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Dec 23 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
"Austin University"?
Just so you know.

University of Texas, Austin: flagship world famous university
Austin, TX: World famous city with a "smart city" alliance

NEITHER has anything to do with this announcement, tho it's being sold on Whatsapp as such.

Reality is creepier.

And the approval has been "cancelled" it seems.

It's like if you agreed to help a Nigerian prince transfer some money and signed a contract in which you would get good money from it, but after being told it was a scam, you "cancel" the approval.

Wah Modi, Wah Yogi!
The really creepy thing here is that if you just Google "Austin University" in quotes, you get almost nothing except one random amateurish website & a LinkedIn page, that would raise red flags to even the most gullible googler.

So who profited from setting this up?
Also if California found last week that the premises were vacant, exactly what did this supposed delegation do? Whom did they meet? Where did they go?

And who profited from all this?

BJP is now selling the country even to fly by night scammers?
"Knowledge Smart City" 🤭🤭
This constant farjiwada is why #BJPwillLose soon and suddenly.

India's most populous state is being run by ppl who can't Google out a fake university before expensive foreign trips at taxpayer expense, but win elections just cos of their committed bigotry.

Unsustainable!
Neither the Minister nor IAS babus on that California junket even bothered to just Google the university that apparently promised them billions of dollars. 🤔

Would the UP Govt be interested in buying a suspension bridge in NYC that I'm in charge selling? 🤑🤑

#BJPwillLose
To: UP Gormint

Sirs,

Very popular historic bridge in New York that can be owned by U.P.
Naam hai Brooklyn Bridge.
Goes from Manhattan to Brooklyn and also Brooklyn to Manhattan.
Many places for yoga.
Available for only ₹15 Lakh, payable in pink 2K notes.

Yours sincerely
🤭

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Very few ingredients - chicken, oil/ghee, tomato, ginger, green chilies.

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Somewhat and I have a theory based in very basic design & UI principles that one of those people he randomly fired would have pointed out.

Our repetitive physical actions are muscle memory based. We don't actively seek out the RT/like button. We just intuit it in autopilot.
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"Can you please explain your never-shorting investment philosophy? What is wrong with shorts? Seems like an efficient mechanism."

Oh I'm not saying there's anything "wrong" with shorts. They do serve an important function.

They just don't gel with my own specific strategy.
Shorts are a great way to grow your wealth in the short to medium term.

But I don't invest to grow my wealth. I invest to protect it. I just want enough money in my name at age 65 to not worry about dying a penniless geriatric.

I have no college funds to save up or mortgage.
Wife & I, for about 5 years now, have been consistently earning more than we spend.

Not a LOT more. But comfortably more.

And we are both in our 40s in stable careers the we will most likely be in till we retire, at these income levels.

No kids, no mortgage.
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The most America thing about America is that Glengarry Glen Ross is freely quoted by sales trainers, motivational speakers, startup gurus etc, when it is actually a biting complex satire on a skewed system & kinda foreshadows the core causes of the 2008 market crash.
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It's really absorbing and multi layered as a satire or critique of the greed based rat race. But it's not a potboiler entertainer iykwim.

What does that mean?
That means the archetypal sales guy is unlikely to have watched the whole movie and actually pondered the real message of the story. Good people made to commit evil acts just cos rich people want to get richer and want you to sell more houses to whoever you can find.
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Vachan jaaye par prawn na jaaye 😋 Image
Cast iron makes this LITERALLY the fastest meal I cook. Get the cast iron super hot. Add oil. A minute later, add dry rubbed prawns one by one in an order you remember. 60-90 seconds later, flip them over in the same order. 60-90s later, remove.

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It practically tastes like grilled.
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