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Fellow white USian women who believe the republican regime will leave you alone. Think again.

I'm white. When I was in college as an undergrad, Reagan & his war on drugs was rising.

I ran an errand to pick up some materials for our lab. I was in my small car, lots of college related stuff visible, in a lab coat, daytime, alone.

Feds swarmed & blocked my car. They had masks & vests. Guns drawn. They *thought* I was a drug dealer.

#USpol

Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.

> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?

There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.

> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?

None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.

> But are you / they in the cloud?

No. The webserver is in Newbury, in my garage.

> Neil, please can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.

*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*