On this day in 2013, Turkish protesters began occupying Gezi Park to oppose its demolition, an act with led to widespread protests and strikes with approximately 3,500,000 participants, 22 deaths, and more than 8,000 injuries.
The wave of civil unrest across Turkey began after the park occupation was violently evicted by police, who used to tear gas, pepper spray, and water cannons to try and break up the protests, injuring more than one hundred people and hospitalizing a journalist.
The protest quickly grew in size - by May 31st, 10,000 gathered in Istiklal Avenue. In June, the protests became national in scope and transcended any particular demographic or political ideology. Among the wide range of concerns brought by protesters were issues of freedom of the press, expression, and assembly, as well as the alleged political Islamist government's erosion of Turkey's secularism.
Millions of Turkish football fans, normally divided by intense sports rivalry, marched in unity against the government. Protesters displayed symbols the environmentalist movement, rainbow banners, depictions of Che Guevara, different trade unions, and the PKK and its leader Abdullah Öcalan.
On June 4th, Taksim Dayanışması (Taksim Solidarity) issued a set of demands that included the preservation of Gezi Park, an end to police violence, the right to freedom of assembly, and an end to the privatization of public spaces. Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç met the group on June 5th and rejected these demands.
Erdoğan blamed the protests on "internal traitors and external collaborators", demonizing his political opposition as the former. Despite the popular mobilization, Erdoğan remained in power and no major concessions were won from the government.
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In my continuing fruitless endeavor to get my shit together so I can escape my hell job, I'm now considering going to school for Computer Information Systems. I took an introduction course as an elective a few years ago when I was doing General Studies and liked it well enough. I've never really done any programming though so idk if I'd be good at it at this age.
Honestly coding isn't hard. There are aspects of it which are, but a modern coder may never have to think of them ever. Also, CIS is pretty broad, there may be something like a cybersecurity or database admin specialization. Those pay well, and don't necessarily require as much coding. Like in principle both are very deep CS heavy fields, in practice there are lots of niches that aren't.
The challenging coursework, which isn't always present at every school, included algorithms and data structures, discrete math, the databases coursework (if you wanna be a dba) can be a bit abstract at first, and cybersecurity may require a bit of math (for cryptography) and a bit of low level coding (to better understand computer networking).
I see. Cybersecurity seems pretty interesting, provided I can find a decent job that's not for the Amerikkkan state.
I've known people in the industry who started coding in the 40s. There's never a bad age to start.
Alternatively. All ages are bad to start coding, you're already making a mistake by engaging with accursed machinery, your sin is neither lessened nor aggrieved by age.
Based actually.
Idk how old you are but I started seriously learning coding after graduating and hating my degree. I'd imagine someone in their 30s and up would handle it fine too
I'm 25. I'm sure it's doable for me, but whether I can get a career involving it even slightly is where I'm iffy.
Yeah I get that. I'm not at the getting a job point, so it's something I think about too. I do want to make it happen, so I keep going for it. I hope you can figure something out
Thanks, I hope the same for you