@DivaJain2 Narrator: India will not, in fact, get its act together
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Still in the trenches. Building experiments on-chain and off-chain
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@WhiteWhaleLabs @yonann Time to whip out my old friend Inspect Element
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@yonann This is retarded as the moment you start getting above 5 most real estate agents will ask for proof of funds before scheduling a showing just to avoid unserious tourists.
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Grant Cardone says you should go see a $90 million house even if you don’t have $90
"There's a house for sale for $90 million, let's say you don't have $90… you should go see that house, call the realtor, make up a whole story about who you are"
"This had something to do with my success"
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@b50 @scroll_in Delhi’s parks are severely underrated. Outside of France and England, have never been to a city with over half a dozen parks that have some 15th century building put up right in the middle
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“In Delhi, walking through a neighbourhood with actual trees on the pavements and parks where children play after school, one feels a sense of grief for these absences in Mumbai.” - Vaibhav Wankhede writing at @scroll_in
Brilliant. This is among the best, most sensible pieces on why Delhi is (and always was) a far better city to live in than Mumbai. Good one @tajmahalfoxtrot
scroll.in/article/109236…
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Off the top of my head:
- Spam the shit out of UpWork, but don’t be a lazy ass - vibecode a bot that scans for new listings, flags good ones, and the you send a purpose built loom message. 95% of applicants on Upwork are just lazy and send trash applications. Easy to stand out
- Find 100 businesses doing $1-10m with founders that have weak or negligible personal online footprints. Be their ghostwriter for $1-3k a month
- Launch a crypto rug. Sorry 🤷♂️
- Find 1000 Shopify stores doing good revenue but with outdated imagery. Send them a mockup of what *good* AI generated product/lifestyle images would look like. Offer to do it for all SKUs in their store for $1k one time fee then $250-500/m
- If you’re in a first world country, leverage your language and location advantage to run a “virtual assistant” arb - people pay a premium for US/EU based assistants, but you get the actual work done by a Filipino
- Do the above, but for app development. Get the actual work done by Indians
- Hit up 500 people on LinkedIn with some degree of motion and offer to turn their LinkedIn content into info-driven faceless AI videos. Needs good skill with AI video
- Contact 500 marketing agencies doing $1-10M in business and be their white label content provider
How sustainable these are will depend on how good you are and how ethical you are in delivering what you promise
But if its simply making $10k with zero regard for what happens after that, you best bets are spamming + crypto
udy@udyszn
i have two weeks to make $10k. life or death situation. any ideas?
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@akm1410 @MorningContext This is why India will never be a great power
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@basedjensen Bruh Chiang Mai MOGS most American cities I’ve been to, and its like a tier-2 Thai town
Just cheap incredible food, tons of history everywhere, a 7/11 every 50m and incredible hikes right at the edge of the city
And you can live like a king for like $1k a month
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Honestly every big SEA mega city is like this. hyper capitalist murica but better and safer with public transport
Susan Zhang@suchenzang
if you've never been to china just imagine a much nicer america
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AI job losses are real but what companies have realized is that AI erases competency and communication gaps. Easier to pay a $40k engineer in India than a $200k engineer in the US
The $4k engineers are still screwed though - not even competent enough to create a full fledged AI workflow
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While manufacturing Capex has been elusive the Services sector has capex has been on full blow out mode for atleast 12 years. No matter that they build it gets absorbed. It's just unbelievable.
Flies in the face of job losses due to AI argument.
Equity Insights Elite@EquityInsightss
Demand continues to outpace supply in India’s Grade A office market Grade A office demand has exceeded new supply every year since 2022 In 2025, demand stood at 72 Msf vs new supply of 57 Msf For 2026, demand is expected at 70-75 Msf vs supply of 60-65 Msf, implying continued supply gap Flex adoption rising structurally - Flex stock expected to cross 100 Msf by 2027 - Flex penetration expected to improve from 10% in 2025 to 14% by 2027 Demand drivers - 55-65% occupiers expected to use flex by 2027 - GCCs driving 40-50% of Grade A demand - 70-80% of flex demand is enterprise led - Tenures are now increasing to 3-5 years vs 1-2 years earlier
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@NotyourVivek The granular data is way worse. All the richer more educated states have been at or below replacement tfr for 20 years. All real population growth has come from the poorest, least educated states
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India demographic dividend already becoming demography disaster,thats why FII taking money out indian market, dhandos who got low coporate tax cuts,other subsides, write off and good hair cut on their loans,are parking their wealth in region like dubai,cyman island, than in india
Rants&Roasts@Sydusm
India has 45,000-50,000 colleges + 1,100 universities. Producing over 65 lakh graduates every year in an economy that doesn't know what to do with them. Graduation has lost its meaning. The degree gets you what a 10th pass might get, that is if you're very lucky. Imagine the staggering numbers of unemployed of the last ten years, which will get added to the more staggering numbers of the next ten years. But no Extremely Severe Alert!
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@Issherai My experience too
AI is actually really terrible at writing content that’s not just informative SEO-optimized slop
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@RunemirQi @itsmebutterz The weird thing is that he somehow tapped into this so late in his life
Has been a public figure since forever but was always just another rich celebrity, not the cult leader that he is today
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@itsmebutterz The cult-like following is a symptom of the distortion field, not the cause.
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They used to say that Steve Jobs had a distortion field, and Trump's field is based on a similar concept.
But Trump's distortion field is much, much stronger, probably the strongest distortion field in the last 200 years.
It's hard to find anything comparable in recent history.
Now we have to ask ourselves, what or who is producing that field?
It's not coming from a physical body, that's for sure. One could argue that it comes from his wealth, somewhat true, but wealth has its limits. His family? Partially yes, but still not a definitive answer.
The distortion field comes from the invisible world; it comes from a spiritual connection that is providing one kind of shielding, and his support is obviously immense.
When I say spiritual support, it doesn't necessarily mean benevolent, because it can go either way.
We are dealing with an invisible entity of immense power, and Trump is just a face, a vehicle (possibly not even aware of that).
AF Post@AFpost
In an interview with The New York Times, Tucker Carlson argued that Trump has a “supernatural component” to him that makes those in his close proximity obedient and docile. Carlson said he experienced this effect firsthand, likening it to smoking hash. “And I think it probably literally is a spell. And the effect is to weaken people around him and make them more compliant and more confused. And I’ve experienced this myself. You spend a day with Trump and you’re in this kind of dreamland. It’s like smoking hash or something. It’s interesting, very interesting.” Follow: @AFpost
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@RunemirQi I legit think there are forces and powers beyond what we know
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@swarajk_ Its not manufacturing work, its where it is located. Just like young upper middle class 25 year olds, young poor 25 year olds also want to live in big cities and experience all that big cities have to offer
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most people don’t want to work in manufacturing, it’s not that complicated
Harnidh Kaur@harnidhish
I feel like every time I ask this question I’m cobbled with anti-poor allegations but why do so many able bodied men in India not work (assuming they do find work in manufacturing/services)? Almost everyone I know has a house help and they house help’s husband is a drunk who harasses her for money. On the other hand almost everyone I know in manufacturing and packaging is struggling with labour. They’re desperate to hire and no one comes, or if they do, they leave within a month. Again, I’m sure there’s a reason for it. I’m just trying to understand what it is.
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The problem with 2) is that currency itself is so debased and made up that there is no such thing as accurate price anymore
I bought a picture of a monkey for 8 ETH in 2021. That was $24,000. I sold it for 20 ETH, which was $85,000 then. Now that monkey jpeg is worth like $3000
(All true story btw)
The abstraction impedes value discovery even though there is constant currency movement
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@metahacker_ @0unkn0wn01 (1) The abstract work is real, because it produces human experiences.
(2) Work that causes the transference of currency from person to person makes prices more accurate, and accurate prices causes more widgets to be produced than inaccurate prices.
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The entire AI productivity meme breaks down once you realize that being able to do fake work even faster doesn't really change anything
I've vibecoded I don't know how many apps and the net economic impact of those apps is practically zero. The personal AI product I use the most is my own vibecoded AI trading bot and trade tracker. Works great, but, again, it has net zero economic or productive impact
Same for all the AI videos and images I've made. Most of it is entertainment disguised as productivity
We already had an abstractive economy where most of us were just doing various degrees of bullshit. None of the things I've ever sold - courses, monthly subscriptions, per-seat software - had any ties to economic or productive reality. I could offer 90% discounts and still make a profit at times because, again, the work was completely detached from the production of it
And now AI adds another deep layer of abstraction on top and it's somehow productive that you can pump out articles and blog posts and cheap code even faster
We've sort of memed ourselves, ngl
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But what is the real hard value of that code? Is the side project something that interfaces with the real, hard world, or is it further perpetuation of the increasingly digitalized, abstract world?
My industry (crypto) generated billions of notional value on paper but none of that was real
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@metahacker_ I've been able to implment feats in some of my side projects that would have taken me ages without ai.
There's half the world that is currently shipping ai generated code without people even knowing...
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@frontierindica Insane for a state with under 2L per capita income
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I have heard from Odia bros that the real estate market in Bhubaneswar is extremely inflated and now touching metro-city levels. I thought maybe they were exaggerating.
But I just checked how much apartments in these high-rises cost, and it is genuinely insane for a tier 2 city.
Imagine telling an Indian 20 years ago that people would be spending upwards of Rs 2-3 crore to buy a 3BHK apartment in Bhubaneswar in 2026.
He would have laughed at you thinking you were a lunatic.
Manas Muduli@manas_muduli
Night view from outskirts of Bhubaneswar.
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A massive data moat that China has which no one talks about: access to the largest volume of high skilled industrial worker data for training robots
While the west has to make do with strapping cameras to 3-months-experience, perpetually tardy and frequently absent ex-Bihari workers in Tirapur, China gets access to prime grade A aunties with 30 years on the assembly line at scales you can’t even imagine
There are entire skilled factory jobs that haven’t been done in the west for so long that no one even knows how to do it anymore. Only a handful of people with esoteric on-the-job knowhow learned from making billions of widgets know how to do it
And this data will never be available to American robotics firms because it literally doesn’t exist outside of China
If data is the moat, the hardest data is real-world industrial experience
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@calvinfroedge Who would have thought that the largely self dependent isolated country used to economic hardship would survive this longer than the hyperfinancialized American economy?
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"Time is not on Trump‘s side. Iran can definitely suffer the effects of the blockade longer than Trump can survive the economic pressures building up inside the United States and externally among our allies in Asia and in Europe."
Daniel Davis Deep Dive@DanielLDavis1
Iran today reportedly issued the United States a 14 plan to end the war in a response to Trump‘s latest demands for a negotiated end. But President Trump is reported to have rejected those terms and it’s already DOA. Meanwhile, Trump is in a real time crunch, with no obvious exit ramps. According to the Washington Post today, the Admin has all but run out of options to mitigate the rising cost of gasoline and its impact on American consumers. According to the Post: “As the conflict stretches into its 10th week, the White House has exhausted many of the policy levers the federal government can use to mitigate surging gas prices, and the options that remain carry other economic and political risks for the president… “‘We are entering into what could become a much larger energy crisis in the weeks ahead,” said Patrick De Haan, the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, “and instead of realizing a potential mistake, both the White House and Iran seem to be dug in.’” But according to Drop Site News @DropSiteNews, the main points in the Iranian plan reflect essentially a maximalist demand, which is nearly impossible for Trump to accept. Drop Site News reported the plan: “includes demands for guarantees against future military aggression, the withdrawal of U.S. forces from areas surrounding Iran, lifting the U.S. naval blockade, unfreezing Iranian assets, compensation payments, sanctions relief, and ending the war across all fronts, including Lebanon. It also outlines a new mechanism for the Strait of Hormuz.” Time is not on Trump‘s side. Iran can definitely suffer the effects of the blockade longer than Trump can survive the economic pressures building up inside the United States and externally among our allies in Asia and in Europe. That puts Trump in a dangerous position: either he 1) engages in genuine diplomacy, with Iran in which he is forced to concede some points that Iran wants (in order to *get* points Trump wants), which Israel will view with great fear, and his hawkish wing in Washington will strongly push back against — but which is the most effective way to quickly restore the flow of oil out of the SOH — or he will have to 2) listen to the hawkish elements in his administration and restart the war in a vain hope that one more big military bombing campaign will do what the first 40 days did not. But there is virtually no rational chance that succeeds, and a very high probability it would fail. Worse, it will certainly spawn a retaliatory attrack from Tehran against our GCC allies, and Israel, targeting their energy infrastructure, which would be catastrophic for the price of oil. That would therefore skyrocket, on a long-term basis, gasoline prices in the United States, and along with it the price of nearly everything else. That is the horrible situation President Trump has gotten himself into by choosing this war back in February. It truly is as simple as take the ugly deal now, or worsen our situation by trying more military force.
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@KartikeyaC56898 The only city in India with a riverfront that looks like that is Ahmedabad
Delhi’s riverfront looks like a hellscape
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@CratersOfMumbai Standard construction quality of all new Indian highways
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Like driving through a bouncing castle.
Shall be putting it to the test soon.
Does anyone feel like lending their G-63?
Ankit@Ankey0121
Driving on Mumbai–Pune Expressway earlier meant watching trucks overtake each other like it’s a retirement hobby. Missing link showed up and said: 'Wrap it up, grandpas.' #missinglink #MumbaiPune
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