A 15-year-old dream has come true today. I started a PhD with the dream of creating a system that chants any Sanskrit shloka perfectly.
And here I am opening sourcing 𝐕𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐮 - 𝐀 𝐯ṛ𝐭𝐭𝐚 (𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫) 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 ś𝐥𝐨𝐤𝐚-𝐭𝐨-𝐜𝐡��𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 (TTS) 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐫𝐢𝐭. This is the world's first vrutta-aware, open-source TTS for Sanskrit Chanting.
@TdLeaker Why don't Canadians genuinely protest against these enormous taxes on everything?
Why are they obsessed with USA, immigrants, Ukraine, Palestine & everything else but themselves & their kids?
Even @PierrePoilievre & @fordnation rarely talk of significant tax reducton!
(The 🍓🍓🍓🤣 at the end)…
Karen earns $995 today.
Before she sees a penny, roughly $533 disappears in marginal federal and provincial income tax.
She fills her tank. Another $15.75 in fuel taxes and HST.
She buys a pack of cigarettes. About $10 goes to taxes.
A $20 bottle of wine to take the edge off? Another $3+ in taxes and levies.
Dinner? $3.90 in HST.
Every single month she quietly pays HST on her phone, internet and streaming services. She pays $6,000 a year in property tax just to continue living in a home she already bought with after-tax income. Part of every insurance premium is insurance premium tax. Hidden in almost everything she buys are corporate taxes, commercial property taxes, development charges, licensing fees and tariffs that businesses simply pass along in the price.
She books a vacation. Airport Improvement Fees. Security charges. More taxes.
She invests what’s left. If it grows, she pays capital gains tax. If it pays dividends, she pays dividend tax.
Then one day Karen dies.
Her family discovers there isn’t technically a “death tax” in Canada—but her estate is treated as though she sold almost everything the moment she died. Capital gains become taxable, final income tax is due, and in Ontario her estate pays probate fees before her family receives what’s left.
Karen’s money was taxed when she earned it, taxed while she spent it, taxed while she invested it, taxed while she owned things, and taxed one final time when she died.
But don’t worry.
Karen refuses to buy American strawberries because she’s bravely protesting the tariffs the U.S. charges on their imports.
After paying roughly $687 in taxes and government fees on a $995 workday, she’s finally taking a stand against someone else’s tax policy. 🇨🇦💪
6 years ago, an audit firm warned the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra trust that it had "no systemic record" of donations, was "highly unprofessional," and risked "dubious information and reporting."
Now an SIT is investigating the exact failures that were predicted in writing.
When a private trust manages an institution handling thousands of crores in public donations flounders this way in mismanaging, "keep government out of temple management" loses any credibility.
Still hold the position that government control of Hindu temples (unlike churches or mosques, which face no comparable state oversight) is itself the inequity. The hope is that we see more professional, audited private trusteeship emerge from cases like this. If that doesn't happen, a lot of people will end up cheering for state takeover by default. via @IndianExpress
@Conservamind@BritIndianVoice Every single immigrant who comes with a visa is literally & legally 'invited' to the country.
You need to use your mind but conserve it
There is no diversity in Nigeria.
There is no diversity in Somalia.
There is no diversity in India.
There is no diversity in Pakistan.
There is no diversity in Bangladesh.
But, for some reason, the western world is expected to take unlimited migrants from the most homogeneous countries in order to turn us into some multicultural society where our cultures are not equal & we do not mix well.
Time to end this failed experiment.
Send all migrant invaders home.
@RdLessTrvled@JayGenXer White Canadians out on the streets, homeless, addicts, no jobs, broken roads, long wait times in ER, millions without family docs, mins unemployed is all happening TODAY. That's on YOU. You voted.
TU ANDROID TIENE FUNCIONES QUE APPLE NO PUEDE NI SOÑAR.
Y el 95% de los usuarios no las ha activado nunca.
15 funciones ocultas que vas a activar HOY 🧵👇🚨
Guárdalo. Tu móvil va a cambiar por completo.
@atrupar@JDVance your wife is not Indian. She's American. Born and raised.
And stop comparing the mother of your kids to Minor! Are you dumb?!
Sit down.
@raghu_venugopal@GadSaad 🤣
Canadian tax payers pay physicians up to 500k annually! Then, same tax payers suffer months long wait, up to 15-20 hours wait in Emergency, even pay to access their own medical records kept in a computer paid for by tax payers.
You should keep your mouth shut.
@elonmusk Haven't the French voters been at the forefront in supporting parties that favor immigration and immigrants?
Didn't these voters think it through last twenty years? Did they not bother how Gare du Nord area was changing drastically, & for the worse, over 20 years?
Why cry now?