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🇵🇰 Pakistan gets 99% of its LNG from Qatar. Fertilizer plants are shutting across the country because they can’t get feedgas from their suppliers Industries are warning of higher input costs from gas and oil

SSD exec claims "the days of cheap 1TB SSDs" are over, confirms supply already sold out until 2027 The company has confirmed that its 2026 production is fully sold out, with rising costs expected to continue through at least 2027.

“Bhai, blaming the govt for the UGC equity regulations is wrong.” “Why?” “These are Supreme Court guidelines. What can the govt do? It has to frame the regulations within that framework.” “Hmm… but speaking of Supreme Court guidelines, in 2019 the Supreme Court said there should be no automatic arrest, a preliminary inquiry, and provision for anticipatory bail to prevent misuse of the SC/ST Act. Those were Supreme Court guidelines too. Why didn’t the govt quietly implement them then? Why did it bring a resolution against them?” “Hehe… listen, you sound like a deep-state agent to me.” “Fine, forget the guidelines. Not only were they ignored, the SC/ST Act was made even more stringent and harassing, and on top of that, credit was loudly claimed for adding 10–20 more provisions.” “Soros se mota paisa aaya hai lagta tujhe. Nahi baat karni mujhe tujhse. Gaddar. Deshdrohi. Chala ja yahan se.”

>be late 1920s >russians just finished civil war, country is literally in ashes >mostly peasants with pitchforks, industry smaller than belgium >stalin wins power struggle >decides another war is coming, we must industrialize fast >announces first five year plan(1928) >forces rapid heavy industry buildup >gulag labor + shock work + stakhanovites breaking records >bvilds magnitogorsk steel city in the middle of nowhere in a few years >by early 1930s pumping out thousands of tanks & aircraft per year >most are crude or copied foreign designs at first >but who cares, quantity has a quality of its own >second five year plan >more tanks, more planes, more artillery >why import when we can steal blueprints & reverse engineer >buys foreign licenses, copies designs >late 1930s modern designs finally appear >t-34s & kv-1s enter production shortly before war >purges happen >execute more saboteurs to motivate the rest >1941, Germans attacked & launched operation Barbarossa >tens of thousands of tanks & aircraft wiped out in months >factories evacuated beyond the urals after invasion >women & kids working 12 hr shifts in freezing halls, lack of rations & almost starvation >still manage to outproduce the entire Axis by 1943 >post war phase >bvilds nuclear program using stolen Manhattan Project secrets >churn out ICBMs, MiGs, submarines like cookies >defense industry gets first pick of everything >best steel, best engineers, best funding >whole economy basically exists to feed military industrial complex >by 1980s spending about 15-25% of GDP on defense >eventually ends up bvilding a war machine that can glass the planet multiple times >military industrial complex so goated that its still helping russia outproduce NATO in ukraine war

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At 8% growth, India will be a World Bank high-income country around 2040 -- just 15 years from now. If India grows 5.5% faster than the U.S., it'll reach half of America's per capita GDP by mid-century. India is developing faster than people realize.