Your Doppelgänger Is Out There and You Probably Share DNA With Them: "This discrepancy tells us that the pairs’ similar appearances have more to do with their DNA than with the environments they grew up in. That surprised Dr. Esteller, who had expected to see a bigger environmental influence.
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Friday, August 19, 2022
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Sunday, August 14, 2022
Trump's Modus Operandi And America's Weakness
Trump Lawyer Told Justice Dept. That Classified Material Had Been Returned https://nyti.ms/3w1NTZk
It's not just that Trump lies.
- His lawyer said to the govt that all sensitive documents had been returned.
- He then said as president he had the right to convert sensitive documents to non sensitive. (Declassify at will.)
- He told the press that FBI had probably planted evidence.
And the biggest issue is that the American legal system will allow Trump to say that he himself had no clue what was brought to his house and no clue what his lawyers said to the govt on his behalf and the legal system will want to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he intended to sell the sensitive documents to Russia China Iran North Korea. How can anyone prove it?
Just like he claims that he had no idea what his accounting firm submitted as data to various financial entities. Atleast the Indian income tax says that ignorance is no excuse. We are that much better than Americans.
Trump is narcissistic. He feels entitled. That's why he wanted to win the 2nd term badly. With the weight of the presidency working for him and with his ability to redefine what executive privilege meant he would literally have been King.
Additional reading:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/opinion/trump-sics-the-gop-on-the-fbi.html
- https://vbala99.blogspot.com/2020/11/trumps-character.html
- https://vbala99.blogspot.com/2021/07/trumps-character-my-take.html
- https://vbala99.blogspot.com/2020/11/trumps-stress-test.html
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/13/trump-mar-a-lago-classified-documents/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/12/trump-obama-national-archives/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/trump-flat-circle/629431/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/16/trump-speeches-extreme-agenda-2024-bid/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/19/trump-kash-patel-declassification-mar-a-lago-search/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/opinion/trump-fbi-republicans.html
- Trump, Without the Presidency’s Protections, Struggles for a Strategy: "That approach — demonize investigators, intimidate allies to keep them from straying, paint himself as persecuted and depict every criticism as a political witch hunt — was Mr. Trump’s go-to strategy to discredit the investigation into his 2016 campaign’s possible ties to Russia, and in his first impeachment trial."
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/16/trumps-slow-moving-friday-night-massacre-inspectors-general/
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/26/trump-mar-a-lago-affidavit-lloyd-green?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/trump-2024-reelection-viktor-orban-hungary/671264/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/28/trump-special-master-fbi/: Appointing a judge should have it's benefits.
- https://news.yahoo.com/trump-truth-social-qanon-4chan-memes-messages-184803844.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_02&guccounter=1
- If Trump did ‘declassify’ records (he didn’t), it would be no less damning
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/02/kevin-mccarthy-joe-biden-semi-fascism-trump/
- Judge Grants Trump’s Request for Special Master to Review Mar-a-Lago Documents
- An ex-professor spreads election myths across the U.S., one town at a time
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/20/trump-lawyers-special-master-fox-news-judge-cannon/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/trump-threats-violence/671458/
- The latest case against Trump shows history favors the rich
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/30/trump-audit-tax-returns-plane-chris-christie-maggie-haberman-book?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other: Very nice
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/10/10/country-after-second-trump-term/: Scary
- 5 takeaways from the latest Jan. 6 hearing : What more does one want?
- A Guilty Ex-President
Saturday, August 13, 2022
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Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
UnConditional Love
A friend of mine told me she has loved her brother and dad immensely. TheY are both, unfortunately, no more.
I asked her. If she had a baby whom she would want her baby to take after, her brother or father. She thought for a while and told me "neither". Both the father and brother had negative traits, she said to me, and hence her response.
That set me thinking.
If they had such negative traits how could she have loved them so much. Something didn't add up.
After a couple of days I thought i found the answer. If she had loved them the way I would, evaluated every part of their nature, then she would definitely have wanted her child to be like them. This is conditional love.
I thought she didn't evaluate this way primarily. She loved some aspects of her brother and father which were truly nice. But they also had other aspects which were not so appealing. But my friend's love for her father and brother was not conditional primarily. It was more unconditional. As a result of which she overlooked their bad traits when she loved them. But would definitely not overlook them when it was about her baby.
Same way, couple of other friends said they admired me immensely but I found they certainly didn't want to become like me. I thought their admiration for me was shallow. How could you admire someone but not want to be like them..
The baby episode helped me figure this out. They admired one part of me, not the whole of me. To want to be like me they had to like the whole of me, which they didn't.
Bottom-line:
When people love you or admire you, they may still not want themselves or their babies to be like you. This is difficult for me to fathom.
Saturday, August 6, 2022
What A Hoax
Alex Jones Ordered to Pay Punitive Damages to Sandy Hook Parents: Alex Jones claimed that a shooting event was a hoax. And he was ordered to pay $40m as compensation or punitive damages to the people who were affected by the shooting.
And there is another guy who claimed, still claims, that 2020 election won by Biden is a hoax. When is he going to be given punitive damages?
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Moto g70 (Flipkart 21k) vs Nokia t20 (Amazon 14k)
- https://versus.com/en/motorola-moto-tab-g70-vs-nokia-t20
- https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=11315&idPhone2=11142
- https://www.91mobiles.com/tablets/compare/Nokia/T20+LTE/vs/Moto/Tab+G70-amp
- https://www.gadgetsnow.com/page/amp_compareshow/compare-tablets/Moto-Tab-G70-vs-Nokia-T20
T20
Additional reading
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
AMBJ
"Against my better judgement (AMBJ) I did it" is an interesting statement. It caught my attention yesterday when I was reading it. Something stirred in me when I read it
Instead of just saying I stole or I had an affair, when we prefix AMBJ we show ourselves as being more humane, as having been immoral because of circumstances (and hence not really fully personally responsible).
AMBJ talks about our judgement. We are separating our nature/judgement or Intentions from our actions. And we are appealing to people that they focus on our intention than on our action.
Our intentions or our character (as we portray) is the cover. What we do is the content. Do we want people to focus on what we do or on our intentions? How often do we mention our intentions when our actions are not up to the mark?
The cover is atleast as important as the content.
To that extent this video is so misleading. Is this what we would tell our kids if we were really concerned for their welfare?
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