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[Brandon Avedikian @bavedikian]

Best Buy corporate reached out and issued a refund.

I appreciate them doing that.

But it's unfortunate I had to write a post that got millions of views to get a refund in a case where Best Buy is so clearly responsible.

Before I wrote the post, Best Buy corporate did nothing but stonewall us.

The way we were treated before vs after the post couldn't have been more different.

The people at our local Best Buy store were great. They wanted to help. But corporate doesn't give them the ability to.

Corporate also prevents store managers from providing contact information to customers with legitimate issues who need to reach someone at corporate.

I never want to publicly call out a company. But sometimes they give you no other choice.

What's sad is this happens to people who don't know how to write a viral post.

It also happens to people who can't afford to buy another camera while they wait months for a resolution that may never come.

So while I appreciate the refund, it should've happened long before I found the time to write about it weeks later.

[Karan Aggarwal @karanaggarwal86]

One of the most horrific experience of buying an Iphone at Unicorn which is an authorised Premium Retailer of @Apple

I walked into the Hazratganj,Lucknow store of Unicorn knowing exactly what to buy. Asked the sales guy to get the same billed. In the next 2 mins the phone was at the billing counter with a phone cover & screen guard accessory.

I simply asked him to remove the same, but he did not budge insisting its under some offer & cannot be billed without the same. After arguing for 5 mins he gave up & asked the billing person to bill the same. Dont know how the system could now bill just the phone. I just got it billed & paid.

After the billing , the sales guy asked me to open the box which was absolutely okay. Following which he insisted that the phone needs to be switched on & activated in the store itself. I didnt want to activate or switch it on there at the store, since it was meant to be gifted.

He had the audacity to say ‘You cannot take the phone out of the showroom without activating’. The phone has been paid for & now belongs to me, how can a sales person just do this?

I put my foot down, that i will not activate or switch on the phone. Either you cancel the transaction or let me take the same.

After 20 mins of policy lecturing by the apple team & the store manager, I was finally able to take the phone without activating.

I just want to ask @AppleSupport that is this a Global or National level policy by you? If not why such policies are being enforced to the customer at a local level which is spoiling the while experience of buying an Apple Product

[Aparajite @amshilparaghu]

Her name is Shivani. She went to the police station and filed a formal complaint against the Uber driver as he assaulted her during ride. She later learned that the driver was just 23 years old and showed absolutely no remorse for the assault.

What happened next was even more shocking — within 2–3 days, her Uber account was blocked. Uber’s response focused only on “driver safety and respect,” while completely ignoring her complaint of physical assault. No acknowledgment. No resolution.
As a rider who reported a serious safety incident, being treated this way raises major questions about Uber’s accountability. Shivani is now requesting urgent intervention from Uber India.

This is bigger than one incident — it’s all about how rider safety is handled in India.
#UberSafety #JusticeForShivani

[Chandrasekhar @vcs22]

@HYDTP why did you start making the SD road paradise flyover a one way again. This creates a huge traffic jam for people heading to begumpet. It doesn't really help the people in the other direction, they just get held up at the next intersection.

[The Analyzer (News Updates🗞️) @Indian_Analyzer]

🚨 SHOCKING! YouTuber Gulshan Pahuja has been sentenced to 6 months jail by Delhi HC for calling the judiciary "TAANASHAHI" & "MANMARZI" (Dictatorship & arbitrary rule) 🤯

He had openly said he expects "no justice" from the Indian judicial system.

He ran the channel “Fight 4 Judicial Reforms".

If even basic criticism of the judiciary lands you in jail, then let’s be honest, Rest in Peace, Free Speech in India.

[Jai @Bebakjai57]

एक महिला ने HDFC Bank में 10 लाख रु की FD मैच्योर की थी, 3.5 साल बीत गये लेकिन ग्राहक को अब तक उसका पैसा नहीं मिला !

बैंक वाले मनमानी कर रहे थे, आखिर आम
आदमी के अपने मेहनत की कमाई के लिए कितना दौड़ना पड़ेगा,

कहीं इनका पैसा उठा के अपने शेयर मार्केट में तो नहीं डा...Read news

[Mika.H @FinnishMike]

Almost 8 months ago @KLM said they will reimburse my payment for this seat, which is not supposed to be on sales for passangers. Since then, theyve completely ignored me wont even reply back to emails anymore.

[Technical Charts @Technicalchart1]

Manoj Madhusudhanan took a ₹1.86 crore home loan from ICICI Bank.

As collateral, he handed over his original property documents. Every homebuyer does this. You have no choice.

ICICI Bank sent those documents to their storage facility in Hyderabad via courier. Somewhere on that journey — Bangalore to Hyderabad — the documents vanished.

Gone. Originals. Irreplaceable.

When Manoj found out, ICICI Bank had one answer: it was the courier company's fault. Not ours.

He went to the Banking Ombudsman. They told ICICI to publish a public notice about the loss and pay him ₹25,000 for the trouble.

Twenty-five thousand rupees. For losing the original documents to a ₹1.86 crore property.

Manoj sent a legal notice. ICICI denied any mistake.

He went to the NCDRC.

The apex consumer court looked at the facts. The bank had taken custody of the documents. The bank had chosen the courier. The bank could not hand that liability to a third party and walk away.

ICICI Bank — India's second-largest private bank, ₹9 lakh crore in assets — was held liable. Ordered to obtain reconstructed certified copies, issue an indemnity bond, and pay ₹25 lakh in compensation.

One loan. One lost file. One bank that blamed the courier.

Save this — if your bank loses your original property documents, they cannot blame their courier agent. The documents were in their custody. The liability is theirs. File at your district consumer forum. The law is on your side.

(Source: Manoj Madhusudhanan vs. ICICI Bank Ltd. | NCDRC | LiveLaw, September 2023)

[Backpacking Daku @outofofficedaku]

Hey !! @VFSGlobal You must stop deliberately detaining travelers in the appointment area well beyond their scheduled times, even when the visa center is largely empty, solely to pressure them into purchasing Premium Lounge access.

This tactics shows complete disregard for applicants, including elderly travelers and others who are particularly vulnerable to fatigue. It is driven by greed and constitutes poor customer service.

[Shyam @shyamfr]

Is driving an EV in the rain for 30 mins a "Customer Fault"?

My barely 4-month-old @VinFastofficial @VinFastIN EV died completely on the highway after its very first exposure to rain. Now they’re refusing my warranty and blaming me. A total nightmare. #VinFast #EVIndia 1/6

[Nalini Unagar @NalinisKitchen]

Dear @TRAI,

Imagine your recharge plan is going to expire in 2 days.

Imagine someone is following your sister late at night, and she is trying to call you for help.

Imagine you are injured on the road and desperately trying to call a family member.

But before the call even connects, telecom companies play long warnings like “your plan is expiring soon, please recharge” in two languages. During this warning, the actual call does not connect, and valuable time gets wasted.

In emergency situations, even a few seconds matter. These repeated recharge reminders are extremely frustrating.

We already know when to recharge. Customers should not be forced to listen to long, nonsensical warnings.

Please order all telecom companies to immediately stop these nonsense warnings before calls, or allow the call to connect while the warning plays in the background.

Be serious.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Two patients got a poop transplant for C. diff… and suddenly started growing hair again.

That unexpected result hooked Dr. Sabine Hazan.

She saw alopecia areata disappear after fecal transplants from healthy donors — and in other cases, it appeared. So she started digging: is there a specific microbe linked to hair growth? Could the same microbiome signals be involved in Alzheimer’s, autism, or Parkinson’s?

Her own experience with Alzheimer’s improving after a fecal transplant only deepened the question.

Her blunt takeaway: “There’s got to be something more to poop than just poop.”

It’s a fascinating window into how much we still don’t understand about the gut microbiome and its potential role in neurological and autoimmune conditions.

[Technical Charts @Technicalchart1]

Anita's daughter had studied at a private school in Hyderabad for 6 years.

In 2022, Anita got a job transfer. Needed a Transfer Certificate to admit her daughter in a new city.
The school said: Pay the "development donation" first. ₹75,000.

She said she'd already paid all fees. Everything was clear.
School said: Donation is compulsory. No TC without it.

Her daughter missed the admission deadline at the new school.

Anita filed a complaint with the District Education Officer. Then consumer court.

The court said: A Transfer Certificate is a child's right. No school can withhold it for any payment — voluntary or otherwise. This is extortion.

School ordered to issue the TC immediately. Pay ₹50,000 compensation. Pay ₹15,000 legal costs.

They held a child's future hostage for ₹75,000.

Save this post. No school in India can legally withhold a Transfer Certificate for any payment. If this happens — file with the District Education Officer. Same day

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

The shots from my remote cameras are absolutely unreal.

Hopefully will have something mind-blowing to share tomorrow :)

[Erik Kuna 🚀 @erikkuna]

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.

The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.

There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.

That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.

📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

[Brian ☀️🌏🌘 @balail]

Artemis ii

[Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer) @DrChrisCombs]

ARTEMIS II AS SEEN BY THE OFFICIAL NASA CESSNA

THIS IS THE BEST LAUNCH VIDEO AND IT ISN'T CLOSE

[NASA @NASA]

Liftoff.

The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon.

Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

[Anchit Gupta @AnchitGupta9]

Not every fighter pilot becomes folklore. Johney William Greene did. Quiet, exacting and devastatingly good in the air, he was the kind of officer younger pilots spoke of in awe. Long before he retired as Air Marshal, he was already a legend. (1/18) #IAFHistory

[PGA TOUR @PGATOUR]

24-year-old Sudarshan Yellamaraju, who learned to play golf via YouTube, has an outside chance at @THEPLAYERS title in his tournament debut.

Who is he?

Yellamaraju was born in India and moved with his family to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada as a pre-schooler, where he first started hitting range balls with his dad at a local golf dome.

Yellamaraju was fascinated by the game and began watching YouTube videos and golf on TV with his dad, Suresh. As he became serious about improving as a golfer, he began analyzing videos of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy to develop his own ball-striking.

When he was 11, Yellamaraju moved to the Toronto area with his family. He was a late bloomer and wasn't a sought-after college golf recruit, ultimately choosing to eschew college golf and turn pro at age 19 after a gap year.

Yellamaraju earned his 2024 @KornFerryTour card via Q-School. After narrowly keeping conditional status as a rookie, he won the second event of the 2025 season and ultimately earned his first @PGATOUR card at No. 19 on the #KornFerryTour Points List, sweating out the bubble on the season's final day.

Now in his seventh start as a PGA TOUR member, he's thriving at TPC Sawgrass.