King of The Cool

Big fan of public transit, EVs, new energy and the right to dissent. sometimes a tennis fan too.

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

Really wonder why Stan Wawrinka, 3 time grand slam champion, former no. 3 in the world tennis player is not responding to my messages 🤔

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

@SwakshTripathi is your friends name Chat GPT? Because honestly, this sounds made up as hell

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

Pay 15 rupees for your second class train ticket to get to Bandra from Thane and then pay like 75 rupees for last mile connectivity which should ideally be cheaper than the transport that did the heavy lifting of getting you to your workplace. Moronic is the right word here

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

Ladies and gentlemen: India’s most moronic infrastructure project is happening. The pod-taxi in Mumbai - from Kurla to BKC.
₹1000 cr project. Service of 8.85km. Fare per passenger: ₹21/km.
We need to rid ourselves of the delusion that it has anything to do with infrastructure

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

One of the saner voices of the past going completely insane right in front of our eyes

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

Be it on planes or on trains, no matter how rowdy the perpetrator, I have found that a simple "headphones pehen ke mobile chalaayo please" works like a charm

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

This fat uncle watched reels on full volume through the flight yesterday.

Usually I would tell someone like this to shut it down. But yesterday I decided to observe.

None of the passengers in two rows around cared. The cabin crew who walked past multiple times and even did meal service didn't bother telling him.

In the middle of my adult life, I'm now asking myself - for my own mental peace, should I just accept that...

Uncouth behaviour in public is normal

Garbage will be there everywhere

Everyone is fighting everyone everywhere

Nowhere is safe for women

The air is toxic

Drinking water is contaminated

Have zero hope in the political system regardless of party in power

... ...

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

I talk to a lot of people in their late twenties and early thirties who are thinking about having children, but are hesitating.

They worry about sleep deprivation. They worry about losing a lifestyle they enjoy. They worry about the weight of responsibility in those early months.

Here’s how I think about it.

The first weeks, and sometimes the first months, can be brutal on sleep. Especially for the mother, but often for the father as well. The sleeplessness is not fun. I care a lot about sleep.

However, I once heard the challenge framed in a way that stuck with me. The first year is the period when a child has the greatest need for care. If you live to be 100, which is increasingly common, that is one year out of a hundred.

So the question becomes simple. Over the course of your life, do you want children? Do you want grandchildren someday? If you do, can you accept a season of rough sleep and high need as part of the exchange?

Even within that first year, it starts to get more rewarding. The baby begins to respond. They babble more. You see recognition. You see personality turning on. When the toddler stage arrives, many parents experience it as genuinely fun.

A lot of this is calibrating expectations. If someone is attached to a particular lifestyle, they may become resentful when the reality of children presses in.

But for many people, by their late twenties or early thirties, the lifestyle question changes.

How long do I want to keep doing the same thing? What kind of life am I building toward? Is all this hustle necessary?

One thing that helps, especially in the early stages, is to allow yourself to be fascinated by children. I am fascinated by newborns. Eye contact. Facial expression. The moment focus begins. The way a baby seems to wake up into a world that is still indistinct, yet immediately searches for faces and eyes. Watching that development in my children and grandchildren has been extraordinary.

This is a lifetime adventure. In many ways, it is the most important journey many of us will take. The question is not, “How do I preserve my lifestyle?” It is, “How do I participate in helping this unique human being live a flourishing life?”

For me, it is fundamentally fun. I love children.

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

Up next on ThePrint, a think piece of civil aviation safety norms by an Al Qaeda spokesperson

[ThePrintIndia @ThePrintIndia]

'Aravallis development must be decided by cost-benefit analysis, not ‘noise’'

Dhiraj Nayyar @nayyardhiraj, Chief Economist, Vedanta, writes

#ThePrintOpinion

https://t.co/yfm9c0i6D8

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

@ishmohit1 Down ~3%

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

Marine Borat is back at it again

[InfraStory @marinebharat]

AQI is a Fraud Index

Nearly 60% of AQI measures are affected by Dust. Winds flowing from Thar Desert + Farm lands make North India AQI worse

Bengaluru, Chennai or any South Indian city enjoys AQI as par as Europe

De-desertification of North Western India is the only Solution.

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

@warrenbhai @whizkidd This is the budget AFTER money has gone in the wrong pockets so imagine the kind of money they would actually be sitting on if that was accounted for

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

Faye D'Souza just reports the news (although with a slight affluent/urban bias on what she chooses to report) but her comments section is consistently the dumbest corner of the internet. Every time I wanna know what opinion I should NOT have I look at the comments under her posts

[Abhishek @MSDianAbhiii]

Crazy how Faye D'Souza has created her cult on Instagram. Average South Bombay folks follow her and get brainwashed. Man, this is getting beyond repair.

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

@sergievskies jannik saying presticious... did he mean to say precious or prestigious? anyway doesn't matter thats my new fave word now

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

@ActusDei SIF

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

@vineetjain1101 Vineet, If I may ask what's the rationale for Ola?

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

some shows drop a new season after so long that any memories of the existence of the earlier season have been wiped out clean

and some shows drop new seasons quicker than you can watch them.

this is one of those shows

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Season 4 of ‘THE BEAR’ premieres one week from today.

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

My highly unpopular take is that the clay season has become infinitely more interesting after Rafa stopped playing, and especially the French Open. I respect his dominance on the surface but fuck it made for some really boring finals where he wins even before the first point.

[Oleg S. @AnnaK_4ever]

With an average of 5.5 million viewers (9.5 million at peak) Alcaraz/Sinner classic was the most watched Roland Garros final in France since 2011.

https://t.co/DAA2rK2qGN

[Karue Sell @KarueSell]

People are like "sinner will never recover".. Shut up guys. This man is like "ok, we got close, left everythjng there. Learn from it. Next". Class act. Machine

[em @jsinnertruth]

you know jannik is leaving his soul out there if he’s grunting. no more mr nice guy

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

We got an MMRDA IT Cell (?????) before GTA 6?

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

Don't wanna hear another person call this guy a 250 merchant ever again - lets gooo Gaspar!!

[King of The Cool @karanator6]

@BarclayCard18 Exactly the same. Hope he doesn't let other player's opinions affect him and his performance too much.