ArmoredThirteen
@ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do 12 hours ago:
8 gunshots but 9 muzzle flashes so ething fishy is going on with that gun
- Comment on 7 for me 2 days ago:
Pre surgery was 18 most the time with a crushing longingness for being able to do 20 without my dysphoria flopping around every time I moved. Post surgery is 20 most of the time unless I’m extra leaky then it’s 18 or 19 depending on what I grab out of the hamper. Not pictured here but I also have “socks always on” variety of autism so I have socks while sleeping too. If it’s really cold I’ll sometimes switch it up to jammies but I’m more likely to add blankets than clothes
- Comment on Not enough real estate 2 days ago:
Omg thank you I thought the picture was the seat of a car and could not figure out the perspective or color choice at all
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 4 days ago:
Seems like you’ve got some feelings you should work out fam. I get it but like expressing it this way you just look like an asshole. Hope your day goes well
- Comment on We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. 5 days ago:
I’m moving to Sweden, results will vary depending where you’re looking.
Step one is to get a passport. Can’t do fuck all without a passport and I’d highly advise visiting at least nearish where you’re interested in moving to.
Then figure out how you’re going to stay there. Generally speaking this can be done in one of these ways: Finding a job, going to school, being rich, or getting married. I was originally going to look for a job but then I ran some math and determined I could afford to go to school on savings so I went with that (it’s easier to convince someone to let you pay them than it is to convince them to pay and sponsor you). If you’re trying to find a job then be good at something in demand. This varies by country but in general that means know how to program or know a trade that’s in short supply at the target country.
Compile a list of requirements and their timeline. For me getting a residency permit as a student I need: Passport, acceptance letter, insurance, proof of finances. The timeline for this is a lot messier. Proof of finances is just a day trip to the bank so I can functionally ignore it until I’m ready to send the application. Insurance is in a similar boat. The acceptance letter has been trickier. The way it works for me is I got accepted to a university, I accepted their acceptance, they’ve billed me, and now that I paid the bill I have to wait for their official acceptance letter I can use for the residency permit. Other requirements for moving but not necessarily applying for residency are things like I need a personnummer. At first I thought I needed this as part of the application but it actually turns out I can’t even apply for one until I’m living in Sweden. So for the timeline it gets shoved back to ‘in the future’ so I can focus on other stuff. There are a lot of moving parts and most of it is ‘turn something in and wait for a month’ so you want to make sure you’re multitasking on the right things at the right time which is where the timeline comes in handy.
Figure out a solution for two factor that isn’t texting your US number because good luck getting into your bank account when it’s trying to ping a sim card that doesn’t work in Sweden lol. Things you find out when you’re traveling that’s good to know before moving.
Learn about the housing market. Housing in Sweden is fucked and I am late to the game getting into a place so now I’m fucked too. Likely I will not be able to bring my cat because of it and I may not ever be able to bring him if I can’t line things up properly. Part of what messed me up is I didn’t know where I was going to university until recently and I didn’t have the capacity to be applying to housing across half of Sweden.
Have a good support system. Go online and ask for someone living in your target country to do you a favor and marry you. Failing that ask them to just generally help with things like “translate keeps butchering this page what the hell does it say”. A buddy willing to get back to you within a day or two can help dramatically with all this. It’s stressful as hell so try having a good support system in place locally too. Part of why I’m moving is most my support system fell out from under me and I was like ‘fuckit I’m moving’ and let me tell you I spend a lot of my free time crying uncontrollably because I don’t have people to console me in person. It’s not fun 0/10 try to have some good friends.
Look at everything you own and accept the fact that none of it is worth bringing with you. What do I mean by everything? I mean if it isn’t your identification paperwork or the waterproof backpack to hold the paperwork, it is secondary. Whatever you use to access the modern world, phone/laptop/etc, is also really important but with some elbow grease you can start that from scratch in a new place. Literally everything else I would consider to be icing. Make peace with this.
Be ready to lose a lot of money. In order for me to get the residency permit I need accepted to a college which means application fees and a deposit. In order to not be homeless I need a home which means a deposit and probably a contract. To bring my cat over I need to set up vet stuff and have a lot of difficult to time things arranged. I don’t know if I have a residency permit yet. So in theory I could pay the college deposit, pay a rental deposit, and set in motion moving my cat, and a month from now Sweden could tell me tough titties. Hope you can find a place to live in the US with a week’s notice now that you’ve left your job and didn’t renew your old lease.
- Comment on We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. 6 days ago:
Straight up if I find a place with enough space and I can afford the rent, I’m going to try and bring in another person and give them free or greatly reduced rent. I can’t help with the residency permit stuff but helping someone land is the least I can do
- Comment on We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. 6 days ago:
My therapist called me a canary in the coal mine. I’m trans, I have the means to move, basically it was a “if you leave suddenly I’ll know things have gotten really bad”. I’ve almost gotten everything lined up to move on a plan but I’m still keeping my bug out bag around in case something bad enough happens I need to leave day of to try and get past the border
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 1 week ago:
What’s going on with lemmy.world?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m in this boat and I have a good job so don’t need the cash. I mostly just want people to show up to a party I host and talk to each other but not to me lol
- Comment on Brooklyn electronics company Adafruit hit with surprise $36K tariff bill: "pay in one week" 1 week ago:
I was just about to buy most the stuff I need for a cyber deck from them
- Comment on Unfair is what it is 1 week ago:
“Should I take my heels off?” “NOooOoo”
Goodness you can hear it snap
- Comment on Sweet pic 2 weeks ago:
O’Rear used a Mamiya RZ67 medium-format camera on a tripod and Fujifilm’s Velvia color film that saturated green and blue colors.[7][10]: 2:29 [11] He credited the combination and said that if he had shot with 35 mm film, it would not have had an identical result.
Claim is it hasn’t been edited but it did use film that saturates certain colors by default
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 2 weeks ago:
Yeah fam if you haven’t already you should get your lungs screened. Asbestos and insulation can cause some really bad stuff
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 2 weeks ago:
The amount of time I’ve put in it could have cost me $200 and it would still be one of the best $/hr games I have
- Comment on Banker At US Firm Hospitalised With Pancreatic Failure After 110-Hour Workweek 2 weeks ago:
My first job out of college was about 130hr/week. It didn’t start that way but I was young, inspired by the project, and didn’t know how to say no. The team was small and our lead was batshit so more work kept adding up. I was basically working all waking hours 7 days a week and the sporadic times I did get an hour or two to sleep I was on call. I started having 20 hour work days in the last couple weeks. I was there a total of about two years (the first year was a lot but more like 60hr weeks so doable), my burnout lasted for two years, the resulting alcohol abuse took more like 6 years to kick. Barely even got paid. I’ve learned a lot since then
- Comment on The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next 3 weeks ago:
Love death and robots
- Comment on In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard? 3 weeks ago:
I’m going to die on this hill: Cheeses like this are real food. Typically real cheese is one of if not the first ingredient. They are made from cheese, milk, and an emulsifying agent. It’s literally cheese sauce with a higher melting point. You can make it yourself it’s really easy, you can use non standard cheeses for it like provolone or Gouda, and the only real difference would be in preservatives
- Comment on Winning 3 weeks ago:
Oh man a couple months ago I had to back off a topic because my therapist was obviously about to cry and just barely holding it together… I’m trans and was talking about my worries with how the US is going. They have trans kids and I think my concerns were hitting close to home for them. It was a difficult session for everyone x.x
- Comment on Fucking wankers 3 weeks ago:
Oh snap, in that case how does one delete someone else’s post on not reddit?
- Comment on Google is excited about money! 4 weeks ago:
With Proton being in some hot water, any other suggestions?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ 5 weeks ago:
Joined 7 hours ago and only posts certified shit takes with inflammatory language. Get ratioed troll, lol
- Comment on IYKYK 5 weeks ago:
One of my favorite fan theories is that the world has largely recovered. The US is a bit unhinged though and is basically engaging in a no rules larp. Everyone else stays at a distance because if Americans are killing each other than global recovery can actually continue
- Comment on Beauty is still out there 5 weeks ago:
500kg of weed, “toxic fumes”, one person got so fucked up they sat down for a bit of tea 😂
- Comment on Does anyone know what's up with lemmy.zip? 5 weeks ago:
The 0.19.11 upgrade went sideways
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 1 month ago:
Hey all what do you suggest for a school and game dev laptop with Linux for a ~$2k budget? I’ve been eyeballing framework but keep hearing mixed things
- Comment on Ant brothel 1 month ago:
- Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts 1 month ago:
The tax person I go to every year said everyone is filing for a extensions right now “to see what happens”
- Comment on Video Game Workers Launch Industry-Wide Union with Communications Workers of America 1 month ago:
Finally holy shit the game industry needs to unionize so badly
- Comment on Which game is it? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Papers, Please: USA Edition | Official Trailer - YouTube 2 months ago:
Omg is that a Kentucky fried movie sound bite out in the wild?? youtu.be/kpJy38HNjMU