Culturally Muslim, religiously Neoliberal. عاشقِ اردو. 🗽🌃🌐🇨🇦🇵🇰. FT, historiography and Steven Pinker enjoyer. Block for any slurs for any group.
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Had to quit magnesium unfortunately. Sleep quality was great but the dreams are too intense. A man can be reunited with his dead dog for only so many nights in a row.
Nobody who’s heard my cricket takes over the years would be unaware that I have always believed in Shaddy. Sad that he will never reach his potential (none of these guys will) but still a cracking cricketer.
First time I saw Shaddy was when he played for Pindi in the old National T20. He was batting at 4 and also his team’s frontline spinner aged 18.
Been sad to fall out of love with the great Andy Mitten. It’s beyond obvious that he’s on INEOS payroll, or at the very least doesn’t want to offend them. Maybe he’s finally called out INEOS recently, but I wouldn’t know since his constant apologism made me stop following TOTD.
Just heard the editor-in-chief of The Economist, Zanny Minton Beddoes, also misuse the phrase “this begs the question.” It has never been more over for language.
جب علامہ اقبال نے شکوہ لکھا تو مولویوں نے ان پر کفر کا فتویٰ لگا دیا۔
جب جوابِ شکوہ لکھا تو انہیں معاف کر دیا۔
شکوہ ایک مومن کے نقطۂ نظر سے لکھا گیا تھا، جبکہ جوابِ شکوہ اللہ کے نقطۂ نظر سے۔
اس بات پر اقبال فرمائے کہ جب تک میں انسان رہا مجھے کافر قرار دیا گیا اور جب میں خدا بن گیا تو مجھے معاف کر دیا گیا۔
Americans get accused a lot of overestimating their importance in world affairs but the truth is that the world also loves to overestimate American importance in their local affairs.
In 2006, a man set himself on fire and subsequently died to protest actor Aamir Khan’s comments against then chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi. The comments in question were about Modi’s handling of a river dam.
Any 2nd generation South Asian American of any religion who still wants to support the Republican Party because of “conservative values” is a turkey voting for Christmas. You will learn from first principles why your personally conservative parents stayed away from them.
The world’s tallest dwarf
Level 4 (1M–10M) really is the no-man's-land of wealth.
For example, going from $100k to $300k can change your life. You can quit a job, move somewhere else, or take a chance on something of your own.
Going from $5M to $5.2M? You're richer, but you don't notice the increase anymore in the same way. This is where the diminishing returns start to show.
Back in 2021, when I went from $500k to $1m, I felt like on top of the world. It was a big change for me. A little backstory: in Feb 2021, I quit my 9-5 job with $500k NW, and it felt like a huge achievement. I knew it wasn’t enough to live off forever, but it was enough to dare to bet on myself.
During the years after 21’ there have been periods where my NW has increased a lot, and periods where it went a bit down or barely went up at all.
So I can very much relate to what Nick says: at some point, you could “work” twice as hard and barely notice the difference in your life. Your portfolio grows. But the extra money buys you less, while the time it costs you stays the same.
This is where I think a lot of people in crypto get stuck. You know how to make money. But unless you increase the risk, your NW will only go up linearly.
Because you might have to risk money you no longer want to lose. So you end up in the middle, the 7-figure hell (no man's land).
Imagine spending another year glued to crypto to make an extra $200k on a $5M portfolio (4% increase).
Don’t misunderstand me, that’s a lot of money, but many people don’t want to risk the big gains they’ve already earned, and since they don’t, their NW will barely move, and they’re forever trapped in the 7-fig hell.
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when i have really dumb questions i'll ask chatgpt or gemini because i don't want claude to think i'm stupid
To expand on this further:
Ajami Muslims are very responsive to anti-Ajami racism from the Arabs, and they usually respond by doubling down on their piety and Muslim identity. The first example of this was with Abbasid Revolution of 750. A more controversial position is that the first example of militant egalitarianism in Islamdom actually began with the Kharijiite treason of Ali bin Abu Talib. There is no oppressor (Umayyad, Ottoman, Turkic, or Najdi) that cannot be overcome with piety.
This is a feature, not a bug. The religion is designed in a way to absorb every racial group in the world in a way where they can claim ownership over a faith that is, essentially, a universalist belief structure born in the Arabian desert.
Like how Christianity has survived the Levant being a mostly Muslim land, Islam would survive in a world where something similar to happened to the Hejaz. 20th century concepts like anti-racism are also extremely easy to co-opt by both Islam (as well as Islamism).
Old Pakistani communist joke about a Soviet intelligence cable from the ‘60s where the KGB spy posted in Pakistan is annoyed by the fact that the secret Pakistan Communist Party members keep going to the mosque for jumaah.
There is a reverse shahada for subcon Muslims blackpilled by Arab racism. It’s called the Shahada.
This is why TFR is below replacement everywhere
Wrote about having two kids gq.com/story/second-child-fa…
The playboy part of his life is the wildest to absorb. A Pakistani male sex symbol in the eyes of the western press is the rarest of all things. Imagine Babar Azam dating Kendall Jenner. The world you once knew no longer exists.
