The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine


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Didn't know to this day that Heisnberg was trying to build atomic bomb for Germany at the time Oppenheimer built one for US

A cheap plastic item that carries more weight than a thousand lines of dialogue.


In the universe of Better Call Saul, the thermal mug that says “World’s 2nd Best Lawyer” isn’t just a gift it is destiny wrapped into an object, containing both Jimmy’s decency and his moral downfall.

Why “second”?

Because to Jimmy, Kim is always number one. That mug represents a time when he still had hope, humility, and a genuine desire to live honorably to be worthy of the woman he loved.

But tragedy is foreshadowed the moment Jimmy tries to jam it into the cup holder of his luxury Mercedes. The cheap mug doesn’t fit. Stubborn as ever, instead of changing the mug, he grabs a wrench and smashes the car so he can force it in.

It’s a brutal metaphor: Jimmy never truly belongs in the world of respectable law, where rules must be obeyed. He is willing to damage the entire system just to preserve his prickly sense of self.


When the bullet tears through the mug in the desert, it can no longer hold water just as Jimmy’s soul can no longer hold integrity. The moment he tosses it into the trash and fully becomes Saul Goodman is the moment he buries what remained of his humanity.

He no longer needs to be “the second-best” in anyone’s world. He chooses to be the best in the world of crime but also the loneliest.

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Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence means accepting the risk of absence.

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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The Pied Piper (1986)

Director: Jirí Barta

From BBC archives

Heard this guy at CIA talking the most driving factor the so called motivation is like 95% of the time MONEY

The rest goes in the 5%

Huh interesting!

Has religion dulled our senses?

As someone who is generally considered to be religious in the broad sense, I was compelled to write about some issues I have observed regarding the relationship between religion and African people. Africa is considered to be one of the most religious continents, mostly dominated by the two monotheistic religions of Christianity and Islam. After observing the way people relate to their religion, I have come to the conclusion that many followers have their senses dulled because of it.

I am not implying that religion was meant to dull people or that it has no value in people’s lives. What I am saying is that the relationship many African people have with religion today leans toward the downside.

To explain what I mean, it is important to start with how these major religions were introduced to the continent. Both Christianity and Islam entered Africa largely through colonization and, subsequently, missionization. These religions were introduced primarily for social stabilization and political safety by colonizers, and this caused a significant disruption of indigenous institutions and belief systems. As a result, religion came to be used as a coping framework rather than a developmental tool, a pattern that persisted even after the colonizers left.

As generations passed and the number of followers of both faiths continued to grow, emphasis increasingly shifted toward afterlife rewards rather than developing urgency to reform society and improve material conditions. Instead of working collectively with their communities to develop their countries, many people made conversion to their faith or the establishment of a religious state their primary objective, a tendency that is more visibly present in most Muslim communities.

Another issue I have observed is that instead of standing up to injustice and discrimination, many people began to interpret suffering as “God’s will” and, as a result, did not dare to speak out. When these problems accumulate, faith becomes a substitute for nation-building, which is detrimental to any country’s development.

One might argue that Christianity and Islam historically produced universities, scientific advancement, and institutions, and that would be correct. However, this occurred when religion was paired with strong material and institutional foundations, something that is largely absent in much of Africa today. When religion is detached from material progress and becomes the language used to explain suffering rather than confront its causes, problems remain unresolved and societies become trapped in a repeating cycle.

I will conclude by quoting Cameroonian historian Achille Mbembe:

“Power in postcolonial Africa often operates through spectacle, ritual, and belief rather than rational administration.”

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