Oh God, please be kind and rid this world of developmental economists so that they may do something useful, like knitting.
Dark Knight
Which movie gave you the greatest theatrical experience of your life?
Not just a great movie, but an experience that could never feel quite the same at home. The sound, the visuals, the crowd losing its mind, the silence during a devastating scene, or that feeling of walking out of the cinema completely overwhelmed.
What film would you give anything to experience in a theater for the very first time again?
Oh, that this country doesn't have effective laws against criminal negligence.
A woman accidentally fell through a gap from the second floor of Mylapore Railway Station on the ground floor when she went to toilet room. The decomposed body was found and recovered four days after her daughter lodged a missing complaint. @THChennai
Energy capacity = economic capacity, in one chart
There are no low electricity, rich countries
"Energy Capacity = Economic Capacity"
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on why America's power grid is the ceiling on growth:
"We went through 10 to 15 years where essentially I was taking coal offline at the rate I was adding renewables, and essentially the nation was flatlined in terms of overall energy capacity."
"So essentially our economic capacity as a nation, flat for fifteen years."
"Even with that, we've gone to maybe increasing our national energy capacity 4% per year. Going from essentially zero to one."
"Nuclear as base load is a fabulous thing that we want to go build more of. Unfortunately all of our renewables have deep dependencies in China."
"Energy capacity somewhat dampens how euphoric we can get on AI. Why build a new data center and buy the million GPUs if I can't power them?"
@PGelsinger @RaghuRaghuram @appenz
"ஆலைகள் வைப்போம் கல்விச் சாலைகள் வைப்போம்"
Bharathi would have been reasonably proud of how TN has done.
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Seeing the word 'izzat' a lot in trying to describe Indians. To my knowledge (which is admittedly wanting when it comes to Urdu) it simply means honour. If true, honour is usually a good thing. Why is foreign SM making a vice of it?
It is an unfortunate (and slightly disgusting) compromise, but it looks like TN is discovering this with TVK, if the GST collection data is any indication.
Bharathan retweeted
A remarkable number of kids send me emails after reading the occassional newspaper column. Because they find it silly and funny.
Indian newspapers had a long history of silly and funny that they sacrificed at the altar of 'edgy' and 'septic tank'.
But I feel that people, especially kids, are just starved of silly, harmless, funny stories and things. Just benign comedic relief from the flaming depraved public culture of our satanic quotidian existence.
Bharathan retweeted
Madurai is also a lot cleaner than the rankings would suggest.
The railways has the same problem. Building a high speed rail or even quadrupling existing tracks or putting new tracks in place will be technically feasible (the state is one narrow straight light), but very very expensive.
ജയമോഹന്റെ ഈ അഭിപ്രായത്തോട് ഒരിക്കലും യോജിക്കാൻ കഴിയുന്നില്ല.
youtu.be/iIF-97gaR50?si=dt0b…
One of the most interesting dissimilarities between Tamil and Malayalam is the use of the loan word vyavasaayam/ vivasaayam. It means industry in Malayalam and agriculture in Tamil.























