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@moreki_mo @helenzille @Kenny_T_Kunene Kunene wouldn’t know an honest days work if he tripped into a pig pit. Pretty good a wearing pristine ‘work wear’ is about it.

Its unfortunate and sad that an old lady @helenzille had to demonstrate by such extreme measures to get the CoJ to fix something. @Kenny_T_Kunene the MMC of roads and transport is resorting to insults instead.

@ME_Beaumont @SalomoTheWise And yourselves did the same, particularly in Tshwane. Going back your own word.

@SalomoTheWise Actually, in the last elections we joined a pre-election agreement with them to displace the ANC only for them to join the ANC.

Macfarlane Moleli of Carte Blanche did this first, 7 months ago. Zille brings no new ideas. No new leadership, just stunts to deflect from the fact that these potholes have been here in Joburg longer than her. Johannesburg deserves services for all.

@ME_Beaumont Numerous residents have done same over the years. Zille went viral whether we like it or not, it brought the issue to the forefront. That’s whats really important and what most of us actually give a shit about. Conversely yourselves were caught out faking ‘community engagement’

@Roadman_Podcast So by that logic, marathon MTB, stage MTB like Cape Epic and XCL aren’t racing? It’s all racing, in different formats and styles. Some will have a different appeal to different markets.

Gravel “racing” is not racing It’s a sportive with a timing chip. There, I said it. I love gravel. I own a Parlee Taos. I’m racing the MGR in Kenya. But let’s stop pretending that 300 people riding a dirt road in a spread out line with a feed station every 30k is racing. That’s an event. A great event. But it’s not racing. Racing is elbows in a bunch at 45kph through a crosswind. Racing is knowing that the lad two wheels ahead is going to attack on the left hander because he did the same thing last week in the A3s. Racing is reading a peloton like a chess board, sitting fourth wheel, waiting, waiting, then going so hard into the last corner that the sprinter on your hip can’t come around you. Road racing in the UK is dying. Ireland’s calendar is half what it was ten years ago. US crits are disappearing. Meanwhile gravel sells out in minutes. I get it. Gravel is accessible. No licence needed. Nobody’s getting dropped and sitting on the side of the road in the rain waiting for the broom wagon. Nobody’s getting shouted at for overlapping a wheel. But that’s exactly what made road racing brilliant. Categories. Real categories. Where a third cat could pin on a number knowing they’d race other third cats. Where you could get promoted, get relegated, have a season that meant something beyond a finisher’s medal and a burrito at the end. Where a club rider from Bray or Brixton or Brooklyn could say they won an actual race and it mattered because a hundred other lads tried to stop them. We didn’t lose road racing because people stopped wanting to race. We lost it because we stopped making it easy to race. Rising entry fees, pre registration. We lost it because gravel figured out something road racing never bothered to learn. Marketing. Name five gravel races. You can picture the logos, the colours, the Instagram grid. Unbound. Belgian Waffle Ride. Migration Gravel Race. SBT GRVL. They built brands. They brought influencers. They made showing up feel like joining something. They understood that the race starts on social media six months before anyone pins a number on. Now name five local road races. You can’t picture the logo because there isn’t one. The entry was a bank transfer to a club secretary. The results went up on a spreadsheet three days later. Nobody posted about it because there was nothing to post. Road racing didn’t get beaten by gravel. It got outmarketed by it. The racing itself was always better. The tactics, the categories, the raw chaos of a bunch sprint on a wet dual carriageway. That magic never left.

@Dov1515 Nah tjom, that’s a you thing. In anycase, wasted enough dribble, have a good one in spite of it.

@dinolloyd @Poplak You should READ posts rather than shooting from the hip.

Solid summary.

@Dov1515 @Poplak Not even recently, at most it shows a taper in paid readership. So not even overall readership. That doesn’t translate into losing readership, finances aside which is different issue. Perhaps before trying to troll with ad hominem insults, have the courage to use a real profile.

@dinolloyd @Poplak Dropping recently is my point. Could go into financial numbers but probably wasted on you….

@TamiTamijack7 Could’ve been worse, there may have been a ribbon cutting ceremony as well!

The water was taken out and the hole was filled with sand. Is this your idea of “fixed” ?

@Dov1515 @Poplak Wasn’t referring to the readership. But thanks for showing DM’s growth curve. Up year on year. 👏

@dinolloyd @Poplak Facts huh?

@DadaMorero Only when it hit the mainstream. You don’t respect any of the residents or city workers. Otherwise this wouldn’t be an issue. It’s fucking embarrassing.

This was fixed on Sunday Sisi Helen. Please also make use of our service delivery app to report burst pipes.

@AlanJBaxterCpt @YNWA20192020 @RediTlhabi Perceived bias.

@dinolloyd @YNWA20192020 @RediTlhabi I was commenting on the “journalists” bias. Use it don’t use it?

He is a psychopath. We are right to hate everything he stands for. We are right to reject anyone, and everyone who supports these draconian, racist laws, passed by an apartheid, terrorist state.

@AlanJBaxterCpt @YNWA20192020 @RediTlhabi No you tried a whataboutism argument that’s as weak as it is dishonest. Nothing to do with the ‘common cause’

@YNWA20192020 @RediTlhabi Because I was responding to a journalist who is quick to criticize 🇮🇱 &🇺🇸 but ignores the common cause. Not only is Iran far from perfect it is a State sponsor of world wide terror.

@Dov1515 @Poplak The facts don’t care about your feelings.

@Poplak Trite: reason why the DM is losing readership.

@GriffinForGold @Poplak Still trolling hey

@Poplak This one time Cyril took a sharpie and put a dot on his forehead and even the Guptas said fuck you Venda we are doing business with the AmaZulu. You need to catch a wake up fucktard ☝🏻🤣

Sadly, he thought he was drawing China.

Jensen Huang just gutted the AI job panic with one profession. Radiology. The field AI was supposed to kill first. Jensen Huang: “Computer vision was superhuman in 2019. And yet, the number of radiologists grew.” Not competitive. Not close. Superhuman. Every forecast said radiologists were finished. Every forecast was wrong. Not slightly wrong. Directionally wrong. There are now fewer radiologists than the world needs. A global shortage. In the exact specialty AI was supposed to erase. Why? Because the task was never the job. Huang: “The purpose of your job and the tasks and the tools that you use to do your job are related. Not the same.” Reading a scan is a task. Diagnosing disease is a purpose. AI handled the task. The purpose didn’t shrink. It compounded. Faster reads meant more patients seen. More patients seen meant more disease caught. More disease caught meant more demand for the people who decide what to do about it. The tool did not kill the job. It fed it. Then the fear did what the technology never could. Huang: “The alarmist warning went too far and it scared people from doing this profession that is so important to society. It did harm.” People heard radiologists were finished and walked away from the field. Medicine bled talent it could not afford to lose. Not because the work vanished. Because the panic said it would. The prediction was wrong. The damage was real. Huang: “The number of software engineers at Nvidia is going to grow, not decline.” Not hold steady. Grow. The company building the infrastructure that automates code is hiring more of the people who write it. Huang: “I wanted my software engineers to solve problems. I didn’t care how many lines of code they wrote.” Nobody ever hired an engineer to type. They hired them to think. When the machine handles syntax, the engineer does not become obsolete. The bottleneck just moves upstream. To architecture. To edge cases. To the kind of reasoning no model handles alone. The world was never short on unsolved problems. It was short on people free to chase them. That is the part the fear narrative misses every single time. 340,000 women once worked as telephone switchboard operators. That job is gone. Nobody mourns it. What replaced it created millions of roles that nobody in 1920 had the vocabulary to describe. The losses are always visible. The gains are always invisible until they arrive. That pattern has survived every technological shift in history. It is surviving this one. The people forecasting mass displacement are making the same mistake as the people who forecasted the end of radiology. They can see the task being automated. They cannot see the purpose expanding underneath it. That blindness is not just wrong. It is expensive. Every person scared out of a career that AI will actually make more valuable is a cost the economy absorbs for nothing. Not because of the technology. Because of the story told about it.

Fire fighting pilots are a very special breed. Long stressful hours in a hot cockpit, flying through smoke in turbulent air, close to obstacles. Intense concentration 100% of the time. This Huey pilot survived fighting a fire in Hout Bay, Cape Town, today.They all deserve praise.

@lambertpeterse1 @RediTlhabi Seems to over your head. But at least you found the emoticon buttons.

This is priceless! A true reflection of the madness in which the world finds itself.

@bonganidhl4955 @NoncebaMhlauli Like each other party and their candidate. But keep clutching those pearls.

@dinolloyd @NoncebaMhlauli Yeah, a front runner in a race where she is the only runner.

Frontrunner you say?? Why don’t yall just issue a poster endorsing her? 🤨🤨🤨

@bonganidhl4955 @NoncebaMhlauli Front runner as the DA’s candidate. As the headline clearly says. But anyway, the actual takeaway

@NoncebaMhlauli Imagine someone from a 20% party being called a frontrunner.

@JohnN221234 @ZaWJBek @doubledsdouble @kabelodick Wrong, a number of projects that were carried out across the board, pre and post 94. Including the Oryx M2 project. So with undue respect, gfy. While the rest of us get on with things.

@ZaWJBek @doubledsdouble @kabelodick The same people who built South Africa !!......... Whites !!

Remember kids, South Africa has three research bases in the Sub-Antarctic and Antarctica. The SA Ahgulhas 2 is also responsible for the discovery of Endurance, a ship that sank more than 100 years ago and was found at a depth of 3km.

@hoffman1953 @InternetH0F No excuses. He’s lucky a parent or family member didn’t flat hand him. He got off lightly.

@InternetH0F Unless there is more to the story, getting fired for pulling someone's ponytail is a bit harsh.

A coach was fired after pulling a girl’s ponytail following their state title loss. Her friend a real one for stepping in🙏