The way people display success is quietly changing.
For years, wealth was measured by what you owned. A luxury watch. A premium car. A large home in the right neighbourhood. The bigger the asset, the stronger the signal.
Today, many young professionals are making very different choices.
They are comfortable renting instead of buying. They don’t mind carrying an older phone or wearing a simple watch. But they’ll happily spend on international travel, music festivals, fine dining, or experiences they’ll remember for years.
Status is becoming less about possessions and more about the freedom to choose how you live.
Ownership is no longer the only symbol of success. Experiences are.
SBI online @TheOfficialSBI makes you change passwords periodically. This is a deprecated practice and makes your account more insecure. This is why none of your services (Gmail, meta, X, any US bank) ask you to change the password.
NIST SP 800-63B (Rev. 4, finalized 2025) states that verifiers and credential service providers shall not require subscribers to change passwords periodically, but shall force a change if there is evidence that the authenticator has been compromised.
Moving on…
Now let’s presume you change password.
Besides the captcha on password phases (another dinosaur from the early 2000s) their password workflow works like this.
1. Enter log in and password
2. Your password has expired.
3. You encounter password change screen. There are 3 text boxes.
A) old password field loaded with stars pre-populated (using Firefox). Needless to say you cannot see old password
B) new password
C) new password again
No option to see any of these, so make one mistake you are screwed
4. There is an OTP challenge, OTP goes to SMS (another depreciated practice but ok)
5. You enter the OTP in next screen but you are not allowed to see OTP either !!!
6. You get an invalid screen with no idea what went wrong (I must have got the OTP wrong I guess)
7. I go to do it again.
8. I enter new password
9. Failure
10. Enter old password.
11. Screen from step 3 comes in
12. I do step 4, 5, and get step 6 again.
Guess what’s going wrong? No I am not entering the OTP wrong even though it’s done blind.
That text box from step 3? It’s loaded with junk (not that you would know, it’s all hidden). You have to remove it and then type in old password.
Why was the old password field not blank?
I do not know.
If indeed the old password field was wrong (by virtue of you loading it with invisible junk), why make me go through an OTP challenge which should happen only if screen 3 went off successfully?
I do not know.
Why do you not see the password or OTP?
I do not know.
Even inside workflows are unintuitive and do not align with any other financial institution I have accounts with.
It’s a real shame this is where State Bank @OfficialSBICare is in 2026.
DMK yen edappadi palaniswami CM aakura alavuku tharam taazhnthu yosichanga nu epa puriyum neraya perku.. But saar.. Pugazhenthi saar.. Gdp saar.. Dravidiya model saar.. Bjp ulla vanthudum saar
A gamble that could pay off or fail big time.
#DMK MLA and former minister KN Nehru hints at former chief minister MK Stalin, who lost in Kolathur in the assembly elections contesting the upcoming by polls.
Nehru says Vijay's remark on Stalin in the assembly has fired up the DMK rank and file.
Will it be Trichy east or any other constituency is what everyone want to know.
விஜய் பேசாமல் இருப்பது தான் திமுகவுக்கு நல்லது..பேசினால் பாதிக்கப்படப்போவது திமுக தான்.. விஜயே தனக்கு எதிரியாக திமுகவை முன்னிலைப்படுத்திய பின்பு விஜய் மேல் வன்மத்தை கக்குவது நன்றாக இல்லை.. விஜய் இன்ற�� சட்டசபையில் கையில் குறிப்புகளுடன் பேசியதை விட fluent ஆ பேசியது மிக எளிதாக மக்களுடன் கனெக்ட் ஆகும்...உதயநிதி விஜய் பேச்சு முன் நிற்கவே முடியாது..விஜய் vs ஸ்டாலின் என்பதே சரி..இல்லாவிட்டால் காலம் முழுதும் வெளிநடப்பு செய்து கொண்டே இருக்க வேண்டியது தான்...
For all these nayaandi & naakals from DMK & co..
If you can mock others, be prepared to be mocked in return. Don't cry foul when the same treatment comes back your way. That's the basic rule....
மாண்புமிகு தமிழ்நாட்டு முதலமைச்சரின் இன்றைய Script பேப்பரில், அரசுப் பள்ளிகளில் ��டக்கும் த.வெ.க. அட்ராசிட்டி பற்றிய வசனங்கள் இருக்கும் என எதிர்பார்த்தேன். ஆனால் அதை எழுத மறந்துவிட்டார்கள்போல!
கல்வியை தேடிக் கொண்டிருக்கும் மாணவச் செல்வங்களின் எதிர்காலத்தையும் பெருமையின் அடையாளங்களான அரசுப்பள்ளிகளின் செயல்பாடுகளையும்
சிதைக்கும் வகையிலான களேபரங்களுக்கு முடிவு கட்டுங்கள் சி.எம்.சார்.
"Yes I know the tvk today does not understand “Nagareega Arasiyal” and Yes they are stooping low everyday BUT WE must stay true to our ideologies, beliefs and respect the privacy of families. They have no part in politics and deserve privacy."
Kanaadi sir athu
This tweet maybe unpopular but THIS is what I truly feel, and THIS is what I feel the DMK stands for.
The CMs words against our Honourable Leader - a man with 50 years of hardcore public life, the man who rebuilt #TamilNadu after a draconian 10-year ADMK rule - are outright disgusting and he must remember he occupies a high chair today before uttering such words. What he has said is demeaning the chair and the hard work of the Most respected leader in TN politics. The name @mkstalin strikes a chord with millions across TN due to his sheer hard work.
However, I strongly feel that everyone should refrain from ***using the images*** of the estranged family of @CMOTamilnadu.
The sweet little kids and the family on the whole are already going through a lot having to go through a separation of parents etc, so let them not be put through anything more,
Yes I know the tvk today does not understand “Nagareega Arasiyal” and Yes they are stooping low everyday BUT WE must stay true to our ideologies, beliefs and respect the privacy of families. They have no part in politics and deserve privacy.