Brian Bakker
@incautius.bsky.social
Science geek, amateur anthropologist, atheist, sceptic, sports fan. I mute morons. Oh ja, and fuck is just a word.
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Brian Bakker
@incautius.bsky.social
· Feb 13
It's so sweet to see toddlers interacting like that.
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A little #AI humour. #Trump’s Truth Social has #AI.
Unlike #Trump it can’t help but be truthful. It calls out all his lies!
The Grog on X vs #MAGA is hilarious! Now we have #AI vs #MAGA on Truth Social! 🤣 #TruthWarriors
youtu.be/R_mc6Wq_KTA?...
Unlike #Trump it can’t help but be truthful. It calls out all his lies!
The Grog on X vs #MAGA is hilarious! Now we have #AI vs #MAGA on Truth Social! 🤣 #TruthWarriors
youtu.be/R_mc6Wq_KTA?...
HILARIOUS: Trump BETRAYED by Truth Social AI
YouTube video by Pondering Politics
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November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
A little #AI humour. #Trump’s Truth Social has #AI.
Unlike #Trump it can’t help but be truthful. It calls out all his lies!
The Grog on X vs #MAGA is hilarious! Now we have #AI vs #MAGA on Truth Social! 🤣 #TruthWarriors
youtu.be/R_mc6Wq_KTA?...
Unlike #Trump it can’t help but be truthful. It calls out all his lies!
The Grog on X vs #MAGA is hilarious! Now we have #AI vs #MAGA on Truth Social! 🤣 #TruthWarriors
youtu.be/R_mc6Wq_KTA?...
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Someone at Reuters is picking the very best shots that come in.
February 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Someone at Reuters is picking the very best shots that come in.
"Placing artificial and fundamentally unfair restrictions on how people are allowed to use their own property is not a solution to anyone’s problems other than those of commercial rivals."
Tourism grading: 20th century solutions to 20th century problems
dailyfriend.co.za/2025/02/07/t...
(My latest column, on the government's efforts to impose obsolete and unnecessary rules, regulations and restrictions on 21st century accommodation providers.)
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(My latest column, on the government's efforts to impose obsolete and unnecessary rules, regulations and restrictions on 21st century accommodation providers.)
Tourism grading: 20th century solutions to 20th century problems - Daily Friend
The Department of Tourism is promoting its “free grading” service, solving a problem that nobody has anymore. It’s time to free the tourism market. Back
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February 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"Placing artificial and fundamentally unfair restrictions on how people are allowed to use their own property is not a solution to anyone’s problems other than those of commercial rivals."
First time I watched Idiocracy, I vividly remember thinking that, while it was funny, it's utterly implausible. I just couldn't see how someone so dumb, so objectionable and so completely unsuitable could become president of the USA. Boy, was I ever wrong. The Lunatics are running the asylum.
January 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
First time I watched Idiocracy, I vividly remember thinking that, while it was funny, it's utterly implausible. I just couldn't see how someone so dumb, so objectionable and so completely unsuitable could become president of the USA. Boy, was I ever wrong. The Lunatics are running the asylum.
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Absolutely spot on:
"Wealth creation is essential to sustain economic growth and improved living standards for all of society, including the poor. And these benefits are fragile. Redistribute too much of it, and growth vanishes, with dire consequences for everyone, especially the poor."
"Wealth creation is essential to sustain economic growth and improved living standards for all of society, including the poor. And these benefits are fragile. Redistribute too much of it, and growth vanishes, with dire consequences for everyone, especially the poor."
Wealth redistribution is wealth destruction
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(My latest column is a follow-up of sorts to my piece earlier this week on choosing growth instead of under-development. Growth requires wealth creation, and redistribution undermines that.)
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(My latest column is a follow-up of sorts to my piece earlier this week on choosing growth instead of under-development. Growth requires wealth creation, and redistribution undermines that.)
Wealth redistribution is wealth destruction - Daily Friend
If economic growth is what we want, we need policies that permit wealth creation. Redistribution destroys wealth. Wealth creation is a recent – and fragile
dailyfriend.co.za
January 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Absolutely spot on:
"Wealth creation is essential to sustain economic growth and improved living standards for all of society, including the poor. And these benefits are fragile. Redistribute too much of it, and growth vanishes, with dire consequences for everyone, especially the poor."
"Wealth creation is essential to sustain economic growth and improved living standards for all of society, including the poor. And these benefits are fragile. Redistribute too much of it, and growth vanishes, with dire consequences for everyone, especially the poor."
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Hey, it’s that chick who stowed away in the lavatory!
December 6, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Hey, it’s that chick who stowed away in the lavatory!
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A clear message to the russian aggressor:
November 19, 2024 at 9:05 AM
A clear message to the russian aggressor:
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“Neither chaos nor dysfunction nor incompetence is an obstacle to Trump’s lawless intentions. If anything, they’re assets.” @jamellebouie.net #mustread this am.
Opinion | There Is a Reason Trump Wants Fewer Adults in the Room
The point of placing loyalists in positions of influence isn’t to make the government work; it is to bend the government to Trump’s will.
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November 17, 2024 at 4:45 PM
“Neither chaos nor dysfunction nor incompetence is an obstacle to Trump’s lawless intentions. If anything, they’re assets.” @jamellebouie.net #mustread this am.
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They look like you could blow them over with a sneeze. Across the world, thousands of "precariously balanced rocks" are perched in strange positions, poised to topple. Once they would have been mere geological curiosities. Now they are improving our understanding of earthquake risk.
The 'precariously balanced boulders' that offer a window into seismic history
These giant rocks could roll at any moment. The fact they haven't offers a window into the shaking of ancient Earth.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:46 AM
They look like you could blow them over with a sneeze. Across the world, thousands of "precariously balanced rocks" are perched in strange positions, poised to topple. Once they would have been mere geological curiosities. Now they are improving our understanding of earthquake risk.
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Never forget russian war crimes in Mariupol 😢😭
📸: Reuters
📸: Reuters
November 16, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Never forget russian war crimes in Mariupol 😢😭
📸: Reuters
📸: Reuters
Trevor's being disingenuous here. He's expecting ANC comrats to "...adopt a pragmatic approach, striking a balance between fiscal requirements and providing clear regulations and long-term regulatory certainty."
He has more chance of falling pregnant.
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He has more chance of falling pregnant.
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South Africa bleeds over R1 trillion in foreign investment
South Africa has lost more than R1 trillion in the last decade due to foreign investors pulling out of equities and bonds.
businesstech.co.za
November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Trevor's being disingenuous here. He's expecting ANC comrats to "...adopt a pragmatic approach, striking a balance between fiscal requirements and providing clear regulations and long-term regulatory certainty."
He has more chance of falling pregnant.
businesstech.co.za/news/governm...
He has more chance of falling pregnant.
businesstech.co.za/news/governm...
"That market-based process is a far more reliable road to success than government planning, technocratic prognostication by experts, or the self-confessed cynicism of analysts like Yelland."
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Energy expert’s irrational hostility to private nuclear deal - Daily Friend
When Stratek Global announced a R9 billion private investment, Chris Yelland promptly suggested they were running a ‘pump-and-dump’ scam. When BizNews aired a video interview announcing
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November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
"That market-based process is a far more reliable road to success than government planning, technocratic prognostication by experts, or the self-confessed cynicism of analysts like Yelland."
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"The failure of the SAA deal is also immensely ironic.... [The ANC seems] not to have learnt that self-selected privatisation requires the things [it has]... destroyed so gleefully: capital, expertise, skills and willing consumers." #ejection2024
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www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2...
CLAUDE DE BAISSAC: The sad assassination of an iconic airline
Collapsed SAA deal with Takatso wasn’t privatisation but state ownership by stealth
www.businesslive.co.za
November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
"The failure of the SAA deal is also immensely ironic.... [The ANC seems] not to have learnt that self-selected privatisation requires the things [it has]... destroyed so gleefully: capital, expertise, skills and willing consumers." #ejection2024
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Came across this very long read yesterday and thought it worth sharing. From a few years back but still interesting and possibly even more relevant today.
www.theguardian.com/media/2019/s...
www.theguardian.com/media/2019/s...
Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
The long read: It’s not about foreign trolls, filter bubbles or fake news. Technology encourages us to believe we can all have first-hand access to the ‘real’ facts – and now we can’t stop fighting ab...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Came across this very long read yesterday and thought it worth sharing. From a few years back but still interesting and possibly even more relevant today.
www.theguardian.com/media/2019/s...
www.theguardian.com/media/2019/s...
"Ramaphosa’s SONA speech was a very wordy effort to polish a turd. This country is today much worse off than it was in 2018...
"It’s time to send him on his way, so we can begin to repair the damage his ANC government has done to the economy and the country."
dailyfriend.co.za/2024/02/13/s...
"It’s time to send him on his way, so we can begin to repair the damage his ANC government has done to the economy and the country."
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SONA 2024: Polishing a turd - Daily Friend
Ramaphosa gave an unintentionally hilarious election speech at the Cape Town City Hall. One feels for the speechwriters who had to put together the nearly
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November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
"Ramaphosa’s SONA speech was a very wordy effort to polish a turd. This country is today much worse off than it was in 2018...
"It’s time to send him on his way, so we can begin to repair the damage his ANC government has done to the economy and the country."
dailyfriend.co.za/2024/02/13/s...
"It’s time to send him on his way, so we can begin to repair the damage his ANC government has done to the economy and the country."
dailyfriend.co.za/2024/02/13/s...
I'll just leave this here.
November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
I'll just leave this here.
"...the ruling was a clear defeat for South Africa, which wanted a ceasefire, and a clear victory for Israel, which feared a ceasefire.
"Anyone who says otherwise hasn’t read the order, doesn’t understand it, or has an anti-Israeli axe to grind."
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"Anyone who says otherwise hasn’t read the order, doesn’t understand it, or has an anti-Israeli axe to grind."
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ICJ reluctantly hands Israel a victory - Daily Friend
Many journalists and officials are inaccurately reporting the ICJ’s provisional measures order against Israel. On Friday 26 January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
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November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
"...the ruling was a clear defeat for South Africa, which wanted a ceasefire, and a clear victory for Israel, which feared a ceasefire.
"Anyone who says otherwise hasn’t read the order, doesn’t understand it, or has an anti-Israeli axe to grind."
dailyfriend.co.za/2024/01/30/i...
"Anyone who says otherwise hasn’t read the order, doesn’t understand it, or has an anti-Israeli axe to grind."
dailyfriend.co.za/2024/01/30/i...
"...the ANC government’s commitment to the rule of law and justice has been superficial, opportunistic and steeped in hypocrisy. On reflection, precisely the character traits one would expect of the country leading the charge against Israel."
www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/ancs...
www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/ancs...
November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
"...the ANC government’s commitment to the rule of law and justice has been superficial, opportunistic and steeped in hypocrisy. On reflection, precisely the character traits one would expect of the country leading the charge against Israel."
www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/ancs...
www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/ancs...
Just saw something that I haven't seen for many years: a street sweeper actually sweeping the street. Never mind that it was a single truck without the attendant convoy it's supposed to have. Must be election time.
youtu.be/W3huYStAtdg
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Good Question: How Do Street Sweepers Work?
With street sweeping kicks off Tuesday in Minneapolis, Jeff Wagner got the dirt on this dirty job.
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November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Just saw something that I haven't seen for many years: a street sweeper actually sweeping the street. Never mind that it was a single truck without the attendant convoy it's supposed to have. Must be election time.
youtu.be/W3huYStAtdg
youtu.be/W3huYStAtdg
"...the one New Year’s resolution that every South African should make: vote the ANC out of power in 2024.
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"It will take many years to dig South Africa out of the quagmire into which the ANC has plunged it. The sooner that work begins, the better."
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"It will take many years to dig South Africa out of the quagmire into which the ANC has plunged it. The sooner that work begins, the better."
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The only New Year’s resolution that matters in 2024 - Daily Friend
Happy New Year! Oh, who am I kidding. Last year was terrible, and this year will be worse. Best of luck. Should old traditions be
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November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
"...the one New Year’s resolution that every South African should make: vote the ANC out of power in 2024.
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"It will take many years to dig South Africa out of the quagmire into which the ANC has plunged it. The sooner that work begins, the better."
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"It will take many years to dig South Africa out of the quagmire into which the ANC has plunged it. The sooner that work begins, the better."
dailyfriend.co.za/2024/01/02/t...