• lowleekun@ani.social
      21·
      3 days ago

      Ohh yes but americans, i am told, will wake up as soon as true fascism arises. Let me check my notes that is when the group they belong to is being persecuted

      So yeah there is at maximum 10.000 people spread across all states fighting against it and by fighting i mean leaving real angry comments online.

      Also midterms are around the corner and the “demoncracy” might totally heal itself, so better don’t make any fuss or else you will be the reason democrats fuck up again.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        3 days ago

        Americans can always be relied upon to do the right thing, once we’ve tried everything else. You don’t have to keep reminding us every decade.

        • lowleekun@ani.social
          10·
          3 days ago

          Ohh but we absolutely do have to. Remember apartheid south africa? It took the whole world to pressure the U.S. to drop support for that shit.

          Can’t imagine being a citizen of a country so hell bent on oppression. All i can see is oppression coming home.

          • MrShankles@reddthat.com
            72·
            3 days ago

            And some of us weren’t old enough to understand the history of what has already been sown. Ripping weeds by their root is tedious, sometimes tiresome, work

            I appreciate the reminder, and understand it’s not just a “U.S.” problem. But thank you nonetheless. I can’t truly apologize for something that I didn’t understand I was already a part of… but I’m sorry

            I’m trying more than just “angry comments”, I promise. It’s strange to me; writing a comment and thinking about how it may be used against me, because of things. But here we are, and I refuse to give up my love for people. Sue me. Shoot me. Piss in my cheerios. I’ll remain as I can

            I used to joke that my goal was to just make it to 65. Good enough for me… but I have new goals now. I’ma live till I’m 92, and godspeed. I hate living in interesting times, but I guess it’s what we’re doing right now, so fuck it. I’ll keep myself and remain kind for others, because hopeless doesn’t equal helpless

            And Heyyy friends, if you’re reading my shit… good

            • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
              4·
              2 days ago

              Wow, somebody downvoted you for that. All you can do as a person is do your best to make things better and be a good person in the process. Some people will drag you down in their purity tests, don’t let them. We do what we can.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      3 days ago

      So are they going to lay off any gaurdsman with an immigrant spouse or are they just hoping they aren’t angry enough to frag their CO when Trump deploys them?

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1231·
    3 days ago

    “I just want immigrants to be LEGAL!”

    My wife was married to an American for over 2 years and lived in America the whole time. That makes her 10-year visa renewal a rubber stamp. NOPE. Now that we’re married, the government is non-stop fucking with her to make sure it’s not a false marriage.

    Added her to my bank account and almost all the utilities. NOPE. Not good enough. She yelled at me for tossing mailed bills that I pay online. Now she gets the mail. And those pieces of paper have to be mailed off for approval. 6-months later, “Yeah, we’re gonna need more proof.” Next I’m sending them a pic of me railing her in a sundress in front of the house, address plainly visible, with a fucking geotag. “Enough?”

  • RedditIsALostCause@lemmy.world
    454·
    3 days ago

    Wtf is a “pre-seed founder”?

    I’m stalwart enough in my leftism that anything that corpos love makes me question it immediately. I’ve nothing inherent against immigrants/refugees who come here through the (very flawed) process or even those who don’t but come here, integrate, and then contribute/participate positively within the communities they immigrate to.

    However, the H1B shit just seems to a) exploit minorities/immigrants while holding their visa over their head (dems shouldn’t like this based on their principles) while b) outsources jobs that could likely be given to existing, qualified citizens (republicans shouldn’t this based on their principles), c) all to ultimately benefit a corporation’s quarterly earnings.

    I dislike Trump as much as the next guy but I don’t currently have an issue with him obliterating the H1B program.

    • tyler@programming.dev
      55·
      3 days ago

      Startup founder that has no seed (venture capital) money yet, e.g. they haven’t gone through a funding round yet. They’re funding the startup with their own money to start off.

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          2 days ago

          Depends, but definitely highly possible.

          Sometimes it’s their own money saved up from a successful career (less likely), sometimes it’s parents money (more likely), sometimes it’s an actual business loan.

          In her case it seems like one of the first two because she went to a very expensive university and has had pretty decent jobs in the tech industry since then.

          Much as I hate AI being put into everything just to get funding (and I have no idea if it was thrown in there as a buzzword or if she actually believes AI can improve things), it seems she’s trying to get more people into lifting weights via the product they’re making, so that’s cool at least. Should keep half an eye on it just for fun.

        • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
          11·
          3 days ago

          Basically yeah. But when it comes to startups, actually making something of value is optional. Hell, I know people who have had legitimately good ideas with working proof of concept, but have struggled to get funding because when it comes to venture capital, the main test is one’s ability to peddle the right kind of bullshit.

    • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
      18·
      3 days ago

      In startup land there are various named rounds of funding:

      • Pre-seed
      • Seed
      • Series A
      • Series B
      • etc…

      Pre-seed means you don’t really have any investors and don’t have an equity system set up. You’re just somehow supporting yourself while trying to get your initial idea/demo/deck together.

      Seed means that an investor (typically called angels) has given you enough money to live on while you develop things to the point that you’re presenting to actual VCs.

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
      13·
      3 days ago

      Like a few other things, it could have been good if done intelligently.

      100k is the right line for tech. But we always need medical.

      They’re just going to exempt big tech anyway. And people who are here completely legitimately shouldn’t have to worry, but they do.

      • kautau@lemmy.world
        15·
        3 days ago

        It sounds like a founder before they got a first seed round of investment, which usually leads to those first seed investors labelling themselves as “founders” too, so trying to differentiate with like “(co)-founded the business before we had external capital, e.g. did actual work instead of buying my way in.”

        That being said though, generally in my experience the more someone talks about being a “founder” the less they actually did beyond secure funding and blabber on about “vision” and “product” while others did the real work.

  • crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org
    25·
    3 days ago

    This will definitely be a TED talk in the future and silicon valley people will think the person(likely a man) is amazing and “ground breaking”