I need to be real to ya’ll and ‘The Mountain’ is a perfect place for this. There are words I will never use and have never used. I dislike those them and wish they would not appear in their common modern-day contexts.

These are called slurs for a reason, so nobody should use them in polite company.

They disparage and insult. These are words that are thrown out by edgy kids who really want to troll and get under their opponents’ skin. These words shock and enrage.

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HOT TAKE! I think women should register for the draft.

I KNOW!

That’s a HAWT TAKE. However, hear me out.It’s a spicy one, but you already know me and have read several other episodes of ‘The Mountain’ (which…I should probably republish here, honestly).

I believe that, during this day and age (heck even decades past to be fair), advanced long-range weaponry combined with even more advanced information gathering and logistics has transformed war from relying on human physical strength as the main component of winning a fight.

Key events and subterfuge win wars, not enormous battles or an overwhelming show of force.

Though America has the most capable show of force compared to any other country (or dare I say, of all other countries combined), it also overwhelms in logistics.

Considering all of this, why shouldn’t women be obligated to register for the draft?

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I’m Puerto Rican.

That should be very obvious.

Puerto Ricans will PROUDLY let you know where we’re from and why our Island is a beautiful place deserving of your attention and your respect. It’s fucking gorgeous, the food is amazing, as I have been told by multiple creepy older men when I was an overly developed 11-year-old, the people are beautiful.

However, there is something that gets’ lost in the translation. Something that both sides of the political spectrum conveniently and annoyingly forget.

Puerto Ricans are US citizens. We have been US citizens since the end of the Spanish American War.

I am unsure why people forget this, and it frustrates me each time. The media and some online discourse almost insidiously and conveniently frame the narrative by how they talk about us.

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The first week of being back to work was uneventful. Thank god for that.

There is cool stuff that I want to start working on; mostly getting back into software development instead of being forced into infrastructure. Not sure if anyone is super interested in the nitty gritty of the software industry but I can give a small summary.

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It has been a while since I have revisited my journal/memoir/whatever that I call ‘The Mountain’. Honestly, a lot has been on my mind, which I am sure has been the case for everyone else as well. The issue is that I have kept all those in my head for too long, where before I would be sharing these out to people, at least on Kindle Vella.

Which died.

The…

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