u/Ok-Cardiologist1922

Watched the full clip and it honestly feels like a lot of people completely fell for far-left performative activism packaged as journalism. asking a loaded question, walking out before hearing the full response, then turning the clip into moral-theater for social media applause is somehow being treated as ‘journalistic victory’

meanwhile Kerala internet immediately jumped into accent policing and self-shaming because apparently having an accent while representing India is now embarrassing 😭

kinda ironic because half these accent experts learned their fake ‘international accent’ from Netflix series and random hollywood.. real-world communication and diplomacy isn’t a show.

feels like decades of left wing political/media culture in Kerala made some people automatically see anything remotely nationalist or diplomatic as cringe while western-style far-left performative activism gets celebrated as intellectualism.

Maybe this is nostalgia talking but football genuinely felt different back then

I’m not even talking about the matches alone.. the whole WC atmosphere used to feel insane especially in villages and small towns.

Atleast a month before the tournament, local clubs would already start preparing... banners everywhere, flags posts, team cutouts, people collecting money for it, daily arguments like their life depended on it 😭

and it wasn’t just Argentina vs Brazil or either...

there used to be hardcore Netherlands fans, German fans, France, Italia, Portugal, Spain, England.. even random Uruguay supporters ready to throw hands defending their team.

there were actual flag hoisting events 😭😭 and velluvilis between clubs like some election season.

now everything feels dead compared to that era... this WC atmosphere feels weirdly quiet...

I genuinely can’t tell whether football itself became more boring or if our entire social culture changed after covid....

Despite being from the majority madrassa-going demography myself, I’ve noticed something clear.

Among the madrassa-going, Arabic/Urdu opted crowd (especially the thathas and girls), the old “muri Malayalam” we used to see heavily mocked in Malayalam movies and pop culture until the 90s is actually declining. Their distorted Malayalam slang is quietly fading and being replaced by Muri English: heavy fillers, broken sentences, and sudden English switches.

You see it perfectly in that viral bus video: 100% Malayalam setup, Malayalam-speaking driver and conductor, yet the thatha yells “CAN YOU STOP THE VEHICLE!” in English just to show rage and assert dominance.

Now brace yourself if the new education minister is from IUML.

Applied for a designer role at a gaming company recently.

No HR screening - No recruiter call - No salary discussion...
No “hey let’s see if we’re even aligned first”...

Just straight to: “here’s your assignment"...which is not even a small one

they wanted:

• key screens
• complete flows
• a playable prototype

plus a whole “good to have” section basically asking people to go above and beyond production quality because apparently everyone has unlimited free time now...

What genuinely confuses me is:
why do companies think designers should invest DAYS of effort before even talking to a human being once?

Not even a basic trust-building conversation

You don’t know my expectations
I don’t know your budget
You don’t know if I’m the right fit
I don’t know if your culture is terrible

Yet I’m expected to lock in for a week and produce studio-level work with zero guarantee anyone will even properly review it....

And yeah before people say “this is normal” I opened the Figma file and it was created 8 months ago with 800+ people already been inside it....

At what point does this stop being “hiring” and start becoming a giant unpaid content farm for companies?

Because honestly this process feels built around milking effort out of unemployed designers who are desperate enough to keep jumping through hoops hoping one company finally responds....

The funniest part is UX design is supposed to be one of the most human-centered departments in tech, but hiring for it feels completely anti-human now....

Everything is cold and automated, transactional...
No trust.
No respect for time.

Just: “do all this work first and maybe we’ll talk to you after”

And then there are still multiple rounds after that lol...

I’m hiding the company name because I’m not trying to start drama, but this whole hiring culture seriously needs to be called out more...

Started noticing smaller Shopify stores were losing customer attention almost immediately to Honey/Rakuten-style distractions and injected offers.

Big brands can absorb that stuff. Smaller stores really can’t.

Built an internal fix for a few client stores, cleaned it up, and quietly released it as Caracal Lite: https://apps.shopify.com/coupon-blocker-caracal-lite

Started noticing smaller Shopify stores were losing customer attention almost immediately to Honey/Rakuten-style distractions and injected offers.

Big brands can absorb that stuff. Smaller stores really can’t.

Built an internal fix for a few client stores, cleaned it up, and quietly released it as https://apps.shopify.com/coupon-blocker-caracal-lite

Interesting seeing how different storefront behavior looks once the noise disappears.