Chidambaram

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

We all deserve this ❤️

[Upamanyu Acharya @upamanyuacharya]

"India is overcrowded" is the most successful gaslighting campaign Indian babus ever ran on their own citizens. They underbuilt the country for forty years and convinced 1.4B Indians to blame themselves for it.

Every overcrowded space you've ever queued in is a supply failure the state engineered, not a demographic accident. Five lifts in a hospital, one working. Seven railway counters, one ticketer. Toll plazas, water boards, municipal offices: built once in 1972, patched once in 1996, abandoned ever since. The only exception is airports, and even those lounges are gigafried at peak.

Why did this happen? 4 reasons, none of them are "too many people."

1. Cost of capital. Rupee down 60% against the dollar in two decades. Inflation 5-7% on paper, 8-10% in reality. Risk-free rates above 7%. No rational allocator underwrites a hospital with a 30-year payback under those conditions. Capital flows into software and consumer brands; anything with a 3-5 year ROI window. Parks, ports, metros, dams, schools need multi-decade underwriting that India's macro structurally cannot support.

2. The regulatory stack is engineered to prevent construction. 50+ clearances across municipal, state, and central bodies for any large project, each with its IAS gatekeeper extracting rent. Real builders give up. The only construction happening at scale is therefore illegal, which is exactly why slums mushroom while sanctioned housing projects sit at 15% completion for a decade.

3. The corruption tax. Budget 15-20% of project cost in bakshish before pouring a single slab. Stacked on top of GST, stamp duty, capital gains, property tax, labour cess. Software shops escape it; they ship from a laptop. Anyone touching cement, steel, or land pays the surcharge in cash, off the books, with zero recourse and zero deductibility.

4. State capacity has collapsed into pure friction. GST portal crashes on filing deadlines. MCA21 is a relic. Every regulator (SEBI, RBI, IRDAI, FSSAI, BIS) optimises for CYA, never throughput. Babus paid 1990s salaries to administer 2026 complexity respond rationally by doing nothing.

India's perpetual undercapacity is a capital allocation story the political class would rather you never learn. The 1.4B is a feature. The people running the country are the bug. Until cost of capital drops, the regulatory fat gets gutted, and the corruption surcharge gets squeezed out, the lifts and the counters and the hospitals will stay exactly as broken as they were when your grandfather first complained about them in 1987.

[Dr Grumpy Periyavar 2.0 @periyavar_2]

Current poittu poittu varudhu.. Anna edhum coin fight podraara therila enga area la

[iQKUBAL  @iqkubal]

வாக்களிக்க வந்த 40 வயது முதியவர்..

40 வயது முதியவரா? 😳🫣😏

[PEoperator⚡️ @PEoperator]

Coffee shops should have a separate line for those of us who just want black coffee.

[Talk2veee @talk2veee]

Someone said If you use iPhone
Just say “lumos” and your flash light will turn on. Then say “nox” it will turn off . You must say “hey siri” first, come back and comment if it worked ..

Tried it, it worked..
Technologiiiiiiaaaa

[Pavol Rusnak @PavolRusnak]

Nice Nano Banana Pro prompt for weather app:

CITY=Prague,Czechia

Present a clear, 45° top-down isometric miniature 3D cartoon scene of [CITY], featuring its most iconic landmarks and architectural elements. Use soft, refined textures with realistic PBR materials and gentle, lifelike lighting and shadows. Integrate the current weather conditions directly into the city environment to create an immersive atmospheric mood.
Use a clean, minimalistic composition with a soft, solid-colored background.

At the top-center, place the title “[CITY]” in large bold text, a prominent weather icon beneath it, then the date (small text) and temperature (medium text).
All text must be centered with consistent spacing, and may subtly overlap the tops of the buildings.
Square 1080x1080 dimension.

[Chidambaram @chiduceg]

Don’t give me this we are sorry please DM. Your reps are least helpful. They don’t seem to anything outside “we apologise”

[Chidambaram @chiduceg]

@ZeptoNow worst service ever. You deliver something in a cheap packaging and expect me to use it

[Dr Poornima 🇮🇳 @PoornimaNimo]

This is uncompromisingly precisely 100% true.😂

[🇺🇿 @sammmcfc]

‘At 83 years of age, Sir Alex’

[greg @greg16676935420]

I was doing laundry today and came up with this idea and wondering why it doesn’t already exist

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

Twitter needs a button that's "bring back that tweet I was just starting to read before you automatically refreshed."

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location before showing me the search results. I don’t want to include a Teams link on the calendar invite. I don’t want to pay 50 different monthly subscription fees for all my software. I don’t want to upgrade to TurboTax platinum plus audit protection. I don’t want to install the Webex plugin to join the meeting. I don’t want to share my car’s braking data with the actuaries at State Farm. I don’t want to text with your AI chatbot. I don’t want to download the Instagram app to look at your picture. I don’t want to type in my email address to view the content on your company’s website. I don’t want text messages with promo codes. I don’t want to leave your company a five-star Google review in exchange for the chance to win a $20 Starbucks gift card. I don’t want to join your exclusive community in the metaverse. I don’t want AI to help me write my comments on LinkedIn. I don’t even want to be on LinkedIn in the first place.

I just want to pay for a product one time (and only one time), know that it’s going to work flawlessly, press 0 to speak to an operator if I need help, and otherwise be left alone and treated with some small measure of human dignity, if that’s not too much to ask anymore.

[Sunderdeep - Volklub @volklub]

Very kind of Axis Bank ATM (Brahman Majra, Ludhiana) to provide such a steep ramp for handicapped customers because as per them their wheelchairs have 1.5 Turbocharged Engine with 250 nm torque.

[bobby @dont_know_bruh]

Jo Anni:

[Chidambaram @chiduceg]

@Lemonade_Inc How do I know if my insurance covers loss of spoiled food due to power outage. Your bot is least helpful

[Sathish @actorsathish]

First 10 seconds semma confuse panni vittuttinga ponga 🤓

[𝔻𝕣𝕒𝕪 @sammy__dray]

When he shot from outside the box, I thought he had taken the wrong decision. Well, that’s why he’s playing el clasico and I’m on the train to work