- Cool roofs: 'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight. "So if you were to use our paint to cover a roof area 1,000 sq ft, we estimate you could get a cooling power of 10 kilowatts. That's more powerful than the central air conditioners used by most houses". Cool white roofs are seen as an easy, urban climate solution.
- Women's lib in China: A Chinese platform is erasing radical feminist accounts that shun men and the patriarchy
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Erdoğan’s caliphate: Pak helping Turkey to develop nuclear weapons and control Afghanistan.
Reports from Syrian Observatory for Human Rights suggest that Turkey is in the process of deploying its Syrian Islamist client militias in Kashmir.
China and Russia fear Turkey’s possible deployment of Islamist militias to Afghanistan and elsewhere in the region
The Axis: China, Pak want Turkey to replace Saudi Arabia as the leader of Islamic world?
After nuclear weapons, Turkey, Pakistan and China bond on Afghanistan.
Delhi can strengthen its old links to the Tajik and Uzbek factions, provide covert help to TTP and Baloch fighters, and cooperate with Iran in propping up the Afghan govt.
- Facebook faces mass legal action over data leak: "The scale of this breach, and the depth of personal information compromised, is gob-smacking."
- EVs in India: Given India's reliance on coal, electric vehicles could at best be 10% more efficient than petrol in terms of CO2 savings.
- Shankhaprakshalana: Yogic alternative for the artificial kidney
- Upadēśa Sāra: Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
Saturday, April 17, 2021
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India should seek to get the old Uzbek & Tajik factions of Afghanistan a separate territorial recognition, just like North & South Korea. Let North Afghanistan go its separate way, and let South Afghanistan go its separate way which could include reunifying with northern Pashtun areas of Pakistan. Reunified Pashtuns would be too big a bloc for Pakistan to swallow and keep control over.
As for Turkey, they're a bit of a wild card, in the sense that Erdogan was not around the last time when Afghanistan was fully in play following Soviet withdrawal. Would Turkey seek to help Pakistan in the Afghan theatre?
China's main partner Russia might not like to see the rise of a Turkish Caliphate in place of Saudi, because Turkey has traditionally been a regional rival to Russia, even if it's not quite under American influence like Saudi is.
the chinese anti-feminist platform is the antidote to 'smashboard', which is a mashup of every woke idea out there: transgender bathroom choice, for example. but it does make good use of blockchain.
i predict biden will be unable to pull out of afghan as he plans. it's too much of a narrative loss, plus it will give china free access to afghan's minerals, some of which may be critical industrial inputs.
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