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In Memory of Dablixx Osha 🕊️ - Brainhack

About five years ago, on a weekend, I was commuting to the University of Lagos for my Master’s program classes. I vividly remember the area where I boarded a particular yellow bus for the last leg of the journey. Something unusual happened in that bus: both the conductor and the driver were singing along to the music blasting from the stereo in front.

It wasn’t strange for this duo to have a favorite playlist given that they spend so much time together, but what really caught my attention was the song itself, it was rap, it was in proper-ish English and the artist sounded Nigerian. Yes, imagine a conductor and a driver rapping along in English throughout the journey.

By the time the third track on the album came on, I couldn’t ignore it anymore. I pulled out my phone to Shazam it. Tap-tap: Apple Music pulled up the artist: Dablixx Osha!

I was blown away. I spent the entire day jamming every song of his I could find. At some point, I paused and thought to myself, it’s somewhat true that geography is destiny. If he had been born in America, he might have been a rap world heavyweight. That was the day I became a fan.

Fast forward to November 2022, I saw the news on the front page here on Nairaland: Dablixx Osha is dead! I don’t even remember when the tears started falling. I cried for him. I cried because he rose above his struggles, because he stood at the edge of greatness and was cut short. I wept for his unrealized dreams. The story was that he had been poisoned by his own friends.

In the words of Kodak Black - “My nigga wanna see me dead 'cause I be shinin' more than him.”

That event triggered many thoughts in me, one of which was: Don’t be afraid to leave some people behind.

Dablixx Osha, you were loved, and you will be missed 🫂🖤

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Jeff & Some Aliens

Smiling Friends - is it just me or Mr. Boss is demon possessed


Between Mr. Boss, Mr Burns & Mr Fischoeder I can’t decide who is my favorite lol. Well if given the opportunity, Mr Burns would literally steal from children, if i must make a choice it would be Mr Burns: Billionaire with unfiltered greed lol

The Righteous Gemstones S01 - S04

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Recommendations:

#1 Happy Family USA
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<True Story>

Do you have someone who truly knows and sees you behind those veils, when you are about to give up on life? - [copied from Quora]

She was drowning.

And nobody noticed...

Nobody, except her Coach.

It was June 2022, at the World Championships in Budapest. Anita Álvarez, an American artistic swimmer with Mexican roots, was performing a flawless routine but when her performance ended, she didn't come up for air.

She had lost consciousness. Her body floated for a few seconds, then began to sink. Slowly, all the way to the bottom of the pool. The audience didn't notice. Neither did the judges. Everyone was clapping but her coach, Andrea Fuentes, noticed.

She knew Anita knew exactly how long it took her to surface.
She felt in her heart that something was wrong.

Without thinking twice, she dove in, full dressed, shoes and all. She swam straight down, grabbed Anita by the waist, and brought her back up.

She saved her life.

This story left me thinking...

Who knows you well enough to notice when you're not okay, even if you're still smiling?

Who would dive in for you without hesitation when you no longer have the strength to come up for air? and more importantly...

Would you be that person for someone else?

Are you present enough in your loved ones' lives to sense the moment they start to sink?

Or are you just another spectator, clapping, not realizing that inside, they're fading?

coolestDre:
Stanbic MMF rate - 21%
FBNQuest MMF - 23.46%

That's a difference of 2.46%, to me that's huge

I'm relatively new to MMF, joined Stanbic MMF in July, now I'm seriously considering moving my funds to FBN Quest cos of the better rate.

Experienced folks, please help me out here

What am I missing, is there any reason why this won't be a good move?

Is there something about FBNQuest that makes the higher rate not worth it?

Is there any reason Stanbic is worth sticking to despite the low rate?

Why is Stanbic dominating the Nigerian money market space if their rate is this mediocre?

My Ogas, please come to the aid of we newbies abeg

Personally i split funds between both. So i would advise you to do the same.

At the bolded, that is first mover advantage for you. People tend to trust who they know first, before others.

As someone rightfully pointed out, at the end of the year the difference between Stanbic & FBNQuest would be about 1%. It’s something but it is not alot except you are moving massive massive funds.

bobonla:
I was close to the pool when he push me in, I went beneath the water after sometime i surfacedand started floating. I was like guy so u can't swim? He said he can't ooo. Then he asked if that place was deep. I said no its not deep oo. He didn't know I was floating, but that place was over twice my height or so.

One thing that can save your life is learning to stay calm in life or death situations.

Op should have told him it was deep when he asked so he could have prepared his mind. It was that unexpected slip in footing that made him panic.

I remember when i was Junior secondary school, I went for my first swimming lesson.

I saw my other class mates in the middle of the pool. I had to ask how deep it was, i was told by one fool it wasn’t deep. Then he led me by the hand to that spot.

Omo immediately he let go, the water covered me by about 10 inches. The young fool had already looked away and was swimming to where babes were. You would think people would easily notice someone drowning, nay that is far from the truth.

Since i was young but i had learnt to stay calm and think in dire situation. It was God and that instinct that saved.

I couldn’t swim at that moment. So i just started leaping forward to the swallow side. Those 1-2 minutes were the longest period of my life. I would sink covered by water, then leap when my legs touched the floor of the pool. I kept going forward to the shallow side inch by inch.

Ifeanyi if you are reading this, God will give you the appropriate punishment for the event of that day

The gods of theater won’t forgive me, if I don’t mention my favorite TV show moment thus far:

Interview with the Vampire (Season 2, Episode 1)
I had to recorded this scene.

Scene - Louis and Claudia leaving Romania in a carriage after a failed attempt to find more (vampires) like them. Claudia was clearly depressed under the weight of her potential eternal existence.

The music that ushered in the scene, made me believe that how well light classical music can fit into a scene is the litmus test for the concentration of magic within it ✨

The dialogue that ensued was… poetry. I must warn, it is not suitable for the heartbroken; hiding behind huge emotional defenses. Don’t watch this scene, those walls would come crashing down.

Louis (to Claudia)

- “I wanna say something to you.”
- “I don’t need to hear anything back, I just need you to hear me.”
- “Hard words and soft words.”

- “The Hard.”
- “Our life is shit. It’s been shit.”
- “It is shit. It’s gonna be shit again.”
- “Stop feeling sorry for yourself.”
- “No one’s watching, no one cares.”
- “A shit life beats no life.”
- “But where we’re going now, we can’t be running away again.”
“Doesn’t mean we forget what we saw. What she did in front of us.”
- “If I see you going that way, I’m going pull you back. I don’t need that from you.”
- “As long as you walk the Earth, I’ll never taste the fire, you understand me?”
- “We’re going to find others like us.”
- “And if it ain’t here, cos life is shit, or I Bleep it up again, or you Bleep it up.”
- “we’ll go to the next place.”
- “We can’t be the only good ones out there.”

- “soft words.”
- “If you were the last vampire on Earth, it would be enough.”

Plus Ultra ✨

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Kaiju no 8 be dropping madt madt cliffhangers. Tha heck mahn

maidaboi:
have you watched Dark? Germans series

It is on my watch list but my watch list is longer than River Niger

I will definitely get to it.

Yesterday I was thinking 3 Body Problem is the best sci-fi i have seen this year.

Then i started Dark Matter today, though it’s predictable (I immediately knew the masked guy hassling him, was “him from another world”; coming to steal his life)

It did reduce my expectation a tiny bit because I like my sci-fi with a side of what the fork is going on but still its looks like I’m in for a ride.

When it comes to sci-fi, we are eating good already. Come June 13, it’s gonna be Diabolical

The Ass and his Masters - Aesop

An ass, who feels he 's been over labored by his present master who is a herb seller made a petition to Jupiter to be released from his present service and provided with another master.

Jupiter, after warning him that he might not be favored in the hand of the new master, granted his request on his insistence and caused him to be sold to a tile-maker.

Shortly afterwards, the same Ass finding that he had heavier loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, regretted his action, he petitioned for another change of master. Jupiter, warning him again that it would be the last time that he could grant his request, made it happened and he was sold to a tanner.

After few days of the hardest work done in his entire life that would send him early to grave, the Ass found that he had fallen into worse hands, he groaned and said; "It would have been better for me to have been either starved by the one, or to have been overworked by the other of my former masters, than to have been bought by my present owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, and make me useful to him."

advanceDNA:
From dating stage....woman wey nor fit buy ordinary bread, or something she knows u like when coming.....collect transport fare for coming and also when going back, never offer to give u the smallest gift....

Sadly this is a red flag most people ignore in their partners.

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Undead Unluck

Solid 7 rating for me, though i believe it’s writer could have evolved it to something more, given its promising premise.

Erenjp:
So Gojo should have willingly murdered thousands of innocent civilians...

And choosing not to murder them made him incompetent?

Gojo is not a villain.

From your moniker, you should know my answer to your question. Look at how many more people that die needlessly afterwards (all people he was trying not to kill died, more humans from the upper level of the train station died, after sukuna’s final fight more than 90% of humans in that barrier had died, more than 3 members of his school died).

The consequences of his incompetence was real devastating. If Gojo had use his domain expansion from the start, he could have killed all three. The only causalities would only be the human on that floor (given the situation, either way death was their fate). He wouldn’t have gotten sealed, would have had time to save his teams from Dagon and the rest, Sukuna wouldn’t have awakened but Gojo didn’t want to shoulder that responsibility. The aftermath of the Shibuya accident is all on Gojo

Hamas held hostages, did it stop Israel from raining missiles?

War is not a tea party. Itadori understood this well in Episode 21.

Lol @ “if Gojo was competent….”

Gojo’s incompetence was my greatest anime annoyance of 2023, I really can wait to watch him die.

Baddestguyp:
Holy moly!!!

What did I just watch

Jujutsu Kaisen latest episode 🔥🔥

Ah ha. E get one grilled fish and sweet potato chips joint I newly sighted in one corner of Lagos Island.

I’ve been there to arm myself with a sizable one. This 🐟 + Parfait + latest episode of Jujutsu Kaisen… the amount of Dopamine I’m about to experience should be illegal

SniperAssassin:
Just wait till you see the shit he pulls next week

Lol I already know but I still can’t wait to see it.

[Spoiler Alert ⚠️]

If you want to be good, be good all the way; if you want to be bad, be bad all way. Even the biblical God hates indecisiveness, faithlessness and half measures:

A - “Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord“

B - “Since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth”.

Being made in His image; I like to see anime characters that are evil all the way. Evil that makes other characters be overcome by awe and great fear, which almost immediately turns to reverence.

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Imagine a giant fiery meteorite ball falling from the sky in your direction, then someone says to you “don’t move, till I say so” lol and all the cells in body tell you, they would rather to be hit by that meteorite than move and anger that person . So you dare not twitch, break a sweat or even change your facial expression

Bow yourself! You are in the presence of Sukuna.

Pluto

The segment in episode 1 centered on Paul Duncan and North 2 was.... beautiful.

The way their relationship transformed and evolved into a near tactile bond, gave me goosebumps.

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Odumodublvck - Commend

Baddestguyp:
The Gaza conflict …..

You beat me to it. Though I was going to compare it to Gojo fight against Mahito, Hanami & Choso. Hamas has taken hostages, does that stop Israel from raining missiles on Gaza: of cause not. Israelis would be fools to hesitate or show weakness.

Again Gojo’s idealism has no place in the real world (talk less his own more brutal anime world). Paradox of tolerance is real and very unforgiving.

Baddestguyp:
it is a far harder choice than what you're describing...

Would you use your own hand to kill innocent people who did nothing to you just because you're sure you can't save them all?

Let's be real, even in his situation, most people won't do it...
It's one thing to try to save people but fail at it...
It's another thing to use your own hand to kill innocent people

Okay let’s be real. I have mentioned it before in “real life”, in war a perfect condition in which you take out your enemy almost never exist. There are always causalities, innocent bystanders.

Now Imagine 5 of the world’s most wanted terrorists are having a meeting and at the same venue You and 5 of your friends are having a picnic about 50 meters away.

One hellfire missile at a press of a button/trigger, (so it is not “hard”) would quickly change these terrorists’ status from living to dead but it would also take you and your 5 friends out.

Question: do you think the leader of whichever free world taking the lead on this operation won’t push that button? You would be greatly mistaken if you assume he won’t.

If you were the leader in question, even you would push that button because you are aware of the demands of the duty and responsibilities placed on you by your country. If in situations like that you don’t have what it takes to make such judgments call, then you should expect to be replaced soon by someone who can act and also live with the consequences. (If your country fails to replace you for your inability to take action, there is very high probability your country would be a pile of ash in the nearest future).

This is “real”. The real world is not always black and white, there are so many grey areas in which you still must act.

Like in this hypothetical but real situation the cost of your inaction would outweigh the consequences of your action.

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This conversation just made me dislike Gojo even more lol, he refused to save them accepting they are beyond saving yet he didn’t want to use a technique could kill the enemy cuz he didn’t want to kill the humans himself in turn endangering the whole world. Smh. Such a fallible thought process. Smh.

Baddestguyp:
Gojo doesn't really have a high moral compass imo...

He is ready to accept the death of many humans if he sees it as inevitable...as shown in that battle..

If this is true then it just shows that he didn’t analyze the situation thoroughly. Cuz now that he has been sealed, these humans are sitting ducks, Fake Geto can kill them with a flick of his finger.

It’s a lose-lose situation. He carried the two Ls. He didn’t eliminate the threat and he didn’t save the humans. You don’t want to see clips of American military carrying out operations and the cost (civilian lives) that comes with it. This is the real world.

Their death was inevitable from the beginning, he should have done the needful. Now the fate of the world hanging in balance (evil has the upper hand right now).

If anybody’s ideal can be said to be most flawed, I would say its Gojo’s ideal. I secretly hope he dies for it lol, now or in the future. (Spoiler Alert: Gojo d*** in the manga)

Baddestguyp:
while I agree that Geto's ideals were not nonsense, they did pose some flaws...

The fact that regular humans didn't know about the existence of curses...

You can't really blame regular humans for everything when they do not even know they cause the birth and existence of curses...

There is also the fact of punishing Innocents e.g kids and babies who have absolutely nothing to do with what is going on in the Jujutsu world

Humans kill baby animals too. We kill things that don’t know we exist. Well I do get your perspective.

That is one thing about ethics & ideals. There is no universally correct answer. Right now I don’t bother about ethics (right or wrong), I only bother about legality (as regard the laws I hold myself accountable to - Nigeria & Heaven).

With my legality there is no or very limited grey area. What you refer to as evil might be well within my rights. I guess this brings us to the issue of extremism lol. Well like I mentioned earlier is no universally correct answer to ethics.

It has always seemed to me to be a tool developed to hold others in shackles, even people that developed it backtrack when it no longer suit their purpose. This is state of the real world.