sathvik

Vibe coding is more addictive than any video game ever made (if you know what you want to build).

You always, always, always play along

@kuso_otoko That's life advice right there

Bingo. This is actually the reason behind the epidemic of digital arrest scams. Have always wondered why none of the reporting ever talks about it -- low trust society, terrified of cops, no faith in criminal justice system. That's why these scams work in india.

Here @WSJ misses the forest for the trees. “Digital arrests” work because Indians are terrified of the real police. In practice, cops do not produce warrants or summons—they simply pick you up and take you to the station with zero paperwork. A petty TI can destroy your life on a whim and face zero consequences. Citizens have no clue what lawful policing even looks like. That cultivated fear and ignorance is exactly what makes them gullible to scammers on a video call. wsj.com/world/fake-cop…

Apparently there is a shy boy in my daughter's second grade class who was letting her take the candy that his parents put in his lunch. And she got so used to it that she started doing it without asking before it got back to us from the teacher, which was embarrassing. Had to teach her a lesson about taking advantage of boys.

Government schools will improve when a rule is implemented that children of govt officers should study only in government schools: @TVMohandasPai India spends ₹6.5 lakh crore on government schools

If only Indians could learn this....

the kind of person that's socialized to be obedient to authority will also be obedient to anything that seems authoritative, and this is why we are the smartest AND dumbest people on the planet simultaneously

@lisatomic5 😂😂

I asked my son if it was difficult in Japan to get around not knowing the language and he said they went to a starbucks today and look at this translation

@visakanv There was a joke in 'ben 10' that some alien researcher thought that the most dominant group of animals on earth were ants because they're.... everywhere

just looked into this. it’s crazy. they’re native to Argentina, were accidentally spread everywhere by humans, generally cooperate with each other across different colonies (but do sometimes go to war), and in ~100 years have built a global empire

if you go to the gym in the mornings do you just wear your underwear from yesterday? do you buy 2x the amount of underwear? what’s the meta

@dinosaur_info @TwinkTheory Ohh I'd like to see it as well

@TwinkTheory 🫡

I wonder if, during some large catastrophe like 9/11 for example, there was a man or woman walking toward work in the towers, saw the first plane go in, and realize in a flash second they could walk completely out of their life and be presumed dead. It would’ve been long before cctv or facial recognition software, maybe they’d already been thinking about it for some time, had cash hidden away and what not. It’s strange how it would be virtually impossible to disappear now. We’re photographed hundreds if not thousands of times a week just going about our lives.

58,000 Americans died in Vietnam. Over 3,000,000 Vietnamese died. And for fifty years, American culture has centered the grief of the 58,000 while treating the 3,000,000 as a backdrop. As scenery. As context. As "the Vietnam War experience." They built a wall in Washington with American names on it. A beautiful wall. A solemn wall. Good. Mourn your dead. But understand what that wall does not say. It does not say why they died. It does not say what they were doing there. It does not say what was done in their name to the people whose country it actually was. It does not mention My Lai, where American soldiers massacred an entire village, old men, women, children, babies, and the officer who ordered it served three years of house arrest before being pardoned. Three years. House arrest. Pardoned. For five hundred people murdered in a ditch. It does not mention the 2.7 million acres of Vietnamese forest doused in Agent Orange, a chemical weapon disguised as herbicide, that is still deforming Vietnamese children today. Not in 1970. Not in 1985. Today. Children born in 2020 with bodies twisted by a war their grandparents fought. And the chemical companies that made it are still in business. Still profitable. Still un-prosecuted. And yet they send us human rights reports. They grade our democracy. They warn us about our behavior. The audacity is so enormous it becomes almost impressive. Almost.

Another blatant misuse of public money and violation of law - a Govt Vehicle using red beacon & siren. As per law, these are restricted to emergency vehicles only. In Haryana, govt officers are above the law. Promoted by - @FTPfbd @FBDPolice @DC_Faridabad @PMOIndia

For some reason I thought @michelleakin might enjoy watching this. youtube.com/shorts/l-wTSyy…

Given there is an energy crisis, why is no effort being made to reduce consumption by encouraging more use of video calls? Most business travel is performative effort, not essential.

sometimes powerful people are on drugs, but one thing that’s always striking to me about people armchair-analyzing what drugs a powerful person might be on is how they never realize or acknowledge that power itself is a drug

Singapore was also poor, their work shoddy, their streets were dirty and messy You could also call it culture then Then they cleaned up, became high educated, installed air conditioning, became rich I don't get this logic, you can't call everything that's stagnant "culture", it's not culture, it's failure

When you see a government officer driving a luxury car on a ₹50,000 salary, you are looking at the visible audit trail of a thousand bribes. Nobody investigates. Because the system that would investigate is part of the same audit trail.