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rationalhum.bsky.social
Armchair expertise without credentials in history, economics, world affairs, and anything to do with India. Academic training in Physics.
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Exactly

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

From "Don't be evil" to "let's be assholes". #Google

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Really cuddly characters, the whole lot of them

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

WTF?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Since he has none of these attributes, he should be the first one to be fired

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Mireuk Daebul (Maitreya Buddha) at Bongeunsa temple, Seoul. As seen on December 2, 2024.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

ABC (Disney), Washington Post (Bezos), Meta (Zuckerberg), LA Times (Soon-Shiong)... all bending the knee to Trump, all obeying in advance, all sucking up to the Dictator-in-Waiting. This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.

submitted 70 days ago • 365 comments

@aditixp.bsky.social Sadly, this only confirms what we always suspected, but didn't have the energy to verify

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

My #DOGE suggestion: cut the $7,500 federal tax credit for Tesla vehicles. Tesla is on track to sell 1.6 million cars in 2024, so that'll save $12 billion right there.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Watching the India Australia test in Perth. Australia 22 for 4, chasing 534. Gilchrist on comms asks Shastri and Warner if reaction times become longer with age. They agree, and vindicate my theory of why Sehwag, Yuvraj , Dhoni etc weren't half the players they used to be later in their careers.

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This could get interesting. Adani raised about $3 billion from US markets (via syndicated loans and bonds), which explains the SEC interest. Orders of magnitude: solar contracts with after-tax profits of $2 billion over 20 years. Bribes of $265 million, or 13.25% of profits, but payable up front.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

I read that the Netherlands and France will honor the warrant. Other countries are scrambling to come up with an appropriate response. The US, of course, won't do anything.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

@aditixp.bsky.social, we were talking about this

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@aditixp.bsky.social, you will find this useful

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