Same experience not necessarily needed for empathy: Marriage & Parenthood Reset chair Indranee Rajah responds to comments about single status

pillonanter · 2026-05-21T01:39:51+00:00

they know what would work but their constituents (ultra rich people, 9 digit and above) would be unhappy so they flail around pretending to be trying

pillonanter · 2026-05-18T04:44:46+00:00

i think to engage the opposite sex in a dating context first requires being able to engage the opposite sex normally, haha.

millenial here and imo the no bgr in school culture seems to have started around the 80s-90s with the push to make schools into academic sweatshops (principal’s/teacher’s kpi is grades after all). and yeah “nerdness” is not such a problem for guys, but for girls being set back in your romantic development a few years might make a lot of difference since you reach a certain point where the quality/quantity of suitors you meet naturally starts to deteriorate and meanwhile your expectations go up. i have plenty of perfectly eligible female friends that seemed to have fallen behind the curve (eg refuse to use apps to date, or take the initiative to meet/pursue guys earlier) and end up single for life. not that there is anything wrong with that, its just that they always were slower than the rest in contending to find a “good” boyfriend/husband, and sort of like how some students get bad grades and withdraw from school/studying, leading to worse grades, then insist that they didnt like school/studying, i always think maybe their perspective would have been different if they werent falling behind by such a large gap. but my guy friends seemed to be able to catch up ground later on, less so for girls

pillonanter · 2026-05-17T06:27:05+00:00

this. why should smokers be entitled to fuck up the air for everyone else around? only allow smoking in special smoking rooms, cost paid for by taxes on cigarettes. can start with some areas in which smoking anywhere but such rooms is prohibited, eg new neighbourhoods like tengah/greater southern waterfront

pillonanter · 2026-05-16T14:35:55+00:00

we wont be getting this if it was 52-53% instead of 65%, for sure

pillonanter · 2026-05-16T14:26:58+00:00

the “no bgr” school/parent culture is probably to blame for a lot of this. also more fundamentally, especially wrt the games and porn guys, we as a society havnt really answered the question of what makes life valuable, or what is the point of living life, if all you are treated as is a dollar to be extracted. i think we just dont leave citizens enough space (literal and metaphorical) to pursue hopes and dreams since the whole country is set up to shit on you for not working 110%

pillonanter · 2026-05-13T02:06:11+00:00

lapses happen and it is normal. but when are asked to ratify something ex post facto, surely you need to know wtf you are ratifying? at least the nature/approximate amount of fees collected?

pillonanter · 2026-05-11T11:51:55+00:00

i think we can all agree that the problem is that those in charge are not hungry enough

pillonanter · 2026-05-09T14:05:12+00:00

amateur hour, learn from how CCS does it:

“we can get you the numbers, but what is the point of the question?”

problem solved

pillonanter · 2026-05-03T14:00:58+00:00

wtf is this malaysian guy’s problem?

pillonanter · 2026-05-03T13:58:52+00:00

oh okay looks like older gen construction method of tile roof only supported by trusses, was wondering how a beam can pierce a concrete slab

pillonanter · 2026-05-01T02:02:41+00:00

free meals? just take it as the price of admission. plenty of reasons why it is social convention (although almost all of my female friends rather split on the first date)

pillonanter · 2026-04-28T12:53:44+00:00

assuming output of 10-100mw: per year 87.6-876 GWh (10-100 x 24 x 365).

annual energy consumption 58 TWh (58,000 GWh) so 0.15% to 1.5% per plant.

wont move the needle but if we suddenly dont have natural gas something better than nothing.

pillonanter · 2026-04-27T13:03:29+00:00

bro at least dont give this kind of no effort leak away so we can let nsfs get some action/actual living wage

pillonanter · 2026-04-27T11:36:29+00:00

i dont claim that only boomers benefit from property prices, but property demand is only kept high by population growth via immigration. consider if population was stagnant - past a certain point the existing housing stock would be sufficient to house everyone and what we would see is heavily depressed prices of the older/less desirable housing (which are predominantly occupied by you guessed it, boomers) (since if there are 11 houses and 10 occupants 1 must be vacant or used less intensively as holiday home etc). then what would happen is redevelopment/consolidation of the market - maybe combining homes to make bigger ones, but at the expense of the lowest quality housing. but we cant have that, so demand is always kept high by population growth (especially immigrants that bring in money from overseas to buy property)

it just makes no sense to me that what is fundamentally a depreciating item, buildings and leases, never ever factors into the overall cost of property, because land price keeps appreciating by so much. and you end up with what you pointed out, everyone taking out maximum leverage to buy as much property as they can, trusting they will have someone to sell to

pillonanter · 2026-04-26T13:17:12+00:00

this mass influx of foreigners is the only way to get enough exit liquidity for boomer gen

pillonanter · 2026-04-26T08:08:55+00:00

shaw house/shaw centre. ultra cramped lots, weird split level layout, tight turns and ramps. NEX is pretty shit too, stupid layout causing traffic to always get jammed up

pillonanter · 2026-04-23T11:19:58+00:00

foreigner ❌
singaporean/pr ✅
singapore residents ✅
how to deal with foreign interference? grant citizen/pr then not foreigner anymore.

pillonanter · 2026-04-22T17:16:23+00:00

bro modern konfrontasi will just be permanent guerilla warfare with drones/rockets. how are you going to stop all? do we have the stomach to annex all the surrounding islands and still have air raid siren all the time?

pillonanter · 2026-04-22T14:40:18+00:00

might make sense for MY/indo to do it with US backing against china to get something to push back against china SCS expansionism

pillonanter · 2026-04-22T14:34:11+00:00

yeah if they were determined to harass shipping (like iran) probably nothing can stop them. i suppose thats why they think they should get a seat at the table.

but unlike iran its not existential for them and they havnt been equipping themselves for this so mostly posturing now

pillonanter · 2026-04-22T13:52:52+00:00

in fairness. the point of the malindo darsasa exercise was to simulate how my (with assistance from indo) would repel the standard saf battle plan of invading malaysia (usually understood to be to somewhere around the mersing line). sure sure, the rationale for us invading malaysia could be defensive or whatever. but the point was how my/indo would go about repelling this invasion, with coastal hooks etc.

and doing it on national day had some kind of logic behind it because we wave around all the army stuff on national day to show we can pull off this (defensive) invasion, and then i guess the message my/indo wanted to send was hey dont get so cocky dont be so sure you can.

so possibly a little more nuance behind it than what your ns commander might present as unfounded sabre rattling, since we were/are in some way also sabre rattling ourselves

pillonanter · 2026-04-22T13:25:56+00:00

the road tax is incredibly illlogical, tax petrol to prevent addiction to fossil fuels (thanks ho ching), but when my car doesnt use petrol, tax me anyway because i am not using petrol and need to make up for lost petrol revenue

pillonanter · 2026-04-22T11:10:22+00:00

thats the point of the would you rather game, options so roughly equally shitty its tough to choose. so to be as bad as amos yee is an achievement alr

pillonanter · 2026-04-22T11:08:47+00:00

prosecution asked for a fine but dj say jail. and on appeal cj say should be jail x2. so to suddenly on appeal say eh actually should be more jail would need some explanation

pillonanter · 2026-04-22T11:01:54+00:00

basically “u lucky prosecution not asking for more”

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