Ratnakar Sadasyula

First time I tried to change the world I was hailed as a visionary.

Second time I was politely asked to retire.

So here I am enjoying my retirement.

Happy Birthday David Bowie.

Incidentally Bowie was not interested in this role, but after Nolan met and spoke with him, he was convinced.

Hello anyone from India, let's do connect here. I am a Techie from Hyderabad, interest in Tech, History, Hinduism, Temples, Movies, Books and Music.

I am gonna throw a champagne party the day that happens, bastard needs to spend every last day of his, repenting for his crimes.

Have the American voters realized what they have done in November 2024? They unleashed a monster who is not just devouring up America, but is running all over the world. Just no one seems to be able to stop him, not in America, not in the world. Never seen such a grotesque, ugly looking monster.

Trump and Musk will go down in history as the duo that killed America for good. Dictators need a large mass of unthinking people who will never question. Musk just created that generation for Trump. A generation devoid of empathy, intelligence, conscience, who blindly worships a raging maniac.

Reason why educative, informative content is suppressed, because those MAGAs can't read. Musk has killed Twitter turned into a soft porn site.

Fuck this bastard.

Elon Musk is clear, X is going to be a platform only for White MAGA types, rest don't matter. The reason why click bait, rage bait content is being prioritized. The reason why blatantly racist handles are given reach.

The American Empire, if you can call it that, on the other hand is filled with thuggish barbarians who have no intelligence, no empathy of any sorts. Who believe that the entire world should be like America.

The British Empire while being a typically colonial enterprise, had some really intelligent people, who would often study the local culture, traditions well, made excellent studies on it, preserved native heritage. Basically they understood the world is diverse.

The algorithm first translated Russian words into numerical codes, performed a case analysis on each to get the English equivalent and do a reordering. The succes of experiment made Govts invest in computational linguistics.

#TodayInHistory The first public demonstration of machine translation is held in 1954 jointly by Georgetown University and IBM at their New York HQ, when around 60 Russian sentences are translated into English, using an algorithm.

Records estimate around 1.7 million died under the Khmer Rouge, effectively a whole generation wiped out, due to executions, starvation, and disease, underscoring the regime's radical policies that evacuated cities and abolished money and religion.

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Vietnamese troops capture Phnom Penh in 1979, deposing Pol Pot, and ending the bloody Khmer Rouge regime, that had caused the death of more than a million civilians, and devastated Cambodia turning the country into the killing fields.

This led to mass production of firearms on an industrial scale. The Colt revolvers played a major role in the Mexican American War, as well as opening up of the Western Frontier, and also the creation of the Wild West.

#TodayInHistory Samuel Colt sells his first set of revolvers in 1847 to Capt. Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers. The Colt .44 used a revolving cylinder from which one could fire multiple shots without reloading.

Initially dismissed by geologists for insufficient evidence, Wegener's ideas gained acceptance in the 1960s through seafloor spreading data from studies like the Vine-Matthews-Morley hypothesis, confirming plate tectonics at rates of 1-10 cm per year.

Evidence lies in matching fossils such as Mesosaurus reptiles and Glossopteris plants across now-separated landmasses.

#TodayInHistory German geophysicist Alfred Wegener presents his theory of continental drift in 1912 suggesting all continents were part of a single land mass called Pangea before they drifted apart due to tectonics.

Around 281 diplomats and civilians from 30 countries would be evacuated from Somalia, over 9 days, following the open civil war between the rebels and the regime of Siad Barre. CH-46 helicopters were used in this effort.

#TodayInHistory Operation Eastern Exit begins in 1991, as the American embassy officials and diplomats in Somalia are evacuated by helicopters, following the outbreak of the Civil War there. They were transported to Muscat, Oman by January 11.

The better wages allowed workers to purchase the products they made, and it was also part of Ford's broader strategy implementing the assembly line that reduced production time and costs, leading to higher profits for Ford Motors.

#TodayInHistory Ford Motors announces an 8 hour workday and a minimum daily wage of 5$ in salary plus bonus in 1914, a crucial moment in industrial history, that would also lead to rise of the American middle class in a way.

The Bolshevik movement, which Lenin spearheaded, was instrumental in the October Revolution of 1917, eventually leading to the establishment of the Soviet government.

#TodayInHistory Vladimir Lenin breaks away with his supporters at the 1912 Prague Conference Russian Social Democratic Labour Party to form their own Bolshevik movement, as opposed to the more moderate group called the Mensheviks.

It marked the end of Ottoman naval attempts to reclaim control over the Aegean Sea, solidifying Greek naval dominance in the region during the war. This was crucial as it prevented Ottoman reinforcements from reaching their land forces in the Balkans impacting the War.

#TodayInHistory Greek Navy inflict a decisive rout on the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Lemnos in 1913, during the First Balkans War, as the Turks final attempt to break the Greek blockade of the Dardanelles fails, with the Greeks gaining full control of the Aegean Sea.

Turenne's success stemmed from exploiting Imperial command rivalries and harsh weather to launch surprise flanking attacks, a tactic that bolstered France's position and influenced Louis XIV's expansionist policies, leading to gains in the 1678 Treaty of Nijmegen.

#TodayInHistory The French army commanded by Viscount of Turenne, defeats a combined army of Austria and Brandenburg in 1675 at Turckheim during the Franco-Dutch War, saving France from a potential invasion.

#TodayInHistory The Palais Garnier an iconic opera house of Paris is inaugurated in 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III. It used to be the primary theater of Paris Opera, though now used mostly for ballet. It was the setting for the novel Phantom of the Opera.

Though crushed with 108 civilian deaths, the Prague Spring fueled underground resistance, influencing the 1977 Charter 77 human rights manifesto and the 1989 Velvet Revolution that ended communist rule.