Geralt of trivia

@JacobAShell In the oppression Olympics, blacks oppressing Indians get swept under the carpet

One of the things I find quite interesting about Mamdani is he himself is from a group (Uganda Indians) that was kicked out a place, but he never talks about it or makes documentaries interviewing little old ladies who endured that ordeal — because that particular story has never “helped” him; he knows the intersectional formula doesn’t like it.

@mrloganjones @DocStrangelove2 Bingo

@DocStrangelove2 In all likelihood was probably some sort of training or frangible ammo. Didn’t look like a lot of energy was being transferred

The FSB plate training video lives rent free in my head.

@manas_muduli I tip extra when I see youngsters and aged delivery personnel

Saw this young delivery boy in our society this morning, carrying quick commerce deliveries. Had a brief chat with him. He is a college student in Bhubaneswar, working part-time on a delivery platform. Sundays are full work days for him since college remains off. He lost his father a year ago, who worked in a small private company. No pension for the mother, no savings left for the family. But, this young boy chose responsibility over excuses. Today, he is managing his studies and expenses in Bhubaneswar through hard work and dignity, while also sending some money back to his mother, who lives in a village about 150 km away. Stories like these remind you how many silent fighters walk among us every day.

@GodPlaysCards Wait the spiderman actor is also a historian

Perhaps the most iconic warrior unit the world has ever seen. Tom Holland put it best in his book PAX: “The Gauls might be more numerous, the Germans taller, the Spaniards physically stronger, the Africans more practiced in the arts of treachery and bribery, the Greeks more cunning and intelligent; but only the legions had the disciplina Romana. This it was that had enabled them to conquer the world.”

@MarcoFoster_ @TimJDillon

Tim Dillon on America: “We’re not the high school bully anymore. We’re the weird kid who may have a gun. We’re not the bully, we’re not the jock, we’re not the quarterback. This is not Top Gun, we are not Tom Cruise. We’re the college kid who keeps going to the high school parties. We’re a pedophile and we may have a gun”

I can't believe that there is a knockoff @skooookum in LA

@TheBigGeek @airtelindia This is delhi right?

Hey @airtelindia I know customers are expected to be patient, but is this really how your field reps are supposed to speak to people? Your technician arrived, checked the connection status only from the internal portal, didn’t test the actual link, asked me for a laptop because he didn’t have one, and then started arguing when I explained the difference between Wi-Fi and internet connectivity. The conversation eventually went from troubleshooting to: “Tu apne aapko expert samjhta hai?” followed by: “Meri t-shirt dekh.” Is this seriously the level of professionalism Airtel considers acceptable customer support? Photo from Internet, happy to share CCTV recording of the satsang spoken by your team every day

@RosieGray Lol Clav got mogged by the judge

The judge being a chad is hilarious

@tulipsaregay Most brilliant guy I know MPhil from st stephens cracked mains 2 time, but couldn't clear interview

Knew this check from IIT Kanpur who left her job in South Korea to come prepare for UPSC exam and ended up wasting her 4 years only to never qualify even preliminary examination

@ankurwriter Thats coz there are too many frauds

A lot of people, especially those in India, have some kind of a weird notion that astrologers must be good-for-nothings, poor in studies, having nothing else to do. Ben Dykes is PhD from University of Illinois. Martin Gansten, PhD from Lund University. Noel Tyl was a world-famous opera singer and pianist. Mychal A. Bryan, a clinical hypnotherapist. Bill Meridian had MBA from NYU. These are all contemporary figures. Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, used astrological charts in his practice. The Renaissance and Middle Ages, of course, had their own, and that's a very long list. To mention some: the court astronomer and famous mathematician John Dee; another famous astronomer and mathematician and also the father of science fiction, Kepler; polymath Acyuta Piṣāraṭi; astronomer Tycho Brahe; the famous scientist Galileo; astronomer and mathematician Bonatti; the great polymaths Roger Bacon and Campanus of Novara. The Early Middle Ages, while Europe was drowning in ignorance, and India had become stagnant, Arabs and Persians kept the flame of knowledge burning in the world. Noted names include astronomer Mashallah; astrologer and arithmetician Sahl; Abu Ma‘shar, who first posited the relation between Moon and tides, which would later be perfected by the aforementioned Kepler; and the giant polymath Al-Khwarizmi, after whom the very word 'algebra' is named. And in ancient times, just the names of a couple of giants should suffice: famous polymaths Ptolemy and Varahamihira. In all times, from ancient to modern, the brightest of minds have practised astrology seriously, and yet it remains an extraordinary mystery to me that this highest of sciences is treated so disdainfully by the many ignorant. Yes, the field proliferates with quacks, but just because there are several politicians who make tall promises but are actually only thugs, must one forget that great leaders, too, emerge, who indeed inspire, lead and govern well? The problem, rather, is with the modern science's tendency to treat causality and linear time as central postulates of nature, and not making any serious investigation whenever these postulates are challenged, as astrology does continuously, for doing so will lay bare the falsity of these postulates.

@saurabh_gunjal_ Nah we are too apathetic

India is cooked Civil war is very much possible in next 4-5 years

What sort of retards are joining without compensation details in writing

@Vibhor1911 Prakash bhai ki bolti band Kar diya

Previous salary slips have become corporate bargaining tools. Companies anchor your worth to what someone else paid you years ago,
not to the value you bring today. Candidates are expected to reveal CTC breakdowns, appraisal history, bonuses, even chai-nashta allowance,
all so recruiters can optimize for the lowest possible number instead of fair market salary. And when candidates finally start collecting 2-3 offers to understand their real market value,
suddenly it’s called “salary auctions”. Our solution is simple: Stop asking for salary slips.
Stop asking for current CTC before evaluating skills.
Stop treating compensation discussions like procurement negotiations. Make the best offer you can for the role and the candidate’s capability or at least disclose salary range in JD. And honestly, if companies reject candidates after 5-6 interview rounds because someone cheaper became available, that’s “business”.
So candidates choosing a better opportunity is also fair. Just have the common courtesy to communicate transparently instead of keeping candidates hanging for weeks, ghosting after interviews, or calling lowball offers “budget constraints”. Things can be so simple, yet they are not.

@Finance_Weights Don't feel guilty about it, it's understandable

Drunk regret 🍺 My dad used to earn 83k₹ pm in 1996 as the chief eng of a food processing com in Mumbai (~8 lpm today) He got cancer and started earning 0 in 1997. I remember as immature kids me and my sis used to blame him for not being able to sustain our previous lifestyle

@owenbroadcast Pyschedlic mushrooms are nature's way of "talking" with us

it seems significant that mushrooms breathe in oxygen, like animals, unlike essentially all other plants. this lesser known fact has some philosophical implications - we can imagine spiritually filing them as the “lowest animal”, rather than the popular view of an atypical plant:

@PabloVonPablo @Devon_Eriksen_ But no country is still not considered high brow cinema like stalker or kurosawa though

@Devon_Eriksen_ This is why I disliked No Country for Old Men Supposedly full of symbolism and hidden meaning and the mysteries of the universe But wrapped in an otherwise boring movie with only one memorable scene and one of the worst endings The Emperor's New Western Thriller wasn't for me

Most appreciation of "great art" is a performance. People are very, very susceptible to "if you didn't appreciate it, it went over your head". Whether that something is a $100K bottle of wine that tastes like Two-Buck Chuck, improvisational jazz that sounds like someone turned on an orchestra and walked away, or the... unique... style of David Foster Wallace doesn't make much of a difference. These sorts of "refined" tastes are actually just unusual tastes. They are in the same category as really, really liking model trains, or birdwatching. Except people who like birdwatching don't run elaborate psyops to convince everyone that birdwatchers are intellectually superior and more sophisticated. They just buy expensive binoculars and get on with doing what they like to do. But some people with niche tastes in art seem to need to proselytize them to others. And a lot of weak-willed people go along with it. They wouldn't want to look dumb, now would they? Well, I don't go for that. I think that the greatest obstacle to learning is the fear of looking stupid. And I'm particularly not impressed by things that have a reputation as "great literature", but are dull and opaque to the average reader. Writing is my thing, see, and that means I have an easy time remembering that the purpose of writing is to communicate. Not everything is going to appeal to 100% of everyone, but if your writing is opaque or boring to all but a few, you cannot, by definition, be a great writer, because you just failed the basics of craftsmanship. Great woodworkers don't make sturdy furniture that's rough on the surface and full of splinters. They make chairs that are not only durable, but comfortable AND beautiful. Because if they are great, they can do all these things at once. If a book is boring, I set it down, instead of pretending that I had a hands-free orgasm because I am so super-duper-uber sophisticated that I can read the hidden messages in gibberish. Maybe there are hidden messages. Maybe I'm smart enough to see them if I bothered to look. But I don't. Because I don't care about any hidden message from a man too unskilled to wrap his message in an interesting story, or too contemptuous of his audience to try. So, no, I don't dislike Monet, I might even hang a print of something he did on my wall. But it's not a big deal to me, and not only can I probably not tell the difference between Monet and a good enough AI imitation, I don't even care enough to try. Which is an approach I highly recommend to others, unless they need to tape a banana to a wall for tax purposes.

@Devon_Eriksen_ Warhammer fans don't have this problem

@invadeher6 @SSundar55252 Mahabharata was AASI war then?

@SSundar55252 ok but during 3100 bce , India didn't even have steppe input that gave IE language and vedas , these all are astronomical ones varies by different interpretations , the only cultural archeological evidence date backs to 900 bce

When did the Mahabharata war happen? The Aihole inscription (634 CE) says it was written 3735 years after the war. This places the Mahabharata around 3101 BCE, nearly 5000 years ago (3735-634). It also mentions Kalidasa and Bharavi, showing they were already well known by then.

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@piyush_trades Modiji ne Kiya hain to kuch soch Samajh ke Kiya hain

The most laughable part about the government increasing STT, LTCG, and STCG is that instead of getting more tax revenue, they’re actually getting less tax revenue. Higher taxes make the market fall, due to which people earn no returns at all. When nobody makes money, nobody pays taxes either. The govt’s tax collection becomes ₹0. However, if taxes were lower, say a flat 5%, the market would likely perform better, people would earn returns and pay taxes. At least the government would collect “something.” Additionally, higher taxes due to which FIIs are selling, has also contributed to pressure on the rupee, creating even more financial stress for India. I personally feel that the govt needs to abolish STT, LTCG, STCG on an urgent basis if they truly want to protect India’s future and also save their own image.