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Remember that half this country is very ok with gunmen killing innocent children in school or adults and still defend their guns, and you expect me to believe the same people will not defend a president who raped and still not vote for him? Glad he was held accountable but unless he is in jail or loses by 10-15 points it all hardly matters. It’s not like Nazis developed conscience suddenly and discovered what Hitler was doing – they knew and they were complicit. Republicans are modern day nazis, so not like this matters.

Week two of RTO and people are already thinning out. As our skip level leader say it best – *People are voting with their feet*. Companies just need to adapt that RTO is here to stay and when the talent marketplace opens up post this downturn, good folks will quit in favor of quality of life and productivity. I personally don’t mind coming to work a couple of times a week but I am right now only doing it because a) I have a 20 min drive though backroads which is beautiful and gives me time to listen to music & unwind while driving and b) I dont have to stay entire day at work. Take away both of those perks and I would not enjoy it at all. I am not going to drive into fucking DC for work!

I see a lot of people (and frankly mostly desis) who post in our travel channel with message like “*I am planning on traveling to X place for a week. Please recommend a itinerary or things to do there*”, and I read it and think why the fuck are you even going somewhere for a week if you don’t already know what you want to do there?!

[Oppenheimer](https://youtu.be/uYPbbksJxIg) trailer looks terrific. I am really hoping Nolan pulls this off!

Why am i long posts not showing up in full in my timeline [@help](https://micro.blog/help) ? – I can see the entire post in the posts tab, but on my timeline they get truncated after certain characters and there is no link to read entirety of the post. This is second post that’s happened so I am thinking maybe some issue there?

My dad has a different expectation of me than himself. As a youngster I remember him getting furious at us if we ever called him at work unless it was an emergency. There was no way in hell any of us, including mom could disturb him once he was at work. And that work ritual started right in the morning when he got ready and left to work. Until he left it was a pressure cooker situation at home lest we got his wrath. And once he was at work, there would be absolutely no communication until he was back. If we made a mistake of calling him at work for anything at all, and he didnt think it was an emergency we would get a hearing. To his credit(?), once he was back home he would set aside his work completely and not talk about it till following morning.

And now? His constant lament is how we are *so* busy that we don’t even have time to talk on the phone. What can we be doing so important in our lives that we can’t take a call from him or bro? Why is there so much drama about kid heading to school each morning? Everyone needs to chill and relax according to him, and there is nothing more important than attending to family first. So I get lectures on how I should be cool as a cucumber in morning, and how work is *just* work, and nothing will break if I dont pay attention to work for a while. Yeah dad, I agree with all of that, and I practice all of that as best as I can, but maybe consider the fact that its all learned behavior from childhood lol. Ah, the irony!

When confronted with above argument, he will first deny him ever being like that and then follow up with *so what if I was like that! that was necessary! But its not necessary for you to be like that!*. I guess I agree with the latter half of that.

The Karnataka election campaigning thats playing nonstop on TV is plain upsetting at so many levels, maybe because I am from there and I know about the state as much as I do about Gujarat. I understand the anti-Muslim bias and Muslim hate in Gujarat, but Karnataka was always far more welcoming of different religions and people, even if people from Karnataka are not necessarily as friendly or helpful as Gujaratis. Reserved they maybe, but they were still accepting of others. Its bizarre to see people are not just anti-Muslim now, but even casteism is at ridiculous peak. Lingayats vs Brahmins is now a big deal, and parties bending over backwards trying to win each caste. The hindu-fication of Karnataka has been such a strange development to see. My own extended family are slowly becoming a full blown bunch of fascists. Disappointing to see Karnataka headed this way.

Thanks to dad, we now have a steady stream of Indian news channels running in house so he can be occupied. The anti-muslim anti-Pakistan bias that has pervaded the Indian news channels is truly shocking. Anti-Pakistan was always there, but this anti-Muslim bias is quite something to see and consume nonstop on TV. Its no wonder that a good majority of people in Indian are losing their minds and becoming fascists.

Wife: I don’t know why you keep watching cooking videos on Instagram all the time! It’s not like you have cooked even one recipe from there.

Me: I also watch cricket and soccer all the time but I don’t play it.

Three of my cousins live in Dallas and they are all safe. One lives 15 mins from mall and all of them visit the mall frequently enough. Heck one of my cousins was there just a few days ago. All I can say is thank heavens they safe.