Thanks for giving some real perspective.

Majority here is frighteningly brainwashed with their govt's lies. And they so sincerely believe it that it feels useless to even try to tell them the truth.

They don't realize that 1-2 western govts have got misinformation down to such an art that sometimes its actually commendable. I mean it is a great achievement and if leaders were good it would take the world forward much quicker. Unfortunately the leaders invariably are puppets run by unknown groups.

Meantime misinformation by Putin or Xi thoe of despots is very low tech low skill thing - it only seems to work inside their country because disclosing you are not brainwashed means going to jail or being shot.

When Putin or Xi type of people try misinformation outside their country it invariably flops very badly because none of us has any risk calling it out. And they have never needed or developed any soft skills for effective propaganda.

They aren't even able to put across their justified problems or objections to the world stage.

For eg after years of protesting nato stuff (right or wrong), even moving half the army to Ukraine border not many people (incl me) even knew he had any objections or problems. The world thought it's all hunky dory.

Believing this guy is some master at misinformation dies not match the facts at all.

:)

Meme going around is that the CO was from west bengal and he dismissed his men with "Let's have Lunch" and this happens....

*Some (not all) people from the Indian state of West Bengal tend to pronounce LUNCH as LAUNCH

(and coke as cock, hall as hole and so on... lots of O sounds. No offence meant to Bengalis, they're great people)

Surprisingly, twitter seems to think the incompetence was forgetting the nuclear warhead !

And here I was worried why they were even testing the brahmos missile a week back when Putin & Xi have some unpredictable shit going on

You seem to know more than 99% of hindus !

Very few Hindus are knowledgeable about Hinduism ! That's sort of the defining factor or USP - it's a fluid religion, more of a philosophy trying to maximize good of the society all over earth rather than only its followers.

And an attempt to understand life & nature... Though some of the more complex things are dumbed down into guiding principles which get misunderstood or misused by vested interests / politicians or leaders of some expansionist religions at times

It's pretty much believe what you will, pick n choose or not, no one's going to question.

Most dont have *any religious stuff in their homes. Some have hundreds of pics or books or statues.

Those who have emigrated to other countries do seem to have some more attachment to such things & turn a bit rigid though, funnily enough.

Even some taboo things we hear aren't universal at all and sorta best effort basis, like avoid if you can or do if you can.

Gita is not easy to understand before you are like 60+ though, seriously.

The vedas are for even older minds - Biden level.

For Trump/Putin there are comics based on all these that I read once - to act like I know it all.
Trick is to look unperturbed and mildly orgasmic and say only half the sentence of whatever you have in mind :)

:) You're correct offcourse.
IF we were having a rational discussion.

Not when someone's claiming 'because it didn't say bio weapons lab so it wasn't one' !!

For rational 3rd parties the simple immediate question would be:

What is the reason US has these biotech labs in UKRAINE which it doesn't want to get into russian hands ?

And would it be equally justified if tomorrow's news says China or Russia or North Korea have some huge Bio/Nuclear facility in country adjacent to the US ?

(It's not like Putin depends on US-Ukranian IP for WMDs to use on Ukrainian civilians !)

Boundless energy > Boundless Bitcoin mining > Bitcoin Crash > Slashdot shuts down

Do bioweapons labs have large billboards /signboards saying "BIO-WEAPONS LAB" on them ?
Or do they say something else like Biotech Lab or Bio research lab or some such nomenclature...

Just to confirm, are we trusting WHO today ?

Micky mouse has spoken !

So you are fine with Taliban types calling for violence against US Soldiers ??
Or Iran, North Korea ?

Biggest issue with crypto (as someone explained to me here on slashdot) is that we cant survive on an inflationary currency. Deflationary currency like all Fiat is needed for people to invest in income producing assets and businesses.

If the currency keeps getting more valuable on it's own then everyone just sits on their money and it keeps increasing on it own and you dont take a risk of setting up a business or buying stock in a business for making money.

Now ever increasing value of a currency may be great on an individual level but not when everyone has it. It can be there in some small way like it currently is ALONG with our normal Fiat economy.

Which makes complete sense to me. Not that I am still not interested in launching some crazy crypto shit as soon as I have a payent filed.

So Satoshi was basically an engineer or nerd and not an economist or finance guy so this was overlooked. And it's great for speculating simply because who doesnt want a currency that keeps increasing in value while we laze around. But when majority of people iwn that currency it implodes. Thats still some long time away though.

:) Exactly !

This is no different than the middle east guys wanting to ban books and movies and cartoons and dresses.

I hear taliban had banned men's soccer/football because it showed men's legs !

Putin could say the exact same thing about Democracy !

Exchanges are not part of the crypto design, they are brokers n middlemen who cropped up to help newbies speculate in crypto and to help all types of new crypto coins make a market and a killing.
They are a temporary phenomenon and are already on the way out now.

It's like searching on internet with google. Everyone does it as its convenient but if and when google blocks you or is itself blocked you just use something else. The internet wont stop because Google or FB or Amazon bans you.