I say this again, Afghanistan should be banned from international cricket, period. If South Africa could be banned for 21 years for apartheid, then so should the Taliban ruled state. You want legitimacy on international scale, perhaps start by treating your women as humans. Fuck their cricket team.
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Given the economy I was expecting some breathing room from fairfax county tax assessment on house. Well not to be – our assessed value again went up by 10% this year increasing my monthly tax. From 2022 to 2026 assessed value on our house has gone up by 40% almost. How is this sustainable? My community is a blend of older retired folks who have held on to their houses forever and younger families who all moved in within last decade. Given the current assessments and job market, our community is now pretty much out of reach for any first time buyers and barely in reach for folks with high paying jobs. I can’t imagine how much worse falls church, Arlington and Alexandria are at this point if we have gotten to that stage. Something’s gotta give – how can the county be out of money every single year even after assorted taxes going up year after year. Now if republicans cared about fiscal responsibility here is an opportunity for them, but too bad they are busy playing Nazis.
Sunday night through Monday we will get anywhere from 1” of snow to 3 feet(!) of snow. Of course the model predicting 3 feet is the outlier and the worst model of all when it comes of weather in our area but hey even a broken clock is right twice a day so who knows 🤷♂️
I guess we have a winner: Nazgul the wolf dog is officially the most popular athlete of these Winter Olympics. His legend will be talked about for a while and while he only half competed in one event, his heroics will transcend everything else that happened in Milan. Take a bow! Forever fan!
A solar salesman came by a few days ago and I was like ok send a quote if you please. This morning he sends me a quote that would meet 60% of my energy needs. The cost: approximately 68000$. I laughed out so hard looking at that quote – like Jesus have these companies lost any sense of reality? Why the fuck would I shell out almost 70k to meet 60% of my energy needs when I can just keep paying my energy company every month instead of chasing some mythical break even point that may never come with this kind of upfront cost? Ridiculous.
First target, now Washington post – nope you will not somehow expand your “business” by becoming right wing friendly and lose your actual liberal base who have the money to spend. You chase illiterate maga idiots you will get what you deserve. When are companies going to learn that bending the knee to right wing is not good business? (Admittedly wapo is a rounding error for Bezos but they didn’t need to sell even back then)
I stumbled upon a couple of posts on my blog from 2000s that have not aged well at all, and it’s also an indication of how much I have grown with my views as well. If my kid read these posts she’d be disappointed that I had those views once. Now I wonder if it’s appropriate to go back and change or delete those posts or let them be? After all it was me at some point.
My god the amount of AI slop on LinkedIn is unbelievable. Dramatic prose and long ass insights posts – like Jesus Christ if you are looking for a job just say so! No need to engage in so much ai slop to showcase how you are a thought leader – guess what everyone can make out easily it’s AI slop so all it’s doing is making you look dumber.
My ex manager and team treated me to a send off dinner last night. We couldn’t do it while I was still there due to conflicts but it was heartwarming to see entire team turn up for dinner. Lots of chatter over drinks and food. I don’t give myself enough credit on this part of my personality!
Google suite at work is so fucking powerful now with the AI integrations it’s crazy. The last time I used Google suite at work was in 2021-22 at startup. The Gemini additions just make Google suite stand out so well. Having used copilot and share point at work, this is on a different level altogether.