Tom cook

Traveller. Professional overthinker. I ask too many questions

[Tom cook @Tomcookusa]

@theskindoctor13 Brother can just open ChatGPT, upload the film, and type “explain this like I’m a politician who suddenly became a doctor in a hospital corridor.
Most doctors struggle? Sure.
This man struggles with nothing. Not even the concept of specialization.

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75 years of Tamil Nadu’s development reduced to “Dravidian model did everything.” Kamaraj, central institutions, private industry, infrastructure, entrepreneurship and multiple governments apparently got deleted with one keystroke.
The article needed footnotes. It chose adjectives. 📊😂 Tamil Nadu’s success is real. The fan fiction around some of the numbers is not

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@dmuthuk You can list 387 years of firsts all you want. None of them lower the heat index or stop the next waterlogging. Pride is fine. Pretending Chennai’s climate is anything other than a humid furnace with occasional drowning sessions is just cope.

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@dmuthuk if the Left is truly the sole soul of trade unions and student movements, it should not need four MLAs and outside-support arithmetic to stay relevant. The workers and students will keep speaking. The question is whether the narrative will still be listening when they do.

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@Lotus_indrajit Is this guy living

[Tom cook @Tomcookusa]

If the metric for success is simply remaining in office long enough for long-gestation infrastructure to eventually work, then almost any leader can claim victory 😂 Infrastructure that works is good. Mythology that turns every operational milestone into proof of personal invincibility is not.

[Tom cook @Tomcookusa]

@sansbarrier Thanks for remembering 😁

[Tom cook @Tomcookusa]

St√pid a$$h. The man isn’t diagnosing Marine Drive. He’s diagnosing his own inability to walk past a woman in a backless top without turning it into a national security briefing.
This is the standard operating procedure of the serial outrage merchant: The only thing “prowling with thirsty eyes” here is the guy itself.

[Tom cook @Tomcookusa]

@dmuthuk I've never seen any banner of vijay in my town so far. I don't know about rest of TN

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@priyankac19 The Mathur Chaturvedi history is real enough; the market for it is microscopic. Most of the country will never open it. Most of the readers who do will skim for the family name and move on

[Tom cook @Tomcookusa]

Demonetisation caused real pain. Long queues. Cash shortages that hammered daily-wage workers and the informal sector. Temporary GDP hit of roughly 1–2 percentage points. Estimates of job losses in the informal economy ran into the millions for a few months. Media tallied dozens to low hundreds of deaths linked to queues, exhaustion, delayed medical care, or shock The black-money recovery was underwhelming. High-quality FICN took a temporary knock and then adapted. Those are facts, not propaganda Maybe next time just admit the policy had limited wins on FICN and larger costs elsewhere, instead of turning it into either divine intervention or original sin.

[Tom cook @Tomcookusa]

India has produced leaders who built institutions, expanded opportunity, and managed crises without requiring citizens to treat every shortfall as the lesser of two apocalypses. It has also produced plenty who perfected the art of converting unfinished business into moral blackmail. The difference is not mystical destiny. It is accountability or the lack of it.

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Yes. The screwdriver is still the star of the show. And that is precisely the problem with the sermon. It is the current centre of gravity. Celebrating the factories is fine. Pretending the hard part has already been solved by the mere act of turning screws is the political narrative that keeps needing fresh schemes to paper over the gap.

[Tom cook @Tomcookusa]

You can demand reservation reform without pretending reservation itself is the cause of every administrative failure.
Muslim OBC inclusion, Christian converts, NEET-PG cutoffs, EWS certificates, disability certificates and university regulations do not automatically establish that the reservation system as a whole is illegitimate.

[Tom cook @Tomcookusa]

@Sanjay_Dixit Who needs manusmriti 😂

[Tom cook @Tomcookusa]

Why has the RW suddenly discovered physics? 😂

Fans, airflow, vacuum, thermodynamics… apparently the next national priority is a crash course in Class 8 science.

Meanwhile, schools could use the same enthusiasm.

Fix the classrooms first. Then we can worry about explaining fans to the nation. 🤦‍♂️📚

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@BesuraTaansane “A fossil doesn’t get attracted to a vacuum. A vacuum gets attracted to dust. Know the difference.” 🫠

[Tom cook @Tomcookusa]

Yeah cretin....The fact that they’re wearing Indian Railways uniforms doesn’t magically make them bed-sheet thieves. They could simply be railway employees. 😏

Got actual evidence of theft? Show it. Otherwise, this is just a caption doing the heavy lifting while logic is on leave.

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is ISRO being strengthened, or slowly being hollowed out?

Moving routine manufacturing to industry can be sensible. But India must never outsource strategic capability, core R&D or technological sovereignty.

Today it is rockets. Tomorrow, what happens to the institutions that created the technology in the first place?

India’s future should be ISRO + a globally competitive private space industry, not ISRO minus its capabilities.

Private participation is progress. Privatising strategic competence would be surrender. 🚀🇮🇳

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ISRO’s man-on-the-Moon target is 2040, not next Tuesday. Calling it “may not happen” because the path is long and hard is like declaring a marathon unfinished at mile 5. They have a sequenced plan, active robotic lunar work, human-spaceflight milestones locked in for the next couple of years, and a deliberate shift of routine manufacturing so the agency can focus on the hard stuff. Risk exists. Cancellation does not. Speculation is free; timelines and budgets are not.