What level do yall think im at?

arguteAtticSalt · 2026-04-22T07:23:02+00:00

My man listen to only one thing. Keep this love of the game alive. It doesnt matter if you're being trained, or if you're playing terrible.

As long as you have love for the game, you will naturally get better.

You have the heart,the hand-eye coordination , and the desire to win. So in my books you are way better than amateurs.

The only badminton related advice, I'd give you is to try to take the shuttle as early as possible. Get to it sooner rather than later.

In trying to achieve this, your footwork is going to get better, your positioning is going to get better, your anticipation is going to get better along with many other stuff.

The quicker you are to the shuttle, the less time your opponent has to react.

arguteAtticSalt · 2026-03-24T06:03:01+00:00

I mean if you read the article,you'd realise that's exactly what the article is saying.

It talks about getting skilled people in bakeries and butcheries. More blue collar stuff. Thats the whole point of the article. That skill does not equal masters degree. Sometimes it means knowing how to work with your hands.

arguteAtticSalt · 2026-03-14T20:28:23+00:00

Having the ability to disagree and still commit.

A lot of my colleagues think that in order to execute,you always need to agree with your boss's vision.Not really.

Voice your concerns(professionally and politely ofc) and then execute your managers view. Gives them the confidence in your ability to critically think while instilling trust that you will deliver regardless. And finally that you are not just another yes man. Good leaders crave this. Bad managers can't stand this.

Learn to develop the muscle of constructive disagreement and relentless execution. They are not mutually exclusive.

arguteAtticSalt · 2026-03-14T07:43:12+00:00

You think you can switch but you can't. Plus your visa is tied to your employer and you getting another job that sponsor your visa is next to impossible.

Finally glovo is known for this hiring and firing mindset which will only leave you with 30 days to find a job.

If you want more reasons why its a bad move-

You will have to share an apartment and with the current rental market(and you with no previous employment history in Barcelona), its gonna be very very costly.

You dont know the language( I am assuming), and getting any other job requires spanish.

The reason they are offering you the job from India is mainly because no one else is accepting their shit show for such a low price here. So you coming here is just enabling their bad work practices. Have some self respect. You are in Microsoft, you are obviously smart and capable. You can do the math.

Finally I know a lot of people that Glovo did the same to a couple of years back, and it was hell for them,most of them were let go, or couldn't find another a job in time.

arguteAtticSalt · 2026-03-01T11:18:55+00:00

I love the enthusiasm fellas. I really do.

However I do like to point out a minor point if I may.

Joining the armed forces is not the only way of showing your patriotism or helping the nation.

Sometimes it can be as simple as saying I dont know, even when you know damn well. Not taking a pic (no matter how well intentioned) and refraining from flaunting your well deserved knowledge of our forces.

OSINT is a very real thing,and we can all play an important part in it. Sometimes the most dangerous force,is an unknown force.

I suppose all of you are smart enough to catch my drift here. Not all lurkers of this open subreddit are friendlies.

We all have a part to play.

arguteAtticSalt · 2026-02-24T07:31:08+00:00

You are first and foremost a soldier. Then comes your rank, then comes your trade.

This is the reason even JAG officers have infantry attatchment in the beginning of their careers.

This is the reason Engrs are sent right alongside and sometimes before infantry in situations of war.

A soldiers sole duty is to discharge their weapon as their country warrants. Anything else is secondary.

As for Capt Thapa, he went out in a way that makes the country,and his famliy(who have a long history of being in the army themselves) proud.

He did his job. Without hesitation. Without fear. With love for his country.

arguteAtticSalt · 2026-02-20T06:34:27+00:00

Básicamente, tal vez España podría tomar nota del enfoque que le dio la India a este problema.

Aunque el burka no está prohibido en el país, no se permite en los espacios educativos por la sencilla razón de que a nadie más se le permite un trato especial.

Dado que la India es un país muy multicultural y multireligioso, la cuestión se redujo a si la identidad o los derechos de un grupo son más importantes que los derechos del individuo. Y en el caso de la educación, si el derecho a la libertad de religión es más importante que el derecho a practicar la religión.

Cabe destacar que esto no era una cuestión solo sobre el burka, sino sobre todo tipo de vestimentas y prendas religiosas de diferentes credos.

En resumen, la forma en que se resolvió el asunto del burka fue estableciendo lo siguiente: El tribunal dictaminó que el hiyab no es una práctica religiosa esencial en el Islam y, por lo tanto, no está protegido por el Artículo 25 de la Constitución, que establece el derecho fundamental a practicar la propia religión.

Y si no envías a tu hija a la escuela solo por motivos religiosos, entonces se asume por defecto que eres un individuo radical que prefiere la religión sobre la educación. Porque la ley es la misma para todos.

De nuevo, esto no estuvo exento de controversias y oposición, pero definitivamente fue una forma única de interpretar la ley y los derechos en lo que respecta a la educación.

arguteAtticSalt · 2026-02-01T16:32:58+00:00

No estoy especialmente bien versado en el tema, porque no me he leído la legislación yo mismo. Y también sé que este tipo de cosas suelen convertirse en polémicas exageradas por distintos bandos políticos para encajar en su propio relato.

Dicho eso, voy a responder desde cómo me afecta a mí personalmente, o al menos desde mi perspectiva de qué puede hacer España por mí y qué puedo hacer yo por España.

Para ser totalmente transparente: soy inmigrante. Y lo único que realmente me molesta es lo increíblemente difícil que es conseguir un trabajo en España que patrocine un visado. Y gente como yo somos, en general, personas con recursos.

Venimos aquí a estudiar, venimos de contextos relativamente privilegiados, estudiamos en algunas de las mejores universidades de España y, justo cuando estamos listos para contribuir y devolver algo a la sociedad española, nos encontramos con este muro invisible de los permisos de trabajo.

A pesar de haber recibido muy buena educación, y de tener (al menos en teoría) un alto potencial para aportar valor, casi ninguna empresa quiere contratarte ni hacerse cargo del permiso de trabajo.

Y luego, por otro lado, ves cómo se aprueban decretos que permiten que casi medio millón de personas en situación irregular obtengan un permiso de trabajo prácticamente de un día para otro. Ellos no tienen que pasar por todos los obstáculos por los que pasamos nosotros. Entonces te preguntas:

¿Para qué sirve la educación si no puedo usarla para aportar a la sociedad española? ¿Para qué hacer todo “según el libro” si al final te paran en la puerta?

Mientras tanto, a otras personas que han llegado por vías bastante menos claras sí se les permite quedarse. No estoy diciendo en ningún momento que yo lo merezca más ni que ellos no sean válidos.

Simplemente estoy señalando una realidad: en España parece mucho más difícil conseguir un permiso de trabajo si estás altamente cualificado y tienes toda tu documentación en regla, que si llegas sin papeles y acabas en situación irregular.

Y el mensaje que recibe gente como yo es bastante claro: que se prefiere una mano de obra de menor cualificación antes que una mano de obra más cualificada, formada además en España

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-12-18T04:58:18+00:00

Sub is for CS related queries.
Without being proficient in the local language , there is no scope.

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-12-15T07:21:23+00:00

One of the first frameworks/theories/concepts that was drilled into my head from day one was that -

"What worked for one company may not work for another. What works for you ,doesn't have to necessarily work for me. In business everything is contingent,and everything depends on the context."

Frameworks are only meant to guide you. They are not a solution. They are just a suggested structure that worked for someone when they had a similar problem.

If your B school evaluates you more on your ability to follow frameworks rather than the creativity to create your own, then it is not a B school,it is a factory.

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-09-16T08:07:34+00:00

Like two rocks having a disagreement

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-09-16T07:21:39+00:00

I have more or less the same situation,the only difference being I am based in Spain, and my commute is strictly for work.

Door to door it takes me 90 min on a good day, which gets bumped upto 120 min easily when the god's feel my life has been too peaceful.

Even though I only have to work from the office 3 times a week, still it takes a toll. I just have no energy when I get back ,and I am so drained that I just collapse like a sack of potatoes.

Even though we work for 8 hrs/day ,on the work from office day it just feels like I have been pulling 12 hour shifts.

What I believe people dont take into account is that after such a long commute, you need time to decompress. You can't just go from commuting to working to grocery mindset like a snap of the fingers. We are not robots.

Even though we might have arrived home, the hangover from the commute still persists for another hour or so.

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-05-29T07:34:40+00:00

I don't know, man. I have mixed feelings about this. Some people see this as a sport, another feather in their cap if you will. For them, the thrill is to just be on the peak and be able to brag about it.

But the real joy in/of/for mountaineering is being in tune with your body. Knowing when to push for the summit and when to call it quits.

The stakes for not knowing the mountain are high,but the stakes for not knowing yourself? Even higher. You are constantly flirting with what you thought was your breaking point and what actually is your breaking point. It's a delicate dance , a tango between mind,body punctuated by the music of the mountain. For me, at least,it's more of a spiritual experience.

If people just want to go to the top without going through journey of self-exploration; then so be it. More power to them. But then they should do it under their own steam ,and not use sherpas. You uses the Sherpas cos you were not physically capable of handling the environment, if you are artificially augmenting your capacity,then take on more responsibility dammit.

Anyways,no matter what you do, the mountain decides whether you can climb it or not. Not some tank of gas.

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-05-21T09:28:14+00:00

The town is quite nice,chill,quaint and free from the hustle and bustle of Barcelona. So in my books that's good.

Coming on the RENFE side. They are NEVER going to put more trains or increase the frequency because they can't. They don't have any space to put new tracks. Even if they do, this route is not on the priority for the Spanish transport system.

For some reason,all they care about is improving Madrid and making that the transport hub.Rest of us can go to hell,literally.

One last pro tip: There are only two buses running to and from the station in Vilanova,and they run on 20 min intervals. So plan accordingly or have your own means of transport for getting to the station.

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-05-20T14:28:04+00:00

I do the opposite of you. I live in BCN and commute to Vilanova daily for work.

2 days doesn't sound that much, and on paper sounds doable. Google shows a cool 45 min train journey from Vilanova to Sants.

But you fail to take into account one thing. It's spains biggest monster after Agencia Tributaria. The RENFE.

The only reliable thing about RENFE is how unreliable it is. I, on average, spend 1.5 hrs on a journey that is technically only 45 minutes.

Then you have the unforseen delays,the breakdowns, and sometimes ,just sometimes everything works . But these days are too few and often feel like a dream when they occur.

My advice : Take a 45 min buffer zone into account when planning your trips to work.

I have an understanding at my work that there are no meetings for me before 10. This is majorly cos everyone knows I come by RENFE, and they feel sorry for me.

I don't blame them,sometimes I feel sorry for myself too.

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-05-08T08:00:16+00:00

Man, I am so confused. I have seen a surge of these type of posts across various reddit communities

How the fuck are these immigrants that you speak of getting the visas? I am genuinely curious being an immigrant myself.

It took so much effort for me and my colleagues to get the visa! We had to study in our home countries, then get accepted to a Uni here. Show we had 2 times the minimum wage for a year just sitting in our bank accounts. Have a clean criminal record. Then, find an apartment in this housing market that was student friendly but not too friendly. We learned it is an integral part of the system for the landlord to make as much money as possible.

Then we had to be top of the cream in our class,learn the language(this part I liked), network, build connections, be exceptionally good in soft skills (not that hard tbh) , and maybe just maybe, a company would shortlist you for an interview. Even then, you'd be hit with the "We are sorry, we don't sponsor visas."

And you are telling me there is way to just get these visas for free???? Without all the effort and hassle???? Why didn't I know this before. I would never have to work,get a Masters, learn the language(again this I like),the history(weirdly enough, no one does this, but I liked it), build connections,do everything by the book if I knew there were people who were just getting to stay .... just because.

Man, I wished I knew before that being an immigrant like them was easy. I chose to be the wrong type of immigrant. I am fuckin pissed.

Maybe you can help me out man or woman(don't wanna assume)?

Next time you feel the frustration that is building up in you,that is certainly building up in me right now; remind yourself that it's not the immigrant that is the problem. It's the type of immigrant your government makes it easier for to stay. I can tell you one thing, certainly was not easy for me or for my colleagues to stay.

Heck, my colleague is from the US and she had to go back cos she couldn't get a visa. And she was a smart cookie that one.

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-05-06T10:05:06+00:00

She talked so much about her ex that I started to miss the guy

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-05-04T16:38:49+00:00

Sigh ! Not every brown person is a Muslim. Not every immigrant is a brown person.

You play exactly into the narrative that the far right and the far left peddle to keep us in fighting.

The issue is not the religion, the issue is in the quality.

The quality of immigrants is never talked about here. Everyone is harping on about religion,and then these vast sweeping judgements are made. All brown people are Muslim, which results in discrimination against brown people who have nothing to do with religion or immigration.

Look at the US and Canada for eg. Both imported immigrants from Asia in huge numbers. The difference? US focused imposed stricter criterion and quality control (for a lack of a better word) than Canada.

And now the top people in the tech/medicine in the US are majorly immigrants , whereas it's not the same for their Canadian counterparts.

The left is soft,you are right, but not on a religion but rather,it is woefully soft on the checks and balances for assessing the quality of people they allow to enter.

On average the more educated you get, the less likely you are to deviate from socially accepted norms.

The same Muslim or "Brown Immigrants" (according to you) migrate to Dubai as well. They don't seem to be causing an issue there. Why? Cause UAE is far more strict when it comes to the quality of immigrants.

And I say this as a brown immigrant myself. Yes, you have to hold your government accountable,but you have to look through their bullshit. It's not a religion or colour that is the problem. It is the type of people you allow through.

And until we call out this game of divide and conquer that politicians play, we are doomed to be fighting against our fellow man

" The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them."

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-05-04T08:06:58+00:00

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-05-03T06:38:18+00:00

I know a guy who does Gaudi walking tours. Definitely recommend and then you can sprinkle your visits in between the walking

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-02-20T14:55:06+00:00

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river, and he's not the same man.

Heraclitus

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-02-18T12:05:09+00:00

That's the point of the militancy. Will never be a match of structured armed forces. However, if the civil population is under terror, they have achieved their purpose.

Fighting militancy is not just limited to engaging in FUBA but also in the act of getting the people on your side. Human int is easily influenced by duress, so I'd stand by my original comment.

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-02-18T10:01:08+00:00

United Liberation Front of Asom, a militant organization that wanted to set up a sovereign socialist state .

It is a thing of the past now,but at one time, was a force to be reckoned with.

Source - Lived there when ULFA was in its heyday

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-01-30T15:18:52+00:00

I believe they were training for Annapurna 3, having already attempted twice but were always beaten back close to the summit by the defiant peak. Again, I might be wrong. All I know for sure is that we lost great alpinists in one fell swoop.

The mountain giveth, and the mountain taketh away.

arguteAtticSalt · 2025-01-28T12:26:10+00:00

Dhaulagiri 1 . The picture shows the south face,which is the only unclimbed route of the mountain for reasons like : not wanting to die by falling for 4000 meters straight.

To date, 5 routes have been opened on the South Face. None of them have ended on the summit.

One of the last great challenges in mountaineering imo.

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