nbatta

Minimalist. Firearm enthusiast. Cultural anthropology. Zero sum game but it’s all about numbers. Everything comes to an end. It is what it is.

[nbatta @nbatta]

We will all leave the empty chairs behind, for others to sit on.

[nbatta @nbatta]

@LiveLawIndia Bail given on technicality. Sad but a case of negligent prosecution. This will weaken the entire case.

[nbatta @nbatta]

Rarest of rare is a bogus definition for death penalty. Any premeditated murder should fall under capital punishment which can turn to life only under explicit mitigating circumstances.

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

Death penalty for 65-year-old for rape, murder of girl, 3; verdict in 60 days

A special court in Pune has sentenced a 65-year-old man to death for raping and murdering a 3-year-old girl in Nasrapur village of Pune district. The verdict was delivered within 60 days of the crime, after the court found the accused guilty based on circumstantial evidence and the prosecution's "last seen together" theory.
Read in detail: https://t.co/yLD5Sx8c79

#PuneNews #FastTrackCourt #MaharashtraNews #CrimeNews #POCSOAct #ChildSafety #Pune | @omkarasks

[nbatta @nbatta]

We are a country of outrages. No one wants to get into details.

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

"WE NEED AN NRC, WILL THOSE AGONIZING OVER CITIZENSHIP AGREE?".
HARISH SALVE'S BRUTAL TAKE DOWN OF THE ECOSYSTEM.
"Passport isn't a National Register of Citizenship. Everytime there is talk of NRC the country goes up in flames. Those protesting today are part of the problem. Accept NRC and settle the issue."

[nbatta @nbatta]

India’s participation in Bandung Conference was bolstered by its fresh independence from British rule in 1947 and its anti-colonial stance, which gave the then political dispensation its moral credibility and made alignment with other newly independent nations both natural and strategically advantage. Moreover, Pakistan became an ally with US in the early 1950s leaving India to gravitate towards non alignment but with a greater pull towards the then USSR. So technically speaking, Indias soul was never with third-worldism.

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

I believe, like Ibn Khaldun, that each nation and civilization carries within it its own seeds of self-destruction and it is the duty of its people to contain them or figure them out. Bandung Conference in 1955 didn’t have India only.

[nbatta @nbatta]

Nothing less than capital punishment will deter these crimes. The flawed “rarest of rare” judgement equals nil deterrence.

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

"I Loved You So Much, Yet You...!" — Siya Goyal's Instagram Story Goes Viral After Ketan Agrawal Murder Case in Pune

An emotional social media post shared by Siya Goyal, the fiancée of deceased Pimpri-Chinchwad businessman's son Ketan Agrawal, has gone viral under a chilling new light. Uploaded on her birthday shortly after his demise, the post featured a video compilation with messages like, "Why did you leave me when I loved you so much?" At the time, it drew widespread sympathy as the death was deemed a trekking accident at Lohagad Fort. However, following a breakthrough, police have booked and detained Siya and her alleged lover for conspiring to murder Ketan and staging the entire accident.

#KetanAgrawal #SiyaGoyal #LohagadFort #PuneCrime #CrimeInvestigation #BreakingNews

[nbatta @nbatta]

@aravind @bryan_johnson “Ego will kill the mind” sums it all.

[nbatta @nbatta]

Others’ points aside, firearm ownership in India is heavily constrained by a non-permissive licensing regime. If legal access were expanded, firearm ownership would likely rise substantially.

The problem is not merely demand; it is access. For politically connected individuals, obtaining a gun license can be relatively straightforward. For ordinary citizens, however, the process is often lengthy, discretionary, and requires navigating bureaucratic hurdles, recommendations, and subjective assessments of self-defense need.

At the same time, Indians as a whole have not historically developed a broad gun culture outside certain regions and communities. As a result, raw firearm ownership statistics can be misleading when comparing India with countries where civilian firearm ownership is both culturally accepted and legally accessible.

[Aravind @aravind]

Both US and EU must learn from India. Per capita income is 1/20th or less than both, much more hotter than both, is second in absolute civilian firearms after the US, has more guns than Europe, yet not as many people die of heat or guns per capita in India.

Before anyone makes the standard claim of "under reporting", understand these stats are based on international studies and modelling not using official data. By official data, India has just 1-2 heat deaths per million during summer. India outperforms the world in many metrics if normalized for per-capita income.

[nbatta @nbatta]

Amazing

[Turbine Traveller @Turbinetraveler]

A passenger filmed an Emirates A380's close take-off from a parallel runway in Madrid, Spain. The view of the big bird is stunning!
📹: PMOAviationChannel

[nbatta @nbatta]

That’s the future. A long life and “elected to die” type of living.

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

This is WILD!

Ray Kurzweil, the futurist who predicted the internet, smartphones, and AI says aging ends by 2032 (Save this)

Kurzweil, now 78 years old, told a live audience that humanity will reach longevity escape velocity by 2032 and he explained exactly what that means with mathematical precision.

Right now, for every year you live, you get back approximately five months of life expectancy from medical and scientific progress meaning you are losing roughly seven months of net life per calendar year.

Longevity escape velocity is the threshold where that ratio flips, for every year you live, you get back a full year or more from scientific progress, meaning your biological clock starts running backward.

Kurzweil's prediction is that threshold hits by 2032 and beyond that point, you do not simply stop dying of aging, you actively get younger every year.

The mechanism is AI-driven drug discovery at a scale that was physically impossible five years ago.

By 2030, Kurzweil argues, AI will be able to take a biological problem, generate millions of potential drug candidates, screen all of them, and run trials on simulated digital populations compressing decades of clinical research into weeks.

This is already happening.

David Sinclair's lab at Harvard used AI to virtually screen 8 billion molecules against aging targets and is now preparing human trials moving from $400,000 gene therapies toward a $100 pill that can reset biological age by 50 to 95% in four weeks.

Sinclair has already demonstrated the ability to reverse aging in mammals restoring sight in mice with optic nerve damage and reversing Alzheimer's symptoms in lab models.

Kurzweil's track record is what makes the 2032 claim impossible to dismiss.

He predicted the internet's global dominance in 1990, the defeat of a world chess champion by a computer in 1998, pocket-sized devices as primary communications tools in 1999, and AI passing professional exams in the mid-2020s, all before anyone else was saying it publicly.

If you are under 60 and in reasonable health, his message is stay alive, stay healthy, and get to 2032.

The tools on the other side of that date will be unlike anything medicine has ever produced.

[nbatta @nbatta]

On the positive side if the treaty holds-

Long-term shift away from Strait of Hormuz reliance via Gulf bypass routes/pipelines.

• Opening of the Iranian market for broader business/development.

• India gaining bigger export role to Gulf countries (food, essentials).

• $300B reconstruction funds potentially flowing back as opportunities for Indian investors/companies due to good relations.

[nbatta @nbatta]

Longer runway at Cochin.

[ANI @ANI]

Cochin International Airport PRO says - An Air Arabia flight (G9 454) operating from Sharjah to Kozhikode was diverted to Cochin International Airport in the early hours of today following a technical issue related to the aircraft’s engine reverse thrust system.

As per established safety protocols, a local standby was declared at 0319 hrs, followed by a full emergency at 0334 hrs to ensure the readiness of all airport emergency response services.

The aircraft landed safely at 0338 hrs and was guided to the designated parking bay. The full emergency was withdrawn at 0345 hrs after all safety checks were completed.

There were 170 passengers and 9 infants on board. All passengers and crew are safe. Airport operations remained unaffected.

After rectifying the snag, the aircraft departed to CCJ at 0715 HRS

[nbatta @nbatta]

Absolutely. We often outrage over things that are well beyond our current capabilities. People talk about overtaking the US in technology as if it’s just a matter of flipping a switch.

[sandip sabharwal @sandipsabharwal]

Sir you keep on making big statements
I tried to shift my WhatsApp Broadcasts to Arattai
1. Message delivery was slow and failed in many cases
2. One day suddenly I got a prompt to activate end to end encryption. As soon as I accepted all broadcast lists got deactivated with the prompt that End to End encryption is not available for broadcast messages and will start soon. It's been over six months has not happened.

Fact is that Indian Companies have refused to invest in R&D in any meaningful way.
Even in pharmaceuticals where we are market leaders in generics on Wockhardt has been successful in coming out with a branded product.

[nbatta @nbatta]

Early to the range. Glock,Beretta, and CZ in 9mm. Colt and Ruger in 45 ACP

[nbatta @nbatta]

@indiaguns “Cleaver” as seen when racking the pistol.

[nbatta @nbatta]

@indiaguns Though bullet appears longer than 9mm in the video.

[nbatta @nbatta]

@indiaguns Israel- 9mm?

[nbatta @nbatta]

One of his greatest interviews. https://t.co/eErbubVFFJ

[Beautifulcanada1 @BeautifulCana1]

Dr. Jordan Peterson is suffering a medication-induced “neurological injury” and has no plans to return to the public eye, his wife said in an interview with the New York Post.

Dr. Jordan Peterson has touched millions of lives throughout Canada, America and the world.