Pari

Outgrowing myself through nature, science and art. Drawn to colouring outside the lines.

[Johnny Canook @chonnycanuck]

@YoungStreete Bailing out shitbox condos designed for money laundering, that real buyers have finally outright rejected, instead of taking simple steps to pass a handful of logical regulations to stop money laundering says a LOT about how Canada is run and for who's benefit.

[Ramesh Pandey @rameshpandeyifs]

Technology is helping in wildlife monitoring and mitigating human wildlife negative interactions.

Here is use of thermal camera based imaging and photo captures in Dhenkanal, Odisha.

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

The Carney Condo Bailout Fucktastrophe! I Won't Leave This One Alone: It's Just Too WRONG

To quote the Prime Minister: "Builders dont want to sell at a loss"

Doesn't mean the Canadian Taxpayer needs to make sure Developers get full price for their Garbage Units at crazy prices

[Jason James @jasonjamesbnn]

This is Canada's version of the subprime mortgage crash in 2008. But instead of banks selling bad mortgages, Vancouver's collapse comes as a result of unchecked Chinese money laundering that began at least 30 years ago and extends back as far as 40 years.

When $300,000 condos are suddenly selling for $1 million+ you have a problem. Everyone who lived in Vancouver knew the market was doomed. In order for that type of inflation to continue, the money had to keep flowing. The municipal, provincial and federal governments would have to turn a blind eye or comply with what was happening. The banks would have to facilitate it.

The bubble deflation isn't coming as a result of government crackdowns—they were always more than happy to take their bribes. The banks were perfectly fine moving the money and the developers made billions. Nobody involved grew a conscience at any point.

What happened was the money itself slowed down. They simply ran out of properties to own and Chinese organized crime found other ways to move their cash. They turned Toronto's housing market into another bubble and bought our federal Liberal government via Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney. There's no reason to hide money in real estate if you don't have to.

Now the speculators have stopped speculating, the money launderers are moving onto other schemes and the average family in Vancouver can't begin to afford a million dollar shoebox so nobody is buying.

2500 empty condos in Vancouver. A multi-million dollar pit in Richmond. The right thing to do is let it all implode and allow the market to correct itself. Yes, people will lose money on the value of their homes and condos, but anyone who pays $1 million+ for a 600 sq ft condo should be aware of the risk.

Instead, Carney is going to bail out the developers who were very much part of the money laundering scheme and we're going to pay for it. This will give the bubble another year of life but it will eventually burst, and in the end, Canadians will pay for it again.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Two of the most important biomedical breakthroughs came from science of the Gila lizard venom (GLP-1s) and yogurt (CRISPR genome editing).
"The system that turned that lizard into a medicine is now being dismantled."
"Less support for scientists means strange questions no one will get to chase."
gift link https://t.co/JKEzQCGm75

[Pari @PariTrivedi]

@kushal_mehra So true. Even with @CP24’s multiple visual panels on the screen, I don’t mind it as much.

[Siddharth Singh @siddharth3]

It’s because we ban eggs from school mid-day meals. Everything else is just an excuse.

[Jeff Adamson @jeffcanadamson]

Calling Canada the “most European of non-European countries” is not the compliment people seem to think it is.

I love Europe. But Canada is not Europe’s little cousin, and our national identity should amount to more than “at least we’re not American.”

We are a vast, resource-rich, ambitious country with our own history, institutions, culture and destiny.

Canada should not aspire to be Europe-lite or America-lite.

A serious country defines itself by what it builds, defends and contributes to the world, not by which foreign civilization it most resembles.

[Pari @PariTrivedi]

@trdessai True. Have you tried Van Heusen, Allen Solly, Uniqlo, Mango, Massimo Dutti?

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

Please, please read this news thoroughly, for your own sake. I experienced chest discomfort only when I started to run at higher speeds, and it subsided when I just walked or was at rest. That's called 'stable angina' (or stress angina). Unhealthy cholesterol levels, high(er) blood pressure, diabetes are some of the causes for this - in my case, it was unhealthy cholesterol levels, long undetected, while my blood pressure, conversely, continues to be on the lower side because of my running... which my doctor confirmed as healthy since I wasn't experiencing associated fatigue. And I'm prediabetic too, as I discovered during the blood tests for my procedure.

Rana seems to have carried his 'chest discomfort' for 3 days, after which it was too late for any intervention. This is a thin line for most people because it is very easy to mistake a 'discomfort' for stomach acidity, physical symptoms like muscle strain, or even 'heartburn' (which is quite literal!). In a way, I obsess over my daily run more so for this - to include a reasonably stress-inducing activity every day (since there is none) to see if I feel completely alright with it. This helped me identify that I did experience something unusual and it needed medical intervention. And since I felt normal if I stopped the source of stress (running at a faster speed), I ignored it for about a week. But since it persisted exactly only when I stressed, I realized that I was going through something predictably unusual and that needed a check. This 'discomfort' was not a pain at all, ironically. It felt, at best, as a steady tingling sensation on my shoulders and neck - nothing close to my heart! All the more reason to ignore it. But it occurred every single time I stressed myself by increasing the speed of my run, and subsided if I just walked at a slower pace.

Related reading - Two blocks and a second chance https://t.co/cgHCxGoqlB

[Michael Leach @Mike_Leach1976]

The bag of milk, the shoes at door… Whoever made this will win an award, probably a few. I’m sobbing, this is beautiful. This is who we are. We’ve welcomed the world for almost 140 years. We’re made for this moment. #CanMNT #FIFAWorldCup

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Beautiful scene. More of this spirit and pride pls 🇨🇦

[Pari @PariTrivedi]

@TweetinderKaul Have it with me. It’s super spicy for me though. I am in Delhi at the moment.

[Kemtrup @KemtrupTweets]

Richard Feynman once wrote, “If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts — physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on — remember that Nature does not know it.” (Hey and Walters, 1987, p. 313) 1/

[Pari @PariTrivedi]

RIP, David Hockney. Loved his style of depicting sunshine on water and clean mid-century modern houses. One could almost feel the heat of an afternoon in his paintings.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: David Hockney, the English artist whose colorful paintings restored the human form to art, defying the abstract schools of the mid-20th century, died at 88. https://t.co/VhtDiEA61P

[Alice Mills @millsalice144]

The earliest humans to walk aimlessly were called Meanderthals

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Watched this woman destroy an innocent girls life while reading her WhatsApp Messages on the news. For ratings. Had her call me anti-national on the news for speaking about women’s safety. For ratings. Now she’s ‘concerned’ about women. For ratings. Give me a break. That’s my take.

[Pari @PariTrivedi]

@MattLaemon I have the same theory. Planted.

[Pari @PariTrivedi]

@ElliottBlackwe3 One of my favourites, this book.