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ज़माने में जो देखा है वो बिल्कुल सच है दोस्तों,
जो कभी अपनों के न हुए, वो गैरों के नहीं होते !

Looking at white people reaction to Renee Good, all I can think of is above and then I feel oddly ok that it’s not me or my color or my country – they are just like that only 😆

I want an AI service that scans through my photos and deletes all photos that are either not nature / landscape or does not contain at least one of the people / pet that I have tagged. I am sure I can get rid of thousands of photos this way and I don’t really care about those photos anyway. Surely someone is building it?

This whole process of moving photos from Amazon photos to Google Photos has become excruciatingly painful thanks to Amazon photos app and lack of any api support. I have resorted to now downloading year by year on my local Mac and uploading it back to Google Photos. I am done with 2012 this morning so I have a long way to go but I think it will get faster as more and more photos become similar and Google skips over them. Anyhow gonna be a while until I transfer everything. Even then I am going to keep Amazon photos around until membership expires in April so I can be 100% sure I got everything out of there. I loved Amazon photos a while back but the service has just lingered with no real purpose or growth.

Today evening we had a semi-serious conversation with kid about future of this country. Today was one of those times the kid also agreed that she might want to leave, though India is not her option at all. I guess the fact that she said she does not mind leaving is and of itself a big deal.

And that was a wrap on my second stint at Amazon, when combined with my first stint brings it to 8 and half years. In my second stint I was there for 3 years and a few months and it was a remarkably different experience than my first. The Amazon of the old was so different and the day 1 feeling was everywhere. Now it’s just another corporate behemoth well into its day 2 days. That said, I have had an insane run in Amazon with incredible managers and team mates. The positive experiences overwhelm the negative experiences so much that I definitely fancy myself coming back one day again. But for now, it’s tata-byebye!

I used to think general strikes, Bharat bandhs, farmer protests and various things that would shut down cities and governance in India as something horrible and progress blockers. Now looking at things in USA, I feel that was actually better however wrong it may feel. People at least stood up!

Dear white people – if not now, when? They are literally killing your own color folks now. How long are you going to tweet nonsense and post complaints on Reddit instead of protesting on the streets every city and every place? How can you all be this complacent and this accepting. It’s truly mind boggling to see what’s going on here and the majority sitting on sidelines shaking their heads but not doing anything. I guess I know how folks felt in 1930s Germany.

Last week at this company and I have to say I am definitely feeling apprehensive about leaving this behemoth. I sometimes feel whether I did the right thing? Why did I have to leave my safe cushioned job, in this economy, to try out something brand new? What was the need? I know I was good enough here. If I had stayed, I could have kept earning my nice paycheck without a lot of effort. I could, quite literally coast for a few more years. I didn’t have great ambitions within my company and considering how hard it is to get to next level it was never on my list of things to achieve; However I was also at a good level that I didn’t need to keep thinking about moving up. In other words, the status quo would’ve been just fine. I guess it’s just me. I am just not cut out for being content.