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Cool roofs for a cooler home chatgpt.com/s/m_69f4657e53…. Try this economical two-coat, cool-white-roof recipe: First coat: 10 kg white cement : 2 L SBR : 10 L water Second coat: 10 kg slaked lime : 1 kg white cement : 1–2 L SBR : 10 L water. This should cover roughly 15–20 m².

@SurajKrBauddh Never ever buy consumer goods on EMI. If you can't pay the whole amount, you should find ways to earn & save more. If you are unable to earn or save more, those goods are not for you.

"Bajaj Insurance Scam." A youth purchased a phone with insurance. He paid the premium and continued paying EMIs. When he lost his phone, the insurance company refused to cover theft and loss. Almost every insurance company harasses its customers when it comes to coverage.

@AmericaPapaBear Protect the mother and condemn the violence. But, calling a 12-year-old kid evil or treating obesity as a character defect is wrong. Obesity is a disease, and compulsive eating likely reflects disordered neurobiology and behaviour. This child needs urgent medical intervention.

🚨MUST SEE: Shocking footage shows a MORBIDLY OBESE 12-year-old boy attacking and beating on his MOTHER for refusing to give him more food. This is a HUGE issue in America these days. Not only are people and children WAY too fat and unhealthy, but it creates mental health issues.

@JoshiPralhad Induction stoves are most efficient and nothing can beat it. Period. Let's use this crisis to shift to that method and generate enough electricity from solar panels and other renewable resources. It is not like Indian cooking can only be done on a flame.

Yesterday, an Indian company demonstrated an imported stove that uses electricity to generate flame-like burners, similar to LPG, for cooking. I was truly impressed by this innovative technology and would like to see Indian manufacturers adopt and scale it domestically. When combined with @PMSuryaGhar, which enables electricity generation through solar power, this innovation could be a game changer in reducing dependence on LPG.

@JoshiPralhad What is the mechanism or technology behind the electric stove with flame? Someone, said electrolysis of water and then combustion of hydrogen! In that case, it will be quite inefficient, because of roundabout , multi-step energy transfer besides the risks of hydrogen explosion.

@murtipoojak @JoshiPralhad @desi_thug1 Wok-style cooking (where the chef lifts and tosses) that gives the smoky, slightly charred taste is best done with flames that heat up the bottom and sides of the round bottom vessel.

@JoshiPralhad @desi_thug1 What is the point of flames if we are using electricity normally by induction? Does it have any advantage over induction?

@IndianTechGuide Protectionism almost always is a bad idea. Stable free market policies win. This post does not talk about what we had lost by jettisoning IBM. chatgpt.com/share/69c95d23…

🚨 In the late 70s, IBM walked out of India after the government asked foreign companies to dilute ownership and work with local partners. Instead of adjusting, it chose to leave a market it once dominated. That exit opened the door for Indian companies. With less foreign competition, firms like HCL and Wipro slowly built their own place in the computing space. By the time IBM came back in 1992, India had already figured things out on its own.

@saranstm The worst part is when one has a middle seat and the people on either side hog the arm rests as if you don't exist. People on the aisle and window seats should be considerate to the poor middle seat dweller. Maybe, airlines should write the etiquette on the back of seats.

Was traveling a Middle Eastern airline. I had chosen the aisle seat as i typically do in advance. An Indian man asked me to switch seats with his brother who was sitting in the middle seat behind me. I just said no. He approached a male steward and starting demanding. The steward walked him off the plane while his entire family watched. Minutes later, he was allowed to come in. Never heard a peep or a glance from him again in my direction. I assumed the airline staff ensured a lifelong undertaking from him.

@ANI I don't understand what the fuss is about. They are using Chinese hardware to teach students how to program. The whole world uses Chinese products and people build software on top of it. A single out-of-proportion controversy threatening to overshadow the entire program is bad.

Galgotias University issues a press statement following the row over the display of a Chinese-made robodog at the AI Impact Summit expo "We at Galgotias University, wish to apologise profusely for the confusion created at the recent Al Summit. One of our representatives, manning the pavilion, was ill-informed. She was not aware of the technical origins of the product and in her enthusiasm of being on camera, gave factually incorrect information even though she was not authorised to speak to the press... Understanding the organisers sentiment we have vacated the premises."

@curiosityonx @grok How expensive and difficult was for NASA to turn Voyager around to take this photograph?

On Valentine’s Day 36 years ago, Carl Sagan requested NASA to turn Voyager 1's camera back toward home for one last look. From 3.7 billion miles away, Voyager captured this image. Here is how Carl Sagan described it: “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

The single highest-impact pollution action India can take on a war footing is flue-gas desulfurisation. Retrofitting all ~204 GW of coal plants with SO₂ scrubbers would cost ~₹1.2–1.6 lakh crore upfront ( just ~0.34–0.46 % of GDP ), sharply cutting secondary PM₂.₅ nationwide.

Even in Pondicherry, the pollution levels are too high: it is impossible to sense PM 2. 5 unless you measure it. You cannot smell it. Can't feel it.

@fssaiindia, please look into the labelling errors for Kepalm Palm Cola that is being sold in RCC Trivandrum. Is this a fake product or just errors in labelling? The carbohydrate (sugar content) cannot possibly be 75 mg.

The quantities are so totally wrong, that I wonder what sugar the label writer was on when he wrote it! 75 mg of sugar?! Even 7.4 grams won't reach the calorie values in 100 ml. Kepalm Palm cola is irresistibly sweet despite the typos. Kepalm.com does not even open!

The Government of India should have a formal plain English language policy to simplify laws and gazette notifications. No one in my institute can still say for sure if a medical board is mandatory for issuing a disability certificate. swavlambancard.gov.in/uploads/news/1…

The projected cost of cleaning up Mumbai's air: chatgpt.com/share/67a96b38…

@DrDatta_AIIMS @IndiGo6E For every distraught customer there are hundreds who have silently endured a sub-optimal service. It is only when a few fight against the near-monopoly, the rest benefits. Indigo, for the most part is a good airline, with excellent staff, but its huge volumes cause hiccups.

NEVER flying Indigo again! My recent flight from Bangalore to Delhi turned into a nightmare that I hope no one else has to experience! I am not going to leave it here. @IndiGo6E needs to be held accountable for the pathetic downfall in its service! Here’s what went down:

@sriram2702 @thekaipullai It is true. There is indeed a problem with the lift that takes you to the international departure.

@thekaipullai I don’t know when you visited Chennai, but I don’t see any “boiling sun” in here in the recent times. I live in Chennai and travel often too, but never seen 100 people waiting to take the lift. This post of yours makes zero sense

Irony is, Arriving at the Chennai Airport, trudging 3 kms in the boiling sun with your luggage to the parking area, then fighting with 100 other people for a space in the lift, going up three floors, all to take your cab, becoming all tired and dispirited, only to see a giant board saying "Chennai corporation lovingly welcomes you"

@deepigoyal @zomato How is the AI-enabled, Bluetooth helmet initiative working out ? How much is the current compliance level? Have the rate of head injuries reduced?

Our team's health @zomato has always been one of our biggest priorities. We have an in-house mental health team, a very large company owned gym in our HQ, and we also have our own one-of-a-kind Chief Fitness Officer. Not to mention, period leaves, as well as gender neutral parental leave policies. Recently, we partnered with Wellness Co (@thewellnessco_), to establish a captive wellness facility at our Gurgaon HQ. This exclusive centre gives our employees, and their families, access to cutting therapies like cryotherapy, red light therapy, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Glad to say that more than 200 people use this centre regularly now, and repeat rates are very high. We have more cool HR/people initiatives coming up. Will post some here soon.