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Listen to the great nation builder Lee Kuan Yew. Don't let communists & anarchists shake political confidence, create protests & riots, and turn our companies & capitalists' names into dirty words. Or we will fail with our country and suffer. India already suffered for 50 years.
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Bane of this country,
People can break their backs in STEM study aspiring to make this country first world
Only to find some humanities student making frameworks and policies after marching easy into politics on the tune of a Daphli
The new instagram auto translate feature in reels is amazing
It even managed to morph the video to have accurate lip movement
Very Impressive
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Cheese from India makes its mark globallyβ¦
India made an impressive debut at the Mundial do Queijo do Brasil 2026, which is a vibrant international competition for cheese and dairy products. Four Indian products won medals, including 1 Super Gold, 2 Golds and 1 Silver.
The Super Gold was won by Eleftheria Gulmarg (Brie Style), the Golds were won by Yak Churpi-Soft, Nordic Farm, Leh, Ladakh and Eleftheria Brunost (Whey Cheese) while the Silver was won by Eleftheria Kaali Miri (Belper Knolle Style). Congratulations to Mausam Narang and Thenlay Nurboo.
Such successes strengthen Indiaβs artisanal dairy sector on the world stage.
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London had an underground railway in 1863. The first electric underground railway was built in 1891.
Under-freaking-ground. In 1891.
Gandhi (later Nehru and all freedom-fighting stalwarts) studied in London during that era.
Surely they would have seen this underground railway but itβs surprising none of them said we should have a culture that builds this kind of thing in India when itβs free.
Like how do you see an underground freaking railway in 18 freaking 91 and not get mesmerized by grand miracles of industrialization ?
The one thing driving London during that era was industrialization. And yet they didnβt connect the two ? Japanese got that. You didnβt ?
Like what was the grand plan ? Letβs free this country and turn it into a massive village ?
That the country should have crooked, unplanned roads in cities 100 years after independence ? That the might of train engines should never be produced, and that no modern train engine, car engine or any modern industrial design should come out of the country ever ?
To import every single thing from a neighbor that got to industrialization on its own despite not having any London-educated founding members ?
Honestly what even was their vision for the country ?
The masses are uneducated I get that. But the leaders didnβt have eyes ? They were right there in London! What was the option - to not be industrialized ? Rural economy forever ? Shitty cities ?
Questions are rhetorical.
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- women's reservation in top elected bodies
- Delimitation
- Uniform/Secular Civil Code
- One Nation, Few Elections with one voter list
- Municipality Act with more autonomy, with the possibility of a directly elected mayor
- Rapid urbanisation
- Discom reform
All, or most, of these will happen in the next few years
India, as you knew it, or know it, won't be the same ever again, both in polity and society
We may officially not declare it, but if all or most of the above is done, it will, in effect, be a de facto New Republic
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the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at
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Imagine Amazon β but for combat drones. Ukraine built it. Commanders log in, browse hundreds of drone models, pay with brigade credits and receive delivery in 5-10 days.
Successful strikes earn bonus credits. No other military in the world does this β NYT. 1/
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π¨π¨ IRGC's top commander, Ghetmi DaFuqoutaheer, has defected. Regime is total disarray.
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Hormuz is a weapon that can only be fired once
No one should expect a quick resolution to the current crisis, but across the next decade, even the next 3-5 years, the choke point of Hormuz will be massively substituted for
The Gulf Arab states are all very rich, with high per capita GDP - the best single measure of relative state capacity - easy access to global markets, especially financial, and have the favorable backing of the US
Everyone has known about the Hormuz vulnerability for decades. The Iranians have continually hinted around closing it, but never did. Now they have, but Hormuz is a gun that cannot be reloaded.
Deterrents work only up to the point of use. Once used, they have failed. The purpose of a deterrent is to *not* be used
Many analysts have made this basic mistake. They think that Iran is now in a position of strength, having exercised its Hormuz option. But the opposite is true. A state is weakest after it has used its deterrent. The cost of that deterrence is now priced in. The worst having been done, the targets of the deterrent are now free to make other arrangements. Before, they were reluctant to do so because of the switching costs. Now, they have no choice; they will not allow themselves to be controlled in this way again
Hormuz may never reopen. But the importance of this is a depreciating asset.
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βI wish it need not have happened in my time,β said Frodo.
βSo do I,β said Gandalf, βand so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.β
β J.R.R. Tolkien
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One of the most poisonous tactics the young groyper/alt-right use is a form of weaponized irony, where they're always joking and memeing, they refuse to openly state their beliefs.
I think about this Sartre quote *all the time* these days. He clocked them decades ago.
