Ms. ArmoredThirteen

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Cake day: December 8th, 2024

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  • I’m asking as someone who legit doesn’t know, how does the French government respond to protesters? In the US at least we get shot at, maimed, felony records that lock you out of the job market forever, all kinds of stuff. Protesting in the US can be a life or death thing. Striking is also very difficult at a scale big enough to matter to the government because the US is enormous. If not enough people strike for critical mass then companies start firing everyone and any fines are just operating expenses. It’s not impossible, we’ve done it before, but it’s not like we’re struggling to resist for funsies






  • I used to work for a university trying to modernize how people got student and financial data. Over half my work was playing politics rooting out people who refused to change and going above their head. We had one guy who didn’t want to update a script on his end to include the bare minimum amount of ‘security’: a hard coded plain text password. It took me months and I had to go to his office to update his script and he complained about it the entire four minutes it took


  • I’m actively working to get out of the US. I think about leaving the people and community I know every day. There were a couple people who said they’d go but backed out when they realized I wasn’t just engaging in what if fantasy. It’s been difficult knowing how hard it is to find friends and support in my thirties and I’m going to have to start from scratch on the other side of the planet. I’m trans and worried I could get black bagged any day now but even with that the thought of leaving my social circle behind is almost enough to make me stay