Beyond reasonable doubt

[Estagiário da F1 @EstagiariodaF1]

a piscadinha que o carro do Antonelli dá bem na hora que ele dá uma volta no Russell é sutil e brutal ao mesmo tempo

[Cytrus 🍋 @cytrusf1]

He can't deal with adversity. When things don't go his way he lashes out with unnecessary anger and borderline violence.

[Afro Believer kaJama @afrobeliever89]

@MercedesAMGPCF1 He cannot deal with adversity. Whenever anything goes wrong, he lashes out with extreme frustration and always blames someone or something.

[amy 🇧🇷 @bxstianini]

o fato dele ter o Senna como ídolo, ter apoio da família Senna, ter usado o S no carro na base (que só pode ser usado com autorização da família), usar o 12, ter visitado o chefe no túmulo, ter nascido onde ele morreu, entre tantas outras coisas mexe com meu psicológico

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

This is a pretty striking shift toward Chinese models by American AI startups since the start of the year. https://t.co/80uaCWQCRE

[Verstappen News @verstappenews]

if the engine thing is true, might be the most impressive feat from a F1 team in history btw

building it from scratch and making the best engine out of everyone

.. just makes me wonder how amazingly dogshit our chassis is (esp at the start of the season)

[roxane @sebsclaren]

today’s podium 😭😭😭😭😭

[MV33Racing🏎 @MV33Racing]

George Russell Australia: "Very nice. Very nice. I like this car...I like this engine."

George Russell Monaco: "This car suits Kimi perfectly."

[Verstappen News @verstappenews]

Q: when it's just 0.043 off of pole, can you visualise where you lost that time?

Max: "I never do that, to be honest. Sometimes you are just ahead, sometimes you are just behind. That's life."

"I was happy with my lap, and when I crossed the line, I was like; if someone beats that, fair enough."

[Formula 1 @F1]

Grande Kimi! 🙌

The @pirellisport Pole Position Award goes to Kimi Antonelli 🤩

#F1 #MonacoGP

[Beyond reasonable doubt @BN9195]

@gonglei89 Why do Americans think they can hit within China? They think China is Iran?

[Beyond reasonable doubt @BN9195]

Japan is not significantly richer, if at all, than these three coastal provinces. If anything, people in these provinces enjoy a higher standard of life than Japanese because they enjoy cheap labour and manufactured goods while at similar levels of GDP per capita.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Interesting. On a per capita basis, Japan remains significantly richer than these three Chinese provinces, despite the fact that these are Chinese industrial powerhouses, while the Japan comparison includes both its industrial regions and poorer regions.

[Beyond reasonable doubt @BN9195]

Lol and people say HK is dead

[Financial Times @FT]

Hong Kong overtakes Switzerland as hub for global offshore wealth https://t.co/Sd9PYFEbp6

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

John Mearsheimer: "It's not just Israeli leaders who support the genocide. You don't see any protest among the Israeli public. It's shocking. It's sickening. You have to file all this under the Nazification of Israel. They are like the Germans under Hitler."

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

POMPEO🤡: You don't let a radical regime close off the global economy by firing Shaheed missiles.

Stephen Walt: You do know, Mike, that we started the war.

POMPEO🤡: No, no, no.

Stephen Walt: They weren't firing those missiles until Israel and the United States attacked Iran.

[Options.India @Options_IndiaAB]

I recently spent 2 weeks in China.

6 cities: Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, Zhangjiajie, Chongqing and Chengdu.

I went there with curiosity.

Like many Indians, I had heard a lot about China through media, social media and conversations. I expected to see progress, maybe discover some business ideas, and understand what the country is actually building.

I came back with a very uncomfortable feeling.

Not because I found a business idea for myself.

But because I saw 100 things that governments can do when infrastructure, tourism, transport, urban planning and civic systems are treated seriously.

I travelled within China by flights, trains, cars and local transport. The infrastructure was honestly stunning.

Clean cities. Smooth roads. High-speed trains. Well-managed traffic. Public spaces that actually feel designed for people. Tourist destinations that are built, maintained and promoted like national assets.

And then I kept thinking about India.

We keep comparing ourselves to China. Our media keeps telling us how India is catching up, how China is restrictive, how we are better in so many ways.

After spending time there and speaking to people, I realised how much of that narrative is just comfort food.

China is not perfect. No country is.

But on infrastructure, execution, tourism, civic discipline and quality of urban life, they are not 5 years ahead of us.

They are decades ahead.

The saddest part for me was the currency.

Everything felt expensive. Not because China was insanely expensive, but because the rupee has weakened so much that even normal spending starts feeling heavy. As an Indian taxpayer, that genuinely hurt.

We pay taxes. We work hard. We talk about becoming a global power.

But where is the quality of life?

Where is the civic sense?

Where is the infrastructure that makes daily life easier?

Where is the tourism vision beyond religious tourism?

I met travellers from other countries who were excited to visit China because they wanted to see its progress. When I asked about India, many had no real desire to visit. Not out of hate. India simply was not on their aspirational travel list.

That should bother us.

Even the so-called “closed internet” surprised me. We are told people there are missing out because they don’t use Google, Instagram, WhatsApp or Facebook.

But China has built its own digital ecosystem. Payments, maps, transport, messaging, shopping, everything works inside their own infrastructure. People did not seem to feel deprived. They seemed adapted.

Again, this is not a hate post.

I love India. That is exactly why this trip bothered me.

Patriotism cannot only be about saying we are great.

Real patriotism is having the courage to admit where we are falling behind.

China made me realise one thing very clearly:

India’s potential is not the problem.

Execution is.

And unless we stop comforting ourselves with comparisons and start demanding better infrastructure, better governance, better tourism, cleaner cities and a higher quality of life, we will keep celebrating the idea of progress instead of actually living it.

[Formula 1 @F1]

This podium moment ❤️

#F1 #CanadianGP

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