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No trees, more heat urban roads trap extreme temperatures. Green cover cools naturally; the difference is not small, it’s survival.













High trust doesn’t just mean low crime. Only 35% of Singaporeans say most people can be trusted. That number is 83% in Sweden. That’s high trust. Singapore can’t even have trial by jury because jurists always sided with their co-ethnics. It’s low crime, not high trust.


Myanmar is slowly fragmenting, the areas in blue is now dominated by Thai Baht while the areas in red is dominated by Chinese Yuan. It is also easy to find Thai speakers in blue and Chinese speakers in red. Note the overlap of blue and red on the Thai border. It may become a problem one day.


BREAKING: Journalist: Donald Trump has reposted a letter referring to India and other countries as “hellholes”. Any response? MEA: We have seen some reports. That is where I leave it





In Nominal terms, India is the 6th largest economy (recently dropped). But in PPP terms (which accounts for what a dollar actually buys you locally), India is already the 3rd largest economy in the world, trailing only China & the USA. If we were to build a Death Star (a massive infra project), it would cost 5x more in the US than in India because of labor & material costs. PPP shows the Real Muscle Mass of the economy. India’s 8.5% share means it now has the Internal Hardware to build things at a scale most countries cannot even calculate. Data Source: @indianmatrix














