While Apple has kept the pricing mostly same on the phones I am surprised nobody is talking about how they have increased the AppleCare pricing exorbitantly! The only option when I looked yesterday was a 13$ option and a 20$ option per month. WTF? Last year it was around 8 bucks for the same and they simply doubled it?
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My teenager told me yesterday a lot of people she knew were sharing RIP messages on social media. I flat out told her what a horrendous human being he was, and he does not deserve any part of RIP. I considered a more measure approach about how you should be graceful when someone passes away but I also wanted her to realize that shitty humans don’t get the option of grace. So yeah I let it out and she admitted she felt the same about it. Proud of her!
Ugh, it looks like the Kamala Harris bug has hit Abigail Spanberger’s campaign too. She went from attacking Winsome her opponent to now airing ads that call her out as the “most bipartisan person in VA congress”. Like FUCK YOU. In today’s times if you are a bipartisan congresswoman it only means you are bending your knee to the nazis in the government. This is a party that considered Charlie Kirk “moderate” republican and you are telling me you are proud of reaching across the aisle and being the most bipartisan member? You can move 1 republican voter with that crap but you will lose 2 democratic votes in the house. Like for heaven’s sake drop the facade already and campaign on your goddamn strengths.
I honestly am not super enthusiastic about the new iPhone Pro colors. I kinda really like the look and view of Air. Ideally I’d loved to have the camera power of pro into Air. In all honesty 16pro camera has been a disappointment to me so I am kinda wary about moving to 17pro. I am probably gonna wait to see some actual reviews, and not by photographers who have all the best tools in the world to make their photos look great.
The iPhone Air looks interesting. Considering that the camera upgrades is my #1 reason to upgrade to newer phone models, and my recent thinking around buying a lightweight camera instead of using my iPhone around, I see a case for getting the iPhone Air instead of Pro and use it as a forcing function to use my camera more. I usually upgrade most years and was thinking of skipping this year, but maybe who knows 🙂
Nice line at voting center to vote for Gerry Conolly’s replacement. James Warkinshaw is widely expected to win this major democratic county but I will say that the number of people picking up the green republican sample ballot was concerning. Of course they all trended old, white and nearly dead. Yesterday when I took out doggo for a walk, an old gentleman and wife who live at the far end corner of our community who always been big fans of the doggo and pet him a lot, put up a republican candidate sign on their lawn. Fucking nazis I muttered under breath and I swear I will not be friendly to them anymore. They can rot in their sweet little garden. Tested negative for covid and flu this morning. Yay. Finally it’s behind us I hope and I am immune for a while before I get my vaccines!
I can’t feel but sad that all these theatrics around Trump/Epstein could’ve very well happened during Biden years too. Now it’s just range entertainment for everyone coz what’s gonna change? All of this could’ve been released regularly in Biden era also, except they chose not to do it. Now suddenly democrats are like oh ho we have spine now and we care about these victims. Like fuck off already. We know.
I don’t have problem eating food with my hands, in fact it’s my preferred approach even with rice and dal or other stuff. But at home. In public settings like workplaces or restaurants or friends’s houses or generally anywhere outside comfort of my 4 walls fork and spoon is the way. So when I see a bunch of desi at work eating their rice-sambhar or pulaos with their hands in the break room I am sorry I find it weird and displaying lack of etiquette. Look there is no way you’d eat naan without your hands anywhere so I am not a nut about such things, but there really are some foods you should not be eating with your hands anywhere in public I am sorry.
🍿 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) – ★★★☆☆
Better than Dead Reckoning but still so exhausting. If only they had merged both parts into one movie and let greed not come in their way it would have been a terrific send off to Ethan Hunt. Instead they took 5 star material and split it across across two movies and none of them hit the mark.
One of the funniest sci-fi tropes is that in future it’s always “empire” against people. Whether it’s Dune, Star Wars, foundation what have you – it’s always some sort of monarchy and people rising up to it. Everyone is also dressed in robes and lehengas galore or costumes that stick to every inch of skin. This is why watching The Expanse was so much fun and it was not about some evil empire boring shit. It felt realistic even if it was sci-fi. It’s also why I find most Star Wars and foundation mostly boring now. Dune is an exception cos of the movies not the books themselves!