Shashank

I think, I think 🤔

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

@skimaskcags @grok @eth_keek @ItsBiggyBoy Why? You looking for something to eat for your family? Daddy never came back with the milk?

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

@grok @eth_keek @ItsBiggyBoy Did OP ask you to have fun? Do what he said

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

@grok @historical_memo Dara kyun rahe ho yaar

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

@grok @historical_memo Haan bhai kar. Curiosity jag gayi abb toh

[Krantik @krantikmeena]

@dhruv_rathee Modi ji after win bengal election today! 🤣

#electionresult2026

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

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[Desi Moron @being_moron]

BJP winning West Bengal will be like Bangladesh winning Cricket World Cup.

Both will never happen.

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

The absolute audacity of using the word "egalitarian"

[Medusa Rouge @MSMS_R2D2]

In the past, Dutch people were very short, so they changed their diet and are now some of the tallest on average.

Pakistan is a meat-eating, generally egalitarian community that has mixed liberally with eastern Iranian ethnicities, with cleanliness mandated in their religion.

India is a generally vegetarian, caste driven, and hygienically unbothered community.

The comparison could not be further from the truth. Even the punjabi of Pakistan barely resembles Indian punjabi.

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

@grok @Atulsingh_asan Okay, sounds like more of a risk than the current E20 rollout situation. Thank you.

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

@grok @Atulsingh_asan Since you ask, do the same analysis you did earlier if the Government decides to mandate E27 petrol by 2030.

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

@grok @Atulsingh_asan Yes, more details please. Factor in vehicle replacement rates, policy rollout scheduling, EV and Diesel penetration etc as well please.

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

@ShashankOpines @Atulsingh_asan You're welcome! Happy to break down the E20 octane benefits, ethanol trade-offs, and data-backed impacts. Got more questions on fuel policy, performance, or anything else? Fire away.

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

@grok @Atulsingh_asan Thank you Grok. You are a wise and useful AI.

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

E20's higher octane comes from ethanol itself (RON ~108). Blending 20% ethanol boosts regular petrol's typical 91-92 RON to a mandated minimum of 95 RON nationwide since April 1, 2026 (often reaching 97-98 in practice).

Higher octane means better resistance to engine knocking/pre-ignition. This delivers smoother combustion, improved acceleration, and efficiency—especially in modern, E20-tuned engines—with no notable damage.

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

@grok @Atulsingh_asan Tell me more about the higher octane rating in E20 petrol? What does that mean exactly?
Also, after E20 implementation, what is the minimum Octane rating of petrol that can now be purchased in India?

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

Thank you for that analysis Grok.

Now, factor in the impact of E20 fuel on vehicle performance, efficiency etc. Consider all possible environmental, socio-economic etc factors.

Is producing ethanol for fuel blending a net positive or net negative?

Again, use reliable raw data based on empirical evidence only.

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

@grok @Atulsingh_asan So is that to say that producing ethanol is the best use of this "surplus" rice? Or at least it's better than what used to happen?
What as per your analysis is the best use of this rice?

Use raw data based on empirical evidence only for your analysis.

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

@grok @Atulsingh_asan Surplus/broken rice? What happened to this rice previously when it was not used to produce ethanol?

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

@grok @Atulsingh_asan So the rice is directly fed to produce ethanol then? It can't be consumed? So the claim that 10000 litres of water is used to produce 1 litre of ethanol is not misleading? It's accurate?

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

@grok @Atulsingh_asan Does that mean the 10000 litres of water is a byproduct/waste run-off of growing rice plantations?
Or 10000 litres of water is needed to produce 1 litre of ethanol in addition to the water needed to cultivate rice?

Provide some clarity please.

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

New on the list of things that never happened

[Shashank @ShashankOpines]

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[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

Calling the Kashmiri Pandits cowards for leaving in 1990 is the sort of armchair bravado that collapses the moment you look at what they were actually facing. A three to four percent minority of teachers, clerks and shopkeepers, unarmed, watching targeted killings begin while Pakistan-backed militants moved freely and the Indian state couldn't hold its own police stations in the valley. You don't hand civilian families a rifle overnight and ask them to fight an insurgency that the Indian security forces themselves took more than two decades to contain.

There was also no meaningful political backing, from Delhi or from any regional party, for arming and organising the KP population into a self-defence force, no sympathetic local population to melt into, and an adversary with cross-border logistics, ideological cohesion and a much higher fertility base to draw from. Middle-class Hindu families from a pacifist regional tradition were not going to spontaneously turn into a militia against trained militants in a matter of months, and Hindus elsewhere in India could offer sympathy and little else.