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Philosophy, Economics, Psychology, Policy.
Incapacitated by an open mind and knowledge. Love beautiful questions that opens up possibilities rather than answers

[dude @AmoghAO]

@CaptBrijesh @AshwiniVaishnaw push for double tracking the hassan mangaluru track and also to choose better gradient with more preference for viaducts and tunnels

[Italian 🚅🇮🇹🇻🇦 @Italian347]

Despite humans not looking too scary as baseline, we are utterly terrifying to even the largest predators around.

Even ones who have never seen people using guns, or large scale human technology, inherently understand humans as the most dangerous of predators

[dude @AmoghAO]

@samuelkmk @prasannavishy gig platforms are not swimming in profits. they have very low profits

[Prasanna Viswanathan @prasannavishy]

This is a good oped in Sunday Times.

India has already created 12 million gig jobs without a government jobs guarantee, giant factories or taxpayer-funded payrolls. That is something to build on not something to be ashamed of. And for many, platform work is not exploitation but a dignified escape from low-productivity, low-paying alternatives.

Wage dynamics are revealing. A garment worker in a formal factory earns roughly ₹12,800 to ₹15,700 a month across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat and Haryana. OTOH,a platform driver can gross around ₹27,000, or roughly ₹19,000 after operating costs while retaining something a conventional factory job cannot offer.+ flexibility and the ability to enter the labour market almost immediately.

And the oped also points to the ideological contradiction of whose who have disdain only for 'gig jobs

These are same folks who celebrate MNREGA as dignified employment somehow regard a person freely choosing to deliver food, drive a cab or take platform work as being “exploited”.

MNREGA can pay as little as ₹252–₹336 a day in the states Yet the same people who defend guaranteed state-funded manual labour often want to regulate away flexible market-based work that workers themselves choose.

Protect workers with accident insurance, portable social security and transparent algorithms. And fight mindset regulating an imperfect but rapidly expanding source of opportunity out of existence.

[dude @AmoghAO]

@RisPectFulLy15 @unrave20 You are the one spilling venom here. In my original tweet i didn't even say no to helping but merely recognised that no good deed of India ever goes unpunished. Wondering why it is that when it comes to india no country ever appreciates/reciprocateour help https://t.co/Mo6I9TLk7Y

[dude @AmoghAO]

@unrave20 My issue is not with helping, but India never gets any goodwill or leverage with anybody whom we help. Instead our conditionless help is viewed as meek/weakness and Indians will instead be viewed with contempt by all those people. There seems to be no way to mend this.

[dude @AmoghAO]

@RisPectFulLy15 @unrave20 who is the stupid here? India helped nepal massively after 2015 earthquake and was repaid with a constitution that hurt indian people and revanchist territorial claims on india. We helped maldives and they repaid with fta with china and sri lanka repaid with chinese submarines

[dude @AmoghAO]

@cbdhage can you name all the projects you have marked. yellow line is thane coastal road phase 2. what about other colours

[dude @AmoghAO]

@Abhinav38732903 @theanonlurker He should have atleast focussed on power electronics/analog semiconductors cosidering his foray into renewables. Add solar fab and battery and he would have atleast done some heavylifting. But no he is content selling cosmetics and cola and jewellery

[dude @AmoghAO]

@theanonlurker Any supply increase anywhere in any sector where we are import dependent is good for india and other importing countries since eventually they are a downward drag on prices. Usa oil n gas prodn growth and chinese battery supply growth will eventually be good to India.

[dude @AmoghAO]

@georgysthomas @barath9500 @railmaxxer Aral sea is an inland lake whereas yettinahole takes flood surolus if west flowing rivers that drain to sea. Anyway salt water intrusion is a solved problem through tech ex hydraulic/sea walls or tidal gates. You are simply fear mongering.

[dude @AmoghAO]

@WilliamBu49 @DrParameshwara ಇದು ತೆರೆದ ಕಾಲುವೆಯಲ್ಲ. ಹೆಚ್ಚು ನೀರು ಬೇಡುವ ಭತ್ತ ಅಥವಾ ಕಬ್ಬಿನ ಬೆಳೆಗಳನ್ನು ಬೆಳೆಯಲು ರೈತರು ಇದನ್ನು ಬಳಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಅಂತರ್ಜಲ ಮರುಪೂರಣದ ಮೂಲಕ ಕನಿಷ್ಠ ಕುಡಿಯುವ ನೀರಾದರೂ ಸಿಗುವಂತಾಗಲು ಕೆರೆಗಳನ್ನು ತುಂಬಿಸುವುದಷ್ಟೇ ಇದರ ಉದ್ದೇಶ.

[dude @AmoghAO]

@KarnatakaSNDMC Karnataka grossly underutilizing almatti inflows. Need to build pipelines to all major lakes and fill them and connect it with malaprabha, ghataprabha and tungabhadra dams

[Naveen Reddy @navin_ankampali]

People are so happy and sharing their thoughts 🎉 as Hemavathi River water fills Dabbegatta Lake in Chikkanayakanahalli Taluk, Tumkur district 💧🌾 a dry region like Chitradurga district.

A moment of joy and hope for farmers and villages in the region! 🙏🌧️

🎥Honnappa

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson examined the brains of 59 women after death. In 63 percent of them they found male DNA, almost certainly left behind by a son. The oldest of those women was 94, and the cells were still sitting there.

Around week four or five of pregnancy, before most women have told anyone, a handful of the baby's cells cross into the mother's bloodstream. Some of them never leave. Scientists call it microchimerism, meaning you are carrying a few of another person's cells inside you. Doctors at Leiden University in the Netherlands checked organs from women who had recently been pregnant and found the baby's cells in every single one. Liver, lungs, thyroid, kidneys, bone marrow, skin, heart.

They do not sit idle. When researchers in Ireland biopsied cesarean scars from 70 women, they found the baby's cells living in the skin as ordinary skin cells, making collagen and repair proteins right at the cut. The child helped close the wound its own birth made.

At Mount Sinai, scientists tagged fetal cells with a glowing marker in pregnant mice, then damaged the mothers' hearts. The fetal cells went to the injury. They became heart muscle and the lining of blood vessels. Nobody has proven the human version yet, but doctors have noticed for years that women who develop heart failure around childbirth recover better than almost any other kind of heart failure patient.

In a study of 177 women, fetal cells appeared in the blood of 85 percent of the healthy participants and only 64 percent of the women who had a very early, non-invasive breast cancer. Nobody has worked out yet whether the cells are doing the protecting. The same cells also turn up in Hashimoto's, an immune condition that attacks the thyroid, so this is a gift with complications.

A French team looked at umbilical cord blood in 2021 and found cells belonging to the baby's grandmother in 5 of 28 samples. Cells that crossed one placenta decades earlier had crossed a second one. Three generations of women, alive in a single bloodstream.

Which means the pull a mother feels toward her child has a physical form. It sits in her liver, her heart, and often her brain, and it stays there for the rest of her life.

https://t.co/zy6gM4x5tl

[dude @AmoghAO]

@ravikeerthi22 just out of curiosity can you list the dams with their irrigation acres. Thank you

[dude @AmoghAO]

@IndianExpress birlas and RIL are unambitious. With such free cash flows they should have forged into higher echelons of deep tech, RnD and export oriented sextors but they are comfortable to just cash in on captive domestic market. Applies to entire tech sector as well. Frankly embarrassing

[dude @AmoghAO]

@RoxonJo @KishorPuttur @vdsatheesan https://t.co/4qSYcJfrZo

[dude @AmoghAO]

@UDFKeralam_ @vdsatheesan karnataka will happily trade these sections for north Karnataka sections under jurisdiction of south central railway.

[dude @AmoghAO]

@UDFKeralam_ @vdsatheesan karnataka will happily trade these sections for north Karnataka sections under jurisdiction of south central railway.

[dude @AmoghAO]

@Daye_Karune @sundarmail Politicians are temporary but bureaucrats are permanent. Kerala might lack political and financial heft but it has always had strong representation in bureaucracy since independence. That is why it takes more than a minister to get things done when keralas interests are involved