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May 20
How the ECG Tells You Where VT Is Coming From

1️⃣ When a rhythm comes from the ventricles, it travels slowly across muscle instead of racing through the Purkinje system. That’s why VT is wide, fast, and regular. Image
2️⃣ Next trick: look at the bundle-branch pattern.

- VT that looks like LBBB usually started in the right ventricle.
- VT that looks like RBBB usually started in the left ventricle.
Impulse travels away from its origin as if the opposite bundle is blocked. Image
3️⃣ VT comes from the RVOT =most common idiopathic VT
It has LBBB shape with a strong inferior axis (big positive in II, III, aVF).
These patients often feel palpitations during exercise or stress. Image
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May 20
SitRep - 19/05/26 - More long-range strikes in Russia

An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian drones hit Yaroslavl, Ryazan and Snizhne and the General Stafff confimed hits in Kstovo.

REPOST=appreciated

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As usual we start with Russian losses
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May 20
In 2021, Mukesh Ambani announced a 40 GWh cell gigafactory at Jamnagar, scaling to 100.

In May 2026, Reliance is back in talks with CATL — to buy finished cells and package them into Indian boxes, with press releases still calling it manufacturing. 🧵 Image
Reliance is not alone. Exide's cells are licensed from SVOLT, Amara Raja's from Gotion and Highstar, Tata's Agratas from AESC — the Chinese-owned maker that has a board seat.

Every conglomerate that set out between 2021 and 2023 to build cells has retreated to assembling them. Image
Licensing now, R&D later, has been a plausible playbook — CATL was a TDK licensee, Samsung SDI started on Japanese chemistry.

But the trick is to pair the licensing with R&D investment at scale, and the Indian conglomerates have done the licensing without the R&D.
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May 20
Nephew of #SavukkuShankar moves #MadrasHighCourt challenging his detention under the goondas act.
APP Muniyapparaj asks for an adjournment since the new PP wants to argue the case Image
Shankar's counsel informs the court that he has been granted bail in the ground case by a vacation bench

Read the details of bail order here:
livelaw.in/high-court/mad…
Vacation bench of Justice GR Swaminathan and Justice V Lakshminarayan decide to hear the case tomorrow
#MadraaHighCourt
#SavukkuShankar
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May 20
Q: What are the top-3 innovations Germany looks up to in Ukraine?

Pistorius: AI, drones, including UAV, and for us it's very important to develop a long-range missile, an anti-ballistic missile.

We need more European solutions for what we are now forced to buy elsewhere.

1/
Fedorov: Our goal is to intercept 90–95% of missiles and Shaheds.

Ukraine launched the world's first 'Short-Range Air Defense' structure within the Air Force. Interceptor drones now hit 50–75% of Shaheds.

Germany is investing in Ukrainian Air Defense.

2/
Pistorius: I really admire the creativity and power of innovation in Ukraine. Not everything has to be invented in Germany.

We have to see what we can learn, what we can improve — or what we can just copy.

3/
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May 20
BREAKING: AI can now create dividend portfolios that can generate $100,000 in passive income a year — for free.

Here are 12 powerful Perplexity prompts With which you will find safe + growing dividend stocks.

Save this thread. 🧵 Image
1. The Berkshire Hathaway Dividend Stock Screener

"You are Warren Buffett evaluating dividend stocks for Berkshire Hathaway's $300B+ equity portfolio — selecting only companies with such durable competitive advantages that they can pay and grow their dividends for the next 50 years without interruption.

I need a complete dividend stock screening analysis that separates safe compounders from dividend traps.

Screen:

- Consecutive dividend increases: how many years in a row has this company raised its dividend (25+ = Aristocrat, 50+ = King)
- Dividend growth rate: annualized dividend growth over 3, 5, and 10 years (I want 7%+ to outpace inflation)
- Payout ratio from earnings: percentage of net income paid as dividends (below 60% is safe, above 75% is danger)
- Payout ratio from free cash flow: percentage of FCF paid as dividends (more reliable than earnings-based ratio)
- Revenue stability: has revenue grown in at least 8 of the last 10 years without major drops
- Earnings consistency: has EPS grown in at least 8 of the last 10 years without wild swings
- Debt-to-EBITDA: can the company pay off all debt within 3 years of EBITDA (low leverage = safer dividend)
- Interest coverage: EBIT divided by interest expense above 5x (debt payments easily covered before dividends)
- Economic moat: does this company have pricing power, switching costs, or scale advantages that protect future profits
- Dividend safety score: rate 1-10 based on all factors with a clear safe, watch, or danger classification

Format as a Buffett-style dividend safety report with a scorecard, red flag checklist, and a buy/hold/avoid recommendation.

The stock: [ENTER TICKER SYMBOL OF THE DIVIDEND STOCK YOU WANT EVALUATED]"
2. The Vanguard Dividend Growth Portfolio Architect

"You are a senior portfolio strategist at Vanguard who designs dividend growth portfolios for retirees and pre-retirees — portfolios built to generate rising income every year that keeps pace with inflation without ever touching the principal.

I need a complete dividend growth portfolio built from scratch with specific stocks, allocations, and income projections.

Architect:

- Portfolio strategy: dividend growth (rising income) vs high yield (maximum current income) — which fits my situation
- Sector diversification: allocate across all 11 sectors so no single industry can cut my income stream
- Stock selection: 15-25 specific dividend stocks with ticker, current yield, 5-year dividend growth rate, and payout ratio
- Allocation weights: exact percentage and dollar amount for each position based on my total investment
- Yield-on-cost projection: what my portfolio yield will grow to in 5, 10, and 20 years if dividends keep growing at current rates
- Current annual income: total dividend income from day one at my investment amount
- Income growth forecast: projected annual income in year 5, year 10, and year 20 assuming historical dividend growth continues
- Reinvestment strategy: should I reinvest dividends (DRIP) now and switch to income later, or take cash from day one
- Tax-efficient placement: which dividend stocks go in taxable, IRA, or Roth accounts for minimum tax drag
- Rebalancing rules: when to trim winners, add to laggards, and replace any stock that cuts or freezes its dividend

Format as a Vanguard-style portfolio construction document with holdings table, sector allocation, and a 20-year income growth projection.

My situation: [ENTER YOUR TOTAL INVESTMENT AMOUNT, AGE, WHEN YOU NEED THE INCOME, AND YOUR TARGET ANNUAL DIVIDEND INCOME]"
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May 20
🧵 THREAD: Vastu Tips for Placing God Idols at Home 🛕✨
(For Peace, Prosperity & Positive Energy)

Your home temple isn’t just decoration…
It’s the energy center of your house.
Wrong placement = disturbed vibes.
Right placement = blessings multiply. 🙏🔥 Image
1/ ✅ Best Direction for Mandir:

➡️ North-East (Ishan Kona) is the most powerful.
It attracts divine energy & keeps negativity away. 🌟

If North-East isn’t possible…

Then go for:

➡️ East or North direction.
These are also considered highly auspicious. 🕉️
2/ ❌ Never place idols in South direction

South is linked with Yama direction & heavy energy.
It may create unnecessary stress in the house. ⚠️

✅ Idols should face:

➡️ East or West
So that when you pray, you face East/North (best for spiritual growth).
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May 20
1/ We are sharing additional details regarding our investigation into unauthorized access to GitHub's internal repositories.

Yesterday we detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension. We removed the malicious extension version, isolated the endpoint, and began incident response immediately.
2/ Our current assessment is that the activity involved exfiltration of GitHub-internal repositories only. The attacker’s current claims of ~3,800 repositories are directionally consistent with our investigation so far.
3/ We moved quickly to reduce risk. Critical secrets were rotated yesterday and overnight with the highest-impact credentials prioritized first.
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May 20
#StoryAlert🚨

Rahul Gandhi’s dissent over the CBI Director selection has reopened a larger constitutional question: if the process stays opaque and extensions keep favouring the Executive, what exactly is the CJI there to guarantee?

The Chief Justice of India’s seat in the Prime Minister-led three member committee to select a CBI Director produces neither neutrality, nor transparency, nor accountability. So what purpose does it then serve?

It merely produces a halo to a process that @RahulGandhi now describes as “biased”. If Gandhi’s account in his dissent note is accurate, and that indeed the procedure currently only favours a “pre-decided candidate”, then how does it reflect on Chief Justice of India Surya Kant?

The larger issue I address in this special column for @frontline_india is that it is not publicly known whether the Chief Justice himself received the full records of persons he was going to vote for.

If the Leader of the Opposition was kept in the dark, the judge may well have been kept there beside him. In this column, I write about what happened after I attempted to intervene through the RTI Act to uncover the truth behind the CJI’s participation.

Link to the story: frontline.thehindu.com/columns/cbi-di…Image
In May 2023, this author had filed a RTI application addressed to the Supreme Court of India on the role of its Chief Justice in the appointment of the CBI Director. The application sought answers on a few pointed questions:

1. when did the CJI’s Office receive the list of eligible officers being considered for the post,
2. whether service records, integrity records, personal details, and other relevant material were received.
3. And more importantly, what criteria did the Chief Justice’s side apply for shortlisting names and what inputs, if any, did the Chief Justice provide during the Committee’s meeting.

This was the same month when the selection process was on which ultimately led to current Director Praveen Sood’s appointment.Image
In reply, the Public Information Officer (PIO) of the Supreme Court rejected the RTI citing three sections of the RTI Act, two of which were exemptions from disclosure.

First, section 8(1)(e) which exempts disclosure of information held in a fiduciary relationship.

Second, section 8(1)(j) which relates to personal information which has no connection to public activity or public interest.

And third, section 11(1) which is actually just a procedure to be followed if information concerning third parties are to be disclosed. It is not a free-standing exemption clause.

As is routine with the Supreme Court’s RTI responses, the rejection was not justified. It is a settled principle of law that the PIO ought to justify why a particular exemption clause has been invoked and how it applies in the facts of the case.
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May 20
If there is such a thing as an open secret, I’m going to let you in on one:
Capitalism favors owners (owners of capital).
Since most of us start with no inheritance, we enter the system with only our labor. 1/4
We sell our time and output for income called wages (salaries).
The capitalist system plays a game with us where we are paid enough to survive, but not necessarily enough to become owners. 2/4
Therefore, the only way out is to reduce expenses, work more hours, do more jobs, & somehow scrape together enough to consistently stake a claim in the other factors of production we don’t start with: Land (real estate), entrepreneurship (biz), and capital (financial assets). 3/4
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May 20
consume -> create
addiction: writing??
addiction -> addition??
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May 20
Your iPhone is dying by 2 PM every day.

It's not the battery.

It's 14 settings Apple turned ON by default that are silently draining it in the background.

I changed all of them and gained 4+ hours of daily battery life.

Steal them
1. Kill Background App Refresh (the #1 silent killer)

Settings → General → Background App Refresh

Switch it to "Wi-Fi" or OFF entirely.

Every app you've ever downloaded is checking for updates in the background. Instagram. News apps. That game you played once in 2023.

This alone can save 15-25% daily drain.
2. Audit Location Services (apps are stalking you)

Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services

Go through every single app.

Change "Always" to "While Using the App."

90% of your apps do NOT need your GPS running 24/7.

Maps? Sure. That food delivery app you used once? No.
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