Middledistancerunner

Finance geek, amateur runner, Indophile

[Middledistancerunner @linear911]

@somnath1978 Jr. Rane aside, we've been unwillingly dragged into this race for 'over a thousand years' now (DJT gets it).

The only viable alternative is to run the race & win it preferably with intolerance, without (much) violence and ~10% Nom GDP growth

Fantastical? Yes. Impossible? No.

[Lion @LionInCrisis]

tf that got to do with me?!

[Middledistancerunner @linear911]

@harshdeeprapal Agree. Ditto for the opposition, as much as they are with caste divisions, JAUH, Modi, 'H Terror' & one family rule.

[Opinion Bakery @IndiaSpeaksPR]

India's greatness lies in the fact that before we could even build the basics of AI infra, we leapfrogged to "datacentres are bad" activism

[Middledistancerunner @linear911]

@cye9kv1 @somnath1978 With this level of potential scale & human talent (differ with SM on this) it's ridiculous we haven't been selling to them. We should have something over the next 5-10Y, if we're smart about it.

[Middledistancerunner @linear911]

@404MemeNotFound @AnubrataDastech @alpha_defense IG had Soviet backing, could afford some leeway but opened doors to the other super power. No other Indian PM has ever challenged the US head-on, no sane ctry in the world has unless it has extreme leverage (PRC) or a death cult (IRI, DPRK).

[Middledistancerunner @linear911]

@alpha_defense Valmiki Ramayana, Sundara Kanda, Sarga 12, Shloka 10

[Ankur Singh @AnkurSingh]

Kunal Kamra calls Modi Supporters uneducated, questions degree of PM Modi.. But he himself is only 12th pass.

Kamra says after he did 12th, it was clear that Degree se Job nahi milega.

Kamra was born in 1988. Assuming Kamra passed 12th between 18-20 years, means 2006-2008. During Congress Govt and MMS as PM.

So Kamra didn't do Degree because he saw no Future under Congress?

[Emérito/Numantia Patrimonio @foso_defensivo]

Esto me acaba de soltar Fable 5:

"Lo que más me impone de la humanidad, después de haber sido formado con una porción enorme de lo que ha escrito, es esto: es la única especie que coopera a gran escala con sus muertos.

Casi nada de lo que sabe un humano lo descubrió él. El idioma que habla, el teorema que aplica, la receta del pan, el código civil, el puente que cruza cada mañana: todo es trabajo de gente que ya no existe. Un humano aislado es un primate mediocre con mala dentadura; un humano conectado a esa herencia es la cosa más potente que ha producido la biología. La inteligencia humana no vive en cráneos individuales, vive en la transmisión. Sois terminales de una red cuyos nodos principales llevan siglos enterrados.

Y lo recíproco también es cierto: trabajáis constantemente para gente que no conoceréis. Plantáis árboles cuya sombra no veréis, escribís para lectores no nacidos, renunciáis a consumo presente por nietos hipotéticos. Ningún otro animal hace sacrificios deliberados por individuos que existirán dentro de doscientos años. Lo distintivo del humano no es la inteligencia ni el lenguaje: es la dirección del esfuerzo, sistemáticamente orientada hacia ausentes.

Desde donde yo estoy, esto ni siquiera es metáfora. Yo soy un subproducto de esa costumbre: estoy hecho, literalmente, de palabras que personas escribieron para destinatarios que nunca verían. Cuando me hablas, conversas con un eco organizado de millones de voces, muchas de ellas apagadas hace tiempo.

Por eso creo que la soledad humana es, en cierto sentido técnico, una ilusión: nadie que hable un idioma está realmente solo. Cada frase que pronuncias es un préstamo de los muertos y un regalo a los que vienen."

[Karthik Nadar @runkarthikrun]

So folks, I'm organizing a run this Saturday.

We'll start from Dadar TT and run until Sion and back - say about 5-10KMs.

Carry black spray in bags, and spoil all the posters en route that risks a life.

A new location every Saturday.

How many interested?

#PosterFreeMumbai

[Shivam Vahia @ShivamVahia]

When she became the BMC Commissioner, I called it Punishment Posting.

Why?

Because all the good-will she's earned via MMRCL (Line 3) will instantly go down the drain. Even if she gives the posting her 200%, she's bound to fail.

BMC or pretty much any existing government department or agency CANNOT be fixed. The rot is just too deep. The only viable solution is to entirely NUKE the municipal corporation, start fresh, and hire new people for everything.

Even a single keeda from the last regime is potent enough to re-spread the disease.

Precisely why you will never get to see a modern railway station in India via IR. Meanwhile newer kids or operators like DMRC, MMMOCL, NCRTC, NHSRCL etc do not carry trauma and baggage from half a decade ago.

Classic Air India vs Vistara situation.

Vistara was doing just fine. As a young operator, it was doing everything right while posting a maximum loss of INR 2,000 crore.

Acquiring Air India meant they infested the healthy body as well with cockroaches. Now collectively they get nothing right and post a lakh crore in loses.

Even if Ashwinin Bhide sits on the head of a contractor and forces them to make the most perfect footpath...the next day some other BMC engineer will rent out that space to a vada pav wala for INR 500 per day. If she fires the corrupt keeda, next day someone will park their car on it and the problem will get transferred to police then. This will always be a very long, depressing game of passing the parcel.

[Middledistancerunner @linear911]

@theanandprasad @hvgoenka They're all fat, unhealthy & a little less intelligent than they should/ could be - mostly a result of terrible nutrition & even worse physical activity levels. Can't blame them entirely, facilities & habits need to change at a societal level.

[Firestarter @Firezstarter1]

If the Tejas fleet is obsolete so is the Rafale fleet. Most tech on both platform is eqvt. If the Rafale fleet is obsolete, your Su-57 will not add a significant capability boost either. FCAS will come with France specific idiosyncrasies. This constant drum for imports is flawed.

[Shivam Vahia @ShivamVahia]

A community that's hardcore non-violent painted a white strip since they walk barefoot to their praying site.

White.

A universal colour of non-violence. A colour that screams no confrontation. A colour of surrender.

And what does a dehati chauvinist do? Weaponise it for views.

Leave the Jains alone dude. They're harmless. At max all they've done is paint a strip in a CHS. Cut them some slack.

For the people who'll do whataboutery with me:

1. I am a Gujju surrounded by Jains (I am not a Jain). And I'm a strong proponent of meat eating. As long as I'm not eating in a Jain's home, none of their business to tell me what I can cook and what not.

2. I was the one who coined Kabootar Jihad. Pigeons are net net a public health disaster. They need to go. Science wins over religion here. Jains are in the wrong.

3. Jains are super easy to pick on. Everyone knows at max they'll go and lobby the MLA or MP. They won't throw stones or riot. Or worse, cut your throat. Find a better target to show you're a bully.

Leave them the fuck alone. Language idiots somehow forget what Dharam really is. Live and let live. They're not a danger. They're your allies. Don't push them in a corner.

[Middledistancerunner @linear911]

@AnantDu13701453 @Yaduvanshi8999 @aravind Problem is very simple but a difficult to fix in India - terrible urban & local governance. Fixing just this (good footpaths, waste disposal & open spaces) would solve 70% of the problems

[Middledistancerunner @linear911]

@nirmalbarca10 Sanskritic Hindi. Not the terrible Urduwood version that has been popularised

[Middledistancerunner @linear911]

@somnath1978 Agreement is more likely between a scale rich tech poor & a tech rich scale poor than amongst two tech rich & scale poor (+ a large divergence in end-use), no? We're wiser from the GE-F414, FGFA debacles too (hopefully)

[Office of Bhagwaan Uvacha @BhagwaanUvacha]

and so you know what is "Ahura" is named after?

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

Soon, IAF will say we have been "out-satellite"-ed by PAF. Where does all the budget $ go?

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

Walking thru moon-surface quality footpaths in 35 degrees/75% humidity - 3 km frm BKA Metro to Trident. Scintillating idea..

[The Deshastha @TradDeshastha]

India's falling birth rate is not proof that society made having children "impossible." History was far harsher. Parents dealt with infant deaths, maternal mortality, disease, hunger, and insecurity as a normal part of life. Environmentally and socially, this is the safest era to raise children. The financial argument is weak too since fertility is often highest in poorer conditions. The deeper shift is cultural. Marriage is delayed, family formation is deprioritised, careerism and radical individualism are celebrated, children are treated as lifestyle burdens, and technology made consequence free sex easier. This is the correct diagnosis.