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I once again have a jacket or a pullover for every 5 degree change in temperature. How can this be? I literally donated two bags full of jackets just 2 years ago! My wife is right that I have no idea how many jackets or pullovers i own or buy!

There’s a lot of similarities between current day whites and Hindus of India, and I hope that the white population can take some learnings out of India and do better. The reason Modi came to power is also why Trump came to power in 2016 and is dangerously close again. Hindus in India starting in 80s began feeling like they were being left out, forgotten, relegated to second class in favor of other religious groups (mostly muslim). We know looking *back* it was never true, but once you are caught up in that wind, its hard to see outside of that bubble, especially if you are living *in* the bubble. Then in the late 2000s they finally found a leader who they could relate to, because Modi is unabashedly Hindu, but more importantly he is unabashedly anti-Muslim. Frankly its not the Ram Mandir itself that bothers me, but what it has turned Hindus into that bothers me more. That said, my love for India still remains the same, and while I am disappointed in a lot of family members of mine, I am ok with the knowledge that *I* am not the same. If I start disconnecting with everyone for their views I will have no family or friends left and I’d become depressed and move into wilderness to spend the rest of my life alone.

This ram mandir for better or worse IS Modi’s legacy isn’t it? I hope this is the peak, and now that he has cemented his legacy, the public in India may start looking beyond? Not gonna happen 2024 though.

What exactly is Nikki Haley waiting on, or hoping to happen at this point? Republicans and “undecided” voters have told us who they wanted all along so why continue the grift lol. This Republican primary is over even before it started.

Finally the thawing has begun! Looking forward to this warmish week and may this be the last of the deep cold winter!

Caleb Dressel holds the USA record for fastest 50m butterfly at 22.35 seconds. A 12 year old kid at this swim meet did the same at 27.98. This is just a random meet – not a championship or a state level or a junior Olympics. It’s crazy to think how small the margins get as you get older and how much athletes put in to shave off those milli milli seconds.

My election hot take – Biden campaign is doing a disservice to themselves by highlighting the economy. I don’t think the ground reality matches the statistics. They are over indexing on the stock market and jobs report but not on the cost of living itself that has skyrocketed in the past few years. Everything is just fucking expensive now and it would do them well to empathize with people and relate to the fact that a great economy has not actually meant upwards mobility for a majority of people.

In other news our electric furnace has conked out again. I wonder what it is this time. The aux heat runs just fine which was broken last week – now the normal heat has stopped working after two days of functioning normally. Have a new havve guy coming today to check again. Let me repeat it from rooftops – electric furnaces are the absolute worst things ever! If you are in market and have a gas line to home do yourself a favor and get a gas furnace instead. My townhouse had a 20+ years old gas furnace that not ONCE did we ever do maintainence or had it repaired. In less than two years I have had this electric crap inspected and repaired atleast 4 times.

New cars cost almost as much as a major home remodel like kitchen or something now. When did car prices get so high over the last decade? It’s just insane that average car payment is 700$+ per month for new cars. This is such a scam – and on top of it many car makers are introducing subscription services. I will not buy another new car but when used car payment average is also 600+$ per month it tells you how out of whack the car market is.

Second day of swim meet, and entire weekend has went waking up at 4, driving through horrid cold weather and icy roads one way for a hour to the meet and getting back by midday. So much for me wanting a peaceful weekend after last two weeks at work!