Do this in Singapore and by the time you go from Dhoby Gaut to fucking Yishun both of you are covered in heat rash, an inch layer of humid grime and sweat and on top of that every local auntie/uncle stares at you for even expressing an ounce of human love in public + by the time you bring her up to your grandma's HDB flat and start opening the door you realise it smells of your old grandfather who also is losing his memory and then by the time she's in the guest room you can barely hold it together and just start crying profusely and then she leaves in shock and says she's never dating another Lasalle graduate ever fucking again so fuck my fucking chungus sinkie life
(not true story)
"I want you to praise me.. for being alive"
"I am so Proud of you for staying alive Robin"
Tears won't stop. One Piece is so special man. This reunion was perfectly directed. It hit so hard. I am so proud to be alive to witness this
Dr Balakrishnan is an A-Tier example of what a politician should be
Literally getting your hands dirty - he didn’t just explain and talk strategy on how to build and drive AI adoption in the country
He tried it himself, understood it, and then talk through his processes in a live forum
I can’t even think of 5 politicians in Ministerial positions from other parts of the world that can do this
Singapore on top because our leaders are on top
Singaporeans don't dream of moving to US.
Unless they are they're 17 year olds going through their libtard phase, as @wassielawyer puts it.
There's actually a discourse going on — some parents are hoping their kids pick NUS over prestigious Ivy Leagues. Not cos NUS ranking is climbing but US is changing.
Even tech bros are starting to consider is Bay Area the only option? Everything is far, restaurants are mid, and Tenderloin dangerous.
If any, Singaporeans want to migrate to Australia and New Zealand, for the quality of life minus the guns. Or JB for cheap masage and real bak kut teh.
The bull thesis just got validated. In a single afternoon.
Meta. Microsoft. Amazon. Alphabet. All four reported. All four delivered.
The numbers tell the story:
$MSFT Azure +40% — beat the high end of guidance. AI business now a $37B run rate, +123% YoY. Copilot crossed 20 million paid seats.
$GOOGL Cloud +63% to $20B. Backlog of $460 billion. Pichai called enterprise AI "the primary growth driver of cloud for the first time."
$AMZN AWS +28% to $37.6B — the fastest growth in 15 quarters. Amazon reaffirmed $200B in capex for the year.
$META +33% revenue growth — the fastest since 2021. And they raised full-year capex guidance to $125–$145B.
The deceleration narrative is dead.
The "AI capex is speculative" narrative is dead.
The "where's the AI revenue" narrative is dead.
This was the prove it quarter. They proved it.
What we saw tonight is durable, compounding cloud demand, accelerating AI monetization, and a capex cycle being underwritten by signed customer commitments, not optimism.
Sorry bubble bears. 🐻
This isn't 1999. Real customers. Real revenue. Real cycle.
The companies investing in AI infrastructure today are buying the most valuable real estate of the next decade and tonight they showed exactly why.
Buckle up. We're just getting started.
The sun you see right now exploded 7 minutes ago and you'd have no way of knowing. You'd still feel its warmth. Still see it in the sky. Still orbit it. For 8 minutes and 20 seconds, you'd live in a universe that no longer has a sun and have absolutely no way to detect the difference.
This is because gravity also travels at the speed of light. If the sun vanished, Earth would continue orbiting the empty space where it used to be for the same 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Einstein proved this. The gravitational wave carrying the information "the sun is gone" propagates at exactly c. Light, gravity, and information all share the same speed limit.
Now scale the paradox in this post. 90 light-years is nothing. The Andromeda galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away. Every photograph of it is a 2.5 million year old snapshot. The entire galaxy could have collided with something catastrophic 2 million years ago. We'll find out 500,000 years from now.
The James Webb Space Telescope routinely photographs galaxies from 13.4 billion years ago. Those galaxies no longer exist in any form we'd recognize. The stars burned out. The civilizations, if any, rose and fell billions of years before Earth formed. Webb is photographing ghosts.
The deepest implication: "right now" is a local phenomenon. It exists only in the space you can physically touch. Beyond that, everything you see, measure, or interact with is a time-delayed recording. The further you look, the older the recording gets. There is no method, even in principle, to know the current state of anything beyond your immediate surroundings.
The entire observable universe is a 13.8 billion year old museum where every exhibit is labeled with a different date and nothing is current.