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Yeah ok tired of smoke already. Wtf Canada douse your smoke with all the ice you got up there!

Still day 1, but match going as expected. I expect India to lose to Australia in the world test championship final. Lot of cricket left to play though.

*A cancelled meeting cannot be declined* – Well then why the fuck does it still show up on Outlook then?

I have stopped cross posting micro to mastodon. I like mastodon but every time I cross post something I am encountering a random twitter nazi. For my purposes micro is working out brilliantly enough that I dont desire or need additional validation from people on mastodon. The community out here is wonderful and complements my already busy life outside of computer.

Do we really think that an alien race that would be so fucking smart to figure out interstellar travel would stop by earth and won’t figure out the complete clusterfuck that humans have made it, and immediately galloped away somewhere else? How stupid are we? This whole notion of aliens have visited us sounds so stupid, as if Earth has something precious for whatever the aliens want. If they have already figured out interstellar or faster than light travel trust me there is nothing on Earth that would interest them. Earth is a special place for *us* and maybe if we can understand that and take care of earth, our one home, maybe we will be better hands.

Typical French behavior at Roland Garros and the dmaefup disqualification in thst doubles match. Sadly the entitled prick behavior is basically most of the country so it’s not surprising.

It’s code red air quality in dc area because of Canadian wildfires. Ask dad not to go out for his evening walk because of air quality and he shushes me saying it’s just like home and hops off. He is right though!

Public education in this country is in a [severe severe crisis](https://www.reddit.com/r/nova/comments/142mgwa/out_of_the_12_people_partially_hospitalized_for/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1). I do not know why teachers even want to continue teaching anymore. This is in what is ranked amongst top school districts of country – can’t imagine at other places. The amount of teachers I interviewed in my last company because they were desperate to leave was staggering. Last year at kids school when I did a poster presentation my “career” I had multiple teachers come and ask about how to get out of school and join the edtech I worked at. It’s just sad, sad sad what’s happening in public education.

Our kid was a bestie with a kid in the neighborhood with whom she sort of had a fallout recently because of well umm a certain boy involved. The whole story is very complicated but suffice to say my kid went from wanting to spend every minute with her to IDGAF about what she does anymore mode. The reasons why she had a fallout were reasonable in our opinion, but also I dont know if she is overdoing it. That girl apologized and has tried to make amends with her, and her parents have pinged us multiple times to get the girls together and we’ve backed off with some excuse. We’ve tried reasoning with our kid that people deserve a second chance but she’s been steadfast that she was let down & put into an awkward situation that she doesnt feel like forgiving her and making up. On one hand I want to teach her forgiveness and give people a second chance, but on other hand I do appreciate her desire of not be rolled over just because they were besties, and I like that she has a strong sense of who she is and wants to be around with. So I kind of want to leave it alone and let her learn through it without being too pestering. Its such a conflicting state of mind on how to deal with this with her.

I generally find all desi star kids insufferable in media but there is something endearing about Aaradhya Bachchan and general way she comes across along with her mom. Their public behavior even if made up just seems more relaxed, not show offy and perhaps even slightly normal. Kudos to Aishwarya on maintaining that and I hope its all true.