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nothing is something worth doing

[SG @sidtheterrible]

@heydambis whatta (perfect) anti climax ya..

[SG @sidtheterrible]

@heydambis drop it already queen

[Malvin @ManOfFocus_]

You can beat 99% of men if you can master the shame of rejection, the boredom of repetition, and the pain of feedback.

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

Surviving in a low-trust society requires a very specific kind of situational awareness. You cannot navigate the Indian system expecting everything to run on high-trust rules.

Whether you are dealing with sarkari bureaucracy or a local vendor, you will constantly encounter low cunning disguised as street smarts. Trying to out-dehati the dehatis at their own game drains your energy and drags you down to their baseline.

Build your own micro-environment of high-trust individuals, fortify your boundaries, and ruthlessly walk away from interactions that waste your time.

I know it is easier said than done, but bit by bit, you must extract yourself from the vast ocean of dehat.

[SG @sidtheterrible]

@piyush_trades this has been predicted for a while now but nothing pans out.

[Rohith Jyothish @thirdworldecon]

1. Multiple randomised school-feeding studies in Uganda, China, Thailand and Ghana show that egg supplementation provide growth and nutritional status. If a nutrition programme isn't expected to provide adequate protein, what exactly is it supposed to do?

2. What is the evidence that replacing eggs with purely vegetarian alternatives produces equivalent nutritional outcomes at comparable cost?

The published evidence overwhelmingly compares eggs vs no supplementation and consistently finds improvements in growth and micronutrient status. There is very little evidence showing vegetarian substitutes achieve the same outcomes in school feeding programmes.

The burden of proof lies with those who want the eggs removed and not with those defending them. If paneer, milk and dal genuinely deliver equivalent nutrition at comparable cost and scale, where is the evidence?

3. There is a tendency among sections of the elite to assume that vegetarian food is the neutral baseline.

Eggs are ordinary food for most Indian communities. It is only from an upper-caste vegetarian perspective that eggs become a "special request". A secular nutrition programme should be designed around children's nutritional needs, not around dietary preferences or religious ethics of contractors or pressure groups.

4. Referring to adequate protein for growing children as merely a "protein goal" trivialises a serious public health issue. We are not talking about gym supplements. We are talking about preventing stunting, supporting healthy growth and reducing micronutrient deficiencies among schoolchildren. Randomised studies from multiple countries have found measurable improvements in height, weight and nutritional biomarkers following egg supplementation.

5. Public health and education constantly face logistical challenges. We do not abandon vaccination, textbooks or surgical care because delivery is difficult. The appropriate response to implementation problems is better implementation, not lower nutritional standards.

6. Public welfare schemes should accommodate India's diversity. Instead, this approach asks millions of children including Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims, Christians and many OBC communities to conform to one particular conception of "pure" food because the contractor happens to follow it.

[Nathan ✰ @Just1Nathann_]

Nah. 27-33 aren't your humbling years. They're your awakening years.

So many people misunderstand this phase of life.

That's when you start seeing things clearly. Everything suddenly dawns on you. You realize what you want, what doesn't matter, and how much time you've wasted.

Some people mistake that clarity for failure because they wish they had figured it out earlier.

But if you're determined, you can build more in those few years than you did in your entire early twenties.

[Vinay Aravind @vinayaravind]

Vast chunk of Indian elites are completely lacking any kind of compassion or empathy. Many of them even display a psychopathic tendency towards deriving satisfaction from the misfortune of random strangers. Quite disturbing.

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

People underrate how much of Indian anxiety is rational.

When systems are low-trust, documents go missing, portals fail, brokers lie, roads are unsafe, and officials can harass you, hypervigilance is an adaptation.

This is why I think a lot of traditionally western approaches to anxiety and stress fail to treat Indian patients - they fail to take into account that the degree of dysfunction in our society is dialed up 10x compared to the West.

[SG @sidtheterrible]

@anushkaxvii MOOD.

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Give your mind a break. From people. From phones. From the constant hustle of life. Spend some alone time just with yourself. Do nothing. Be bored. Stare at a crack in the wall. Look out the window. Watch how shadows move. Listen to a piece of music that's 300 years old. Read Hegel. Read Aristotle. Read Dostoevsky. The minds that are still relevant today. Slow down enough to experience things deeply again. Don't consume something just because it's trending. Be loyal to your own curiosities. Your own interests. Your own idiosyncrasies. If you want to live a life that feels alive, protect the parts of yourself this world keeps trying to distract you from.

[SG @sidtheterrible]

@aditiitwt is this fr? jeez!

[David Bui - SF 6/28-7/5 🌁 @ghosttyped]

This is the most mentally dangerous part of being unemployed tbh

[Giorgi Kokiashvili 🇬🇪 @iHeartGeorgius1]

You know why I’m proud of Ilia Topuria? I know that after the third round, continuing the fight was physically impossible for him, yet in the fourth round he left his heart and soul in the Octagon. He gave everything he had until the very end and sacrificed the greatest asset a person has - their health, during those final five minutes. No belt and no title can ever give you that. You either have that in you, or you don’t.

We all have bad days. After getting out of bed, we’ve probably all thought that everything would go exactly as planned, only to find that by the end of the day everything had gone terribly wrong. Some of us face those days inside four office walls, while others have to overcome them inside the Octagon, in front of a million cameras and a billion eyes watching.

No one knows what kind of mental battle Ilia went through over the past year or how he even made it all the way to the White House. Only he knows that. Everyone is wise when judging someone else’s war. We all have bad days. What matters is how we get back up and how we keep moving forward.

I truly believe that something big, something on a much greater scale, is starting now and no one is ready for it.

Those who take pleasure in someone else’s defeat will never truly enjoy their own victories and the vultures know best when to attack a wounded lion and circle around it.

You are a son of Georgia to be proud of and you always will be, Ilia. You are the one who gave us our first taste of championship glory and then spoiled us twice over. You set the standard so high that anything below it simply no longer surprises us.

Pipo will be back.

[k @alfkkifine]

One of the most brutal realities of the male experience that nobody talks about is the absolute "affection desert" they live in. A woman can get a hug, a genuine compliment, and deep emotional support from her platonic friends on a random Tuesday. A man can go an entire calendar year without another human being touching his arm, asking if he's okay, or giving him a sincere compliment. We’ve built a society where a man only gets to experience basic human warmth if he is actively providing for a partner. Outside of that, he is completely invisible.

[Shubh Khandelwal @ShubhKD]

Sharing notes on consumer behaviour which hasn’t changed in the last few decades:

1. People appreciate good service and want to be valued as custom-ers.
2. There is an inherent human desire to feel connected.
3. People have a desire to share opinions with others.
4. People make emotional decisions but need something rational to justify them.
5. No one likes to be interrupted at the wrong moment.
6. When consuming content, people either want to be educated or entertained.
7. Persuasive communication = low-effort-processing communica
tion. If advertising demands a lot of attention to process, it us-ally doesn't work.
8. What makes people laugh and cry are still the same. The modes might have changed from a joker in a circus to an Instagram reel, but the fundamentals are the same.

Kudos to @arindam___paul for distilling these in zero to scale

[SG @sidtheterrible]

@IndianTintin_ why is nobody talking about the broken ankle, looks diabolically nasty!

that elderly man will need 12-18 months just to recover properly along with rehab and will still never be able to walk normally at ease.

[Rajjath @Rajjath24]

turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I think one of the healthiest things a person can do is become easy to delight. To still stop for weird clouds and dogs wearing bandanas and the smell of garlic cooking somewhere down the street. The world already has enough cynicism. Be the person who still points at the moon.