otherwise

Bro conveniently forgot to mention her rich parents handed her ₹15 lakhs to play stock market

90% of devs screaming about open source sustainability have never contributed a single PR, fixed a bug, or donated $5 to a maintainer. they just treat free software like a infinite public utility. then they throw a tantrum when a maintainer changes the license or abandons the project. You don't care about open source. You just like free labor.

fancy office perks were always just clever tactics to keep you in the building longer. free snacks, catered lunches, and game rooms don't pay your bills or buy back your personal time. most tech workers would trade every perk on earth for a strict 40 hour week, remote options, and direct cash in their account.

Location based pay adjustments never really made full sense. If two engineers deliver the exact same value and output to a company, paying one significantly less just because they live in a lower cost-of-living area feels like punishing efficiency rather than paying for output.

therapist: and how does that make you feel. me: billed. therapist:

Healthy breakfast routine starts tomorrow

if japan just spent less time making anime and more time building defense systems, this wouldn’t be a weekly notification.

US billionaires: space tourism, brain chips, AGI, fusion reactors. Indian billionaires: guys hear me out... what if we build a ₹10 ice cream to crush amul? the level of deep tech innovation coming out of this country is truly breathtaking 🤌

indian middle class parents will happily spend ₹25 lakhs on a one-day wedding to impress relatives they talk shit about every Sunday... but will argue for 20 minutes with a vegetable vendor over ₹10 worth of coriander. priorities are wild.

campus placement reality LPA shown on campus placement poster: ₹42 LPA LPA you actually get after performance-linked variable and 3 year bond: ₹6.5 LPA fixed colleges advertise the CTC of 2 people to hype 500.

the disadvantage of being human

everyone's mad at H1B workers. nobody's mad at the company that laid off 1000 US engineers, then quietly opened a global capability Center in bangalore 3 months later. you're fighting your coworker. the company's laughing at both of you.

waved back aggressively at someone who was staring and smiling at me, only to realize they were looking at their twin behind me. ​Had to pretend I was stretching my arm and just kept walking into a completely different building. ​How do you recover from this level of second hand embarrassment?

how much work I do at google in a day: ZERO

step 1: challenge young scientists to build futuristic tech. step 2: deny them basic lab infrastructure, cut research grants, and delay stipends. step 3: act surprised when they move to germany or the US. masterclass in innovation🤡

modern tech layoffs aren't happening because ai actually replaced engineers. they’re happening because leadership over-hired, mismanaged budgets, and needed a buzzword to justify workforce cuts on their investor calls. Ai restructuring is just corporate speak for bad management.

having to feed a body every few hours is a terrible design flaw. I shouldn't need a whole career just to maintain a biological pet

our startup had a 2 hour meeting about reducing unnecessary meetings. we created a follow-up meeting to discuss the action items. the action items were: 1. reduce meetings 2. schedule another meeting

Go to chatgpt and type 'put me somewhere i belong'

if a girl has more than 3 male best friends. you’re not her boyfriend. you’re just the current sponsor in the rotation