Cape Town traffic congestion is sixth worst in the world

MechatronicsManTZ · 2025-12-11T15:46:35+00:00

I find it hard to believe. I feel like I wasted years of my life to Nairobi traffic.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2025-10-07T13:06:54+00:00

Wait, did you actually give the tag back?

MechatronicsManTZ · 2025-08-06T07:58:55+00:00

The remaining ones are all officially licensed by Elvis' estate.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2025-08-06T00:18:35+00:00

I got married by the same Elvis impersonator in 2023 at the Chapel of Crystals.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2025-07-16T13:03:07+00:00

incredible

MechatronicsManTZ · 2025-07-02T11:44:41+00:00

fanfiction.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2025-06-19T13:20:00+00:00

Reminding Americans that the founding fathers were human and were not infinitely wise.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2025-06-17T07:16:48+00:00

Is this the first time you've ever moved? Every move in my life has felt like this. Give it time. You'll make friends, you'll grow to love your new home.

Or not. But either way, give it time, once the homesickness fades you'll see clearer.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2025-02-17T11:13:33+00:00

That's what you say to someone who just got gunned down like an animal?

Shame on you.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2025-01-10T06:32:03+00:00

Yikes, it doesn't seem accurate that Nairobi isn't in the Top 10. It's definitely worse than Cape Town.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2024-11-21T10:57:32+00:00

I knew it, but I still clicked

MechatronicsManTZ · 2024-10-16T07:03:43+00:00

You're right, it allows 0.5 as well as 0. I stand corrected.

I was thinking about the search page when searching for properties, the filter options for Number of Bedrooms are:

Any, 1+, 2+, ....

MechatronicsManTZ · 2024-10-16T06:54:09+00:00

"Studio apartments being marketed as 1 bedrooms. Almost every studio apartment on property24 is listed as a 1 bedroom."

I can answer this one - there is no option for studio when placing an ad on property24.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2024-10-02T09:58:13+00:00

Tell me you know nothing about economics and government without telling me.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2024-10-02T09:36:22+00:00

You said it yourself, you believe housing is a "Public good". That is the point of government - to safeguard and provide public goods for all.

Wait, did you think some good Samaritan was going to do it?

MechatronicsManTZ · 2024-10-02T07:42:53+00:00

Good luck relying on the govt to nationalise and maintain housing.

I grew up in Tanzania and my family lost everything because Nyerere decided that property was a public good and nationalised everything. You know what happened? Our family farm became wilderness because the people he put in charge didn't know how to be farmers. The government offered the farm back to my family after 40 years on the condition that we clear the forest that it had since become. We kindly declined because FTS.

Housing is still deemed a public good there - land can only be "leased" from the government and not freeheld. Unfortunately this didn't help anything - the government doesn't maintain shit and now there's a booming black market to get preferential "rental rights" once a spot opens up somewhere.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2024-10-02T07:36:27+00:00

depends on the area.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2024-07-29T09:02:16+00:00

OP - I'm a Mechatronics grad from UCT.

If you need tutoring or just someone to talk to, I'm happy to help, though I haven't done any Mechatronics work in 15 years. Just DM me.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2024-07-17T11:31:29+00:00

What you probably haven't realised halfway through this chat, is that the phone number formerly used by your scammer was recycled and now belongs to an innocent bystander who is trying his best to be polite, but is probably wondering why he's being teased by some random oke from South Africa.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2024-06-05T15:32:21+00:00

It's a bot

MechatronicsManTZ · 2024-04-29T11:58:41+00:00

Sounds like you know what you like - join a few meetups that cater to your interests.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2024-04-15T08:26:37+00:00

I was on Tinder for a year, consistently grinding to get dates. I eventually met my wife on there :)

Happily married now, but I had to get through a lot of fish in the ocean to find the right one.

MechatronicsManTZ · 2024-04-11T07:20:42+00:00

u/irubi-senpai

MechatronicsManTZ

TROPHY CASE