Good luck, Dick. My wife's also looking. I have to admit the job market has changed a bit lately, but I hope you find something swiftly. You know this already, but I'll say it anyway, LinkedIn can be a good resource. Connect with people, share your CV, etc. All the best.

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The answer is quite obvious. Wherever there is life (vegetal, animal, or human) there is competition for the scarce resources of the environment.

The competition will usually take the form of a conflict. This is true across time and space.

The point I was trying to make is that government intervention will always make things worse. In this specific case, through the creation of artificial borders, and the forced association of different tribal groups.

I'll add that I also believe that Bitcoin is hope because it can play a very important role in mitigating all the mess created by past, present and future governments.

Important question raised here imo, and I can relate.

My country of origin has hundreds of tribes, languages, and different cultures. From afar, we appear as a country with a flag, a national anthem etc, but from within, tribal identity is undeniably very strong.

Two provinces have started a secession war 3-5 years ago.

Africa's artificial borders have always been a source of instability, and it's a real and urgent problem every where you look.

Overnight, doctors on the government payroll suddenly found themselves making ~half the salary of an illiterate army soldier! (The army was exempt, and their salaries remained untouched.)

The consequences on society: massive unemployment, exodus (first, the former middle-class...), promiscuity, alcoholism, nihilism, crime, deaths, all sorts of fraud and corruption. Many family structures have been irreparably destroyed. It was wild and chaotic!

The silver lining: people quickly realised that formal education was not for everyone and started exploring alternative paths, such as football, music, entrepreneurship etc. The Internet came and created new opportunities, and new hopes. I wish bitcoin could follow in its footsteps...

The currency losing 50% of its value, combined with 70% pay cuts, wiped out the middle class overnight. We're talking about doctors, engineers, teachers - all of them government employees - who can no longer afford a second car, their monthly rent, three meals a day, school fees, etc.

What they will do to survive in such desperate situations, I leave it to your imagination...😔

40-day fast, if you can do it, is the highway to nirvana 😇

I've had this discussion many times with other parents, and I've already formed an opinion on the subject. Simply put, it's just about listening and understanding where their natural individual inclination is, and support them with our presence, respect, and attention. That's all. Easier said than done, I know it so well! 😅

San Pedro de Atacama

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I remember reading somewhere that the purpose of yoga's asanas was to prepare the body for a seated meditation practice...

I personally can't do half-lotus, I just bend the knees and place one foot in front of the other. I also do a lot of spine strengthening and flexibility exercise, and use a meditation bench. This has allowed me to sit for 40 minutes (I've been training for two months only), but I mostly only do several shorter sessions of 10-15 minutes each.

(The article was later updated, and in its new version, says that advertisers will decide which tweets their ads will appear next to)

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Maman a partagé cette « meme sexiste » dans notre groupe whatsapp. Au Cameroun, on maîtrise l'art de rire de soi-même... 😅

(les pasteurs exercent une influence considérable sur leurs fidèles)

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🇨🇲 — Lessons learned from the mid-nineties collapse of the CFA Franc, and IMF-imposed austerity measures:

When the money dies, the people who tend to be most affected are not necessarily the materially poorest members of society, but more likely those whose lives are built on weak moral and spiritual foundations.

Au Cameroun, il y'a presqu'autant d'églises que de bars, pratiquement à tous les coins de rue. 😅🤔

I'd love to own one of these Zero Gravity Chairs...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/RELAX4LIFE-Oversized-Adjustable-Detachable-Recliner/dp/B0C7R56ZZB/

Coutts yields to the pressure and now "apologises" to #Farage for closing his bank accounts over a re-tweet of a Ricky Gervais joke.

But this is only the tip of the iceberg, as it turns out that tens of thousands of people and businesses in the UK have had their bank accounts unilaterally terminated without any justification.

If only Farage could use the opportunity, and his platform to orange-pill his normie followers! 😌

p-2-p (pay to play)

We're not the same...

Internal vs. External Martial Arts, by Frank Allen (credit to Bruce Frantzis)

https://fountain.fm/clip/amNTFC5bLQw61LtraaM8

Sell it back for fiat? Better you use it to buy more farmland, or real estate instead!

Why though? It'd be interesting to follow how they came to those conclusions.