3TB Shorts 22: ⁠FunTech Fails, Long Word Fears and Space Burps

[00:00:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to another episode of 3 Techies Banter Shorts. I am starting this one off because Samiran

[00:00:18] [SPEAKER_03]: is in a mood to ruminate and he is being a classical bong who is kind of doing deep thinking

[00:00:26] [SPEAKER_03]: on what is the fun fact that he wants to give you. So while the Bengali is thinking and ruminating

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_03]: and doing whatever else, I thought I would start off this round of shorts. You know,

[00:00:45] [SPEAKER_03]: a friend of mine actually decided to go bald because she wanted even colored hair now with

[00:00:51] [SPEAKER_03]: all of us going the age we are. She wanted that her hair grows really evenly so she decided to go bald

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_03]: and I was thinking to myself that would I do that ever? And then it got me thinking about

[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_03]: all these things, you know, so people go to temples and then they don't show their hair at

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_03]: temples and the Tirupati, Tirumala, Tirupati, Devasthanam is one of the biggest ones where

[00:01:16] [SPEAKER_03]: people who are kind of shave hair. Why do they shave hair is an interesting thing and so it's

[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_03]: a gesture, right? It's almost symbolizing renunciation of material beauty. It's the

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_03]: surrendering of ones to go to the Supreme Lord and I thought that was very fascinating till

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_03]: I figured that there is a circle and a cycle to this. And so let's figure out the life cycle

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_03]: of the two needed hairs. When you tonsure your hair at the Tirupati temple, what happens?

[00:01:51] [SPEAKER_03]: So at the temple, 500 to 600 tons of hair is collected per an hour. Okay. What do you do with

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_03]: all this hair? So this hair is boiled, dried and stored in specialized bodhams.

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_03]: It then, the temple then conducts an e-oction and there are six grades which are created based on

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_03]: the length and the texture of the hair. So black hair longer than 16 inches is most priced.

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_03]: So they actually grade all the ways and there are many, many such. So there are six such grades

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_03]: and once it's graded an auction of all of this hair travels across continents

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_03]: where it is transformed and crafted into weeks and hair extensions, right? And Indian hair in

[00:02:45] [SPEAKER_03]: specific is very priced because we don't use a lot of product in our hair. We use natural products

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_03]: in our hair. Our hair is thick, strong, a strong black etc. So there is a lot of need and demand

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_03]: for Indian hair. Why is it used? I'll come to in a minute. So six, but there are 650 barbers

[00:03:10] [SPEAKER_03]: including 60 women who are all trained to shave 60 heads in a span of six hours.

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Everything in India is about scale actually. So they're all trained. Yeah, everything even

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_03]: hair donchering is about scale. Now comes the dichotomy of this whole thing. So you go to the

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_03]: temple and you surrender and you put your ego at the feet of the Supreme Lord and you give up

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_03]: your material beauty. Lo and behold, all of the hair which is sold goes into making

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_03]: bigs and hair extensions. Other than for medical needs, it comes a full circle for ego boost.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_03]: So somebody renunciates for somebody to get an ego boost and I thought that was such a fascinating

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_03]: piece because all of these are sold as bigs and hair extensions to enhance beauty.

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_03]: I thought that was my cynical self-cunstop grinning when I thought about the journey from

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_03]: renunciation to back into the material beauty was such a beautiful thing. And

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_03]: renunciation to material beauty actually generates about 130 crores per annum

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_03]: for the Tirumala temple. So well, here's renunciation, here's ego. I have firsthand

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_01]: experience of at least not my head being tauntured but first hand experience of the speed.

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm telling you, so we took our, my wife somehow wanted to do the mundan of our son in Tirupati

[00:05:02] [SPEAKER_01]: somehow. She's a Punjabi but she had this in her mind. So we went. I had prepared my son a little

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_01]: bit about what is going to happen. So this small poor child went there and we got that done there

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_01]: itself. So not in a Babash, like you said, there are so many Babas there. My God, the speed

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_01]: was so fast that my son realized it a couple of minutes later that all his hair is gone. So it was

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_01]: a zoop, zoop, zoop, zoop, zoop and then my son touches his head and starts crying. What the hell

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_00]: happened? He didn't even, oh my God, the speed is mind boggling. The scale and speed is mind

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_00]: boggling. He had 60 heads in six hours.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Man, he actually did register and maybe his was even faster because he was a small kid, you know,

[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_01]: lesser this thing. Anyway, so I've seen that very interesting statistics. I thought, you know,

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_01]: my bet on this time shots would be we keep doing trends, right? We did 23, 24 tech trends

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_01]: so I thought let me do a look back and do a tech failures of 2023. So there are very quickly,

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll not go into detail but let's look at some tech failures of 2023. Some of them you'll be

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_01]: aware. So we'll not talk about much like a Silicon Valley bank failure is a tech failure or the

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_01]: whole Sam Altman saga was 2023, ousting coming back and now it is again, frankly speaking

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_01]: very soon Microsoft will say good riddance. I have feeling, you know, the stuff happening at

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Chargiporty just ridiculous but there are some which I didn't know maybe some of you do. So

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Twitter underwent with this whole X thing in 2023 and there are multiple fails. I mean,

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_01]: at times I actually think that, you know, Elon Musk said, I don't know whether you're aware,

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_01]: he said that he's going to prove that he's an alien. I think he doesn't need to prove he

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_01]: is alien. He's genius mad kiddish all at the same time. So he killed a perfectly

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_01]: high recall brand like Twitter and made it X then put a life threatening big X sign.

[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_01]: It seems which is, you know, which is outside the norms allowed in building complexes.

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_01]: That was another tech failure. Then because he was so, you know, pissed off by journalists and press

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_01]: inquiries about what was happening at Twitter, the rebranding, I don't know whether he decided

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_01]: or someone in his close group decided they created a auto reply with poop emoji. Did you

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_01]: know that? So every press who emailed which used to come used to get an auto reply with a poop

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_01]: poop emoji in it. So that was, you know, Mr. Musk going just absolutely crazy. So there were

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_01]: many other such failure they made their API is chargeable. Elon Musk was just going crazy in

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_01]: 2023 with Twitter and X and I don't even know whether the relevance of Twitter remains as is.

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_01]: That was one failure. The other interesting and big failure was

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_01]: robot axes. So General Motors started cruise, the brand called cruise robot axes and San Francisco,

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_01]: you know, went ahead, gave them license to operate those robot axes. And it was a nightmare in one

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_01]: of the music festivals. Some signals signal jammers are there right in any concert. So

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_01]: obviously, that the signals that drove those taxis also got everything was jammed right when

[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_01]: in vicinity of such signal jammers and all the cruise robot axes were bridged. So imagine there is

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_01]: a concert, there are so many cars and you have bridged taxis just lying idle on the road. It was

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_01]: horror that was not the end of it. Then they crashed, they had couple of crashes and the

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_01]: cake was that they actually hit and dragged one woman across some on the road and then GM

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_01]: actually just stopped that service. Vemo had similar, so Vemo was from alphabet like cruise

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_01]: was from GM and the whole robot axes are for now behind us there is no auto driving stuff happening.

[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_01]: So that was another fail of 2023. I didn't know about this, another fail was since I think you two

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_01]: are on iPhone. So there is a big debate on green versus blue. So when I say green versus blue is

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_01]: iMessages happen as blue bubbles right dots and you know WhatsApp is kind of green and

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Android messaging is towards the green. So some genius decided that you could have

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_01]: iMessage on Android and nothing phone with a company called Sunburn launched iMessages,

[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_01]: the blue bubbles on Android and you know people started using it but what they didn't realize

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_01]: was that iMessages are end to end encrypted and WhatsApp is end to end encrypted but these

[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_01]: blue bubbles the iMessages on Android were not and there was a big fallback lash out

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Apple said that no, no we are not giving this option of iMessaging on other platforms you know.

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_01]: So that was another big tech failure. The two last I would love to I mean I would not even go

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_01]: into Zook versus Elon cage match that I don't know whether that was that was a human failure

[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_01]: or tech failure of 2023 but two last one says that MGM resorts in Las Vegas were hacked

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_01]: and the interesting part is because of that people were not even able to enter their rooms

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_01]: they were not able to use slot machines, ATMs didn't work and MGM suffered 100 million

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_01]: dollars loss MGM resorts with this just one hack which was incredible hack and the last

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_01]: tech fail of 2023 was and again this was I was not aware. So many people have this habit even in

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_01]: companies so this came from Samsung whereby they had to ban chat GPT used to put proprietary code

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_01]: their company official code into chat GPT for a review or some kind of a you know getting answers

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_01]: back from chat GPT about proprietary code and most of the companies have banned chat GPT

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_01]: now because there was a hack in which 1.2% of chat GPT plus users email addresses payment addresses

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_01]: last four digits of their credit card number were exposed. So chat GPT plus payment data was

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_01]: was hacked and that is why then most of the companies say that you cannot they have just

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_01]: banned chat GPT you can't put code into chat GPT that's another failure of 2023.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_02]: That is serious stuff now it falls upon me to allow say something so I was trying to find the most

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_02]: useful piece of life saving skill that I could impart so what I've discovered that it is

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_02]: actually impossible to burp in space so and the reason for that is that when you burp on earth

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_02]: gravity keeps on the solids and liquids from the food you down so only the gas escapes but in the

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_02]: absence of gravity since the gas cannot separate from the solids and liquids essentially burping

[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_02]: results in puking in space. So I said just you know just in case you are like a you know want to

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_02]: express satisfaction with the meal like some cultures you should refrain from it at least

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_03]: if you're in space given that you're asking a half of the people living on planet earth and

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_03]: constantly talking about the fact that people will have to migrate to one other planet

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_03]: so that earth can rebuild itself very Thanos like in its thinking but at least you're talking

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_03]: about migrating and not killing so you're forgiven and soon Samira and you will create a

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_02]: book of etiquette so what to do on the planet. So on that thread of thought the point is that

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_02]: you cannot burp on the way. So I mean just a useful tip side tip there

[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_02]: so in any case so the other one I came across was that a chainsaws were actually invented for child

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_02]: birth. No no so actually it was invented in Scotland and apparently it was used to kind of

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_02]: separate disease bone it was a surgical instrument in the 18th century and later on they realised

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_02]: that wow if it can cut bone it can even cut wood and so they started chopping wood with it

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_02]: so that's the story of the chainsaw for you. Thank you as long as it had nothing to do with child

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_03]: birth and other thoughts that I went through. I was just building up the suspense I was just

[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_02]: building up the mood and kind of give you a land you in an antique and just you know then

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_02]: of course I thought why not kind of leave you with a bit of one word tongue twister.

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_02]: So I went hunting and then I found this word it's called pneumono ultramicroscopic silico

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_02]: volcano seonosis okay it's the longest word in the English language and it's

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_02]: it's a lung disease caused by inhalation of verifying some quads dust it seems but that is not

[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_02]: the funniest thing the funniest thing that I found but there is another word it is called

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_02]: hippoporto monstrosis quipidelia phobia and guess what this word means it is the fear of long words.

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_03]: You know at the next at the next spelling that is going to be the final word where they

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_02]: will ask the child to spell it. So the longest word in the English language is 45 letters

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_02]: the word that talks about phobia of long words is 36 letters.

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_02]: So I thought on that enlightening piece of information which is coupled with burping

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_02]: and tech failures and then garroir whatever that was.

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_02]: End to this shots thank you all for tuning in and we love having you and you keep liking sharing and loving our content.