Always think World Cups are so beautiful for associative memory. They come every four years, allow you to reflect on life, how far you have come, where you were when it last came and just an opportunity to somehow be grateful for everything.
Major cheat code for life: Be fully where your feet are. When you're at work, work. When you're with family, be with family. When you're resting, rest. Most people are physically present and mentally everywhere else.
The Indian salaried class has been methodically stripped of every single inflation hedge available to it, one budget at a time.
You tried crypto. They slapped a 30% flat tax on gains, allowed no set-off of losses, and added 1% TDS on transfers.
You tried equities. Budget 2024 raised STCG from 15% to 20%, raised LTCG from 10% to 12.5%, increased STT on F&O, and also killed indexation for most other long-term capital gains.
You thought fine, I’ll diversify some savings abroad through LRS. They put 20% TCS on remittances above 10 lakhs for investments abroad.
You tried Sovereign Gold Bonds, because surely a government-issued, government-backed gold hedge would be the one clean instrument they would not mess with. Then Budget 2026 came along and removed the capital gains exemption for secondary market buyers.
And now the final insult.
The Prime Minister has publicly asked you to avoid buying physical gold for a year in the “national interest,” because gold imports use foreign exchange.
So let me get this straight. A middle class wagie earning in depreciating rupees, watching FD rates hover around 6.5% while real life inflation keeps eating his purchasing power, has now been told:
Crypto is taxed like a vice.
Equities are more expensive to hold and exit.
Foreign diversification gets hit with TCS.
SGBs are being wound down and tax-narrowed.
Buying physical gold is now unpatriotic.
Basically, every single exit from rupee depreciation has been systematically curtailed. You are expected to hold your savings in instruments the government controls, at returns the government sets, for a currency the government is rapidly inflating away.
Does this sound like Amrit Kaal to you?
If there is one thing that you need to do today, it is to sit down and read this post.
Read it carefully. And then think about the implications for your life.
🗣️ Balotelli, furioso, explotó en plena entrevista tras ver la foto oficial de las selecciones clasificadas al Mundial, donde NO APARECE CRISTIANO RONALDO:
“Voy a hablar claro porque ya estoy cansado. Cansado. ¿Cómo así que hacen una foto de ‘las selecciones del Mundial’ y dejan por fuera al jugador más grande del planeta? ¿Qué clase de circo es este? Esto ya no es un error… esto ya parece personal.
La FIFA no quiere a Cristiano. Punto. No lo quieren desde hace años. Y no lo digo yo… lo dice la historia, lo dicen las decisiones raras, lo dicen los silencios incómodos. Ustedes creen que es normal que en una imagen con 42 selecciones no aparezca el tipo que cambió la forma de competir, que rompió récords imposibles, que elevó el nivel del fútbol mundial… ¿de verdad?
Cristiano no necesita que lo pongan en una foto, el fútbol entero ya sabe quién es. Pero esto ya es descarado. Esto es mandar un mensaje. Esto es borrar al verdadero Ronaldo de un montaje como si nadie se fuera a dar cuenta.
Yo estoy aquí, en cámara, diciendo lo que muchos piensan y no se atreven a decir:
La FIFA le tiene miedo a Cristiano. Miedo a su impacto. Miedo a su figura. Miedo a que siga demostrando que, incluso con 40 años, sigue siendo un monstruo competitivo como ninguno.
Que no lo metan en la foto si quieren…
El problema es que tarde o temprano van a tener que aceptar una realidad:
Cristiano Ronaldo no necesita un Mundial para ser leyenda. El Mundial necesita a Cristiano Ronaldo para ser relevante.”
No alcohol, no tattoos, no drugs, no negativity. Just a 40 year old man who has nothing left to prove, still doing his thing..
Ronaldo makes us believe discipline beats everything. A true GOAT
I reverse engineered the San Francisco parking ticket system. I can see every ticket seconds after it's written
So I made a website. Find My Friends? AVOID THE PARKING COPS.
After 2 years of using ChatGPT, I can say that it is the technology that has revolutionized my life the most, along with the Internet.
So here are 10 prompts that have transformed my day-to-day life and that could do the same for you.