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NYT has always been into extreme tragedy porn for a long time....to get as much clickbait sensationalism/paranoia for later. While the situation is a dire one (and should not be underplayed), they have cherrypicked (anecdotes mostly) the worst of it and presented it as the entire situation...

Pretty much every country to some degree has (herd immunity) given the time it took to get vaccines vis-a-vis the basic economic consequence of a total lockdown etc (thus you basically submit to herd immunity strategy when you open up with adequate safeguards given as much as possible to...

Interesting thing to watch out for this year:

There is now some movement from US (I suspect from the mounting pressure + "diplomacy" in backdoor channels) regarding the requests made for a while now: Let us see how it goes.

Well you wouldn't catch me (or I suspect most people) training+volunteering to go high-pressure underwater in a tin can on regular basis to begin with....let me put it that way. I'm a landlubber (though with a taste for reading about Capt Nemo from young age) that likes a swim now and then...

Vaccine hesitancy is a big problem worldwide....but yes always start with your loved ones and work outwards from that to do your bit to help with the crisis. In fact India it is overall less the case (Shekhar gupta had good episode on it with some data). It is extremely strong here in North...

I lifted that particular line verbatim from retired submariner (my buddy who served in RCN). They are aware of what can go wrong in something most ppl above surface think is routine/mundane. Everything is designed as best as possible to stop a catastrophe cascade from happening (if a failure...

Submariners are a cut above all else in military....let me tell you why. The main danger in torpedo firing isn’t a faulty weapon, it’s that you’re opening a great big hole in the people tank. No other operation in the military is done like this, and so frequently and routinely (with this...

Specific countries with specific stockpiled resources that they can spare (that we need right now) are asked for help, but most of the world is not in position to be requested for help. Past the source + introduction of virus itself, the current problem is to mostly to be dealt with internally...

Death toll has increased to 10, these are mostly road construction workers it seems. Rest in peace. We are proud of our Armed forces in their prompt SAR operation:

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/least-8-dead-glacier-avalanche-indias-himalayan-state-official-2021-04-24/ At least eight people died and 384 were rescued after a glacier broke triggering an avalanche close to the Indo-China border in the Indian state of Uttarakhand on Friday, a...

We were all hoping for something else....but it was not to be. I feel very gutted about it. My deepest condolences to the families of the KRI Nanggala, fellow servicemen of Indonesian Navy and Military....and grieving Indonesian nation. May the departed warriors have fair winds eternally in...

Heh, they were DFI in the end it looks like, whoops. I was subbed to their (very good) feeds there

Happy Birthday @Kaptaan .... you now have tough decision on this car choice hehe. Update us how it goes later on that :) You have done very well with your kids for them to do this. You took care of them, and they will take care of you to the end....as it should be. God bless you all.

I just did a calculation of my own (using dimensions of boat and some biophysics), and understand where they are coming from w.r.t 3 days and 72 hours. Numbers/assumptions I used and the results: Pressure hull (using diameter of 6m and an approx 50+m length of cylinder and minimum packing...