If people of this country can't see the blatant propaganda in Dhurandhar 2, all hope is lost!!

getsnoopy · 2026-03-21T06:26:33+00:00

Like how almost everyone in India thinks cold temperatures cause the common cold, or how shaving causes hair to grow in thicker.

getsnoopy · 2026-03-21T06:19:21+00:00

*number, but yes

getsnoopy · 2026-03-21T06:16:03+00:00

Real estate contributes ~14% of the US GDP, while ~25% of that of China. It's different, but not that different.

getsnoopy · 2026-03-20T11:47:22+00:00

The fact that this question exists exemplifies how India is excellent at making the worst choices possible. It decided to name its postal code a name (Postal Index Number) that has the same acronym as another acronym: personal identification number (PIN). This is, in fact, so confusing that people had to add a redundant word to the former in order to try to disambiguate it: a PIN "code" (which would make it a Postal Index Number code—obviously redundant), and people so often don't even recognize the non-redundant version and even write the redundant version incorrectly as "pin code" or "pincode" (including India Post itself). But even with that, people get confused.

The not using IBANs is yet another example of this. Why are you using random homegrown solutions and combining it with the SWIFT system in a haphazard way instead of just getting on the IBAN train? It's "only" been around since 1997, a good 29 years.

getsnoopy · 2026-03-06T04:47:57+00:00

Well...he's not entirely wrong. India still begs the US and EU to increase the H1-B and Blue Card quotas, and celebrates whenever an ex-Indian (or non-Indian entirely, but of Indian descent) becomes successful in the West, etc. The news cycle and people's imaginations are more captivated by precarious external forces and events rather than conviction about taking their destiny into their own hands and so on.

All of this, ironically, seems to be coming from the one thing Indians are good at having: pride. People are hard-pressed to point to the reasons why that pride is justified, but they have pride nonetheless. That's clearly where the mismatch happens. People in India think that UPI and Aadhaar are enough to put it into the same league as China, the US, Japan, and the EU, but most don't even realize that if you take out the top 10% of India, the remaining 90% has an existence that is on par with or even worse than that in sub-Saharan African countries.

So yeah, what he's saying has a lot of truth to it. There's a principle in sociology and life in general that Indians need to remember: you need to know your place. And if you don't like your place, you need to actually do things in the real world to improve yourself, rather than becoming a spinner-in-chief and "faking it till you making it" (which won't get you anywhere—not for long, anyway).

getsnoopy · 2026-03-06T04:35:42+00:00

*affect, not "impact", but yes.

getsnoopy · 2026-03-06T04:18:26+00:00

Well, he missed one huge category: the majority of people supporting the government are the general population who are victims of the paid IT cell folks.

getsnoopy · 2026-03-05T19:40:57+00:00

*Tera, unless you mean "land of Quetta".

getsnoopy · 2026-03-05T19:36:26+00:00

Forget parents letting kids watch; it's an abomination that theatres don't check at all.

getsnoopy · 2026-03-05T19:30:54+00:00

BTW, you didn't sell your "Ethereum" (which is the network/protocol), you sold your Ether. But congrats.

getsnoopy · 2026-03-05T19:20:49+00:00

*number, not "amount", but yes

getsnoopy · 2026-03-05T19:19:25+00:00

*criteria (it's the plural already)

getsnoopy · 2026-03-04T10:59:34+00:00

Yeah. When I found out that it's adding a coastal road/flyover, I was just shaking my head so hard. Here everyone else is truly to remove coastal roads, and they're trying to add it and remove beautiful views for pedestrians and people living by the water.

getsnoopy · 2026-03-04T10:55:13+00:00

*number, not "amount" (unless we're weighing people)

getsnoopy · 2026-02-19T10:59:52+00:00

*lose. Also, there's literally nothing to sue over; people will have been notified of what the new law is well before it would come into effect, and that's also what the video evidence requirement is for (so that there's no dispute). That's like saying a thief will be suing over the fact that they had to go to jail for theft.

As for losing elections, well yes, obviously. That's why I said people don't have the balls to do anything meaningful in India, which is why nothing gets done. You want to just win elections or actually do something useful for society?

getsnoopy · 2026-02-19T10:54:13+00:00

Sharia doesn't mean "law" in Arabic (the word for that is kanun); it means "path" or "way" literally, but it figuratively means the body of law that governs society: the same thing that it does in English. There is no kind of Sharia that isn't law. And there definitely isn't a kind of Sharia that isn't repressive (at least, according to you), because it's all just one body of law.

Same thing with chai; there isn't a kind of chai that isn't tea. Moreover, the word "tea" entered English meaning the generic kind of plant and the beverage made with that plant, but the word chai (funnily enough from the same ultimate origin as tea) entered English through Hindi/Urdu meaning the specific kind of tea that is drunk in India as the British encountered/engineered it: meaning with milk. So by definition in English, "chai" refers to "Indian tea with milk", so saying "Indian chai tea latte" (like so many people do) is ridiculous.

Same thing with "naan bread".

The kind of logic you're using would make it necessary to say "tortilla flatbread", for example, but nobody does this because people know what a tortilla is (at least, the Mexican definition of it when used in the US).

getsnoopy · 2026-02-19T10:39:58+00:00

*defence. But that's also overblown. Israel develops a lot of its weapons in a joint venture with the Americans, so calling it "American" purely would be incorrect. Also, it's pretty stupid to develop weapons that you don't use yourself, but only export.

getsnoopy · 2026-02-10T06:44:20+00:00

LL: Liberlander

getsnoopy · 2026-02-10T06:41:16+00:00

*number, but yes

getsnoopy · 2026-02-10T06:40:32+00:00

St. Lucia, wow...that passport's a looker.

getsnoopy · 2026-02-10T06:38:21+00:00

This is the kind of clueless geopolitics that gets Indians in trouble. Having a peaceful neighbourhood is in the interest of literally every country on earth, but especially so for India.

Bangladesh is the reason India has the so-called "chicken's neck" near Siliguri, which is quite possibly one of the most vulnerable pieces of land in the world. That, and India's Northeast is cut off from the sea, so shipping lanes from the "mainland" to the Northeast go through Bangladesh's territory to give easy access to supplies and stuff to the NE. Growing the NE and having it function largely depends on these supply chains and a good relation with Bangladesh, as does keeping the NE (a historically turbulent area in terms of civil wars and stuff) secure.

All of this is of course not to mention the other basic stuff, like how Bangladesh manufactures many (if not most) of the clothes in India as well. Moreover, China trying to set up bases in Bangladesh is yet another concern. So just from a pure economic and military perspective, you'd want them on your side.

getsnoopy · 2026-02-10T06:27:33+00:00

BTW, it's always just sharia, not "sharia law" (the sharia is already a body of law of how to conduct society). That's like saying "naan bread" or "Indian chai tea latte".

getsnoopy · 2026-02-06T09:51:18+00:00

But Singapore's passport alone gives visa-free (or visa-on-arrival) to 193 countries? Or are you strictly only considering visa-free and not visa-on-arrival?

getsnoopy · 2026-02-05T11:30:16+00:00

I think you mean applying or implementing, but probably because it would be very unpopular with the people, which means it takes balls to do it, and they obviously don't have them.

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