Başak Tamar 🌿

Can't stand liars. Lady EE. ex-Googler. Ordinary, but curious human. Lifetime learner. Alum RC, BOUN, MIT.

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

“Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions” - Chomsky

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

Epic customer fail by @coop_ch

1) They reply to my app store review by saying I should contact customer service phone line
2) They send me a survey to rate their “service” which is the above response
3) I go to the survey to say they suck, but it says I already filled it out 😳

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

There are roughly 1.1 billion dogs and cats in the world as pets… I don’t understand why no one is worried about how much meat they consume… all for the pleasure and happiness of humans

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

How true!!
“Our species has an astonishing capacity for fighting wars over the content of other people’s minds” - The Status Game by Will Storr

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

@Lindt this label is so misleading! This product should be called sugar with chocolate flavour…not Hot Chocolate. When 2 out of every 3 spoons of something is pure sugar, it IS sugar, not chocolate. Shame on you!

#sugar

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

My love affair with @StarbucksUK started with the shop on Berkeley Sq in ‘98 where I’d stop by before going into Lansdowne House. It lasted about 10 years… now Starbucks to me is like McDonalds… I don’t go to either. What a pity!

[Eric Klinenberg @EricKlinenberg]

I'm getting a lot of calls from European journalists and officials who want to know how to survive the searing heat.

Here's the answer: Stop burning fossil fuels.

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

Cover article and photographs by dear @tamertamar on the refugees of Ukraine - now out in Turkey

Follow him on Instagram to see the Ukrainian stories he chronicled

[MAGMA @MagmaDergisi]

“Bu savaş aynı zamanda, emsali görülmemiş şekilde yürütülen özel bir savaş. Savaş eskiden bedenlere hükmederdi, bedenlerin yok oluşu demekti. Modern savaş, zihinlere de hükmetmek durumunda ve ne yazık ki bunu başarabilecek politik ve stratejik kapasiteye sahip olduğunu gösterdi.”

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

Here's the footage of System 002 extraction on July 10th and another 7787kg of plastic out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

@hubermanlab @zeynep or someone who is not a medical professional but who properly commands statistics and complex math

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

⁦@BBCNews⁩ I really fail to see why this is news worthy 🙄

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

Universities should be places that teach investigative critical thinking and host all kinds of open debates about unpleasant topics. The “misinformation” label does not help this purpose. Parliament should not comment on academic expression in a democracy https://t.co/6L8lJCCM9x

[MIT Sloan School of Management @MITSloan]

“We normally think of water scarcity as a problem for the developing world, but in reality it's a growing problem even for the developed world.”https://t.co/byopm8zyPj

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

⁦@tamertamar⁩ is on a journey to Lviv and will be photographing the journey of Ukrainian refugees in the next couple of weeks. You can follow this with him on Instagram https://t.co/9bvrmDIMA9

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

@HealthyTree_Co you say on
@AmazonUK that you have CoA for your products, but why are they not on your website? If you do regular batch testing, I would expect you to be marketing it properly. Please can you share your certificates publicly if they are authentic?

[François Chollet @fchollet]

One the weirdest things about the publishing industry is that there's an entire genre of political books that have no readers and that cater to people who don't even read books, but that consistently top bestseller lists because they get bought in bulk with marketing budgets

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

@carefullycnsdrd This is an assumption, not a fact. There are a lot of outcomes/effects we don’t know about because the world is not a controlled study group. Tons of people aren’t monitored after vacc + their health data not necessarily tied to them being vaccinated

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

My gen3 @ouraring totally disappointing on its promises. 24/7 HR is laughable: no cont. HR like during sleep, sampling is infrequent and the auto filled daytime HR chart utterly useless for any action.

I loved my Gen2 because it did very well what it said it would do

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

Wth??

1 in 3 adults younger than 47 experience domestic violence; I know I shouldn’t be surprised, but the way people drive here makes you think everyone is a saint

https://t.co/bKEKyfCsQf https://t.co/LHlVna5Fkr

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

The clearest photo of Mercury ever taken
NASA
more: https://t.co/2UVmConUTN

[Başak Tamar 🌿 @BasakTa]

I was just about to upgrade my @ouraring to the new Gen3… then I realised I have to pay for a new subscription 😵‍💫

Changing business models is ok, but if I am to pay all my life for membership then please don’t charge $400 for the ring

Will have to do with my Gen2