šŸš«Things to leave behind in 2020:

1. Leaving the diaspora and moving to "GohnašŸ‡¬šŸ‡­" without a plan for earning income, then trying to survive in Gohna by monetizing your new YouTube channel about life in Gohna.

This thing is becoming a ponzi scheme and it must stopā›”

2. Uploading photos of your snowed-in car or 2-bedroom house in Mississauga with the caption, "Still want to come to Canada?"

Just drop your photo, write "I escaped" and go.šŸ˜
3. Writing "Sapiosexual" on your Tinder bio.

Facebook. You need Facebook.
4. Headhunting someone and taking them through an entire interview and testing process after reaching out to them yourself, only to hit them with the "We like you but" email.

This one baffled me because I was literally by myself and you came to meet me. What was the reason?šŸ¤·šŸæā€ā™‚ļø
5. Using the phrase "Good PM" for any reason whatsoever.

Return to ƌbĆ rĆ pĆ” from whence you came, foul creature
6. Mentioning the name "Goodluck Jonathan." DUDE.

Let.

It.

Go.
7. Asking $100,000 professionals to do $1,000,000 work for N10,000.

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8. Using people's serious Twitter threads to advertise hair extensions and your 14 tons of cassava looking for a buyer.

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9. Tackling people publicly, then sending them DMs when they tackle you back publicly.

In the words of a famous Ghanaian philosopher:

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Great article from @AsheSchow. I lived thru the 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980's/early 1990's asking myself "Has eveyrbody lost their GODDAMN MINDS?!"


The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.

1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.

FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.
OK. Chapter 7 of Book 4 of #WealthOfNations is tough going. It's long. It's serious. It's all about colonies.

We can take comfort, though, in knowing that the chapter #AdamSmith says is about colonies is, in fact, about colonies. (IV.vii) #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets


Colonies were a vexed subject when #AdamSmith was writing, and theyā€™re even more complicated now. So, before we even get to the tweeting, hereā€™s a link to that thread on Smith and ā€œsavage nations.ā€ (IV.vii) #WealthOfTweets


The reason for the ancient Greeks and Romans to settle colonies was straightforward: they didnā€™t have enough space for their growing populations. Their colonies were treated as ā€œemancipated childrenā€ā€”connected but independent. (IV.vii.a.2) #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets

(Both these things are in contrast to the European colonies, as we'll see.) (IV.vii.a.2) #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets

Ancient Greeks and Romans needed more space because the land was owned by an increasingly small number of citizens and farming and nearly all trades and arts were performed by slaves. It was hard for a poor freeman to improve his life. (IV.vii.a.3) #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets

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