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Was complaining about a 5% price increase shipping a vehicle from Germany to Lagos and my guy showed me a 120% increase shipping from Dubai to NG.
If you’re shipping from the Middle East this period, I wish you the best. You’ll need it.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
Following the recent discovery and subsequent legal proceedings at the Federal High Court in Abuja, a chilling narrative has emerged regarding a dismantled espionage network. Iran had sleeper cells in Nigeria who have been actively spying on both the U.S. and Israeli embassies. These cells were carrying out information and surveillance gathering on both U.S. and Israeli interests in Lagos, including the U.S. Consular office. They were sending this data back to an individual identified as Abu Ali in Iran through encrypted software, preparing such locations for a terrorist attack.
The operation was led by Haruna Ali Abbas, who acted as the primary coordinator for the cell. Abbas, along with Ibrahim Hussein Musa and Adam Suleiman, was intercepted by the Department of State Services (DSS) following a period of intense clandestine activity.
According to testimonies from DSS Deputy Director James Simon, the defendants confessed to receiving specialized training at an Iranian military barracks. During their time in Iran, they were instructed in weapon handling and the collection of open source intelligence specifically targeting American and Israeli assets.
The cell's tradecraft was sophisticated, utilizing coded language and high level encryption software to exfiltrate tactical target packages to their handler, Abu Ali. These packages included detailed lists of American and Israeli concerns in Lagos and their precise locations mapped out for potential kinetic strikes. Beyond physical surveillance, the cell even monitored diplomatic cooperation, such as Israeli agricultural support to the Kwara State government, to identify every possible point of contact.
The downfall of Abbas began on March 16, 2013, when Abbas was arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport while returning from Lebanon.
The subsequent investigation revealed a broader conspiracy to recruit young Nigerians for terrorism training abroad. Now facing trial before Justice Emeka Nwite, the defendants extrajudicial statements have exposed the depth of the plot, with the court adjourning until April 4 for further cross examination as the Nigerian government seeks to finalize the sentencing for these acts of preparatory terrorism.
Iran had sleeper cells in Nigeria have been actively spying on both the US and Israeli embassies. These cells were carrying out information and surveillance gathering on both US and Israeli interests in Lagos, including the US Consular office. They were sending this data back to an individual identified as Abu Ali in Iran through encrypted software, preparing such locations for a terrorist attack.
She thinks heartbreaks cause men to love cars than women.
Bless her heart 😀😀
I went for an event yesterday with hubby, the guys who sat next to us in a round table were talking about CARS 🚘. If you see the way they were talking about different types of cars and their functionalities with enthusiasm and passion.
Then One guy then bring the topic of women, they hissed and told the guy to stand up. They removed his seat from their group, then one of them said; "we're talking about cars you're talking about women".
I said to myself if men love cars more than they love women, we're cooked. We've failed as women. Heartbreaks have made some mem transfer their love to material things because cars last longer than most relationships.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
PROBIOTICS ; NAIJA EDITION
1. Omidun – fermented corn or millet drink
2. Zobo (fermented version) – hibiscus drink that can be lightly fermented
3. Pito – traditional sorghum/millet beer (fermented, mildly alcoholic)
4. Kunu – millet, sorghum, or corn-based drink
5. Tepache – a lightly fermented pineapple drink
6. Palm wine – naturally fermented, contains probiotics
7. Iru / Ogiri – fermented locust beans used as seasoning
8. Wara / Local cheese – soft cheese made from fermented milk
Fermentation time varies: longer fermentation usually = more probiotics
Raw consumption is best for probiotics; cooking may kill some bacteria
So fufu, essentially!
Went down the rabbit hole on this. A Nobel Prize-winning immunologist noticed in 1907 that Bulgarian peasants were living past 100 at unusually high rates. His explanation: they ate yogurt every day. His name was Élie Metchnikoff, and he ran the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
His lecture made front-page news. Parisians lined up to buy Bulgarian curdled milk. Drugstores across Europe and the US started selling Lactobacilline tablets, basically the world’s first probiotics. But his original theory was partially wrong. The specific bacteria in yogurt (Lactobacillus bulgaricus) don’t actually survive in the human gut. A Yale researcher proved that in 1921.
Should’ve been case closed. It wasn’t.
In 2021, Stanford ran a clinical trial published in Cell with 36 healthy adults over 10 weeks. One group ate about 6 daily servings of fermented foods (yogurt, kefir, kimchi, kombucha). The other ate high-fiber foods. The fermented food group saw their gut bacterial diversity increase, which is one of the strongest predictors of overall health, and 19 inflammatory proteins in their blood dropped. Including interleukin-6, a protein tied to Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic stress. The high-fiber group? Zero of those 19 proteins decreased.
That same year, a Keio University and Broad Institute team studied 160 Japanese centenarians (average age: 107) and published in Nature. These centenarians had gut bacteria producing a bile acid called isoallolithocholic acid, basically a natural antibiotic so new to science it had never been described. It kills drug-resistant bacteria, including C. difficile, a gut infection that hits roughly 500,000 Americans a year.
A 2023 Nature Aging study of 1,575 people in China, 297 of them centenarians, found the oldest participants had gut microbiomes that looked younger than people decades below them. More bacterial diversity, more beneficial species, fewer harmful ones.
The yogurt meta-analysis data across 12 cohort studies: each additional daily serving is linked to 7% lower all-cause mortality and 14% lower risk of dying from heart disease.
Metchnikoff called it 119 years ago. Fermented foods reshape your entire gut ecosystem, increasing the diversity of bacteria living in your intestines, lowering chronic inflammation, and building a biochemical environment where your body fights off disease on its own.
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At one point in college, I had an obese roommate.
After a few weeks, she complained about how lucky I was to be thin, since I ate more than her.
The thing is, however, that I absolutely did not eat more than her, in terms of calories or just amount of food.
She put ranch on everything. 600 calorie drinks. Endless snacking.
Maybe my plate was more full than hers at dinner, but it was obvious tp everyone but her that she was consuming more throughout the day.
I'm sorry, but after multiple instances of this happening with other overweight people, I just don't trust when someone heavy insists they're in caloric deficit.
Maybe some people lose weight faster than others. For sure. But it's simple science that if calories out exceed calories in, you WILL lose weight.
I ate 1200 for 44 days straight. Measured and weighed everything. I gained weight. I wish was I kidding.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Gaining fat when consuming fewer calories than burned is impossible per basic energy laws. Reports of weight gain on 1200-calorie diets are usually due to water retention, tracking errors, or other factors, not fat gain.
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precisionnutrition.com/can-you-gain-w…
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
What used to take a team of 4 three weeks to pull off and cost over $15,000 is now possible for less then $3.
These unknown team from the UK solved this and it’s finally out to the public.
The major problem with creating design visuals with normal AI prompts; was that after every iteration;
it starts to change a part of the design,
the brand icons starts to change,
the ratio changes,
the logo starts to flips if it’s not horizontal.
It’s hard to keep things consistent, that’s why so many design studios can’t use AI for designs.
And these folks finally solved that, and totally crashed the market. Now vibe coders, companies and startups can cut down brand asset designs costs by over 99% and still retain consistency.
Interesting time we live in.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
Then ZIRP ended. Rates went up. Capital pulled back.
And the continent lost an entire generation of startups that were actually building something real.
Default alive wasn't a strategy back then. Now it's the only one that matters."
Watch the full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=XaY0PGhO…
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
There's been a weird wave of people trying to discourage other from buying China made new electric cars. I find it so fascinating. Most of them offer 6-10 year warranties are are currently giving offers like free servicing and maintainance for up to 5 years as well as payment plans.
Why would anyone want to buy a used mercedes or lexus over that?
Sell comprehensive insurance to him, heck, force it on him, when he inevitably damages the car, you’ll “come to his rescue” and he’ll be your customer for life.
Sold an RX350 F-Sport to this guy and after payment and everything, baba was asking me nicely to help him drive the car to Osapa. That’s when it occurred to me it’s his first car 🤣🤣
Baba doesn’t even know how to drive, but he has jammed block money so he bought his dream car anyway.
Let nobody whine you, any car can be your first car. It all depends on your pocket, your mind, and your choice. 🚗💰
Sangotedo and Awoyaya residents don’t deserve public transport
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
It is in everyone’s best interest to support this amazing project.
The moral compass of any society is shaped by what it chooses to reward, and it is crucial that we find meaningful ways to celebrate and honour academic excellence.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
Looking at my order books. Looking at what i have built from ground zero. Just me. I export frozen snails, fish fillet, crayfish to the UK, Annual value is 2 million pounds. I have an adhesive factory, i have a paper factory. I have a fruit Juice factory.
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
I spoke with this indie dev from Nigeria who is building his own Action Roguelite where the world is ending, but you still must make all your deliveries
- No delivery is the same
- 11 different playable characters
- Inspired by Crazy Taxi
Called Tossdown
Car Guy Tonio retweeted
I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock
my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive
when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost
what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise
I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily
the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing…
China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally
so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine
the gap is ARCHITECTURAL
it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks
it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study…
and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now
BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee
I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one
Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure
Merz at least had the courage to name
it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster
NEW:
🇩🇪🇨🇳 German Chancellor Merz says Germans need to work more in order to match China:
“We are simply no longer productive enough. Each individual may say, “I already do quite a lot.” And that may be true.
But when you return from China, ladies and gentlemen, you see things more clearly.
With work-life balance and a four-day week, long-term prosperity in our country cannot be maintained. We will simply have to do a bit more.”
Not sure of how to explain it but I think somehow, jazz, (if it exists) obeys the laws of physics.
