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@pankajjha_ Till the time one publishes their articles before the elections with headers like “why BJP will win this election” or “who is Sunil Bansal who can land BJP first ever Bengal victory”, these are just finding points to support their narrative.

बंगाल में BJP की जीत कैसे हुई ! निखिल ने इसे बहुत महीन तरीके से बताया है.. ख़ास तौर से उस पहलू को जब संगठन बस नाम के लिए था

@raunakmahajan I think with our deep frying cooking methods the filters will clog so fast and severely that there will be no recovery. Plus the super hot kitchen will consume more electricity than a normal scenario.

Curious - Why do Indian kitchens not have ACs? Have you ever seen one? Yesterday I saw my cook struggling in the heat. Turning on the fan disturbs the stove flame. That's when I wondered why I had never put an AC in the kitchen.

@Ratioxdelratiox Well!

I like this

@OrevaZSN Just needs a small setting change and files will always open in app

Microsoft Teams, I will never want to open an Excel document in a browser. Never. Never ever.

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

@effthealgorithm 😂😭

@Khurpenchinfra @GauriSarin I don’t throw it outside because our society hires a private contractor collects from our home, but then where will that contractor dispose the garbage, it’s not that hard to figure out. The system is broken and it’s rightly being blamed. The citizens aren’t saint either.

@Khurpenchinfra @GauriSarin I don’t know how to say this without sounding like I am justifying this uncivilised behaviour, but what are people’s alternative in absence of a regular garbage collection system and no option disposal by self anywhere in the city?

Stop blaming the system for what your habits create. 🤡

@OversLife Don’t know how well would he have done had he been quicker, but he was a beast in those India Pak toranto matches. He was more lethal than Mohanty, Harvinder etc.

When Ganguly outfoxed Michael Bevan… Wait for the replay 👀 No wonder Dravid once said… if Dada had been a yard quicker, he’d have been a genuine match-winner with the ball too.

@baldwhiner Can’t be real! Nobody in this profession would be that dumb

my math skills be better than this.

@sidin Still better .. as a kid, I washed our first table fan with a wet ponchha 😭

I once won it in a all-UAE quiz contest. And then my little sister picked up a tin of talcum powder (Yardley) and then filled every a slot and opening with powder.

@ManiWithTheMic Irony is that each incident has been a real warning for us and It’s almost never has been a firefighters’ incompetence. It’s always due to corruption, encroachment, rules evasion and chalta hai attitude. People will forget it till thr next incident happens again.

Gaur Green Avenue fire in Ghaziabad is a real warning for all of us. If a fire starts high up, help can’t reach you fast. Fire trucks can’t climb that high. We’re left on our own. With this heat, ACs running full blast and heavy electrical load, one short circuit can change everything in minutes. Most of us haven’t even checked if our building’s sprinklers actually work, if exits are clear or if the water tanks are full. Keep fire extinguishers at home. Please check your building today.

@VishalBhargava5 Another silent pandemic is in place for decades, where the orphans in our country have almost 0 chance to get a home ever, because we prefer to spend years on IVF and surrogacy but need our own DNA in kids. No foster care system either. Now ppl don’t even want kids.

A silent pandemic is underway in Indian cities. Far too many couples are opting to not have kids at all. It is the wrong decision. Most will regret it.

@WaizuWolf @joybhattacharj Just one metro station’s name change would cost 6 crore, but we change name of complete cities every now and then…scary to imagine the cost of it. Also, a genuine problem cannot be addressed due to funds requirements, but politics can drive needless changes every 5 years.

@joybhattacharj Here's an old issue around the name of Arjan Garh metro station :) indiatoday.in/india/north/st…

The MG Road in Gurgaon is not Mahatma Gandhi Road, as it is in any other Indian city, it is an abbreviation of Mehrauli Gurgaon Road. And the yellow line into Gurgaon has consecutive stations named after three legendary warriors - Arjangarh, Dronacharya, and Sikanderpur(from Alexander).

@CricketopiaCom No need to do any age test, he proves in every interaction that he’s still a kid 😊

Q: Bat mei AI chip hai kya tumhare? (Is there an AI chip in your bat)? Sooryavanshi - “Bhagwan ne laga kar diya hai, upar hi bola ki bat mei tumhare kuch laga kar de raha hu, ussi ka istemal kar raha hu. (God already put it there - I’m just using it).” x.com/rajasthanroyal…

@GanKanchi @ShreerajT Only on the internet, if somebody share their life story or personal experience, you see people in comment saying “I differ with your view” .. Arey bhai insan jo jaisa feel kar raha hai, wo uska apna hai. Ab wo bhi kya tumhare hisab se karega. 💁🏽‍♂️

Confessions and realities 42M, 55LPA I am a 42-year-old man with a senior job in IT. I have a house in Chennai, a supportive wife, and two children. On paper, everything about my life looks perfect. I have achieved all the things society says a man should achieve. In my twenties, life felt different. I had friends to spend time with. We would hang out at Marina Beach and Besant Nagar beach, watch movies at Rohini, Udayam, and Kasi theatres, and ride around Mount Road on my RX100. In my thirties, I had colleagues to talk with over tea breaks. We would discuss apartments, onsite trips, and share random stories about life and work. But now, in my forties, life has turned into a quiet routine. My phone rarely rings for anything personal. Most calls are about office work, bank alerts, or someone from home asking me to pick up milk on the way back. The loneliness of a man in his forties is unusual. I am not physically alone, but I often feel like a machine. When I enter my home, I am simply “Appa.” I am the person who pays school fees, fixes the Wi-Fi, and handles repairs. My wife is busy with her work and the kids. My children are teenagers now, living in their own worlds and their own rooms. They love me, but they mostly see me as the person who provides comfort and stability. They no longer see me as an individual. At the office, I am the senior person. I am expected to have all the answers. I cannot tell my team that I feel tired. I cannot tell my boss that I sometimes struggle to keep up with new technologies. I must appear confident and strong, even when I quietly worry about the future. Sometimes I drive home slowly from work just to spend a few extra minutes in the car. I listen to songs from my college days. For those fifteen minutes, I am not a manager or a father. I am simply myself again. I realize that I have not had a real conversation about my feelings with anyone in years. My old friends now exist mostly as names on WhatsApp. We send “Happy Birthday” or “Congratulations” messages, but rarely talk. When we meet at weddings, our conversations revolve around our children’s grades or the cars we drive. We never talk about what we actually feel. The hardest part is that I cannot even complain. If I tell my family that I feel lonely, they look confused and say, “But we are all here with you.” They do not understand that a person can be surrounded by people and still feel like they are on a desert island. Society teaches men that if they provide money and security, they have succeeded in life. But no one teaches us how to deal with the silence that comes with it. I have built a beautiful life for everyone around me, but sometimes it feels like there is no space left for me inside it. And maybe… this is what life in your forties feels like.

@mr_sameer18 @FI_InvestIndia

@FI_InvestIndia Every building has its own fire fighting equipment’s. Society’s don’t maintain them, why to blaim governments.

Why is the Government allowing more than 8 floor apartments when the fire brigade is clearly struggling to reach higher floors in an emergency? That family pays EMI & TAX. Somewhere Government should solve basic issues 🙏 #FI

@nihalnova @Rainmatterin @Nithin0dha I loved that it doesn’t ask for mobile number for registration. Simple location based results. 🙌

Just launched “Good Air” for India. An app that shows you the AQI around you in real time. Now live on iOS. Thanks to @Rainmatterin and @Nithin0dha for providing an open platform OAQ that inspired and enabled us to create Good Air.

@vivekshukla Absurd take!

People throw Mokobara brand name as if they are Tumi or Rimowa! Bro, it’s a cheap contract manufactured Chinese white labeled luggage. A Safari is a better option to be honest. Made in India and genuinely for India.

@NoFilterSkin Biology is amazing!

There’s a hormone called ADH (antidiuretic hormone) that your body releases at night to slow down urine production so your bladder doesn’t fill up too quickly while you’re asleep. That’s the reason you’re able to go hours without needing to pee. But if that hormone level isn’t high enough, or you drink a lot of fluids late, your kidneys keep producing more urine than your bladder can comfortably hold. Once your bladder fills and stretches to its limit, it sends a signal to your brain that it needs to be emptied. Sleep doesn’t block that signal. Your brain moves through lighter and deeper stages, and during the lighter ones, that urge becomes strong enough to wake you up. Bedwetting happens when this system doesn’t fully line up. In many kids, the body may not release enough ADH at night, so they produce more urine than their bladder can hold. At the same time, the signal from the bladder might not be strong enough to wake the brain in time, especially if they’re deep sleepers. A smaller bladder capacity can also make it harder to hold urine through the night. In teens or adults, bedwetting is less common, but when it happens, it’s usually linked to factors like stress, disrupted sleep patterns, certain medical conditions or anything that increases urine production at night. It’s not spiritual, it’s about how the body is regulating hormones, bladder capacity and brain signals during sleep. I hope you've gotten your answer.