We beg to differ.
Recall Filipino tennis sensation Alex Eala’s words after her career breakthrough win beating world number five ranked Madison Keys in Miami in 2026. Asked post match what she thought the victory meant to Filipinos — the first Filipino woman to beat a Grand Slam champion and the first Filipino woman to beat a top ten…
Living with undiagnosed ADHD means existing in a perpetual state of DIY neuro-engineering. Without access to formal diagnostic pathways or medical guidance, I have had to turn my life into a living laboratory. I constructed a strict routine just to function and maintain baseline productivity. Every habit, meal, and supplement in my daily regimen is…
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A subject of recent interesting Youtube videos was African Time. This is explained as why African immigrants tend to be murderous, violent, and destructive, and why Africa itself (sub-Saharan Africa specifically) was mostly mired in poverty and atrocity (Case in point: 1994 Rwanda Genocide and current South Africa). The concept of African Time was coined…
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The whole trouble with woke people comes down to a simple thesis: these people have created too many options for themselves but discarded traditional social structures that channeled these options in a way the human brain could deal with. The brain, it seems, is less efficient when options are abundant. When faced with abundance, our…
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When all else fails, seek validation from an artificial intelligence (AI), right? Laughably, this is what self-crowned “thought leader” Richard Heydarian does on an X post promoting Grok to tell him all about his self-perceived victimhood. Heydarian fails to consider that people are on to the AI hype. These systems — specifically those made available…
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Yes, the Mahatma Gandhi did it. But then he was the Mahatma. Will the stunt currently being undertaken by SMNI anchors Lorraine Badoy and Eric Celiz deliver the same public indignation that launched the revolution of the sort that transpired in India that is credited to Gandhi? Very likely not. Will it move those who…
Former Rapplerete Patricia Evangelista used this as the title of her book on — what else? — the allegedly murderous administration of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. As I write this, her fellow Rapplerete Lian Buan is tweet-reporting the launching of the book in chi chi New York City (where else, right?). Buan “reports” that…
As Filipinos generally see the world through the lens of their renowned national self-absorption (“Oh no! How many OFWs will be impacted by the events in Israel!”), it is probably best that recent events in the Middle East be processed through the lens of what all that means for the Philippines. This is easy. The…
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