Robert Escott

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@QueenAnticommie If you can't afford to pay workers a decent wage without them relying of tips, don't open a restaurant.

I agree with this! If you can’t afford a tip, stay home

@angelovalidiya If you read the abstract properly, you'd see that this is a correlation study, not a causation study. If it were, then not only should we stop the MMR vaccines, but we should ban use of insecticides, cat ownership and petroleum products as well. Oh! Farm animals, too.

So MMR vaccination is associated with childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia. Why this isn't shown to the parents? How is this ethical? This vaccination is mandatory for school aged kids in Germany btw. Homeschooling is forbidden in Germany...

@Wisdom_HQ Fast food take-aways

What went wrong?

@Olivia_LaGrange Funny thing is, just because you haven't seen it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. You can't be everywhere, or read everything.

It's always white South Africans on X who are of the opinion that black South Africans should not vote on race 🤣🤣🤣 I've never heard the argument other way around. Is it because they want people to vote DA or FF+ ? Sorry but if I were a black South African I honestly would not trust white leaders yet. Maybe FF+, but still no.... Sorry...no A party's who's people reflect our demographics makes more sense. Yes merit is important, but come on.... Both these parties I mention is basically Lilly white 🤦🏻‍♀️ and we're not supposed to question this ? Seriously

@Liberty4Media @sciencegirl Myopic opinion. Part of the purpose of a penalty or punishment is to discourage repeat behaviour. If people are inconvenienced enough, they'll think twice about doing it again. In the short term, they tak up space for longer, but in the long term, they don't

@sciencegirl I never understood why you would punish someone for their vehicle being at a certain location by ensuring that the vehicle remains at that exact location for a vastly longer period than it otherwise would have. Government solutions 101

The NYPD is using “Barnacles” to tackle illegal parking. These are commercial-grade suction devices that attach to vehicle windows with around 1,000 pounds of force, making them extremely difficult to remove without proper release.

@MbarkCherguia Looks like she's wearing giant Ghost Pops.

How would you describe Cardi B’s outfit?

@RandyGoat I'm not following that closely. What percentage of his promises has he achieved so far, and which ones?

I didn't vote for the man named Trump. I voted for Trump's campaign promises. Anyone else?

@CuriosityonX Too many problems would arise. Occam's razor eliminates that possibility extremely quickly

65 million years ago, something fell from the sky and wiped out the dinosaurs. What if the asteroid wasn't an asteroid? What if it was a spaceship and we're the aliens?

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP* Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response: A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are. • You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

@Jennnyyyyyy 15

This is harder than it looks 😬 Difficulty - Pro 🤠

@PeriklesGREAT Bicycle

Name ONE thing?

@markmywords @WHO Why on Earth would we want to do that?

South Africa needs to cancel its @WHO membership as soon as possible. It’s a waste of our tax money.

@andy_lion007 You don't have to go very far. Obama handled the Iranian nuclear issue with diplomacy and succeeded in brokering a deal. Trump sent the military in without a goal, and without a plan, and the entire world is suffering for this short-sightedness.

Can you name one thing Obama did better than Trump? What say you?

@StateDept What Iran's doing is a result of Israel and USA's actions. Shouldn't the UN rather be trying to solve the root cause, rather than the symptoms?

SECRETARY RUBIO: We’re asking the UN to call on Iran to stop blowing up ships, remove the mines, and allow humanitarian relief. If the international community can’t rally behind this and solve something so straightforward, then I don’t know what the utility of the UN system is.

@FrankLuntz I think the point he's making is that the Electoral College is a dinosaur that should be put to rest. It made sense in the age when information spread slowly. In a modern world - where information flows at lightening speed - it doesn't make any sense at all.

If we did this, the President of the United States would currently be Donald Trump.

@Oliviasullvb Haven't decided yet. No party has persuaded me yet. I've always been a free agent, I probably make up my mind in the week of elections.

What party are you voting for in the next elections?🤔

@wachira_crispus @Its_ereko @sukoluhle0101 Contrary to your opinion, evidence suggests otherwise. There are many African countries actively reducing their debt to IMF. Namibia is the third one to finish paying its debt in the last 12 months, joining Nigeria an Mozambique.

@Its_ereko @sukoluhle0101 Unfortunately no. It’s likely that some will be exploited by imperialist powers to destabilise Namibia. Africa's primary obstacles are generated from within.

🇳🇦 BREAKING: Namibia just paid off its entire IMF debt. Zero balance. $23.8 million repaid. No new loans. No new conditions. Freedom. While other nations drown in IMF austerity, Namibia walked out. No more structural adjustment. No more neoliberal lectures. No more foreign control over economic policy. This is what sovereignty looks like. Paying your debts. Refusing new ones. Charting your own path. Namibia is free. Other African nations should take notes. Question for the timeline: Which African country should be next to tell the IMF goodbye?

@sukoluhle0101 @Its_ereko The most important question now is about how Namibia can exploit its resources but avoiding Dutch Disease. Norway was successful by legislating profits to be invested externally, thereby protecting the currency.

Namibia is doing what every resource-rich nation should do: using a commodity boom to buy back its independence. Instead of squandering the new oil and gas prospects on vanity projects, they are clearing the deck of old debt. They aren't just free ,they are liquid and ready to invest their own wealth back into their people.

@FoxNews What Trump struggles to understand is the connectedness of this planet. Even if no drop of oil arrives in USA, blocking the straight dominoes into price increases in USA. His knowledge of Macro Economics is abysmal.

BREAKING: President Trump says he'll consider pulling U.S. troops out of Italy and Spain after hinting he may do so with Germany. "Why shouldn't I? Italy has not been of any help to us and Spain has been horrible." "When we needed them, they were not there." "We didn't need any help with Iran... I didn't need their help, but I said, yeah, we'd love to have your help because I wanted to see if they'd do it. And in all cases, they said we don't want to get involved."

@Alicemakochieng @MarkSham @WOOLWORTHS_SA If you'd read the full post, you'd know that the contract was indeed mentioned, but (unlike your response) in an unbiased way. I see the courts being called in to interpret the expired/rolled-over dispute.

@MarkSham @WOOLWORTHS_SA You sound funny as if you're the only one who has knowledge. Educate yourself first on basic contract law. And add some common knowledge which will help you to not appear like a kid on a tantrum. Maturity is holding your idea without rubbishing someone with an opposing view.

The @WOOLWORTHS_SA and Beyers Chocolates breakdown is another reminder that corporate companies will "protect their business and their growth" at all costs. Any smaller business that forgets is doomed. You can have a 34-year supplier history with a corporate but the moment you stop playing by their rules, they will cut you down to size, even if that means you liquidating your business! From what has been reported, Beyers had been supplying Woolworths since around 1990 and at one point Woolworths made up roughly half their business. That kind of relationship could fool you into feeling secure when you’re in it. It "feels" like there’s history and trust which is already the first warning sign in this story. Apparently Beyers acquired a second factory which was already supplying Checkers and Pick 'n Pay. According to Beyers, this was a way to increase volumes, support mechanisation, diversify the business, and reduce their dependence on Woolworths, especially because Woolworths had already started bringing in other chocolate brands years earlier. Woolworths apparently found out about the second factory and took issue with it. The dispute centred on exclusivity. According to Kees Beyers, Woolworths wanted the second factory closed but Beyers refused. From a business owner’s point of view, I understand why. Beyers had reportedly invested around R200 million and had roughly 75 employees at that second site. You don’t just switch that off because a major client is uncomfortable with you diversifying. Then came the hammer as Woolworths reduced its orders. First by around R100 million and then by another R100 million a few months later. When one customer carries that much weight in your business, they don’t have to “kill” you in some dramatic movie villain way. They just have to reduce orders and suddenly cash flow gets squeezed, your bank gets nervous, your options disappear, and the thing you spent decades building can start falling apart in real time. The exclusivity issue itself is still disputed. Beyers says the exclusivity agreement expired in 2019. Woolworths apparently says it rolled over automatically. Woolworths has also said it cannot comment on the details of the relationship because of confidentiality 🤣 I want to personally remind you. Corporate companies are not people. They don’t operate on loyalty, memory, history, or sentiment in the way small business owners often do. They operate through systems, contracts, leverage, risk management and self preservation. If you build your business around one massive corporate client, and that client decides you’ve stepped outside the lines, they will likely not sit down and ask how this affects your people, your factory, your investment, or your future. If you take ANYTHING from this post, it's an understanding of WHAT (not who) you’re dealing with. Never forget this and play the game accordingly 🤓