One of the wonderful parts about the internet is you can become an expert in any topic within 24 hours. Right now everyone seems to be PHD level expert in Venezuela. I guess tomorrow we tackle another topic.
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🍿 Haq (2025) – ★★★★☆
A well made well acted movie based on life of Shah Bano Begum, whose fight for equal rights for Muslim women went all the way to Supreme Court. The movie is simple and that’s what works – no jingoism or tamasha.
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Ukraine and Venezuela are exactly why countries like North Korea and Iran are chasing nuclear weapons. In today’s world if you are a decently big country, not investing in nuclear deterrance and not having a mutually assured destruction strategy is basically a recipe for disaster. I am so happy India never signed on to the NPT and CTBT treaty nonsense.
I don’t wake up every morning and wish someone was just dead but today was one such morning. Like Jesus what is it going to take?
Currently my photo backup solution is three fold: 1/iCloud 2TB plan which I treat as extension to my phone backup. 2/Google photos 200GB which serves as the primary sharing mechanism coz everyone uses google and I love google photos experience and 3/Amazon Photos as my primary backup solution with 1TB space – Amazon only considers video as storage and offers unlimited photo experience. All put together I still have only 1.1TB in Amazon. I have now decided to consolidate Amazon Photos into Google Photos. I was misinformed that Google Photos requires you to also have the same copy on your device. In fact it doesn’t it seems – once you backup to google, you can in fact remove copies from your phone. Amazon Photos is woefully stuck in 2000s with horrible Ux, horrible 3P support and just horrible catalog management. I am in the process of moving photos from Amazon photos as well to Google Photos and turns out there is absolutely no easy way to do so, so it’s gonna be a painful couple of weeks. With Gemini Pro giving 2TB storage, at 9.99$ a month it seems like a no brainer to go for this instead of this combination of Google photos and Amazon photos. I can finally just use one storage solution plus get all Google photos benefit.
Apple said it would take between 3-7 days to transfer photos and media from iCloud to Google Photos. It’s day 6 and not one extra gigabyte of space has been consumed on Google Photos so I can only assume that the transfer has not even started. I wonder how many days does it really take?
This year I am trying to determine if there is any value in tracking my fidelity account with Monarch. Fidelity and Monarch is a mess and I constantly have to keep creating rules for 100s of journal entries that Fidelity keeps creating for no reason each month. Thanks to gemini I have been able to figure out most of them to create rules but now I am wondering why am I even doing it? Shouldn’t I just use monarch to track spending and that’s it? Why am I using it for multiple purposes – why should I not just use fidelity to track investments and just monarch for spending only? I am rethinking my monarch strategy for this year entirely.
As I prepare to leave the company I removed the device management certificates and apps from my phone immediately to avoid any last minute IT surprises. I mostly care about my photos and videos. Removing those apps did in fact screw up my contact list. Half my contacts have just lost their names and they are just numbers. Thanks to history I know who most of them are, but I am still finding contacts with no names. Sigh…
The 60s through 90s provided such a unique time & settings for stories like The Wonder Years and Stranger Things to be told through growing up years of kids. Of course nostalgia factor and music is a huge reason why these series succeed in first place, but I wonder post 2000s what kind of “growing up” stories can really be told anymore? I feel like the 90s provide maybe another opportunity for a growing-up show to be made with a bunch of kids, but I am hard pressed to imagine what might such stories look like in a post 2000 world. Like can you imagine a growing-up show in future about today’s teenagers? What might it be about? Roblox? Video games? 6-7? Tiger parenting? Organized sports & schedules? All of it sounds so depressing… is this what our kids are going through?