On many Japanese toilets, the hand wash sink is attached so that you can wash your hands and reuse the water for the next flush. Japan saves millions of liters of water every year doing this. https://t.co/OBHAx7EyQn
— Fascinating (@fasc1nate) Feb 28, 2023
🚆Haven't really understood why Rlys are preparing to float a tender for 35 Hydrogen Trains at an estimated cost of Rs 80 crores per train. After all, 100% of tracks are set to be electrified....and precious renewable energy is used to produce Hydrogen. Somebody please explain
— Vinayak Chatterjee (@Infra_VinayakCh) Feb 26, 2023
Undoubtedly, this can be corrigendum of the year?! Tucked in the bottom corner of page 5 of India’s top daily Times of India, Delhi Police says sorry for using “phat gayi” instead of “phat gaya”. Don’t miss the original ad in the next tweet, thanks to e-paper. https://t.co/enF1rj4qs0
— Aditya Kalra (@adityakalra) Feb 25, 2023
Thread: The fees of IIM(A) have risen from 4 lacs in 2007 to 27 lacs today, a 575% increase in 15 years. The Income tax inflation index growth for the same period is 146%. IIMs have singularly led higher education to become expensive & unaffordable. Let me explain:
— Maheshwer Peri (@maheshperi) Feb 24, 2023
Pic 1 : Padmini. Pic 2 : Padmini. Pic 3 : Pad mini. Pic 4 : iPad Mini. https://t.co/EbiDhwikuN
— Vaidehi Murthy (@ButVai) Feb 24, 2023
It’s legitimately scary how good phishing and banking scams have become. Just 15 minutes ago I got this text and the link led to this VERY CONVINCING landing page. Here’s how you can spot a scam: https://t.co/xLB12n646L
— Lavanya Mohan (@lavsmohan) Feb 23, 2023
the fact that anyone who watches the show knows exactly which episode this is 😭 i remember having to close my laptop and call out of class the day i first watched https://t.co/Fqo496QYkd
— 5hahem aka Dr. Durag (@shaTIRED) Feb 23, 2023
https://t.co/ue9fwu1jnV
— Amazing Astronomy (@MAstronomers) Feb 22, 2023
Beyond Chernobyl, Fukushima, & Three Mile Island, there were 'smaller' incidents that hurt confidence in nuclear power. E.g., corrosion in the reactor head at David-Besse in 2002. Made the NRC go to Congress w/ tail between legs to explain how inspections missed it. https://t.co/IMgEN6INIX
— nvo (@nickvanosdol) Feb 22, 2023
@NagpalManoj Tea Liquor describes the liquid yield achieved through the brewing process of dry/processed tea leaves.
— np (@NevillePoncha) Feb 22, 2023
@Akshat_World Imagine not getting a chance to be in playing XI even after consistently performing & watching someone keep non - performing and yet getting so many opportunities Nothing wrong in taking a break & play domestic or county to get back in form .
— Bitcoingem (@bitcoingem2) Feb 22, 2023
You don't do well by trying to be right; it is impossible for humans. You do well by figuring out when you're wrong faster than others do.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) Feb 20, 2023
One of my favorite stories in the Mahabharata is that of King Raivata and his daughter Revati, who time travelled inadvertently from Satya Yuga to Dwapara Yuga by visiting Brahmaloka and listening to a musical performance by Gandharvas. https://t.co/aAXvjG7pPo
— avataram (@avataram) Feb 20, 2023
This 1992 prediction from media theorist Neil Postman on the dark side of our "convenient" technologies hits very hard. https://t.co/2JoYJJj6jH
— Benjamin Carlson (@bfcarlson) Feb 20, 2023
Note to nearly everyone They aren’t going to refill it The money was moved from DOE, 140mil barrels swapped from future mandatory sales, the $ isn’t available to refill, Congress took it. https://t.co/HcRMKaBk5A
— O&G OG (@EnergyCredit1) Feb 20, 2023
@BahlKanan India GDP grew by just 0.001% from 1900 to 1950. What could have been inflation numbers? The world has lived through lower inflation for most part of history! 4% inflation numbers are completely outliers!
— vijaimantri (@vijaimantrimf) Feb 20, 2023
gwern's comment provides some wonderful reasoning (as expected) for why this may have happened, which is worth reading in full as well: https://t.co/HsqbM8mwXE https://t.co/b3RPJCLcTY
— nearcyan (@nearcyan) Feb 19, 2023
The Lost History of Indian Sci-Fi These photos, posters, and schematics were recovered from Vyoma Talkies, a long-defunct film studio in Bengaluru, located not very far from the Indian Institute of Science https://t.co/IwzMhLANr7
— Prateek Arora (@ekpraet) Feb 19, 2023
Yesterday #Forest Guard Shri Sundaresh laid his life on duty. He was dousing the forest fire in Western Ghats of Karnataka and got serious injury. #GreenSoldier 🙏🏼🙏🏼 https://t.co/BzjztBQnfx
— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) Feb 19, 2023
This day two years ago. Watch the last minute of @NASAPersevere's descent to the surface of Mars. https://t.co/C8c1uv47Ak
— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) Feb 18, 2023
And the torrid run continues. More to do with rigidity of the management to persist with a player who just hasn’t looked the part. No top order batsman in atleast last 20 years of Indian cricket has played these many tests with such a low average. His inclusion is …. https://t.co/WLe720nYNJ
— Venkatesh Prasad (@venkateshprasad) Feb 18, 2023
Soros hasn't got this much coverage after the late 90s man I swear. Everyone has opinions, not sure why people care this much.
— Deepak Shenoy (@deepakshenoy) Feb 18, 2023
Maybe she was associated with Soros’ Open Society initiative, but given her qualifications, they would be happy to have her on board, not the other way around. I don’t see any nepotism here as people seem to be alleging.
— avataram (@avataram) Feb 17, 2023
And this happens 😅😅 Why forecasting ends up being futile in situations with too many moving parts like weather, alternate sources, suppliers etc etc https://t.co/QiKjVHy9zo
— Intrinsic Compounding (@soicfinance) Feb 17, 2023
Shah Jahan its first historically confirmed owner. Then on, changed at least a dozen hands before finally landing on the British crown. Here’s how each of those owners fared: Shah Jahan: - Wore it on his throne - Died as son’s captive
— Amit Schandillia (@Schandillia) Feb 16, 2023
So much for the moat. Musk has been promising this for many years, yet he didn't do it until... wait for it... he got SUBSIDIES! $TSLA $TSLAQ https://t.co/JuKi4kgL5v
— fly4dat (@fly4dat) Feb 15, 2023
ADNOC and RWE Aktiengesellschaft (RWE) announced today the successful delivery of the first shipment of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the Elbehafen floating LNG terminal in Brunsbüttel, Germany. #OOTT #LNG #AbuDhabi
— Amena Bakr (@Amena__Bakr) Feb 15, 2023
Elon's cousin James Musk held an emergency, "high urgency" meeting at Twitter after the Super Bowl because Elon's tweets performed worse than Joe Biden's. Then Twitter had engineers rush to change Twitter's algorithm to ensure Elon received "previously unheard-of promotion." https://t.co/mitR2fYTXC
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) Feb 15, 2023
Who said that miracles don't exist? https://t.co/TCbIwoFWY1
— captured by CCTV (@CapturedCctv) Feb 13, 2023
Workers at the Chrysler building, 1929 https://t.co/f06fUydAAA
— Weird world (@Weirdndterrible) Feb 13, 2023
Teenagers try to operate a strange, ancient contraption https://t.co/pLbGd297aP
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) Feb 12, 2023
There's a deleted scene from #StarTrek Nemesis where Geordi is cleaning out Data's room after his death and finds the emotion chip, revealing that Data's final sacrifice to save Picard was an act of actual unassisted emotional sentience. Who on earth signed off on deleting that?
— Daniel Orrett (The Sojourn) (@KeepersDan) Feb 12, 2023
Stepped out of the motel room for my usual pre dawn stargazing. A young couple were out there smoking. We did polite nods and I started checking out the sky. After a couple of minutes, the woman "Are you looking at the green comet?" Me: No, that's set & too dim now. /1
— Gaurav Sabnis (@gauravsabnis) Feb 12, 2023
"The only definition of Alpha male: if you have to talk about it, you'll never be one." [Bed of Procrustes] https://t.co/ocABu7T66U
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) Feb 11, 2023
Processor flags indicate if values are zero, negative, overflowed, and so forth. Flags are critical for loops and conditional statements. But how are they implemented? I took a close look at the silicon of the Intel 8086 processor (1978) to find out. https://t.co/RsRQ4I90Ux
— Ken Shirriff (@kenshirriff) Feb 11, 2023
Much about what people call "forensic" accounting is very basic and often is both gamed (companies that pass are still frauds) and also has false negatives (good companies have such accounts) Narratives abound, but everything has shades of gray. Beware, as an investor.
— Deepak Shenoy (@deepakshenoy) Feb 11, 2023
Yesterday you asked what happened to the talent from IIT ? Today I will post some stories Many left India. But some brilliant people stayed back Tried to build. Failed. Entrepreneurship is hard It looks easy but read some heartbreaking stories and you will change your mind
— sphinx (@protosphinx) Feb 11, 2023
not andrew ross sorkin asking if being a cult leader is a good thing or a bad thing https://t.co/K22mhmQdSQ
— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) Feb 10, 2023
Ice Mountains of Pluto as seen from New Horizon spacecraft. https://t.co/XaPDQQMnRA
— Amazing Astronomy (@MAstronomers) Feb 10, 2023
Naukri decides that the value of the Rahul Yadav startup (4B networks) that it bought, and where it put in 276 cr. is worth zero. "Excessive cash burn", no money and can't raise, so worth zero. https://t.co/6778XdjHo0
— Deepak Shenoy (@deepakshenoy) Feb 10, 2023
Except Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammad Siraj, 7 of the 9 specialist bowlers across both teams in this Test have taken a five-wicket haul in their first Test #IndvAus
— Bharat Sundaresan (@beastieboy07) Feb 10, 2023
This is HUGE!! ASI’s Keeladi report pushes the Sangam age further back to 800 BC - 300 years before the birth of Buddha. These recent findings from Keezhadi, a small village in the Sivagangai district of Tamil Nadu, can potentially change Asian and Indian history. https://t.co/vxK4QsdykE
— Advaid അദ്വൈത് (@Advaidism) Feb 10, 2023
i feel bad for this poor fired Twitter engineer but on the whole this story is so funny https://t.co/FhKNufNS6n https://t.co/NTwF9zfz14
— Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) Feb 9, 2023
clearly visible fault rupture from the #Turkey #earthquake #deprem near #Nurdagi Should be about 3-4m of horizontal displacement image from google-earth and maxar https://t.co/DXukm3eWdN
— Andreas Schäfer (@DrAndreasS) Feb 9, 2023
One of the most succinct summaries of the Elon Musk persona. https://t.co/YJXWFsiL2s
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) Feb 9, 2023
Incredible: A Solar eclipse on Mars caused by Phobos, captured by NASA Perseverance Mars Rover! Credit: NASA/JPL https://t.co/A28aO210lz
— Amazing Astronomy (@MAstronomers) Feb 8, 2023
lmao twitter turned off API access and didn't realize that first-party tweets were connected to the same API
— brain gulag prisoner (@revhowardarson) Feb 8, 2023
Yo as per Elon musk Indians have a higher purchase power than Americans. Congratulations India https://t.co/ggy15iX1wL
— Madhur Chadha 🔥🐀 mastodon.online/@madhur (@madhurchadha) Feb 8, 2023
The best shot in the history of golf https://t.co/AKuraYJALL
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) Feb 8, 2023
This is a running thread of satellite imagery showing the destruction seen in Turkey and Syria in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes. #turkeyearthquake2023 👇🧵 https://t.co/EXPlRe5aO5
— Benjamin Strick (@BenDoBrown) Feb 8, 2023
The large earthquakes in Central Turkey have caused a significant change in stress distribution throughout the region, with seismic activity down to Palestine as a result. Clearly, the region is resettling. https://t.co/KZ9LzjAm6c
— Frank Hoogerbeets (@hogrbe) Feb 8, 2023
The guy looks like he was trained to be Neo in real life. https://t.co/3y3bhugGVQ
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) Feb 7, 2023
https://t.co/r2v588qX3Y
— Mad Men Quotes (@MadMenQts) Feb 7, 2023
Fake quote. Not said by me, https://t.co/TzaZq158aJ
— Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) Feb 7, 2023
@anasalhajji He makes hundreds of predictions that never occur. When you keep blindly claiming a big quake will occur in areas known to have big quakes, then you will occasionally get ‘lucky’ - and then he hopes everyone will just ignore the >99% of failed predictions.
— Mark Tingay (@CriticalStress_) Feb 7, 2023
Following the M7.8 EQ, a M7.5 aftershock struck at ~1:30 pm local time. Significant and widespread damage is likely. More aftershocks will occur. Follow @Kandilli_info for local information. https://t.co/KLLmXlfS70 https://t.co/8wyrVPRJ9J https://t.co/Kh825PfB11
— USGS Earthquakes (@USGS_Quakes) Feb 6, 2023
Today's M7.8 earthquake in Turkey occurred near the intersection of the East Anatolian Fault zone and the Dead Sea Fault system. This is a complex region where several tectonic plates interact. Figures from Haddad et al. (2020) and Kyle Bradley. #earthquaketurkey https://t.co/i75UnHwQ6b
— João C. Duarte (@JoaoCDuarte) Feb 6, 2023
@promila_agarwal Wait till you find out what happens if you had bought Coffee Day stock every day.
— Deepak Shenoy (@deepakshenoy) Feb 6, 2023
ALERT 🚨 Apocalyptic scenes, thousands feared dead as massive earthquake hits #Turkey https://t.co/FQOVMdBixY
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) Feb 6, 2023
The India Rising story posits that the next decade will see India displace China as the growth engine of the world. That may or may not be true, but the Hindenburg short selling thesis on the Adani Group tests the weakest links in the India story. https://t.co/X9ZsWUouQw
— Aswath Damodaran (@AswathDamodaran) Feb 5, 2023
A Japanese house constructed without any nails over 100 years ago https://t.co/9Q89zscU4C
— History Defined (@historydefined) Feb 5, 2023
@rohansaraf_ofc It was just an observation but if i did have to make a stance, easy and available transportation where vehicles aren't coming the wrong way ever so frequently would definitely be one of the aspects of better living🥲
— Ishaan Ahluwalia (@IshAhluwalia) Feb 5, 2023
Wow! A once in a lifetime photo! This incredible image of a meteor was captured by Jonathan Eggleston in West Virginia, USA, during the recent lunar eclipse. https://t.co/aw8OeXwmck
— Amazing Astronomy (@MAstronomers) Feb 4, 2023
BCCI official (in PTI) said "India not going to Pakistan, Asia Cup will have to be shifted, A tournament without Kohli, Rohit, Gill will have the sponsors back out".
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) Feb 4, 2023
Patriotism is a terrible reason to invest or rationalize an investment. Always be wary and cynical.
— Deepak Shenoy (@deepakshenoy) Feb 4, 2023
Those smiles still make me go weak at my knees https://t.co/BeWC3HF4gE
— Trinanjan Chakraborty (@TrinanjanChakr4) Feb 3, 2023
10-15% position down by 50-60% and news channel rushing to put breaking news on how fund manager is coping with the rout Yahan hamare Wale fund manager ne 40% position ka 50-60% down dekh liya or AGM bhi kar dali ;)
— Crazynaval (@Crazynaval) Feb 3, 2023
Once in a lifetime shot. A brilliant green meteor lights up the sky over Southern India. Credit: Prasenjeet Yadav https://t.co/d2sOPgDBLr
— Amazing Astronomy (@MAstronomers) Feb 3, 2023
Adani Enterprises, Adani Port & Ambuja Cement under ASM framework in NSE 0 leverage & full margin requirement even for intraday When was the last time you remember seeing an index stock in ASM?
— Kirtan A Shah (@KirtanShahCFP) Feb 2, 2023
There was no allocation in Union Budget for HDFC Bank to improve its web & mobile apps. Will have to wait for another year now.
— pj (@BeingPractical) Feb 2, 2023
As soon as the budget speech is over, immediately say "Between our aspirations of becoming an economic superpower and actual ground realities, this budget plays safe and caters to both aspects". People will immediately assume you have seen the whole speech.
— The Kaipullai (@thekaipullai) Feb 1, 2023
