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If you apply your mind a little, you would see that my response destroyed your argument. But let me reiterate, in case you have any difficulty doing so: 1. The flat fee in a High Court is N1k, not 10% of property value. I offered 5 times that amount. 2. The lawyer who did it for me decided not to charge. I didn’t force him not to. I sent him a bottle of cognac as a token of appreciation, and we have since developed a great relationship in which he has handled several matters for me, for which he was properly remunerated. 3. You do not want to engage with the comparisons with other professions because you cannot counter the inherent logic in the comparisons without sounding unlearned. Even the UK solicitor handling the conveyancing was not asking for 10% of the property's value. He was getting a very modest flat fee. Our people here wanted to charge a percentage of property value for witnessing a signature. If that makes sense to you, good luck. But please note that I will continue to ridicule it. If you have deployed a skill, by all means, charge for it. Whoever is willing to pay for that skill will do so and anybody who doesn’t want to will go elsewhere. What skill is involved in witnessing a signature that warrants 10% of the property value, please? Same thing with standard tenancy agreements with standard clauses. AI will soon take that one over anyway and there would always be someone that would put their stamp on it for a modest fee. You are free to keep waiting for 10% of property value. What you don’t realise is that setting a flat fee for routine transactions will actually encourage more people to use lawyers. It will also help junior lawyers who can make money on volume and turnover, leaving senior lawyers to focus on complex matters. But the preference of some is to reap where they did not sow for doing next to nothing. It won’t work with me and I will continue to advocate against it. Have a great day.

When you tell her you’re a “macro strategist focused on asymmetric risk” instead of a “degenerate gambler”

Dad of the year award goes to… 📹: flying_davidson

For $5, someone can upload your photo to an app called Sherlock and pull up your name, your social media, and every website where your face appears. The app has over a billion faces indexed. It launched in January. and it's far from the only tool that does this. PimEyes came first, back in 2017, out of Poland. It has about 3 billion face photos copied from the internet without anyone's permission. Costs $30 a month. The company runs through a tangle of businesses registered in Belize, Seychelles, and Dubai. When five people in Illinois tried to sue them for collecting face data without asking, the lawyers spent two years trying to track down PimEyes' CEO. Sent people to the country of Georgia, to Dubai, to Belize. Never found him. The case got dropped. Clearview AI is the one police use. Over 70 billion face photos in its system. There are about 8 billion people on Earth, so Clearview has roughly 9 photos for every one of them, pulled from social media, news articles, and random websites without asking. Ukraine's military used Clearview to identify over 230,000 Russian soldiers during the war. The database keeps doubling roughly every 18 months. Texas sued Meta for scanning Facebook users' faces without consent and collected $1.4 billion. Then went after Google for the same thing and got $1.375 billion. Meta had already paid Illinois $650 million in 2020. TikTok paid $92 million. Clearview settled for $51 million. Total payouts from face-scanning lawsuits across the US: over $3.5 billion. Last October, two Harvard juniors connected PimEyes to a pair of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses (regular-looking sunglasses with a tiny camera built into the frame) and built a system called I-XRAY. They walked around campus, looked at strangers, and within about a minute had each person's name, home address, phone number, and part of their Social Security number show up on their phone. They didn't release the code, but said anyone who can write basic code could build the same thing with tools already available online. On March 17, three US senators wrote to Mark Zuckerberg asking what Meta plans to do about facial recognition in its smart glasses. Their letter pointed out that one person wearing these glasses could scan thousands of faces in a day without anyone knowing. There is still no federal law in the US covering any of this. Illinois passed one back in 2008. A few states have followed. For everyone else, the only thing between your photo and your home address is whether someone feels like spending five bucks.

I think about it all the time now. It is now my frame of reference for assessing innovations to understand how much they would change things. The story of electricity in households and how it came to be is fascinating. It involved big bold steps. You can't change things by playing small.

Guys, when you are having a disagreement with the woman you love, it is important to put things in perspective. Let her know that “We are not ending the relationship or getting divorced o. We are just having a misunderstanding. We will eventually settle it and carry on.” A lot of the time, when people move mad and do and say things they later regret, it is out of insecurity about whether you want to dump them for someone else. You can let someone know that you are not happy with what they did and would want them to do things differently but that doesn’t mean that you don’t want them anymore. If you take that insecurity off the table, you have dissipated at least half the tension. I am Ezemmuo. I know things. [Dear “What If FC”, I am talking about normal disagreements in a healthy relationship. Not when you have caught her in flagrante delicto with your best friend].😂

I’m in love with this sentence: “The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

Facts about men that don’t like birthdays: - They are low maintenance - They like being alone - They’re used to making themselves happy - They measure life in progress and not dates. - They pour into others more than they receive. - They don’t like drama.

Effective today, the NSW portal will be the only access point for Licenses Permits, and certificates for NAFDAC, SON, NAQS, & NESREA. Manifest submissions will continue on existing shipping and airline systems.

Having worked in a sperm bank as a semen analyst, those who ejaculate every 72 hours give us the best-quality sperm (in terms of motility, shape, and volume). So yh…

So, today in Ebonyi, @GovDaveUmahi went for a project inspection & then instructs the soldiers to flog - yes flog! - civil servants who arrived late. Not done, Dave Umahi supervised the flogging. Tomorrow, he'll be rewarded with seat in @NGRSenate

You don’t remember how many times you unlocked your phone today. Your phone does. Every lock and unlock is logged with a timestamp, building a pattern of your behavior over time. This lives in a database called KnowledgeC.db No spyware. No hacking. Just your normal device. Now imagine what else it’s keeping track of.

The Chief of Staff to the President named a project executed by the Federal Government after himself. During the commissioning, he even made it look like it was a personally funded project. The same project, which was built for poor students, has now been handed over to a private firm to manage. None of the students can afford it, as the firm is charging millions of naira per year in rent. Nigeria is not a real place.

Fly it like you stole it! 📹: loveairplanes_stars

What’s wrong with people bro 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

So I decided to read about the EU’s partnership with Nigeria and saw this. “Promoting the reintegration of former combatants, including Boko Haram associates” I’m sorry what????

@pam_isdatchicc Omo, when are we carrying placards? It's really crazy. Ndó

@thoughts92216 Nahh.

Today we were told “Pray for your salary, it’s in the hands of God”. Nigerian politicians are lucky bastards.

Your fridge runs 24 hours a day. Solar panels only work while the sun’s out. That mismatch is the entire reason this plant exists, and the fix is just hot salt. The Dunhuang plant in China’s Gobi Desert uses 12,000 mirrors aimed at a single tower about as tall as an 80-story building. All that focused sunlight heats a mix of salts (the same stuff in fertilizer) to 565°C, hot enough to glow red. That liquid salt gets pumped into giant insulated tanks. The tanks are so well insulated they only lose about 1°C per day. When the city needs electricity at 2am, the hot salt boils water into steam, the steam spins a turbine, and you get power. Same basic process as a coal plant. Just no coal. Here’s what makes this different from regular solar: the storage lasts 11 hours. Sun goes down, plant keeps running all night. The big batteries that cities plug into their power grids right now? Those typically hold about 4 hours of electricity. Building batteries that last 11 hours is possible, but the cost balloons fast. A German energy storage study found that storing energy in hot salt costs roughly 33x less than storing it in the lithium-ion batteries we use today. China has built 27 of these plants so far, enough to power roughly a million homes. They doubled that number in 2025 alone. Another 3,000 megawatts (enough for about 2 million more homes) are under construction right now, with 4,000 more in the planning stage. Beijing wants 15,000 megawatts by 2030. The US tried this same technology once. Ivanpah, out in the Mojave Desert. Cost $2.2 billion. But they skipped the storage part entirely, so it could only make power while the sun was shining. It needed natural gas every morning just to start up. It’s now slated to shut down in 2026, thirteen years early, because regular solar panels got so cheap they made the whole project obsolete. China took the same idea, added the one part America left out, and is now building dozens of them. One more thing worth knowing. The salt is made from basic industrial chemicals. No lithium mining. No cobalt. No rare earth metals. And it lasts 30 years of daily use before the tanks need work.

China’s solar power plant in Dunhuang uses around 12,000 mirrors to focus sunlight onto a central tower, heating molten salt to extreme temperatures. That heat is stored and used to generate electricity on demand, including after sunset.