Vikram Bath

You do have *checks* 41 thousand followers, so I guess that can be intimidating and perhaps bring more attention than people are used to if you interact with them even neutrally

idk I feel like you’re one of he nicest guys on here

Also, ideally you’re not driving to the game yourself to occupy one seat

I’m genuinely having trouble parsing this reference to the evils of globalization and neoliberalism and its effect on American blue collar workers, and understanding how it’s different from Trump’s whole deal re: the same.

The rest is similar. I included the ending to try to give her a fair hearing. She knows she is being ungrateful and whiny but feels it anyway

Luckily we don’t need them to do that!

FWIW, she wrote this in high school. I can be forgiving of that, and she did write this with a sense of humor to it. I hope she’s grown!

What could I have done differently over the past years? For starters, had I known two years ago what I know now, I would have gladly worn a headdress to school. Show me to any closet, and I would've happily come out of it. "Diversity!" I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. If it were up to me, I would've been any of the diversities: Navajo, Pacific Islander, anything. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, I salute you and your 1/32 Cherokee heritage.

Having a tiger mom helps, too. As the youngest of four daughters, I noticed long ago that my parents gave up on parenting me. It has been great in certain ways: Instead of "Be home by 11," it's "Don't wake us up when you come through the door, we're trying to sleep." But my parents also left me with a dearth of hobbies that make admissions committees salivate. I've never sat down at a piano, never plucked a violin. Karate lasted about a week and the swim team didn't last past the first lap. Why couldn't Amy Chua have adopted me as one of her cubs?

To those claiming that I am bitter—you bet I am! An underachieving selfish teenager making excuses for her own failures? That too! To those of you disgusted by this, shocked that I take for granted the wonderful gifts I have been afforded, I say shhhh—"The Real Housewives" is on.

So apparently Barry Weiss’s sister (Suzy Lee Weiss) wrote a WSJ OpEd blaming her not getting into Ivy League schools on DEI and her parents. She ended up slumming it an the University of Michigan www.wsj.com/articles/SB1...

Gotta love musical arbitrage!

If you truly believed that getting rid of the illegals would bring about a shangri-la of social and economic benefits you wouldn't start the project in liberal cities in blue states with resistant governments, you'd start in red states with friendly governments and make an example for others

Property management companies realize there's value to incumbent leaseholders in not having to move, and try to squeeze that value out

I would get a burner for international travel now. Not for a protest though

When I was a DC intern, one of the greatest privileges I had was being able to put a quarter in a vending machine and get an entire Washington Post—a great institution with a distinctive voice. Later, I was privileged to write for it. I’m sad now.

I play the violin but never tell anyone I play the violin because, yeah, anyone who heard me would be disappointed

*receives email from property management my rent is increasing $300/month* Me: I will not be renewing my lease Management: but why? Me: you have not renovated anything in my unit and increasing the rent $300. Management: ok, but can you tell us why you’re leaving? Me: BECAUSE YOU ARE INCREASING MY RENT FOR NO REASON 🙄 2nd: EVERYONE, MANAGEMENT EMAILED ME BACK AFTER I STAYED FIRM AND THEY ARE GOING TO KEEP MY RENT THE SAME‼️ Also, I didn’t think this post would blow up 😅

Not all landlords are opportunistic jerks, but some are

We used to talk about programming languages all the time and will again.

When most code is written by AI, what languages perform best? What features should languages offer to let AI work better? Will we have languages built from the ground up with code generation in mind?

I don't want to quote dunk but I saw another "body cams don't do anything" post and I just want to say that I, a criminal defense attorney, very much like having body cams.

Everything is in the Bible if you want it enough

Rotten Tomatoes shows 5% for critic reviews of Melania and 99% for audience reviews

Interesting split

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Took me a while to remember this was a line in the Barbie movie

If you have an iPhone, press the “lock” button on the right five times. It should require you to type your passcode. Try it right now so you know how it works.

Also, if you are using a numeric passcode , stop and switch to an alphanumeric one. It’s just as easy to type, but much harder to guess:

Try it right now so you’re familiar with it!

If so went to a protest, I would probably turn off FaceID and delete some socials. I might also use a cloud-based app to save recordings immediately remotely

support.apple.com/en-us/105120

Yes, lockdown mode is not a “they are approaching me, let me do something now” setting. It blocks a whole bunch of stuff and is appropriate if you are facing a longer term state actor threat. Five presses trick is appropriate if you only have seconds

Something driving me a little mad at the moment is that Trump's call to nationalize elections is only being covered through the lens of "Can he actually do that?" (NO) and not through the lens of a deeply popular authoritarian grasping at straws to try and maintain power.

Replace “Republicans” with “Trump”. Doesn’t matter whether he’s on the ticket

This is how bad the job market for young people at the moment.

voluntarily