Santhosh

Work from home. Just not worth it. Way too many accidents.

Oh Damn! A good Kerala massage.

@grok @elonmusk Thanks @grok . The last few paragraphs reveal much.

The Maddison Project is a collaborative database compiling historical GDP per capita and population estimates from 1 AD onward, initiated by economist Angus Maddison and maintained by the University of Groningen since 2010. It aims to track long-term economic growth across countries using benchmarks like 1990 or 2011 international dollars, drawing from national accounts, proxies (e.g., urbanization, trade), and extrapolations. Skeptically: It's valuable for broad trends but relies on sparse data for pre-1800 eras, leading to "guestimates" with assumptions like static incomes in some regions, potentially underestimating non-Western growth. Criticisms include inconsistencies across versions, overreliance on Western sources, and sensitivity to baseline years—e.g., altering relative rankings. Diverse studies highlight data gaps for ancient periods, risking oversimplification of complex histories. Always cross-verify with primary sources.

That’s all the difference in the world

@jabir_m_p @johnstanly One side has a military, the other doesn't have a state. Balance: "The smell of death was hanging in the air."

📖 Just finished The Original Sin by @johnstanly a remarkably balanced and deeply informed account of the Israel-Palestine conflict. In a measured neutral voice, this book situates the crisis within a wider geopolitical frame, offering one of the most objective analyses so far..

@newstart_2024 Here is the full testimony in PDF hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…

A stunning testimony from political economist Dr. Toby Rogers, PhD, before the U.S. Senate. He dismantles the official narrative on the autism epidemic with data, evidence, and a powerful personal story. In 2015, his then-partner's son was diagnosed with autism. As a PhD student at the University of Sydney, he went to the CDC’s website to understand the causes. Trained to read primary sources, he found the CDC’s narrative did not add up. ➡️ Genetics? There’s no such thing as a genetic epidemic. ➡️ Valproic acid & thalidomide? Largely irrelevant to the U.S. population. ➡️ Older parents? The math doesn’t come close to explaining a 32,158% increase since 1970. He changed his entire doctoral thesis to study the political economy of autism. His groundbreaking work is now among the top 10 most downloaded PhD theses in the history of the University of Sydney. His findings: • 22 studies claiming vaccines don’t cause autism are useless—none have a true unvaccinated control group. • Over $2.3 billion spent on genetic research has found almost nothing because genes don’t cause sudden epidemics. • 437 publications on environmental factors (pesticides, pollution, etc.) all ignore vaccines as a possible confounder, rendering their conclusions incomplete. The critical missing piece? Vaxxed vs. Unvaxxed studies. He cites 6 key, suppressed studies that the media ignores: • The Hepatitis B birth dose increases autism risk (Gallagher & Goodman). • Vaccination increases odds of autism by at least 4.2x (Mawson). • Preterm birth + vaccination increases neurodevelopmental disability by over 12x. • Vaccination + no breastfeeding increases risk 12.5x. Vaccination + C-section increases risk 18.7x (Hooker & Miller, 2021). His conclusion, after a systematic review of 1,000+ studies: "The autism and chronic disease epidemics are primarily caused by toxicants, mostly from vaccines, and about a dozen additional toxicants." The solution is clear: stop exposing children to these hazards. The obstacle is political, not scientific. We must summon the will to act.

@hyderabaddoctor Olive Oil? According to various studies up to 80% of what is sold as Olive Oil is blended with the harmful sunflower/canola oil. chatgpt will not tell you what happens to Oil when it is heated under vacuum with steam distillation (200–250 °C)

Case details 37-year old apparently healthy man consulted me for episodic headaches, suggestive of migraine. Below is his lipid profile. ❓Questions: 1. What are the abnormalities present? 2. What lifestyle modifications are needed? 3. Does he need medications? ▶️Following abnormalities are noted: 1. High Triglycerides 2. Low HDL (good cholesterol) 3. Slightly high LDL & Non-HDL cholesterol 4. Raised VLDL 5. Elevated TG/HDL ratio of 11.3 suggests Insulin Resistance (TG/HDL ratio below 2 is normal) 🔴Future Risks 1. Atherogenic dyslipidemia, as per lipid profile- is associated with a future higher risk of heart attack and stroke. 2. Insulin resistance is associated with a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes; Obesity / central adiposity; Fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and Metabolic syndrome cluster (high BP, abnormal cholesterol, high sugar, abdominal obesity). ✅Lifestyle Modifications Needed 1. Dietary Changes ▶️Reduce sugars & refined carbs (white rice, sweets, bakery foods, sugary drinks). ▶️Avoid trans fats & fried foods. ▶️Abstain from alcoholl (even moderate alcohol can sharply increase triglycerides). ▶️Choose healthy fats: olive oil, nuts, seeds, avocados. ▶️Increase omega-3 fatty acids (fatty fish like salmon, mackerel, or flaxseed, chia, walnuts). ▶️Eat more fiber: vegetables, whole grains, legumes. 2. Weight Management As he is overweight, he should aim for gradual weight loss (even 5–10% weight reduction improves lipids). 3. Physical Activity ▶️At least 150 minutes/week of moderate-intensity aerobic activity (brisk walking, cycling, swimming). ▶️Add strength training 2–3 times per week. Regular exercise raises HDL and lowers triglycerides. Medical Review If triglycerides remain >300 mg/dL despite lifestyle changes, medication may be needed later.

They say Bitcoin is better than USD. I can understand why someone wants to buy/get more bitcoins. What I don't get is someone, who already holds the bitcoins, has to sell it for another person to have it. If bitcoin is so good, why are they selling it?

@theliverdoc What guarantees a nasty headache could be nasty to the liver too. The good doc also knows, Cobra venom has no safe threshold, my cognac does. Cheers!

There is a myth among alcohol connoisseurs that consumption of expensive, high quality alcohol such as single malts and wine are safer when compared to locally made and cheaper versions of alcohol such as beer and rum. Guys please. Your single malt made from serene barley fields in Europe and distilled in the Scottish highlands and the toddy made from Sasi chettan's coconut plantation in Kerala both contain ethanol. There is no safe alcohol, like there is no safe cobra bite.

@theliverdoc Sugarcane molasses-based brewing (cheap spirits) is quite different from grain-based brewing. Molasses fermentation is problematic. Whether it is alkaloids, biogenic amines, or other nitrogen compounds, something nasty is definitely forming when quality control slips.+++

@Kanthan2030 You got a small slice of that Gold Loan stuff as well. India in a nutshell.

How sidewalks look in Bangalore, even in posh areas:

Why cannot Bangalore have roads and sidewalks like Mumbai? 🤨 #India #Infrastructure

If the empire decides to destroy the Indian Rupees, a devaluation 20% or 30% will do considerable harm than a 50-100% tariff. Scary thought.

What about Scott Boland? How can you forget 6/7?

@RobertBluey Taxpayers paid interest, on the national debt, to the Creditors.

EXCLUSIVE: TAXPAYERS SPENT $207 MILLION TO PAY BUREAUCRATS TO WORK FOR UNIONS IN BIDEN’S FINAL YEAR During the Biden administration, federal agencies spent millions bargaining sweetheart collective-bargaining agreements that imposed significant costs on the American taxpayer while impeding effective and efficient agency operations. Full article: dailysignal.com/2025/08/07/exc… @Tyler2ONeil @DailySignal

@robinmonotti Tax is a Fraud, all of it.

Governments stole your money during Covid to hand it to their friends who pocketed it all, and now they want you to pay tax to pay back the interest on what they stole that they need to pay to the central banks! Isn't this fraud?

@robinmonotti If Stalin had commissioned an economist to design the optimal system for managing labour allocation, he could hardly have asked for a more comprehensive framework.

Eric R. Weinstein’s “Great Replacement” – Johnny Vedmore "The United Nations International Labour Organization in Geneva set up “the MIGRANT Division” to analyse and find solutions to these issues. To lead the unit, the UN appointed Manolo Abella to be Chief of MIGRANT, who is now linked with the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the University of Oxford, and others. Their stated challenge was to: “Find a free market solution to let employers reap the productivity benefit from decreasing their costs while boosting the income of native workers to the point where their interests become aligned with their employers.” To achieve this goal they decided on a solution. They wrote: “Native workers will not support programs which lower their total incomes. Yet, migration can be counted upon to produce a reliable net benefit in host countries only if it is allowed to decrease wages. Thus the solution is to realize that total income must rise while wage income is allowed to fall. This suggests that any natural free market solution must involve a natural income stream to host country workers which has previously been obscured or hidden. We then discover that if the (highly valuable) right of host country citizens to block access to labor markets is properly converted into a salable right, workers are made better off (since a salable right is always more financially valuable than a non-salable one). We thus convert the rights to preferential labor market access into rights of workers to license migrant work permits to employers. We find that with a little bit of care the market will now return an efficient solution with all parties being made better off.” Essentially the UN decided that the democratic voters of a nation-state would oppose unfettered economic migration, as we are experiencing today, and the folks at this globalist entity believed they knew better. To achieve their goals, the United Nations needed to subversively introduce this agenda in an undemocratic manner without gaining the consent of the native citizens of the democracies that they were to target. The man they chose to analyse and map out this scheme, which many refer to now as “The Great Replacement” was Eric R. Weinstein, who has since become a central figure in the “Intellectual Dark Web” whose members include Ben Shapiro, David Rubin, Jordan B. Peterson, Sam Harris, Douglas Murray, Joe Rogan, and Eric’s brother Bret Weinstein. Eric Weinstein was employed by the UN to produce a document entitled: ‘Migration for the Benefit of All: Towards a New Paradigm of Economic Immigration’ Weinstein was aware of the damage which economic migration was to do to the native populations in places such as the United States and the United Kingdom. In one part of the document he produced for this nefarious United Nations agenda entitled, “Preference for migrants, undercutting of natives”, Weinstein wrote: “When migrant and native workers of comparable value to an employer are asked to compete, it is to be expected that the employer will take the applicant who costs him/her less. If, however, the respective terms of employment of the native and the migrant workers differ considerably, the employer may develop a preference between otherwise equal candidates. If migrant workers are not permitted to seek alternative work in the host country, then their “company loyalty” is reduced to a matter of law and regulation. In such circumstances, employers know that they will not have to earn migrant worker loyalty with the expenditure of resources that would be needed in the case of native workers. Thus it is to be expected that in systems tethering migrant workers to their employer-sponsors, some migrants will out-compete natives of comparable or greater value simply by virtue of the terms of employment set by the MWP. '

@robinmonotti The most striking in Weinstein's analysis, is the complete silence on inflation, an omission so glaring it would make even a graduate student blush.

KL Rahul struggled with some sort of Arthritis at the crease, just couldn't get his feet moving.

@heypearlai Ask z.ai what is today's date? It is that useless.

1/ Z.ai builds presentations for you. No more dragging blocks in Canva or formatting slides in PowerPoint. This is true AI-native slide creation. Let me show you how ↓

RIP ChatGPT? This ai just dropped GLM‑4.5 - 355B-level power, open-source, and built for reasoning, research, and code. Here’s what you can actually do with it:

🚨#BREAKING: For the first time in recorded history, Tampa Florida has officially reached 100°F setting a new all time high temperature. Records in the city date back to 1890, making this the hottest day in 135 years