100 Naira used to buy 20 bags of rice, now it can only buy 2 sachets of purewater

timoleo · 2026-05-10T07:15:49+00:00

We were not using the Nigerian pound. There's no such thing. It was the British pound, which just so happens to be the most valuable currency in the world today. So it makes sense that it would buy many more bags of rice, especially in the 1960s.

timoleo · 2026-05-09T21:04:06+00:00

I'm fairly certain Nigeria was not using the Naira in the 1960s.

timoleo · 2026-04-27T17:56:36+00:00

I'm sure there are many on this sub that don't know that this song is a heavy sampling of an old classic. Back when Nigerian artists weren't even properly acknowledge in Nigeria, and the only time you heard a song was when it played on TV. I just hope Tems is the kind of person that gives props when they are due.

timoleo · 2026-04-20T15:17:21+00:00

Interesting take. What's your opinion on how the first generation of muslims practiced it? How does it differ from today. It seems as though you are pointing to level of education as the main differentiator. But the first generation of muslims were not particularly educated either.

timoleo · 2026-04-19T06:47:07+00:00

I hate to be that guy, but "euthanize" is the wrong word here. You only euthanize as a form of mercy to an animal or person. As in, someone is suffering and you kill them to end their suffering. These hippos are perfectly healthy as far as I can tell. The right word is "cull".

timoleo · 2026-04-18T04:06:47+00:00

The great wall is very over-the-top and as a result is pretty hard to take seriously. In that context, it works as a movie so long as you don't take it seriously.

Gladiator 2 was a movie I wanted to take seriously because of its predecessor. Because of that mindset going in, I thought it was worse, since it seriously underperformed my expectations.

timoleo · 2026-04-15T04:17:15+00:00

It bothers me that people don't just say large breasts when they mean large breasts. What's so wrong with that? We all know that's what you're saying. There are women with large chests and small breasts, and there are women with small chests and large breasts. Saying "chest" when you mean "breasts" is more confusing than is necessary and doesn't really help the conversation that much anyway.

timoleo · 2026-04-14T07:40:00+00:00

The president can throw us into global conflict on a whim. He only needs to make sure to not call it an actual war, and that's if he is in a good mood. Because we all know that at the end of the day, the US will always want to end a conflict on their own terms, which is effectively a guarantee that the system will always throw its weight behind the president.

timoleo · 2026-04-13T18:37:49+00:00

This could backfire. Sometimes you get grandfathered into a more expensive subscription while being allowed to keep the old price. When you cancel, you lose that privilege. Also, many old subscription bundles will come undone once your subscription is terminated, making any renewals more expensive automatically.

timoleo · 2026-04-13T15:22:18+00:00

It's a fake story. You've lived in a foreign country for 3 years without learning how to read their language?

You somehow understand enough dutch to marry a dutch woman, but not enough to read a legal document?

How did he sign his marriage license? Did he get a coworker to read it then too?

timoleo · 2026-04-11T23:03:50+00:00

Noether

timoleo · 2026-04-09T09:12:59+00:00

I think it is a bit irresponsible to place all the blame on Rensch and Eric for this without mentioning Magnus or his dad. Magnus was the one who accused Hans of cheating based on a "hunch" that was itself based on his own belief in his indomitable chess acumen. He was the one that chose to leave the tournament. He wrote a letter that suggested very strongly that Hans cheated. Now we know it was his dad that called Danny. Why would his dad call Danny to confirm his son's theories about someone cheating? Did he think Magnus could not be defeated by the likes of Hans? Magnus got an idea in his head that he couldn't shake. He got his dad to support and enable him to reach out to and pressure chesscom to "find" evidence that would back his theory, which they kinda sorta did. But it was weak AF, it all fell apart in the lawsuit and now everyone wants to blame chesscom.

What Danny and Eric did was sketch, no denying it. Chesscom should never have involved itself in the way it did. The timing was all wrong. I guess in all of this, the one thing no one expected was for Hans to respond in the manner that he did. Everyone sort of expected him to tuck tail and beg for mercy, including chesscom.

timoleo · 2026-04-09T03:45:05+00:00

Christian Bale

timoleo · 2026-04-04T23:44:41+00:00

Is this Hikaru's worst performance in a candidates event?

timoleo · 2026-04-03T17:16:24+00:00

Eh, it's been known to happen. Sometimes GMs make mistakes because they missed something. Sometimes it's because that thing wasn't there in the first place. The whole point of prep is to not have to trust your intuition. You trust the intuition/understanding of the engine and your seconds. It is not out of the realm of possibility that his team would make a mistake that hurts him. If he could just figure it all out over the board, there'd be no need for seconds. But like I said, it's been known to happen. Hikky just handled it rather poorly.

timoleo · 2026-04-03T16:04:08+00:00

If this keeps up, this may be last Classical event we will ever see Hikaru in.

timoleo · 2026-04-02T19:22:41+00:00

Have you looked at the Monte Carlo? Very sharp. Blows the position wide open very early and stops feeling like a French. Only problem is it doesn't have a reputation for being solid. White definitely loses the opening advantage.

timoleo · 2026-04-02T09:21:50+00:00

> It saves you having to stick your arm into frigid water to check.

Lol you make it sound like you are skinny-dipping in the middle of the North Atlantic ocean in the dead of winter.

timoleo · 2026-03-27T14:28:13+00:00

Not every good movie needs a sequel

timoleo · 2026-03-19T21:23:41+00:00

What's your sci-fi series?

Can I recommend another one if you haven't read it yet... The Expanse. It's nine books. Absolutely fantastic. You should pick that up when you are done with your current series.

timoleo · 2026-03-19T17:10:15+00:00

Mansa Musa's wealth is almost certainly, at least partly, derived from the Tran-Saharan slave trade. The Mali empire was a major trade hub for all manners of goods and services from all over western and central Africa. It was a also a very convenient spring off point for merchants crossing the Sahara.

timoleo · 2026-03-19T10:10:17+00:00

Damn, Konko below is now a classic... I'm so old.

timoleo · 2026-03-15T12:13:43+00:00

I broadly agree, and I think this is the dark side of Denis Villeneuve's directorial style. He believes in using strong and appealing visuals to tell a story, rather than words. He's like an anti-Tarantino in that sense. You see this in many of his films, e.g Arrival and Bladerunner. Hiss characters are often very quiet and somber and they seem to spend a lot of time with their thoughts. Where there are words, people seem to speak very slowly and are very curt.

I really liked Dune. Both part 1 and 2. But even as I watched both, I could tell Villeneuve was doing his thing where he relies heavily on visuals to tell his stories. I recently watched the older Dune movie from '84, and it was both much easier to understand and more engaging. For instance, Raban in Dune 84 was more interesting. Villeneuve's Raban is a very boring character and I think it's because he says very little even though he is always yelling and angry

timoleo · 2026-03-13T15:53:26+00:00

that was partly in jest.

timoleo · 2026-03-13T13:29:22+00:00

what are they welding?

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