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divya, 3 hours ago to random

I just realized why I hate sitting under a man-made covering in hot sun and prefer sitting under a tree. It is so much cooler under a tree!!

divya, 11 hours ago to random

Once again, in India, if you are rich or a conglomerate, you can get away with any crime.

"On the night of May 18, the teenager and a dozen friends were at a pub called Cosie in Mundhwa. They arrived at about 10.40 pm and ordered drinks and food, racking up a bill of Rs 48,000 in 90 minutes. Cosie has now been sealed for serving drinks to a minor and its owner arrested.
The group left at 12.10 am and headed to Blak, a club at Marriott Suites in Koregaon Park Annexe."

Notice how this Marriott Suites club didn't get closed despite serving drinks to a minor

Two software engineers were killed by a drunk teen driving a Porsche

https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/05/23/porsche-pizza-police-politics-the-midnight-deaths-of-two-techies-in-pune

divya, 1 day ago to random

Why did Mozilla fire 250 people and then now trying to hire people?? (I know why). I dearly wish we had a union.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/mozilla/jobs/5979676?gh_src=a037ef5f1us

divya, 23 hours ago to random

"Since last year, Synapse, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup that serves as a middle man between customer-facing fintech brands and FDIC-backed banks, has had disagreements with several of its partners about how much in customer balances it owed."

Never trust startups claiming to be the next bank or whatever nonsense. Absolutely not.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/22/synapse-bankruptcy-customer-funds.html

divya, 1 day ago to random

wow just got a demo for this new feature by the AIML team "Listen for Atypical speech" that was announced recently. Mind blowing!! It's gonna be so impactful!

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-announces-new-accessibility-features-including-eye-tracking/

divya, 1 day ago to random

I have got to say of the two John Wick clone movies/series – Sugar / Monkey man, my 100% biased view is Monkey man is the best and better than John Wick.

Ingredients for a John Wick clone:

• Man in a suit
• Rescued dog
• Lots of action

What other clones exist?

divya, 2 days ago to random

Was looking up estate sales near me and turns out some people are selling possible antiques looted from India & China (if they are fakes I would feel good).

https://www.estatesales.net/CA/Dublin/94568/4072650

divya, 2 days ago to random

IMHO we should stop using Latin names for birds, plants and use the names used for them where they were found to exist first. What has latin got to do with anything?

divya, 2 days ago to random

An alleged coup in Congo has connections to IDF and it is unclear if it is was a real coup or not. Twitter thread from a Congolese person.

https://twitter.com/kambale/status/1792694030578627003

divya, 3 days ago to random

How is it legal for petition gatherers to get paid per signature??? this is nuts

"Dana said the petitioner told her that he receives $12 for every signature he collects for California Forever. Another petition circulator collecting signatures in Solano County, who preferred not to give a name, told the Vallejo Sun that California Forever pays $6 per signature and an additional $3 bonus for a total of $9 per signature if the initiative qualifies for the ballot. The other petitions the circulator was offering to voters paid $3 per signature."

https://www.vallejosun.com/solano-residents-say-california-forever-petitioners-spread-misinformation-about-voting-process/

divya, 3 days ago to random

Reading the PFAS bombshell from ProPublica. I know this has nothing to do with nuclear power generation but this is exactly the story of workplace violence found in nuclear power plants like GE's. This is also why I am anti-nuclear power plants.

". They told Hodge only part of what they knew: that PFOS had sickened and even killed laboratory animals and had caused liver abnormalities in factory workers."

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

divya, 3 days ago to random

Biden fist bumped the King of this land:

"A new filing in a lawsuit brought by the families of 9/11 victims against the government of Saudi Arabia alleges that al-Qaeda had significant, indeed decisive, state support for its attacks. Officials of the Saudi government, the plaintiffs’ attorneys contend, formed and operated a network inside the United States that provided crucial assistance to the first cohort of 9/11 hijackers to enter the country."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/september-11-attacks-saudi-arabia-lawsuit/678430/

divya, 4 days ago to random

Interestingly reading about China's EV "innovations" it feels as though they are trapped in the mindset of pleasing the white people – big full OLED screens, fancy interiors that Cheeto would love instead of doing stuff that would actually be useful to the consumers.

Also thought of this given how Buicks were apparently popular in China

divya, 4 days ago to random

I am so happy I got to Scrap when they announced they have a lot of frames and I immediately found the perfect identical 15 frames for photos & art work I have long wanted to frame.

divya, 4 days ago to random

wow the monkey man villain is clearly a brahmin. Amazing

divya, 4 days ago to random

Apparently a 2013 study by Department of Energy found that rich people either do not cover their windows or use horizontal blinds

PDF: https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/articles/residential-windows-and-window-coverings-detailed-view-installed-base-and

divya, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

A wild story of a white socialite who killed a Belizean police office & who had kids out of wedlock with a UK conservative billionaire's son

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jasmine-hartin-henry-jemmott-fatal-shooting-48-hours/

divya, 5 days ago to random

Not me getting caught in the wild fire traffic on bay bridge 😭😭😭😭

divya, 5 days ago to random

Yes police really need billions of dollars to do more of this amirite

"US police departments quietly sell untold numbers of their used guns. Thousands of those guns have turned up at crime scenes."

https://www.cbsnews.com/police-selling-guns/

divya, 6 days ago to random

Someone in San Francisco has a car license plate called MATUNGA

divya, 6 days ago to random

Oh you thought colonialism ended?

"More French police arrive in New Caledonia amid riots
French High Commissioner Louis Le Franc said reinforcements had been deployed to "regain control of all the areas of the urban area that we have lost".

The unrest erupted this week after lawmakers in Paris backed and approved changes to voting rolls that the indigenous population say will dilute their political influence."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyj348wwggzo

divya, 6 days ago to random

A person in my mentions saying you are supporting an Oppressed population that is getting support from an Oppressor elsewhere, you are a bad person!

Cool story bro

divya, 8 days ago to random

Cost of housing pandas in SF Zoo:

'The project comes with an estimated price tag of up to $25 million for housing alone, including the $3 million to $5 million needed to construct a temporary home for the bears while a permanent enclosure is built.'

Why??

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/zoo-pandas-exhibits-19432033.php

divya, 8 days ago to random

Imagine being a billionaire and then using your influence to change the law so people dont see how polluting you are. Some folks think Billionaires are harmless but in fact they are the most harmful people on earth.

divya, 8 days ago to random

This whole school board thing is exactly playing out in SF too. Suddenly SF school district has no money? My hypothesis is this is a ploy by the billionaire class to undermine public education which they believe is the reason people are hating on them.

All of those who recalled the school board and did some fake nonsense about algebra are suspect in my mind.