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Dec 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A solo bear encounter on our land. Just 20 feet away. It was thrilling, memorable, therapeutic. My phone camera was busted those days so there wasn't even a temptation to take a pic or video. Just me and him, politely looking at each other for 5 minutes, until he sauntered off.
I was alone at #OurWawar, radio on loudly, primarily to "keep bears away" lol. Suddenly noticed him from the corner of my eye, 20 feet away behind a tree. Foraging.

I got up and started talking in a loud but calm voice at him, remembering the bear tips. He gave me a few glances.
He was clearly aware of my presence. We had no food at the campsite. He didn't enter the hemlock grove. Try to "steal" anything. Just foraged on nuts, acorns, bugs around me. Did a 360 prakdakshina, almost, and walked away.

It was exciting and nerve wracking both.
One thing that surprised me when it really shouldn't have is how close he got to me without my even realizing. Bears in real life move very softly and sneakily. Not loud bumbling characters like in cartoons hehe.

I did not hear him at all. Tho I did have the radio on.

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Year 1 Cooking as a Car-less Desi Fob in Rural America, a 🧵

A young friend recently asked if I had any tips from my Penn State grad school days when I didn't have access to desi stores or whole foods type fancy stores or even online options.

And I thought of many!

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My 1st year in the US, I had no car. I was in a tiny college town that had only 1 Desi grocery store with EXTREMELY mediocre inventory. Only supermarkets in walking or bus distance were Weiss or Walmart. Occasionally GIANT.

Basically white people grocery stores.
Contrary to what you might expect, I had NOT arrived with a suitcase full of grains and spices and a pressure cooker packed by my mom.

I was 26 then, been cooking since I was 11 or so, lived alone in Bombay before grad school, was already cocky about my cooking skills lol.
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Dec 30
This is why Democrats are all "🤣🍿🤭" about #GeorgeSantos. With the GOP looking set to seat him, there's 2 years of this non stop grift, cos he will make his time count.

Trump GOP is a party of donor grifts. With the RNC running most donor grifts for Trump past 2 years.
It's obvious why the GOP is keeping #GeorgeSantos around for now. Speaker election is far from settled for McCarthy. They will seat him, he will vote, and then after a couple of weeks or months, he will resign, being "bought out" somehow. Perfectly legal landing spot.
If this dude was in some faraway district in flyover country, it was one thing.

But he's a short drive from where the most political journalists in the country work and he's such an easy dumpster fire fountain.

GOP will cut him loose in Feb or so, I predict.
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Dec 30
Dinner tonight features #OvenGavar 😋 Image
How very pyoorvheg. Image
Simple really.

- Break off the ends of the guar & pull off as much string as you can, then break or chop. Potatoes optional.
- mix with turmeric, chili, salt, hing to mustard seeds, high smoking pt oil
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Don't view this in isolation. Cos $tsla offered an extra $4K discount to those who would take their deliveries this year. Deep discounts to customers, pressure on employees, cos he is trying to game quarterly numbers. And giving away the game, talking about the market lol.
The most bizarre thing about this Musk phenomenon is he does so many things that are transparently stupid or dishonest and it's obvious to anyone not caught up in his myth. And we call out as it's happening. But his myth is still strong. At the content pushers ignore it.
If you paid attention in the most entry level classes in business school or even high school, every misstep of Musk's is so obvious months before the media finally comes around to recognizing said misstep. And then they churn out content trying to still justify the missteps.
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Dec 28
Yeah this. Nuanced point but important.

At least Christians have aggressive marketing campaigns and budgets and conversion targets and all. Church run.

There are no incentives of any kind for an Indian Muslim to convert a Hindu by fraud. And dangerous systemic disincentives...
Seriously dangerous life threatening disincentives. The idea that any real constituency of Muslims exists in India that is focused on seducing and converting Hindu women is so bizarre that only a bigoted mind can buy into it based on a couple of freak incidents out of 1.4 bn.
But that's the thing with this #LustLibel tactic. That was used against Jews for centuries. Then against blacks in Jim Crow US (and even today). And against minorities and Dalits in India.

All they need is a couple of freak incidents & they demonize everyone with mass lies.
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Dec 28
The past 25 years of the denialism machine show that the only practical way to save ourselves is legislations that force big corporations to pay like 10% of their revenues towards carbon capture. Not just reducing emissions and trading carbon credits. Fix the shit they broke.
Past 25 years have shown that to corporations in our modern capitalist setup, short term profits are ALWAYS going to be more important than long term concerns, cos that's just how the market works. You can't "rehab" an apex predator into a herbivore.

Legislation only solution.
Sure there's all this ESG talk and many corporations are taking some welcome steps but they are fingers in the dike against these continuously worsening weather events worldwide.

Set side a carbon capture fund that is 10% of revenues of any big corp that uses fossil fuels.
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