Nicholas Labuschagne
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@crimemind3 This must be satire. The billionaire president of a soon-to-be banana republic pledging to support countries facing liquidity challenges while his own people sit without food, homes or jobs. The "let them eat (cup)cake" moment cannot be far away.
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Nicholas Labuschagne รีทวีตแล้ว

Stop aiming for happiness.
The ancient Greeks had a concept called Eudaimonia. They knew happiness was fleeting. Instead, they aimed for deep-seated joy.
Eudaimonia comes from:
• Living virtuously (courage, temperance, wisdom, and justice)
• Being rational
• Pursuing a purpose (telos)
• Embracing balance
• Seeking wisdom
These things won’t necessarily make you happy in the moment. But shape your life around them and you’ll feel calm and content.
Isn’t that the point?
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@geordinhl The residents of Kalk Bay have repeatedly asked city officials to clear the dense bush on the mountainside behind the village. It poses a clear and present fire hazard. We get pushed from one official to another. No one takes responsibility. #lafires2025
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#Flysafair please sort out your app. We cannot make bookings on your website, and your app is frozen with a pop up for the birthday promotion.
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@ComputicketSAYour customer chat does not work, and your email contact system does not work. I paid for a gift food voucher as a Christmas gift, which was never delivered. Good to know we can rely on you to get the job done. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.
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@geordinhl Superb response. Unfortunately the ANC has amply demonstrated that it does not understand the concept of budgeting.
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@jeandre_lennox @33BlindMice Makes perfect sense. By way of an analogy, if you own a farm that is being attacked by deadly infestation, you would save whatever viable crops you could so that they could be used to reseed the farm once the infestation has been eradicated.
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@AllisonFarah3 @runawayrene Actually we do. 155mm artillery shells and propellant. Lots. Not so long ago we had some of the best artillery systems in the world.
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@runawayrene It's a joke to think South Africa has ánything to offer Russia. Please!
Russia manufactures its own weapons industry producing stuff that's superior to most countries including the US and perhaps excluding China.
Be serious.


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@Phiri13Williams @philcraig2 It's not an issue of "can't manufacture", but "can't manufacture fast enough." They are using it faster than they can make it. Quite possibly we gave them some of our stocks of 155mm artillery shells and propellant. We have no use for it, and it expires after a while.
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@philcraig2 Another 'Sadam has weapons of mass destruction' loading....
What weapons can we supply Russia with which Russia can't manufacture today?
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HKGK - SA has overplayed its hand here. It takes a special type of entitlement to believe you can take aid with one hand, whilst stabbing the aid giver in the back with the other
news24.com/news24/politic…
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@richardquest The entire country should be put under international administration. The demographics prevent any constitutionally legal resolution to the catastrophe we face. The deliberate and criminal destruction of an entire country is a human rights abomination.
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@Richard_Spoor They become our beloved animal children. It is always dreadful when they go. My condolences.
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@BernieDebusmann @SEDENAmx Donated to which organisation? Who will be his human?
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This is Mexico's new famous doggo, Arkadas, donated by Turkey after another Mexican rescue dog - Proteo - died during earthquake relief efforts earlier this year. Both very good boys. Pic from @SEDENAmx

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@dwaine_van Is there any indication of what proportion of the real estate figure is residential, versus commercial?
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@BigDaddyLiberty You are 100% correct. I think the fuse has already been lit. As usual it will be the disempowered and innocent who will suffer the most.
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The state allowing lawlessness has left a power-vacuum, & this country is on the edge of something…we can all feel it.
3 distinct groupings are in a “Mexican stand-off”;
- crooked politicians,
- criminal-elites and,
- fed-up poor people,
Each waiting for the next to flinch.
Umlazi, South Africa 🇿🇦 English

"We have a plan."
On a scale of 1 to 10, how incandescently, screamingly, garment- renderingly, furniture-kickingly, insanely fucking angry do these stupid, stupid words make you feel?
Eyewitness News@ewnupdates
Ramaphosa on South Africa's greylisting: we have a plan dlvr.it/Sk4yMf
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