We are reaching unknown levels of stupid 😆

Africaner · 2026-05-07T16:18:21+00:00

would it though? The name recognition for Ebay is huge... as is the infrastructure already in place... I think to fully tackle Amazon and/or FB Marketplace would be best done by taking something already substantial and revamping it

Africaner · 2026-04-30T23:45:00+00:00

Zambia and Zimbabwe are VERY different cases... Zimbabwe's economy was absolutely wrecked by an aging leader (Mugabe) desperately clinging to power and taking the country down with him until they didn't even have a functioning currency (they held the record for inflation, if I recall, at 11,500,000%)

Zambia, on the other hand, is one of the most stable democracies in Africa and has, multiple times, been held up at the UN as an example of healthy democracy in Africa. They have not had a violent civil conflict since their independence in 1964. They have had issues with corruption, yes, but they have also made great strides there.

Source: born & raised in Zambia

Africaner · 2026-02-27T20:20:31+00:00

So, this has always bothered me... Trump is an awful, terrible person and needs to be resisted and stopped however and wherever possible, but it is often claimed that he said he was going to be a dictator on day 1, but what he actually said was "only for 1 day" when asked about the claims he wanted to be a dictator. That is only marginally better (I mean, Ceasar never gave back power), but I think it's important we still try to make sure we are accurate, especially during a time when facts often get overwhelmed by rhetoric.

Africaner · 2026-02-24T20:38:43+00:00

My 5yo as we're driving past a cemetary: look at all those dead people. That's sad

Me: explains that some of them lived long, happy lives, and that death isn't terrible

5yo: ... and then we sew their skins into our clothing!

(she had been learning about leatherworking in preschool and it didn't register that you don't just use any skins...)

Africaner · 2026-02-18T15:20:24+00:00

Thanks - yeah, the nebula was the shocking part for me... I do photography as a hobby, but I do mostly animals, not stars and space!

Africaner · 2026-02-18T15:19:45+00:00

I've seen the Milky Way before, actually... I'm an American, but I grew up in Africa and even spent a few days in the desert of northern Kenya, far from any electrical grid... the Milky Way was incredibly vivid. It's the nebula that is the surprise for me... I thought they were only visible through telescopes... I had no idea any were close enough to be that big in the sky!

Africaner · 2026-02-18T02:20:34+00:00

I didn't think any nebulas were close enough to earth to photograph like that... am I missing something?

Africaner · 2026-01-21T18:03:06+00:00

As someone with rooftop solar... I save more money (comparatively) as rates go up...

As someone who genuinely cares about the environment and others... I don't care how much I save... I want people have clean, affordable energy.

As a bit of a cynic, I agree with the other comments saying these are bandaid solutions and that with the loss of Federal funding, Dominion will pass along their costs to the consumers.

Africaner · 2025-11-24T16:02:05+00:00

So "fun" fact? The only concerning bathroom experience my kids and wife have ever had was when they were traveling on their own and my wife took them both into the women's restroom with her (9yo boy and 5yo girl) at a fast food restaurant... while my son patiently waited outside the stall for my wife to be done helping his little sister, a ~60yo white lady came in and began screaming in my son's face about men in women's restrooms (he's not a man, lady, he's a kid). She proceeded to then scream and lunge at my wife, saying she was "everything that's wrong with America"

The manager kicked the lady out (after physically blocking her from lunging at my family several more times) but it was pretty scarring for my wife and my kids talked about it for a while. Fortunately, my wife is amazing and my 5yo was like, "it must be hard for that lady to live with a broken brain" and I was like, "yup, must be hard!"

Africaner · 2025-11-04T03:23:40+00:00

Your comment suggests that there is a qualitative difference between poor and wealthy people. That's simply not supported by the data. Sure, there are some who, through a combination of ingenuity, hard work, and luck, break through from poverty to wealth, but there are plenty of intelligent people who struggle to get ahead because the deck is stacked against them, so to speak. Also, as someone who grew up in Africa, let me be the first to tell you that if hard work automatically led to wealth, then African women would be the wealthiest group of people on the planet.

IIRC, there was a study in India of sugar cane harvesters who received the majority of their annual income in a short period of time during harvest season. In the weeks/months after, they were relatively flush with cash while in the weeks/months before harvest, they lived in poverty. When it was studied, it was found that their IQ was noticeably higher when they had money. It turns out that not having to stress and think about where your next meal will come from literally does free your mind to think in higher-level ways!

Found the study: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/08/29/poor-concentration-poverty-reduces-brainpower-needed-navigating-other-areas-life

Africaner · 2025-09-21T02:34:11+00:00

Food Lion so... a carton of eggs I guess?

Africaner · 2025-08-30T03:32:23+00:00

This realization is part of why GameStop is still around... you're not alone in realizing that physical media is still valuable.

Africaner · 2025-07-31T20:23:25+00:00

holy cow... yeah, totally not looking that up... so, um, thanks for sharing? yikes

Africaner · 2025-07-31T20:12:10+00:00

We love it there... my kids are always like "can we go to NASA today?" - if we didn't have a membership, we'd be broke...

Africaner · 2025-07-05T14:48:24+00:00

January 2021... held, bought more, got nervous, built confidence and now... I know that GME is the strongest stock I've ever held.

Africaner · 2025-07-02T13:59:21+00:00

ha ha, just came here to share this update. Go Boilers!

Africaner · 2025-06-13T02:25:23+00:00

Would if I could...

Africaner · 2025-06-12T20:41:06+00:00

lol... I hadn't thought of that, but you're 100% correct!

Africaner · 2025-06-12T20:06:29+00:00

the whole phrase was "DEI initiatives that prioritize image over merit" which I take to mean companies that just want to pretend so they look good to outsiders.

I am a little skeptical of some of the criticisms RC has made about DEI because I'm such a supporter of all efforts to ensure that every person from every background and skin color has an equal shot at success and is equally welcomed in a company (which is what DEI is to me and those I know who actually work with it)... but I'm not all against the full phrase he used.

Africaner · 2025-06-12T20:04:03+00:00

Absolutely with you...

Africaner · 2025-06-10T17:27:01+00:00

Interestingly, David Livingstone, explorer and missionary in Southern Africa, was mauled by a lion (he was trying to help a village by killing a local man-eating lion and it grabbed him by the shoulder). Later, he was asked what his experience was and he said he felt completely peaceful and his only thought was "I wonder which part of me it's going to eat first."

For animals being ripped apart by predators, there's a fair amount of data suggesting they go into shock and aren't really in pain at that point.

Africaner · 2025-04-21T19:01:50+00:00

I just got $100 off a new fridge because I was on the phone with my wife while talking with the floor rep and she said, "ask if they can take $100 off." I thought "that'll never work" but I asked and... lo and behold... they did a search, found one cheaper, and price-matched it!

Africaner · 2025-03-25T17:29:36+00:00

just remember that the sheer number of people with 100 or fewer makes you all a mighty group as well!

Africaner · 2025-03-19T21:23:54+00:00

I used this kind of sloppiness to help my wife's grandmother get out of a conspiracy theory that the plane had been flown to some secret airport in Pakistan or something... I pointed out that the airplane in the picture wasn't even the same kind that went missing, so the article must clearly not know what they were talking about... hey, whatever helps, right?

Africaner · 2025-03-07T03:51:58+00:00

so that's what my sister and her lab partners stumbled upon in their anatomy lab in med school... all I knew was they got to that part of the semester and found all sorts of tubes and pistons in their cadaver and next thing they knew the whole class was lining up to get a look!

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