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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 6:35pm On Apr 24, 2023

raumdeuter:
I dont know the details Maybe his section of the programming was the evidence Dominion used to get the settlement.

Someone has to go for that

Fox will be Okay, they survive the loss of Hannity, The people who want to hear real news now Bidens packaged propaganda will still log into and watch Fox

Tucker started believing his own hype after a while

Basilico still believes Tucker's own hype long after they've been shown to be the lies.

His termination is likely part of Fox's settlement with Dominion. Dominion would have asked for a humiliating live mia culpa and a cease and desist from those at Fox who pushed the election steal the most, and Tucker wouldn't likely have bowed to that request. We'll in the end see who does. Some need their wages more than some.

As for Lemon, good riddance. If not for news for comparison to other news sites, CNN too.

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Politics › Re: President Buhari Begs Nigerians For Pardon As He Sets To Leave Office In 37 Days by budaatum: 11:47pm On Apr 21, 2023

yunggold4:
Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria on Friday, subtly asked Nigerians to pardon him, particularly those he may have hurt in the course of discharging his duties as President. Read more https://www.ayomidejai.com/2023/04/president-buhari-begs-nigerians-for.html

Romance › Re: Why Aren't Nigerians Talking About This? by budaatum: 7:03pm On Apr 20, 2023

Some research.

Nigeria's NNPC spent $10 billion on fuel subsidy in 2022

Here is why Nigeria needs to remove petrol subsidy

Fuel subsidy reform and the social contract in Nigeria: A micro-economic analysis☆

Nigeria Secures $800 Million Ahead of Fuel Subsidy Removal

Romance › Re: Why Aren't Nigerians Talking About This? by budaatum: 6:55pm On Apr 20, 2023

oz4real83:
how many times will fuel subsidy go? All the price increases Buhari's govt did were attested to being the result of subsidy removal, where is the new "subsidy" coming from when they have been removed before by this administration?

Very good question.

All fuel subsidy increases have gone to satisfy price increases. I'll explain.

Say I go market go buy oil for fuel subsidy paying Nigeria. Fuel seller say $100. I pay knowing part of my payment is subsidised, and my profit is protected.

Soon time I come and fuel seller say $200. Haba, I say, then pay since part of my payment is subsidised and my profit is protected. After all, if Nigeria don't subsidise, chickena, I say, and go sell something else, until Nigeria subsidises, because petrol is like oxygen, and Nigerian humans can't exactly reduce how much they breath or drive, and Nigerian governments can't exactly stand by and watch Nigeria's asphyxiate.

Soon time I will go market and ask fuel seller to write receipt for $100000 for fuel I never even bought. Don't worry, I say, we share 50-50 and you keep your fuel. Nigeria will subsidise. And in order for the weak Nigerian governments to not asphyxiate Nigerians driving, Nigeria increases its subsidy.

But that is the answer to where subsidy goes, and not the answer to your wise question, because .......

[quote author=oz4real83 post=122622189[b]Nigerians are suffering[/b] because this administration failed to either build new refineries or rehabilitate the old ones, even if "fuel subsidy " is "removed" again, without building new refineries or rehabilitating the old ones, the same suffering will continue.[/quote]....... Your's, in bold, "Nigerians are suffering", is the answer.

The new subsidy, along with all subsidises, come from money that might have otherwise paid to upgrade and equip our schools and our hospitals and our transport system and our abilities to be fruitful and increase in number and rule Nigeria with the sweat off our own brows so that we do not suffer. Instead, some feed off the sweat of our brows what should have been invested in us Nigerians, hence we suffer.

And we shall suffer more to remove it, no doubt. Fuel subsidy removal will cause the price of petrol to significantly rise because fuel sellers will increase price to replace their lost subsidy. Increase in price will attract new comers into the market to compete in a now more fairer playing ground since some are not receiving subsidy that some aren't. Competition will increase supply and decrease price, eventually, after we sweat some.

"Rehabilitating the old ones" though, is like rehabilitating a Peugeot 404. Groovy vintage, but there's better cheaper more efficient refineries out there.

Romance › Re: Why Aren't Nigerians Talking About This? by budaatum: 2:37pm On Apr 19, 2023

We should afford to let this happen really, since fuel subsidy only gives us as much fuel as the government wants to subsidise, which starves us of energy.

Market determined fuel prices will increase fuel in the country as more jump in to make profit, and as more jump in more fuel is produced and it's price drops.

Will take a while, of course, and a while of lots of pain, but things are far too cheap in Nigeria, I mean, 30k minimum wage? That's far too cheap for your labour.

After scrapping fuel subsidy, scrap NYSC too and let people earn what they are worth!

Oh! And thank you Dangote Refinery. May you be operational soon.

Op, consider retitling to Why Aren't Nigerians Talking About Fuel Subsidy Removal?

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Dominion Vs Fox News: Fox settles with Dominion for $787M by budaatum: 9:46pm On Apr 18, 2023

Obrigardo:
The proceedings will take 6 weeks.

We are in for some interesting times.

Cc: Wirinet, budaatum, Ijebos, armyofone,1stgenamerican, Ibime, Mynd44

basilico, benalvino3, Olaadegbu, Ono, ramdeuter,ycat

More like 6 minutes, lol.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 9:40pm On Apr 18, 2023

Truth don't do colour!

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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 3:23pm On Apr 18, 2023*

Here, si. A reminder.

budaatum:
I am beating the hell out of you, so you should just give up so I don't beat you no more?

What's funny is this your thinking is not limited to Ukraine. When black people in America awaken to fight against discrimination your reaction seems to be the same, that they should stop fighting against discrimination because they will be beaten and killed by their more powerful discriminators. Its hard for you to understand that some will rather fight their oppressors than submit to oppression.

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Christianity Etc › Re: Why Does Luke 15 Use Three Parables? Is Not One Adequate? by budaatum: 6:22am On Apr 18, 2023

paxonel:
could this be the reason some people will take first position in a class while others will carry past?

Pretty much.

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Christianity Etc › Re: Why Does Luke 15 Use Three Parables? Is Not One Adequate? by budaatum: 6:45pm On Apr 17, 2023

paxonel:
Five people just read one parable, each person came up with a total different interpretation,
What is responsible for that?

Basically, individual human subjectivity. Which results in different abilities to read and comprehend.

Phones › Re: Elon Musk Fires Twitter Employees Worldwide by budaatum: 5:52pm On Apr 17, 2023

https://wapo.st/3UFiabj

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 2:31pm On Apr 17, 2023

BraniacX:
we all want the war to end, even ukraine does, just not at the cost of ukraine's territorial intergrity and that is my point. As far as territoeial intergrity is concerned, china is an inadequate bad faith negotiator

Been there. Found the si was just an si.

budaatum:
Let me help you.

Imagine I start a war with you and enter your compound and take the contents of your living room and the land your living room is on. Now China comes along and convinces us to cease fire but I get to keep the contents of your living room and land it is on, and use the cease fire to barricade it up so it's harder for you to get it from me.

Tell me, Is that "advantage to the world", Ben?

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Education › Re: If You Are Not Using Bic, I Don't Know How You Are Coping by budaatum: 2:51am On Apr 17, 2023

kkins25:
I never thought I'd see people with preference for a particular pen sha.. As someone who narrowly escape gen Z, how I wan chuke mouth for this matter.... Incase I offend person, abeg, BIC was bad during my time. Either it kept seizing or was over flowing with ink.. There's a particular one with bright blue colour, the tip is a bit "pointier" than bic.. it was also slightly more costly...

I ain't gon lie sha, I saw a thread of old school stuff and it hurt a bit that I could relate to them..
I wish I was gen z

Naija Bic was bad in my time too. I dumped it early in secondary school and used Papermate parent got from work.

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Education › Re: If You Are Not Using Bic, I Don't Know How You Are Coping by budaatum: 8:03pm On Apr 16, 2023

clockwisereport:
Baba, I dey joke. No carry am for heart

Na only leg you pull, not heart. It means you dey joke.

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Christianity Etc › Re: Unknown Known by budaatum(op): 7:11pm On Apr 16, 2023

KnownUnknown:
In short, the criteria is arbitrary.

Arbitrary, how? Are you suggesting one can arbitrarily [not] use one's senses and then spin properly? Like basically see a table and spin a donkey?

Perhaps think of spinning as farming. Just as there are criterias for proper farming so are there criteria for proper spinning. Hence the grown adult becoming as a child, reflecting on its criteria to make it spin less arbitrary after becoming aware it has senses and has learnt to use them which is not arbitrary at all.

Christianity Etc › Re: Unknown Known by budaatum(op): 6:44pm On Apr 16, 2023

KnownUnknown:
When is spin required and when is spin not required?

Spin is not so much "required", but a thing humans do. We see according to our ability to look so will spin (understand, think, reason) differently and according to our ability to spin.

KnownUnknown:
Why would you give a literal interpretation to the passage above but other passages like the OP require spin?

"Literal interpretation" is your spin (understanding) on my spin (understanding) as given. Nothing of what I wrote is literal, and it is definitely not an interpretation, since it is my spin. As in, my understanding, at best.

Personally, reading the Bible or any book literally is stupid because it is not possible to know what the writer might have literally meant. The best you can have is your own understanding (spin) of what you read.

Education › Re: If You Are Not Using Bic, I Don't Know How You Are Coping by budaatum: 6:23pm On Apr 16, 2023

clockwisereport:
Of all the things to send your cousin in Nigeria, it is ballpoint pen that you settled for.

No mind me, I want pull your legs

You don't expect me to post a list do you, or a list of what my cousin sends me where I am?

My leg is pulled.

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Education › Re: If You Are Not Using Bic, I Don't Know How You Are Coping by budaatum: 5:33pm On Apr 16, 2023

Keegan:
Try Rotring Ballpoint Pen, it can never fail you.

They'd sure be better than my 1m pen I guess. Lol grin

Christianity Etc › Re: Unknown Known by budaatum(op): 5:31pm On Apr 16, 2023*

KnownUnknown:
So this is the answer?

My spin. My answer, yes.

KnownUnknown:
The passage is very clear about hatred of one’s family. How did you figure that means be gullible as a child, or to abandon the ancient beliefs of their children?
Why did you change hate father to hate the ancient beliefs of father?

Unknown, you asked for my spin and not what is "very clear" to you. There is no rule that says you must very clearly see what I see, please note.

KnownUnknown:
You skipped the bit about hating one’s life.

When an adult becomes as a child and questions with the gullibility of a child as deep as one's own life, one might discover some beliefs or philosophies or ideologies or thinkings that make one live as one would rather not live and which one might dislike and hate. Reflection might have that effect on some.

KnownUnknown:
If your spin is what is meant, why isn’t the passage clear and unambiguous?

First, my spin is not what is meant! My spin is my own understanding gained by using my own heart and soul and mind and being and time to ask and knock and seek and think and understand and reason for myself. Hence, my spin. As in, what I have come to understand. I do not in any way expect nor ask that it be any one else's spin or understanding since everyone can spin their own spin just as they bear their own crosses.

KnownUnknown:
Furthermore, what are the ancient beliefs?

Jesus is written to have given an example from his time.

"Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy", was an ancient belief.

KnownUnknown:
Are ancient beliefs inherently bad that they have to be abandoned for Jesus beliefs?

Many ancient beliefs in Jesus time were not exactly inherently good. I mean, hating one's enemy was definitely not good then just as it's not good now. So yes, abandoning some ancient beliefs for Jesus beliefs was good. But much better, or gooder so to speak, was his making people aware they have senses and him teaching how to use them.

KnownUnknown:
Are Jesus beliefs now ancient?

"Jesus beliefs" is a spin that I lack understanding of because Jesus neither had beliefs nor taught beliefs, in my spin.

My spin would be "Jesus' teachings". And yes they are ancient, but many are yet to learn them.

Christianity Etc › Re: Unknown Known by budaatum(op): 5:00pm On Apr 16, 2023*

KnownUnknown:
Of course I know it’s religion. I don’t know what you mean by “living philosophy” or why it requires being like a child. Being like a child is akin to beBig gullible.

Some live their lifes through their religion and their beliefs, while some live their lifes by how they reason and think or not. "Living philosophies is my spin to broaden "religion" to include beliefs and thinkings and reasonings and unthinkings and unreasonings etc by which life is lived.

"Akin to being gullible" is your spin. And I am willing to accept it as true. But what does this gullibility make the child do but question all things, at least until we beat shutup into poor child in Nigeria?

That questioning that the child's gullibility encourages is what is understood by me here.

KnownUnknown:
And religion does require gullibility.

Your spin.

My spin would be, gullibility attracts religion. Religion being the first lesson in curing gullibility.

KnownUnknown:
Which other thing apart from religion require ones to be like a child?

Most promotions to higher levels of most education systems would start with "forget everything you have learnt to date", also, many starts in professional (accountant, engineer and likes) orient with "forget all you learnt at uni". Both are forms of "be like a child". It is also used by swindlers too, who would ask that one suspend the use of one's own senses and believe some crap, but that would only work on those who have not learnt from the writings of Jesus, I'd think.

Most, it is useful in one's personal daily living to not let one's preconceived notions and ideas and beliefs get in the way of seeing I've found, hence my spin.

KnownUnknown:
Unless you have your own spin on the meaning of “use one’s senses”, the use of the senses sure do not require being an adult.

"Unless", Unknown? Please know that almost just about every word buda writes is buda's spin. It is the disease one catches from using one's own heart and soul and mind and being and time to ask and knock and seek and think and understand and reason for oneself. One spins.

Of course, we may have different spins on "use", and "adult", but in order to use one's senses, one must first become aware that senses exist then one must commit to learning to use those discovered senses, and I have not myself come across many non-adults who know they have senses not to talk of committing to learning how to use them. Have you? In fact, I have come across many adults who are unaware senses exist, and wouldn't talk of them having senses, and definitely haven't committed to learning the use of senses.

So yes, a significant number of years must have passed in the life of an individual for it to have grown from child to adult and for it to be asked to become as a child with the child's gullibility that makes children question all things so they cure their gullibility (and ignorance) through the use of their own senses, so my spin is the use of the senses sure do require being an adult, or at least, mature.

Christianity Etc › Re: Unknown Known by budaatum(op): 4:24pm On Apr 16, 2023

KnownUnknown:
Clarification of the preamble not needed but it will be more cloaked in vagueness. The question was what’s your spin regarding this passage:

25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.

I have given my spin on the question. It includes the preamble because no single verse about Jesus can be understood in isolation but in the context of all that is written about Jesus, and more. But if you lack understanding of my spin including my so called "preamble", questions are very welcome in this platform I have humbly created for you.

Politics › Re: Calvin University Names Corridor After Africa’s First Black Female Physics Prof by budaatum: 4:18pm On Apr 16, 2023

Black Lives are mattering, finally, in Calvin

Education › Re: If You Are Not Using Bic, I Don't Know How You Are Coping by budaatum: 4:15pm On Apr 16, 2023

I have to send my cousin a pack of 50 1.0m black bics every so often. He prefers them to the 0.5m made in Nigeria.

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Christianity Etc › Re: Unknown Known by budaatum(op): 4:04pm On Apr 16, 2023

KnownUnknown:
Can anyone please tell me what body of knowledge requires “be one’s as a child”?

Some body of knowledge requiring one "be as a child" is religion, and living philosophy, where, by the time most are adults they have already accepted all sorts of nonsense to believe. When one becomes as a child, one starts looking at those beliefs and philosophies through the unpolluted biased un-preconceived view of a child.

It may also apply in the Nigerian education system where all sorts of nonsense are learnt and that might need to be abandoned if one were to go learning in another nation. It is also useful in life for a grown adult to suspend their preconceived notions and beliefs so as to see clearly what may be before them.

Many learn that Jesus died to save them, and many continue to believe this as adults. An adult who becomes as a child would question why and how and what for and when, and even if it's true or not, and what the heck it means to be saved, and what is Jesus etc.

Becoming as a child simply means (to me since my spin), that after one has become an adult and aware and capable of the use of one's senses, now go back and check all you've learnt to see for yourself if it is valid or invalid.

Christianity Etc › Re: Unknown Known by budaatum(op): 3:45pm On Apr 16, 2023

KnownUnknown:
Lol. I wrote spin on purpose because the passage obviously requires some spin. The preamble above also looks like it will require some spin or clarification.

I do not assume you write mindlessly. I assume everything you write is on purpose, and I am giving my own spin based on my own understanding. Do ask questions if further clarification is required.

Christianity Etc › Unknown Known by budaatum(op): 3:30pm On Apr 16, 2023

KnownUnknown:
What’s your spin on this?

25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.

To learn what I am about to teach you crowd, you must abandon all you've been taught and look at things with fresh eyes and mind (be one's as a child). And in the end you will hate the ancient thinkings (beliefs) of your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters.

You are being described, Unknown. Having accepted the open eye teachings of Christ (though you are not aware of that fact), you now hate those who mindlessly believe in Christ. Now one just need learn to love them all again, including enemies, for most often they know not the harm their ignorance does.

Do note, "Your spin". I figured a thread is deserved.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 3:16pm On Apr 16, 2023

Ibime:
Man shut up

Incase you need reminder that Russia was the one that invaded, Russian troll farms have hammered this mumu brain into thinking Russia is the one that wants peace and Ukraine is the one that doesn't

si has to lie to si to convince si of si's lies. Just that si thinks si can convince you to to be brainlessly si too.

si is stupid idiot.

Christianity Etc › Re: Why Did Jesus Die? by budaatum: 3:07pm On Apr 16, 2023

oteneaaron:
Three score and seven = 67

What does this mean in this context?

Care to explain?

Cheers!

And ten, I meant. Three score and ten.

Permission to go edit?

Christianity Etc › Re: Why Did Jesus Die? by budaatum: 5:35pm On Apr 15, 2023*

Jokanem:
Why Did Jesus Die?

Jesus died so that humans could have their sins forgiven and receive endless life.

Actually, Jesus died because ignorant stupid people were yelling kill him! kill him! If he'd lived he'd likely have taught how not to sin at all so forgiveness is not needed and how to live a long and fruitful life. Instead mere mortals dream of endless life.

Thankfully, he taught enough to concern many with their three score and ~~seven~~ ten so its used fruitfully.

oteneaaron:
Three score and seven = 67
What does this mean in this context?
Care to explain?
Cheers!

Edited to correct.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 5:10pm On Apr 15, 2023

The Apparatus of the Deep State?

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by budaatum: 4:48pm On Apr 15, 2023

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