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非洲真的很缺水吗?其实“懒”才是他们穷的根本原因。有数据显示,非洲地下水储量是地表的100倍,为何他们不挖井,而是到处找水?
我之前跟着一支海外工程队在那边待了快八个月,亲眼见过太多让人匪夷所思的事,说出来真的好多人都不敢信。我们当时的营地建在一片开阔的草地上,刚过去的时候要解决用水问题,队里找了个测水的师傅随便找了个地方打井,打到不到十二米就出了清水,水质甜得很,除了供我们队四十多个人吃喝洗澡,还能引出一垄水浇我们开出来的小菜园,天天浇水都用不完。
而离我们营地不到两公里的地方,就有一个百十来口人的部落村子,我第一次跟着采购去村里的时候,就看见全村人都围着一个半米深的泥坑接水,那水浑得放半小时都澄清不了,水面上还飘着虫子和牲畜的粪便,小孩渴了蹲下来直接舀了就喝,大人也不管,不少小孩隔三差五就拉肚子,缺药耽误着能拖出大病,看着真的让人心疼。我当时就问翻译,咱们这边打井出了这么多水,他们咋不来打一口?翻译笑笑说,你往后看就知道了,不是水的事。
没过多久工程闲下来,队长说反正咱们设备人都有,不如免费帮他们打一口井,也算做件好事,结果第一步就卡壳了。村长带着一群人堵在我们选好的井址,说这块地是他们部落的公用土地,要打井就得给他们十袋面粉五桶食用油外加两箱汽水,不然别想动土。我们队里想着反正也不多,给就给了,就当换一口井给村里人用,这点东西对我们来说不算什么。
接下来要找几个当地人帮忙打下手搬东西,我们说好一天给一斤玉米面两瓶汽水,这个待遇在当地已经够一个三口之家吃饱喝足了,比他们自己瞎晃赚得多太多,结果来了五个人,干了不到四十分钟,全都撂挑子坐到树底下乘凉去了,说太阳太晒,会晒伤皮肤,祖宗规矩就是正午不能干活,要等太阳落山再干活。我们想着入乡随俗那就等,结果太阳落山之后,连个人影都没见着,第二天上午好不容易来了三个,还要求必须先给汽水玉米面,不给就不动手,我们给了之后,三个人晃悠着挖了不到半米,又坐下来歇着聊天了,一聊就是一上午,第三天干脆全都不来了,托人带话来说拿到的吃的够喝够吃好几天,先回家休息,吃完了再来。
最后没办法,我们工程队自己上手,不到十天就打出了一口出水稳定的井,还给他们在井口安了简易的提水架,放了两个大木桶,跟村长说以后大家随便来打水,只要别往井里扔垃圾就行。一开始村里人可开心了,天天排着队来打水,结果半个月不到,井口就堵了,我们过去一看,大大小小的树枝石头烂叶子堵了小半井,原来大家打完水垃圾随手就扔在井口边上,下雨一冲全进去了。我们免费帮他们清干净,反复跟村长和村民说不要扔垃圾,要保持井口干净,结果不到两个月,又堵了,之后村长干脆来找我们,说井坏了,你们再帮我们打一口新的吧,那语气说得理所当然,好像我们就该天天给他们收拾烂摊子。
我之前还碰到过一次,营地的围墙坏了一段,找了四个当地工人来修,说好一天干完给对应的工钱,结果四个工人八点开工,九点就歇着喝茶,十点吃早饭,十二点要睡午觉,睡到下午三点才起来,干了不到一小时又说要回家喂孩子,一天下来只码了不到五块砖,第二天还过来要全额工钱,说我们没给他们提供茶和饼,所以干得慢,钱不能少给,当时给我们队长气得直接把他们赶走了。
待得久了我才发现,这种事真的不是个例。有个二十多岁的小伙子天天来我们营地卖野果,我们看他挺活络,就说你干脆天天给我们营地送菜,我们一个月给你固定的工钱,比你卖野果稳定多了,结果他干了三天,第四天就不见了,过了一周晃悠过来,问他为啥不来,他说前三天赚的钱够花了,在家歇着花完了再来。还有国际援助组织免费给他们发蔬菜种子,教他们开荒种地,说种好了够全村吃大半年,结果一半种子被他们煮着吃了,剩下的随便往地里一撒,既不浇水也不除草,长不出来就接着等着发援助。
真的,很多人说非洲穷是因为气候不好历史遗留问题,可我们明明看到脚底下十几米就是清水,储量够整个村子用几十年,有人免费帮你打出来,就只要随手维护一下都做不到。他们不是没有力气,跑出去找野果跳篝火舞能折腾一整天,一说到干活赚饭吃,半小时就喊累;也不是没有资源,地下水摆在那,援助摆在那,就是不肯伸手去动。
我待了八个月见过好多口废弃的援助井,全都是打完没两年没人维护废了,当地人宁愿背着水桶走三四公里去接脏雨水,也不肯花半天时间清一清堵了的井口。你说这到底是延续了几千年的靠天吃饭的生活方式已经刻进骨子里改不了,还是真的就是“懒”才导致一直摆脱不了穷呢?你怎么看这件事?
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🔥 Elon Musk says the Tesla Roadster’s suction system can pull up to 2G’s and will “crush every track record that has ever existed”
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Another day, another Econ 101 lesson for Professor Warren.
Her “Trumpflation” tracker conveniently ignores the Bidenflation tidal wave that crushed American families, cherry-picks wage growth by refusing to acknowledge positive real wage gains since President Trump came into office, and swaps official medical-care CPI data for premium projections when it suits her narrative.
The Harvard Square inflationista is offering a statistical sleight of hand, not a serious assessment of today’s U.S. economy.
Here is the full picture, including an apples-to-apples comparison of President Trump’s real economic results measured against the failed policies Senator Warren championed under Biden.
…from a veteran police SA detective. Non-BS breakdown on Cornell 7 that is well worth your time if you want to understand the case.
Why the Internet got the Cornell 7 Case Wrong youtu.be/LdCxgTbYMlE?is=xiS5… via @YouTube
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LA LIBERTAD AVANZA EN BRASIL
Felicitaciones querido amigo @FlavioBolsonaro, por esta histórica elección ante el comunista de Lula.
El continente americano es de ciudadanos que quieren vivir en libertad.
Espero que pronto podamos empezar a trabajar juntos para que la Argentina y Brasil sigan siendo grandes socios comerciales, culturales y políticos. Las oportunidades para nuestras naciones, trabajando juntos, son infinitas.
VIVA LA LIBERTAD CARAJO...!!
Apparently this is news: Guys like hot chicks, big boobs, and sports.
A company paid a lot of money to a hot chick with big boobs to be in an ad regarding sports.
I know… shocking.
Enjoy that Title VII lawsuit.
BREAKING: The Lake Worth Beach City Commission moves to DISQUALIFY a candidate for City Manager because he's not Guatemalan enough.
"He did not grow up very Guatemalan... he grew up pretty much Italian... he did not learn Spanish... he has no connection to the indigenous languages... just not a good fit for the city."
Wow. @LakeWorthBchPBC admitting in a recorded meeting they are NOT hiring a guy for a public position because he's not Guatalaman-enough. Enjoy that federal civil rights lawsuit.
BREAKING: The Lake Worth Beach City Commission moves to DISQUALIFY a candidate for City Manager because he's not Guatemalan enough.
"He did not grow up very Guatemalan... he grew up pretty much Italian... he did not learn Spanish... he has no connection to the indigenous languages... just not a good fit for the city."
I’m too shocked, disgusted and angry to really even be commenting at this point, but I will anyway. Andrew was a fan who became a friend. Cam and I just had lunch with him in Forth Worth in June, when he drove from Austin to see my return to the stage after my father’s sudden death in May.
Andrew was a rare person: Genuinely kind just for the sake of it; it quite clearly never occurred to him to expect anything in return. I am haunted and horrified thinking of his final moments, and beyond furious that this was the end the world gave him, the same world that he’d always gone out of his way to make a better place.
We all love you Andrew, and we always will. Your kindness made you a legend.
NEW DETAILS on the murder and attempted beheading of a man at a Round Rock park.
Andrew James Wimsatt sat down on a bench that Monday morning in a plaid blue button-up and shorts. Three minutes later he was dead.
A neighbor's camera had already caught Benedict Ogbodiegwu Jr. leaving his house that morning, walking toward the park with something in his left pocket that detectives say looked like a large knife sticking out.
He stopped for a drink at the water fountain by the basketball court. Then he found Wimsatt.
He came from behind, wrapped his left arm around the man, and started driving the knife into his neck. Wimsatt tried to push him off. He couldn't. He was stabbed several more times before he hit the ground.
Then Ogbodiegwu walked around to his left side, knelt down, put his knee on the dying man's chest, and kept going -- sawing the blade back and forth while it was inside his neck.
He wiped the blade on his shirt and jogged off toward the pool.
Four minutes after he left the park, that same neighbor's camera caught him walking back home, two houses away.
That afternoon he turned up at a McDonald's in a different outfit and left as a passenger in a red SUV. The plate traced back to his father's house, nine-tenths of a mile from the bench.
When detectives showed him a still from the crime scene video, he admitted it was him. Then said he was never at the park. Then said he has a twin. Asked for his twin's name, he had nothing.
Deputies found a trash bag by the garage. Inside: the Honda shirt he was wearing at the murder scene, grey sweatpants with red stains, size 12 Jordans, and a 5.5-inch knife with a wooden handle. The red substance on the blade tested presumptive positive for human blood.
The two men had never met. He apparently decided to just stab a stranger.
In January, Ogbodiegwu was arrested for theft, which was dismissed. In May, arrested for giving police a fake name - also dismissed. Years earlier, he was arrested for theft.
The victim, Andrew Wimsatt, was 62 years old, and an accomplished civil engineer in Texas. He was also an avid nature and wildlife photography enthusiast.
Fox News host @greggutfeld called him “supremely gentle. Willing to do just about anything for another person.”
Before his murder, Andrew had just returned from visiting his mother a nearby nursing home.
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BREAKING: ABC just DELETED their tweet after they were ratioed into oblivion, community noted and called out by @elonmusk directly for trying to deceive the public about a drunk driver who crashed her Tesla
This is how it’s done!
They aren’t used to accountability. The lying from the fake news legacy media doesn’t work anymore!
I’m calling it now, when Ukraine wraps up (which I think will be sooner rather than later) what will emerge is a recalibrating global alliance between the US and Russia.
All the signs are there.
The fact that welfare had been used for this is insane.
Florida becomes first state to ban welfare for tattoos, video games, theme parks, other "non-essential" goods notthebee.com/article/florid… via @Not_the_Bee
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Lindsay Clancy brutally strangled her 3 kids to death
Feminists in court today:




















