What an irony that humans took a break from killing each other (war in Yemen and Syria) when a virus is killing them all.
via Facebook 2020-03-18T21:17:47.000Z
Author: W
Wissam, Wesley, or simply W, is an educator, writer, entrepreneur, engineer, activist, ex-Imam, humanist, liberal thinker with interest and mediocre attempt at many takes of life. A modern confused Renaissance man, who uses doubt as a path for emancipation and science as a road towards enlightenment.
Daily Thought
If everyone’s first question after any unsubstantiated statement is: “what is the source?”, we will combat the false information pandemic.
اذا كان السؤال الأول بعد كل خبر او مقولة غير مثبتة هو: “ما هو المصدر؟” لوقفنا بوجه تفشّي وباء المعلومات الكاذبة.
via Facebook 2020-03-17T19:34:25.000Z
Daily Thought
February-
Conspiracy theorists: The US made the virus to attack China’s economy and Iran.
Another one: the CIA made it to prevent Bernie’s advance.
March –
Conspiracy theorists: China made the virus to attack the US economy.
Another one: the CIA made it to prevent Trump’s advance.
via Facebook 2020-03-16T22:27:40.000Z
Daily Thought
The government should be preparing an online voting mechanism for 2020 elections.
via Facebook 2020-03-16T00:44:30.000Z
Daily Thought
The most dangerous members of our community are those who hold distrust or grudges or ill feelings to other members of the community. These sow division and will always be an obstacle in front of the community’s progress.
I will no longer tolerate any position of hatred or animosity shared with me, and I will confront it to isolate it from effecting community work.
via Facebook 2020-03-14T16:08:12.000Z
Daily Thought
Kids sample schedule starting Monday:
8:00AM wake up
8:15AM breakfast
8:30AM morning jog
9:00AM Academic time (computers)
11:00AM Creative Time (Art, Music, Craft, Cook, Build)
12:00PM lunch
12:30PM Chores
1:00PM Quiet Time (reading, napping)
2:00PM Academic Time
4:00PM free time
5:00PM hike
6:00PM dinner
7:00PM tv and electronics and play time
9:00PM sleep time
10:00PM sleep time for whoever earned the daily bonus
via Facebook 2020-03-14T15:24:25.000Z
Daily Thought
One good thing out of this:
The forced integration of technology in all business and institutions.
I always felt frustrated as people and businesses ignored the use of newly developed technologies to ease life and improve efficiencies, teachers rejecting to change and learn new tools and communicate electronically, and government not putting measures to support such technologies.
Now, everyone is on board by order of government or with a threat of losing lively hood.
This will be a big push for Silicon Valley in years ahead.
via Facebook 2020-03-14T14:38:43.000Z
Daily Thought
If you were not convinced before about the importance of UBI (#UniversalBasicIncome) , you will be convinced soon.
320M x $12000/year = $3.8 Trillion
Comes from:
$2.5 Trillion reallocated spending
$1.3 Trillion increased government revenue
via Facebook 2020-03-12T20:32:21.000Z
Daily Thought
Islam, although having its own heritage sets of superstitions, is to be thanked for eradicating 80-90% of the superstitions existing in Arabia when it came.
الإسلام، رغم ما يمكن ان يحتوي تراثه المنقول من بعض الخرافات ، الا أنّ له الفضل في القضاء على ٨٠-٩٠٪ من الخرافات و التطيّرات التي كانت تطغى على المجتمع العربي الوثني قبله.
احاديث للنبي حول التطيّر:
“الطيرة شرك”
“من ردّته الطيرة عن حاجته فقد أشرك”
“لا عدوى، و لا طيرة، و لا هامة، و لا صفر، و لا نوء و لا غول، و يعجبني الفأل”
العدوى: عدوى الطبائع
طيرة: التشاؤم
هامة: البومة
صفر: شهر يتشاأم منه العرب
نوء: النجوم و الأبراج
غول: نوع من الجن فيدالصحراء و ما يخوفون منه الأطفال.
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via Facebook 2020-03-12T20:04:21.000Z
Daily Thought
قاعدة اليوم:
كل شيء كذب حتى يثبت بالأدلة العلمية الدامغة أو المصادر الإخبارية المعتبرة. لا يهم من القائل.
The Rule of Today:
Everything is a lie till proven by authenticated scientific evidence or respected journalistic resources. It doesn’t matter who shared it.
via Facebook 2020-03-11T22:37:00.000Z
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