This is why your state and local elections are just as important as your presidential elections and more people need to show up for the state and local elections.
Merry Christmas, 2024 - ★★★
Raghavan tries really hard to make first half a sort of before sunrise but it doesn’t click at all.
Wow sick of this rain thats been nonstop hammering since morning. Like just go away please!
As I am getting older the allure of camping becomes lesser and lesser. Not that we camped a lot but it seemed fun in younger days now it just feels like a chore. I’d rather rent a cabin with amenities and focus on enjoying the vacay itself than figure out so much shit. I don’t get the lure of camping anymore. Yes getting older is what it’s called!
Unexpectedly on an accelerated timeline my job profile changes this Monday and I am now going to manage a team of people instead of being an individual contributor. We had been discussing this change for a while at work but it was not expected to be formalized at least till April and suddenly yesterday due to some events at work, it was accelerated and now I start Monday managing people. Which means this weekend I am ferociously completing manager trainings that I had a month or two to finish 😕🤨
I’ve been watcher of SOTU going back to Bush days and I can safely say that last night’s Biden’s SOTU was probably the best SOTU I’ve heard or seen. This speech is going down as a master class in writing and debate, and should probably be taught in schools. Biden was relentless and fearless. He baited his opposition so many times & they didnt even realize what complete fools they were ending up looking. He started with a banger (You cant love your country only if you win), wasn’t afraid to call out the SCOTUS right in their eye, and then ended by recapping on a very personal human level. Fuck your old guy takes, what Biden did last night was a masterclass in speaking. More of this please till November!
Biden has come out all aggressive tonight at SOTU and I am here for it! Thank you for calling out the crooked SCOTUS!
Help. I need an app where I can take daily notes about my conversations with team. Essentially like a daily log of all notes I take while I talk to them. Is there such an app? I have tried notes, obsidian, quiver, but none quite fit the bill. I basically want to come to it each day and every day new note with date starts so I have a history. Anything @pratik you’ve used thats been helpful?
LOL. But we will continue to be a wuss and keep arming a terrorist government at the same time. Too bad we are such pussies that we will build a port but can’t get ourselves to even point a pinky finger to Israeli government. Still appreciable move by Biden!
After hearing about it a lot, saw the first episode of Shogun last night and oh boy it was a LOT to take in. As in just the amount of story that happens just in first episode.
I was not aware but once I read it was so obvious; the top leadership of Apple is actually quite old. It’s not a wonder then that the company has slid into comfort territory. I will go as far as to say John Ternus is the only viable option if Apple wants to grow in future - anyone else is basically replacing one old guy with another. (Old is not necessarily bad, tech innovates with the young and that’s the hard truth). Who is Apple’s next CEO after Tim Cook?
Every performative progressive leftist needs to read this:
We are doing spring over-seeding this time. Yes I know its not recommended or a popular choice, but given the tree shade we have in later half of the year, we are actually good candidates to do spring over-seeding while the trees are still barren and the weather is nicer! The soil/compost will not stink as bad as humid end of summer either, and if we dont have good success we have another opportunity in fall to double down on seeding. I am determined to have a lush green backyard in a couple of years!
Millions of Indian-American girls today can heave a sigh of relief that their Indian parents won’t come down hard on them with If Nikki could be president, so can you!
I dont get Apple’s constant strong arm stance about side-loading apps in Europe. Like Jesus, the phone is now more computationally powerful and capable device than the mac for 80% of the use cases, and there is nothing stopping anyone from downloading apps from wherever they want to Mac. There is no reason why we application download & install can’t operate the exact same way it does on mac. Greed is literally the only fucking reason Apple is on this path.
Constellation on Apple TV went from being a fun horror sci-fi show to now like ok get on with it we know enough physics to know what is happening.
When I became a US citizen in 2020, it was election year, and the very first vote I cast as a citizen of this country was for Elizabeth Warren. If Virginia had ranked choice voting it would’ve been Warren, followed by Sanders and Buttigieg. By all margins I was not centrist then (and I am not a centrist today either) & you’d call me for progressive as well. Even when Biden won, I tweeted what an exciting roster he was setting up for! We can all agree today (except our ultra leftists) that a) Biden has been the best president this country has had for a while (in many ways, even better than Obama), and b) the so-called bench strength of democratic never quite materialized. So yeah, in 2024, I am not stupid, I am simply going to vote for the guy who gets it done. And democrats have 4 more years to figure their bench strength out. But I am not going to sit this one out and wait for a messiah to show up at my door to save my ass.
Done and voted in primary today. Team Biden all the way. No performative protest vote nonsense from our side.
Dune: Part Two, 2024 - ★★★★★
A spectacularly mounted sequel. Nobody imagines scale as Denis does. And that black & white shots just oof!
Testing out selective cross posting. Not that I plan to use it heavily.