Ragavendra Natarajan

Server performance @AMD. Chronically curious.

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

Be nice to people, and they'll be nice back to you. It's really that simple!

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

@Kuma50531Kumar Simply declaring won't do anything unless they enforce it

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

@ChristinMP_ @KridePrm This deadline will slip by 2 years. At a minimum

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

@srinualavilli @shilpaanand @blrcitytraffic I'm sorry but @blrcitytraffic can't completely outsource their patrolling duties to the citizenry

The encroachments are widespread and easy to find. They're simply not doing their jobs - either out of incompetence or (more likely) corruption

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

@vajrayudha11 No one is asking vegetarians to eat eggs. The ask is to simply provide the option of eggs to those who want it

If anything it’s the non-vegetarians who are being told not to eat eggs

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

@VishalBhargava5 What sources (if any) would you recommend to know the market rate for a city/area within the city in India?

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

Cult HSR is a serial footpath encroachment offender

And @blrcitytraffic Astra app is useless since I can’t report multiple vehicle violations together

Maybe they can start here for the July 1st “safe footpath” drive?

@ICCCBengaluru @hsrltrafficps @comm_blr_south

[Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 @priyankac19]

Ram Mandir Chori
Land buying Real Estate CMs
Now Minister grabbing subsidies for self gain from a department under him.
Taaliyaan.
BJP corruption model unravelling by the day. But news channels stopped hearing, talking or debating about corruption since 2014. 🙈 🙉 🐵

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

@anantgoenka What’s the easiest way to get the printed paper delivered to my house every day?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

There are crocodiles in that water. Some of the last left anywhere in the Sahara, cut off in this canyon when the desert dried out around 5,000 years ago.

This is the Guelta d'Archei, a permanent pool deep in the Ennedi Plateau of northeastern Chad, fed by water that seeps up through the sandstone long after the rivers above it dried out. The dark color comes from centuries of dung, dropped by the camels that crowd in by the hundreds to drink. That waste feeds the algae, the algae feeds the fish, and the fish feed the crocodiles, which means the filthiest water in the desert is the one thing keeping life here alive.

These are West African crocodiles, smaller and shyer than the Nile crocodile. The desert ones stay small, while Nile crocodiles can reach 6 meters, about 20 feet. When the pool shrinks in a bad year, they crawl into caves and burrows and shut their bodies down for months, barely breathing, until rain refills the canyon. Then they climb back out.

Those crocodiles are leftovers from a different world. Six to seven thousand years ago this part of Africa was green, full of rivers and grassland. In the basin to the south sat Lake Mega-Chad, the largest freshwater lake on Earth at the time. It covered around 400,000 square kilometers, bigger than the Caspian Sea, the biggest lake on the planet today. Hippos and giraffes lived along its shore. The cliffs above this canyon still carry painted scenes from that greener time.

Rain stopped reaching the region. The monsoon that fed all of it collapsed about 5,000 years ago, and the land dried to desert in a few centuries, until the great lake was a sliver of what it had been.

The country in that post is named after it. "Chad" comes from an old local word that just means a large body of water. Those crocodiles are the last living piece of the world that name remembers.

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

"I'm answerable on NEET, but won't anyway... because we have absolutely majority, and can afford to brazen it out. And since the opposition is in shambles, Rahul should apologize unconditionally for questioning our noble, pious, government that descended directly from Lord Ram".

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

@skjsaurabh @deepakshenoy Thankfully no one will force feed eggs to kids if they don’t want it

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

@therealjpk @santosh_vj 7:30 am is not early enough IMO

[Aviral Bhatnagar @aviralbhat]

Interesting, accurate and contrary to public feeling on taxation

India has the highest tax exemption thresholds compared to its GDP per capita in G20

Tax thresholds have increased over time, keeping most out of direct tax

Populist policy that's not very good for fiscal health

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

It's almost as if capitalism really does work

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

@RishiJoeSanu If this was the case, a European club would have made an offer from him after his PSG stint

International football is a completely different beast to club football. And we're only 2 games into this world cup

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

@Devon_Eriksen_ This was a pleasure to read. Fantastic writing!

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

@WFRising If the only consequence of wasting/pocketing 10s of Crores of tax payer money is only a 2 min dressing down, then there will be no change whatsoever

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

@krishnabgowda We hope you do this every week of your term. Repeatedly

In fact even if identifying and suspending shoddy contractors is the ONLY thing you do for the rest of your term, you’ll do down as one of the state’s most celebrated politicians

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

@tanvigaikwad_9 Had the exact same issue today

I’m throwing the towel with this establishment. There are FAR better restaurants that are easier to get into

[Ragavendra Natarajan @redraga]

@naveenmzs Not one of these deadlines will be met