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India, Brazil, Indonesia, Russia, and Mexico are major countries, and all have lower life expectancy than the US. While Switzerland and Sweden are obviously not major countries. The fact is that US life expectancy is at the 80th percentile across countries worldwide, which is…

Life expectancy: 🇨🇭84.2 🇯🇵84.1 🇸🇪83.4 🇦🇺83.1 🇫🇷83.1 🇧🇪82.5 🇳🇱82 🇨🇦81.7 🇦🇹81.6 🇬🇧81.1 🇩🇪80.6 🇺🇸78.4 There is no reason why the richest country in the history of the world should have a lower life expectancy than every other major country on earth. Medicare for All now.



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> remember Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the Indian-born structural biologist > literally solved the structure of the ribosome > like, the molecular machine that makes proteins > really important work > got a Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 for it > moved science forward decades >…

ravishar313's tweet image. > remember Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the Indian-born structural biologist
> literally solved the structure of the ribosome
> like, the molecular machine that makes proteins
> really important work
> got a Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 for it
> moved science forward decades
>…

indians have zero contribution in biology



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You're not depressed, you just lost your quest.

NTFabiano's tweet image. You're not depressed, you just lost your quest.

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No rare-earths = no defense Outsourcing rare-earths supply to China was the biggest geopolitical mistake since WWII. But we care about environment and rare-earths mining & melting is greener in China than in the US and Europe, right?

MichaelAArouet's tweet image. No rare-earths = no defense

Outsourcing rare-earths supply to China was the biggest geopolitical mistake since WWII. 

But we care about environment and rare-earths mining & melting is greener in China than in the US and Europe, right?

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The biggest issue in every major economy currently, from America to the UK to China to Germany is the simple fact that we have likely hit peak White Collar service economy from a labor perspective. We are in a new era of structural heightened unemployment. The system cannot…


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Hence why I keep telling people to think and act local, but will they ever get the message? let's see. The era of paying attention to global bullshit for most people has to come to an end. x.com/okaythenfuture…

I’ve seen a lot of hating on this tweet but I’m inclined to agree with it. The happiest people I know are all fully locked in on their personal lives in a huge way, if a news story or development is honestly big enough to impact your life you’ll run into it regardless(COVID…



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You think? The Western masses are desperately in need of history classes. This was the compromise that was agreed upon, perpetual Keynesianism in order to support massive social safety nets and avoid the discomfort of employment disruption and for retraining.


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Also she is the most difficult person to sing "Happy Birthday" to.

Tu Youyou became the first mainland Chinese scientist to be awarded a #NobelPrize in a scientific field - for discovering artemisinin, a malaria cure that’s saved millions. Today we reveal the 2025 medicine laureate. Stay tuned.

NobelPrize's tweet image. Tu Youyou became the first mainland Chinese scientist to be awarded a #NobelPrize in a scientific field - for discovering artemisinin, a malaria cure that’s saved millions. Today we reveal the 2025 medicine laureate. Stay tuned.


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Hmm.. heard that somewhere before.. 🤔

rao2z's tweet image. Hmm.. heard that somewhere before.. 🤔
rao2z's tweet image. Hmm.. heard that somewhere before.. 🤔

It ain't "The Bitter Lesson" if you are in the loop curating the training data for your LLM, y'all.. Pick your lesson, will ya? #SundayHarangue (h/t @kayastechly)

rao2z's tweet image. It ain't "The Bitter Lesson" if you are in the loop curating the training data for your LLM, y'all.. Pick your lesson, will ya? #SundayHarangue (h/t @kayastechly)


RipVanWinkle … zzzz reposted

Bitter Pill: The thing tech bros are busy swallowing after finding their interpretation of Sutton's Bitter Lesson may have been too facile after all.. #AIAphorisms (This is like Jesus showing up in a mega church and casually saying "naah, Prosperity Gospel isn't a thing".😅)

You were never alone, Gary, though you were the first to bite the bullet, to fight the good fight, and to make the argument well, again and again, for the limitations of LLMs. I salute you for this good service!



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There is however this photo of someone wearing a partial pressure suit and holiding a glass of water with his bare hands. The pressure is low enough the water is being boiled by his bare hands.

DJSnM's tweet image. There is however this photo of someone wearing a partial pressure suit and holiding a glass of water with his bare hands. The pressure is low enough the water is being boiled by his bare hands.

RipVanWinkle … zzzz reposted

Every ticket is a slap on the face of the Pahalgam victims. If you want to know why we were colonised for 1000 years, look no further. A whole county that will sell itself out for a few crores. We get what we deserve.

So people watched on TV. People watching in the stadium. All tickets sold. BCCI makes fortunes. How many Indians boycotted? And what happened to the teras of 28 widows? What happened to shut the Indus waters? What happened to 'shut the air space, shut the oceans, close down all…

Raviravirai's tweet image. So people watched on TV. People watching in the stadium. All tickets sold. BCCI makes fortunes. How many Indians boycotted? And what happened to the teras of 28 widows? What happened to shut the Indus waters? What happened to 'shut the air space, shut the oceans, close down all…


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The noise of firecrackers and the Twitter timeline suggest that India has won the Asia Cup. As soon as India lifted the cup, Pakistan was diplomatically isolated internationally, cross-border terrorism came to a halt, Islamabad issued an apology for the Pahalgam massacre, PoK…


Jony Ive is overrated

it's incredible how beholden wypipos are to preening. What matters is ideas! The signal of creativity, originality, unique mate value! Operations? That's not sexy, that's for the Chinese. Well, real world is not sexy. Me and Elon will teach them.



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In China socialism doesn’t mean a generous social welfare. That’s considered wasteful and lazy. Rather, it means for the state to gather and control resources to “do big things” and for the state to own stakes in strategic sectors and key companies and give them directives. It’s…


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can’t argue the way you are @Why__Knot against the data being presented. Only hope is ppl realize that both US & China, in fact the whole world needs to work together for advancement of humanity. Currently there are several headwinds 1/3


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AI may not be hype, but the West has neither the money nor the people to keep pace with it. Even if it can teach more people, education is 5%. The West doesn't even have the money for industrial robots. The baby boomer generation has to go before any reforms. 23 more years to go.


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we will need the whole world to succeed then, not just China !


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people in West fretting over a business canceling a guy for spreading misinformation while the poor suffer while China marches ahead with secular authoritarianism, the West is truly doomed for the next 60 years


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"The man in this picture is not a pauper, nor a beggar, nor a vagabond. This is Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy - a giant of Russian and world literature. At the age of fifty, Tolstoy fell into a deep depression. There was no external cause - he had everything. He was a count, rich,…

SlavFreeSpirit's tweet image. "The man in this picture is not a pauper, nor a beggar, nor a vagabond. This is Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy - a giant of Russian and world literature.

At the age of fifty, Tolstoy fell into a deep depression. There was no external cause - he had everything. He was a count, rich,…

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