Personally, I made a career change which is still in its infancy - but I'm excited about the prospects. I miss my tech salary, but was chronically underpaid in tech at the same time. I'm basically at the bottom, doing what is slightly above an entry level job (I started a bit over a year ago) but I feel so much better about my work.
I still take the time to teach my friends & community as many things as I can tech-wise & give them technical support when they need it, & have thought about teaching a community class based on tech literacy & more advanced concepts if there is an appetite for it. I was thinking about creating a sliding scale (down to free) for the class & using most of it for getting laptops for people who need it. I was also thinking about sending out a call for old computers/laptops & breathing in new life to them by installing Linux & making them run decently well again.
These are mostly just brainstorms, things I haven't gone fully in on yet - but I feel like the exodus from tech can be a really strong force organizing the people against the state, and I feel these days that tech literacy/tech support from people who have the knowledge is a huge part of that.
On the other hand, there is growing interest in trans women menstruating. The cycle of hormones for women is a monthly cycle where certain hormones spike & others fall, the "period" itself being a spike in a certain hormone that induces sleepiness & more acute emotion. This, in my non-scientific experience is true - as I personally have a rule:
"If I hate everyone around me, I'm hungry. If I hate myself, it's time to shower. And if neither works, I'm on my period."
Mainly because trans women might not bleed, persay, but they do go through hormonal cycles & it's hard to tell without the telltale sign, as well as the lack of awareness around it. This can result in a monthly window where they experience menstrual symptoms. This includes cramping and physical symptoms as well.
There are a few studies about menstruation in transmasc individuals, but only about 2 or 3 on transfemmes menstruating. But those studies affirm the experiences that I've been having, along with talking with other transfemmes in my community.
Great. Terrific. Full speed ahead. Of course, the United States already has a lot of Russian sanctions — the U.S. and its allies have frozen about $280 billion in Russian assets held overseas, around $5 billion in U.S. banks; barred several Russian banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, which helps to process international financial payments; tried to seize the U.S. assets of sanctioned Russian individuals; prohibited the import of Russian crude oil, liquefied natural gas and coal; and limited U.S. investments in many Russian energy companies.
I find this fascinating mostly because any other country in the world would just accept that they simply could not impose their will on the country in question, but in typical American fashion, the US will shit itself in outrage at the suggestion of the fact.
I started using this when I read your comment & yeah, this is fantastic. It's exactly what I've needed. I'm on Dialectical Materialism by Adoratsky & it's explained so well. Thank you for posting this!
But one of the biggest differences between now and then is that the current sell-off now is entirely due to the trade war started intentionally by the Trump White House.
Is this true? I feel like attributing it only to Trump is a cop out for an increasingly unstable economy
Personally, I made a career change which is still in its infancy - but I'm excited about the prospects. I miss my tech salary, but was chronically underpaid in tech at the same time. I'm basically at the bottom, doing what is slightly above an entry level job (I started a bit over a year ago) but I feel so much better about my work.
I still take the time to teach my friends & community as many things as I can tech-wise & give them technical support when they need it, & have thought about teaching a community class based on tech literacy & more advanced concepts if there is an appetite for it. I was thinking about creating a sliding scale (down to free) for the class & using most of it for getting laptops for people who need it. I was also thinking about sending out a call for old computers/laptops & breathing in new life to them by installing Linux & making them run decently well again.
These are mostly just brainstorms, things I haven't gone fully in on yet - but I feel like the exodus from tech can be a really strong force organizing the people against the state, and I feel these days that tech literacy/tech support from people who have the knowledge is a huge part of that.