Really well written, you did a great job of conveying the inertia you and your team must have felt without making the reader feel bogged down, I really enjoyed it.
all this could have been avoided if he had simply had the patience to explain “don’t cover textual brand signage, people need to be able to identify what they’re buying. maybe aim for cosmetic stuff like product pictures; those are usually bullshit anyway…”
Ok sure. But it’s not really an effective protest as they’re fulfilling the requirement to enter the competition. Because the competition is steered by judges they will simply eliminate the trans men in the first round.
The rule is there to make sure the judges are not sexually aroused when they see a trans woman.
A greater means of protest would be if the non-trans competitors all quit the pageant. But their look is their only talent, so they won’t.
Damn that’s a great dad! Instead of letting his frustration build he was able to set all that aside and appreciate the clever adorable thing only a small child can do. I bet he is glad he ended that phone call
If you really want to mess with a fax recipient, familiarize yourself with the fax data format. To be efficient with transfer, it has a command repeat last line. Now if someone would send a valid fax header with a wrong sender telephone number, a line of pure black, and a gazillion repeat last line, now that would probably be illegal, wouldn’t it?
I once automated a co-worker out of a job with a 13-line bash script. I felt guilty on a human level, but they were also awful so that guilt faded pretty fast.
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