ArmoredThirteen
@ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip
- Comment on 🪳life 4 days ago:
🎵Livin’ like a bug ain’t eeeasyyy🎵 youtu.be/_MOEi5HmK5Q
- Comment on Judging by how many users on the internet telling Americans to "just move to another country lolz", people must think immigration laws are very lax or something... (it's not) 1 week ago:
It’ll really depends on the disability since most countries have a big focus on ability to work in a sought after field
- Comment on Judging by how many users on the internet telling Americans to "just move to another country lolz", people must think immigration laws are very lax or something... (it's not) 1 week ago:
Us citizen here recently moved to Sweden. I have a lot of things going for me: I was able to save up money working in tech, I’m using that to pay for living and tuition on a study permit, recently divorced and mostly estranged so I don’t have a lot of ties holding me back, I have a sought after skillset and enough savings to basically be guaranteed I was accepted.
I’m still struggling with everything. There was and is so much paperwork, so many loose ends, even after getting here it’s just been months of hardship trying to get stuff lined up. Trying to get my savings out of USD without interrupting being able to pay for things and not risk being flagged for money laundering is an ongoing battle. Housing here is wonky and I’m risking homelessness next year if I can’t get it figured out in time. I have no strong community ties here yet so I’m toast if I stumble too badly. The US has their grubby hands all up in my business still so I’m answering to two countries at any given time instead of just one.
There are certainly avenues people can take to get out of the US that are easier than what I’ve done but anyone who says it is easy is full of shit or incredibly privileged.
- Comment on ‘The whole thing disgusts me’: Australians ditch US travel as new rules require social media to be declared 1 week ago:
Wait I thought the rule was proposed, has it already been cleared to start happening?
- Comment on I'm New 2 weeks ago:
Welcome, we’ve got a wide variety of fun things here!
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 3 weeks ago:
I feel deeply embarrassed about being from the US. It’s like hanging out with a group of friends out of necessity, later realizing they were all assholes, and trying to come to terms with the fact you spent so many years with them. I love outside the US now and I’m even more embarrassed to be from the US. Every time there’s some culture shock my takeaway is either “wow how did I normalize this broken aspect of the US” or “I wish I was from somewhere that didn’t do those things to that person’s country”.
I also feel embarrassed and guilty over getting out of the US. I worked in tech and now I’m living off tech savings to start a life outside the US. I left my friends behind many of them are struggling financially, I left my community behind many of which are actively homeless, I chose to leave. Sure I’m leaving in part because my trans ass is on the chopping block but I see a lot of trans people fight harder instead of flee. I fought for so many years though and I couldn’t keep doing it so I left. The US did this to my community, made me confront choices I never wanted to make, I’m disgusted by having paid taxes to the war machine, and I justify working in tech as a way out of there but really I feel guilty over choosing to buy into that side of the US too so I could secure personal safety.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Ah, this is me, but the functions are protests and I don’t stop at just half naked
- Comment on What did I forget? 3 weeks ago:
Subtracting it’s normalized negentropy from 1
- Comment on A screenshot that is the old evidence of my first ever attempt at a game. 3 weeks ago:
Hell yeah! My first game was a text only java program where you killed skeletons and dragons, gained levels, and movement was done by typing a wasd key then hitting enter lol. You still making games at all?
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 4 weeks ago:
Any suggestions on a good one to use with my own domain?
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 4 weeks ago:
As part of my most recent move I switched from windows to Linux. I gotta switch away from google now. What’s the current recommendations, is Proton still in hot water? Ideally something I can link my own domain or domains up to
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 1 month ago:
My first phone was like 18 but also I didn’t get a cellphone until I was nearly 30
- Comment on Same... 1 month ago:
Well ridged is a word that can mean that and sounds nearly identical, probably does sound identical in some dialects. Could be you heard someone use ridged and mixed the two
- Comment on rich 1 month ago:
Someone please help me what’s that comic where one person is asked what they’re going to do with their newly found wealth and the guy is like “I’m going to have sex with children”? I don’t want to type these words into a search engine
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 month ago:
I had a pack like that, tried to use them last year and every one of them failed to burn. Must have hit their shelf life somewhere along the way
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 1 month ago:
What’s your problem? Let people enjoy stuff that has no effect on your life. You sound miserable internally and to be around, maybe go reflect on yourself a bit
- Comment on Manic Stew 1 month ago:
Dysphoria Salad, hell yeah
- Comment on Yummers! 2 months ago:
Avoid the green ones, they’re not ripe yet
- Comment on professional night training 2 months ago:
I love the completely different reactions of the two in the background
- Comment on The Streets Are Alive With The Sound Of Anarchy 2 months ago:
Just in case anyone doesn’t know the reference: youtu.be/dmFgAMTEg0E
- Comment on I Found A Purple Mushroom 2 months ago:
Mushroom!
- Comment on I Found A Purple Mushroom 2 months ago:
Could be both
- Comment on Gonna be late 3 months ago:
School actually, only 10 minutes late 💪
- Comment on Gonna be late 3 months ago:
Fuck I’m literally doing this right now
- Comment on Tin 3 months ago:
This it?
- Comment on Creative way to boost your business 3 months ago:
If I knew then everything I know now, the pain, the emotional turmoil, having to discover my body on my own, how incredibly frustrating it is to feel useless during recovery, I’d still have done it. Even if I didn’t know I’d have as positive an outcome as I have had I’d still have taken that chance. My body was so wrong to me I was going to end up dead if it wasn’t changed. Everything is better now I’m so happy to have the body I do
- Comment on Creative way to boost your business 3 months ago:
Sure does work, and here you go my hole story: lemmy.zip/post/39222527
- Comment on Creative way to boost your business 3 months ago:
I was able to discuss desired outcomes but there’s no guarantee on these things. Plus the first surgery is more about getting everything in place and functional then people can go in later to pretty it up if that’s wanted. From what I experienced each surgeon has really specific skills and you shop based on that then let the chosen one go to town on the bits. The things I was most invested in had more to do with certain functionality than looks so that’s where my discussions were focused. Now that I’m here though I wouldn’t change a thing I think having a camel toe from hell is hilarious so it gets to stay
- Comment on Creative way to boost your business 3 months ago:
Damn wish I could find something like this. I’m mtf post surgery. For whatever reason my doctor blessed me with a camel toe big enough to punch time cards
- Comment on happy friday 3 months ago:
Find a surface that doesn’t matter if it gets messy, grab a bunch of paper and notebooks, a couple packs of cheap oil pastels, some glitter paint, water colors etc, then take 5g of mushrooms. Did that for my last birthday. I was covered in pigments and oils absolutely thrilled out of my mind. Was one of the most fun and brain relaxing things I’ve done
