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ಮೇಷ್ಟ್ರು ಹೊಡೆತ 🔥😍🫡
Best decision by the @DKShivakumar government! 👏👏
🥛 ₹8 per litre milk price hike, with ₹7 going directly to farmers and ₹1 to KMF.
Farmers had sought a ₹10 hike, and this decision will provide much-needed financial support to lakhs of dairy farmers, especially during drought conditions. 🌾
A government that stands with its farmers! 💪🔥
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Very similar to Cambodia.
I was in Cambodia recently, advising an NGO that rescues girls from traffickers. I walked those streets in Phnom Penh. Bars with little children standing outside, forced to sell themselves. You lose faith in humanity after seeing children held as sex slaves. And old, washed-up men lusting after them. I learned the history of how this started.
In the early 1990s, Cambodia was emerging from two decades of hell. The Khmer Rouge had killed nearly two million people. Civil war followed. The UN sent some 20,000 peacekeepers under UNTAC in 1991 to oversee the transition to democracy. They brought money, power, and demand.
Before UNTAC arrived, Cambodia had about 6,000 sex workers. By 1993, when the mission ended, that number had exploded to over 25,000. The UN’s own reports documented peacekeepers buying sex from women and children. When the head of UNTAC, Yasushi Akashi, was confronted about it, his response became infamous: “Boys will be boys.”
The full quote is worse. “Eighteen-year-old hot-blooded soldiers who come in from the field after working hard should be able to chase after young, beautiful beings of the opposite sex.”
The leadership did not shut it down. They told peacekeepers not to wear uniforms when visiting brothels and not to park UN vehicles directly outside. When an HIV epidemic broke out and increased demand for younger girls on the assumption that they were disease-free, the UN’s response was to ship 800,000 condoms to Cambodia.
When UNTAC left, the infrastructure of exploitation remained. Brothel owners discovered they could make more money catering to foreign tourists and local pedophiles wanting sex with children. Cambodia became known on international pedophile networks as “the new frontier.” By the early 2000s, officials estimated the average age of sex workers in Phnom Penh was 15.
Akashi was never removed. He was promoted. He went on to serve as UN Special Representative in Bosnia. He received Sri Lanka’s highest national honor for foreign nationals.
Thirty years later, the boys are gone. Now it is all old men. The children are still there.
BREAKING: Switzerland suspends funding to Doctors Without Borders after it failed to report that its staff exploited refugee women and girls for sex—in exchange for aid, jobs and money. Previously, 🇨🇭 called MSF “a source of best practice and inspiration.” swissinfo.ch/eng/internation…
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Dainik Bhaskar's expose uncovered 40 properties linked to an IAS officer.
It's shameful that a newspaper has to do the job the govt. agencies should be doing.
Abolish income Tax!!
We can't even buy one flat and these guys are using our tax to buy 40 properties!
दैनिक भास्कर के खुलासे के बाद IAS शिखर अग्रवाल को सभी पदों से हटाया: ढाई साल में एक कंपनी से 40 कॉटेज, विला खरीदने की जानकारी; जानें क्या है पूरा मामला
#RajasthanNews #HindiNews #IAS #DainiBhaskar #Investigation
dainik.bhaskar.com/kiJRjQ97C…
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Every IAS/IRS babu in EPFO must use their website everyday for 2 hours until they resign out of frustration. This is torture and death by a thousand cuts. Who designs a website which doesn't work 95% of the time.
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india announces a ministry of compute. within a year, we have a cabinet minister, two ministers of state, 14 committees, 300 ias officers, a ₹5,000 crore headquarters and a new portal that crashes on launch.
the GPUs are still imported from nvidia.
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- Flávio Bolsonaro - Rahul Gandhi
- 45 years old - 56 years old
- Son of ex-prez - Son of ex-PM
- Failed dynast - Failed dynast
- Wannabe Prez - Wannabe PM
- Blames "vote chori" - Blames "vote chori"
- Elon suppprts him - Elon supports him
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“Snake will never attack you if you don’t attack first” 🤡🤡
"SERPIENTE ATACA UN PERRO EN UNA FINCA"
Una cámara de seguridad captó el momento exacto en que un pastor belga malinois descansaba tranquilamente en el pasillo exterior de su casa durante la madrugada. Sin previo aviso, una serpiente de gran tamaño se desliza a través de la reja y se acerca sigilosamente a solo unos centímetros de él.
En una milésima de segundo, el perro detecta la presencia del reptil, reacciona de un salto esquivando cualquier posible ataque y de inmediato se pone en guardia para ladrar y alertar a su dueño, quien sale enseguida a revisar la situación.
Una muestra impresionante del instinto de alerta y agilidad de esta raza protegiendo su hogar.
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Meanwhile en Armenia:
- La oposición propone crear un "Ministerio de Mujeres insatisfechas" para mejorar las tasas de natalidad.
- El portavoz del Gobierno les pregunta si van a estar sus madres.
El resto es historia y una oda al parlamentarismo post-soviético.
Enjoy.
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At some stage this will have to be addressed. Presumably before 2047.
cc: @narendramodi
sundayguardianlive.com/news/…
Indiahould no longer treat the structure inherited from the Raj as beyond question. If the All India Services cannot be made genuinely accountable to the public and the elected government, the country must be prepared to consider whether they should be fundamentally restructured or abolished and replaced with a system better suited to a democratic republic.
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Civilized societies prioritize saving human lives, maximizing their happiness, and minimizing their fears. Many dog owners spend time and money to train, vaccinate, and neuter their pets to live responsibly in their societies.
On the other hand, the so-called "dog lovers" of India only want to feed and pet the strays without being responsible for the trauma, deaths, and accidents on Indian streets they cause. They must give up the selfishness of their low-touch attachment and oxytocin hits to prevent such unfortunate incidents and let municipalities do their job of animal control.
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Japanese chipmaker Rapidus was founded in August 2022, and by mid 2025, they had a 2nm process working on a pilot line.
Worried by India’s lack of compute sovereignty, I asked a professor of mine why we couldn’t replicate this effort- he answered with one word - Talent.
Japan has been working with semiconductors since basically the invention of the transistor- consequently they’ve developed individual and organisational knowhow and tacit knowledge on how to build this industry - this looks like individual engineers knowing how to optimise a dose matrix, identify lithographic defects, figure out which step led to a bad IV curve- but also organisations as a whole having the knowhow and discipline on how to make ultrapure chemicals, how to decontaminate a part and how to install and maintain equipment.
To develop the talent you need the ecosystem that can train the knowhow, and to develop the ecosystem you need the talent- this is a chicken and egg problem.
In August 2025, we started @hackerfabindia and have been building open source equipment to fabricate semiconductors. Simultaneously, @itsarnavb and @_lagrangepoint have been working on discovering and nurturing talent all over the country.
Arnav and I sat down a couple of months ago, and brainstormed how we can solve this chicken and egg problem - and Junction is the fruit of that discussion.
We will bring the best and brightest builders from colleges all over the country under one roof, and equip them with funding and mentorship from experts in academia and the industry. The idea is to get the hands-on knowledge, context and confidence by building small projects now- to go on to building big, frontier projects in the industry.
We hope for Junction to spring up many chapters of HackerFab all over the country - centres which will mirror this ethos of learning by building- while being linked to India’s larger semiconductor mission.
If India in 2026 can start building a pipeline producing the best semiconductor talent - it’s exciting to think about where that gets us 10-15 years from now.
The journey from sand to superintelligence is driven by talent, and Junction is where talent comes together. The current in a PN junction diode takes off exponentially once the threshold voltage is crossed -- the journey for India’s Semiconductor Mission to cross its threshold is a challenging one. Join and help us catalyse it!
Launching Junction: come speed-run the semiconductor tech tree this December in Bangalore.
We’re flying in students from all over India 🇮🇳 to a 2-week fabrication retreat at @_lagrangepoint to build equipment, design chips and engineer processes, with our friends at @hackerfabindia.
India still needs thousands of semicon engineers -- the ecosystem to produce them isn’t mature enough yet -- we're changing that.
Current applicants have built vacuum chambers to study plasma physics, RISC-V processors from scratch, scanning tunneling microscopes, et cetera
At junction you will:
1. Propose a project
2. Figure out a plan with the Junction team.
3. Iterate fast towards a working prototype, with help from the Junction team
4. Be mentored by top semiconductor hackers and specialists.
5. Demo to industry leaders, founders, investors, and your fellow craftspeople
Flights, accommodation and project expenses? All covered. Apply on the link below
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New property scam in Mysore/Bangalore:
First, someone approaches you pretending to be a genuine tenant and offers an high monthly rent to get the place to rent.
Once they move in, they fraudulently lease the same property to someone else posing they are the owners for 3 years and approx ₹25 lakhs, collect the money, and then abscond.
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In his speech to the House of Commons on 11 February 1935, Winston Churchill adamantly opposed giving India any chance at self-government, saying if Britain withdrew from India then:
“India will descend, not quite into the perils of Europe but into the squalor and anarchy of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.”
Wish the porker was alive to see Britain looking like a slum belonging to the Islamic Middle Ages today.
Karma never forgets.
