Notices by Ravi Sambamurthy (ravisambamurthy@drupal.community)

@tokyo_0 Your nationality is not important to this discussion. My point is that India (and maybe China) tries to excuse itself from commitments despite being one of the largest emitters. It uses widespread poverty as a cover. However, the poor do not emit much. It's rich Indians who do, and they should be made to pay. Cars need to become prohibitively expensive. Likewise with coal / fossil fuel based power. Development (whose?) which seeks to destroy forests, need to be shelved.

@tokyo_0 If our emissions are equal to (or more than) the western nations, then we need to cut. We being populous and hence being low on per capita emissions doesn't cut ice, coz when fatalities happen, it would be in millions here, viz a viz the Western nations, where it could be in hundreds or at most, in thousands.

@tokyo_0 Also, the prime emitters would be the elite, with their fossil fueled cars and coal-powered extravagant lifestyles, while the masses provide the 'developing nation' cover, and would be at the receiving end when things become hot and inhospitable.

"India, the world's third-biggest greenhouse gas emitter, has long held that, as a developing nation, it should not be forced to cut its energy-related emissions..."

From developing nation to dying nation, thanks to policy makers and the fat capitalists who back them. #GlobalWarming #MastIndia @mastodonindians

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-capital-sees-first-heat-related-death-this-year-media-reports-2024-05-30

And it bloomed like this! #BloomScrolling

https://youtu.be/P28S8_eA1jg?feature=shared

#CountAllVVPATs #MastIndia @mastodonindians

On every video that discusses the EVM / VVPAT machines, YouTube pastes the 'context' bubble peddling the official line on these machines. Even the search result page for 'vvpat' thrusts this 'context' in your face. Looks like the global SM platforms are also not free from the clutches of this regime. #IndianElections #MastIndia #YouTube @mastodonindians

Who paid who and how much: https://m.thewire.in/article/politics/who-were-the-top-buyers-of-electoral-bonds-paying
#MastIndia #ElectoralBonds @mastodonindians

@Daojoan They seem to be a smallish software training institute in Pune, India, where it's a common Hindu imagery denoting auspicious, prosperity, etc. (It predates Nazism by at least a few thousand years).

@viraptor @Daojoan I'm sorry, I don't get you. We have have our divine symbol used in our every households, which gets unfairly appropriated for a hateful agenda in an alien context, and we need to refrain from using them in a 'global' post, to prove our innocence?

Infographic from The Economic Times. #MastIndia #ElectoralBonds @mastodonindians

@tokyo_0 Markets can be myopic and 'value' is a very arbitrary measure. Someone who is good at something may not get immediate recognition, but it would happen over time. It's important to be practising and improvising and not give up.

@tokyo_0 Not sure about nurses, as there are greener pastures elsewhere. I read somewhere that mountaineers get jobs as cleaners for those tall sky scrapers with glass facades. I'm sure those are well paying, due to the specific skills that they demand. Exceptions aside, I feel that developing a skill should take us places / see us through.

Came across this concept of ikigai - a venn diagram of four circles that matter in life: what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs and what's lucrative. The minimalistic me thinks there are at least two redundant circles here. If there's demand for your skill, that should do. Or maybe, just having a skill would suffice, and the rest will follow.

This guy greeted me today morning, after a really stressful aftermath of cyclone Michaung. #Bloomscrolling