jacque

From the very beginning, we’ve been here. Through every moment, every journey, and every change, Toyota has remained part of UAE’s story, and no matter how much changes, we’re here to stay.

Big ideas don’t need big budgets. Just great storytelling. From idea to execution, this short ad was created by a single creative in just one afternoon with Runway. Try it yourself at the link below. #MadeWithRunway

🚨Manuel Neuer on his performance against Real Madrid: “When I heard we were facing Real Madrid in the quarter-finals, I was a little scared because of that monster, Cristiano Ronaldo. Even though he left in 2018, I could still feel his presence there. But when I saw the lineup at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and he wasn’t there, I felt more relaxed. Still, facing players who idolize Ronaldo is very difficult—they carry his influence within them. Yesterday, both Vinícius Júnior and Kylian Mbappé forced me to make nine saves, the most I’ve made in the past five years. We’ll see what happens in the second leg. I just hope they don’t bring Ronaldo along, because I’m still a bit scared of him (laughs).”

We could watch this all day 🥹

The Matrix came out on Easter Weekend in 1999. One easter egg in the film is about Easter: Neo is dead in the Matrix for exactly 72 seconds. The Wachowskis made it 72 seconds to represent 72 hours, as in the 3-day period that spans Jesus’ death and resurrection.

So, it took the passing of a law to hang Palestinians, for some 'Christian Zionists' and brainwashed zealots to notice the stench of genocide? It's amazing it has taken a literal hangman's law for them to see what has been right in front of them. For decades, this regime has worn the mask of the persecuted while operating the most well-funded state-sponsored terror machine on earth. They've hijacked Judaism as a moral cover for a regime that is the single greatest threat to global peace - all while your strings are pulled, engineering a sideways hate that blinds you. Millions of good Jews see this for what it is: a state ruled by the Epstein Class and Satan-worshipping gangsters, like much of the Western world. And we've been dancing with the devil way too long. Now, the mask hasn't just slipped; it's been traded for a noose. Much of the world finally sees them for what they are: perpetrators of calculated slaughter and genocide who thought they could hide behind PR and lies forever. That immunity is dead. 'Settler' violence continues; foreigners and Israelis continue to steal land, hijack homes, and assault and kill innocent Palestinians across the West Bank and Israel. It is a systematic erasure disguised as a 'conflict.' Israel's new execution law has no age exemption for children; it currently applies only to 'fatal attacks' against Israelis and 'settlers.' So they've passed a law to execute Palestinian's while 'settler' violence escalates and Palestinians are murdered regularly, with impunity and without prosecution. All the while, Isreal already holds over 450 Palestinian children in custody - 200 of them without any charge at all. Given that children as young as 12 are routinely tried in military courts, what do you think happens next? Over 20,000 children murdered since 2023 and another 20,000 'missing' - likely crushed under the rubble - or orphaned and alone. This is documented slaughter and destruction of precious innocent lives. And still, a Palestinian child's only shield is a stone. History is closing in, and no amount of engineered 'prophecy' or propaganda can scrub away the blood of the innocent. The reckoning isn't coming - it's already here, and the weight of it will be absolute. It's been a staggering display of moral rot for decades that your taxes are actively subsidising - and some of you are still cheerleading it. Any person with a conscience can see this slaughter for what it is. To deny this is anything less than pure evil, or worse; to manufacture excuses for it - is a sickness I can no longer look away from or forgive. Ignorance is no longer an excuse; it's a choice. Clip from Gerard Horton and journalist John Lyons 2014 collaborative investigation into the treatment of Palestinian child prisoners by the Israeli military "Stone Cold Justice." As of late 2015 (after this documentary) Israeli law established a minimum sentence of three years for stone-throwing. Just as stone-throwing went from a minor offence to a mandatory three-year minimum in 2015, and now potentially to death in 2026, the 'legal floor' for what constitutes a capital crime is constantly sinking. If the legal definition shifts to include 'intent to kill' regardless of the outcome, a stone thrown at a vehicle could technically qualify as a capital offence - and don't think they won't do it. History will judge every person who stays silent while a state legalises the hanging of the occupied.

@Sum41 'It's Stifler time baby', iconic movie, iconic song!

We’ve had songs end up in some pretty iconic movies and shows over the years. Honestly, even we forget some of the places they’ve popped up. Which ones did we miss?

In the olden days, when ships used to dock in Mumbai, they used to tie their boats to the door at the harbour. The Sanskrit word for tie is Bandh and for a door, is Dwar. So the place they tied a boat was called BandhDwar. The word then travelled to Persia and became Bandar or Bunder. Which meant port or harbour So any place in Mumbai which has the word Bunder in it, was a place where once upon a time boats used to dock. So the place where boats used to dock and had a lot of sacks in it, became BoriBunder The port where Palla or Hilsa fish was available became Palla Bunder, which then transformed to Apollo Bunder The port where the Portuguese traded Horses with the Arabs, became Ghodbunder And a port which had no particular significance was called Bunder. In Marathi, this became Vandre. Which over a period of time became what we know today as Bandra The word Bunder in Mumbai is not just a pointless word. It actually represents Mumbai's maritime heritage and importance

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

@Spursology_ @LUFC bring him home

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Arsene's Wenger new offside rule has been APPROVED and will be used in the Canadian Premier League! A player will ONLY be offside if he has FULLY passed the last defender, so it won't be decided based on a body part anymore. If succesful, the offside rule could change across the entire world from the 2027/28 season on.

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | GOAL: WHAT AN INSANE FREE-KICK FROM ANTON STACH! INCREDIBLE! WOW! Aston Villa 0-1 Leeds United. x.com/TGZ0001/status…

Effective public speaking hack: Practice your talk while doing light cardio. On a jog, brisk walk, or stationary bike ride. Simulates the heart rate rise you’ll feel when you get in front of people. You’ll be ready for it. Practice the way you play.

Go Goa Gone

It seems like a lovely day in London. Use the prompt below on Nano Banana Pro to make cute images of a location with live weather conditions. Make sure you have search grounding enabled to get the current weather.

sat next to a guy on a flight who smelled like old money rolex. tailored suit. reading a physical newspaper like it was 1987. figured he was some finance executive or inherited wealth. we got talking. I mentioned I sell stuff online. he put down his newspaper. "what kind of stuff?" digital products. courses. ebooks. that kind of thing. he smiled weird. "I made $4 million last year selling a PDF about aquariums." I thought he was messing with me. he wasn't. this guy is 61 years old. spent 30 years as an accountant. hated every second of it. retired at 55 with decent savings but nothing crazy. his hobby was aquariums. had been keeping fish tanks since he was 12. "my wife told me to start a blog so I'd stop boring her with fish facts." so he did. wrote about aquarium stuff 3 times a week. water chemistry. tank setups. fish compatibility. for 2 years nobody read it. "I had maybe 50 visitors a month. all probably bots." but he kept going because he had nothing else to do. year 3, one article ranked on google. then another. then another. suddenly he was getting 100K visitors a month. all people searching for aquarium help. "I realized these people would probably pay for a complete guide. so I wrote one." 147 pages. everything about setting up and maintaining an aquarium. priced it at $47. first month: $6K first year: $340K last year: $4.2 million from a PDF about fish tanks. I asked about his marketing strategy. "I don't have one. google sends people to my blog. blog mentions the guide. people buy it. I go play golf." no email sequence? "I have a newsletter. I send fish tips once a week. sometimes I mention the guide at the bottom. that's it." no upsells? "I made a second guide about saltwater tanks specifically. $67. people who bought the first one usually buy the second. that's my whole business." no team? "my wife helps with customer service. we get maybe 10 emails a day. most are just people showing us their tanks." this 61 year old retiree built a bigger business than most "entrepreneurs" I know. no ads. no funnel hacks. no growth strategies. no personal brand. just mass expertise in one weird niche and patience to let it compound. before we landed he gave me advice I didn't ask for: "everyone your age wants to get rich fast. that's why most of you stay broke. I wrote about fish for 2 years before making a dollar. now I make more than I did in 30 years of accounting. speed is overrated. patience pays." the plane landed. he grabbed his newspaper and walked off. probably went home to feed his fish.

A story worth sharing... Novak Djokovic and his son Stefan have just wiped out $667,000 in school lunch debt across 22 Serbian schools — a gesture Novak called “a victory greater than any Grand Slam I’ve ever held.” In a quiet act of father-and-son compassion, Novak and seven-year-old Stefan paid off every unpaid lunch bill they could find — ensuring thousands of children from Belgrade to Novi Sad can walk into school each morning with dignity, a full tray, and no fear of being turned away or shamed for being hungry. Speaking through emotion, Novak said: “I’ve lifted trophies in four countries in the same year… but nothing weighs on your heart like knowing a child might sit through class without food. Today is bigger than tennis. Today is about children.” Little Stefan — standing close, fingers wrapped around his father’s hand — added in a trembling voice that melted every heart in the room: “Every kid is somebody’s best friend. I just wanted them to have lunch like I do.” Teachers cried. Parents thanked them. Children clapped and laughed, unaware that their simple lunch — something many take for granted — had just been secured by two people who will never ask for anything in return. This wasn’t about headlines. It wasn’t about image. It was about a father teaching his son that real greatness is measured not in trophies… but in kindness. Two Djokovics. One extraordinary act of love. And thousands of full stomachs — and full hearts — across Serbia. @DjokerNole Brilliant 👌😍

Why Do You See BMWs, Audis, and Mercedes Selling for ₹5–10 Lakhs? Here’s the Real Reason. A lot of people get shocked when they see premium cars like BMW, Audi, or Mercedes being sold for ₹5–10 lakhs. Sometimes you’ll even find relatively newer models from 2019, 2020, 2021 at unbelievably low prices. How is that even possible? Well, here is the part most people have absolutely no idea about. 1. Every Car Has a CVD Value When you buy a car, insurance is mandatory. Along with that, every car is assigned a CVD value, which means Current Vehicle Depreciated Value. This is the value of the car after accounting for yearly depreciation, and insurance uses this number to determine how much they will pay in case of heavy damage. 2. When a Luxury Car Meets With an Accident Luxury cars have extremely expensive parts and repairs. Example: A BMW 3 Series meets with a big accident and goes to the workshop. The repair estimate comes to ₹25–30 lakhs. Very common and very normal for these brands. If the car’s CVD value is around ₹35–40 lakhs, the insurance company will not repair it. Instead, they will categorise it as a: → Total Loss Vehicle Meaning: It is cheaper for the insurance company to pay the owner the CVD amount and write off the car completely, instead of repairing it. 3. What Happens to the Car After Total Loss? Most people believe total loss cars get scrapped. Absolutely not. Insurance companies sell these vehicles to specialised vendors who rebuild cars from scratch. These vendors buy the car for around: → 50–60% of the CVD value If CVD was ₹30 lakhs, the vendor gets it for ₹18–20 lakhs. 4. Vendors Rebuild the Entire Car These vendors use: - Used parts - Imported parts - Fabricated parts - Refurbished structural components They rebuild the entire vehicle and bring it back to showroom-like condition. Even official workshops sometimes declare a car “non-repairable”, but these vendors can still rebuild it. 5. Then It Goes Back Into the Market Once restored, the vendor sells the car for ₹25-27 lakhs to a used-car dealer, and that dealer then sells it to a customer at ₹30L. So, an ₹80 lakh car is now available in the market for ₹30 lakhs after passing through multiple hands. Here, the example I used refers to a newer model that is barely 2–3 years old and lightly driven. The CVD for older cars is much lower, which is why those models are available at even cheaper prices. The catch is: → Buyers never get to know it was a total loss car. There are many ways to hide that history once the car changes jurisdictions or goes through non-authorised channels. 6. The Truth Behind “Unbelievably Cheap Premium Cars” Whenever you see a nearly-new Mercedes, BMW or Audi at an extremely low price, you can be almost certain: It was a total loss car rebuilt by a vendor and pushed back into the used-car market. Most people have no idea this ecosystem even exists. If you ever wondered why these cars sell for such insanely low prices, now you know how the entire chain works behind the scenes.

Most of us think we’re “saving money.” But look what actually happens to ₹30 lakh kept in different places since 2016 : Silver: ₹30L → ₹1.41 CR Gold: ₹30L → ₹1.16 CR Bitcoin: ₹30L → ₹105 CR SIP @12%: ₹30L → ~₹83L (real value ~₹50L) And what most people actually choose: FD @6.5%: ₹30L → ~₹52L (real value ~₹31L) Savings A/c @3%: ₹30L → ~₹39L (real value ~₹23L) Here’s the part no one likes to hear: • 3% = You lost wealth • 6.5% = You barely survived • 12% = You grew, but inflation chased you • Gold/Silver = You built wealth • Bitcoin… well, you can see The real enemy? Inflation. The real mistake? Keeping money idle. Your money needs to work, not sleep. #GoGreen #PersonalFinance #Investing #Inflation #WealthCreation #MoneyTalks #Compounding #FinancialLiteracy #SIP #IndiaInvests #FinanceTwitter

The year is 1948. India has just become free and is trying to have a tryst with destiny. And in a country with endless possibilities, you are a 27-year-old man from an affluent family. You have also studied in prestigious institutions like Loyola College and College of Engineering Guindy and have been given a scholarship from the Govt of India to go to the USA and study Dairy engineering. You go to the USA and realize that studying metallurgy and nuclear engineering is more useful and interesting than studying techniques of extracting milk from cows. You follow your instinct and successfully complete your course. You are now a nuclear engineer. And in a world that has just gone nuclear, the opportunities you have are limitless. The world is at your feet. Then the Govt of India becomes a reverse Lannister calls in its debt. They want you to work for them for a limited period as an obligation to whatever they did for you. You have no choice but to come back. You hope you are sent to glamourous locations like Bombay or Madras where you can spend your obligatory time in comfort and luxury. You are an America Return Nuclear engineer after all. But the Govt of India cares as much about your designations and qualifications as a Nokia 3310 cares about a drop. So, they play a cruel joke upon you. They send you to a small decrepit town in Gujarat which doesn't even have electricity. Your accommodation is a rundown Garage and the only sign of life around you are the mosquitos, who are trying to taste your blood. The town is called Anand. And the only Anand you have there is its name. Else it is all despair. You, an affluent gentleman from south India, who doesn't speak a word of Gujarati, who has never lived in a village, are now stuck in a god foresaken village in the middle of nowhere. And You want to get out of this god forsaken place on the first chance you get. Then something happens. You start going around the town. You start speaking to people. You understand their way of life. You understand what they want. Without you realizing you start falling in love with the place. You want to do something for them. And then you create a revolution. A revolution that has changed the face and fate of India. A revolution whose gifts we are still reaping 65 years after it started. And You are the one who started it all. You are Dr Verghese Kurien. Operation Flood was, is and will be one of the greatest movements India has ever had. We went from a country that used to import milk powder from New Zealand and other countries to becoming the largest milk producing country in the world, in 30 years. It gave livelihoods to close to more than 100 million farmers over the years and has lifted more than 50 million people out of poverty and starvation. If you count the people emancipated by Operation flood, it would be the 30th largest country in the world, ahead of Spain, South Korea and Argentina. Today, we move the global dairy market and it is singularly because of Dr Kurien. And he didn't stop at dairy. He realized that India was heavily dependent on Southeast Asia for its edible oil needs. So he got all the oilseeds growers together and started Dhara, India's own edible oil brand. He so thoroughly disrupted the edible oil industry that for a brief period of time, he significantly reduced our dependance on palm oil. Unfortunately, our babus intervened and as they usually do, destroyed it all. But that's the story for another day. When Karnataka's Cocoa farmers went to him to seek salvation from Cadbury's oppression, he created Amul Chocolates and created a big dent in their market share. He also ensured Cadbury treated the farmers with a lot more respect and fairness, now that the farmers had option. When Indira Gandhi complained about farmers not getting fair price for their vegetables, he started Safal, a vegetable selling co-operative under the NDDB umbrella and made it a success. Now most of this is known. But what we don't know more about was Dr Kurien the innovator. Dr Kurien and his friend JJ Dalaya were the first in the world to synthesize buffalo milk and convert it to powder. This allowed us to store and supply milk during times of deficiencies. He was the first to create condensed milk or as you call it, Milkmaid / Mithai Mate, from buffalo milk and ended Nestle's monopoly in this segment for good. He was also the first to pack a dense substance as oil in a Tetrapak, something that their own Swedish engineer's thought was impossible. He made it possible. I can keep going on and on. In today's world, words like Legend, GOAT, superstar are thrown around very very loosely. People who hit balls with a stick, give useless expressions on a giant screen and make cringy unwatchable 30 sec videos on some apps or crack some vulgarly unfunny jokes are given these epithets today. So, what would you call a guy who saved India from hunger and starvation? What would you call a guy who prevented India from malnutrition and stunted growth? What would you call a guy who made a basic commodity like milk, accessible to a billion people? We don't have words for that. Maybe we need to invent some. One more very commonly misplaced word today is disruption. Anything and everything are disruption now. The development of an app, delivering grocery or food in 10 minutes or writing an additional line of code are all what passes off as disruption today. That is not disruption. Disruption is where you create something that changes the lives of people forever. Disruption happens when what you create, rewards people for Generations. Disruption is where you help poor farmers break the vicious circle of poverty and throw them 354 steps up the economic ladder Disruption is not how you change how people do certain things; Disruption is when you change the people themselves. Dr Kurien was India's first and the greatest disruptor. Dr Kurien is India's true GOAT. So, Happy Birthday Dr Kurien. India is grateful that we had you walking on our soil. Thank you!! P:S: The attached image is that of the recreated Garage that Dr Kurien first stayed. Garages have a unique connection to the world of tech, as a lot of tech companies started from there and are worth some bajillion dollars today. This is a Garage that lifted 60 million Indians out of poverty. With all due respect to HP and Google, this is the greatest Garage of them all.