What china? Just visit Srilanka. Instead of goa just go to srilanka once. You'll come back crying.

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill. Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me): 🧵

One thing that keeps coming up when scaling AI agents to production is Semantic Caching. Not the concept - the execution. What do you cache? For how long? What about tool calls, user state, & multi-turn conversations? Here's how I'd approach it - medium.com/towards-artificia… @towards_AI

Sad thing is, it's not just nutritionists, but also lot of personal trainers in the gym are advising their clients to take supplements beyond whey protein (like ashwagandha, ginseng extract, green tea extract etc).

Very true. India (& organized religion in general) is full of ironies. Take the example of the famous Temple in Mumbai dedicated to the Goddess of Wealth. One would imagine that if gods actually delivered what they represent, then at-least the temple and its immediate surroundings would reflect wealth & prosperity, considering it's situated in the financial capital of India, no less! But instead, it is so dirty & shabby, lined with beggars sitting outside asking for money. The irony is - in its vicinity, it would be hard to find a more dirtier & poorer space than this temple.

Gig workers aren't rushing into 10-minute deliveries for the thrill or passion. Many do it out of necessity in a country with structural underemployment & few better alternatives for semi-skilled youth. Secondly, progress often requires forcing better standards. Just like banning child labor, mandating seatbelts, or labor laws didn't happen voluntarily. Car drivers / Factory Workers aren't doing indenture labor too, but they too had to call for better safety standards. If the system puts a segment of people by design, correcting the inequality is a good thing and it makes the places we work better and fair.

By this logic she could consider making Gaza or North Korea or Afganistan as her permanent home, that way she can feel infinitely more grateful!

The problem with this romantic framing is that it assumes a developmental arc that almost never happens. These traditions are not training wheels. Training wheels are designed to be removed. But religious promises are designed to be internalized, defended, and transmitted. In practice, the "collapse of myth" is the exception, not the success case. Indoctrination doesn't prime the mind for truth - it primes it against independent meaning-making. Once a psyche is conditioned to associate comfort, morality, hope, and existential safety with divine rewards, it doesn't graduate into clarity later. it becomes dependent. The miracles and myths don't gently fall away - they get rationalized, spiritualized, and protected at all costs. If these were indeed "training wheels", religions would celebrate their dissolution. Instead, doubt is punished, apostasy is feared, and reinterpretation is tightly policed. What's sold as "milk for babies" often becomes a lifelong diet, because the system actively discourages the very maturity it claims to prepare you for. The believer isn't trained to face reality without consolation. Instead, they're trained to distrust any meaning that doesn't arrive with divine approval and to accept cosmic bribery as virtue. So when someone does outgrow these myths, it's not thanks to the traditions - it's despite it.

1. Being skeptical doesn't automatically mean the skeptic is right - credibility comes from the quality of arguments 2. Neural nets didn’t succeed because rebels “ignored authority”. They succeeded because compute, data, math finally caught up and because thousands of scientists, inside the establishment, could implement & improve them step by step. 3. For every field where the minority turns out right, there are a thousand crackpot directions where the minority is just… wrong.

Wow, what a beautiful display of spiritual growth. I am surprised why you haven't received a standing ovation. After visiting so many mandirs and doing so much prayers in your life it is so obvious that you have reached the highest state of consciousness. A true torchbearer of dharm like yourself must be applauded don't you think? I mean just look at how much enlightenment and love is radiating through your responses. Atheists are truly ignorant for not recognising such pearls of wisdom you have to offer.

For me as an Indian, quality of life means these: uninterrupted electricity, timely garbage collection, good AQI, clean walkable cities with proper footpaths & no open drains, access to open spaces, proper lane discipline & reliable public transport, ethical work environments, strong labor laws that empower employees, & decent average disposable income. Hiring cheap labor to do household chores, 10-minute grocery deliveries, or 20-minute Swiggy orders aren't "quality of life". They're just jugaad / band-aid shortcuts that ppl have gotten used to get around the fact that India lacks many of the basic real markers of a good living standard.

Yes of-course! Did u also know that dinosaurs were a hoax created by Hollywood & Big Popcorn so they can make & sell more dinosaur movies. And rain was also invented by umbrella manufacturers. U won't hear this in school or read it in textbooks. But once u see it, u can't unsee it. It's all a conspiracy! and it's all connected if u squint hard enough. Wake up sheeple!

First severe day of the year, really? As if the rest of the days were like yoga retreat? And only 428? Let's go for 1000, full marks! After all, we’re a "Vishwaguru"... this is spiritual purification using PM2.5.

Damn, that's a bummer. 🥲

Question - does coffee lose its health benefits if taken with regular milk / oat milk?

Well, it should hardly be surprising. When you have a nation and a society obsessed with concepts like "purity", but breeds polluted hearts, polluted minds, and polluted morals, this is the natural outcome. The tree is judged by the fruit it produces, and the polluted cities are just a collective mirror of the polluted souls of the inhabitants.

How DARE the people demand non-poisonous air to breathe in New India? You have Al, UPI, and Smart cities, now you want clean air also?! Such entitlement! True patriots breathe toxins with pride, the rest are desh-drohies.

India - where government cares more about AI than AQI. A place where both public & politicians have fantasies of grandeur, wanting to build 'smart cities' where the air is so toxic even Alexa would cough before answering. Breathe if you can, but do it smartly - maybe that's what it means.

Watch how the pseudoscience apologists will now start coming up with post-hoc rationalizations and use the "No True Scotsman" style of arguments "Oh, well he wasn't a TRUE astrologer. You should speak with a REAL astrologer, they would have predicted the right gender perfectly" 🤡

Unlike doctors who practice evidence based medicine, Ayurvedic vaidyas are actually the real allopathic doctors in disguise, masquerading as actual doctors. Instead of hopeful rhetoric or "ancient wisdom" speeches, they should provide RCT-backed proof that they are better than evidence-based medicine in preventing diseases, enhancing survival rates or improving recovery rates significantly. Until then, Ayurveda will never ever be accepted in mainstream science, because its methods and its systems and principles are incompatible with current day standards of evidence and in many cases even contradicts it. A different methodology doesn't automatically mean an equally valid one.