Halla Gulla

The raging bull never stopped at a STOP sign.

AI is not going to change the world as of now, retatrutide might. It is in Phase 3 clinical trials and everything is going well. Some say it is a trillion-dollar drug and Eli Lilly holds the patent. I think there will be more peptides in the market to control chronic conditions.

SCOTUS said tariffs are taxes and hence the President cannot impose tariffs unilaterally. But then Trump said, fix 15% tariffs globally. Ahahaha. Some businesses are selling their tariff refund rights to other firms now. If the tariffs were $10 million, they are selling those rights for $2–3 million. It is like they are selling debt. This is what I like about capitalism.

Real estate in India is ridiculously expensive. This is why there needs to be some reform or some law to discourage real estate investments, especially in the housing market. But I also do not believe in government overreach, so I think the incentives for real estate investments should go away. The rest, make it easier to build housing. Lower electricity costs, etc. I have visited over 500 flats. As a family, we are so confused, lmao.

My faith in the Indian AI ecosystem has been renewed. If Sarvam can build a 105B parameter model, then we can surely build a frontier model, and we will build it. Indian AIs will be awesome as the consumer market is 1.5 billion.

Trump is going to bomb Iran, for sure. History has shown us that whenever a US President hits historically low popularity, they bomb some country. Although I think the Pentagon always suggests bombing plans to the President, Presidents usually do not give the go-ahead because their popularity has not hit the lows yet. So they save it for the time when their popularity dwindles.

Buying 114 Rafales at $36 billion seems like a steep price. But what else can we do? We need good fighter jets. Tejas jets are dependent on engines delivered by GE. We do not have our own engine, which is the most important thing in a jet. We should invest in building the engine. We can surely collaborate because knowledge is important. I think the AMCA program will be our salvation. Let us see if that becomes a reality soon or not.

We need one more aircraft carrier. This time, nuclear powered.

Indian cities are booming, urbanisation is happening at a faster pace, and I see that metros and infrastructure are also being built at a faster pace. I think we will be fine. The areas being developed are more planned and have better accessibility than the older city areas, which have narrow roads and immense traffic.

We need one more sport apart from cricket where India holds the reins.

Saw the "protest" at the AI Summit. It was shameless. It was not a protest, it was politically motivated buffoonery. Congress has lost the plot. All I see is Congress hates India and Indians. Opposition for the sake of opposition never works. I do not like protests when they block my access to go from one place to another. I have the right to do things. Why is your protest railroading my rights? Go protest somewhere else. Disturb the government, do not disturb me. Smh. I am just trying to live my life, let me live.

I am reminded of the Ricky Gervais' Golden Globe speech:

"If you win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech, You're in no position to lecture the public about anything, you know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.

So, if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent, and your God and fuck off, OK?"

This is a dig on some people. Yes.

think Indian consumer vehicles should go fully electric. It is so easy to drive an electric car, and the efficiency is around 90%. Electricity was made for this. :P I also read that trucks represent only about 3% of the total vehicles in India but contribute over 50% of particulate matter (PM) emissions from the road transport sector. I think we should start converting trucks into electric trucks as well. I already see a lot of state transport being converted into electric vehicles. Bring back electric vehicle subsidies. :')

I should gift a vehicle that sucks up dust from roads to the government. It will make the air cleaner.

We are yet to get the basics right: good government schools, good public healthcare. I am not that worried about healthcare because right now in India it is affordable, but we have to stop PE firms from buying up hospitals and converting them into cash cows. We do not want the American healthcare system fiasco in India. We also need polite police. Get this right and a lot of issues are resolved. Also yes, I forgot, we need good public infrastructure too.

What else?

I think this is enough for now. Thanks for reading, bye.