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Heyo remember me 🤔?

HIIIIIIIIIIIII

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Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

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lord let my misery (exam season) end, it's been months

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An archivist found a long forgotten 8mm film reel in an old metal box, marked “Philippines 1942”. Thinking it was lost WWII footage, he sent it in to be restored/digitized. When he got the footage back, he found puppies instead (via)

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something to be said about the fact that we might all potentially wake up to news of an all out war tomorrow and still, our professors are like "yeah, war bad but also don't forget that you have to meet your research paper deadlines by tonight"

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To everyone who's living in war prone areas (I.e., Amritsar, Ludhiana), keep few emergency things close to yourselves.

1. Torch

2. Phone powerbank (if possible)

3. All necessity food items (Rice, Wheat, lentils, eggs)

4. Knives, scissors, sharp items (trust me they are helpful)

5. Medicines (Paracetamol, digestion related medicines, med to control vomiting and nausea) and the necessity medicines (for diabetes, blood pressure and other chronic illness' ones) and bandages and antiseptic.

6. Water (a lot and lot of it, even tap water, boil it if possible and store in small cans and bottles)

9. Keep few cash in hand as ATMs or net banking might not work

10. Sanitary products (pads, tampons, paper soaps, toothpaste)

11. Dry fruits (if there's a horrible situation and no food is available)

12. Whistle

These are all the things I can remember. I'll add more later. Even though the attacks are upto the Punjab and Kashmir region, there's chances of the fight to flow throughout the country, especially the rest of the north, northeastern, northwestern and western states. Keeping few of these things close to you will help in emergency situation.

Stay safe. Take care of yourself and stay alert.

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i'm so fucking tired. the reality of the matter is that both pakistan and india have a vested interest in keeping the fighting ongoing and for the leaders of both countries, it's about staying in power. no one cares about the innocent kashmiri, pakistani, indian civilians killed in all this, no one cares about people losing their homes, their livelihoods, their loved ones.

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Blackout in multiple border states

Guys pls stay safe and stay inside as much as possible

I'm praying for everyone this is fucking terrifying

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indian mutuals, please do not believe everything you see on the internet anywhere. It doesn't matter how trustworthy the source is. fact checking is really important right now.

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Imagine having been born in 1905... And all your life it doesn't fucking stop. The Great War, the Spanish Flu, and then you go out of your mind for 7 years. Everyone is traumatised and nothing matters. Then another crash. And then the rise of fascism, and the War to end all Wars didn't and it's 1945 and you're just about still there. You may have fought or ferried the boys from Dunkirk or sabotaged the Nazi occupiers or worked in the factories and put out fires during the Blitz and you're lucky to be alive, because not all your friends made it. But you are and finally, fucking finally, it stops. It stops. You are tough as nails and you can put that strength to work into building something and you do, and people have cars and can buy icecream and you have a pension fund and the kids have money of their own and no nightmares.

I want that for us. I so want that for us. I want to be the generation that has seen fucking everything and is like a MRSA bug and unfazed and when that Cheeto finally dies, I want us to. Plant the gardens and clean the seas because we can and we want to and we remember some joy, some time of trust even when it got broken and we can say to the 20 somethings "let us show you what we can build, how it can feel."

And maybe Gen beta will take it all for granted like the boomers did, but we can give Gen Z and Alpha some peace because we, and Gen Z and Alpha have seen the Dark Times and fuck that noise.

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"Scientists in Singapore have broken a long-standing limitation on the ability to generate electricity from flowing water, suggesting that another elemental force of nature could be leveraged for renewable electricity: rain.

With the simplest and smallest scale test setup, the team could power around 12 LED lightbulbs with simulated rain droplets flowing through a tube, but at scale, their method could generate meaningful amounts that could rival rooftop solar arrays.

Singapore experiences significant rainfall throughout the year, averaging 101 inches (2581 millimeters) of precipitation annually. The idea of generating electricity from such falling water is attractive, but the method has long been constrained by a principle called the Debye Length.

Nevertheless, the concept is possible because of a simple physical principle that charged entities on the surface of materials get nudged when they rub together—as true for water droplets as it is for a balloon rubbed against the hair on one’s head.

While this is true, the power values thus generated have been negligible, and electricity from flowing water has been limited to the driving of turbines in hydropower plants.

However, in a study published in the journal ACS Central Science, a team of physicists has found a way to break through the constraints of water’s Debye Length, and generate power from simulated rain.

“Water that falls through a vertical tube generates a substantial amount of electricity by using a specific pattern of water flow: plug flow,” says Siowling Soh, author of the study. “This plug flow pattern could allow rain energy to be harvested for generating clean and renewable electricity.”

The authors write in their study that in existing tests of the power production from water flows, pumps are always used to drive liquid through the small channels. But the pumps require so much energy to run that outputs are limited to miniscule amounts.

Instead, their setup to harness this plug flow pattern was scandalously simple. No moving parts or mechanisms of any kind were required. A simple plastic tube just 2 millimeters in diameter; a large plastic bottle; a small metallic needle. Water coming out of the bottle ran along the needle and bumped into the top section of the tube that had been cut in half, interrupting the water flow and allowing pockets of air to slide down the tube along with the water.

The air was the key to breaking through the limits set by the Debye Length, and key to the feasibility of electricity generation from water. Wires placed at the top of the tube and in the cup harvested the electricity.

The total generation rate of greater than 10% resulted in about 100 watts per square meter of tube. For context, a 100-watt solar panel can power an appliance as large as a blender or ceiling fan, charge a laptop, provide for several light bulbs, or even a Wi-Fi router.

Because the droplet speeds tested were much slower than rain, the researchers suggest that the real thing would provide even more than their tests, which were of course on a microscale."

-via Good News Network, April 30, 2025

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being 15 is normal but being born in 2010 is not hope this helps

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putting this out here very quickly.

also putting this here, an excerpt from the supreme court judgement of S.R. Bommai vs Union of India (1994):

and here is the full judgement of 203 pages, if someone is interested

some of you really equate a non-theocracy to mean "hinduphobic" and it shows.

also a great read is arjun appadurai's "fear of small numbers"

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“Hozier is a lesbian” “Hozier is a man written by a woman” “Hozier is like if a man was raised by lesbian mothers” “Hozier is like if a man was a woman” quick give me one reason why a man can’t be soft and gentle and poetic and in love without sounding like a terf or a misogynist

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"born in the wrong era" but there's no particular time period i'd rather be living in, I'm just pissed af at having to live through the global resurgence of fascism