I quit my $150K job.
❌ Not for “passion.”
❌ Not for “freedom.”
❌ Not for “money.”
Yet here I am, risking everything:
✅ Big house in Amsterdam
✅ Sleek Audi
✅ Dream lifestyle
Don’t read this if you only like happy stories.
This one gets messy, real quick. 🧵
@garudyaan@BibekRoyC If wrong on this Bengal one May 4th, I will lock and hibernate my account myself for months. If someone wants to take my handle will sell it and shut up once for all.
Landed in Amsterdam. This visit to the Netherlands comes at a time when the India-EU Free Trade Agreement has given a major impetus to trade and investment linkages. It offers an opportunity to deepen relations in areas like semiconductors, water, clean energy and more.
Will be holding talks with Prime Minister Rob Jetten and will be calling on Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima. I also look forward to addressing a community programme on the morning of the 16th.
@koninklijkhuis@RobJetten
Claude response:
The post is mostly wrong. Here’s what the evidence actually says:
The 0.6 g/kg claim is false. The RDA for a sedentary adult is 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight , not 0.6. And even that figure is the minimum to prevent deficiency, not an optimum.
The 0.8 g/kg for “working out regularly” is too low. That’s the sedentary baseline. People who exercise regularly need about 1.1–1.5 grams per kilogram, and people who lift weights or train for running/cycling events need 1.2–1.7 grams per kilogram .
The International Society of Sports Nutrition puts the range at 1.4–2.0 g/kg/day for physically active individuals .
The 1.5–2 g/kg “only for bodybuilders bulking” claim is also off. That range applies to a broad set of active people, not just bodybuilders, and not just for bulking. It’s also relevant during fat loss to preserve muscle: protein intake should be increased up to 2.0 g/kg per day during an energy deficit to help prevent loss of lean muscle mass .
What the post leaves out entirely: older adults need more, not less. People over 65 are advised to eat about 1g to 1.2g of protein per kg of body weight per day to prevent age-related muscle loss , and some experts go higher.
So the “everything else is a lie” framing is the actual lie. The numbers in the post are shifted one full tier downward from what mainstream sources recommend.
Let me say this clearly.
You need 0.6 grams of protein per kilogram of your body weight to maintain your muscle mass, if you are not working out, regularly.
You need 0.8 grams if you are working out regularly to stay fit, in order handle regular wear and tear.
You need 1.5 to 2 grams if you are into bodybuilding and only you want to bulk up.
Everything else is a lie and you need to ignore that shit.
This is exactly why the Netherlands is the best country in the world.
Not once has anyone ever tried to convert me. In fact, that kind of conversation has never even come up.
If anything, on the few occasions people learned I’m Jain and not Hindu, they were genuinely curious… all ears, wanting to understand what this new thing was.
Telling a gubernatorial candidate, @VivekGRamaswamy, that his conception of God is wrong and consigns him to hell—when he didn’t ask—is plain conceited religious hubris—and it’s supremacism.
But to debate whether the soteriological claims in this conversation are theologically grounded is to miss the point entirely.
Every Hindu American like me has faced this sort of street corner proselytization. Vivek is that unique politician who cares enough to meet people where they are and dialogue about how he views divinity when he could easily just sat “no thanks” and move on.
We were almost going down the DINK route until age 32, when good sense prevailed and we decided to have a baby.
Best decision of my life.
Thank God I escaped a life that’s all “cool” on the outside, hollow on the inside.
Sitting at the hospital. One hour wasted. One more to go.
Took a token. Numbers being called one by one. 50 other people sitting around doing nothing.
That’s 100 man-hours of productivity flushed down the drain. Every single day.
Why the hell can’t they just give appointments?
Is it just Udaipur hospitals stuck in the 20th century, or all of India?
DINK or not… what matters most is that both partners are on the same page.
Especially us Indians. We rarely discuss these things beforehand.
I have friends where the husband wants kids but the wife doesn’t.
Another couple where he wants a second one but she doesn’t.
That’s a much harder place to be in than either choice itself.
Luckily for us, we were both in the DINK camp for 7 years… and when we changed our minds, we changed them together.
Grateful for that.
P.s. pic from Salzburg, Austria 2019.. when we were in the DINK camp 😊