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Apr 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
A rare AQI alert for Manhattan and surrounding regions. The threshold is 100 in case you're wondering. ImageImage
Currently it is "Good" so I wonder what is making them predict that it will climb above 100. A/C because of heat? Image
It's been a crazy few seasons in NYC & surrounding areas. First a summer that had a historic drought in an otherwise rain bathed region. Then a winter that saw practically zero snow, spring like temps. And now a scorching start to spring! #ClimateEmergncy
Apparently NYC is thinking of a tornado warning siren, something that seems straight out of a 90s disaster movie but is our new reality.

NYC historically didn't get tornadoes so doesn't have the warning system. Last few years, we've had tornado alerts in Manhattan!

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Apr 14
As Kaka once sang,

Truth cannot be hidden by made up principles
Fragrance can never come from paper flowers
I wait, give heart, give love, but how can I trust?

False is your promise, promise your promise
Killed by your promise, this simple straightforward fellow 😭😭
Beyond just Modi, there is a larger element of collective self-delusion when it comes to the Indian middle class.

And it starts by people in the top 2-3% of the country in income levels considering themselves middle class. Not realizing how few they are.

There's a double whammy, or rather triple whammy

- Indian middle class size has always been overestimated
- It has shrunk in Modi years with DeMon, GST, COVID
- Even affluent desi upper middle class JUST DOES NOT spend as much, esp on stuff brands assume they will spend on. 🤷
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Apr 14
If Hindus AREN'T casteist, why is India the only place where working class professions such as roofer, sweeper, lumber seller, cobbler are used as insults everyday even by westernized urban elite Hindus? Image
In what other culture on earth do people insult each other by saying, you are someone who fixes roofs, you are someone who handles leather, you are someone who sells lumber, you are someone who sweeps streets?

Show me one culture other than our great culture that does this.
That's a deliberate error thrown in there so people will fixate on correcting it, and not argue the main point.

This is a frequent right wing tactic.

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Apr 14
People in California need to keep pushing back against the casteist attacks on #SB403 by forwarding the text of #Article15 of the Indian constitution. And point out that the bill is just adding this to the California statutes.

Plain and simple.

Nothing to protest here. Image
Oh for sure, but then let's have them make it explicit, in the United States, especially California, that they are the side in this debate that pines for a theocratic state as an ideal.

Right now they pretend as if the bill is an attack on Hindus. #SB403

These HAF suhag Shukla types are just pouring a lot of heat into the discourse and very little light.

While it is important to combat their misinformation, we should also be putting them on the defensive by asking if they are also opposed to the Indian constitution. 🤷 Image
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Apr 13
Other people will keep posting links to npr. But npr will stay away. Elon will look and feel even smaller than he does looking at the Trump account he reinstated with a lot of fanfare and even thirsty trump won't come back.
Elon's biggest problem is that Twitter, while very popular and desirable, is not really essential to the social media numbers and dollars of any organization. NPR gets 15x more traffic from its app and Facebook than from Twitter.

He's wildly miscalculated his hand.
NPR gets a lot of traffic from Twitter. But most of it is from users posting NPR links, which will still continue. But even all that lot of traffic can't compare to Facebook, mainly cos demographics. And also, NPR has a solid loyal following of 40 mn.

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Apr 13
Btw, this idea that many (or even any) couples do some inappropriate PDA or heavy duty making out in public parks in view of families with kids or even other adults is ENTIRELY in the joyless heads of Indian uncle-aunties.

We don't talk enough about how made up it is! Image
In India, a young couple being together in a public place, let's say holding hands or even sitting & talking, in itself is considered by the orthodoxy to be "indecent".

There is little to no real PDA in view of public in India. Or even in the most western PDA Friendly country.
This whole "families are complaining" excuse is just making up the idea that couples on public parks or beaches, even in company of families, are doing something obscene or full on making out our whatever, so they can restrict or discourage couples altogether.
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Apr 13
Karnataka sanghis seem to have decided that joylessness is the most winning political proposition.

A gorgeous sprawling public park that is banning food, sports, and lovers sitting next to each other. Surprised that didn't ban grass! Image
The sanghi commitment to joylessness as a strategy, starting with banning meats, has now reached escape velocity where it is unconstrained by the gravity of actual political logic.

The only way forward is to get more extreme, take away more joys.
Physics

This has been a very human bounded rationality based feature of any successful rightward tilt in polity through history.

If extreme moves to conservatism/orthodoxy are rewarded systemically, then it means the only way to stand out is to go even more extreme. 🤷🤷
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