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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Back in 2010-ish, or so, I was on my way home from work, and I was dropped off in front of a hospital in Querétaro, México, because the bus stop was there.

    “Lots of military here today” I recall thinking as I walked up to a group of military personnel always there. I see them being very antsy and all walking around and all of the sudden it’s shouting and one guy just runs to an army hummer, pulls out rifles and literally throws them at guys standing next to him. They all immediately get armed, start pointing their rifles in my general direction while doing that “aiming while running” thing and shouting “EVERYBODY ON THE GROUND NOW”

    So I had some 20 odd armed soldiers with their rifles aimed in my general direction running at me while I’m shitting myself with all colors of the rainbow. I hide behind a small security building, quickly looked around and saw a small bus, my bus, arriving. I jumped in, told the driver to floor it, and he just looked at me, and told me he wouldn’t go anywhere untill he had my 5 pesos ( about 20 dollar cents at the time) for the ride.

    I actually had to quickly explain to him that there was a district possibility we could all be dead in the next minute if he wouldn’t drive.

    Turns out that they had the injured son of a narco in that hospital, and rumours started flying that either his buddy buddies would come to get him out or his not so buddy buddies might come to take him out, and the soldiers panicked.

    Nothing really bad happened that day, but the road in front of the hospital was blocked off completely for the day. I still have the news paper somewhere in Mexico about that day.

    Crazy shit


  • … Until you need a job.

    I need a job so yeah, I did angrily send my passport to persona. What can I do? No job means I’ll have to remigrate back, I’ll lose everything I have built here for the past 5 years.

    So I need linkedkn as half the jobs are there now.

    Not that it mattered. I sent out hundreds of job resumes by now, and I had literally a single reply.

    I did get an offer from a company, pay us 10.000 dollars and we will get you a great job, no guarantees though. Thry actually do seem to work, not directly a scam, but what the fuck, why is it that this is how i need to get a job?

    Either way, its fucked and its done. 2 months from now I’ll be living in a different country because I have gotten exactly a single interview in 2 months so far…

    I’m in IT, so that’s fucked, but I’m also on a work permit that requires anyone who wants to hire me to jump through a few hundred hoops, and they may need to wait 2-16 months (!!!) for me to get the required permissions to start. Granted, 16 months is an extremely worst case scenario, BUT IT IS A POSSIBILITY as laid out to me by multiple immigration lawyers by now. I’m highly qualified, I’m very nice in person, respectful and calm, I can build up your entire IT department myself as I’ve worked literally at every position from the lowest to the highest. I have broad knowledge about almost everything IT. I’m willing to take low level jobs if that will get me something.

    Nothing

    So I’m fucked and fuck this world





  • The point is more that even wars come down to economy.

    All other things being equal, (s)he with the biggest economic breath has the biggest chance of winning

    Where things get less equal is when you start destroying 25 million dollars of your opponent at the cost of 25 thousand for yourself.

    This means, again all other things being equal, and assuming that you can continue making these kills, that your opponent needs an economy a thousand times larger than yours to be able to continue this in a sustainable way

    This is in part also why Ukraine has been so successful against Russia, they found ways to cause millions of dollars worth of damage to Russia with relatively tiny budgets. Also, Ukraine’s focus is on crippling the Russian economy while Russia is still using the “let’s murder and terrorize their entire population” strategy from WWII which hasn’t worked out well for them