sub-saharan africa a place with more landmass & diversity than most continents

reduced to a monolith by a someone who has never lived in africa for more than a year.

if that's not patronizing and stupidity - IDK.

worse is better wins again.

there's a reason people prefer aged products - they gain a character of their own, similar to art or works produced under constraints.

some people got very very rich. like rich - that their great grandkids don't have to work.

that's the price of "freedom".

both sides get to save face - Trump says they won, his cronies n himself got rich. Iran gets a better deal than before. Israel gets rid of US bases in the Middle East via Iran.

of course the poor and downtrodden get shifted - that never changes.

the ecosystem around Kafka is so crazy specially in regards to data engineering.

CDC capture Kafka (Redpanda) these days - just works and simplifies a bunch of stuff.

you hardly get good instant coffee in the US.

however in the UK the premium supermarkets have really good instant coffee i.e M&S and Waitrose.

be ready to give bloodwork, the rest are people putting hell in your life - so ignore them.

a war end up being a war about information.

hence the first department that goes into full throttle mode in any war - is the department of propaganda | press corps (as modernly called).

so we gonna see lies on both sides - Iranians | US / Israel. with the truth in between.

It completely disregards underemployment and very borderline at risk employment. It's effectively a form of lying with technically correct statistics.

the pale blue dot.

if anything in life gives me pleasure is I have experienced life, with its highs and downs on this little speck.

you have a current US president who has never read the Art of War.

likely most company leadership, besides Hedge fund managers, have never read the Art of War either.

this results in management that lacks a strategic focus - they want to win the next battle (down in a valley, while giving the enemy an upper hand to be on the hill).

your infantry (low-level ICs) are smart and capable - and the org is actively pursing means to deskill them via some shit called (A.I) - your colonels (mid-management) are comfortable in their laurels since anyone who raises a voice is shown the door (hell most of them manage people now & don't fight anymore)

then you wonder why the country, the org is losing. but hey at least we posted a massive valuation.

Why read the Art of War when you wrote (or had ghost-written for you) the Art of the Deal?