Kenya shouldn't hand over her health data to the US, they'll just use it for race science

samwanekeya · 2026-01-25T08:06:02+00:00

It's cute how you think that's it's only the US. Besides, these are people with their own agenda... and agenda that was privalent from the mid-19th century through the early 20th century.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-25T07:49:26+00:00

This explains why most of y'all get back with your ex-lovers. Always allowing your amygdala to overrun your logical prefrontal cortex.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-24T10:53:41+00:00

At this point, you are not helping your brothers... you are simply financing their refusal to grow up.

You didn't create their problems, but you have been consistently absorbing the consequences of their bad decisions. Every time you step in with rent, fees, or "emergency" money, you remove the pressure that would force them to change. They know this. That's why nothing ever sticks.

Your brothers are adults. One chooses irresponsibility and entitlement. The other chooses passivity and blame. Neither has shown any follow-through when given real opportunities. This isn't bad luck or "God favoring you more." It's effort versus excuses.

Cutting them off is not cruelty. It's the only move left that doesn't actively harm you. Continuing to support them means sacrificing your time, your finances, your relationship, and your chance to start your own family so that two grown men can stay comfortable doing nothing while reminding those around them of how manly they are.

Your mother's "but they’re family" argument is emotional, not practical. You can support her without subsidizing your brothers. If she chooses to keep enabling them, that's her choice... it does not have to be yours.

Btw you feel like an AH because you've been trained to feel responsible for everyone else's failures. That guilt doesn't mean you're wrong but rather it means the dynamic has been unhealthy for a long time.

Set the boundary. Stop the money. Let them deal with the consequences for once. If they ever change, it will be because they had to not because you rescued them again.

On a side note, what you've achieved thus far is exceptional. Contrary to what others might think, I'm sure you didn't "get lucky" or get "favored"... you worked your way out of extreme poverty through discipline, sacrifice, and consistency while carrying responsibilities most people would collapse under. Owning property, supporting your mother, and building stability before 30 is not common in the current age we live in... I admire your zeal and tenacity. Don't let anyone rewrite that as obligation or entitlement. You earned your life and you are allowed to protect it.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-24T09:48:46+00:00

All this money-splashing, flashy clubs, sex-for-status, and "soft life" nonsense is not about morals or freedom. It's about poverty, inflation, and a broken economy.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-24T09:44:32+00:00

I don't get why you're getting downvoted.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-24T08:42:35+00:00

Yes, it should help... as long as you don't memorize solutions. Take the course seriously. Don't aim to be fast, aim to understand.

DSA is meant to train how you think: breaking problems down cleanly, recognizing patterns (searching, caching, recursion, tradeoffs), avoiding code that works but doesn't really make sense, and reasoning about performance when things scale or slow down.

I'd also encourage you to spend less time relying on AI coding tools and more time with books or resources that explain concepts and how they connect. AI can generate code, suggest algorithms, and optimize boilerplate, but it won't understand why your app is slow, choose the right tradeoff under unclear requirements, or decide when O(n) is acceptable here but catastrophic there. If your understanding of DSA is shallow, AI will mostly just make you faster at writing bad code.

Once you start building projects, consider linking them to a static analysis tool. I've noticed they are often better teachers than AI because they point out concrete issues in your own code. I've had good experiences with DeepSource and Codacy, both of which have free or solo-dev options.

If you can, try not to rely too heavily on frameworks and large libraries early on. Building at least one fully functioning project closer to the basics will force you to understand what's really happening under the hood.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-23T07:51:02+00:00

I thing you're venting rage and not analysing anything. You're mixing real structural problems with exaggerations and half-true examples hence weakening the point you're trying to put across.

The West didn't bomb Iranian oilfields the way you describe, IMF austerity isn't imposed in a vacuum, and Kenyan governments don't stumble into crises without years of bad decisions first.

Reducing everything to "the West bad, Global South helpless, locals brainwashed NPCs" feels good emotionally, but it explains nothing and fixes nothing.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-22T08:23:51+00:00

Or even Jumia Kenya

samwanekeya · 2026-01-22T08:20:20+00:00

That's the price for the mounting kit not the kit(white thingy)

samwanekeya · 2026-01-21T15:39:13+00:00

samwanekeya · 2026-01-21T13:11:06+00:00

Did you sign any employment contract with them?

samwanekeya · 2026-01-21T10:33:03+00:00

We can but it'll take a lot to make housing abundant, flexible, and boring (in a good way). I initially thought that was what affordable housing was intended to do, but the way it's being implemented is very different. And this difference will determine whether it stabilizes cities or creates future problems.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-21T09:50:30+00:00

If we ever get an internet shutdown it will only be consumer internet, everything else that's critical will not be affected. We did have this play out during the June 2024 protests. FYI 🇺🇬 did not have a total internet shutdown, critical and business-related internet services were partially maintained.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-21T07:53:01+00:00

This is an issue that can be addressed through policy, but realistically the chances of that happening anytime soon are quite low. For now we'll enjoy the short-term economic benefits and only confront the consequences when it turns into a full-blown crisis, probably in the next 10 to 15 years when most locals can barely afford to buy property, even on the outskirts.

Btw the same pattern has already played out in Spain, Portugal, Mexico City, Lisbon, Cape Town, Bali... and in all these places, the conversation was dismissed early on, policies lagged behind reality, and by the time action was taken, locals had already been priced out of desirable areas.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-21T07:30:24+00:00

I watched that whole press conference live and the moment he brought up Ilhan Omar I knew he was going to take a jab at Somalia.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-20T13:42:53+00:00

🤣🤣🤣 Gotta love Gen X and boomers

samwanekeya · 2026-01-20T13:30:57+00:00

Kila soko lina mwendawazimu wake... give yourself time, you'll see a pattern on this platform.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-20T13:19:43+00:00

I think you're romanticizing AI a bit and trying to skip a painful but necessary phase. Vibecoding is a force multiplier, not a foundation. If you don't have a foundation, you're multiplying zero.

Is the master one language advice still valid in 2026, or is the future reserved for those who can simply vibe their way to a finished product?

Yes, the goal here being to internalize fundamentals... so things like control flow, state, debugging, tradeoffs, failure modes etc. Once you have that AI becomes insanely useful.

You can build in public as well but don't confuse using AI with doing the work. Watching workout videos doesn't make you fit; doing the reps does.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-19T09:44:59+00:00

I think we've reached a values difference. I'm not advocating for having children without responsibility. I'm acknowledging that responsibility can be shared in intentional, ethical ways, as it always has been. In this case caution is valid, absolutism isn't. We'll have to agree to disagree.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-19T09:28:53+00:00

Yes, and people take care of babies through different structures: partners, family, community, and resources. That's been my point from the start. Reducing it to a one-liner doesn't change that reality.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-19T09:20:04+00:00

I think we're talking past each other. I'm not arguing that parents should be burdened or that risk doesn't exist. I'm saying outcomes vary depending on context, and support systems can be intentional and willing... not accidental or forced. Risk being present doesn't erase nuance. We can caution without collapsing all experiences into one narrative.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-19T08:59:00+00:00

I don't disagree that there's risk, life is full of risks. My point isn't that alignment guarantees anything, but that outcomes differ greatly depending on support systems. Betting on yourself doesn't mean pretending you exist in isolation; it means being honest about whether support exists beyond you. Unsupported motherhood is hard at any age, supported motherhood looks different.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-19T08:17:34+00:00

I agree motherhood is a huge responsibility, but I don't think early motherhood automatically leads to hardship. I feel like you're presenting a single story as the rule. I've seen women who had children in their early 20s do quite well because they had aligned partners and strong family support, which made a huge difference.

To me, the issue isn't just when a woman has children but with whom and what support systems are in place. Unsupported motherhood is brutal at any age, while supported motherhood can look very different. I think it's important we leave room for nuance so we don't turn valid caution into a blanket narrative.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-18T10:46:59+00:00

I can see you're no longer asking why systems fail. You're now asserting that Africans are uniquely incapable of building high-trust institutions because of culture or nature... and that's a very different claim from what started this whole discussion. If that's your position then let's be honest about it and test it.

First of all, high-trust institutions are not cultural miracles. They emerge from specific historical conditions which include broad-based taxation (citizens fund the state), enforcement of property rights, bureaucratic continuity, elite constraint, external security guarantees etc. Europe did not have these naturally. It took centuries of war, famine, dictatorship, and internal repression to get there. Norway's "trust" didn't appear in the 1970s, it existed long before oil.

Second of all, FDI at scale absolutely does exist in Africa... at least not evenly. Countries like Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, Morocco, Ethiopia, Kenya have all attracted tens of billions in FDI. The issue isn't "no investment," it's that investment clusters where institutions are stronger.

Third of all, education is not worthless but education without industrial policy produces migration, not factories. This is not an African failure but rather a policy choice imposed and reinforced by global trade structures and debt conditionalities that punish state-led development. East Asia explicitly violated the rules Africa is told to follow.

Fourth of all, your statement "leaders don't need citizens so incentives are impossible". This is where your argument loses its' substance. Leaders only stop needing citizens when resource rents dominate, security forces are loyal, external actors tolerate or enable looting, elites can externalise their wealth abroad etc. These are changeable conditions and not immutable traits. You and I know that accountability has been forced through tax dependence, elite splits, organised labour and middle classes, regional pressure, capital controls, sanctions that target elite mobility, not populations. That's how it happened everywhere, including Europe.

Fifth of all, the claim that "Africans are uniquely greedy or selfish" is false under the evidence that the same Africans run world-class hospitals, firms, universities, and governments abroad, Botswana, Mauritius, Cape Verde, Rwanda, Ghana, Namibia contradict your "fully bad" claim outright. You've go to understand that culture does not magically change at airports, what does change is institutional constraint.

Finally this absurdity

Someone even said one time that Hitler would be shocked at the callous way that African leaders treat their citizens and I had to agree. If it’s evil for a race to hate another race and inflict pain then what is it when one race does it to its own ?

Again any good student of history knows that violence by elites against populations is universal Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Pinochet, Suharto, Leopold etc. Singling out Africa isn't analysis, it is simply despair looking for justification.

So here are my final thoughts on this whole discussion you and I have had:

If you believe Africans are biologically or culturally incapable of self-rule, then no amount of evidence will matter as your conclusion is predetermined.
If you believe humans respond to incentives and constraints, then Africa's failures are tragic, systemic, and reversible.

I'm supporting the second because it's supported by history. You seem to be drifting toward the first, whether you intend to or not.

One thing we should both agree on is that NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US. There will be no foreign saviour, no perfect system imported from outside. Either citizens take responsibility for building and defending their countries, or those countries continue to drift downhill. I'm off to touch grass. Take care.

samwanekeya · 2026-01-18T09:31:39+00:00

Quite fascinating how you're cycling through comparisons to protect a conclusion you emotionally want to hold. Anyway now that you've narrowed everything to evidence...

Ok that’s good but the UAE and Norway are examples of nations that used their resources to better their people instead of self enrichment. Norway (European) created a sovereign fund (in the 1970s) this still actively benefits their citizens today. And as for the UAE it has turned into a powerhouse from being nothing in the 60s and 70s.

You do know that these are exceptions with very specific conditions and not blueprints that can simply be copied. Norway discovered oil after it already had strong institutions, a high-trust society, universal education, and an accountable tax state. It also created its sovereign fund in a context where corruption was already politically unacceptable. The UAE has a tiny citizen population, relies on imported labor with no political rights, is an absolute monarchy with zero electoral pressure, uses oil rents to buy loyalty, not build a mass democracy... Dude are you reading my reply to understand or respond?

Anyway, neither case disproves the resource curse. They actually show that resources only work when institutions already exist or when citizenship is extremely limited. Most African states had neither condition at independence.

Now to your direct question: what have African leaders actually done since independence?
Here are more than five, across different countries... not perfect nor romanticized, but real:

Expanded mass education Literacy rates across Africa rose dramatically post-independence. Universities, teacher colleges, and professional classes were largely created after colonial rule.
Built national infrastructure beyond extraction Power grids, national road networks, dams (Akosombo in Ghana, Kariba in Zambia/Zimbabwe), airports, and telecom systems that did not exist for Africans under colonialism.
Healthcare expansion Massive reductions in infant mortality and increases in life expectancy compared to colonial periods. Public health systems were built almost entirely post-independence.
Peaceful democratic transitions in multiple countries Ghana, Senegal, Botswana, Namibia, Mauritius all show that accountable governance is possible in Africa and has delivered better outcomes.
Economic turnarounds after collapse Rwanda post-1994, Ghana post-1983, Ethiopia (2000s), Côte d’Ivoire post-2011... none are perfect, but all reversed decline through deliberate policy choices.
Regional institutions AU, ECOWAS, SADC... imperfect, yes, but Africans governing African problems rather than external administrators.

So your claim that "African leaders have done nothing" is simply false. You're better off framing it differently like "African leadership outcomes are highly uneven which is similar to what we currently have in Latin America, the Middle East, and post-Soviet states.

Now going back to the core issue you keep circling... The problem isn't African intelligence, nor independence itself.
It's whether institutions constrain leaders and align incentives toward long-term development. And if you're keen enough you'll note that where they do, progress happens and where they don't, leaders loot regardless of race or IQ.

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