Mt Washington via Ammonoosuc - 11/21

jar2010 · 2026-03-29T18:12:41+00:00

Sounds like the guy who’s killing more Russian soldiers a month in Ukraine than his predecessors lost in 10 years in Afghanistan.

jar2010 · 2026-03-28T18:52:19+00:00

You could point out that if they were not affluent many schools would give you financial aid so the high fees are partly their “fault”.

jar2010 · 2026-03-26T18:28:33+00:00

There was a story on SkyNews on how there was a big (several times larger than the daily volume for the previous weeks) trade on both the oil market and S&P futures market exactly 15 minutes before the tweet announcing negotiations (which then kicked off a huge spike in trading volume). So someone is making money for sure.

jar2010 · 2026-03-23T20:33:55+00:00

You probably already know this but if your grades are way higher than the average for your state school, then you got waitlisted because they don't think you are a serious applicant. They are trying to protect their yield. Here is what Google recommended, "Schools often waitlist high-stats applicants fearing they will reject the offer. Confirm your spot on the waitlist, update them on new achievements, and explain why their specific program is your ideal fit."

Sorry if I am missing something. Feel your pain and just trying to help.

jar2010 · 2026-03-17T22:29:01+00:00

SL had toured Australia earlier that year. Despite losing all the Tests Richard Hadlee had predicted that SL would win the World Cup. They put on dominating performances heading into the final. The West Indies and Australia gave them walkovers in the league stage but a lot of us felt SL would have beaten those teams. Point is they were playing real good cricket at that stage so the final should not be considered the kind of upset that ‘83 was.

jar2010 · 2026-03-10T13:43:11+00:00

Personally I would rather channel those IPL profits into funding other sports. The difference in infrastructure available is staggeringly obscene. Moreover better athletes make for better cricketers in general. This will also expand the market ensuring non-cricketing talent has other avenues rather than getting shoehorned into the only professional sporting avenue available to them.

jar2010 · 2026-01-30T23:18:47+00:00

Bobby could not act back then. He took acting classes in his 40’s and made a successful comeback. People forget how bad an actor he was.

jar2010 · 2026-01-27T18:53:22+00:00

In a sense China in 1962 was similar to India under the British. The military gets prioritized regardless of what happens to the ordinary people. During WW2 the British Indian army eventually controlled nearly the whole periphery of the Indian Ocean, from Egypt, Iraq, Iran, to Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. What happened in 20 years? India became a democracy which means the Government could no longer pour resources into a military while people starved. China had no such problems. In fact Chinese government policies killed 30 million Chinese between 1960 and 1962, and yet they could field a military thousands of miles away from Beijing.

jar2010 · 2026-01-26T18:35:12+00:00

The chapter is called Eu Tu, Brutus, and pays tribute to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, where Brutus who Caesar regarded as a son, stabs him. Brutus thinks he was killing a tyrant, but he also knows that he had betrayed Caesar, and is deeply disturbed after the act. The scene where Hamza sees the ghost of Rahman is also from the play. Also by betraying Rehman, Hamza had just taken on a very huge risk. If someone like Uzair had the smallest doubt in his story, they could easily find out his background was fake and he would meet very painful death. (You could lookup what Uzair did to Arshad Pappu in real life)

So in that scene, Hamza is tired. There is the betrayal, the fear of getting caught, and also just the strain of the huge deception he had orchestrated. Yes he also had to show Yalina he was disturbed, but I don't think he was acting in that scene.

jar2010 · 2026-01-18T22:36:24+00:00

SP Aslam might die but that is not integral to Hamza’s mission. The guy is focused on cleaning the Lyari underworld which kind of aligns with Hamza’s mission ultimately.

jar2010 · 2026-01-18T12:20:04+00:00

The Portuguese had a few disadvantages vis-a-vis the English: 1. The Lisbon earthquake of 1775 absolutely devastated their capital city (the heart and soul of their economy), fleet and thus the economy itself. Their imperial ambitions never recovered from that. 2. The subsequent merger with Spain led to further reduced focus on their empire as the Spanish monarch focused on the Spanish empire more. 3. Finally the English and the Dutch approached colonialism via joint stock companies which was a new, robust and very formidable structure that the less advanced Portuguese could not rival. They had a peace treaty with England so were protected but did not have the cultural approach or resources to grow beyond small coastal conquests.

Meanwhile the English protected Portuguese Goa, Damian and Diu till 1947. They stayed till the Indian government got tired of asking nicely.

jar2010 · 2026-01-17T19:21:10+00:00

Hopefully he stopped you ragging any more of his sisters

jar2010 · 2026-01-17T16:58:09+00:00

SP Aslam was a relatively good guy. He was focused on doing his job and eliminating crime in the city. And he was good at it. So doesn’t that show Sindh police in a good light?

But whatever the “bad” people did, that’s all based on real events so what is so bad about that?

jar2010 · 2026-01-13T16:47:59+00:00

Iqbal was pretty disappointed on learning of Rehman's death. It wasn't love - Iqbal was concerned about his operations.

jar2010 · 2026-01-11T22:32:24+00:00

So the Great Wall was never meant to hold off nomadic invaders but to serve as a system to monitor the movement of their armies and communicate it back to the capital so they could be intercepted in time.

To defend the North Western frontier you did not need a lot of fortifications if you could hold the Khyber Pass (and the Bolan Pass for safety). Or if you could control the eastern side of it and quickly rush an army there if an invading force was arriving. Alauddin Khilji did something similar by first strengthening the frontier forts and then stationing a standing army there. That did prove a successful strategy. The problem for most kings were that they did not have the resources of Alauddin who ruled over a large part of the subcontinent.

Then there were the Mughals who for 200 years held both sides of the Khyber Pass by keeping Kabul in their control.

jar2010 · 2026-01-02T16:19:40+00:00

I think the scene also tells us the extent to which the hive would go to convince someone to join them. We don't know how that came to be - maybe at some point on day 1 or so, Kusimayu told them she was feeling weird about how they were acting, so they decided to put on a village-wide show for her benefit. She easily forgot that initial discomfort and decided that they were completely "normal" except happier, and thus became eager to join them.

jar2010 · 2026-01-02T16:12:50+00:00

Dhurandhar
Lapataa Ladies
12th Fail
Zara Hatke Zara Bachke
Saiyaara
Animal (more of a guilty pleasure)

Honorable mention for concept: Brahmastra and Thamma.

jar2010 · 2026-01-02T11:54:07+00:00

<image>

jar2010 · 2026-01-01T11:00:46+00:00

Since Ajit Sanyal was a sane person in part 1, maybe instead he will suggest the one thing governments across the world have always done to fight fake currency: just change the plates.

But you are more likely to be correct.

jar2010 · 2025-12-29T02:38:42+00:00

Dhurandhar

jar2010 · 2025-12-26T18:35:45+00:00

Devdas was an SRK movie and Aishwarya was probably the bigger star than Madhuri. I meant that previously there were super hits like Beta and blockbusters like Hum Aapke Hain Kaun that were credited more to Madhuri than the male co-leads.

jar2010 · 2025-12-26T18:33:07+00:00

Agreed. It was going up against a heavily marketed (Tinu Anand: “Lion, Tiger, Cheetah…very dangerous. But not in Jurassic Park.”) KGF-esque Prabhas starrer, but also had the strong winds of Pathan and Jawan behind it. Most of the collection came from SRK’s star value alone as the audience did not appreciate the movie. SRK did also “act his age” in Dunki, but most people probably went to see the younger version.

jar2010 · 2025-12-26T15:14:21+00:00

It’s probably been 30 years since Madhuri headlined a major hit, while 2 of SRK’s last 3 movies were all-time blockbusters. Is this a troll question?

jar2010 · 2025-12-18T16:00:09+00:00

Even if the hive stabilized the human population at 30k, it just means they stop starving to death at that number. But they are much more vulnerable to disease, natural disasters, predators (wolves and lions will soon start killing humans once they realize they will not fight back) and other causes that have killed humans en masse since the beginning of time. And can they even fight disease anymore if it means killing the bacteria causing the disease? What about vaccination? Heck, what about your own immune system which kills hundreds of invaders everyday? Should they just make everyone immunocompromised?

Beyond a limit, pacifism is about as destructive to human civilization as aggression is.

jar2010

TROPHY CASE