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Anant Gupta

100+ Hot Takes

This post is a mild attempt to get cancelled but also to document my outrageous takes. We all have them. This was originally a twitter thread I did for fun over several months since 2022 (& still ongoing tbf). Might justify a few.

  1. Taylor Swift's music is mid.

  2. Kanye West's music is mid.

  3. Coffee/alcohol/soft drinks=mid. Stigmatize drugs, smoking & alcohol as they are poison. Worse than steroids even. Their acceptance is a decline for us as a society.

  4. Lex Fridman pod=mid

  5. JRE=mid

  6. Crossfit is okay, don't get injured.

  7. Central Banks are good.

  8. Cats>Dogs

  9. Pizza=mid

  10. Indian food=mid

  11. Being a foodie=mid, eat healthy & eNjOy LiFe is a scam. Be better.

  12. Beatles=mid

  13. IG/Snap=mid

  14. Metaverse=mid

  15. EVs=mid (so far as of Nov 24)

  16. Precious metals=mid (worthless garbage really in a fair world)

  17. Andrew Tate=mid

  18. Vegan & Carnivore diets=mid

  19. Socialism=mid

  20. Libertarianism=mid

  21. AEW=mid

  22. Jeans/ties=mid

  23. Formal footwear=mid

  24. Disney=mid

  25. Friends TV show=mid

  26. Harry Potter=mid (except Voldemort he cool)

  27. Rap music=mid with very few exceptions

  28. Yoga is mid. Meditating is mid

  29. Plain milk tastes very good

  30. Multi-grain bread is a marketing scam

  31. Organic is a marketing scam

  32. PEDs are fine to take in certain contexts for aged people

  33. The Wire season 5 is a masterpiece

  34. Podcasts are for people with too much time. They bring little value for the time invested.

  35. Court marriages are the best forms of marriage. Save money, go on vacation.

  36. Party culture=mid

  37. Finance Profs with Phd=mid (99.99999% in the world)

  38. Money buys happiness & not having it is infinitely worse. Try being poor preachers.

  39. Star Trek=mid

  40. Horror genre=mid

  41. Passive investing is overrated (but not all bad)

  42. All kids should be trained to fight. Boxing & gym for all kids. Maybe wrestling or whatever.

  43. Freedom of speech is mid as its advocates mostly want it for their opinions, not others

  44. Motivating other adults to workout=useless

  45. Cutting trees so relentlessly as we have is immoral

  46. Windows>Mac

  47. Iphones=mid

  48. Excel is the best data analytics tool

  49. MM/DD/YYYY=mid

  50. Nuclear energy is not the magic pill Twitter fanboys think it is

  51. Climate change deniers are truly evil

  52. Entertainment Industry=mid & ruined many generations

  53. Christopher Nolan is over hyped

  54. Shakespeare=mid

  55. Tattoos=mid

  56. It is okay to call Football Soccer

  57. Smartwatches=mid

  58. IOT=mid

  59. Cold Showers>>>Hot Showers

  60. Anecdotal evidence is evidence

  61. Wireless is an overrated gimmick. Headphone jacks are also cool

  62. R is a mid programming language

  63. Chinese food=mid

  64. Pop Music is mid. Kpop is mid

  65. Dragon Ball GT was good

  66. Gyms should be regulated with safety standards (safety pins in racks & bench press)

  67. Pessimist are essential but not to be taken too literally

  68. Gene editing is a bad idea except for diseases

  69. Salad is overrated

  70. Options trading is overrated

  71. PHDs are overrated

  72. It is okay to be boring & simple (not a hot take I think?)

  73. Grapes are the greatest fruit

  74. Avocados are overrated

  75. Statistics courses should focus more on standard errors

  76. The world needs more parks. Large, green parks. Not malls & resorts

  77. Home gyms should be normalized

  78. Star Wars original trilogy is kinda overrated. Andor is Star Wars' finest

  79. The prequels are good

  80. The Intelligent Investor is overrated

  81. Heavy Metal Music is mid

  82. Netflix=mid

  83. Psychedelics are a shit idea

  84. Working on weekends ain't that bad

  85. Unpaid internships are fine. Be the sucker to learn if you are a student

  86. Jordan Peterson = mid

  87. Real horror books are about war & surveillance

  88. Don't read self-help books

  89. Don't read auto-biographies

  90. Crypto=mid

  91. Suits TV show=mid

  92. Sherlock TV show=mid

  93. Succession=mid

  94. Stress eating is a loser's mindset

  95. Chat stickers=mid

  96. Picasso=mid. Most expensive art=mid

  97. Processed foods are fine

  98. Filters in photos=mid

  99. Death penalty for drugs

  100. Death penalty for DUI

  101. Death penalty for corruption by public servants

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