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RomanceRe: Men Have It Harder by budaatum: 8:00pm On Dec 12, 2024
liveyourlife007:
Your hatred is deep-rooted.
Maybe an adversed childhood experience or poor parental upbringing.
Can you imagine " poor hard men" I have not heard this statement in my life before.
No empathy. So cold.

Just my observation tho. I may be wrong. Don't take this to heart.
Your own empathy is very warm. I love the way you sit blindly wherever you are and claim to have an observation of someone you've never ever engaged with before. It must be due to the superpowers your own wealthy parents' brought you up with to insult other people's parents.

I do take it to heart. May your power increase in strength and may you learn to use it better as you also learn to live your life.
SportsRe: FORMULA ONE F1 Official SeasonThread - Revamped by budaatum: 3:08pm On Dec 12, 2024
It comes after McLaren posted record annual losses of £924m in 2023, up from £349m the year prior.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/uae-buys-mclaren-carmaker-suffers-163000704.html
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 2:38pm On Dec 12, 2024
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/11/business/real-estate-brokers-sex-trafficking/

bemeruca:
A woman in the UK got 8 years for false accusations against men. Some men did jail time, and after they were found innocent, police did not arrest the woman for false accusations. She went on to lie 7 more times even causing fake injuries to herself. Go to court, and evidence and CCTV showed it was all lies; she still wasn't arrested till she accused the Muslim Grooming gangs. She got 8 years jail sentence

All this favor women get, we are still being told the system is against them.
AgricultureRe: Effective Pepper Farming by budaatum: 2:26pm On Dec 12, 2024
I have a question.

When is the right time to plant habanero pepper in Nigeria?
RomanceRe: Groom Dumps Bride At The Altar After Pre-wedding Visit To Ex-boyfriend (Photos) by budaatum: 2:19pm On Dec 12, 2024
Very justified. One shouldn't start a marriage with dishonesty.
Foreign AffairsRe: We Africans Are The Ultimate Target. by budaatum: 3:18am On Dec 12, 2024
I doubt anyone would be stupid enough to think the whole of Africa would just sit there and do nothing when Europe invades to steal our assets.

Even Europeans would be on their own streets protesting the invasion of Africa, and some might even terrorise on our behalf along with our own terrorising.
FamilyRe: Has this always been available on Nairaland? by budaatum: 3:13am On Dec 12, 2024
Yes it has always been on Nairaland.

Happy Nairaland birthday.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 3:11am On Dec 12, 2024
IbeOkehie this is about healthcare and insurance. It reminds me how Nigeria was encouraged not to bother with industry when we began selling crude oil, because "you have enough money to buy whatever you want", and Dangote lamenting about the cabal trying to ruin his refinery.

I apologise for the partisanship near the end.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQR67WRcVUg?si=sE6WRDJ3NUWi5NHL
PoliticsRe: Adedayo Adesola: Youths Protest In Lagos As Lawmaker Empowers Constituents by budaatum: 12:13am On Dec 12, 2024
Gboom:
You are selfish, na everybody go school
Provision of solar streetlight and borehole will be better
Everybody should go school. If you hadn't gone to school you wouldn't be here calling me names in English. And I'm certain you'd buy school for your children when you have any, though, do tell me I am wrong so I can come and personally kick your ass for disadvantaging your children and populating my surrounding with ignorant stupid almanjeris.

Still, I never said school, and I didn't even suggest there be books in the library I did propose, but internet access that even the poor can benefit from cheaply. And if your "solar streetlight and borehole" can be provided, that's good too, since we deserve all the good things that exist. They are all better than empowering a select few.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 11:34pm On Dec 11, 2024
EducationRe: How AI Is Helping Nigerian Students Earn First Class Degrees By Prof. Imumolen by budaatum: 10:03pm On Dec 11, 2024
A Nigerian professor at Greenwich University told me a Nigerian phd student submitted an AI generated thesis for his finals, and when told it was plagiarism and adviced to go and redo it he began begging.

The professor told him the repercussions too but he insisted, not quite understanding the professor was not the only one who would review his work. Of course he failed.

This new development will just end up devaluing our degrees.
RomanceRe: Men Have It Harder by budaatum: 10:01pm On Dec 11, 2024
You poor hard men. I have zero sympathy for you, especially if your parents invest more in their male children than their females.

Enlightened parents educate both their male and female children equally so they can all stand on their own feet.

I, of course, have a bias.

PoliticsRe: Houthis Claim Attack On Central Israel In Response To Gaza Massacres by budaatum: 9:54pm On Dec 11, 2024
Yemen is being attacked by Saudi Arabia from one end and will be attacked by Israel on the other, and I can't help but feel for the innocents caught in the middle.

https://caat.org.uk/homepage/stop-arming-saudi-arabia/the-war-on-yemens-civilians/

PhonesRe: Whatsapp Is Down ( Now Restored and Active) by budaatum: 9:49pm On Dec 11, 2024
PhonesRe: Whatsapp Down? by budaatum: 9:49pm On Dec 11, 2024
PhonesRe: Is Whatsapp Down? by budaatum: 9:47pm On Dec 11, 2024
Mine isn't down, however:

"Over 22,000 people reported issues with Facebook this evening and over 18,000 struggled to use WhatsApp, according to outage-tracking site Downdetector".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c623jr6kxz2o

PoliticsRe: Adedayo Adesola: Youths Protest In Lagos As Lawmaker Empowers Constituents by budaatum: 9:34pm On Dec 11, 2024
He empowered 60 people and expected the others to have no power and they showed him.

Hopefully he's learnt next time to actually empower everyone instead of a select few.

My suggestion is he funds a library with internet access in his constituency. He might even charge a small amount to fund and operate it.
CrimeRe: Reporting Of Inocent Whatapp Account For Permanent Ban Is Becoming Abusive by budaatum: 9:20pm On Dec 11, 2024
Pray4meJC:
It is a group filled with crypto airdrops wicked admin. Funny thing is that only them post links, spam members & send referral links. All the admins started reporting my counter posts as spam each time I asked them to go do something useful with their lives and leave tapping of phones. This is the new trick to getting your account banned 🚫

First time ever seeing this. Nigerians hate to hear truth. My primary phone number since gsm was birth in Nigeria is not on whatapp
So, they ban you from their group. How does that become a whatsapp ban unless they have evidence?

Its like being banned by Myndd44 on Nairaland with no evidence of a rule breach, but I guess he is much more judicious than your crypto airdrops wicked admins.
Jobs/VacanciesRe: Please How Legit Is This Invite From Federal Civil Service Commission? by budaatum: 9:14pm On Dec 11, 2024
Toktee:
yes
On the Civil Service Commission website or on some phishing page?

https://www.ohcsf.gov.ng/post-employment_disclaimer

Post where you applied please.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 9:09pm On Dec 11, 2024
raumdeuter:
But they want those rich owners who took risks most of us dont want to take, to share their profit with them.
This is just plain dumb but you'd never take my word for it.

IbeOkehie, explain to raumdeuter how the company you buy shares in shares their profit with you please.

He might understand it coming from you.
CrimeRe: Help! He Stole More Than 1 Million Naira by budaatum: 8:59pm On Dec 11, 2024
Haakeem:
After the guy is done, he should pls snap the front and back of the ATM card for me so I can continue.
Some people are not okay.
Carry ur ATM dey give random someone still give am pin join.
Chai.
Its the bold I wondered how stupid.
CrimeRe: Reporting Of Inocent Whatapp Account For Permanent Ban Is Becoming Abusive by budaatum: 8:56pm On Dec 11, 2024
Been using whatsapp from since when lifetime usage was a penny shy a pound and I've never come across this message, which makes me wonder what you've been up to.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 8:37pm On Dec 11, 2024
IbeOkehie:
grin

1) Do you know of any Black African that has made that kind of sacrifice or done anything similar to what Marie Curie did?
Do you think what Mandela did is not similar to what Marie Curie did, or that what Martin Luther King did was for greed for profit?

But of course you'd argue they were not chemists, or something equally ridiculous you'd try to hide behind an emoji, so here's some history for you so you can take more pride in your race.

https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/what-we-do/blog/black-women-in-chemistry/

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum:
raumdeuter:
So you dont want to pay more but want to point at others to pay more?
Let me repeat myself in bold for you in case you did not see it the first time!

budaatum:
I already pay more than many, not being a low earner per se, and I will be mandated to pay more if and when my income increases, so your comment above is just silly.
raumdeuter:
Why wait until you are mandated? You believe all these, then go ahead and do it, Pay more
I already do. Its called giving to charity and causes that concern me, and that does not include my Nigerian tax, which this year is record high.

raumdeuter:
I live in a functioning society actually the greatest country in the world, the envy of others. And we are doing great as is
Love the fact you quote Biden's 400 page speech.

www.youtube.com/live/3qNcEsWMuKQ?si=HiSfRqlvfM7_uWqw

Pity I think you can always be a better country, but then which country can't?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum:
IbeOkehie:
Well we have to agree on some basics first.

1) the greed for profit drives innovation & discovery.
I disagree! There is quite a lot of innovation that has been driven by the desire to improve the lot of the human race.

Marie Curie, for instance, did not get sick from radioactivity because of greed for profit. Even NASA did not spend billions to go to the moon because of greed for profit, but for bragging rights.

IbeOkehie:
2) when people put their money at risk, they expect a profit above inflation AND greater than they would get from a simple interest account or lending it to government, as in Treasury Bills. Without this reward for risk, there would be very little investment.
This, however, is somewhat true. If there is no investment, your money will just be worthless paper under your mattress or you'd consume it.

IbeOkehie:
Now let's say a UK drug company like Astra Zeneca has $100million to invest. They can

a) Invest it RISK FREE in treasury bills and make 2.5%, guaranteed.

b) invest in research and discover and bring a new drug to market.
Or c) buy their own shares to inflate their share price to increase the CEOs pay, as has been done by many companies lately.

Ref:
https://wolfstreet.com/2020/03/31/estimates-about-the-collapse-of-share-buybacks-begin-to-emerge/

IbeOkehie:
Let's say they discover new drug Kakabra which is a cure for cancer. They want to make a profit above inflation + 2.5% treasury rate. As humans, they also want to maximize profit.

So they set the price of Kakabra @ $50,000 per treatment course. This is where the subsidy begins.
The only reason Astra Zeneca would set its price of Kakabra @ $50,000 per treatment course is because individuals don't mostly need to pay for it because they have insurance. If individuals needed to pay for Kakabra @ $50,000 per treatment course, Astra Zeneca would sell less Kabara and make less profit!

IbeOkehie:
In the modern world today, all these European and even other countries have guaranteed healthcare for all.

Left to a free market, these systems will naturally generate UNLIMITED EXPENDITURE. So as with all government subsidized systems, they MUST have price controls.
Do you not know that insurance companies will not pay Kakabra @ $50,000 per treatment course, but will negotiate a much lower price because they buy in bulk, and that this is them controlling price too?

Insurance companies might even find ways to refuse to pay for Kakabra for some patients just as they refuse to pay you when you needed them to, which is another form of controlling their expenditure on Kakabra.

IbeOkehie:
What does Aztra Zeneca do? They agree. Why? Because they and EVERY OTHER DRUG COMPANY has a final destination for recouping cost of investment and getting profit - the USA where government allows them to set their own prices. So Astra Zeneca will come to the USA and set their price at $250,000 per dose in order to get the profits the UK government has effectively stolen from them.
Smart UK then, to let Astra Zeneca rob Peter in USA to pay for Paul's healthcare in UK. And stupid of Peter in USA for allowing their tax money to pay for Paul's healthcare in UK instead of their money paying for their own healthcare.

Kind of proves the point, I suppose, that we are not asking for tax increases, but that tax money be spent right.

Astra Zeneca, I bet you, would also ensure they pay less tax in USA than anywhere else, and thereby maximise their exploitation of Peter in the name of their profit, which some of us are here against.

IbeOkehie:
That is how the USA is subsidizing the world healthcare system.
If you say USA citizens, I might be inclined to agree. Unfortunately, poor USA Peter dies because he is paying for UK Paul to live, and if I were racist, as in, only selfishly concerned about myself, then, yippee, but since I'm not, poor robbed dead Peter.

USA is not subsidising anywheres healthcare system, in my opinion. They are just letting themselves be exploited by dodgy Astra Zeneca.

Intelligent humans beings would innovate a healthcare system so they can not exploit America, but the selfish individualism and greed for profit in America would not encourage this I guess, just as many there oppose the feeding of poor kids and justified the use of unpaid labour of people with darker skin than their's.
TravelRe: Nigerian Nurses On WHO Redlist by budaatum: 7:20pm On Dec 11, 2024
Its very nice of WHO to redlist us so our nurses are not stolen.

I am only posting this to encourage it to frontpage, note.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 7:13pm On Dec 11, 2024
raumdeuter:
You want some people to pay more and not you?
I already pay more than many, not being a low earner per se, and I will be mandated to pay more if and when my income increases, so your comment above is just silly.

If you want to live in a good well functioning society, you'd accept that those who have more will necessarily pay more or you'd end with a country like Nigeria where we farm malaria in gutters outside our homes because we refuse to be progressive where tax is concerned and therefore can't afford cleaning.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 7:06pm On Dec 11, 2024
raumdeuter:
So if the insurance was paying 200k for everyone how long will they go bankrupt. Reality dictates that some people will get denied
No one is asking any insurance company to pay everyone 200k! And you saying the above just wants to make me give up on you. Next you be claiming we are asking insurance fraudsters to be paid 200k too.

There are some serious calculations that go in to determining an individuals risk of needing to get paid insurance, and that risk is reflected in the premiums you are charged and is why a non-smoker pays less for health insurance than a smoker pays and is also why the smoker gets a lot less coverage too.

Whatever you might think insurers are, stupid is not one of them.

Refs:
Scottish Widows: A Lesson In Statistics

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 6:32pm On Dec 11, 2024
IbeOkehie:
The factors that play into healthcare are complex.

For example, very few people understand that the USA is subsidizing all the worlds healthcare systems.
You will need to provide evidence for the bold, because apart from American Bill Gates whom some say is selling mosquitoes in Nigeria, I don't see any country America subsidises their healthcare when they can't even subsidise that of their own citizens.

IbeOkehie:
Nobody ever admits they love their own kind more than others. You mention children. Humans generally spend lots of resources on their own children even though there's other more deserving or needy children elsewhere that could use some of those resources. Are parents programmed to love their kids?
You inconsistency is disturbing.

If humans are naturally racist and "love their own kind more than others", how the heck would you go about explaining the lack of racism that, as you claim, makes America subsidise "all the worlds healthcare systems". Do Americans love other races than their own perhaps?

IbeOkehie:
Racism is driven by EXACTLY the same instincts that make humans love their own children MORE than children of other people. Do you have children? Then you should understand. All things equal, you will do more for your cousin than you would for a stranger you meet at school.
I have gone to the bother of posting the definition of racism below so you can perhaps understand that not loving or spending as much on other people's children as much as I love and spend on my own children is not the same thing as racism.

You hopefully would not claim I have an ism because I love my husband more than I love you, or love pounded yam more than ẹba.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 6:18pm On Dec 11, 2024
raumdeuter:
You know the healthcare in the UK you got, Its the UK people who pay for it with increased taxes are Americans willing to pay more in taxes? No they want others to carry the extra tax burden usually those who they believe earn more than them Everyones tax solution is to always tax those who they believe are earning higher. Hardly them.
I think you'd find there isn't much difference in UK and USA income tax rates as it is, and I'd argue we get more for our UK tax than USA people get.

"Taxing those who they believe are earning higher", is your own understanding of everyone's tax solution. You must have not heard the call for high earners to pay their fair amount of tax instead of evading tax.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 6:08pm On Dec 11, 2024
raumdeuter:
Premiums received from others not from that particular patient as she hadnt paid up to 200k which the insurance paid
That's how insurance in meant to work, doh, or you'd not bother getting any and just pay for your own damage.

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