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My household income classification ~ forget the B40:M40:T20.
Let us see real numbers ;
Less than RM3000 is poverty
3001 to 7500 is low income.
7501 to 15k is middle income
> 15,001 is high income
Based on households with two kids.
Adjustments needed for family size & location
Why does a city need buses? A thread in numbers.
Take the Klang Valley. We've spent billions building MRT and LRT lines about 240 km of city rail. Sounds great, right?
But here's the number nobody talks about: we have about 5 buses for every km of rail.
Shanghai has 19. Beijing and Shenzhen have around 25.
Why does this matter?
Because a train only helps you if you can GET to the station. Trains run on fixed tracks. They can't turn into your housing area. They can't stop outside your school or your mamak. That's the bus's job.
Per person, the gap is even crazier. The Klang Valley has about 0.16 buses per 1,000 people. Shanghai has 0.68 — four times more. To match Shanghai, we'd need around 6,000 buses. We have about 1,400. And on a bad day, only about 1,000 are actually on the road.
So what happens?
Millions of people live a 15-minute drive from a station they can't reach without a car. So they drive.
That's how you build world-class rail and still sit in a jam for 2 hours.
And it's getting worse, not better.
The new buses being bought are mostly replacements for old ones, not additions. The rail network keeps growing. The bus fleet doesn't.
A metro without buses is like an airport with no roads leading to it. Impressive, expensive, and useless to most people.
If we want people to actually leave their cars at home, the fix isn't another shiny train line. It's boring. It's buses.
Thousands of them. On time. Everywhere.
Inflation isn't just about how much prices increase.
It's also about how much of your income those things take away.
The less money you have, the more painful food inflation tends to be.
Singapore has a Monthly Travel Pass (MTP)
Adult Monthly Travel Pass: currently S$122/month for unlimited travel on basic bus and MRT/LRT services.
It's 8 times more expensive than our monthly pass
Balotelli is playing in Dubai with a take-home income rivaling his peak Manchester City days.
Up to €4 million tax-free, complete with a luxury serviced villa, private transport, and dedicated personal staff fully covered by the club.
At 36, that is remarkable deal.
Melaka PRN
Vote for the party that promises that they will block all direct nego contracts in whatever form such as RFP,PPP,PFI,
Concessions ...
Even if it's from Federal , when it involves land ~ the State has the power to block
Now MRT1 and KJL has only enough trains to run 12 to 15 trains per hour respectively
The max capacity is 40 trains per hour for KJLine and 33 trains per hour for MRT1.
Why you say we need MRT3 to solve the congestion ?
Buy more trains is the solution that's good enough for next 15 years
Melaka PRN :
Don't vote for any party that intends to appoint unelected Aduns.
Make that a key election promise ~ no appointment of unelected Aduns.
Some guys brand me as the biggest public transport hater...why?
Is it because I am against MRT3 , Penang LRT and JB e-ART?
If it is for this reason, China is a public transport hater cos they are also against urban rail with less than 7,000 ridership per km
"80% of all entry-level lawyers, consultants and finance professionals will be completely wiped out within the next 1-5 years
The ones who survive won't be the smartest people in the room. They'll be the ones who know how to put AI agents to work"
This is f*cking insane. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, the man who left OpenAI to build Claude:
"80% of all entry-level lawyers, consultants and finance professionals will be completely wiped out within the next 1-5 years
The ones who survive won't be the smartest people in the room. They'll be the ones who know how to put AI agents to work"
In this 47-minute talk, Dario explains exactly who survives and how
Chatbots → Agents → AI Employees → Entire Departments Run By AI
Surviving AI doesn't mean asking a chatbot to rewrite your emails
It means being the person who can plug agents into a company's work and make them run
95% of people will watch AI take their industry, the 5% who build with it will be the ones companies fight over
Worth more than any $3,500 AI career course
Bookmark and watch it today
Then read how to plug one agent into Claude Code, Cursor and Codex in the article below ↓
Why do we lump all SMEs together?
A corner shop with 2 staff = SME.
A RM50m factory with 200 workers = also SME.
Medium enterprises are only 1.6% of SMEs.
When we say "SMEs are 97% of businesses," most of that is micro.
One-size-fits-all policy? Makes no sense.
Ditch rigid vendor mega-tenders for an insulated skunkworks: 50 in-house engineers, auditors & legal minds building sovereign open-weight models on bare-metal hardware, validated by live administrative stress tests in 180 days.
GovMesh AI App.
I read a comment on @thread on this KJL & MRT1.
The guy is blaming the delay by PH in building MRT3 for the congestion
Another guy thinks the only solution is extending KJL platforms to accommodate 6 cars ~indirectly blaming LGE for truncating LRT3 platforms
It's all politics.
kosmo.com.my/2023/03/29/jho-…
Have SPRM investigated this funds flow thru Kuwait?
If you believe Sarawak Report ~ it's linked to ECRL contract.
So many unknowns.
