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"The rule is: Use "BUT" as a logical operator, not to seek protection from consequences of your opinion." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When I was growing up, every performance by an Indian cricketer was celebrated by one and all. But now, cheap troll armies who call themselves “fans” find happiness in disgracing their own countrymen. These Chintus don’t even know the basics of cricket but they disgrace every…
This gentleman looks a bit naive here. The FBI has been corrupt since the original Secret Service staff turned it over to Hoover in 1924 (before there was an F in FBI).
During my tenure here as the Deputy Director of the FBI, I have repeatedly relayed to you that things are happening that might not be immediately visible, but they are happening. The Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization…
Praveen Chithravel bags India's first medal in #Athletics at the #WorldUniversityGames2025 in Germany. Praveen, who is a TOPS development athlete, claimed🥈in Men's #TripleJump with a best jump of 16.66 metres. Top effort @praveenkrishna_tjump 👏 #UniversityGames |…
STEM folks can study literature & arts. Intact from among my seniors in NIT Trichy - two became writers Sidin and Siddharth Tripathi. @kansaratva became satire writer. One batchmate and one junior became painters. Now let’s hear about your Humanities folks who topped in Maths…
i hate the fact that math and science smart students are considered smarter than english and history smart students
🇨🇳 Deflation Outlawed in China (Yes, it's true) patreon.com/posts/13497553…
Look at his arrogance even after losing his made-up theory. He is not even a historian but telling us what is a civilization?!? Historians know what is history, civilization, and culture. We don’t need lectures from Genetics experts who had the reputation of promoting made-up…
#NoAryans 1st group of colonial historians theory: invaders; 2nd colonialist theory: migrants; 3rd colonialist theory by their Harvard guru: they came later, we don’t know when, very small numbers. I know of a later tourist, his name is Babar (satire alert)
Phone books didn’t come with a pic of you, real-time location, interests, vulnerabilities, or relationship graph. They didn’t update every second. They didn’t feed data brokers, train AI, or build behavioral profiles. Don’t confuse a static directory with a surveillance dragnet.
Journobrain has harmful impacts on adults
“YouTube can potentially have harmful impacts on children” The #ABCInsiders panel: Samantha Maiden, Paul Sakkal and Shalailah Medhora discuss whether the government should ban YouTube. #auspol
Strabo in his 'Geographica' mentions about the bodyguards of Chandragupta: "The care of the king's person is entrusted to women.....When he goes to hunt, it is in kind of Bacchic procession, surrounded by women who form a circle. Some of the women are in chariots, some on…
"The palace is open to all comers, even when the king is having his hair combed & dressed. It is then that he gives audience to ambassadors& administers justice to his subjects." -- Megasthenes in 'Indica'
Chandragupta would hardly get time for himself, or his family, following this kind of time-table. Dandin in 'Dasakumara-charita', sneers at Kautilya for telling the kings to follow the time-table, as this would "make royalty unbearable."
The Arthashastra of Kautilya gives an eloquent exhortation to the king; "For a king, his religious vow (vrata) is constant activity in the cause of his people (Utthanam); his religious ceremony is the work of administration; his highest charity (Dakshina) is equality of…
A touch of unauthorized editing to better reflect reality.
Overheard: Now with this lulu trying to broker ceasefire, expect thai-combo fight continuing for months.
Around 2000, there was a technological and cultural sweet spot in movie making. The romanticism of the 19th-20thC was still taken seriously and CGI was well/developed but not yet completely depended upon.
how amazing it must have been seeing this scene for the first time in theaters
Volumes are ordered after structure is standardized. Now the army knows - A number of Divyastra batteries, B number of certain drone type, so total order is AxB.
Indian Army tweaks its ORBAT and Table of Organization & Equipment (TO&E) to keep sync with changing battlefield - (1) Rudra - Combined All Arms Brigade/IBG (Armor, Mech Infantry, Infantry, SF, Artillery, UAVs, Combat Support and Logistics) - Sanctioned. (2) Bhairav - Light…
“trust the salesman” hits a little different than “trust the science”
Bill Gates says he is a salesman for GAVI the Vaccine Alliance. “I’m a salesman for GAVI, they have given me a 9 billion dollar quota.”