Remember the word ‘jugaad’ that Indians proudly flaunt? It literally means a solution without putting in the work, often at a cost someone else bears
It's in the culture!
The best explanation that I’ve come up with for why some people (myself included) like the slightly burned taste in food is that, in the evolutionary past, our ancestors used to cook food over fire, which would have given it that taste
Fifth wave feminism is about killing babies. I thought it would stop at late term abortions, which is grotesque enough
But the bottom is lower
Re: https://x.com/thelaurenchen/status/2090039026048794975?s=46
Women are naturally docile to the man they respect and admire, and ruthless beyond one's imagination to the men they don't
And I don't say this as a criticism of women. I love women
This impression that women are emotionally mature comes from the observation that men are intellectually oriented and women are emotionally oriented
Now, while exercising more intellect is good, exercising more emotions is not necessarily so, especially in the broader context
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There are stages to understanding women
A man starts out idolizing women. Then when he first understands the true nature of women, he’s disillusioned and starts hating them
But maturity is to accept women for the mess they are, because in the grand scheme of things, their flaws...
Not sure if AI will replace humans, but one thing AI will do is make humans realize that they are no different than AI
Humans are also created in the same way we are creating AI
We live in a simulation
Ego is not the enemy. Ego is the very life force. It is ego that makes you want to wake up and do anything at all
It is ego that makes you do good things. It’s ego that makes you do bad things. Ego does not need to be eliminated. Ego needs to be channelized. It needs to be used ...
A wannabe pretend alpha man thinks that he should have full access to his wife's phone, but his wife should not have access to his phone
A real mature man gets access to his wife's phone unasked, and never feels the need to check it, and does not care that the wife has access to...
Bro, if you do not have access to your wife's phone (and of course, she to your phone), not after asking for it, but naturally…
I don't want to be the bearer of bad news…
People who post pictures of the Mumbai skyline and compare it to that of the first world countries or China, miss to show the ground infrastructure and more importantly the people
Countries are not made up of skylines. When you look at the ground and the people, India sucks. It'...
I don't hate Indian Muslims any more than I hate Indian Hindus. But if you say the world as a whole does not have a Muslim problem, boy, I'm not with you
Even the sane Muslim countries like UAE do acknowledge the Muslim problem. They don't want to send their children to the UK f...
I love and value women so much that I even empathize with feminists, despite hating feminism
There are aspects of feminism that have been necessary, but largely, it has been a disaster, even for women. And yet, I would not dismiss a woman simply because she’s a feminist
But the...
For the last five years, I've been wearing the hat of a scrum master, closely working with my company's software development team
Prior to taking on this job, I used to think that software developers would be very smart because writing code requires one to be logical
But I have...
I did not have strong opinion about abortion. But Charlie Kirk changed my mind. And now I do believe that abortion is murder
Should it be criminalized? I still don't think so. But should it be celebrated? Only if you are a demon
If you consistently find yourself supporting underdogs, that's a sign that you are an underdog yourself, if subconsciously
And this causation can be reversed too. Change who you associate with, to change who you are. Associate with strength and winners only
Screw underdogs
In the not too distant future, you will be able to feed your favorite novel to an AI movie generator as a prompt and get a movie created
And those movies will be better than anything that humans have created
If you are able to extract more work from your people by being an asshole to them, you are not working with conscientious people
Conscientious people give more when treated with respect
If you've only ever eaten vegetarian food, you don’t know what true satiety feels like
What is more grim is that you've not experienced your body and mind operating at its full potential
A smoker may be doing less harm to their body than you are doing to yourself by being veget...
I would prefer a country where a flood looks like a river and not like a sewage, like it does in India
Now one could argue that it does look like a river, because that’s how Indian rivers are
https://x.com/dancanvell/status/2084899299935314218?s=46
There is a reason why Indian parents would not let their kid work in McDonald's, whereas it's very normal in the US
When I went to the US, I was surprised to see that in a three-star hotel, the toilet cleaner used the same coffee machine to drink coffee from that the guests were...
A kaamwaali comes to the house, sweeps and mops the floors, spends about 20 to 30 minutes there, and leaves. During that time, the house members are watching TV or doing something insignificant
There is nothing about sweeping or mopping that the family cannot do themselves. But ...
Maturity is expressing agreement when you agree with someone, and staying silent when you disagree, except if you have a stake in the situation
When you express disagreement for the sake of it (like with strangers online) it must mean there is no better use of your time, which s...
There is a difference between guiding your children and forcing them. If you have to apply a force for them to do something, the problem is not with them. The problem is with you as a parent that you're not able to effectively guide them
And that is assuming you know the right d...
Anthony Fauci is practically the creator of COVID and then he is tasked with being the chief policymaker around it, locking down the entire world, millions dying in the process, many more lives destroyed, incalculable economic harm,…
Gets the biggest ever pardon from Biden going...
If I wasn't on X, I would have never known that showing your bare feet in public is considered to be extremely gross
And the same about eating with hands
Most Indians think these things are perfectly normal, and would be baffled if you suggest otherwise
Over the years, my view of Islam has gone from “Islam is bad” to becoming more nuanced
That said, the West certainly has an Islam problem. So much so that even the sane Islamist country, the UAE, acknowledges it and does not want to send students to the UK for the fear that they...
I am happy that the Cockroaches in India won because I am extremely disappointed by the ruling party about what has happened to India under them. A lesson needed to be taught to BJP
But I am no fan of the opposition, much less of the CJP. I don't know much about the CJP leader, ...
To someone who says, if we lived forever, we would be tired of life—
My counterpoint is this: We see many people who claim to be tired of life, but short of depression, we don't see people who are admittedly “tired of life” ending their lives
I do not think there is such a thin...
Finding a post-pubescent girl attractive is not pedophilia
If a man has sex with her while she is below the age of consent, it is illegal and constitutes statutory rape, but calling the man a pedophile is wrong
Imagine a manager asking an employee to pay out of pocket for a window seat on a flight to a company-sponsored event
The company is already paying for the flight, but the employee wants to choose a window seat, which costs extra, and asks to have that expense reimbursed as well
...
I want an AI to be able to compile a complete list of ALL criminals in the world with their photos, grouped by the types of crime, and analyze their skin color
I am super interested to find out what pattern emerges. They might have to ban AI after that, at least for this use cas...
Life seems meaningful because we don't think about death
It's when people take cognizance of death, that's when they say things like, life is meaningless
If one knows the day they're going to die on, that will instantly drain the meaning out of life
I will not die on this hill, but I will say that I don't believe that Andrew Tate is guilty of the crimes he's been charged with. It is clearly political
Is it possible he's guilty? Remotely, yes
But most men who are gleeful over his arrest are jealous losers finding a happy mo...
Men whose girlfriends and wives find Andrew Tate masculine and handsome are very happy right now since the Tate brothers have been arrested again
Men who instinctively hide Andrew Tate from their girlfriend or wife are very happy right now since the date brothers have been start...
There is no virtue in knowing to do tasks that AI can handle
Like there is no virtue in managing physical file cabinets when a computer can manage all files much better
Not using AI as your first draft writer or editor isn’t very smart tbh
This is my writing method:
1. Have a back and forth voice discussion/debate with AI to clarify my thoughts
2. Ask it to write a draft in my tone using my clarified points
3. Edit where it has used words an...
It is a form of narcissism to refuse to productively participate in the system that makes your existence possible
For example, the spiritual “gurus” who sit under a tree are narcissists. Because if everybody sat under a tree and did not do anything else, they would all be eaten ...
If somebody does not trust you, for anything, it is never right to call it their mistake. An intelligent and self-aware person would take that as an opportunity to introspect as to why
If somebody does not trust you, it often says more about you than about them