Notices by maya_b (maya_b@hachyderm.io)

@skinnylatte

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@skinnylatte

The UK still has Tier1 visas which, now, are basically buy your way in visas. The retired Tier1-General you could self certify and as long as you made enough money (which increased over the years).

The Tier2 is basically the same as H1B.

Tier1-General was great as it was in between work permit and permanent residency (green card) with no company ties. I got it when req'd income was only 40k.

The UK "hates" immigrants too, and since brexit are now paying for it

@skinnylatte

"geez hooman haven't you figured this out yet?"

@skinnylatte

Rising rents also killed off a lot of NYC family run local businesses - some that had been passed down through generations - and replaced with loss-making chain coffee shops.

It's a weird balance.

There was a hole-in-the-wall family sandwich shop in London that did solid business for decades until they put all kids through school, and retired. No chain has survived there since.

Plus chain-shop jobs =/= wealth (relative) and retirement makers like the sandwich shop

@skinnylatte

it's even weirder with remote working and WFH these days- there's just nowhere to escape to for an hour or two for a change of scenery without having to drive somewhere.

when I lived in London, there were at least 4-5 places withing walking distance to get a coffee and sit with a laptop, or local shops, or local pubs if you really weren't into being productive although some wised up and got fancy coffee machines too.

in Canada where I am now - nada.

@molly0xfff

not at all a surprise.

old school financial institutions can't conceive of people doing anything differently from 50 years ago, and have no idea why upstart online only banks are taking more and more of their business.

my former business bank would lock me out of my account for "suspicious logins" because it couldn't deal with my accounting software using the bank's own mechanisms to reconcile my books daily. 🙄

@skinnylatte

the UK just made it prohibitively expensive to bring spouses and dependents along.

and then the anxiety around the "hostile environment" for immigrants meant that lawyers were an absolute must adding even more to the bill.

Of course you could do it without one, and a friend did - she was without her passport for 18 months while they decided her permanent residency.

I paid 3x to get mine on the day with help from my lawyers.

Moved back to Canada 2 years ago.

@molly0xfff

the Crooked E running a crypto project ... on brand ...

@skinnylatte

it is the way.

@StillIRise1963

at the very least ban private ammunition sales.

Chris Rock had it right at $5000 per bullet. You need a 3rd job, 3rd mortgage and save up for a year (or whatever it was) to shoot someone in the butt.

@StillIRise1963

that's already part of California law, or proposed anyway - the firing pin has to be coded to the gun, so each shell casing will have a stamp on it from the gun that it was fired from

@liztai

they're on a date. 🤦♀️

@goatsarah

was thinking of the Money Mone used for Lady M
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/scottish-conservative-baroness-puts-lavish-yacht-for-sale-for-11-million-199579.html

@goatsarah

don't forget the houses for mum&dad, and new sailboats company owners had to pay for

@mattly

sounds familiar.

an e-commerce site wants me to have a business account too. I'm a one person consultancy that only has one phone number (which I barely use full stop) and can't do MFA for 2 accounts with one number so no business account or me.

@siege

it's a bit of a weird one that for me.

having grown up with everything shot on film, and standard def tv, the super crisp stuff looks like cheap and usually after school special productions.

if "film grain" is added in post it solves a lot of the look and feel issues, by adding some "atmosphere" to it.

the film "2001" being the odd ball without atmosphere correctly looking sharp as, yet out of place.

wonder how ultra fine/crisp perceptions will change with generations.

@siege

He definitely isn't the Starmer I forked out £25 for in the labour leadership contest. Or the Starmer that stumped for Remain

He's chasing some ... poll? ... focus group? ... something ... but yea I don't trust him, and wait and see would be terrifying if I were still in the UK

@siege

With Starmer demonstrating he can be more Tory than Tories, he has a pretty good chance of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

For a former human rights prosecutor he has not impressed on that front.

Though I'm still holding out hope the tories are completely wiped out.

@StillIRise1963 @WarnerCrocker

fastest any dept of the US gov't has moved if that's the case. though I don't know they're that competant

@liztai

It also really does nothing to solve the underlying rational which is user data privacy - why not regulate consumer data protections?

What it really signals is that only US companies can profit from consumer surveillance.