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@OrmosBen @FoundersPodcast Ok. Thanks for sharing

@Josefgobez @FoundersPodcast It’s a play, you play every day, that’s how you create. It’s not work, it’s play. Everyone has to know what their values are and live accordingly. Some do find their work to be as enjoyable that they get lost in it and they’re just playing this game. Very true with billionaires.

Sage advice from Steve Jobs:

@SVG__Collection I think Aristotle said a while ago.

“Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit.” — Quincy Jones

@girdley French restaurant? I don’t what part of the country you live but in Northern California there hardly any French Restaurants?

Why can you find 50,000 Italian and French restaurants in the USA for every German or Portuguese place? Do Americans not like fun?

@magattew China is doing good even with government participation in economy?

@Josefgobez I am not claiming China is “the kind of market [I] espouse.” On that note: x.com/magattew/statu…

Too many Africans look at China’s success and think: “See? Socialism works!” No. You’ve got it backwards. Mao spent decades calling Deng Xiaoping the “number two capitalist roader”, essentially accusing him of trying to restore capitalism.  By 1978, Mao’s policies had left 250 million Chinese in poverty.  Then Mao died. Deng took power. He dismantled collective farming, allowed farmers to sell surplus crops on free markets, opened Special Economic Zones, and welcomed foreign investment. Result: 800 million people lifted from extreme poverty (75% of global poverty reduction between 1981-2020).  As Deng said: “It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, if it catches mice it’s a good cat.”  Pragmatism beats ideology, and market mechanisms worked regardless of political labels. The uncomfortable truth for African socialists:  If you truly care about lifting Africans out of poverty, study what actually worked in China: economic freedom, property rights, trade, and pro-business reforms.  Ideology doesn’t feed people. Markets do.

@jeremyphoward I am ai novice but I have used it for documentation summary. I don’t notice any difference between 5 and 4.5. I am going to test it for writing generation next.

Is this thingy a replacement for Deep Research? I'm gonna try it out now! :) Any of y'all given it a go yet?

@WediBedho @Sharronyemane @CapitaineIb226 @hawelti When to Eritrean politics they talk religion. Eritrean government is made of human beings but some Eritrean they are saints. They can’t make mistakes. They will tell you it is circumstances. In 34 years, they have no wrong policies and they have perfect people… you are problem.

@Sharronyemane @CapitaineIb226 @hawelti I got your points Sharon Haftey but the current 🇪🇷 government has had 34 years to make real changes. Instead we’ve been stuck. no development, no clear plan, just empty promises repeated over and over. We need genuine reforms. Without them, we’re only fooling ourselves😒.

Burkina Faso is teaching us that progress doesn’t pause for challenges. Ibrahim Traore leads by securing the nation while driving development @CapitaineIb226 🫡. Eritrea can learn from this example @hawelti

@SheabiaForever @dsavy_dan That is great achievement and more success to him.

I couldn't be more proud to see our friend and fellow Eritrean American, Yosief on local news who opens his own pizza place. Jossy named the place "Minya's Pizza" in honor of his mother, the business is a testament to his hard work. I've known Yosief for years and have watched him build two successful businesses from the ground up. If you're in the DMV area, I highly recommend stopping by and trying the delicious Zigni Pizza! Here is the address. 👇 1932 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

@Garimian Are you Eritrean? How do we preserve our culture?

Our country has endured starvation, war crimes, undisclosed genocide, and many horrors over millennia, yet we have got through it. But we have never survived the degradation of social and cultural values; and we don't let that happen.

@ZecariasG It seems you are describing China? I don’t know if Chinese believe in God and the Marxist but they seem to be one of the most restrained societies and they seem to be doing well…

When a culture abandons God, the reasons for restraint evaporate. Couple that with a materialist-atheist-leftist (marxist) worldview and progress is twisted to mean the abandonment of all cultural values. Unable to find a stable centre of gravity, such a culture loses its direction and spirals towards chaos.

Western freedom and empowerment mean being free from basic restraints, even those restraints protecting the soul.

@ZecariasG You make a very good observation. I don’t like all these labels of the “first” person to do this. I see in African American communities. It celebrates individual achievement not collective. I like collective achievement like Eritrean businessmen dominate the farm fishing industry

General Domenico Mondelli (1886-1974, born Wodeselassie) was an Italian military officer of Eritrean descent who rose to the rank of general in the Italian army. Born in Asmara during the early years of Italian colonial rule, he later moved to Italy and served with distinction in both World Wars. He was a trained pilot and paratrooper, earning several military honors throughout his career. Despite his accomplishments, his story has often been framed in terms of his appearance rather than his ability, both during his lifetime and in how he is remembered today. Colonialist racism in this man’s youth may have given many average Italians a way to feel superior without doing anything to earn it. By claiming the success of other people without melanin as their own, they could feel accomplished by implication. However, that illusion only works if those with a different skin tone are kept from doing the same things. So when someone who looks different, in this case someone with too much melanin, starts doing things many in that society have treated as their exclusive domain, the illusion of borrowed superiority of the mediocre begins to crack. This doesn’t occur because anything extraordinary is happening, but because it exposes the stupidity of the original belief. That is what makes a simple act, like flying a plane, seem threatening to people still dazzled by the machine. The fear is that he will succeed and quietly force the mediocre to revise their position in life. And when that shock happens they must find a way to cope with the fact that someone who looks like this pilot has done something he was not supposed to do. That shatters too many fragile egos. One way to protect against that quiet humiliation is to turn the person into a spectacle, to label him “the first black pilot,” make him an exception, a curiosity. That way the illusion of skin based superiority survives because the new message becomes that he succeeded not because others like him can, but because he is different from them, a rare exception, an anomaly. This way the illusion of shared skin superiority remains intact. This is understandable. What I find strange is that even now, many years later, people from his own background still repeat this narrative. In the screenshot of a BBC Tigrinya article, the writer celebrates the Italian general’s achievements despite being black, as if melanin were a handicap to overcome. They do not seem to understand that the handicap was never in the man. It was in the society around him. For journalists who speak his language and come from his culture to describe his success as the success of blackness is simply bizarre. What he did was quietly refuse to take part in that very worldview. Yet they treat his basic competence as something to marvel at, when it is the ignorance around him that should be put on display. To be surprised when someone with darker skin does something well is not a compliment. It is a recycled stupidity disguised as praise. And I do not understand why we still repeat it. Do you have anything to prove to anyone?

@ZecariasG @HagereyE I don’t know if pragmatism is not part of Arab or African mindset. Why have organizations that do nothing constructive? When I was a youth, I had this strong belief that the world will make more sense when I get older. Now that I am older it makes no sense.

@Josefgobez @HagereyE The purpose of the Arab League is the same as the African Union: nothing.

Seeing what is happening in Gaza today makes it easier to grasp how an entire society in Germany, 80 years ago, could justify or remain silent during the mass killing of Jews. The same demon that once sought Jewish extermination is well fed today by Israel itself. The cumulative outcome of Netanyahu’s campaign may bring more lasting harm to the future of the Jewish people than Hitler ever could. The devil is having it his way.

@ObiFCB This is the beginning of self confidence and African becoming equal members of the human family instead of a second thought…

I hate that Jewish narrative like mad 😂😂😂

@BereketWL I think it is about character and integrity when it comes to accepting reality. Sometimes if we have big goals it takes time and healing accept we have failed on those grand goals. Accepting reality is a sign of maturity. Truth is more abstract term. Reality acceptance leads prag

@NotifyEri @redseablueisee This not liberal this is the most fundamental right of any citizen. We had National Assembly in 1950s.

@Josefgobez @redseablueisee Your liberal attitude does not work for us .

🇪🇷🇪🇷Eritrea hopes and dreams of independence was betrayed by the #un and western powers after ww2 Eritreans rights for self determination ignored kicking of 30 year of war tho #Eritrea was out gunned out number Almost 20 to 1 the Eritrean heart and spirt carried them to victory

@SebleEphrem Which country in the world are role models for Eritrea? What exactly does self reliance mean in 2025?

#Eritrea - where the concept of 'self reliance' is built-in the national plan for development and is practiced in deed. Works in sustainable equitable partnerships, without relying on benevolence, phianthropists or any of the abundant 'do-gooders'. #Peace.

@RastafariM I agree but I prefer strategic perseverance. Perseverance by it self is not enough.