Loaded Pods

[Ikhwan @JatIkhwan]

Dekat Threads teruk PERKESO kena hentam dengan netizen. Ramai tak setuju dengan penolakan terkini daripada gaji. Maka netizen mula bertanya-jika tak tuntut apa jadi? Jawapanya- ini amal jariah. Netizen terus korek, RM 665 juta digunakan untuk gaji, bonus etc dari kutipan bilion.

[surreal putrajayan 🇵🇸 @fazleyff]

Something something right-of-way something something land acquisition something private developers building private townships something PBTs not getting enough revenue to enforce policies in Local Plan documents

[Zed 🕊️ @zedadam]

Tau tak knp maintenance kita teruk? Sebab selalu yg dpt tender utk maintenance job bukan company yg berpengalaman buat maintenance, diorg subcon kat org lain. Dah berpuluh tahun benda ni. Selain korupsi pejabat tanah, bad maintenance adalah satu lagi penyakit yg susah nak hilang.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

so many Anne Franks, no diaries.

[Adib @realadib]

Benda bodoh.

Kita tak pernah kurang jururawat. Kita boleh hasilkan beribu jururawat setiap tahun.

Tapi jururawat ini, pindah luar. Kenapa? Gaji tak setimpal.

Kalau bidang professional pun dah mula masuk orang luar, masak kita.

[Apurva Sanghi @ApurvaSanghi]

#51. Kuala Lumpur makes you realize a city can have three malls connected by a bridge and still somehow require a Grab to cross the street…

[Kit Klarenberg @KitKlarenberg]

This is the most important image of the 21st century to date. Study it. Never forgive. Never forget.

[Annoyed Malaysians 🇲🇾 @annoyedmsian]

Toll highway setinggi bangunan bukan main ya diaorang boleh bina dalam seminggu. Tapi kalau suruh bina LRT/MRT, laluan bas, sidewalk selesa mesra OKU sampai harini pon tak buat.

[Noor Suhana Ishak 🇲🇾 🏴 @cek_suhana]

Tapi jawapan mcm ni mcm tak fair juga pada pengguna.

Masa bulan puasa hampir setiap hari aku lambat sampai office & terpaksa naik Grab yg tambang dia berkali ganda.

Kalau pengguna kena empati dgn Rapid, siapa nak empati dgn pengguna? Risiko kena buang keje sbb lewat tu tinggi

[Daniel McAdams @DanielLMcAdams]

This is what a holocaust looks like.

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.

Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

[🍉 @A_Smol_T]

Overtime allowances are not "non-essential" for essential workers. If they are, stop making staff work overtime. What a fucking insult during labour day. I hope the doctors and nurses strike.

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

This cost them about $1 trillion.

The truth is, you cannot build systems like this exclusively on the logic of profit. You cannot expect to break even in 20 or 30 years. Projects of this scale are built because the government decides they must exist to serve the people.

And this is a problem with systems that are strictly, or overwhelmingly, capitalist. If you leave every problem in your society to the spontaneity of the market, some challenges are so large and so unprofitable that you will never have sufficient incentive to solve them.

[Nat-scape Nat-vigator 🇲🇾 🏳️‍⚧️ @Natcromancer]

RM58.4 billion for fuel subsidies is MADDENING

More money is being poured into fuel subsidies than MOH! (RM46.5 billion)

Driving is heavily subsidised at the expense of LITERALLY. EVERYTHING. ELSE.

[Farhan @lamkanahraf]

This is an anti-stupid development argument.

Undisciplined overdevelopment masalah besar negara. Terutamanya di kawasan bandar.

Far too long, we’ve “lived” with a model of development that seems to barely consider environmental impact.

And dah takleh deny, memang overdevelopment is an issue.

Contoh - Wangsa Maju, Sentul, Mont Kiara, TTDI, Taman Melawati dll.

Setiap inci tanah, kita nak clear dan develop. We keep adding more concrete load onto places that are already under stress.

Then when rain comes, the people bear the price.

Rumah masuk air. Kereta tenggelam. Stock rosak. Traffic lumpuh.

Public money goes into clean-up & repairs again & again.

And some still act surprised.

Bukan semua bencana itu really “natural”.

A lot of what we are dealing with now is the cumulative effect of years of bad land-use decisions.

Too much land clearing. Too little discipline.

That is why I think we should start discussing something more radical: what if we decided to stop building floods?

Bukan nak suruh stop all development.
Bukan anti-growth.
Bukan anti-housing.
Bukan anti-city.

What I mean is actually quite simple.

Kalau area tu dah overdeveloped, bukan hijau dah, terlalu padat, flood prone dan memang infrastruktur dah struggle, then kita patut pause, stop dan let nature catch up again.

A real policy would probably look something like this:

Kawasan Tenat
Tempat yang dah tertekan.

Kawasan banjir berulang, tepi sungai, cerun sensitif, wetland, kawasan tadahan air, dan kawasan bandar yang drainage dia memang dah tak cope.

Dekat sini, pembangunan berisiko tinggi patut pause dulu.

Kawasan Kawalan
Tempat yang masih boleh dibangunkan, tapi dengan syarat jauh lebih ketat.

Less site coverage, lebih retention, saliran lebih kuat, green cover kena jaga, dan tak boleh main approve macam biasa.

Kawasan Boleh Bina
Tempat yang lebih sesuai untuk pembangunan sebab risikonya lebih rendah, infrastrukturnya lebih sedia, dan sistemnya masih boleh tampung pertumbuhan.

And during the “pause”, it doesn’t mean do nothing.

It means restore.

Key to this is to restore.

- Upgrade drainage.
- Add retention ponds & infiltration.
- Stabilise slopes.
- Protect floodplains.
- Bring back tree cover.
- Audit what the land & drainage system can actually cope with before allowing more burden onto it.

Also LET NATURE CATCH UP AGAIN.

Repair first, then build.

Kalau ikut struktur govt?

KPKT jaga & drive the planning & zoning.

NRES drive environmental recovery.

State governments control land & must identify high-risk zones.

Local councils must stop approving the worst projects & enforce stricter rules where the system is already under stress.

Maybe this is how it would actually look like in practice.

Apa yang kita panggil “progress” / "development" now is selalunya just future damage with a launch ceremony.

Is this a difficult & radical policy?

Aku rasa yes.

The current system rewards the exact opposite.

Land conversion brings revenue. New projects look good politically. Announcements sound like growth.

Everyone gets to say something is being built. The damage only appears later, & by then the public is the one paying for it.

It is a political economy issue.

Not every piece of land needs to be maximised.

Some places need to be protected. Some places need to be left alone. Some places need to recover.

So yes, just nak cakap :

Stop building floods. Restore before we build more.

(Gambar sekadar hiasan)

[WanderingDrZul @Wealthyncsh]

@NewsBFM No one will listen to you cause you are not TTDI RA or Friends of Bukit Kiara...even forest and jungles have kayangan and peasant status..if only you are Bukit Kiara, maybe some TTDI Datuk wants some front page press..but since you are Hulu Selangor, nobody is bothered

[Daniel @danieleskay]

Bai-bai hutan Hulu Selangor.

[Lien @Jacksonsrule]

People work 8-10 hours a day, 5 days a week for someone else’s profit. Then they spend 4 hours at night staring at screens Basically, living for weekends +4 weeks PTO on repeat until age 65. While the government takes 25-30% their income And we’re told this is “normal.”

[Zaid Malek @ZaidMalek]

Lmao, you did worse than nothing. You specifically design an intiative that is so divorced from the reality of the working people that it's only tangible benefit is the bottomline of a singular company.

Get bent.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel announced that they will occupy almost 10% of Lebanon, an area larger than Bahrain, New York, or Singapore.

What Israel is doing is clearly aimed at ethnic cleansing and colonization, and every world leader who's silent about this is complicit, along with their people.