It's been seven years and a day since I became Brick Suit at a rally in Montoursville PA.
A thread🧵
Yesterday @SelinaHeddings sent me this photo she took as I walked off the stage (Thank you!) and so I thought I'd do a recap.
This was only my third rally and it was only the second time I had worn the bricks in public (first time was about a week earlier when I flew into D.C.)
This was only my third rally and it was only the second time I had worn the bricks in public (first time was about a week earlier when I flew into D.C.)
I got to the Montoursville airport the night before at midnight and was third in line. When the rains came others retreated to shelter. I slept in my chair under a tiny umbrella using my dry cleaning bag as a raincoat while holding my suit in my lap. I ended up in the front row.
You can tell we live in gynocracy bc this won’t convince guys to do family drag (just helps them rebrand weak men) but under patriarchy some women really could be convinced by this inspiration slop (if it could exist under patriarchy) to go drinking & shooting & whoring with sons
The main failure mode of patriarchy was always that it spoke to women in male-brained ways, & couldn’t even understand when this was counterproductive; the main failure mode of gynocracy is likewise that it mainly hectors men in manners optimized for women to consider convincing.
🚨 Goodbye to the love of my life, PowerPoint!
Claude 4.7 can create a complete presentation in just 60 seconds.
Use these 6 prompts and watch the insanity unfold.
Save this — you’ll use it a lot.
Thread:
Claude 4.7 can create a complete presentation in just 60 seconds.
Use these 6 prompts and watch the insanity unfold.
Save this — you’ll use it a lot.
Thread:
1. Presentation Blueprint (Outline)
The prompt:
“Act as a professional presentation consultant.
Create a complete outline for a presentation about [topic]. Define the objective, target audience, core message, slide flow, and the required number of slides. The structure should be logical, engaging, and professional.”
The prompt:
“Act as a professional presentation consultant.
Create a complete outline for a presentation about [topic]. Define the objective, target audience, core message, slide flow, and the required number of slides. The structure should be logical, engaging, and professional.”
2. Structure & Flow Engineer
The prompt:
“Design a slide-by-slide structure for a presentation about [topic].
For each slide, write a clear title and explain the exact purpose of that slide so the presentation flows naturally and smoothly from beginning to end.”
The prompt:
“Design a slide-by-slide structure for a presentation about [topic].
For each slide, write a clear title and explain the exact purpose of that slide so the presentation flows naturally and smoothly from beginning to end.”
🧵Some of the Russian doom coming from their mappers isn't due to real Ukrainian advances. These are areas that Russia never controlled in the first place.
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Earlier in the year, Russian mappers geolocated 2 guys with a flag, and despite other videos showing them being hit by a drone, artillery, an airstrike, run over by an M113 APC, and then eaten by feral pigs, they still mapped the great victory. Big advance!
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As Russian sources publish their latest "see how good we are at war" videos, the reality is being exposed. Some Russian-based maps are, in a word, delusional. They can't go against the Kremlin unless the claims are ridiculous, such as the capture of Borova.
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“#Liberature?”
“#UpSyndrome?”
“#CollectFruitStickers?”
“#KnightsOfTheRoundLabel??”
#TruthWillOut!
#SystemsWillHeal!
#TurnToJesusChrist!!!
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#asmrt??
#aRt??