Indians walk and drive like mildly drunk Americans
I get the feeling whenever I visit India that most of the population is spaced out and not focussed at all on what they are doing. The most amusing thing about it is that Indians consider themselves expert multi taskers when they cant focus adquately on one job.
I wondered why Indian drivers incessantly honk their horns when there is absolutely no need to . I have not seen this even in third world countries. Then it occured to me what happens when I would run in a park whether in Dubai, Canada or U.S where cities have large Indian populations. While some parks have a specific track for runners , many dont and it is understood that people get out of the way when they see a guy running. When I bump into someone 95% of the time , that person is Indian (from India, not born in U.S or Canada) . Because they are completely unaware of their sorroundings and dont pay attention to the world around. This may explain why our Special Forces arent worth shit. The whole world was laughing at their performance in Mumbai 2008 terror attacks. And who can blame them. But I digress.
This explains why drivers in India feel the need to warn other dumbass drivers or pedestrians not to come in their way.
Most of the noise pollution is simply due to the Indian inability to drive or even walk like functioning adults. Honestly I dont know how they are allowed to operate heavy machinery . And they shouldnt considering the number of truck accidents.
It is instructive that the most effective truck drivers are Sikhs- a martial community and in Pakistan- Pathans. Something about losing the martial streak made Indians are bunch of loopy potheads who dont what they are doing. It is no wonder the dumbass hippies feel at home in India. Of course Indians take this as a compliment and attribute it to their "spirituality". Keep in mind we are a people who invented dhyana which is the same as Zen meditation. And now this is the situation. I would like to try to talk to Indians about this but they have no time for any of this as Dhinchak pooja has apparently something more interesting to say.
Sir aap hamesha kyun Indians ke khilaf bayan de rahe. Muqtalif jagon par log ka soch alag hota hai.
ReplyDeletetranslation: " sir why do you always complain about Indians(literal words - "bearing witness against"). Different places have different customs"
DeleteToo many sus (as the kids these days say) accounts that spring up recently..
Anyway Ill bite- the answer is in your word you used "bayaan" which means witness. I realize you used it in the context of making negative statements. But Ill stick to the literal definition.
All I do is bear witness. Sometimes the truth is unpleasant. Some it is not so unpleasant.
There is no shortage of blogs in the Indosphere which praise India to the high heavens and find no fault in no matter what it does. Most of these are politically motivated and the authors are partial towards the ruling party today
I loathe all parties and try to dig deeper underneath the superficial political left ,right trappings.
main janta hoon ki gore log shikaayat karte hain ki hamare sadakon par bahut jyaada horn bajaaya jaata hai. agar koi chinese ya korean yahee shikaayat karta to aapako itni parvah nahin hoti
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DeleteChinese and Korean people, if anything have more derogatory views about Indians than white people lol. Look at the recent events where koreans demonstrated against Indians.
As do the Japanese. I shudder to think if they won WWII, pushed aside/killed SCB and would have taken over India
Deletethe invasion of Manchuria/rape of Nanking would look like a picnic by comparision.
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DeleteSpeaking of the Japanese, I watched an interview with Putin where he claimed that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki where completely unnecessary. Is this just Putin's usual disinformation tactics or is there any truth to it? Just watched Oppenheimer btw.
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DeleteIt is just Putin "throwing shade" (as the kids say) on the official narratives of WWII of the Western side. It has been the Russian shtick to undermine anything associated with NATO or in this case proto-NATO since the new Cold War got ramped up in the mid 2000s.
As to whether it was necessary in that time and place- probably. Keep in mind that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were mostly industrial centres and hence more legitimate targets than Dresden or Tokyo which were mostly civilians. More Japanese died in the firebombing of Tokyo than they did in the bombing of H and N.
Furthermore, Truman correctly anticipated that the fighting on the Japanese mainland would get incredibly brutal and nasty as the emperor called upon his subjects to sacrifice their lives if need be and most were willing to comply. You had Japanese women with infant babies simply walking into the sea ..and not return.
More than 50,000 American casualties and 12,000 deaths were incurred had died in Okinawa alone. Apart from 112,000 Japanese fatalities.
It could be argued that the psychological effects of the atomic bomb not only saved Americans but also Japanese lives.
Furthermore, it was likely also intended as a warning to the Soviets as to not intrude on their turf. Russians were smarting from the humiliation in 1905 when the Japanese navy overwhelmed the Russians and the resulting treaty earned Theodore Roosevelt a Nobel Prize. It also excited various revolutionaries such as Madanlal Dhingra ,Savarkar and VVS Iyer which was seen as an Asiatic victory against Europeans. Never mind that Western Europeans viewed Russians as Asiatic barbarians back then (just as they see them today)
I wouldn't be surprised if Putin is still resentful at the lost opportunity to avenge 1905. Particularly he has many historical gripes going back to the 9th century as seen from the interview with Tucker Carlson. The Japanese on their part would have preferred to surrender to Americans considered the treatment the people(esp women) of Berlin received from the Russians.
I saw Oppenheimer back in August last year and found it too much to digest. There are just too many narratives from ideological, scientific, political, historical perspectives. Should have pared them down. This is the problem with Christopher Nolans films, studio heads don't have the nerve to tell him - no you're full of yourself, listen to your editor.
"The Japanese on their part would have preferred to surrender to Americans considered the treatment the people(esp women) of Berlin received from the Russians."
DeleteI believe the behaviour of the Soviet troops was more about revenge for what the Nazis did. They didn't have that problem with the Japanese, right? But of course that is not to downplay the brutality of the Soviet war machine.
Re Oppenheimer, as someone with an engineering background I was more interested in the scientific stuff. I still can't believe the scientists and engineers created the bomb without having access to modern supercomputers to run simulations and such. The best they had was the ENIAC whose capacity is comparable to a modern calculator.
For sure Soviets were motivated by revenge against the Nazis which explained their barbaric behavior in Germany and Japanese engagements with Soviets were relative skirmishes here and there. Japanese were too tied up in Manchuria and the Pacific while Staln had his hands full with the Germans.
DeleteThat aside, most of the Soviet troops were ill trained and badly disciplined and these types of soldiers are most likely to engage in wanton behavior such as rapes and massacres. 1905 may not be as fresh in their psyche as Stalingrad but it was still a motivating factor.
re Oppenheimer
From what I understand, they didnt really run any simulations at all! Remember the conversation about a potentially endless chain reaction ! (which also came up with regard to UAEs penchant for cloud seeding).It looks like they just winged it.
Even the Apollo missions were launched with relatively primitive machines
German physicists and mathematicians were able to create wonders with very little at their disposal.
Correction: it was not the ENIAC, but Harvard Mark I computer. According to Wikipedia:
Delete"John von Neumann had a team at Los Alamos that used "modified IBM punched-card machines" to determine the effects of the implosion. In March 1944, he proposed to run certain problems regarding implosion of the Mark I, and in 1944 he arrived with two mathematicians to write a simulation program to study the implosion of the first atomic bomb."
So computers were infact used in the design of the atomic bomb, but not extensively.
Even those punch card computers couldnt be comparable to the even IBM home computer models of the 1970. I didnt know that regarding the simulation. Maybe I missed that in the movie, it was inferred that they had no idea if it had any potential catastrophic effects. But it turned out pretty much how they predicted it.
DeleteBohr ,Von Neumann, Oppenheimer, Einstein- as the joke went even back then - if Hitler would tamp down his obsession with that tribe he could have won the war
Even Heisenberg ,born Lutheran, was accused of practicing "Jewish "physics" and not being "Aryan enough"
whatever this means
Really the Nazis managed to shoot themselves in the foot in more ways than one.
I need to clarify: the simulations were not about potential catastrophic effects of the atomic bomb. They were more mundane like which design produces a better explosion - gun type or implosion.
DeleteA gun type design is where a small block of uranium is shot into a larger block causing it to reach critical mass and exploding. In implosion type, the uranium block is compressed from all sides by a conventional explosive which causes it to reach critical mass.
It is possible that the scientists were not sure about the atom bomb causing a runaway chain reaction and destroying the world. As you put it, they may have winged it in that regard.
The Hiroshima bomb used gun type while Nagasaki was implosion type.
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