theblueredditrefugee

Testbed for all sorts of policies!

Things learned:

✅ Democracy 🚫 Slavery 🚫 Political machines ✅ Railroads ✅ Splitting up monopolies 🚫 Free market healthcare ✅ Cars in low density areas 🚫 Cars in high density areas ✅ Buses in high density areas

Maybe the secret is they accumulated a ton of shitty experimental policies! All we have to do to leapfrog them is to simply bring back policies that are known to be shit!

It's the great circle of innovation!

👀👀👀 maybe we should amend our constitution to grant the right to buffoonery! No, require it even!

They'll get it eventually

That's true, but it still works imo

Holy hell

Omg it never even occured to me that the Bengali flag looks kinda like the Japanese flag

TIL all events are instantaneous

Here's a recipe for Bengali rice pudding, like my spouse's family makes, if you're interested in trying it. If you can't get your hands on the particular rice for it she says calrose works (or, failing that, sushi rice).

You'll want to run it through a translator since the recipe is in Bengali but that's how you know it's legit

Well, it's your preference....

Oh interesting! We usually substitute basmati for jasmine rice bc we like the flavor better. Unless ofc it's a dessert of some kind.

True, probably why chopsticks never got popular in Bharat. But ofc there's always the desi way of eating - your hands 😁