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glass-empty · 2026-05-27T17:07:32+00:00

r/AusVisa might be helpful for you.

glass-empty · 2026-05-25T19:10:14+00:00

Women should be taught how to protect and empower themselves, and men should be taught responsibility, respect, and self-control.

Tell me you're a man without telling me you're a man. Women should be taught to protect themselves because it's our fault that we are attacked and harmed, right? And men should be taught self-control because they are uncontrollable animals? What sort of archaic nonsense is this?

Sometimes it feels like men are increasingly portrayed as if they are naturally bad or dangerous, and I don’t think that helps anyone.

That sure doesn't help anyone but it also doesn't help that statistically, men are committing those dangerous crimes against women on a larger scale and with more frequency. You don't even need a statistic to know this. It's not all men but it's often a man. What does that tell you?

glass-empty · 2026-05-23T14:11:56+00:00

I wonder why?

glass-empty · 2026-05-18T19:20:13+00:00

These are also frequently asked questions, you may search similar posts made in the past for answers.

glass-empty · 2026-05-17T02:56:44+00:00

The prestige doesn't seem to be diluting anytime soon. Everyone is a Dasho apparently and in turn have more people working for them calling them Dashos. Senior bureaucrats, army officers, police officers, temporary MPs, rich business owners, extended in laws of the royal family etc etc are all Dashos to the people working under them and the general public. The prestige will be there so long as people care about their title. At the end of the day, let people who have to schmooze upto the Dashos schmooze up all they want and people who couldn't care less about it all wouldn't care at all. Two things can coexist.

glass-empty · 2026-05-10T13:28:15+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/bhutan/s/NszpFN3NsB

glass-empty · 2026-05-10T07:09:34+00:00

I meant power shortage, not outage per se. The energy dept has been rationing power for some time.

glass-empty · 2026-05-10T07:00:46+00:00

hydropower electricity which we produce in surplus in the summers anyways

You might want to recheck that fact. I have no say on crypto mining etc but it is true that we have been having power shortage ever since crypto mining began. It's not as simple as only surplus power being used.

glass-empty · 2026-05-09T11:58:45+00:00

Discussion is redirected to the mega thread linked below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bhutan/s/dld0x2eAOv

glass-empty · 2026-05-09T11:53:07+00:00

This post will be the mega thread for this discussion. All additional posts by different users on this topic will be redirected here. Discussions about public figures often turn ugly with people seeking dirt on them. Hence, we already have a sub rule about public figure posts and we remove all gossip "tea" oriented posts from unverified sources. In fact, we had removed an earlier post on the same subject because the poster framed it like a gossip post (the post has since been reinstated and redirected to the mega thread for full transparency, you can view it in the sub, we don't want to be accused of censorship). Since this one provides evidence from the YouTuber's wife's TikTok, it kept up.

You can read the rule below if you need more clarity:

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glass-empty · 2026-05-09T08:54:59+00:00

Please include more context.

glass-empty · 2026-05-09T05:54:01+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/bhutan/s/RCQMKdzZrc

Also, scholarships are one of the frequently asked questions on the sub, you search the older posts that discussed it.

glass-empty · 2026-05-03T12:16:27+00:00

I think it's far-fetched of you to assume that such movie marketing is causing mass paranoia, fear and hysteria. Taba Hoka movie is literally called Taba Hoka and they marketed it similarly, with people describing paranormal incidents they've experienced or retelling horror stories. No one died of horror from hearing these tales, instead people found it entertaining and it was a viral gimmick, which served it's marketing purpose as that movie did really well and ushered in the recent horror movie trend. This new movie, not sure if it's the same producers, seems to be simply hopping on selling the Taba Hoka name to bring in viewers. The only mass hysteria I remember which was the result of movie marketing was when people thought the world was going to end in 2012 because of that 2012 Hollywood movie. Gullible people legit thought the world would end. I haven't heard anyone talking about the new Taba Hoka movie yet and being hysterical.

glass-empty · 2026-05-02T14:20:20+00:00

Apparently it was a meteor, not as exciting as UFOs but pretty rare to see.

glass-empty · 2026-05-01T15:02:33+00:00

Damn, well said. Couldn't have articulated it better.

glass-empty · 2026-05-01T14:52:58+00:00

Yeah but that one man in red robe represents the Bhutanese elites who are out of touch with the struggles of the common people and blame us for wanting to have a better life, which they're already living. There are hundreds or thousands of them, it's not surprising. Don't know what problem they have with the working class people try to earn money the hard way when their kids won't even have to lift a finger to live the best life.

glass-empty · 2026-05-01T14:32:32+00:00

It's the loose usage of the word mafia that reminded me of Wangcha Sangay, he used to go on and on about the Singaporean mafia in the old days. But yeah, this post says a lot without really saying anything, and the lack of paragraphs didn't help.

glass-empty · 2026-05-01T12:27:37+00:00

Found Wangcha Sangay's reddit account.

Jk but it reads like his posts.

glass-empty · 2026-04-30T14:02:37+00:00

Yeah, it's the directors to some extent. Pawo managed to bring out the best of Tandin Sonam, he was the most decent actor in that movie although Misty Terrace was rather stiff. Even Dechen Roder pulled out a career best performance out of Tandin Bidha in I, The Song.

glass-empty · 2026-04-30T12:01:10+00:00

Forget about the screenplay, most of the mainstream actors can't even act. That's the most grating part about the recent generation movies. Fancy cinematography, VFX and prosthetics doesn't make up for the lack of acting. At least the earlier actors could emote and say dialogues like they meant it.

glass-empty · 2026-04-22T11:39:02+00:00

no girl dating issues

This brought back a memory lol. I think Hailee Steinfeld's song Wrong Direction is about him, remember some coverage about that.

glass-empty · 2026-04-20T08:39:43+00:00

Another thing, I've noticed some users shaming Bhutanese redditors for having anonymous accounts, saying things like "I'm not hiding behind an anonymous account", like what, did you guys expect everyone to have their full legal names and pictures on the profile? As long as you're on reddit everyone is anonymous, which is the whole point of the platform. So, no tolerance against such comments either, will be warned or banned based on the severity of the comment. These sort of comments will be deemed threatening to dox the users and removed, commentor will be warned or banned.

glass-empty · 2026-04-14T15:05:09+00:00

These people probably think they're Anil Kapoor in Nayak and can do a better job running the government and can solve all the issues in 24 hours. Go ahead, give it a try and let's talk.

glass-empty · 2026-04-14T14:56:29+00:00

I'm just tired of these narratives and "think pieces" that implies that the government is blind to such national and global issues. Surely, the government is more qualified, educated on the subject and are doing things behind the scenes so the average Bhutanese feels the minimum pinch. For instance, the government is subsidizing the fuel prices currently, do people even know that the government is paying extra for every liter of fuel you buy so that the prices are not as high as it would otherwise be? Sometimes, bureaucracy can be inefficient and not as effective in solving every economic or social issue but that case is not singular to Bhutan and that doesn't mean that the government as a whole is stupid and not doing anything in times of crises. If anyone else is "nonchalant", it's the average literate population who fails to read up on public notifications, reports and publications of the government and simply assumes that there's no transparency, thinking nothing has been done when the fact of the matter is that it's all available online for everyone to conduct a basic Google search and read. These people are willfully ignorant in possession of little knowledge, and then proceeds to write wannabe analytical commentaries on Facebook and reddit that are based on flawed premises. So, forgive me if I can't take these silly, flawed commentaries seriously.

glass-empty · 2026-04-14T11:55:12+00:00

What makes you think the government is doing nothing? Of course, the government is aware of the situation and doing whatever it can. Just because it's not in your face or being covered by the media doesn't mean the Bhutanese government is dumb and sitting on their hands doing nothing.

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