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What is your culture's outlook towards authority figures? What seems to have influenced it?

I am an Indian and I have become hyperaware of the people and the culture that surrounds me and I am beginning to see the flaws in it. One of the flaws that trouble me the MOST is how most Indians behave when they encounter any authority figure (mostly higher class or “higher” caste or the wealthy or the bureaucrat class)....

Subject6051 OP ,

Um, we make fun of our authority figures but also believe the worst of them

How do you behave with them when you face to face with them? i.e., How do you communicate with them? Behind backdoors, things are normal here too (i.e., we don’t respect them, unless they are a charismatic politician)

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thank you!

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rather, law enforcement as a whole needs to be reformed and worked heavily upon so the laws sincerely get executed and implemented (maybe then the people won’t be as intimidated).

it’s the culture, it won’t change even if it supposedly changed in the law.

What does the world think of India?

I am an Indian and I have noticed that Indians are way too proud of their country for some reason and at the same time lack any civic sense towards it, they are extremely loud and extremely proud. We feel like the world revolves around India and our culture is superior to that of others. Also, a considerable chunk of the...

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I agree, but we have crossed a limit between self-love and self-obsession. It’s hindering progress because people in India are not even ready to acknowledge what’s wrong with our priorities, culture and way of living and are calling anyone who questions their way of life anti-national. Sometimes, it feels like I am living in Eritrea or something!

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interestingly, almost everyone in the comments have been as calm headed and rational as you. There is not one emotionally charged reply which is devoid of real answers. This is pretty good!

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They stare and get too close and touch you all the time. I kept having people touch my shoulders and try and touch my face when I was in public or queuing

This is more of a culture thing, I used to do it a lot when I was younger (it’s considered friendly)

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culturally they either serve others or expect to be served

Ohh yes, that’s a nice observation. I have seen people who would just crumble when they encounter someone they perceive to be of a higher class (not caste), but I have also seen people who are “I own this place guys”

It probably talks a lot abt the socio-economic circumstances of their upbringing. Most including me belong to the people who become servile when they encounter authority/class, I am trying to change that tho.

I hate the servility I see around me, people think so less of themselves and way too highly of the corrupt bureaucrat, I have seen what kind of people this culture creates and it’s pretty gloomy!

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Is this correct?

Yeah, pretty much. I am not sure what you mean by it isn’t the biggest democracy, it kinda is the biggest democracy, but people place way too much emphasis on it. People don’t seem to have a mind of their own, they act in groups and are very tribal, so it’s probably not the most effective democracy.

Probably most countries/cultures think this of themselves

being accepting of your own nationality is good, but I have a problem with people being too proud of shitty things. We are too ok with who we are as a country and that’s not conducive to progress.

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I wonder in what ways does India believe they are the world leader of anything?

They see the outliers in this system and think that is the norm. i.e., Out of 1.4 billion people, there must be many people who are extremely successful abroad (and are very famous) and Indians think that is the norm and the fact that there are some so many successful people abroad shows that our culture is superior. It really makes sense if you stop thinking about it lol.

And there are some random events happening in such a big country that if you are in an ecosystem of Indian uncles or you haven’t really grown up from metal age of 12, you begin to think the world revolves around us and we are a superpower.

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a product of John Oliver.

that guy is almost always biased as hell and lies to make people he disagrees with seem bad, but damn, he went wayyy to easy on modi even though he dislikes Modi! Idk why!?. He attributed things to modi which weren’t his own (like rations and the economic progress) and generally was misinformed. Terrible research team! I could have given him better points! and his delivery was subpar! The last Modi episode was better, maybe he was trying to gain a wider audience in India as otherwise we would have banned the show (We love Free speech here in India)

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I know there is innovation but nothing major springs to mind

There is NO INNOVATION. There are no discoveries happening here. R&D budget and the budget for education is peanuts, there isn’t much innovation happening in India and the innovation that does happen, happens in handful of universities by students who could not afford to move out to a better country which would fund their research.

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such as how much of the world is making sacrifices to stop buying gas from Russia but India’s just undermining their good intentions for profit

I might disagree with most things this government does, but I can’t deny the fact that’s something overwhelmingly popular with Indians (including me)

We literally have people suffering from malnutrition in this country, people who still die of hunger, you can’t expect us to not buy cheap oil from Russia. Sorry, we will buy oil from everyplace where it is cheap, we can alleviate suffering of our own people by money and we will try to do it as best as we can.

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for good reason, there are people who (do support/and are) the Nazis . Hey, I know the attack on Ukraine was unjust, but you can’t ignore this

Subject6051 OP ,

Talking of tech support, I must mention that your McAfee subscription has expired and at a low cost of $40 you can get lifetime access :)

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It felt predatory. I didn’t feel safe, I felt uncomfortable, I felt I was a freak and an oddity

I feel no connection to this culture whatsoever, I would happily follow your cultural norms if ever am lucky enough to visit the West, so you are not offending me, and I appreciate the honestly too :)

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hav darr yhou!? tbh I am working on improving my English much much more, I love the literary works and the poetry and I don’t want my English to be a constraint while trying to read those works which require a higher level of English knowledge.

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I don’t understand why people are downvoting you, you are right!

I don’t like people taking credit for something that happened in the past (they had nothing to do with it) but you are right in stating that.

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hard working but not especially skilled

Terrible education and bad priorities doomed this country. Having a billion people is useless if they are not well-educated. I know this tale way too well, this is the reason why people who can leave this country do leave it and most who can send their children abroad for education do send them there.

Fuck! who am I kidding, I will make sure my kids study abroad, the education in this country won’t improve anytime soon.

edit: Good observation there!

Subject6051 OP ,

no joke dude, I hate this. Indians (including me) become slavish when we encounter authority. I need to change this in myself or leave! This is too fucking gloomy! It’s like our bones melt and we become liquid! ughh…!

Waydroid and the DRM issue | How to play DRM protected videos on Waydroid?

I managed to install waydroid after a long and rather stressful installation process, but now that I have installed it, I am realizing that since Waydroid doesn’t come with DRM software (or malware) installed with it, it won’t play no videos, which is one of the reasons I installed it. Is there a way I can run drm protected...

What do you think of Just Stop Oil?

My Views: I would love it if Solar, Hydro and Wind and other renewable sources of energy + Non Renewable Nuclear were to provide enough energy reliably to completely replace fossil fuels, but I know it’s not a feasible solution at least at this point. And maybe it will never be. Renewable sources of energy are highly dependent...

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I love Nuclear, what’s absolutely stupid about some climate activists is their opposition to it. I mean, it’s the cleanest and the least deadly form of energy. Let’s hope someday we will reach enough efficiency that fusion energy would be feasible, it’s absolutely everything you can wish for and more. Literal free energy! We have it, it has generated energy, but it has generated less energy than we put into it if I am not wrong, would be absolutely stunning if we can increase it’s efficiency. This is the dream!

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Unfortunately Fusion is too far in the future to solve climate change

I did a small project once for my school long ago, do you think it’s more a matter of sci fi at this point than actual reality?

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We need to do this as a species

I am pretty sure climate change is/will be a disaster for India, but I am betting on the capability of Indians as well as other third world countries to develop economically and be better prepared to face the consequences of climate change. Because I know for a fact that collective action problem is not solvable.

Who's winning the war in Ukraine?

The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large...

Subject6051 OP ,

Woah dudE!

Reminds me of the starting scene in Lord of War

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Ukraine is, slowly and painfully, gaining ground, so by that measure, they are winning.

Really? I was hearing the opposite all this while. PS: Slowly and very painfully, fuck, I wish there was an end to this war and we could return to status quo!

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100%! I think most people would agree with you there.

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I mean, this isn’t a very important piece of news for me, so, I am just looking at the consensus here.

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I mean, I don’t want Russia to win, but I have no problem with accepting facts where I see them. I think almost everyone here would agree that both the countries involved have lost much more than they can ever gain out of this war.

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You should be worried about US/NATO-backed Israel terrorist state that is genociding and erasing the country of Palestine.

I don’t think you know the meaning of the word genocide. I have my own issues with Israel’s support for the settler occupation of West Bank, but in no may is Israel committing a genocide. The population nearly multiplied multiple folds since 1948. Israeli government fortunately has no will for a genocide of any people though they have the capability to commit one, while on the other hand you have the Nazis 2.0 who want to repeat the Holocaust but are incapable of repeating it for Israel is way too stronger than all their allies and themselves put together. If the shoe was on the other foot, there would be no jews in the middle east as the supposed peace partners of Israel themselves openly say they want to push the jews to the sea.

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From where?

Indian media mainly, I haven’t explored out of the Indian media bubble though.

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I am kinda split on the issue. I am ok with Ukraine getting more resources as it makes sense for the west to make Ukraine fight their own battles, but at the same time, I really wish there was a ceasefire to the fighting.

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If the incentive structure is such that it incentivizes nations invading other sovereign nations, there can be no peace.

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UN is a fucking joke, they could not bring themselves to even condemn the massacre on Oct 7th. It’s stupid to take that organization even remotely seriously.

And, if your population multiplies every few decades, it’s stupid to suggest that there is a genocide going on. Israel doesn’t want a genocide and those who want one fortunately don’t have a nuclear weapon yet (I am not sure what Pakistan thinks abt this topic, but I am leaving them out of this)

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Ohh, cmon now! Seriously? You blame this on Capitalism?

[SOLVED] Is there an app which can read everything on the screen for you?

My phone screen broke but everything else works fine except for the fact that I can’t see what’s happening on my phone, I was able to install an app which mirrors my phone and thus control my phone indirectly, but I was wondering if there was a way I could do basic functions like reading texts without seeing the screen. I...

Subject6051 OP ,

hey… I actually ended up enabling TalkBack Thank you! It’s quite good. I mean, you gotta get the hang of it though. This whole ordeal has made me appreciate the efforts visually impaired people put into living their lives much more. I can’t handle a bloddy phone, imagine living your life like this.

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true as it is (I have used Scrcpy, which is ideal for these kind of tasks, but unfortunately, I can’t take my laptop wherever I go and I don’t have another spare phone.

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I challenge anyone who says sugar isn’t addictive to go a week without. No sugar. No sugar substitutes like fructose. I’ve done it. It is awful.

I’ve also done hard drugs. Quitting those are awful too.

ok that makes more sense.

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nice comment, thank you!

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I am sorry buddy, I am not sure if that’s true. Not true for most people at least.

Subject6051 OP ,

Installation is pretty tiresome if you don’t have the packages you need to run it. I feel like Chrome extensions can get the job done relatively easily.

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worked fine

for normal html sites, it would just download the whole page, and it works here too. But it downloads the whole chat while I just want a copy of last ten messages

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