u/Derian23

The AI features stopped working less than a year after I bought the phone. Have been trying to clarify this simple picture. But it keeps failing after making it to 25%. This is just one of the million problems I have faced with this phone. Never buying anything from Realme again.

Sharing it here in case anyone wishes to enrol.

I ordered Koftas from a local eatery. They instead sent me Dhokar Dalna. When I raised a complaint, Zomato told me that they cannot do anything about it. This, despite the fact that I attached pictures of the food, with my mail.

It is absolutely insane how Zomato shrugs aside such issues like they aren't a big deal. I order from Zomato nearly every other day. I never faced any issue before. But this incident has left a really bad taste in my mouth (no pun intended).

Has anyone else had such an experience with Zomato? Is Swiggy better in this regard?

Came across this post and I know, I know, I should ignore these m#r#ns. But I couldn't resist commenting and ended up getting even more enraged at these f#cking id!ot$.

Anyway, nowadays whenever a stranger texts me on social media, I immediately tell him to not text me or any other woman because women are by nature dangerous and deceptive and may falsely accuse him of rape. For his own security, it is better that he only talk to men. You have no idea how frustrated they become when you say that. You guys should try it. 😁

I don't wish go into whether Rohit should have been retained till the next ODI World Cup (let the cricket pundits be the judge of that). I wish to talk about the piss-poor way BCCI has handled things so far. No player wants to retire. If players had their way, they'd choose to play till their dying breath. That is why the team management needs to remain objective while selecting a squad. They have to make calls thinking what is best for the team. They have to constantly think about the future. And at the same time, they have to give players the clarity about their future. However, BCCI seems to be struggling on all three fronts. Rohit and Virat were suddenly dropped from the test squad. SKY was suddenly dropped from the T20 squad. Mohammad Shami was never given another chance after suffering that injury following the World Cup.

Did these players deserve to be dropped? Probably, if you assume that the management was simply thinking about the future of the Indian cricket. But shouldn't these players have been at least communicated these plans in advance? Shouldn't Virat and Rohit been informed prior to the BGT that "hey, you two are getting old You are not performing as well we expect. If you fail this series, it's over"? Or shouldn't SKY have been told right before the World Cup that "hey, regardless of whether India wins or loses the World Cup, you are getting dropped if you don't play exceptionally well this world cup"? Or shouldn't Shami have been apprised that "hey, you are too old. You haven't been the same since the injury. We are not going to pick you so you might as well give up on that dream"? Why weren't these players clearly informed of the BCCI's plans for the future? It's not like BCCI woke up one fine morning and suddenly discovered that these players have been out of form and will be too old by the time the next World Cup comes.

Each of these players that I mentioned was given the impression that they will be playing for the foreseeable future before being blindsided by the one fine day. Now, I know that it might not seem like a big deal to those of us who are passively watching the sport on TV but cricket requires a lot of sacrifice. I'm betting good money that Rohit, Virat, Surya, and Shami have been working their ass off in order to make it to the WC squad. A little clarity regarding their future would save these players much of the effort they have put in over the past few months. It also promotes a culture where players know what to expect once they have reached a certain age or once they have been out of form for a while. They can accordingly make plans to retire.

In the absence of such clarity, the entire team suffers. Just look at the way the T20 team is being handled. The WC winning captain was dropped without a word and a player who hasn't even part of the team in a while has been made the captain ahead of players who were part of two T20 winning squad. The management could have simply communicated their plans to Surya and retained him as the captain for the series in Ireland and England, thereby giving him a chance to groom Shreyas for the role. But instead, they chose to drop him altogether and announced Shreyas as the captain despite the latter already being under tremendous pressure.

Similarly, look at the way Sanju is being handled. The POTT of the last World Cup was dropped after a couple of poor performances in favour of a fifteen year old wunderkid who has never played for India before. When the kid fails to perform for two matches, he is similarly dropped in favour of Sanju.

Now I understand that the management is trying to find a team combination that works best. But you can't expect any player to play well when they are constantly living in fear of being dropped. What is the message that is being sent to these players? It doesn't matter if you are the captain of a WC winning team or a POTT of a World Cup, you will be dropped if you fail to perform well for two bilateral series. That is a recipe for disaster. Cricket is a team sport. You need the players to play selflessly for the team. You can't win tournaments if your players are paranoidly fixated on saving their own careers because you have created a system wherein no one feels safe anymore. This whole "we have other options. Just toss him out and pick someone else" philosophy might work in the corporate sector. But it won't work in sports. If your players do not feel secure, they will not play for the team. They will play for themselves. And a team of eleven persistently insecure players, no matter how brilliant, will never win anything worthwhile if their only focus is saving themselves from the humiliation of being booted from the team for which they gave their everything.

If the BCCI wants to continue ICT's golden run, they would do well to give clarity to their players about their future instead of stringing them along for a few tournaments and dropping them all of a sudden without any word.

And this is not a troll account either. This is a man who works as a technical lead in HCLTech. This could be someone's boyfriend, someone's husband. And he thinks it is perfectly okay to murder his pregnant wife than face the consequences of domestic violence.

Context: A woman was found drunk on a street of Rajasthan. Someone posted that video on a sub and said this is what women mean by equality. Almost immediately men started complaining about how feminists have taken things way too far. This is one of the comments I found that thread.

FYI, I believe all religions condition women to embrace their own oppression and should be called out without any attempt to divert attention to which religion is more oppressive towards women. That discussion is entirely irrelevant.

This man has hired five complete strangers to pose as his friends on his next meeting with his girlfriend. He would rather deceive his girlfriend (and potentially expose her to five very dangerous men) than simply admit that he has no friends whatsoever (literally none that could endure his company long enough to be called a friend).

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I am genuinely worried about his girlfriend. She'd probably have her guard down on the presumption that the men she is meeting are all decent people that her boyfriend has known long enough. This has the potential to go horribly wrong. I neither trust a man who doesn't have a single friend in all the time he spent in school, college, university nor men who signed up to be friends with a random stranger just to meet a girl. This is like watching a crime unfold before your own eyes. I'm absolutely horrified by how horribly selfish and reckless some men are. This POS has no regard for his girlfriend's safety. He is willing to risk her security for his fifteen minutes of pleasure. It's absolutely disturbing.

He would rather deceive his girlfriend (and potentially expose her to five dangerous men) than simply admit that he has no friends whatsoever (literally none that could endure his company long enough to be called a friend). And these men wonder why women choose the bear.

I am genuinely worried about his girlfriend. She'd probably have her guard down on the presumption that the men she is meeting are all decent people that her boyfriend has known long enough. This has the potential to go horribly wrong. I neither trust a man who doesn't have a single friend in all the time he spent in school, college, university nor men who signed up to be friends with a random stranger just to meet a girl. This is like watching a crime unfold before your own eyes. I'm absolutely horrified by how horribly selfish and reckless men are. This POS has no regard for his girlfriend's safety. He is willing to risk her security for his fifteen minutes of pleasure. It's absolutely disgusting.

There's a very easy solution to avoid paying alimony. Don't get married. But nope, that is somehow a huge injustice upon men. They want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to reap all the benefits that come with marriage but not shoulder any of the risks that accompany a marriage. I am glad more and more women I know are choosing to stay unmarried instead of settling down just for the sake of it. That will ensure that the inc#l brigade eventually goes extinct, leaving only decent men to procreate. If things go our way, in another hundred years or so women would no longer have to deal with such entitled idiots. The only men around will be men who are kind, progressive, and intelligent.

Throughout the video, she tries to either minimise her actions or blame others for the flak she is receiving. She begins by apologising for "the thing that happened" rather than the "the thing she did." She then tries to clarify "I said the very wrong thing...it was a mistake." Except, it wasn't a mistake. A mistake would be accidentally misplacing a deceased person's items. Making disgusting comments about a person who was kind enough to donate their body isn't a mistake. It's a heinous violation.

She then talks about how deeply pained she is to see the "narrative" that is being shared about her, almost as if she is being unjustifiably criticised for her actions. She then suggests that she had mentioned twice that she respects the donor bodies (almost as if that somehow negates the vile jokes she would go on to further make). She then tries to proffer several excuses for her remarks, ranging from "it was my first visit to a comedy show" to "I was very naive". She then expresses indignance at the fact that a two month old clip was "taken out of context" and made into such a "big issue." In other words, she doesn't think what she did was a big deal and believes that she is being unjustly persecuted by people.

Now please note that I do not believe that her remarks are in any way comparable to what Himangshu did. What Himangshu did was far, far worse. There can be no comparison. But that doesn't mean we turn a blind eye to her actions. I feel like the discussion so far has been largely about who committed the worse violation. But I honestly think that such a discussion is irrelevant. It doesn't matter who committed the more grievous violation. Both should be penalized in accordance with the severity of their transgressions. Himangshu lost his job and rightly so. But this girl does not deserve to work as a doctor either. Her public apology makes it clear that she feels no regret over her actions. She is simply sorry that she is facing criticism. The apology video she posted is entirely performative. It seems like a desperate attempt of a woman to salvage her reputation. I have no doubt that if this controversy dies down, she will go back to behaving the way she has been behaving all along. She may from now on be smart enough to not make such remarks in public. But there most certainly will not be any change in her mindset given how she doesn't seem to think her remarks were that big of a deal.

I think, as feminists, we have a responsibility to condemn the actions of any individual that violates the norms of basic human dignity. The individual's gender should bear no relevance in such discussions. Sejal Pawar's actions should be condemned regardless of whether she is a man or a woman.