Gerrie Butler @GerrieButler

What a beautiful ending to an incredible sporting contest. South Africa versus New Zealand. ❤️🇿🇦❤️🇳🇿❤️

Kalk Bay Harbour yesterday with the gale force southeaster 📷 Nigel Riley.

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In 2011 i lost my job in Gauteng province I couldn’t pay rent. So I lived on the streets. Menlyn Mall, Pretoria was my address. Cardboard was my blanket when it was cold. Robots were my office where I sold art to survive. Street kids told me: "Smoke. Drink. Use drugs. That’s how you cope here." I said no. I chose paint over pain. Art over addiction. Hope over giving up. Today I have my own home. Proudly mine. Not because life was easy. But because I refused to quit._ #FromTheStreetsToMyHome #NeverGiveUp

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A strange thing happens when people inherit comfort. They forget comfort was built. When life works, people start treating abundance like the weather. It is just there. That is how a generation can grow up inside prosperity and still fall for ideas that punish the very economic freedom that made their normal life feel easy.

If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good. The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX. And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen. Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.

A reminder that most of what we worry about never actually happens

@chrishartZA Capital Gains Tax without inflation adjustment is indefensible. It is the purest form of legal theft and plunder known to man - wrecking retirement plans and robbing the economy of productive capital.

@BananaTweetsX @pmcafrica Read this to get the full story. It contains a detailed account of the background to this dive, insights into technical diving, people dynamics and all the human drama. Riveting

Purpose over podium!

The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact. Rockefeller could not fly across the country in five hours. You can for $200. He could not video call his family from another continent. You do it for free. He had no antibiotics, no MRI, no air conditioning in July. He could not carry every book ever written in his pocket. You are reading this on a device that does all of that and more. Americans throw away 30-40% of their food. Not because they are wasteful, but because food is so abundant that waste is affordable. Your car has climate control, navigation, and safety systems that did not exist at any price a century ago. Your home has heating, cooling, refrigeration, and entertainment that emperors could not have imagined. None of this was voted into existence. None of it was redistributed from the rich. It was created by free minds operating in what remains of a free market. Every comfort you enjoy today is the product of a man who thought, invented, produced, and traded voluntarily. This is what the remnants of capitalism still deliver, even while it is being dismantled. Imagine what a fully free society could build.

How do you change someone's mind about free markets? You don't argue. You connect dots. A grieving mother was crying, telling me “capitalism” killed her son. He drowned trying to reach Europe on a boat. I sat with her. Then I asked her one question: why did he leave? To find a job. Why couldn't he find one at home? Because there are none. Why are there none? Because Senegal makes it nearly impossible to start a business. By the end of our conversation, she understood. Free markets were the only thing that could have saved her son.

@GTalevi Is there any noticeable difference in their work pace?

@manoj4justice @FfballJ @GMIgorSmirnov Black queen forces white bishop away from the setup that would otherwise have mated black (Qxf8#, Kxf8, Re8##)

May 2026 bestow some sanity in the world we live

Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in

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🎤 I Am Not Woke I am a woman. I am Gen X. Which means I was raised on hot hose water, unsupervised bike riding, and the understanding that if you’re bleeding but still conscious, you’re probably fine. I am not emotionally injured by words. I have survived mall bangs, dial-up

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The 10 most dangerous Logical Fallacies: (bookmark this)

Suppose that once a week, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay £1. The sixth would pay £3. The seventh would pay £7. The eighth would pay £12. The ninth would pay £18. And the tenth man (the richest) would pay £59.　 So, that’s what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every week and seemed quite happy with the arrangement until, one day, the owner caused them a little problem. “Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your weekly beer by £20.” Drinks for the ten men would now cost just £80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes. So the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free but what about the other six men? The paying customers? How could they divide the £20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share? They realized that £20 divided by six is £3.33, but if they subtracted that from everybody’s share then not only would the first four men still be drinking for free but the fifth and sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.　 So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fairer to reduce each man’s bill by a higher percentage. They decided to follow the principle of the tax system they had been using and he proceeded to work out the amounts he suggested that each should now pay. And so, the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (a 100% saving). The sixth man now paid £2 instead of £3 (a 33% saving). The seventh man now paid £5 instead of £7 (a 28% saving). The eighth man now paid £9 instead of £12 (a 25% saving). The ninth man now paid £14 instead of £18 (a 22% saving). And the tenth man now paid £49 instead of £59 (a 16% saving).　 Each of the last six was better off than before with the first four continuing to drink for free.　 But, once outside the bar, the men began to compare their savings. “I only got £1 out of the £20 saving,” declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, “but he got £10!“　 “Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a £1 too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more benefit than me!”　 “That’s true!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get £10 back, when I only got £2? The wealthy get all the breaks!”　 “Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison, “we didn’t get anything at all. This new tax system exploits the poor!” The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.　 The next week the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had their beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important – they didn’t have enough money between all of them to pay for even half of the bill!　 And that’s how it works. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy and they just might not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.　 For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

@AlfNeumann @AnalystGus As a big Bok fan I agree with you. Victimhood off the field is just as bad as drama on the field. There's no place for it in rugby.

@Pierre_B_y @RuggaRugby Using that logic there should have been at least 350 red cards in every rugby game ever played. Maybe try soccer if you want to comment on sport.

@Padsky @rugby_ap Arm exactly where you'd expect it for a legal tackle.

@SardieqWP Chest no doubt