Power to Bharat's answer to If Jinnah saw Pakistan today, what would he think? - Quora - "We all know Muhammad Ali Jinnah as the father of Pakistan, but many may not know that neither he nor his descendants ever acquired Pakistani citizenship... Jinnah's only child, Dina Wadia, was born on August 15, 1919 in London. She chose to stay in India and later moved to the United States. Nusli Wadia, son of Neville and Dina Wadia, was born on February 15, 1944 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. He is a famous Indian businessman and chairman of the Wadia Group. Nusli Wadia's wife Maureen Wadia holds Indian citizenship. Ness Wadia, born on May 30, 1971 in Mumbai, India, is the elder son of Nusli and Maureen Wadia. He is an Indian businessman and co-owner of the IPL team Kings XI Punjab. Jehangir Wadia, also known as Jeh Wadia, is the younger son of Nusli and Maureen Wadia. He is associated with the family business and has played an important role in the aviation industry as the managing director of GoAir. Jehangir Wadia holds Indian citizenship."
Muhammad Aamir Khokhar's answer to If Jinnah saw Pakistan today, what would he think? - Quora - ""You are free. You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this state of Pakistan," Jinnah declared. "You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the state.""
Brat summer is over besties – it's time to visit Royal Armouries, says senior curator - "The Royal Armouries is the most "sigma day out in Leeds, no cap" - according to its senior curator. Mark Murray-Flutter and the Leeds' Royal Armouries Museum team had fun recording a Gen Z/alpha slang-inspired script promoting the museum that cares for one of the oldest and most extensive public collections of arms and armour in the world. It found an audience with the "letting Gen Z write the marketing script" clip going viral since its release last week, garnering millions of views across all social media platforms. "Slay, smol, the lion armour is serving main character energy, pop off queen and Henry VIII is the original rizzler", are some of the Gen Z phrases expertly reeled off by Mr Murray-Flutter."
Thread by @Russwarne on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Rosenhan's archives contradict the report of "On being sane in insane places," and his biographer does not think the study happened as described (and can only find 1 of 8 participants). Throw this one in the #psychology garbage heap. First the Stanford Prison Experiment and now this. What is it with Stanford social psychologists telling b.s. stories about their "experiments"? These are, at best, performance art. They should not be cited as science. #psychology More details of Rosenhan's work. The author suspects that some of the pseudo-patients in the study never existed. She also has proof that one person was dropped from the study because the data contradicted Rosenhan's thesis. #psychology When I teach about Zimbardo and Rosenhan in my replication crisis class next semester, I'm going to call it "Stanford Shenanigans.""
Meme - "妇产科 Gynecology & Obstetrics Dept
抢救室 Emengency Room
阴道镜检查宝 Cunt Examination
胎心监护室 Fetal Heart Custody
药流观察室 Observation Room
产科诊室 Obstetrics Consultation"
Meme - "English teachers (n.) People who put more thoughts into a novel than the original author ever did."
Meme - "Find a Guy that holds your arm, walks with you and opens the car door. *police arrest*"
Meme - Jonathon Catlin @planetdenken: "Turns out Germans don't really understand how bagels work"
Josiah @bed_jartlet98: "yeah and whose fault is that"
Police escort Gloucester mum off Ryanair flight after she is unable to pay for Pringles - "Officers escorted the 55-year-old off a Ryanair jet after she ate the crisps from the trolley before paying. Ann-Marie Murray ordered the Pringles, water and a cola on a flight from Tenerife to Bristol on March 28. The bill came to £7... "As crew looked to resolve the payment issue, this passenger proceeded to ignore crew instructions, consume the items prior to payment and subsequently became disruptive.""
Goldman Sachs Working Conditions Survey creates noise, Silver Lake backs legal-tech company Relativity - "There’s a pretty interesting 11-page presentation circulating online that reveals a new survey of junior bankers at Goldman Sachs. That being said, the survey includes just 13 analysts so is relatively small sample size in the big scheme of things. Here are a few findings from the “Working Conditions Survey” circulating online:
– On average, first year analysts are working over 95 hours per week and sleeping 5 hours per night
– 1st year analysts report that the stresses of work have been detrimental to both their mental and physical health
-All respondents feel as though work hours have negatively impacted their relationships with friends and/or family.
– The majority of 1st year analysts feel they have been the victim of workplace abuse and have or considered seeking help due to deteriorating mental health"
Mirrors: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3
Meme - "INVESTMENT BANKING. Goldman Sachs. Select Analyst Quotes"
"The sleep deprivation, the treatment by senior bankers, the mental and physical stress...I've been through foster care and this is arguably worse"
"I can't sleep anymore because my anxiety levels are through the roof"
"My body physically hurts all the time and mentally I'm in a really dark place"
"Being unemployed is less frightening to me than what my body might succumb to if I keep up this lifestyle"
"There was a point where I was not eating, showering or doing anything else other than working from morning until after midnight"
"I didn't come into this job expecting a 9am-5pm's, but I also didn't expect consistent 9am-5am's either"
"What is not ok to me is 110-120 hours over the course of a week! The math is simple, that leaves 4 hours a day for eating, sleeping, showering, bathroom and general transition time. This is beyond the level of 'hard-working', this, Is inhumane / abuse"
Rahim Mohamed: What South Korea can teach Canada about soft power
The equation of Korean government support for their popular culture and funding only the CBC is bizarre
Harry Potter and the limits of liberalism. : r/COMPLETEANARCHY - "It very neatly describes the way liberals see the world and political struggle. Lots of people complain about the anti-climatic ending, but really I don't think it could any other way. I'd like to imagine that there's some alternate universe where Rowling actually believed in something and Harry was actually built up as the anti-Voldemort he was only hinted as being in the beginning of the books. Where he's [sic] opposes all the many injustices of the wizarding world and determines to change their frequently backwards, insular, contradictory society for the better, and forms his own faction antithetical to the Death Eaters and when he finally has his showdown with Voldy, Harry surpasses by adopting new methods, breaking the rules and embracing change and the progression of history. While Voldemort clings to an idyllic imaging of the past and the greatest extent of his dreams is to become the self-appointed god of a eternally stagnant Neverland. Harry has embraced the possiblity of a shining future and so can overcome the self-imposed limits Voldemort could never cross, and Voldemort is ultimately defeated by this. But that would require a Harry that believed in something. and since Rowling is a liberal centrist Blairite that doesn't really believe in anything, Harry can't believe in anything. Harry lives in a world drought with conflict and injustice, a stratified class society, slavery of the sentient magical creatures, the absurd charade the wizarding world puts up to enforce their own self-segregation, a corrupted and bureaucracy-chocked government, rampant racism, so on and so forth. But Harry is little more than a passive observer for most of it, only the racism really bothers him (and then only racism towards half-bloods). In fact, when Hermione stands up against the slavery of elves, she's treated as some kind of ridiculous Soapbox Sadie. For opposing chattel slavery. In the end, the biggest force for change is Voldemort and Harry and friends only ever fight for the preservation and reproduction of the status quo. The very height of Harry's dreams is to join the aurors, a sort of wizard FBI and the ultimate defenders of the wizarding status quo. Voldemort and the Death Eaters are the big instigators of change and Harry never quite gets to Voldy's level. Harry doesn't even beat Voldemort, Voldemort accidentally kills himself because he violated some obscure technicality that causes one of his spells to bounce back at him. And this is really the struggle of liberals, they live in a world fraught with conflict, but aren't particularly bothered by any of it except those that threaten the multicultural pluralism. They see change, and the force behind that change, as a wholly negative phenomenon. Even then, they can only act within the legal and ideological framework of their society. So for instance, instead of organizing insurrectionary and disruptive activity against Trump and the far-right, all they can do is bang their drum about what a racist bigot he is and hope they can catch him violating some technicality that will allow them to have him impeached or at least destroy his political clout. It won't work, it will never work, but that is the limit of liberalism just as it was the limit of Harry Potter."
Apparently change for change's sake is good, and violence is good when it's directed against Trump and the "far right"
Meme - "Joe Rogan is like some barbarian Khan from the steppes that took an interest in intellectual things and his show is I basically him bringing slightly nervous scholars and magicians to come before him to explain how the world works "glasses man, you explain to Joe why sky big, and how tree grow but he will also believe almost anything you tell him, and only recently (in the past few years) does he clap back like Tiny hat man say otherwise, do you lie to Joe? Tiny hat man say fat not bad for you, that sugar is enemy, so which is truth? Joe thinks you are wrong" and people just nervously go oh oh ok h-Haha yah I guess so". Joe spend many moons on horseback and training with bow and sword, but joe also wonder why skyfire rise from mountains every morning, you will explain this to Joe.""
joerogan: "The most accurate description of my podcast I've ever read."
Man who had multiple child porn videos in phone given a month's jail - "The court heard that a friend had introduced Kolambage to Hindakumbure, who told the younger man that he had created a WhatsApp chat group with "many Sri Lankan people in it". Kolambage then joined the "Singapore Boys Wela group", which was created in 2019... He later told investigators he was "not really interested" in obscene videos involving underage subjects. Deputy Public Prosecutor Tessa Tan said: "The accused also admitted in the course of investigations that... although he had tried his best to delete 'underage obscene videos', he might have at (times) missed out on deleting them, as there were 'too many of such videos'." The DPP explained that Kolambage's WhatsApp setting was such that videos and photographs sent by other people would be automatically downloaded into his phone gallery. "Accordingly, obscene films and child abuse material shared by other participants (in the group) were also automatically downloaded into the accused's phone gallery," she added. Kolambage's offences came to light on Aug 6, 2020 when a foot patrol officer from the Public Transport Security Command saw him behaving suspiciously at Lavender MRT station around 1pm. The officer and his colleagues were conducting a check on Kolambage when they saw that the Sri Lankan had a group chat with a display picture showing silhouettes of a man and a woman engaging in what appeared to be a sexual act. They opened the chat, which had 256 participants, and saw that it had more than 6,000 media files. Officers arrested Kolambage and seized his mobile phone. Some of the files were later found to contain child pornography."
Reasons to turn off auto-download
10 Everyday Mysteries In Japan You've Wondered About, Explained - "1. Who’s the famous running man in Osaka?
2. Why do salarymen all dress the same?
3. Why can’t the shutter sound on Japanese phones be switched off?
4. Why do the Japanese eat KFC during Christmas?
5. Why are umbrellas mostly transparent in Japan?
6. Why do stone statues wear bibs and hats?
7. Why are the colours of conbini storefronts different in some prefectures?
8. Why is it so hard to find trash cans in Japan?
9. Why are disposable chopsticks so ubiquitous?
10. Why do locals sprinkle water on the streets?"
Meme - Randall Gore @jon_wunwun7: "It is tactically safer to say you don't believe in democracy and no one should be voting than to say women shouldn't be allowed to vote."
Andrew on X - "Today, @blueorigin took one giant step for mankind: They got 6 women ready to leave on time."
Meme - NewsDaily🪖🚨🪖 @XNews24_7: "Why did Blue Origin’s capsule return to Earth looking pristine, with NO re-entry burns? Unlike SpaceX’s Falcon Crew Dragon, which comes back scorched, Blue Origin’s New Shepard seems untouched! Is it a game-changing material or a clever trajectory trick? Let’s dive into the science and spark a debate! #SpaceRace #BlueOrigin #SpaceX"
Meme - "Katy Perry wore this $11 setting spray to 'lock in' her makeup for Blue Origin space flight: 'Truly held'"
Melissa Chen @MsMelChen: "Remember this post for whenever a female celeb complains about why they are asked ridiculous questions and are not taken seriously"
Tyler Fischer on X - "BREAKING: Jeff Bezos spends 50 million dollars to get 90 minute break from wife."
Meme - 2016: *Busty Scarlett Johansson*
2020: *Flat Scarlett Johansson*
Thanos: "Gone, reduced to atoms."
Meme - Dana Jenkins: "MY BABY HOME !! MY MF BABY !! MY BABY IS HOME !! LORD I THX U!!"
"Man charged with murder in deaths of mother, 15-year-old brother in Wilson, police say. On Tuesday, police identified the victims as 50-year-old Dana Vanessa Jenkins and a 15- year-old juvenile."
Meme - Democratic Party: "MAN, WE REALLY GOT OUR ASS KICKED LAST NOVEMBER. WE'LL NEED TO BE MORE VILE, CONDESCENDING AND OBNOXIOUS NEXT TIME. YES. YES. THAT'S IT"
Charlie Kirk on X - "The latest Yale Youth Poll confirms the trend we’ve seen at one campus after another: The youngest voters have turned sharply to the right. Yale found 22-29 year olds favored Democrats by ONLY 6.4 points. But kids of college age, 18-21, lean Republican by almost 12 (!!) The most dramatic generational political swing in history is unfolding before our eyes."
Associations between Total and Added Sugar Intake and Diabetes among Chinese Adults: The Role of Body Mass Index - "Sugar intake has been linked to the global rise in diabetes. However, the unique diabetogenic effect of sugar, independent of weight gain, remains controversial. This study aimed to investigate the associations between total and added sugar intake and diabetes status, and to test whether the sugar–diabetes associations were moderated or mediated by the body mass index (BMI). We performed a nationwide cross-sectional study on 12,889 Chinese adults who were enrolled in the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) 2011. The data for the total and added sugar intake were measured using three consecutive 24 h recalls, and determined based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 28 (SR28), the Food Patterns Equivalents Database (FPED) 2015–2016, and the labeled ingredients and nutrient contents. A multivariable logistic regression model was used to analyze the associations between the total and added sugar intake and diabetes. A nutrient density model was used to adjust for the total energy intake. A mediation analysis for significant sugar–diabetes associations shown in multivariable logistic analysis (p < 0.05), and a subgroup analysis according to the BMI category were performed, to examine the mediating and moderating effects of the BMI on the sugar–diabetes association, respectively. We included 12,800 individuals, with a mean age of 50.5, in the final analysis. The means of the total and added sugar intake, total sugar (%E), and added sugar (%E) were 28.2 ± 0.2 g/d, 5.0 ± 0.1 g/d, 6.0 ± 0.0%, and 1.0 ± 0.0%, respectively. The overall prevalence of self-reported physician-diagnosed diabetes was 4.0%. A significant association between the total sugar intake and an increased risk of diabetes was found (odds ratio [OR] =1.008, 95% CI 1.001–1.016). The mediation analysis showed a significant mediation effect through the BMI of the effect of the total sugar on diabetes status (p < 0.001), where 11.7% (95% CI: 4.7–35.7%) of the effect of the total sugar on diabetes was mediated through the BMI. The total sugar intake had a significant direct effect on diabetes around the BMI (estimated coefficient = 0.0004, p < 0.001). The overall total-sugar-intake–diabetes association remained significant in normal-weight participants in the subgroup analysis (OR =1.012, 1.000–1.024). In conclusion, although the BMI moderated and mediated the association between the total sugar intake and diabetes, the total sugar still showed some unique weight-independent diabetogenic effects. Our findings call for efforts to prevent and control diabetes by reducing sugar intake, and losing weight appropriately."
Unsurprisingly, a lot of people claim there's no relationship between sugar intake and diabetes
Facebook - "Tianjin—China’s version of Florida, where the streets are full of fun"
Calm down, they haven't really built a nuclear power plant next to a spider farm - "The more excitable parts of the internet have recently been sharing the above image, which appears to show the humorous geographical juxtoposition of a spider farm and a nuclear power plant. Sadly for internet comedy, it is a big old FAKE. Those naughty, naughty photoshoppers have been at it again... As far as we can tell there aren't even any spider farms in the UK. There is one in Vermont, USA, where a man and his spiders make art out of webs. Also, those brown signs are only used for tourist attractions - which we're not sure that a nuclear power plant counts as."
Perma Banned | Facebook - "This just in... Western Genshin "fans", are threatening each other for playing Genshin. Because Genshin had a collab with McDonalds. Every day I keep finding ways to be amazed by Western Genshin "fans"."
Meme - "The perfect phonecase doesn't exis.. *Arnold Schwarzenegger firing rocket launcher with the rocket launcher being the phone cameras*"
All About Chicago-Style Deep-Dish Pizza - "Stuffed pizza is related to deep-dish pizza and also came about in Chicago, but the two should not be lumped together as "Chicago-style pizza.""
British Steel: Scunthorpe furnaces to close ending 150 years of UK production - "British Steel has announced plans to close its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, making Britain the only G7 country unable to manufacture its own steel. Jingye, the Chinese steel group that owns the plant, blamed Donald Trump as it announced plans to shut key operations, putting up to 2,700 jobs at risk... The closures signal the end of steel production in the UK after more than 150 years... Britain has been producing the alloy since the 1850s, with the metal playing a key role in the industrial revolution... British Steel’s decision will raise concerns about national security as ministers seek to ramp up domestic defence manufacturing. On Wednesday, Sarah Jones, the energy minister, told the business select committee: “There is a debate to be had about how we as a country define the importance of steel whether you’re talking about virgin steel making or steel more broadly. “There is a reason why Russia bombed all the blast furnaces in Ukraine pretty much straight away; because countries need steel not just for defence but to build the roads and the infrastructure.” Asked whether the UK needs virgin steel, she said: “Yes.” Ben Houchen, the Tees Valley mayor, warned Britain was “less safe” as a result of British Steel’s decision and claimed unions had “wrecked” efforts to rescue the blast furnaces by pushing their own “unworkable plan”... News of the closures at Scunthorpe comes hours after Jingye rejected an offer of £500m from the Government to help it switch to green energy. The Chinese steel group is understood to have told ministers it wanted £1bn to switch to electric arc furnaces, the net zero-friendly technology for recycling steel... The Scunthorpe plant’s blast furnaces have been earmarked for closure since 2023 after Rishi Sunak’s administration pushed for greener production in its quest to reach net zero."
Clearly, the rest of the G7 will soon be unable to make their own steel too
Time to "tax the rich" more to pay for disability benefits, double down on net zero and send more battalions of human rights lawyers to countries at war
Meme - "Africa's dependence on aid. Net official aid received as % of government expenditures, 2008"
"We sacrificed the stars for this."
Battle Beagle @HarmlessYardDog: "The total aid to Africa from 1960-2013 comes up to over $5 trillion or the equivalent of about 50 Marshall Plans."
Clearly, the reason Africa isn't succeeding is because of too little aid, and even more is needed
Man who didn’t want to look after girlfriend’s pet sent bomb threat to cruise she was on - "Joshua Lowe, from Michigan, admitted that he was annoyed that he had to watch pets while his partner and her family went on a Caribbean cruise, leading him to take drastic measures. Sending an email to Carnival Corp cruise lines, Mr Lowe casually wrote: “Hey, I think someone might have a bomb on your sunrise cruise ship.”"
Meme - *Busty woman Karolina Isaza / karolove1 with '30' balloons*
"30"
"3000"
"30100"
Inaya Folarin Iman on X - "I've noticed a growth of *Western* Muslims criticising Muslim-majority countries like Saudi Arabia for increased social liberalisation. It's clear that the new centre for ultraconservative, hardline Muslim thought will be in Europe in the coming decades."
Dan Burmawi on X - "Another example is a Christian family I knew who took their 14-year-old daughter to see a therapist, who happened to be Muslim. After a few months of sessions, they noticed that their daughter had started fasting during Ramadan. The parents reached out to me for help. I sat with the girl, and she told me that she believed her anxiety was healed by converting to Islam, because her therapist had told her that the Qur’an has magical healing powers. I’m not trying to make a blanket statement about every Muslim therapist. But based on my understanding of Islamic theology, and from firsthand experience, I can say this with confidence: there is very little chance a Muslim therapist would fully respect professional boundaries when their religion sees itself superior to scientific methods."
Shaun Maguire on X - "“The American empire must fall” — spoken in Dearborn, Michigan Americans need to understand how common these sentiments are within our own borders"
Jason C on X - "I don’t think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don’t understand or even realize exist."
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 on X - "That old saw about how “good times make weak men” is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they’re too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse."
Such a stunning lack of self-awareness. Left wingers are the ones who keep wanting to destroy the status quo
