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For your info... everybody is just surviving in this AI era... me, you, our jobs, our startups, even the largest coorporates... the game has changed, cards being redistributed, economy reinvented... same odds... having a job is as risky as doing startups... so just don't die!
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"Do not bow down before anything that cannot give you life. And if you have ever fallen, get back up."
Truly the Pope for our times.
Today idols arise and demand our worship: success at any cost, money, an obsession with appearance, popularity, or the unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. Sometimes, in order to win the approval of others, we may go so far as to lie, betray, or humiliate someone on social media. Do not bow down before anything that cannot give you life. And if you have ever fallen, get back up. Do not allow anything or anyone to take away the freedom God has given you. #ApostolicJourney #Argentina
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Between two wars, Allah revealed an economic rule for people who would not be born for centuries.
The Muslims had just come out of Uhud, where seventy companions were killed and the Prophet ﷺ was nearly killed himself.
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They waged war, claiming to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. Then they used the PrSM missile in Lamerd for the first time. Now they invoke the "Mother of All Bombs" to pursue diplomacy through threats. No contradiction, but a disgrace. Who threatens global peace and security?
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Fikri fikrinizle uyuşmayan insanlarla fazla meşgul olmayınız. Zira, fikirdeki ayrılık kolay giderilmez.
Hz. Ali (r.a)
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You read the morning adhkaar and you realise the man saying these things is really God’s messenger, no one knows God that much to come up with this
The Prophet’s supplications are compact in a way that’s hard to imitate: they pack theology, humility, and practical protection into a few lines, and they never drift into the self-regarding register that most human devotional writing eventually falls into.
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The Emperor could have ordered Duke Leto Atreides killed, but that would have been one of the most dangerous political mistakes he could make.
And this is something many people overlook about the world Frank Herbert created.
Shaddam IV wasn’t ruling an empire where he could simply execute any noble who threatened his position. The Great Houses had their own armies, wealth and political influence, and they were united through the Landsraad.
If the Emperor openly used his Sardaukar to destroy House Atreides, the other Great Houses could have seen it as a declaration of war against every noble family in the Imperium.
And that was exactly what Shaddam wanted to avoid.
So instead, he turned an imperial assassination into what appeared to be an old feud between two rival Houses.
He arranged for Leto to be transferred from Caladan to Arrakis, knowing the Harkonnens would see the opportunity to destroy their oldest enemy.
But the most important detail was the Sardaukar.
Shaddam secretly supplied the Baron with his own elite Imperial soldiers, disguised in Harkonnen uniforms. That way, the Emperor could help wipe out the Atreides while maintaining plausible deniability.
Even Leto’s honour worked against him. Refusing the Emperor’s order to take Arrakis would have damaged his standing among the Great Houses.
The Emperor wasn’t simply trying to kill a rival. He was trying to eliminate a growing political threat without giving the entire Imperium a reason to turn against him.
And the irony is that his elaborate plan created the very enemy who would eventually take his throne.
Shaddam wanted to destroy House Atreides quietly. Instead, he helped create Paul Muad’Dib.
Can someone explain why the Emperor couldn’t simply eliminate Duke Leto politically instead of arranging such an elaborate assassination involving the Harkonnens and Sardaukar? #Dune
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your girl is on a podcast! listen to me talk african cinema, restoring kannywood and archiving 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
New ep w/ @zainab_twt out today on Spotify, YouTube, & Apple Music! open.spotify.com/episode/4Q0…
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Paul Atreides searched through countless possible futures in search of a path that would allow humanity to survive. He glimpsed the Golden Path, yet he could not bring himself to accept everything it demanded.
His son, Leto II, went where Paul would not. Among every future that could be seen, Leto recognized only one that would ultimately prevent humanity from destroying itself and falling into extinction. To walk that path, he had to become the very thing people would fear and hate: a tyrant, a monster, a god-emperor who would rule over humanity for thousands of years
That is the tragedy at the heart of the Golden Path. Leto II did not choose tyranny because he believed it was good. He chose it because he saw no other future in which humanity endured. By controlling humanity so completely, he gradually forged an overwhelming hunger for freedom,exploration, and independence. After his death, that hunger drove humanity to scatter across the universe, becoming too widespread, too diverse, and too unpredictable ever again to be controlled or annihilated by any single power.
So Dune is not, at its core, a story about the noble Atreides and the wicked Harkonnens. Frank Herbert poses a far more unsettling question: what if the only path to humanity’s long-term survival required someone to become a monster? And what if saving humanity first meant forcing it to change?!??
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👑 L'aménagement du territoire en tête d'un classement immobilier : voilà qui me réjouit.
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Le 8 novembre, #krown, de @Favikon_ , a placé ma publication sur le manque de transport dans le centre de la France à la première place de la catégorie #immobilier.
Je suis ravi de voir que l'aménagement du territoire touche à tout : emploi, logement, implantation des entreprises...
Merci à tous ceux qui ont nourri et partagé ce débat.
Les réseaux sociaux peuvent aussi servir à rendre visibles des territoires trop souvent oubliés et à faire évoluer les priorités.
