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A lion can stand three feet from your face on a safari and not even register that you exist. To its brain, you and the jeep are the same animal. One big weird shape that doesn't smell like food. Stand up though, and you go from invisible to dinner in under a second. For the lion, you and the other tourists never register as separate people. The whole jeep looks like one giant creature made of metal and fabric and humans all smushed together. That shape has no scent of any prey animal, and it moves nothing like one. The brain searches its mental file of every animal it's ever hunted, finds no match, and moves on. Lions learn this from their mothers. In places like the Serengeti or Maasai Mara, they see more than 100 of these jeeps a day. Cubs grow up watching mom ignore every truck. They copy what mom does. After a few generations, an entire population of lions has decided that safari vehicles are boring background noise, no different from trees or rocks. Hunting is expensive. A lion that picks the wrong target won't have enough energy left to catch the right one tomorrow. So when the brain sees a weird shape that doesn't fit anything in its hunting memory, it just skips it. But the whole truce hangs on one rule. The shape has to stay the same. The second someone stands up or leans out the window, the big creature breaks apart. Suddenly there's a person-sized snack standing where a big boring shape used to be. The lion's brain registers the change in under a second. In June 2015, a 29-year-old American filmmaker rolled down her window at a park near Johannesburg to take a photo. A lioness was already a meter from the truck, just watching. It lunged through the open window and bit her in the neck. She died at the scene. Ten years later, in September 2025, a zookeeper at Safari World in Bangkok stepped out of his vehicle in the lion section. One lion charged. The rest of the pride joined within seconds. The park had run these tours for over 40 years and nobody had ever died like that. Craig Packer has spent over 40 years studying lions and started the world's first lion research center back in 1986. He's said it plainly more than once. Lions don't have much patience for humans acting weird. Sit still and you're part of the furniture; move suddenly and you're a target. The truce works because every lion in those parks grew up watching its mom ignore the trucks. Break the pattern, and the whole thing falls apart in about as long as it takes to stand up.

Funny how people always talk about how "democratic" Taiwan is. Their only ally in Africa is an authoritarian state run by a sexual pervert who kills anti-imperialist protesters

The Pro's 🎶 And cons.

We warned that once hostility toward foreigners is normalised, it never stops there. It quickly turns inward, toward South Africans from tribes and communities that are treated as “less South African” because of language, surname, features or origin.

Every single Kenyan I’ve ever met has that bracelet! I remember asking one if they get it at the airport when they leave their country.

This is voter suppression. We need to report this to the BCCSA

not to be that guy but wheelchair users aren't starving for places to sit down

The thing is, this is exactly how you’re supposed to read. If you don’t know a word you search it up

fuck, are there no original experiences at all?

Workers' Day at Banchan. A restaurant that pays fair wages, builds service costs into prices, and asks nothing extra of the guest. Small policy. Large statement.

President Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 is the 3rd richest president in Africa and the 9th richest in the world.

Another black man with a snow bunny 💔

They eat 3 times in Jail.

They do things like this because they consider white men and women as the standard for their governing rules, that is the very definition of institutional racism.

This is my host, Wanie. I spent the day with him to experience his work day. He is proud of the content we created together. Enjoy! Note: He doesn’t represent the entire Coloured community. His friends were happy to feature in the video and were compensated #thepopishow

There’s taking chances and then there’s eating sushi from Pick n Pay!

Why are they never doing this for dictators or child molesters or serial killers? Why voodoo never use on student loan forgiveness? Always stupid shit like this

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Even if it was 135 years ago. We’re not supposed to forgive and forget.

When we forget our past - we allow others to rewrite it for us.