The December Man

If you force yourself to go outside, something wonderful always happens!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This video was taken in India, which is currently the hottest country in the world.

Tap water has a temperature of 124°F or 51°C with no water heater. Exposure over 3 minutes could cause first degree burns.

[𝐑𝐈𝐘𝐀 🌻 @Riyashaishere]

Zero knowledge of governance n politics or administration. 12th fail. Never held a real job except acting. Nepo kid Alcoholic Divorced his wife, distanced his own kids for an illegal affair. Black money cases n never paid taxes on time.
This is the man elected as CM of TN 💔

[anul agarwal @anulagarwal]

i saw a mouse with an X-shaped battery compartment.

first thought: this is stupid - who designed it?

5 seconds later: oh.

10 seconds later: OHHH!

the X slot fits an AA or an AAA battery - whichever you've got lying around.

the part most people miss is that the shape also makes it physically impossible to load both at once.

there is no warning label, no instructions and no way to screw it up.
the geometry does the thinking for you.

japanese has a word for this.
poka-yoke = "mistake-proofing."

the product refuses your stupidity before you can offer it.

i wish more things worked like this.

[Gabe Nicholson @gabe_mohit]

Support Walter White

[Shvvposts @Shivender_Abrol]

Life can be bad

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name is Malavika Hegde.

In July 2019, her husband VG Siddhartha walked onto a bridge near Mangalore and told his driver he would be back shortly.

He never came back.

Siddhartha had built Cafe Coffee Day into India’s largest coffee chain. 1700 cafes. 25000 employees. He had also buried the company under Rs 7214 crore of debt.

The board panicked. Analysts wrote CCD off.

Nobody had accounted for Malavika.

She was an engineer. A mother of two. She had never run a company in her life. Her father SM Krishna was a former Chief Minister of Karnataka. She could have lived in that shadow comfortably.

She chose the debt instead.

In December 2020, she took over as CEO. In the middle of a pandemic. Her first act was a personal letter to all 25000 employees. She wrote the CCD story is worth preserving. I will fight for this brand.

Then she got to work.

She called every lender personally and renegotiated terms. She sold Global Village Tech Park to Blackstone. She closed every loss making outlet. She exported premium Arabica beans from her own 20000 acre farm to international markets to generate fresh revenue.

She never raised the price of a single cup of coffee.

By 2021, the debt was down to Rs 1731 crore. By 2023, it was Rs 465 crore.

A 93 percent reduction in four years.

Today, CCD runs 423 cafes and 55733 vending machines across India. Netflix is developing a web series on her life. Business schools are teaching her turnaround as a case study.

She had no playbook. She had no mentor. She had grief and 25000 people depending on her.

That was enough.

Follow for real stories India never makes headlines about.

[kathrine @kathrin18843562]

What Happens If You Fall From a Helicopter in a Giant Ball?

[Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj @DeepikaBhardwaj]

AGRA : TRANSPORTER ASGAR ALI HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE ALLEGING CORRUPTION BY GST OFFICER NIVEDITA SINGH

KILLED NEXT DAY IN MORNING. He was wearing the same T shirt :(

Sadly no prime time news on this utterly shocking case!

This is a Cold Blooded Murder !!!

@madanmohansoni

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

George Blankenship got so emotional sharing the story of early Tesla

The Model S was the first car from Tesla that was really meant for people to drive like a regular car

It was their do-or-die moment. The production line pushed the company into one of the most terrifying survival stories in startup history

10,000 people trusted and handed Elon Musk $5,000 each without a car or a guarantee - only a promise

The reality behind the scenes was grim. In Q2 2012, Tesla managed to deliver just 12 cars in an entire quarter. Wall Street was circling like vultures, waiting for them to die

With the company’s life on the line, Elon took a massive, unbelievable gamble: he publicly tweeted that Tesla would be profitable by Q1 2013

To pull off that miracle, Elon demanded exactly 4,750 deliveries. The standard he set was absolute. The pressure was so intense that George Blankenship was required to email Elon every single night at exactly midnight with raw survival metrics: how many cars shipped, how many were ready, how many were moving

By the final week, it was pure desperation and unity. IT guys were washing cars. Marketing guys were driving them across the lot. Under Elon's unrelenting drive, job titles vanished. Everyone did everything to keep the dream alive

Then, on the final Saturday of the quarter, at exactly 3 PM...
Car 4,750 was delivered

Blankenship stood on his desk, looked at his exhausted team, and told them:
"What you just did is monumental... not just for Tesla, but for what we're going to do for mankind"

Tesla shocked the world that quarter with an $11M profit. The stock violently surged from $20 → $90

They did not just build a company. They forged a foundation for the entire EV revolution

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You’re looking at a real dish. Thomas Keller, chef at one of the few restaurants on earth with 3 Michelin stars, made it after Pixar asked him one question: what would you cook if the world’s most famous food critic walked into your kitchen?

His answer is called confit byaldi. It’s a fancier, layered version of the peasant stew ratatouille, and the Pixar team actually learned to cook it. The film’s producer interned at Keller’s restaurant, The French Laundry in Napa Valley, during production. They kept live rats in a hallway at Pixar for over a year so animators could study how their fur and tails moved.

This movie almost never got made. Jan Pinkava, the original director, worked on it for 6 years before Pixar’s leadership lost faith in the story. With about 18 months to go before the premiere, Steve Jobs personally called Brad Bird (the guy who directed The Incredibles) while Bird was on vacation. They asked him to take over. Bird rewrote the script from scratch and redesigned the rats to walk on four legs instead of two, so they’d look like actual rats. The $150M film grossed $624M and won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, with 5 total nominations that broke the record for an animated film at the time.

Peter O’Toole voiced Anton Ego. Lawrence of Arabia himself. O’Toole had been nominated for an Oscar 8 times across 45 years and never won. Pixar gave the role of a man who judges others for a living to an actor the Academy had been judging for almost half a century. And the character was drawn to look like a vulture.

The flashback is weirdly accurate, scientifically. Smell is the only sense that skips the brain’s normal processing line and goes straight to the parts that handle emotion and memory. Every other sense (sight, hearing, touch) has to make a stop first. That’s why a single bite of food can slam you back to your childhood kitchen faster than any photograph ever could. Scientists have a name for it: the Proust Effect, after a French novelist who described this exact experience in 1913. Smell-triggered memories go further back in time and hit harder emotionally than anything your eyes or ears can pull up.

In 2016, the BBC asked hundreds of international critics to vote on the greatest films of the 21st century. A cartoon about a rat cooking dinner made the top 100. This scene is a big part of why.

[The Hawk Eye @thehawkeyex]

The way the Kejriwal family built this monumental Sheeshmahal, as if they were going to rule the Delhi sultanate forever, and history would remember them as the "Kejriwal dynasty".

Nobody is invincible Kejriwal, nobody!!

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

BREAKING 🚨: This is VERY BASED 🗿

🇺🇸Trump: They are defeated, everything is destroyed

🇮🇷Iran : An girl swings on a beach in Bandar Abbas as smoke rises from a nearby naval base hit by strikes.

You can't defeat them if the public isn't scared of war🔥🔥

[Carolina Marín @CarolinaMarin]

My path ends here. Thank you all, because you’ve also been part of it. In this new chapter, I will carry with me the values that have guided me so far, and I will try to give back to society everything it has given me over the years. It has been a wonderful journey ♥️

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Very nicely done

[The December Man @Pranit02]

@omvishnupriya Hi, can you please share name of this hotel? I am looking for good place near beach for my family vacation in couple of days.

[The December Man @Pranit02]

@AtRealBen @grok what is name of the song?

[The Hawk Eye @thehawkeyex]

Bro has enough medals that he counts only Gold as a win and takes Silvers as a loss.

Wait! Shamani just got Michael Phelps on his podcast??😲

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

Brad Pitt joked that Catherine Zeta-Jones was the only one who thought Ocean’s Twelve was serious work. She showed up studying lines, doing character breakdowns, while rest of the cast treated it like a paid vacation.

“Being the new kid, no one told her”

[ChiefHerbalist @HerbalistChief]

One of the best plants that removes tags and warts from the skin.