David Efod

You can't niche down before you have signal.

@Queeneth01olx "Haba you didn't mention me in your acceptance speech"

I spent 4 years paying my younger sister’s school fees. Every single kobo. The day she graduated, she gave the acknowledgement speech and thanked everyone except me. I sat in that hall and felt my soul leave my body 😭. When she got admission, things were tight at home. I had just started my first job. I told our parents, "Don't worry. I’ll handle it." And I did. Every semester. No breaks. There were months I was eating 0-1-0 so her account wouldn't run dry. I never told her. I didn't think I needed to. Graduation day, she looked beautiful. The first graduate in our family. I was prouder of her than I’ve ever been of myself. Then she got the mic. > She thanked God. (Fair). > She thanked our parents. (Expected). > She thanked her friends who kept her sane. > She even thanked her HOD. Then she sat down. My mother looked at me. I smiled and looked away, but the clapping felt like it was happening in a different room. I didn’t say anything that day. Or the week after. But something in how I moved changed. I stopped volunteering. Started waiting to be asked. Started noticing who actually noticed me. People say, "Don’t give to be recognized." I agree to an extent. But there is a thin line between not needing applause and being erased by the person you bled for. That's not humility. That's invisibility. We’re fine now. I brought it up six months later, calmly. She cried, and said she was nervous and blanked. Maybe. Maybe not 🤷 But I learned something either way. Sacrifice without communication creates invisible resentment. Tell people what you are carrying for them. Not to guilt trip them. But because silence makes martyrs, and martyrs make bitter people. This same dynamic shows up in dating every day. You’re playing the provider or the supporter in silence, while your partner thinks you're just an oil money that never runs dry. Stop accepting the bare minimum of gratitude. If they don't see the sacrifice, they won't value the person making it. Has someone ever made you feel invisible in a relationship after everything you did for them? Let’s talk below.👇

Don't worry you won't ever get destroyed, Instead your quality of life just progressively gets better/worse

@shedrinkswater I feel so sad

Most outliers know that after a certain point, no one is ever truly going to understand them, and yet the desire to be understood remains perpetual. You want to have a conversation with someone near you, perhaps with your parents, but they cannot meet you there; they do not have the psychological or metaphysical capacity to contain your existence even as an idea, so it becomes constant projection. You can see through them, and through all of it. After a point, both parties realise there is a continuous misalignment. The language they speak is fundamentally different from yours, and the divergence exists more at the level of soul than speech. It is a kind of perpetual loneliness, even when you are surrounded by so many people. Your interiority withers for the sake of one real connection, even if it arrives only through the internet. It is painful to exist this way, to be different but don't worry, you will be fine.

If you really want to hold yourself to a high standard, graph the growth rate of the number you care about instead of the number itself. Then you're winning if you can even keep it flat.

Only thing you should care about for the foreseeable future is having as much fun as you can. "Be greedy when others are fearful" except do it with your actual life. Be insanely cognizant of the time you have on this earth. Understand that nothing is more important than presence Nightmare scenario has nothing to do with whatever is going on in the world. There's always something. It's simply seeing the clock hit midnight in 9 months realizing you're still in the same room, glued to the same screen, venting about the same people online as you were exactly one year ago Not a privileged take whatsoever. Free to feel the sun on your skin. Free to rekindle your relationship with God again. Free to look yourself in the mirror and realize you're still the same kid on the playground. More love, more soul, more gusto. Never let "them" psyop the spirit out of you

@OgaHans Nigeria

My brother, I just dey house this morning jelely.. My Oyibo neighbour just ring door bell, She say make I come down she wann see me. I came down - na so she handed me this Jack Daniel's and diffuser. I told her for what exactly - she said I've been a very nice neighbour. Dey Hear Gist oh. That all along I've been helping her pick up her parcels ( I'm always home) and keeping it safe without even complaining. That it's such a rare attitude to find around.. And she's been thinking of how and what to appreciate me with - she then asked her colleagues at work and they said since he's a black guy, He'd definitely appreciate a drink (alcohol) and a diffuser ( black guys like scents alot) I was just speechless.. 😀 Bro! This is my first time getting such a gift in the UK 🇬🇧 from a Brit. The most you'll get is a box of chocolate, sweets or cakes. How onna see this matter? How do I now return this favour? I'm confused 🤔. Help a brother.. 😊🙏

After working on Pewbeam every day for the last six months, we are launching it for public download this Friday at 6 PM.

Any leader who can’t deliver in 4 years won’t deliver in 400 years. 99% of Nigerian politicians today have ZERO results to show. Vote the demons OUT in 2027!

@_OKJ__ This is why every Christian needs an encounter to get "conviction". Have you met this man? Yes. He's my friend, Jesus is alive!

This reminds me of a fascinating story I read,of when in the 1970s Daniel Everett,a linguist and Christian went to the Amazon jungle to convert a tribe called the piraha people to Christianity and completely failed for one crazy reason 😂😂 When Daniel Everett arrived with his wife and kids at the remote Pirahã village in the Amazon, His mission was clear…learn their language,translate the New Testament,and convert this isolated hunter gatherer group to Christianity. What he encountered instead was one of the most radical cultural and linguistic worldviews ever documented 😂. From his experience,Everett eventually formalized what he called the “Immediacy of Experience Principle”. What this means in essence is the Pirahã culture and grammar strongly constrain what can be meaningfully discussed or believed…to them,knowledge must be anchored in direct,personal observation or at most in the recent testimony of living people you know. Things that happened long ago,that no one alive has seen,or that exist only in abstract or supernatural realms fall into the category of what they called xibipío (“gone out of experience”). They don’t deny it outrightly.. to them, such things simply carry no weight and are not worth serious talk. This principle shapes everything for them… and is why they have No creation myths or origin storis , No numbers beyond rough quantities like “a few” or “many.” , No recursive embedding in grammar (you can’t easily say “kelvin’s brother’s house” … you say two separate sentences). Their Stories and discourse stay tethered to the here and now. Now Christian theology, by contrast, is built on precisely the kind of claims the Pirahã worldview filters out…A distant creation,Miracles and events from thousands of years ago, A savior no living person has met, Salvation and afterlife described in ancient texts. Everett tried …He told them the story of Jesus..his birth,teachings,death,and resurrection. The Pirahã listened politely,then asked the questions their language and culture demanded… “Have you met this man?” “Did you see him?” “Did your father see him?” When Everett admitted he had not , that these events happened 2,000 years earlier and were known only through a book,the conversation effectively ended 😂. “That’s interesting,” some of them would say, treating the Gospel the same way they treated any other distant tale…as something outside lived experience, therefore irrelevant to how they live and what they believe. Notice It wasn’t hostile rejection(like the one you’d get from the people of the sentinel islands in India). It was epistemological incompatibility. The theology couldn’t even gain traction because their entire system of knowledge validation rejected second hand ancient testimony. Everett kept trying for years. He failed to produce a usable Bible translation. Meanwhile, living among people who were profoundly content, generous, and empirically grounded …with no concept of sin, eternal punishment, or a distant deity. By 1982 he himself started havinv serious doubts about his beliefs and by 1985 he had quietly become an atheist. The man who had come to convert the Pirahã had instead been “converted” by their way of seeing reality.😅 As Everett later wrote and said in interviews, the deepest challenge wasn’t an argument against Christianity. It was living inside a culture where the very criteria for what counts as real knowledge made supernatural historical claims feel as weightless as yesterday’s dream. The Pirahã didn’t need to debate theology. Their language and worldview simply had no slot for it and, in the process, they helped a missionary lose his faith without ever raising their voices.😂 Makes you wonder, what would a Christian say the fate of these people is? Eternal torment? We can all see how that would be problematic. Would they somehow make heaven and get judged by how they live their lives? But That would make the whole Christian message irrelevant. 🙂

@tony_seco58370 @konstructivizm I appreciated the retrograde explanation

@konstructivizm Just a note, There's no reason to explain what a retrograde orbit is. Anyone who doesn't know, but is interested can look it up. I for one, get turned off by professor attitudes. I don't like it from others, so I work on that myself.

Astronomers have discovered eleven new moons of Saturn. Most of them are small rocky bodies up to 5 kilometers in diameter. They move in retrograde orbits, meaning they rotate in the opposite direction to Saturn's rotation around its axis. Until recently, Jupiter was considered the leader in the number of moons. However, in recent years, Saturn has significantly surged ahead. This large number of moons is likely due to a relatively recent (in astronomical terms) collision of large moons. This collision produced numerous fragments, some of which eventually became individual moons. It's possible that this same event played a role in the formation of Saturn's famous rings. For comparison, 101 moons have been confirmed to date around Jupiter, 29 around Uranus, and 16 around Neptune. This makes Saturn far more numerous than all the other planets in the Solar System combined.

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@DionysianAgent Worst take ever

main difference between americans and europeans is that americans think money and net worth are the ultimate status and intelligence signal while europeans view it as more cross-domain and dependent on a mix of art, aesthetic, philosophy, and so on this is why we have such a conflict between how the two different continents choose their idols young americans desperately idolize people like Elon, Trump, Silicon Valley tech moguls, and anyone who achieves billionaire status, as if their word is law young europeans can’t stand them, doesn’t matter how much money Elon gets, europeans will never respect or like him, because he doesn’t embody the european standard for what is seen as a great man - he is no philosopher, he is no artist, he is no scientist, thus he doesn’t measure up in any meaningful way to the historical european greats, despite how much wealth and resources he may hoard this disconnect in evaluating masculine competence and what defines the admirable traits of man is what creates the greatest conflict between european men and american men we simply don’t respect american men intellectually, and probably never will and they can’t stand that they can’t stand that europeans won’t be bootlickers like them they can’t stand that europeans have a rich deep soul that requires deep stimulation in order to recognise greatness they can’t stand it because it reveals the underlying truth that americans don’t have a soul it reveals the truth beneath the floorboards, the soulless fast food culture of america, the culture of strip mall churches and hyper slop they can’t stand that europeans hold a mirror to their face and show americans what ugly creatures they actually are

A billionaire that can't demand for a better environment in his own country is a poor man. Your money means nothing if you can only spend it in another country. Shame on you all. I no rate una. Nonsense.

The festering Boko Haram attacks on the North East and massacre of innocent citizens is concrete proof that Nigeria has no government

@DavidHundeyin "It's violent revolution or slavery" . While talking behind a screen. Offer yourself as the first to die now

Nothing. To. Add. 🇳🇬

@kunle_pata It's not the same thing

Unrelated, but this reminds me of something that happened back in 2009 when my friend joined the pre-degree program at LAUTECH. As someone who his parents owned a church, he started attending RCF and joined the choir mainly because he wanted a chance to play the drums. The problem was the church drummer at the time. The guy acted like the position was a lifetime appointment and never gave my friend the opportunity to even touch the drum set. Meanwhile, nobody in the church knew that my friend was actually a badass drummer and honestly, an excellent one too. My friend just stayed patient and played along for months. Then one Sunday, the church drummer travelled to Lagos. They had no option but to let my friend handle the drums. That day changed everything. The moment he started playing, the entire atmosphere in the church shifted. The energy, the rhythm, the vibe, everything was different. It was obvious to everyone that he was on another level. That was basically the end of the other guy’s tenure as the church drummer. My friend was easily ten times better. So yeah, I completely agree with the saying: smart people aren’t afraid to look stupid for a while. Sometimes they’re just waiting for the right moment to show what they can really do.

@RMMc37 @Atencio I'm with you, last few years have been utterly trash

@Atencio I cannot even comprehend someone taking this position, even as a “hot take”. The last three years has been the worst stretch of movies that I can recall in my long life. Flawed, inaccessible, movies made only for Hollywood bubble.

People who don't watch many movies love talking about how there were so few good movies last year. In reality '25 was one of the best years for movies I can remember. Here's my top ten for last year in no order (and I still have a few yet to see):

@rukky_nate The main thing is thinking, most people use effort to cover mental laziness

unpopular opinion: hard work is not enough. some people will work hard their whole lives and still not make it. timing matters. luck matters. location matters. who you know also matters. question: does effort guarantee success?