I keep reading this here and elsewhere on web, but I genuinely can’t make this out. What, exactly, is a nuanced dialogue around abortion? What part needs nuance other than saying women absolutely should have full and complete autonomy over their bodies. What is not clear that it needs “nuance”?
Our city holds a 3 day fest on Memorial Day weekend with attractions, rides, food and live music. It’s always cheese American fun and we usually try to attend a few hours. This time though the teenager invited her friends to our house (we stay very close to the fest) to drive to the fest. Then what was supposed to be a 3 hour thing turned into a full day in hot sun. I and A were drained out of our soul in the weather while these kids still seemed to bouncing off walls. Later in evening they even rejected their parents offers to sub in for us and decided to come to our house for dinner! Were they done post dinner? No. They apparently had to talk something very important so we parents chilled out on first floor. After what felt like an hour the kids call us to basement and show us a dance performance they concocted while everyone waited. It was fun and tiring but a day well worth it in the end!
Rashida Tlaib is a fucking fucking idiot of the highest order. What a moron ooof.
Wow old town Alexandria is so pretty! I can’t believe we have never been to this part of dc area ever!
2 words to explain this chart: social media.
Summer plans are slowly coming into focus. Dont want to talk about it just yet, but if things come together this should be fun. Lets see.
I draw absolutely random things when I am on calls. More boring the call gets more energy I put into these. I have already gone though one full stack of paper. My wife is annoyed with my random art all over the office table which make no sense to anyone except me!
Batman or Darth Vader what do you see?
I had an hour long conversation with my oldest nephew this morning who is now phase of selecting a major and college in India, and wanted some college advice from me. He has two choices - one is a nationally ranked university in an not-super-in-demand major, while another admit is in a locally known but not ranked university, but in a field that super-hot-in-demand. The perennial question being, Which college and major should I choose? Should i chose better ranked university or a in-demand major from a job perspective?
I switched around the question and asked him “What do YOU want to do? What are you interested in?", to which his response was “I dont know!". The response was such a quintessentially 18 year old Indian student response at the steps of college. Most of us pretty much up grew up with no particular direction, focus or interest in mind. It all boiled down to how well we did in our 12th grade exams, and that determined whether we did engineering or medicine. 20 years thence, no matter what a majority of us have done decently well for ourselves due to that simple choice.
Compared to that, I wish my almost 13 year old felt that kind of freedom and clarity to say “I dont know!”. Education system out here is so needlessly fucking complicated that my kid probably needs to determine in next 1 year what her eventual trajectory and career choice will be and plan out her path & portfolio leading towards it. While I do appreciate the freedom and independence that kids have her to pursue their own interests, more often than not as I am seeing constantly around here too, the best paying jobs are only in a few categories, perhaps a few more than India, but still few. I wish I had the luxury of telling my kid, Dont worry, just get done with SAT and then we’ll determine what you want to do next!. Honestly I think the number one reason why so many folks in this country are so edgy and anxious all the time can be traced back to absolutely crappy K12 education system in USA.
Anyway, back to my nephew, my advice was being an Indian it didnt matter what major he chose, ultimately he is going to end up either doing his masters and joining a tech company, or finish his engineering in whatever major to only join a tech company! So from my point of view I was like might as well go for an in-demand major at a not so great university and call it a day.
Nate Silver is such a loony bin. How can anyone take this guy seriously is beyond me. What a buffoon.
Lack of sunlight has such a profound impact on my mood and behavior. I truly think I have an a year long Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) lol. I was so bright and chirpy for the past few days while it was bright sunshine outside and I am already dour and crabby with the rain coming back in again and everything getting gloomy again.
And just like that Nikky Haley fell in line. Conservatives are so predictably bad it’s hilarious!
Is it just me that finds this whole Kendrick Lamar and Drake fight a dangerous normalization of some serious accusations? Like literally Lamar has accused twice that Drake is a pedophile and everyone’s just supposed to lap it up and wait for…. Drake to respond via song? Like jee, thats some serious fucking accusations that I hope the law somewhere is deep diving to see if there is any merit. It feels even accusations like these have just been normalized by media and folks are just waiting on Drake to drop his next “diss”. WTF is wrong!
First Slack decided on its own that they can train on customer data without opt-in, and now OpenAI decided to model a voice character on Scarlet Johansson in spite of her telling them no. This is exactly why I am simply opposed to these companies taking my data without my permission to do whatever the fuck they want in the name of some common good and training AI it seems.
OpenAI just seems like a scam company. Their work is amazing, but jeez, its incredible how entitled the motherfuckers feel over your data. But I guess this is not a unique problem to them. Every company wants to use your data, without attribution or payback but to make something to charge you back. In some cases, like Scarlet found out, even saying no isn’t enough. Where the fuck is the limit anymore?
The week has begun on a positive note in that I was able to procure tickets for Taylor Swift concert in one of my favorite cities. This came just in time before the kid’s bday so she’s gonna have a nice little surprise on her bday! Did not have to pay any sort of ridic price at all, and the guy I dealt with was an absolute gentleman! He sold his tix since his girlfriend is now expecting a kid on or around the date of concert.
Change what you can change and make peace with things that you cannot change.
Yes? Read this on some work profile today. I feel like I am right now here, but also feel like above is quite dour!
Work has not been fun lately. Its not my own team, but I guess I always end up having this itch that I am done with the team around the 2 year mark. My ex-manager has a mental clock where she changes teams every 2 years no matter what. I feel like I am very much like her and need to emulate her.
We are watching Oppenheimer with our almost-teen and my god this film really is very very very good. I do not think I liked it that much when watching it in theater that much but Nolan did really hit out of the park didn’t he? Especially the first 2:15 part of the movie!
I wouldn’t be surprised if Israel had something to do with the helicopter crash.