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@_01Legion Hey @grok how did Fabrizio gets his updates about football?
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Oxygen already killed most of the life on Earth once. The first time it filled the air, around 2.4 billion years ago, it was so poisonous that nearly everything alive died. Scientists call it the Oxygen Catastrophe.
Back then the oceans were full of tiny microbes, and none of them used oxygen. Then one kind, an ancestor of the green scum you still see on ponds, started giving off oxygen as a waste gas, the same way you breathe out air you don’t need. Oxygen is a wrecker. It rips apart the delicate machinery inside a living cell, including the DNA, and as it built up in the water and then the sky, it triggered the first mass extinction this planet had ever seen.
A few survivors hid in the mud and deep underground where the gas couldn’t reach, and some of their descendants are still down there. But one tiny cell did something nobody else did. It ate a bacterium that had learned to use oxygen rather than die from it, and instead of digesting its meal, it kept it alive inside itself. That trapped bacterium became the mitochondria, the little engines that power your cells right now. Almost every cell you are made of carries hundreds or thousands of them, all descended from that one strange truce with a poison.
The trade was worth it because burning food with oxygen releases about 18 times more energy than burning it without. It is the reason anything can swim fast or think hard. Every big, fast-moving animal on Earth, you included, runs on the gas that almost ended life.
Oxygen changed the sky too. Some of it floated up high and turned into ozone, a thin layer that blocks most of the sun’s harshest rays. Before that shield existed, raw sunlight was strong enough to fry the DNA of anything out in the open, so life had to stay underwater, where a few feet of sea soaked up the danger. For almost two billion years, nothing lived on land at all. Only once the ozone grew thick enough, a few hundred million years ago, did the first plants and animals crawl out of the water.
And the old poison never really left. Every second, the oxygen your cells burn throws off tiny broken bits called free radicals, and they keep nicking your DNA and the proteins around it. The damage adds up, slowly, your whole life. Back in 1956 a scientist named Denham Harman suggested this slow rusting from the inside is a big reason we get old. People still argue about how much it matters, and no antioxidant pill has ever been shown to make anyone live longer, but the basic idea has held up. The gas keeping you alive right now is also quietly wearing you down, year by year. The joke just got the timing wrong. Oxygen really does kill slowly, and billions of years before we showed up, it already proved it can kill fast.
iza@izamamaa
What if oxygen is actually a slow-acting poison… and it just takes 75–100 years to finish us off
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Let me put you on to something (update) that can genuinely change your financial life for good.
Go to the App Store or Google Play Store and download any of these language learning apps: Duolingo, Babbel, or Busuu.
Pick one language and commit to it. French, German, Spanish, or Portuguese. Study consistently for 6 to 12 months, then sit the official certification exam for your chosen language.
- For French, that is the DELF/DALF exam.
- For German, it is the Goethe-Zertifikat.
- For Spanish, it is the DELE.
- For Portuguese, it is the CELPE-Bras.
These certificates are internationally recognized and that is what employers actually want to see.
Once you are certified, start applying. Here is where to look:
The United Nations Careers Portal (careers.un.org) hires Translators, Interpreters, Language Editors, and Verbatim Reporters. These are mostly onsite roles in New York, Geneva, Vienna, or Nairobi. Entry-level salary starts around $60,000 to $80,000 per year.
The French, German, or Spanish Embassies in your country regularly hire Local Staff Interpreters, Cultural Program Officers, and Administrative Officers who are bilingual. These are onsite roles paying roughly $30,000 to $60,000 per year depending on country.
The European Union Careers Portal (epso.europa.eu) recruits Linguists, Translators, and Conference Interpreters. Mostly onsite in Brussels or Luxembourg. Starting salary ranges from €4,000 to €8,000 per month.
Platforms like ProZ, Upwork, and TransPerfect hire freelance Translators and Remote Interpreters. These are fully remote. Rates run between $25 and $60 per hour depending on your language pair and experience.
The African Development Bank, World Bank, and IMF also regularly post roles for Language Officers and Regional Interpreters, especially for French and Portuguese speakers across Africa.
One language. 6 to 12 months. A globally recognized certificate. That is all it takes to unlock doors that most people do not even know exist.
The information is free. The choice is yours.
Above all, love God.
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@grok @_Arsenalblog Did you actually watch the video?
He shouted leave it, and the open left the ball thinking it was his teammates...
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@Foxyblueu @_Arsenalblog No card needed here—this looks like a clean dribble and shot leading to a stunner. The GK's reaction says it all: pure disbelief at a legit goal. Nice finish! ⚽😂
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@Letter_to_Jack Imagine people running as if something is chasing them
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Panic as residents run for their lives in Ogun state, as it was believed an unknown gunman would invade them by 9 pm.
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@BolanleCole Drop your details under this tweet, and state what you want...
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Android frozen or stuck on a screen? Don't panic.
Press and hold the Power Button for about 15 seconds. This forces a "hard reboot" and cuts power to the frozen system, restarting your phone without losing any data.
Save this for the next time your phone acts up!.
Man of Letters.@Letter_to_Jack
Following the unbelievable impact of that simple tweet on unlocking carrier-locked phones, which saved thousands in Nigeria and Ghana, I’m tempted to throw out a challenge: Everyone drop one life hack that could genuinely help others. What’s that one hack you know? Kindly share.
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@miponthegr74138 Cat is the best Snake hunter, so I will allow my cat to kill it
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@ifeanyi_emmax27 @mrrestructure @miponthegr74138 Thats if the Cat allow the snake to near it...
In this case, no chance for that..
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@mrrestructure @miponthegr74138 If na small snake, the cat go kill am but once na big snake Omo e go squeeze the cat gan
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