I'm more worried about Pakistan's COVID crisis than Modi potentially starting war.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56888541
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Ed India going down the Dictatorship road fast...
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I'm more worried about Pakistan's COVID crisis than Modi potentially starting war.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56888541
Susheel
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Was scheduled for my first shot today...booked through the government portal. Arrived at the hospital this morning and was told that they had no vaccine in stock.
The Atheist
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Jury's out on Pakistan, but they had enough scope in their system to offer aid to India, although that might have been Imran Khan just trolling.
Their 7-day average is only marginally higher than a month ago, and has dropped in the past week, so it doesn't look too bad, but how reliable their numbers are we have no idea.
angrysoba
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Sorry to hear that. Do you know if it was to be the Covishield vaccine or Covaxin?
Susheel
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That choice is given depending on what stock is available. I heard that a large batch of the Sputnik V vaccine just landed a couple of days ago.
Incidentally, registrations for the 18-45 began on May 1. However, no stock available.
Susheel
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Meanwhile...
I do worry how the world will supply India with enough oxygen containers.
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Holy crap, that's unbelievable.
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????
Transmutation?
Susheel
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Yeah...but then our Prime Minster wanted to research generating Oxygen from wind turbines.
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That's vastly more practical than transmutation of nitrogen. Use turbines to run chillers and compressors for air and fractionally distill the liquid air as usual.
dudalb
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Alchemy lives!
Susheel
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Results of the Assembly elections have been mixed...BJP still retains its hold in Assam but loses 3 seats in the state assembly; Assam has been the petri dish for testing out some of the BJP's more regressive (bordering on fascist) policies.
Massive lead for the Communists in Kerala, with BJP losing the single-seat they had; The local Congress party that more or less served as the BJP B-Team was also miserably trounced. Their strategy was to try and outdo the BJP's attempts to portray themselves as the saviours of Hinduism.
They expected a runaway win in the state of Pondicherry, but are currently in second place, gaining 5 seats though;
West Bengal was a huge blow....buoyed up by some high-profile recruits and floor-crossing from the incumbent party, they were expecting to form the government. However, the TMC managed to retain the absolute majority with the BJP managing to gain a significant number of seats.
Tamil Nadu, the BJP puppet government by the regional AIADMK lost 57 seats and gave DMK the majority. BJP however managed to gain 3 seats bringing there total to 4/234.
Hopefully, this will be the beginning of the end for BJP. However, the clarion call of "Hindu khatre mein hai" (Hindus are in danger) is too much of a dog whistle for many to ignore.
Massive lead for the Communists in Kerala, with BJP losing the single-seat they had; The local Congress party that more or less served as the BJP B-Team was also miserably trounced. Their strategy was to try and outdo the BJP's attempts to portray themselves as the saviours of Hinduism.
They expected a runaway win in the state of Pondicherry, but are currently in second place, gaining 5 seats though;
West Bengal was a huge blow....buoyed up by some high-profile recruits and floor-crossing from the incumbent party, they were expecting to form the government. However, the TMC managed to retain the absolute majority with the BJP managing to gain a significant number of seats.
Tamil Nadu, the BJP puppet government by the regional AIADMK lost 57 seats and gave DMK the majority. BJP however managed to gain 3 seats bringing there total to 4/234.
Hopefully, this will be the beginning of the end for BJP. However, the clarion call of "Hindu khatre mein hai" (Hindus are in danger) is too much of a dog whistle for many to ignore.
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Lukraak_Sisser
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It would only need a single proton and neutron capture. How hard can that be?
Susheel
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I guess there must be a particle accelerator and a collider lying around.
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One of my SOs works extensively with Farnsworth Fusors and a couple of years ago one of her graduate students wanted to make plutonium with them, alas not enough neutrons....
On a serious note, liquification and distillation of air really needs large plants for economies of scale.
angrysoba
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I'm optimistic that as India modernises quickly, it will outgrow its jingoistic and partisan tendencies.
Thanks for that update.
Susheel
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A major vote bank for Modi is the urban elite particularly from the tech and financial sectors. Most of them are upper caste Indians who constantly live in this weird fantasy where they are victims of the "reservation policies" (affirmative action policies) ensuring equitable access to education for the lower caste, marginalized and underserved communities in India.
The director of one of India's leading, state run tech universities, IIT-Kharagpur- is a major proponent of the "all science began in India" and "we new of gene editing, aerospace engineering even in ancient times," myths.
Susheel
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Also I don't think modernization has anything to do with reactionary bigotry. In fact, it seems to become more entrenched as a result of "modernization".