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Shogun has been going on for so long (only 10 weeks) packed with so much that I have forgotten what the conflict was all about and why are they even at war 😂

Honestly, Trump is right on this one:

>[Trump asks why Europe isn’t giving Ukraine more aid as Johnson presses forward](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4603096-trump-asks-why-europe-isnt-giving-ukraine-more-aid/)

The only thing Ukraine has proved to me so far is how incapable Europe is at defending itself without USA. Its frankly laughable at this point in the game that European countries still don’t have any skin in the game and Ukraine is literally begging USA for aid (which it should give!) – but frankly, in event of an all out war Europe basically has no skin in the game. I doubt any of the European countries can even defend themselves without American support (so yeah, thanks my tax dollars!). Heck they won’t even band up to support one another.

The Indian foreign minister’s Jaishankar’s comments in 2022 was absolutely and 100% right:

> [‘Europe Has to Grow Out of Mindset That Its Problems Are World’s Problems](https://thewire.in/government/europe-has-to-grow-out-of-mindset-that-its-problems-are-worlds-problems-jaishankar)

Indeed, it has now become an American problem (because rest of world very smartly stayed out it!) while Europe sits on its thumb and makes a big deal about their other aid to Ukraine except helping them the one place that matters the most. While we are it, why is the USA still funding the genocidal government of Israel is also beyond me. I wish I could check a box on my taxes that said “No fucking aid to Israel out of my tax dollars”.

5 years ago I had no clue about Taylor Swift’s discography except *shake it off*. Today I am listening to her double album like a giddy teenager, anxiously waiting to finish the new album so I can have detailed conversations with my daughter about it. Without my daughter I would’ve never discovered this side of my life and I am so loving it!

Israel just can’t shut up can it? The motherfucker really wants to drag the USA into another war never mind the impact to his own citizens or USA. What a fucking prick.

I’ve been looking for Taylor Swift concert tickets. One of my surprising observations (well not surprising now) has been how many fake scammers and cheats have pervaded facebook groups and marketplaces. Its absolutely insane the amount of fake profiles, sellers and users all claiming to sell fake tickets to rip you off. The surprising place where the opposite is true, and most sellers tend to be actually real? Reddit. I would’ve never imagined this to be true, but here we are. Goes to illustrate how much Facebook is now infiltrated with spam.

This is my second stint as a people manager in the last couple of years. One was at the startup, and now again in this big ass company. Profile wise the charter of both teams was the same, so people in team are almost alike. My take is men are far more easier to manage than women. It was true at the startup and its proving true here as well. I spend double the time managing the women in my team than the men. Its rather idiotic because the women in team are actually far, far, far better at their jobs than the men, but every one of them demands way more individual attention than men. On the flip side men tend to lose focus and get astray way more than women. Women are hyper focussed on a task and see it through completion. With men things often just fall through the cracks and the expectations often are “this is normal” (no, its not). That said, its way easier to be blunt with them and tell them they fucked up than women where you have tiptoe a very thin line because you don’t want to come across as offensive.

I am truly beginning to believe that Americans (read mostly white) secretly *do* want Trump to win back presidency this year. They absolutely do want Trump to destroy democracy as we know it. And then assuming there are elections (if, that is), the same Americans (read mostly white) want to swoop in and save the day, thereby telling rest of the world how awesome they are that they saved the the country from brink of disaster, yet again. I get a feeling a sizeable majority of people are actually thinking that they can enact the white savior syndrome in reality. I hope i am wrong.

The best advice my manager gave me this morning (who knew managers could do that?) was in a workplace conflict the moment you say “I”, the conflict becomes about you! So much truth to unpack there.

If I need a dictionary to understand the theme word for photo challenge I probably have nothing to share lol.

In other news yesterday our AC cranked. The absolute shite of a unit we have conks out both in summer and winter. To think the previous owner put a 2021 model in this house. Anyhoo, the HVAC guy comes in today and says the last guy who came to fix in January did the wrong thing; that guy told us our system was a 2-stage system that was “misconfigured” as a 1-stage system and hence it wasn’t heating enough. Today, the technician says, well setting it as a 2-stage system is putting a lot of pressure on the system because its an oversized system for our house and we don’t have enough air movers. So best thing to do is, well, you guessed it, set it back to 1-stage system. He also did some other stuff and now is very confident (just like the previous guy) that they’ve fixed this once and for all and henceforth all my HVAC issues should be resolved! We’ll see in 3 months about that. Glad I dont have to pay for any of this shit. This HVAC has been a nightmare and I am probably 2 steps away from replacing it entirely!