Amazing piece. US tinted glasses, Japan has a been ideal ally and perfect for a shakedown. My guess is an unfavourable deal for Japan will send a signal where others will be more hesitant to negotiate.

“Actually US has done bad things before” and “You didn’t want people to vote for Kamala? Now enjoy Trump kidnapping random foreign university students” Keep feeding each other

India could really have 8% consistent growth for the Trump years if Modi stops protecting base (6 oligarchs and small biz hitlers) from foreign competition under guise of import substitution.

Still kind of crazy markets haven’t fully understood the consequences of this. Between the tariffs and potentially delaying/stopping payments, it could be nuclear for the economy.

I watched the Royal Rumble. I was all ready to talk about it. Probably the most unexpected result. Now it’s out of my mind because of the Luka trade.

A good Indian must hate all 3 1) Racist against Indians 2) Indian diaspora 3) Indians in India

I keep saying what’s missing from this site is main characters and crazy randos. We need the “I’m unsympathetic an alligator ate your child because of white privilege” before this site has the same juice as twitter.

No exaggeration but there are prisons around the world more lenient and less invasive than the premier institutions in India.

Genuinely any country where you read about “democratic backsliding” this is the main cause. People overestimate how much arresting dissenting journalists affects other journalists ability to tell the truth and underrate how much denial of access makes them desperate.

Also good to remember every major dem donor hated her and Dems are only going to listen to donor and their consultants more after this election.

Honestly felt like Heat were the best team in the playoffs both in 2020 & 2022. 2020 more winnable if Bam and Dragic are healthy. 2022 they would have matched up better against Warriors than Celtics.

Irrespective of your politics if you view someone labelled as a “terrorist” as peak evil, you’re going to have a really bad understanding of any conflict. You’re the most gullible to the cheapest kind of propaganda.

Heard 4 Lakers podcasts today. My god, it feels to listen to all of them the day they lose.

A lot of people are imagining that everyone celebrating the death of health insurance CEO is some lefty. But it’s every single one of their actual customers

Yes, twitter before Musk was that. You need enough randos and enough annoying hateful people. Musk changed that to Hiterite racism,low quality Facebook videos and bible camp self help.

I still maintain he was the best player in the 2018 WCF series. Winning in 2018 would have completely changed the perception of Harden,CP and MDA.

Pepe (Haryanvi) all set for winter

This is probably the best part of winter. Seeing dogs dressed in jackets and sleeping inside the auto. Like they are on their way to school.

Andy (Haryanvi)

I hate when shows come up with a really good story arc, something that’s going to take the show in a new direction and allow it to expand into new dimensions. In Succession Season 2, when Kendall does the press conference against his dad the story arc there could have been so compelling.

I really underestimated how much Bluetooth headphones make me productive in a way wired ones couldn’t. Really glad Apple pushed into a corner.

2024 Bluesky vs Twitter, feels a lot like Telegram vs Whatsapp in 2016. Telegram and Bluesky are way better products but network effects (randos and close friends using it) ensures I have to use twitter/X.

NBA season being 82 games is just too long. Physically the demand is so insane. A season that long means we are never going to get a good Embiid playoff series. Poorly conditioned athletes being punished is fair, but the season is just too long.

This kind of post shows there is potential for this place to succeed twitter

Feel like neutrality allows media outlets to plays facade of being rigorous,nuanced and comprehensive beyond sounding like non-partisan. But if you attempt writing only rigorous stuff you tend to become partisan, non-partisanship more often than comes at the cost of rigour.

Feel like Internet has either ruined social trust or just showing us how much low social trust there actually is (which people like me overestimated). WhatsApp and TikTok scams are the kind you’d think the people who fall for it will never fall for it.

Holiday,White,Brown,Tatum,KP and Horford is the best in the league. But I can’t see all being available for one playoff series.

Vin Diesel in The Fast and The Furious (the original one) was such a good actor. Just not going to trust anyone who believes the opposite.

When I play UNO. I don’t play to win. I play to create fear in the eyes of my opponents especially the ones sitting next to me. That’s the only way to play UNO.

If I have stayed in a particular place for a year, I don’t think anyone knows routes better than me. I have always been right about this. The only ones who routes better than me turn out to be auto drivers or people who did deliveries.

In my dream few days back Rachel Cusk had written about Heat (the movie). Then had Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan interview her.

One day closer 🥰🥰🥰🥰

The more time an Indian spends on a dating app the more they start to believe their incel tinted perception as the actual worldview. If it was 2019 twitter would call it “Incel Radicalization”

First season of Morning Show probably had one of the best characters on TV with Billy Crudup playing Cory Ellison. Since then it’s been so watered down and become this reactionary centrist view of wokeness. Just killed everything good about the first season.

Every year if someone were to ask me the best television I watched it would be wrestling. Most likely the same answer for worst television.

In general subscription revenue only works when you’re small and niche. Advertising with reasonable amount of eyeballs can completely change the zeroes in money.

One of the funniest thing about farm laws they would have made the problem worse and discouraged less cold storage/ less industrialized output. But all the OPEDs had lack of farm laws as the solutions.

Drew Barrymore is at the worst position. Either she had to be a scab vs now letting their other non-writing staff lose money. Plus the station will bump her off. It’s like Djokovic and COVID. It was always going to end badly.

Michael Wolff entire writing about Fox is so much better than Succession. It’s so weird that truth is better than fiction.

This rarely happens in a post streaming world. One of the reasons American TV works is it indulges people who like to binge and rewatch. This is what Winning Time was missing. It couldn’t commit any format and ended up getting cancelled failing to develop a niche audience.

The accusation that a documentary is scripted and while the entire world that watched it didn’t know that kind of makes the documentary more impressive. It’s like having the most impressive wrestling mic skills.

Was rewatching Mad Men for 378th time and finally figured out that all those women asking Helen Bishop about “walking” are worried, that it may lead to something happening between Helen and their husbands.

RE Yellowjackets. If I was in that situation. I would only want my girlfriend to store and eat me. Would be so happy if I was useful like that. But the idea my random co passenger could eat me, doesn’t sit well with me.

This is how I keep the child in me alive. I pretend 2003 was 3 months ago.

Dogs have a way becoming that much cuter when being around Raccoons.

When I first moved abroad seeing a laundromat filled me with joy because I felt like I was out of India. 3 weeks later I hated laundry and had to have the exact playlist to last an hour.

There is general tendency of people when they get their initial kick from contrarian thought, to look for contrarian edgy thoughts everywhere. Some gain substack subscribers due to it. Just jealous wish I could monetize my contrarian thoughts.

There should be a movie where a child gets to grow up and take revenge against his abusive parent and isn’t portrayed as the villain. Spend some time to savour the revenge. Wish I made films that I got to watch. Might be terrible but will be customized.