Is it just me or LinkedIn is full of Microsoft apology posts about how the cuts were all “business” and about “AI” and nonsense. Like this is like reading twitter version of right wing posts every one of them is posting about how this was a transformative business decision which is all about AI. WTF! Like real people and families were impacted by this. Please don’t try to spin a layoff as something positive and amazing for a company. Please do not normalize it assholes.
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Trump announcing the Qatar Airways-Boeing deal reeks so much of desperation and yet the media and brain dead Americans are somehow going to attribute this to tariffs and how Trump was able to use that leverage. Like imagine if Modi had made the announcement of Indigo airlines ordering 500 Airbus planes (yeah, they did actually), folks would be shouting omg great example of government controlled communism. Like wake up people.
Agent on phone: “Here’s what I’ll do, I’ll send you two quotes; one if we start the policy in June and one is we decouple auto and home insurance and auto starts in September to give you additional discounts. I like to do that because i am a strategic thinker!”
Dude you are an insurance agent giving me a fucking quote. Strategic thinker it seems!
I feel really old today. To have seen Sachin/Rahul/Sourav retire from tests a while back to now Virat/Rohit retiring from test cricket. An era has passed, and I firmly believe that Virat Kohli was the best batsman India ever produced, even higher than Sachin or Sunil. Of course purists will debate all that, but I absolutely loved the aggression and fearlessness he brought into the team & himself. At times, and more recently he definitely has resorted to being bigger than game itself with the dramebaazi, but there is absolutely NO denying his batting prowess. Man, I feel old today.
Any strategies on how to make money off the Trump pump’n’dump scheme going on in the stock market? Because its literally just that at this point. Say something tariff-tariff and stocks go down; say Oops-I-didnt-mean-it and watch it go up. Make sure your wealthy friends know exactly what moves you are making so they can rake in the money. Its just so obvious, so might as well pls tell me how to make money off this grift too. I just want to retire and move to Costa Rica, thats all!
A beautiful evening unfolding in our backyard to the music of birds. Absolute perfection of weather.
I just realized sitting at the swim meet that yesterday was my parents’s anniversary and it would have been their 45th together. After mom passed away we avoided talking about the day with dad so not to trigger him. Yesterday we did our regular call and we just had a regular convo – only today I remembered the date. I guess with time, memories do heal in small ways.
Body breaking exercise this afternoon mowing only the front yard. Its been raining quite a bit over last week and the grass was still wet. And mowing a wet lawn is not fun at all. Not at all. Multiple rounds of mowing same area and blow drying and removing the accumulating clippings or spreading them around. Ugh. Exhausted. And this after an early swim meet today followed by an early swim meet tomorrow also!
Kohli tells BCCI he wants to retire from tests – dude so what’s the drama? Just retire no? Didn’t Rohit do it just a week ago without any fanfare or shosha? What’s all this nonsense of slipping news to media to elevate its importance. This distinction between Rohit and Virat is something I have always liked about Rohit.
Yep I would rather stay home then vote for her, or Newsom or a traditional establishment candidate. These people are not serious people.
