This is completely not true. There were small skirmishes between Hindu and Muslims on small city in the western part of Nepal but there is no communal violence as you think there is. Nepal arbitrarily bans things without any due diligence, well because we have inept leaders.

> well because we have inept leaders.

Not to mention corruption. About 15 years ago I got dragged along to a lunch in Kathmandu. My host[0] was meeting with some officials to discuss embezzling from an infrastructure project. It speaks to their impunity that they carried on in public in front of a basically unknown foreigner.

[0] Last I checked he was recently arrested on various corruption offenses.

To be fair I worked for a startup who turned out to be doing exactly that in the UK.

I am intrigued! Can you say more? Did anyone get caught?

Not really much more. I quit the moment I heard it. Got some threatening letters from a lawyer. The director was deported shortly afterwards.

Then I immediately went and worked for an even bigger turd where I quit by lunch time on the first day.

You seem to have a noose for things. Have you considered working for a anti-corruption agency?

I know it's not intentional, but I like the misspelling.

The pay is rubbish :)

Fair, but the implications and chances of a communal flair up are high after what happened to the Nepali migrant workers in Israel. I'm sure the Nepali Govt doesn't want a repeat of 2004.

Mix that with the rise of Hindutva, a bad economy, and divisive discourse across the border for the 2024 elections and things can probably get ugly if precautions aren't taken.

Shutting down TikTok is a small price to pay to prevent actual communal violence.

Hinduvta does not exist as a driving political force in Nepal. You are thinking of India. Nepal is secular albeit there is a small faction vying for power based on hindu ideologies but they are a very small portion of nepal politics. Again there is no communal flair that has entered into national discourse like we see in India or some ME countries. Nepal is pretty chill in that regards, surprisingly so given the whole country has multitudes of ethnic groups. There are still caste based incidents in remote areas but not so much in urban cores. Knowing the decisions the nincompoop leaders have done out of whim over the last decade or so I am fairly certain that this decision was also not done with due dilligence.

It's not a driving force in Nepal, but it takes a handful of "Kattar Hindu" idiots (most of whom seem to be Awadhi and Maithili based on the IG Reels and TikTok shorts I've seen) to light a spark in the Terai.

Most of these incidents and flareups are happening in the Terai areas where ethnic communities straddle the India-Nepal border. While the secessionist movement seems to have largely been tamped down, I wouldn't be surprised if many people who were in that milleu ended up becoming more fundamentalist.

And it's extremely worrisome that events and discourse like this is much more common, despite not existing 20 years ago.

Seems like it would have been a better option to do the final cooking which is around 7-8 min in the oven at the delivery doorstep.

Neapolitan pizza needs to cook for like 3 minutes tops, but getting an oven hot enough for that on the back of a truck would probably be a challenge.

Why would it be a challenge? An Ooni oven can do it in a much smaller space.

Hoverboards. I want those damn things as was prophesied by back to the future.

Imagine being the world's richest man, even for a little bit. I would imagine that does some stuff to your ego.

+1.6 billion indians

Not native speakers. So if you count them, you need to count everyone else with English as secondary language. Then things become very messy.

This is what happens when urban planning goes wrong. In asian cities where most office buildings are zoned along with residential buildings and other types of buildings (shops, service providers etc) the office commercial property would just get converted to another type of commercial and possibly residential property and life moves on. An extreme example of this would be to have residential building type be almost identical to a commercial type which I have seen plenty of in south Asia. The problem in US is that when offices close down the entire city dies. The economic activity halves, it feels empty, creepy and unsafe. A lot of cities in the US exist to cater to the 9-5 office workers that relapse back to suburbs far from the city for anything other than work and some entertainment.

it would be great if it were as simple as re zoning. unfortunately it's not so easy. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/11/upshot/office...

> An extreme example of this would be to have residential building type be almost identical to a commercial type which I have seen plenty of in south Asia.

I have seen this a lot too in the US... Usually a home gets converted to a business

I think most older buildings are able to be converted, but not the new types of commercial buildings.

Why? Does no one like floor to ceiling windows anymore? I’m sorry if I sound sarcastic, it’s a real question. I kind of love the way some offices look on the outside.

Here's a quick one https://www.wsj.com/video/series/wsj-explains/what-it-takes-...

Short version:

Commercial buildings are too deep and so you have to do fancy things to give internal apartments natural light and meet building regulations for windows.

I don't think the points made in that video will survive long-term. Zoning laws will be forced to change, i.e. minimum parking laws, single zone areas, expensive high-end designs, high-pressure plumbing per residence, lack of use of fiberoptics for sunlight lamps etc. Ideal designs will need to change to accommodate all the empty space that will slowly fall apart without use. I would hate to see all these huge buildings demolished on a shortened lifecycle.

Large floor plates make it difficult to fit in smaller, affordable apartments with their own windows and full utilization of the interior. The rich already have their dedicated aeries so they don't need to live in a conversion to find large spaces.

are you assuming that all refugees entering the country are the bottom of the barrel?

I didn't say refugee. I said low-skilled labor.

Refugees tend to be low skill.

Its not like you have to be confined within the 15 min city if you dont want to. You an always take the train or the bus to the 7-11 1 hour away to get your beer. Its just convenient to be in a place where you dont have to drive far away to get your basic amenities. Any East asian city should be a pretty good example.

I agree.