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Katılım Nisan 2025
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Maya@maya_posts1·
@LauraLoomer Wild to see you admiring an aspect of India that most Indians find repulsive. Indians do not want cows and dogs and monkeys on the streets, and it’s been a never ending battle between the courts and people to get rid of the menace.
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Laura Loomer@LauraLoomer·
One of the most magical things about India is the wildlife. I still cannot believe my eyes when I drive from town to town. On my drive to Monkey Temple in Jaipur, this is what the road looked like. It’s not uncommon to see dogs, cows, & tons of monkeys in the streets of India.
Laura Loomer@LauraLoomer

Honestly, as someone who has traveled a lot, India is the best country I have ever traveled to. It’s incredible. I will have been here for 9 days when I leave, and there is still so much to see and do. My experience has been amazing and India is portrayed negatively in the media as a place Amercians should avoid, but I realize a lot of that is completely made up. The people, food, culture and hospitality culture are just incredible. I have felt safe and comfortable the entire time I have been here and India will truly be the next big super power. This country has incredible potential and you have to see it yourself to understand because the media only makes it out to be 3rd world. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Indian people are the nicest people I have ever met. I am very grateful for my time in India. I have enjoyed it so much and I hope I can come back every year. Next time I want to visit South India. I have tried to do as much as possible these last 9 days but there is still so much to see and do. All good things come to an end. I’ll be back (hopefully soon). I love India. My misconceptions have been corrected. I have nothing but nice things to say. 🇮🇳

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Maya@maya_posts1·
@the_mansi_shukl It’s better not to have a sandwich than have Vada pav or Bombay sandwich; both delicious but the idea of a potato sandwich is like an oxymoron.
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Mansi Shukla@the_mansi_shukl·
Except Mumbai, the whole india doesn't knows how to make sandwich
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@aravind Gosh. Their gait resembles the Bennet sisters rather than ancient Indian women. The perils of being trained on Western data.
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Aravind@aravind·
A Raja Ravi Varma painting of Shakuntala, animated using Grok. After she steals one last look at Dushyanta in the guise of removing a thorn from her foot.
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Maya@maya_posts1·
@balajis Probably not the best day for this tweet, on the day of release of a highly anticipated cinematic experience. Hollywood might be dead, but the appeal of cinema remains strong, as long as the right stories are told.
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Maya@maya_posts1·
Iran living by the adage - Don’t judge a book by its cover. It’s easy to conflate a modern exterior with a modern outlook, but we are seeing more breaks to this stereotype-women in sarees at ISRO India, and women in hijab working on missiles in Iran. Education and religion/culture run on parallel tracks and these women are able to deftly manage the two, without opting for one without the other.
VERYDARKMAN@vdmempire

SHOCKING 😳 🇮🇷 We just discovered that 80% of the population in Iran has Master's degrees and PhDs. Their President is an excellent heart surgeon, and The Foreign Minister and almost all members of Parliament holds a PhD. Irán also has a 94% literacy rate and one of the largest populations of women scientists in the world. They are an ancient empire that innovated mathematics and science. 94% literacy rate? ❤️

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Maya@maya_posts1·
Who wins it for the next decade?
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Maya@maya_posts1·
If this unprecedented technological revolution were to have a positive effect on humanity, then it has to start with language. That is how the first humans learnt, and that is how successive generations are going to learn. Complex language and the ability to influence is what makes us a dominant species.
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yung macro 宏观年少传奇
It is kind of interesting: the East Coast magazine types are seemingly intelligent people, seemingly selected through very tight funnels -- great universities, great SAT scores, they can often think critically, follow long and established traditions of thought, etc. but here we are moving at breakneck pace through this unprecedented technological revolution which by any reasonable consensus has decent odds of literally ending biological life as we know it in all sorts of horrible ways, and all they can think about is that... prose is getting kinda worse on the way? That some writing sounds a little sloppier now? That they are not fans of the style? This is somehow their elephant in the room? What? Is this just what happens when you compound bad epistemic habits for decades? Functional paralysis in otherwise sane minds?
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Maya@maya_posts1·
War vs. day to day life, and armed forces live in shared accommodation. Most women would appreciate in laws living with them when they are working and have kids to manage. So it works when a problem needs to be solved. Also many women would be amenable to buying a new home with their in-laws rather than moving to a home that was set up by the mother-in-law. My home vs. our home.
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Maya@maya_posts1·
Intellectualism is found in extremely small pockets of the US, and is one of the reasons why Peter Thiel has been able to hold sway over an entire generation.
NalediBarron@BarronNaledi

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@iamgingertrash I think Iran will win this, culturally and technologically. US will decouple from Israel and focus on the Western hemisphere.
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simp 4 satoshi@iamgingertrash·
One year ago, By the way Greater Israel should be setup pretty soon The Israelis will have middle eastern dominance until ~2032-2033 After which, a collapse will ensure
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American culture cannot appreciate this beauty
Atieh (عطیه بختیار)@UnboundedVoice

#Kashan city was bombed by the #United_States and #Israel yesterday Every house in Kashan is a work of art, a treasure. The city is famous for its historic Persian courtyard houses with stained glass, windcatchers, intricate plasterwork, and underground cooling systems built for the desert climate. Many of these homes are 150 to 300 years old, and the architectural tradition they represent goes back even further. Kashan itself sits near the ancient site of Sialk, where human settlement goes back around 7,000 years. These houses, these streets, this heritage are older than Israel and the United States as a country.

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@FischerKing64 It’s quite startling the opulence of the Shah when compared to the unpretentiousness of the mullahs. Iran throws people for a loop.
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FischerKing@FischerKing64·
Since the US is apparently considering installing ‘the crown prince’ of the last ‘Shah’ of Iran, let me share an anecdote of that glorious rule. On his 48th birthday, the ‘Shah’ staged a belated ‘coronation’ for himself where he wore a crown rimmed with over 3,000 diamonds. His third wife Farah - still around, and I’m told is ‘extremely popular’ - wore a bejeweled cloak that was so heavy 8 people had to carry it. The ‘Shah’ bought that with the country's oil revenue. Communists and liberals worked with the Ayatollah because of such things to put down the ‘Shah.’ That entire revolution was pretty complicated. You can read about it - and this anecdote - in the book King of Kings by Scott Anderson.
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Maya@maya_posts1·
It seems to be a country of contradictions, so the tweet captures that confusion. So what do the Iranians return to? Moderate Islam or Persian Islam or a Westernized Islamic country like the UAE. You have the diaspora and the PhD clerics. Choosing a leader to represent these facets is a tricky situation for sure.
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@DrewPavlou The Third Worldist Goat Herders are civil engineers and stem Phds and seem to be more world-aware than the White elites. Wonder what that says about the modern world.
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Very interesting how Iran is basically two countries Basically modern secular Europeans forced to share a country with Taliban style Third Worldist goat herders
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Maya@maya_posts1·
It seems like America is where culture comes to die Indians immigrants to America bring with them h1b scams, and and none of India’s ancient culture to integrate into the American mainstream Iranians don’t try to recreate any of their heritage architecture; instead we get the Kardashian trash culture Italians give us the paltry pizza, and not the piazza Chinese bring their grind-maxing and none of the Taoism and Confucianism Maybe America needs to screen for positive culture-producers in their immigrants
Prof Kate Williams 💙@KateWilliamsme

The astonishing #GolestanPalace in #Tehran - built c16 and rebuilt c18/19. Main palace of Qajar Kings from until 1925. World Heritagd Site. #IranCulturalSites #Iran. Vital to the world, also in the midst of city, homes and offices nearby.

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Maya@maya_posts1·
@lionel_trolling If they were to open up, they are going to give Japan a run for their money
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John Ganz@lionel_trolling·
I wish it were under different circumstances, but I'm reminded that Persia/Iran is maybe the most interesting culture in history
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