I just started an LLC in Oregon and I did it in the evening and got a confirmation by the next morning and an ein next afternoon

The partition of India feels close to when you burn food and instead of washing the pan properly you just throw it in the dishwasher hoping it will sort it out somehow.

It isn't exactly the inability of the dishwasher to dissolve crimes against cuisine where the problem is rooted.

Calling it the “partition of India” makes it seem like it was imposed on India rather than being a product of the 1940 Lahore Resolution where Jinnah led calls for a separate Pakistan.

And in retrospect, it was a huge boon to India and Bangladesh to separate themselves from Pakistan.

It was a boon economically but people died. Millions of people died due to the actions of a few aristocrats and religious zealots. Probably the greatest humanitarian crisis in the last millennium.

And the partition of India is the well accepted term for the event. I'm not going to be drawn into some post colonial syntactic argument in a discussion about the very real deaths if very real people as well as the human tragedy of the subsequent forced displacement from land people had lived in for thousands of years.

Jinnahs argument with the Indian Congress was because someone sang a song once referencing a Hindu goddess from a novel. It's honestly bananas and difficult to understand especially when his own daughter lived in India after partition

The idea of a unified, secular India was an elite notion imported from the west that elides how much sectarian animosity there was and is among ordinary people. I’m a fan of this essay on India that addresses this disconnect: https://unherd.com/2021/04/the-culture-wars-of-post-colonial...

Sure we can argue about that as well but that doesn't change the mind numbing amount of bloodshed caused by the chosen solution and the resulting successor state that harbored and continues to harbor terrorists hell bent on destroying America.

Ideally India would have balkanized into ethnolinguistic nations with a common union like the EU. That would have probably been the best outcome but the religious partition has led to increased religious extremism on both sides, seemingly unsolvable instability for 1/4 of the world population, and again, millions of deaths.

What I meant is that British India didn't exactly spawn out of a handshake between Allah & Mahavishnu.

Yes, India is a rather artificial construct imposed by the British.

Two million dead Hindu; ten million forcible refugees; thousands of ancient villages burned to the ground — it ‘was a huge boon to India’

Would those ten million refugees have been better off if the people they were fleeing were their fellow voting citizens in a democracy instead?

In 2026, it’s a huge boon to India to not have Pakistan within its body politic. It’s like having broken up with a finance who ended up becoming a self destructive addict. Same for Bangladesh, even with all the people who died in the independence war.

This is not about Indian nationalism (which I don't really care about) or whether they should be unified countries (which I don't care about). This is about the forced mass migration of people from their homes and the resulting millions of deaths due to what is basically religious extremism.

It's easy to control a country when all cybersecurity software used in that country reports to you.

Perfect pitch is a useless skill. Good interval sensitivity for melody and good harmonic sense is more useful.

I dunno I have relative pitch but extremely good and can play basically anything from ear. And in a bunch of different keys because I'm not impeded by perfect pitch sensitivity.

Perfect pitch is an impediment for most music because kids get stuck only wanting particular pitches instead of proper intervals.

So it's pretty clear it's not the billionaires but random thousandaire loudmouths that are the problem then.

My old startup got bought out and while I can't know if the CEO became a billionaire, why do I care if he did? I made out with a shit ton of money so what? Why are people so jealous of other people? Of all industries, tech is probably the most likely to share... I mean look at spacex where even janitors and cafe workers were given equity, whereas most companies would contract that out

I’m not jealous or losing any sleep over this. But it’s worth evaluating in our quest for a more perfect world. Something “feels unjust” about the current wealth inequality. Maybe it’s the best possible situation, but maybe not.

Imagine you lived in a feudal kingdom. Would you just shrug at all the wealth of kings and lords made off your back? Most people did, but thank god times have changed for the better. Perhaps we can change them to be better still.

Feels fine to me. I agree we need to create a world in which everyone's basic material needs are met but given America's history I think we have probably the ones with the system that'll get us closest to that ideal.

Nobody is jealous. They are pissed that excessively wealthy people can pay their way to success and influence the US government, for their continued personal gain. It’s about fairness and democracy, not luxury.

Elon musk was unceremoniously kicked out of the white house. To say he has some great power is ridiculous. Whatever power he has aside from his companies is in his mind

Think for a second… If money doesn’t give people power… then what’s all the fuss about??

Both political parties and all 'sides' in America fundamentally agree on degrowth. The only distinction is the Idiocracy version or the ivory tower one

That's because the little people are clearly real and are mad someone stole their house

This is because America builds nothing anymore. Consider Disneyland. It's expensive as hell. But also there are more people in America than ever. You'd think they'd have built another one, but they haven't. Why?

Disney world does not count?

When was Disney world built? Why can nothing be built anymore. Disney is but one example.

People complain about data centers due to electricity. We have technology to generate infinite electricity yet the answer is to not build rather than build both the utilities and the data centers. Everyone would benefit from more availability of energy

My pet theory on why a lot of things happen in the US that don't happen elsewhere is one of disposable income.

We have the biggest pile of disposable income (not per capita, but in total) of anywhere in the world. This enables people to sue when something is going on that they don't like, and once you start looking at things through this lens, lots of strange things start to make sense. For starters - a lot of the school-related controversies. Schools cave to many demands because they are afraid of being sued by monied parents, and you can see it with parents on both sides of the political spectrum.

You may also notice if you're in the US, consuming foreign content on Youtube that even non-English content has a tendency to put units in dollars, miles, pounds, etc. There's guides that talk about targeting the US lets you make the big money on Youtube.

And of course, the NIMBYism. People can slow down, raise the costs of or stop megaprojects entirely via flurries of lawsuits.

Money makes things happen or not happen. The town I went to college in was a wealthy town which had banned any kind of large structures to preserve the natural beauty of the town. But then all the wealthy residents got cell phones, and hated the cell coverage. The solution: A multi-million dollar bell tower which towered over the landscape, looking like a grand obelisk (and which tastefully concealed rather a lot of cell tower hardware).

$7.01 trillion

A deficit occurs when the federal government’s spending exceeds its revenues. The federal government has spent $1.25 trillion more than it has collected in fiscal year (FY) 2026 - another 1.25 trillion to go for the second half of the year.