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I don’t have problem eating food with my hands, in fact it’s my preferred approach even with rice and dal or other stuff. But at home. In public settings like workplaces or restaurants or friends’s houses or generally anywhere outside comfort of my 4 walls fork and spoon is the way. So when I see a bunch of desi at work eating their rice-sambhar or pulaos with their hands in the break room I am sorry I find it weird and displaying lack of etiquette. Look there is no way you’d eat naan without your hands anywhere so I am not a nut about such things, but there really are some foods you should not be eating with your hands anywhere in public I am sorry.

One of the funniest sci-fi tropes is that in future it’s always “empire” against people. Whether it’s Dune, Star Wars, foundation what have you – it’s always some sort of monarchy and people rising up to it. Everyone is also dressed in robes and lehengas galore or costumes that stick to every inch of skin. This is why watching The Expanse was so much fun and it was not about some evil empire boring shit. It felt realistic even if it was sci-fi. It’s also why I find most Star Wars and foundation mostly boring now. Dune is an exception cos of the movies not the books themselves!