Heard from former students about how remarkably easy this is. Very quick. Government functioning the way it should.
Twitter reviews are also unanimous! This is a public benefit application form that is so easy to fill out that ALL of it fits in a single screenshot! It's almost as if that was the goal Klain etc gave them.

This is nicely done, @POTUS @WHCOS! A good case study for others.
The Desi in me is feeling most sentimental and jealous that a government benefit that could get you up to $10,000 dollars takes less than 5 minutes to fill out. 😯😯

#NewIndia makes you jump through multiple OTPs and captchas just to book a train ticket.
US govt has spent $1000 bn plus on Defense every year for the past decade and could not stop Putin's tanks or missiles nor Taliban's pickup trucks.

US govt will spend $400 bn, making lives of 40 mn Americans easier.

Guess which one "fiscal conservatives" are angry about?
Best is random 2 rupee trolls and LinkedIn Libertarians from India whining to Biden about this supposedly socialist communist stalinist loan forgiveness while Modiji takes public sector bank NPAs to historic heights. This is also the "internal matter" gang usually. 😂😂
Each American on average has paid about $80,000 towards the Pentagon budgets since 9/11 but sure, a one time loan forgiveness of $10,000 for 40 million middle class Americans will bankrupt the nation. 🙄🙄

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This is why middle aged New Yorkers go to bars only on weeknights lol. This is our neighborhood regular bar. Ideal on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Image
I used to find it weird how very different the bars and the general night scene are in East Village vs West Village, though they are just two halves of the same neighborhood.

Then I read that they are not at all two halves of the same neighborhood! "East Village" is made up.
The original village is Greenwich Village, now also called West Village. But until the 60s or so, it was just the village.

East of it were many tenements, rundown buildings & general areas of Cooper Square, St Marks, Alphabet City etc. Very unfashionable for decades.
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After 2014, of course, they make their own indices. They can claim Gujarati students test higher than Singapore and lemmings will nod along cos "Gujarat Model" ImageImageImageImage
In my childhood, there was a different phrase for the Gujarat Model. It was Kulhadi ki Kheer.
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Dude has been with the party for over a decade. If he really wanted to lead the party, that was plenty of time for him to lay the groundwork. Build regional alliances. That's how Indian politics works.

But he's most comfortable with camera politics. Esp NDTV flavored.
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Once we were returning from Guatape to Medellin on a weekday evening when our driver suddenly pulled over muttering about how he forgot to check "the numbers", from what my basic Spanish could glean. I first thought it was a lottery thing. No, it was congestion management!
Remember Delhi's odd even experiment? Well, Colombia did something more thoughtful and effective. Their public officials reasoned, correctly, that odd-even means HALF the cars off? That's too much. Instead they use this rolling 40% system.

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.. About this universal heartwarming phenomenon of stray dogs everywhere but never a bark or a growl, even at night, "we keep them fed. If a dog is fed, why will it get territorial?"

Simple point. But it's a cultural thing. They really love dogs there.
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