This and the cake is layered as a trans flag :D

faints in terror dramatically

Why?

"Cheese"

I very much spent a few years "developing the Death Star" as it were. And I don't at all regret it. It was some of the most fulfilling research of my life and it taught me a lot of useful skills and has informed my life view. But I'll also always remember what one of my mentors explained to me before putting me in for certain paperwork: Anyone with a soul turns to either activism or alcoholism. And... I am definitely a bit of column A and a bit of column B if you catch my drift.

As someone actively working on getting out from "developing the death star", you hit the nail on the head. I don't regret having done the work, and i learned a lot, but I'm burnt out (mentally and emotionally) and its past time for me to leave.

I wont begrudge someone taking the opportunity. Its a fantastic way to start in IT; get a SEC+ or NET+ cert, more or less guaranteed contractor job if you can get clearance. But it is absolutely still a deal with the devil, and you will get burned if you stick around too long.

Sometimes the Hard Reset hammer isn't enough

For these times, we have Harder reset.

Big TERFy-wine-mom energy.

🥺

Not being asked a single question in a work meeting.

^ I am rather fond of not risking shitting myself.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Rollerball mice.