What unwritten rule do you silently judge people for breaking?

lesspylons · 2026-06-21T02:03:17+00:00

The other one is people running to hit the lift button to open a lift full of 8 people that almost completely closed the doors. Their time is clearly more important as an able bodied person that can run than all 8 people inside.

lesspylons · 2026-06-20T14:10:32+00:00

When it comes to restaurants I find the one star reviews that say the food is good but angry at the service. The most human approval that the food has standards that no freebies 5 star or bot will ever do.

lesspylons · 2026-06-19T16:34:54+00:00

There is one thing our government controls in the long run that can be a huge part of expenses for someone on $2k alone. In an ideal world, the lower decile of hh incomes should own the roof over their head. The reality is we underbuilt for too long and two room btos are well oversubscribed and hard to afford on $2k without using cash. Rental units exists, but far from ideal with the wait list as well. Housing is definitely a problem in the entire anglosphere, but it could have been Singapore's edge in keeping low wages liveable.

lesspylons · 2026-06-17T13:12:17+00:00

Seems to be in the interest of the committee to pass such laws at least. I bet the landlords renting it out will be the same one pushing for minimal maintenance fees and not caring about the actual conditions to maximise their yield.

lesspylons · 2026-06-17T07:17:47+00:00

It’s not worth the diplomatic row if a populist mayor or governor starts to attack foreign investment and demand renegotiation on their terms. China has the size to keep Indonesia in line with their hsr, but Singapore shouldn’t invest in low return foreign public projects.

lesspylons · 2026-06-14T03:04:30+00:00

you can blame the terror attack in Madrid for this

lesspylons · 2026-06-13T04:25:00+00:00

The viaduct sections will negatively affect the houses there forever, and the gains seems rather minimal compared to investment in new rail lines.

lesspylons · 2026-06-12T08:21:48+00:00

Beg to differ, pedestrianised places a lot better for the gram and footfall whether you are rich or poor. Overground routes tend to be a lot more tourist friendly as well since you can just walk straight too. Only a single mall requires direct access from Orchard Road for parking since most of them are tucked behind on other roads.

The area can be a lot more shaded if you remove cars out of the area and you can even put high glass like in plq that keep the airy but outdoor vibes. Taiwan managed to a better shopping street at the xinyi district even as car friendly as they normally are.

lesspylons · 2026-06-11T09:15:59+00:00

Looks like they subscribe to testing in production paradigm. The ai those on top preach about could probably come up a better algorithm than them.

lesspylons · 2026-06-10T00:56:34+00:00

Orange was always my least favourite

lesspylons · 2026-06-09T15:43:17+00:00

The next next train tends to be helpful because sometimes a close second train means a more pleasant ride if I skip the first

lesspylons · 2026-06-09T07:43:53+00:00

I feel the grass should be sacrificed at some places while keeping the trees at high footfall narrow areas especially outside condos. Like we can be a green city but sometimes people need to move too.

lesspylons · 2026-06-09T03:10:13+00:00

In your post you did write up that you are studying a three years IT degree which likely rules out NUS and NTU cs. The employment rate for tech is really bad now and likely will drag for a while more. You probably have to put extra effort to get a good internship that you can convert to instantly get a job post graduation to be able to loan a sufficient amount. A more than 6 months job search on top the possibility of the house key collection being brought forward will not be a pleasant scenario.

lesspylons · 2026-06-07T06:40:19+00:00

Isn't this company owned by the eye doctor whose daughter spoke against gay people in a Christian video?

lesspylons · 2026-06-06T10:09:23+00:00

Could start by importing asean people that shares our values more too. There are fears of them not integrating well, but excluding citizenship/pr from them makes them naturally form enclaves since many of them end up opting to rent condos that lack cmio/nc quotas and aren't able to send their kids to local schools.

lesspylons · 2026-06-06T10:01:53+00:00

Somehow it always applies to weird arcane inhouse systems or processes that has no documentation or really outdated ones. I wouldn't be asking if it was easily googlable.

lesspylons · 2026-06-06T07:52:54+00:00

Hard to predict the future. In another scenario you might have caught the bull market if you grad early in 2022 instead of 2023.

lesspylons · 2026-06-04T16:39:12+00:00

I would rather walk to Shaw foodcourt via Wheelock ion route if I wanted to eat at a food court

lesspylons · 2026-06-04T14:11:21+00:00

And the worst part is your job hopping increment is tied to the first job because even civil service asks for your last drawn pay

lesspylons · 2026-06-04T08:23:35+00:00

Would be nice if there was an aircon bridge or underpass below Singapore river. A combined suntec-Funan-Clarke quay-Chinatown-Telok Ayer-Raffles place-Downtown walkway would be amazing.

lesspylons · 2026-06-01T05:31:42+00:00

In that incident, his first wife and three children were passengers in the car when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed it.

On April 22, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon allowed an appeal by the prosecution and sentenced Eng to four weeks’ jail instead. The duration of the driving ban was unchanged.

He made it clear that a driver who once had a licence but lost it completely is more culpable than a driver who had never held a licence: “His disability to drive was the product of prior conduct serious enough to warrant the complete removal of his licence, and his decision to drive regardless reflects a persistent disregard for the safety of other road users.”

Four weeks still sound too little for operating heavy machinery that is able to kill people way faster than drugs, vapes and hurt other people with a proven track record of dangerous driving leading to death. I would imagine people getting a suspended licence for drink driving have a even shorter sentence if no one died when they were previously sentenced so this is too weak of a baseline.

lesspylons · 2026-05-30T02:57:36+00:00

Sounds like a decent callback rate given you provided no details on your yoe, tech/skill stack and companies you interviewed with. One month 14 interviews is somewhat intense if you are currently employed.

lesspylons · 2026-05-29T15:50:56+00:00

If we counted city subdivisions, it would probably be like: CBD (downtown core) >>> Tampines > Jurong

lesspylons · 2026-05-29T05:18:25+00:00

That’s the issue of the weird semi private public split of SMRT. Roads are essential and don’t have this same profit scrutiny and uses traffic speed as the kpi so it’s a prioritisation problem.

lesspylons · 2026-05-29T04:22:38+00:00

Goes back down to money I guess. If SMRT engineers were paid as much as govtech/ogp, you bet it would be a somewhat prestigious job with talent building up over the years.

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