MadEye Mooby

The smell and sight of Goan Choris is unmistakable as you zoom past on rented scootys in Goa. The bright red color, its small pellet shape, and the wide curtains that vendors put up. To me, there’s no better way to entice a customer. Keep reading to see what I made!

a court judgement from 1995:

You know I am feeling slightly angry today. This image triggers me but also brings some melancholia. I grew up reading Tolkien. His works, especially The lord of the rings, carry a recurring warning about “diminishment”. We fade and become as shadow of our former selves. Everything nobel faces a gradual loss of vitality, nobility, creativity, and human potential in the face of power, and the pursuit of domination. The “long defeat” of history amid glimpses of victory. This image represents that. I have seen this nation rise from utter ruin to greatness, carried aloft on the shoulders of her daughters and sons who engaged in the grand project. We were supposed to be transformed into a great nation by 2020. We wrote books about that future. We dreamed as we toiled at this. But I have seen her diminish. The worst instincts of her worst unleashed. Bound by the chains of civilisational trauma. This can’t be the end. Feels like it though. It’s late and I have been driving all day and maybe I am just tired. I will feel better about this tomorrow. I read a poem , an essay and a short story every week. I will read Tagore tonight . I need the hope. “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action— Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.” I will feel better tomorrow morning.

Honestly pure dictator shit. A real democracy would immediately imprison him for even trying this

まず小麦を植えます

@Sandangered I think they changed up the formula. For both whiteners and markers :(

sniffed whitener after so long today. doesn’t hit like it used to

Why Did Sridhar Vembu Really Come to India? The story you've been sold: A billionaire tech entrepreneur renounces Silicon Valley, returns to a Tamil Nadu village, lives simply, cycles to work, talks about dharma and reversing brain drain. Simple living, high thinking. A saint in a cotton shirt. The story the California courts tell: He moved to India in late 2019. Filed for divorce in 2021. In between, he transferred ownership of Zoho's US subsidiary to entities controlled by his associate Tony Thomas and his sister Radha Vembu, who now holds an estimated 47.8% stake in the company, without his wife's knowledge or consent. A California court didn't mince words. It found that Vembu had acted "without regard for respondent's interests in community assets and without regard for the law." It ordered him to post a $1.7 billion bond. Unprecedented, the court itself said. His wife Pramila Srinivasan, who by her own account supported the household in Zoho's early years and was kept in the dark about the ownership restructuring, is still fighting the case in California. Their son, who has autism and requires lifelong care, lives with her in the Bay Area. He is 26 years old. Vembu left him behind. The move to rural India wasn't a philosophical act. It was a jurisdictional one. California's community property law requires marital assets to be split equally in a divorce. The solution, apparently, was to move the assets and himself out of California's reach before the divorce became formal. The village was the alibi. The dharma was the disguise. This is the conclusion the evidence points to. The trial is not yet concluded and Vembu has denied all allegations, calling them complete fiction. But the court, looking at the same evidence, found his explanations not credible. And then came the reward. The Modi government gave him the Padma Shri on January 26, 2021 and appointed him to the National Security Advisory Board just days later, in February 2021. The formal divorce filing came in August that year. The government honoured him while the marriage was already in ruins and the asset transfers were already underway. But the courts and the Padma Shri are almost secondary. The real villainy is what he did to millions of ordinary Indians who believed him. The man built an entire public persona on selflessness, on the idea that he had walked away from wealth and comfort for the sake of rural youth, for India, for something larger than himself. People quoted him. Teachers cited him. Young men from small towns looked up to him. It was a performance. Underneath the saint was a man who had abandoned his wife of nearly three decades, walked away from a son who needed him, moved a billion dollar empire out of legal reach, and dressed the whole operation up as enlightenment. That is the real story of why Sridhar Vembu came to India.

@shurrrrrrrrii Second line should be in all caps for the full feel

Mujhe bore ho raha hai big boss, big boss mujhe bore ho raha hai

Lowkey loving the NSFW content ban for India on twitter. When I open a post i actually see the good replies along with some American crying about opening the post just to be met with adult content links xD

" you're right, I didn't actually cum and you should call me out on that."

Imagine being the head of the FBI and helping to orchestrate a false flag to save the president’s political career but it just results in your girlfriend getting dicked down in a supply closet and reported on national television

Had a Jane Street interview in 2013 that still bothers me. It was my 6th round. Final interview. The guy walks in carrying no laptop, no notebook, just a cold brew and what I later realized was a single IKEA tea candle. He writes on the whiteboard: food: $200 rent: $800 utilities: $150 candles: $3,600 family: dying Then he turns around and says, “Optimize.” I laughed because I thought it was a culture-fit bit. He did not laugh. So I said, “Well, obviously you spend less on candles.” He says, “Assume candles are non-discretionary.” Okay. I start building a model. Basic constraint satisfaction. Family survival as a soft penalty. Candles as a state variable. Maybe there’s an arbitrage where you buy wholesale paraffin and convert the $3,600 line item into inventory. He stops me. “You’re thinking like a consultant.” That’s when I knew I was in trouble. He says, “Give me a bid-ask on family dying.” I say, “What?” He says, “You’re long candles, short family. Where do you make markets?” I try to recover. I say the real issue is liquidity: rent and utilities are fixed, food is elastic, candles are emotionally inelastic. Therefore the optimal strategy is to securitize future candle enjoyment and borrow against it. He nods for the first time. Then he asks, “What time do you sell the candles?” I say, “Whenever the market is liquid?” He says, “Be more specific.” I say, “Uh… 10 a.m. Eastern?” For the first time, he smiles. He goes, “Every day?” I say, “Every day.” He says, “In size?” I say, “In size.” He says, “And what do we call that?” I say, “Market manipulation?” The room gets very quiet. He looks disappointed and writes something down. “No. We call it providing liquidity to candle ETFs during the U.S. cash open.” I try to save it. “Right. Of course. The family isn’t dying because we underfunded them. They’re just experiencing temporary price discovery.” He nods again. Then he points back at the board. I had missed it. The utility bill was $150, but candles provide light. You can zero out utilities. I update the budget: food: $200 rent: $800 utilities: $0 candles: $3,750 family: still dying, but now in a more capital-efficient way He says, “How confident are you?” I say, “0.95.” He smiles and circles candles. “0.95 huh?” Then he asks me to estimate how many leveraged longs get liquidated if we dump $3,750 of candles at 10:00:01 every morning for 90 consecutive trading days. Needless to say I did not get the offer.

Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1: Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight? Me: Yes they're done. Partner: Why are they still dirty? Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.

Ok it's fucking magical. Guess I'll be watching a ranbir kapoor movie

The new Ramayana musical score is by HANS ZIMMER AND AR RAHMAN?!

Americans after finding that a group of fish is called 'school'

If you are born into a family with financial security I actually think dedicating your life to actively trying to help people is probably the best you could do.

Feels a bit weird Netflix left out the only big Chess channel that actually stood up for Hans after the initial accusation. Guess it didn't fit the movie narrative

Agadmator was one of the few creators who didn’t hop on the bandwagon. He showed restraint and respect, I will always respect his virtue and principle. A rare breed in the chess world.