Jhonny

Until death, all defeat is psychological”

[Rattan Dhillon @ShivrattanDhil1]

Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett on Ethanol blending in Petrol:

“Ethanol blending is a very stupid way to try and solve an energy problem.”

“It takes more fossil fuel energy to create ethanol than you can get out of ethanol you’ve created.”

- Charlie Munger. 2006 #Ethanol

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

"I could never have become CEO in any other country in the world, including in India..It's because the system here in America is a meritocratic system," says ex-Pepsi CEO Indira Nooyi

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

Ex-Pepsi CEO Indira Nooyi on India and China:

China is relatively homogenous. It's easier to spend time in China than India as a visitor. India is going to be impossible if you like clean, orderly living. The beauty of India is in its chaos. If you like chaos, you go back.

[Formula 1 @F1]

The heist of the century during this morning's @Formula3 session 🤣🍕

#F1 #MonacoGP

[Citizen Journalist Pro (CJP) @cockroaches____]

The greatest trick in modern politics wasn’t making people choose sides.
It was convincing exhausted, overworked, underpaid people that their enemy is the person next door instead of the problems right in front of them.
Keep us arguing over pronouns, personalities, and culture-war headlines while groceries rise, debt grows, wars continue, and trust collapses.
The joke was never on the left or the right.
The joke was on all of us.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Dear friends, as promised, the citizens funded generics vs. branded drugs project is now published after 4 months in peer review. It was hardwork, but worth the effort because all of you helped us realize this important work.

You can read the full detaild paper here: https://t.co/jZhm8ZcPCq

Here is a simplified summary:
Do cheaper generic medicines work as well as expensive branded ones? It's a question that worries patients and even many doctors, who often quietly assume that a low price must mean lower quality. This doubt has real consequences in India, where medicines make up nearly two-thirds of what families spend out of their own pockets on healthcare — a burden that pushes millions into poverty and forces people to split doses or stop treatment altogether.

To put the question to a fair, independent test, our team at the Mission for Ethics and Science in Healthcare (MESH) carried out a fully citizen-funded study, paid for entirely by donations from ordinary members of the public, with no money or influence from any drug company.

We bought 131 samples of 22 commonly used medicines — covering heart disease, diabetes, infections, pain, acidity, and more — from seven different kinds of outlets across Kerala, including government stores like Jan Aushadhi, private generic chains, and premium branded pharmacies. Every sample was then coded, blinded, and sent to a top accredited laboratory for rigorous testing against the Indian Pharmacopoeia 2022 standards. What makes this study unusual is that very few before it have tested branded and generic versions from the same market side by side, included government-supplied medicines, and combined strict quality testing with a hard look at price — all at the same time.

The result was striking in its simplicity: every single one of the 131 medicines passed every quality test. 100%. It made no difference whether a pill was generic or branded, cheap or expensive — they were all equally good in their active ingredient content, their purity, and how they dissolve in the body.

Yet the prices told a completely different story. Generic medicines were, on average, 48.6% cheaper than their branded twins, and the most expensive brand cost up to 13.9 times more than the cheapest generic of the very same drug. Government Jan Aushadhi stores were the cheapest source for 18 of the 22 medicines tested, with potential savings running into thousands of rupees a year per medicine — for instance, over ₹16,000 a year on a single liver drug.

For doctors, this is reassuring, hard evidence that prescribing a quality-assured generic is not a compromise on care; it is the same medicine at a fraction of the cost. For patients, it means you can stay on your treatment without it draining your savings, which is exactly what keeps people healthier over the long run.

And this is precisely why independent, publicly funded projects like this matter so much for the future of healthcare in India: they answer the questions ordinary people actually have, free from commercial pressure, and they build the trust that programmes like Jan Aushadhi need to truly succeed. Affordable and high-quality are not opposites — in a well-regulated market, they go hand in hand.
More here: https://t.co/jZhm8ZcPCq

[Sunderdeep - Volklub @volklub]

@NalinisKitchen He isn’t relying on X payouts for Petrol

[کیڑےمکوڑے @Form_45]

5 kids at the age of 22 and now a 6th pregnancy. The poor girl looks 42 at 22, while the husband still looks like he's 22.

[Dean Turner @DeanTTraining]

200 GRAMS OF PROTEIN @ ONLY 1500 CALORIES

Meal 1:
- 3 whole eggs
- 5 servings egg whites
- 2 Greek yogurts

Meal 2:
- 8 ounces of chicken breast
- 1 servings of broccoli
- 1 Greek yogurt

Meal 3:
- 16 ounces of 93/7 Ground Beef

Total calories: ~1,500
Total protein: ~220g
Total carbs: ~40g
Total fats: ~50g

Inb4 “this is too low in carbs”

1) I’m just trying to show you this much protein can be hit with sufficient fats at a very low calorie number
2) I’ve ate like this plenty of days while dieting

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

With elections done, PM Modi urges citizens to cut fuel use, avoid foreign travel.
PM to leave for 7-day trip to UAE, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway and Italy on Friday.
https://t.co/HpjbhsgzMS

[Dr. Mansafa Bepari @MANSAFAB]

47% of Indians are deficient in Vitamin B12.

Everything you need to know about B12.

[Chirag Barjatya @chiragbarjatya]

I don't know who needs to hear this but walking 10k steps a day burns hardly like 300-500 kcal. Yes equivalent to one plate of samosa or chole chature or 1-2 gluab jamun or 2-3 glasses of sugarcane juice. If you really want to drop weight you have to start eating less than what is required. Your 10-15k steps won't help you burn off your daily random junk habits.

[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

A 1000 words !!

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Outrage after Indian man carries his sister's skeleton to the bank to prove her death https://t.co/cVfRhZp0pk

[New York Post @nypost]

Indian villager digs up sister's corpse and carries her to bank - so he can withdraw $211 from her account https://t.co/czSp9LRlHZ

[The Tonight Show @FallonTonight]

.@diljitdosanjh performs “Morni”!

Watch the full performance ⬇️
https://t.co/oBwaHFrMcc

#FallonTonight #DiljitOnFallon

[Coinvo @Coinvo]

INSANE: 🇺🇸 ICE employee David Courvelle reportedly admitted to raping a woman in custody in exchange for letting her see her daughter.

[RedboxGlobal India @REDBOXINDIA]

LPG supply restoration may take 3-4 years as extent of damage remains unclear, say govt official

Global LPG supply restoration may take three to four years

India's LPG imports face high risks, costs, and supply gaps

LPG prices rise, storage covers only 15 days of demand

https://t.co/6AnKB5g4Zu

[Winston @ChurchillWw]

China built 18 superlarge LNG storage tanks, more than twice the rest of the world combined. Each one holds 9.5 million cubic feet, bigger than Madison Square Garden. Keeping natural gas liquid at minus 162°C demands 9% nickel steel plates, concrete outer containment, and specialized cryogenic welding where every joint is ultrasonically inspected. The material expands 600-fold when it warms back to gas, so the tolerances are extreme. This is heavy industrial skill, not something you improvise. South Korea is now building seven tanks of the same size south of Seoul, with Japan following.
https://t.co/YTDIt597cq