Neeraj Kumar

Live in Mumbai. Sleep at night. Dream during the day.

[Neeraj Kumar @kumarneeraj]

@zoo_bear @narendramodi That's the exact opposite of what his message is. "Don't abandon those who need help".

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Why do conservative parents have children who turn leftist? I will narrate my own childhood experience.

I studied 6th to 9th standard in a free government aided school started by a DMK affiliated person. I did not hear any DMK messaging there.

Then 10th to 12th, I moved to a free school funded by an RSS affilated person and had an RSS man as trustee. I did not even know what the RSS was and heard nothing about the RSS as a student.

But in my 10th standard in that school, I had a Marxist Tamil teacher. His entire class was about the coming Marxist revolution (this was in 1982-83). For a period I became a Marxist and atheist thanks to him. I was 14.

He taught us to question everything and question authority and I asked him "Sir, when the revolution comes and everything is owned by the government, would everything become corrupt like the electricity board or the telephone department?" and he said "After the revolution, people will develop socialist consciousness and so everything will work better".

I could not accept that answer so Marxism lost its appeal for me but thanks to his influence that one year, I remained an atheist for many years. My mother saw this transformation in me (I used to be a religious kid) and always blamed him for it but even she would say "you must respect the Guru".

This is what conservative parents have to endure. Their very respect for the educational system has been weaponized by the Marxists.

Remember that the school had an RSS man as trustee and as a student I had not heard one word about RSS, yet the Marxist teacher was free to brainwash kids like me. That is right vs left for you.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Default on farm loan, State will waive it. Burn rice stubble, State will ignore it. Steal electricity, State will subsidise it. Attack police, State will allow it. Eke an honest salary, State will tax it.

State will reward defaulters, polluters, and rioters, not honest citizens.

[Neeraj Kumar @kumarneeraj]

@x_rahulraj By your definition, if the MLAs listens and fixes the potholes, wouldn't they be "bowing" to the demands?

[Rahul Srinivas @whizkidd]

Don’t know about Rang De Basanti, but let me tell you what some of us millennials actually grew up watching.

I was in primary school during the 1993 Mumbai bombings -- too young to even understand what terrorism meant. But I distinctly remember my mom repeatedly warning me not to pick up anything lying around while playing outside because, you know, it could be a bomb.

That was childhood.

Then came the seemingly endless procession of attacks: the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Red Fort in 2000, Parliament in 2001, the Mumbai bus bombings and Akshardham in 2002, three separate blasts within eight months in Mumbai in 2003, the 2005 Delhi blasts, the 2007 Hyderabad bombings, and the 2008 Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts.

In July 2006, I was supposed to be on one of the trains that was bombed near Mahim. I stayed back at the office because of a meeting. A completely mundane change of plans is probably the reason I’m alive to type this instead of being a name on a list of the dead.

I remember that evening far better than I remember any stupid movie. Our office went into lockdown. Phones were jammed. People were crying and frantically trying to reach their families. Nobody knew what was happening, whether there were more bombs, or whether someone they loved was lying dead inside a mangled train compartment.

Two years later came 26/11.

I had the misfortune of watching uncensored footage of the aftermath. One clip showed bodies being piled and stacked inside a makeshift room at CST while someone wheeled in another load on a bloodied wheelbarrow, with blood dripping onto the floor. The sanitised footage shown on television didn't come remotely close to what actually happened inside that station.

So yes, us millennials lived through an era where we went to work knowing that the crime of simply boarding the wrong train, getting on the wrong bus, eating at the wrong restaurant, or standing on the wrong street at the wrong fucking moment could get you blown to pieces or riddled with bullets.

Some of us literally went to work wondering, somewhere at the back of our minds, whether this would be the commute we wouldn't come home from.

So please, spare us millennials this sanctimonious horseshit about Rang De Basanti and what some Bollywood movie supposedly should have taught us about how to vote.

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Insane idea from Opus 4.8

[Neeraj Kumar @kumarneeraj]

It's almost like if you aren't in the Epstein Files, you probably weren't "famous" enough.

[Neeraj Kumar @kumarneeraj]

@BillAckman Pro tip. You write a long post on "innocent till proven guilty". A sentence about the victim would have made you sound more credible. Try that next time even if you don't mean it. Just for optics.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"It's easier to win an argument with a genius than an idiot."

— Gurwinder Bhogal

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I’m increasingly convinced that the willingness to change your mind is the ultimate sign of intelligence. The most impressive people I know change their minds often in response to new information. It’s like a software update. The goal isn't to be right. It's to find the truth.

[Lord Immy Kant @KantInEastt]

A Japanese and Indian founder started a Toy company to compete with cheap & undurable Chinese toys. They have received BIS certificates.

[blue @bluewmist]

books are so cool because there are NO FUCKING ADS IN THEM

[Neeraj Kumar @kumarneeraj]

💯

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Glad to see Laalu alive to see his family getting decimated at the polls.

Thousands of 90s kids who had to live away from their parents in boarding schools just to avoid getting kidnapped, thousands who had to forfeit their ancestral land as a bribe to get a clerical job, millions who studied hard under a lantern or a petromax to somehow escape the jungle raj. All of them, across the world, doing well, now looking at their phone screens and the numbers, and smiling. This is victory.

[sophie @netcapgirl]

1969: we can send people to the moon with 4kb of ram

2025: a cloud outage means my smart bed won’t cool down

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Some of the most unexpected fallouts of an AWS outage:

1. Postman stopped working: an API development tool built to be an alternative to simple tools like curl.

2. Eight Sleep customers couldn’t use their beds to change positions / set or keep temperature

[Luke Stephens (hakluke) @hakluke]

I just solved the strangest tech problem I've ever come across.

My wifi kept dropping packets, confirmed by ping. It would look something like the first image (packets dropping, then it comes back to life). After a while the connection would just stop working completely and drop all packets. If I turned my wifi off and on again, it would resume working normally.

I thought this was a problem with my router, cables or ISP, so I went through the usual troubleshooting processes: checking settings, swapping cables, powercycling, etc. nothing worked.

Eventually I started noticing that it would only happen when I sat in my office. I was taking a video meeting and it kept dropping segments of audio, making it hard to understand the other person.

I unplugged my laptop from my monitor + keyboard because I wanted to try walking into another room. Immediately, the video started working perfectly.

I thought it was because I was a few steps closer to my router - but that didn't really make sense because the router had always worked fine from that location.

I started thinking about what I'd changed in my desk setup recently, the only thing I could think of was when I changed from using a USB-C <-> DP cable for my monitor, to using a HDMI <-> HDMI cable.

I tried plugging my screen back in. Immediately, the packets started dropping. I unplugged it, the dropping stopped.

It turns out my HDMI cable doesn't have enough shielding, so it was jamming my own WiFi signal with radio frequency interference 🤯

I unrolled the HDMI cable that was sitting behind my laptop and draped the main length of the cord down behind my desk, and now my internet works perfectly.

Apparently this is a fairly common issue?!

[Neeraj Kumar @kumarneeraj]

@PMCPune The video captures the construction going on North of Panchshil Towers. Video is taken from A tower.

[Neeraj Kumar @kumarneeraj]

@PMCPune : Sir/Madam, heavy construction work next to Panchshil Towers (Kharadi), including Sundays, has become a major nuisance for the residents. Could you please at least get this stopped on Sundays? I believe that's not allowed? See the attached video.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

His mother could not convince his to go to school, but his older sister gently persuaded his. 😂

[Neeraj Kumar @kumarneeraj]

It was not Ashraf. Here narrative more important than credibility

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

Mahalaxmi left her husband for Ashraf only to be cut into 32 pieces.

Those pieces were found rotting in a fridge while Ashraf is absconding.

This is what happens when you actually believes in Bollywood movies.