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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 2y ago
> In India, the Judiciary has primacy over legislative. You should read the Constitution before making random statements like these. The Parliament is supreme because every part of the Supreme Court (size, age of the judges etc) is in th
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 2y ago
Under the new tax regime, individual income up to ₹750,000 is tax free due to a combination of standard deduction and 87A. Given that many small businesses often accept UPI payments in multiple names (husband, wife, mother etc), a small fam
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> “Because despite everyone’s best efforts, sometimes the food spills into the delivery boxes. In those cases, the smell of the previous order travels to the next order and may lead to the next order smelling of the previous order,” Goya
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> Persecuting your own citizens who worship minority religions is not decolonization in any way. Reclaiming your own temples, after giving the injured party land to rebuild their mosque, is not persecution in my book. I would argue that
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
From Catherine Nixey's The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World : > When modern histories describe this period, this time when all the old religions died away and Christianity finally became pre-eminent,
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> two random writers You know just as well as I do that these positions are not those of two random writers, but that of the ideological Left in each country.[1][2][3] I have seen these discussed at length on tv, youtube and in print in
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
The American Left: > The most obvious result of this scheme is that individual voters in small-population states tend to have more power in choosing the President than individual voters in high-population states, and that difference can
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
Per capita figures do not matter in such comparisons when the population involved is massive. YouTube is huge in India.
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
There is an anecdote that is often used in India about how the Parsis (Zoroastrians who escaped the Islamic conquest of Persia) came to India and assimilated into the society. When a group of Parsis landed in Gujarat (Western India), the lo
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> When the BBC released a documentary ... authorities raided the broadcaster’s offices for allegedly evading taxes "Allegedly."[1] Western media has a basic competency/honesty problem when it comes to reporting on India. I
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
The Hyprland guy argues like a free speech absolutist while Drew wants him to join the neo-religious cult of perpetual rage and victim-hood. Genocide is a tactic. Like nuking, flooding, fire bombing cities. Or beheading people. Or setting t
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> Everyone and their dog knows that lead is dangerous. If the article were truly written by someone whose heart bleeds for those suffering from lead poisoning in the Indian subcontinent, they would restrict themselves to that single issu
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> lots of it is pseudoscience. I can get behind the feeling of the word, but I absolutely hate this word as it has generally been used in the sense that everything modern (science, technology, people) is smarter/more advanced than a
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> geocentrism The culture that gave the world Ayurveda and the Surya Siddhanta and the Nasadiya Sukta is very different from the ones which believe that God has said that the Earth is flat or ones where God's agents on Earth h
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> What does ingesting mercury or lead fight against? This is a question for those who are experts in the field of Rasa Shastra .[1][2] Just like questions regarding which poisons/toxins are injected into the human body as treatme
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> But it also means the most vulnerable in our society are actually able to buy things. Forcing banks and digital wallet providers to provide users a prepaid card/digital balance in exchange for cash is a good alternative. This shou
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> I'm very sad and hopeless Well, the entire Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh was driven out of the region by Azerbaijan as the world watched in utter silence. These things happen. Morality and ethics are purely theoretical c
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> huge number of scammers who targets US people Scammers, as a category, target everyone. You think Indians don't get conned into sharing their OTP/passwords or financial details? > They are too short-sighted to not see that
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> I find "logs off" as a euphemism for passed away to be quite poor, Irreverence has been part of the El Reg reading experience since I can remember. Someone always complains about them writing about "boffins."
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> Not all nations became colonizers though, war and annexation of some neighborhood land is not "colonization", True. However, forcing the invader's culture and practises on the conquered people and taking steps to replace
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> But it was Europe who conquered the world and colonized the so called new world, not China. A Chinese emperor once famously said to the British: “Our celestial empire possesses all things in abundance and lacks no product within its bo
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> It’s time it leans on immigrants Uncontrolled immigration without assimilation can have disastrous consequences. And assimilation is a polite way of saying "give up your culture and adopt ours." Unfortunately, without assimil
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> The only sustainable way forward is to form artist-driven, bottom-up, non-profit organizations to nurture communities like BandCamp. It will only work if there is laser-like focus on the primary organizational objective: letting artist
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
Cancellation might cause financial harm to a person, but it creates a feeling of victimhood. It is incapable of changing someone's views.
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
The letter by Harvard groups: "We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all the unfolding violence. "Today's events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, milli
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
To use a marriage analogy, autonomy (bounded) is consensual separation where the injured party has initiative and control over their actions. Apartheid would be the husband restricting the wife to a certain area of the house and beating her
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
The most expensive home in the world, if you ignore still-occupied old palaces, is Antilia in Mumbai.[1] It has a estimated market value of USD 1.5-2 billion. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilia_(building)
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> You found a small example What are you talking about? > atrocities committed in the name of ethnic nationalism If you are referring to the Hindus, they are not a single ethnicity.
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> apartheid It is autonomy, not apartheid. There are many ethnic/religious communities around the world who have fought for autonomy to varying degrees of success.
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by ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
Why is an autonomous state (a grander version of the outstation idea) within the bounds of the Australian constitution not considered?[1] Allot a certain percentage of the federal budget to the state for the next 50/100 years and let t

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