Whatsascallion

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[Śaciṣṭha @RiseBharata]

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The West poured $50 billion into fast breeder nuclear reactors and abandoned every single one. India poured $900 million and just achieved criticality on the first commercially viable one outside Russia.

The US spent $15 billion. Gave up. Japan spent $12 billion. Their Monju prototype had one sodium fire in 1995 and never recovered. The UK spent $8 billion. Germany spent $6 billion. France, Italy, all walked away. Six of the richest nations on Earth concluded this technology was too hard and too expensive to pursue.

India started building in 2004 with an initial budget of $420 million. Twenty-two years, a dozen missed deadlines, and a cost doubling later, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam just sustained a controlled fission chain reaction. The reactor is now alive.

The reason India never quit is a constraint most people have never thought about. India has only 1-2% of the world's uranium reserves. For a country of 1.4 billion people trying to build energy independence, that's a death sentence if you're running conventional nuclear.

But India has 25% of the world's thorium. The single largest national reserve on Earth.

The problem: you can't just burn thorium the way you burn uranium. A physicist named Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear program in the 1950s specifically to solve this. Stage 1: burn natural uranium in heavy water reactors, collect plutonium as a byproduct. Stage 2: feed that plutonium into fast breeder reactors, where it breeds MORE plutonium AND converts thorium into fissile uranium-233. Stage 3: burn thorium directly at scale.

India just entered Stage 2. Seventy years after Bhabha drew it up on paper.

The math on the thorium endgame is wild. At current energy consumption rates, India's thorium reserves could power the country for over 700 years. Most nuclear nations are playing a uranium game with maybe 80-100 years of runway. India is playing a completely different game with a 7x longer fuel supply.

The West quit because uranium stayed cheap and sodium coolant is terrifying. It catches fire on contact with air. It explodes on contact with water. Russia's BN-600 had 27 sodium leaks and 14 sodium fires between 1980 and 1997. And Russia kept going anyway because Russia doesn't quit nuclear projects. India watched all of that and kept going too.

When you have 1% of the uranium but 25% of the thorium, the engineering difficulty stops being a reason to quit. It becomes the price of admission to a 700-year energy supply that nobody else can access.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

This day back in 2003, in Nadimarg, Kashmir, Pakistani Zia Mustafa lined up 23 Kashmiri Hindus and shot them point blank. As Zia was fleeing he heard a baby cry. "Ye karnawun chupe" ordered his friend. The baby became the 24th victim.

To forgive Pakistanis is to forget Indians.

[BALA @erbmjha]

Remember how Donald Trump and even our own opposition were screaming over India losing some jets during Operation Sindoor.

Remember how Rahul Gandhi mocked India using Trump’s statement.

Now America has lost over 28 fighter jets in its war with Iran.

Do you see Trump making similar statements now? Do you see the USA opposition mocking the USA in the name of losing jets?

They just can't tolerate India's prowess.

[Whatsascallion @whatsascallion]

@kissingerspeaks Pakistani's: the final boss of never talk to an idiot

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨 Someone built a full virtual computer that runs inside your browser.

No downloads. No installs. No VMs. Just a Docker command.

It's called Neko. It runs a complete desktop environment inside a Docker container and streams it to your browser using WebRTC.

Not a screen share. Not a remote desktop. A real computer running in a container that you control from any browser tab.

No VNC lag. No RDP setup. No TeamViewer watermarks. Just smooth, real-time video and audio.

Here's what this thing can do:

→ Run Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Tor Browser, or Opera in an isolated container
→ Run full desktop environments like XFCE or KDE
→ Multiple users can watch and control the same session simultaneously
→ Built-in audio streaming. Watch videos together with perfect sync
→ Persistent sessions. Close the tab, come back later, everything is still there
→ GPU acceleration for smooth rendering
→ Embed it in your own web app via API

Here's why people are losing their minds over this:

Watch parties. Open a movie, invite friends, everyone sees the same screen in real-time with synced audio. Open source alternative to Hyperbeam.

Throwaway browsing. Need to visit a sketchy site? Do it in a disposable container. Nothing touches your real machine. Pair it with Tor Browser and a VPN for full anonymity.

Team collaboration. Debug code together. Brainstorm on a shared whiteboard. Give a live demo where your audience can actually click around.

Secure jump host. Access internal company apps from anywhere without a VPN. Only video leaves the container. No cookies, no tokens, no data on the client.

Here's the wildest part:

The backstory. The creator built this because https://t.co/FEdEkGNdbS shut down and he just wanted to watch anime with his friends. Discord kept crashing. His internet couldn't handle streaming. So he built an entire virtual browser platform from scratch.

One Docker command to start:

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 m1k1o/neko:firefox

Open localhost:8080. You now have a full browser running in the cloud that anyone can join.

17.3K GitHub stars. 1.2K forks. 2,133 commits. 57 contributors.

100% Open Source. Apache 2.0 License.

[Ichigo A Panchal 👁⃤ @banana_sethhh]

The international media appears to suffer from what one might call "India Bias Syndrome."
Any achievement, discovery or something magnificently ancient.
is stillreported , yet the name of the country itself is treated like an embarrassing relative best left unmentioned.

While pakistani and bangladeshis litrraly reffer to themselves as Indians abroad, to feel somewhat of significance.

We already know what pakistan gave to the world, while Bangladesh is yet to offer.

[Cabinet Minister, Ministry of Memes,🇮🇳 @memenist_]

At this point, Modiji should just call Trump for fun, and do nothing, and later claim that he stopped US-Iran war after three big beautiful planes were shot down..😂

[Whatsascallion @whatsascallion]

@thvspeaks Deserved not a single indian should be bothered dover khameini's death

[Hughie Campbell🦇 @Butcher_008]

Never leaving this app

[Whatsascallion @whatsascallion]

@DhruvalGolakiya What? Do you not want to create 2K logins a month and make oAuth redundant?

[underwood @underwoodxie96]

Thanks to seedance 2.0, They were relieved of their suffering.

[Whatsascallion @whatsascallion]

@starshinehobi Oh same as you I guess😂

[sparkleboob @baysueb]

when i die i want all the microplastics in my body to be melted down into a tiny dinosaur

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

[Math Files @Math_files]

I've decided to become a math teacher, but I'm only going to teach subtraction.

I just want to make a difference.