Well, I can take some guesses. Do you mean US residents of Indian nationality? I know this will sound racist and I don’t know if I can articulate that that’s not my intent, that I’m talking about a national/regional culture, and that none of this is inherent to any individual. Even still, I’m aware I’m an outsider and I only have a small sample of their lives. It’s based on being near a large immigrant community, talking to immigrant adults, befriending many US-born/young-when-immigrated people, and briefly traveling through India. I’m sure many aspects are derived from both pro- and anti-British movements over the centuries so its not like it’s all self-fueled. And if anyone has differening opinions based on anything tangible, I’m all ears.

If you come from a country with more prevalent misogyny and visible corruption and were in the top 20% of wealth there, it’ll skew your impression of the effects of what half the US population is considering a humanitarian crisis. The vast majority of Indians in the US come from 2, maybe 3 states (Gujarat, Punjab, and I forget the 3rd). They’re much wealthier than the other states, hence the ability to afford a $1,000+ flight (think about how 1k is a lot for us, now think of how the average Indian wage is 4kUSD/year). The absolute most common theme I’ve heard from the adult-immigrated that are outspoken politically/economically/socially is it doesn’t matter who the president/majority party is as far as social progress goes (tons of apathy) but stocks need to go up (personal gain is the primary concern). They buy into the idea Republicans boost the economy and lower taxes. Many of the matured-in-India immigrants [say they] have no qualms with going back to India if the economy tanks in the US. They’ve profited in the US and have access to the higher levels of living there. I lived like a king in a marbled hotel that cost less than my mortgage. The political apathy extends into the quasi-political/social realm as well, with Musk causing zero hesitation in them for buying the new-Gen Tesla (they’re visually distinct ~2023+). There’s also blatant racism with them against southern Indians and black people, so it’s not like the racist ideology of Republicans upsets them.

This is far from the impression I’ve gotten from the majority of US-born/immigrated-young Indians I’ve met. My circle probably has bias about their social leanings since it’s probably a moderately successful, reasonably diverse circle. I’ve met several that lean to the right, but that’s just as common for any milktoast white guy when they feel the social welfare system is robbing them of individual success. That’s the whole platform, isn’t it? They’re being robbed? Regardless, I’m proud of being part of a very diverse area because it shows that origin culture is the most defining part of a person’s personality. Race has overlap, but it’s not a defining feature. Not at all. No wonder cities go left. Throw a mix of people in tight quarters and you realize we’re all getting fucked and your ancestry doesn’t mean shit.

Tangent: The prevalent origin-states of Indian immigrants makes me think about how skewed the world must be about Americans. I understand the US likely is more global presence in the news/social platforms to spread our interior culture, but I wonder how New Yorkers and Californians skew the world’s impression of the average American in other cities.

Blow horn please stop ok Awaz kado / awazdo

I take it you’re also reading the back of the trucks, too. My experience is West Bengali. Honk to tell car you’re approaching. Honk to tell car you’re next to them. Honk to tell them you’ve passed. Honk at scooter. Honk at crosswalk. Honk at turn. Honk at red light. Honk at green light. Honk at any car in front of you. Drive on shoulder. Drive on walking path. Honk at pedestrians. Honk at train. Honk at bus.

Oh no

The buses

Fuck

deDeDEDede deDeDEDede deDeDEDede alllll fucking night. Sequential 3-tone horns in any sequence. My hotel faced the highway.

I can deal with aggressive driving. The horns made me sorely miss the inoffensive chaos of Mexico.

I guess we couldn’t have a female president because we’d have war only every 28 days

Same fear with some legal, offroad motorcycle/snowmobile trails. Every once in a while, some dick head moves in and doesn’t like hearing two-strokes in the backing property.

“I scheduled this meeting for near end of day so I could be halfway to my country house”

Currently-new Teams just closes itself on me. It’s a great feature for those urgent messages

What, and I mean this with all my heart, the fuck?

My COBRA cost $100/month less than ACA, so I guess I’m grateful?

Anyway, you can negotiate COBRA reimbursement when changing jobs. I’ve done it twice. Just throwing it out there. Can’t help you if your next job is retirement or something

Neat, airtime for Channel 5/All Gas No Brakes/Andrew Callaghan. Callaghan and Co have gotten into some true, deep journalism as they’ve evolved. Actually going places? Actually talking to people there? Waltzing through the Minnesota riots, getting ferried by a coyote across the southern border, all in the name of journalism? Awesome to see him catch some headliner work and mainstream coverage.

I haven’t watched this interview. It’s not exactly a topic I care about. I saw some comments saying it was soft. If that’s true, then I hope Andrew stuck to his routine where he let’s people talk and gives them the airtime to make or break their appearance. If the flak comes from proper news outlets, then stfu and go do it yourself.

If you haven’t been following but know the original owner (not content creator) of All Gas No Brakes had a falling out and took the name, FYI, Andrew owns it again. Seems like the theme moving forward will be AGNB will go back to its goofy event roots while C5 will lean towards political/news events.

Aren’t you just a shining beacon of logical, data-driven level-headedness. The fuck is she supposed to do, mentally recite each sign she saw on her way in as her spouse is being crushed before to determine if her request is feasible? Crawl out of the MRI, past her dying partner, and go read the manual to see if the MRI has an emergency stop capability before asking the technicians to intervene?

I wish you the best in your future human interactions. I hope very few of them are life-threatening because clearly, you’ll be of no help if you deem the situation avoidable or deem help unlikely to be successful.

Ah, I see where our misunderstandings are. Exterior blinds are pretty rare in the US, despite being flush with exterior shutter adornments. So in the US, any talk of blinds is going to be about interior things, which was my assumption. I have heard functioning exterior blinds/shutters are more common in parts of Europe. Meanwhile, the US does also use “curtain” and “blinds” to mean separate things: blinds are the adjustable slats (or accordion cellular styles) while curtains are the more decorative textiles usually pushed to the sides. So it still sounds like we were talking about the same thing, using curtains to cover the gaps in the blinds, while talking about entirely different blinds.

How do you operate the exterior blinds? Are there controls going through the wall or do you reach out the window?

Also of note, American homes tend to have pretty bad wall insulation. Wood frames, plywood+siding outside, sheet rock inside, and probably slouching thin insulation. A wall can exchange as much heat as a curtainless window

Interior blinds create a convection current around them. They catch the sunlight that makes it through the window, get hotter, cause the air between the blinds and glass to rise, and pull in cooler room air from underneath.

Most modern windows have infrared-reflecting coatings, but it works both ways. If it reflects 90% of the infrared away, 10% gets in. Say you have polished aluminum blinds for 95% reflection, it’s reflecting 9.5% of the original light back to the window. But then the window reflects 90% back again, or 8.5%. Then the blinds reflect again… All the while, it’s finding any gap and heating the materials and air. So yes, blinds help, but it’s best if you can keep the heat outside entirely.

I watch outside air temp closely and do open windows once ambient swings past what I want inside. Problem is, outside hasn’t dropped below 75f/24c in about 5 weeks here. Most of the inhabited world has this issue in the summer unless it’s a desert. Hell, that range is about what I saw in India during winter.

Your grammatical arrangement makes it a question. The period is a grammatical error. Spoken tone doesn’t change it. We knew the intent, but if you’re going to be pedantic, I’m going to be pedantic right back at you

Three buttplug-shaped men walk into a room stroking each other

Gerard’s geriatric generator image format

Truck exhaust blows away. They can’t see it anymore. Contrails linger for a while. They can see that.

They can see planes. They can’t see inside planes. Therefore, they can imagine anything they want inside because they can’t verify it themselves.

The things they can’t see anymore are gone. The things they can’t see into contain the worst possible scenario.

And that litter box in schools things for the kid identifying as a cat? The story is ALWAYS about someone else’s schools. They can picture a different school. They can imagine the worst scenario in there.

This whole political ideology is an exercise in failed object permanence.

This is, unfortunately, the same observation I’ve made in all the chemtrail-beleiving people I know. I zig in discussion, they zag, I realize they’re taking small-scale cloud seeding operations as proof of both contrails being chemtrails and, often enough, humans fueling hurricanes for the leftist agenda. These people also tend to deny human ability to affect the planet’s climate. The underlying logical interpretation of these states’ bills is exactly why they’re upheld, meanwhile, their constituents are still thinking about contrails.

I feel like I’ve mostly seen small clip-on mics in the US, though probably still plugged into phones. Wired more often than wireless. Even taped to podiums. Definitely not as many of the big mics with channel billboards.

Minimal fuel and maintenance fees. Flashy iPad in the dash. Quiet ride. Pretty good acceleration. I say fuck Tesla at this point because Elon just couldn’t stay quiet and just couldn’t stay reasonable with the product, but Tesla is the brand that put EVs Into the common household.

Because risk is statistically low and fuel cost savings are more tangible than believing you’re going to crash, let alone die. Humans are not logical. We know most conservatives don’t believe in EVs and outright liberals don’t want to support Musk, so who keeps buying them? Despite the reports of slumping sales, my area is continually renewing them despite being deeply blue. There’s another category: the real silent majority. The apathetic majority that’s being selfish and diminishing the weight of their actions.