nicgentile
@nicgentile@lemmy.world
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 1 week ago:
Firefly
The Glades
Venture Brothers
- Comment on Is it a common thing for people who have left authoritarian countries to still feel the fear of their now-former country? 3 weeks ago:
No. But I would never ever openly admit my country of origin anywhere.
- Comment on Is it a common thing for people who have left authoritarian countries to still feel the fear of their now-former country? 3 weeks ago:
In some ways yeah. My country pivoted from semi dictatorship to dictatorship to democracy to democracy and finally back to dictatorship. I was born under a dictatorship and for the first 21 years of my life, there was only one president.
I just emigrated to the US so it’s crazy seeing the same stuff I run from all over again. My countries president is aligned with the current US right wing policies, so yeah, though minute, I’m a legit target, so I do not talk about my countries politics or government.
- Comment on Now that Trump is getting real chummy with Putin where does that leave China? 4 weeks ago:
Devil’s advocate opinion.
After spending a fair bit of time in China, I’ve come to understand one thing. A weaker America is good for China, but, China does not want to lead the world. Sloppy seconds works better from China.
Many years ago, Richard Branson, wrote that in his fight with British Airways, he actually preferred being second. This because nobody is gunning for you. Everyone always guns for gold, but a silver is not a bad thing either but nobody is in the race thinking, golly, I’m going for silver this time.
So, China has no real interest in the liabilities that come with leading the world. It’s a headache that does not benefit them. Own the infrastructure, mine the planet, sell plastic crap, that is fine, but rule the world, problems. Everyone turns to you for solutions or is trying to bring you down. Better to just chill.
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 4 months ago:
Send me the details. I’m definitely interested.
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 4 months ago:
Depends on the role, but I am willing to give it a go.
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 4 months ago:
Depends on the role, but yeah, willing to give it a go.
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 4 months ago:
Always willing to try.
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 4 months ago:
Already done. Can’t stretch any further than I am. But this is what I figure is character development of some sort.
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 4 months ago:
Ouch. Hopefully you ended up with something else.
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 4 months ago:
Fair enough.
I read the thing about CloudWorkers when I signed up. The math means its 10 bucks an hour and if you work 12 hours a day 7 days a week, then it dings the needle slightly cause its shy of 3K. Either way, it is currently the best deal I have on the table.
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 4 months ago:
I get that, but at some point, I had two months to spare. It’s dwindled down to this.
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 4 months ago:
What should I be aiming for? I’m simply going by what the sites are stating.
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 4 months ago:
So disheartened by this. But thanks.
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- Comment on I just need to keep it steady 4 months ago:
Used this in an 05 Jetta until earlier this year. It handled calls too.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 9 months ago:
Got locked out of my PayPal account but I apparently can’t close it.
A couple of years ago I was running a growing loans business on r/loans and the other one. One day, I got scammed. Loaned someone money and when it came to pay day, they reported me to welch out of the deal.
It took 180 days to get the money I had on my account. I tried closing the account and PayPal would not let me. It’s been years and all I get are notices of terms and marketing stuff. I try to unsubscribe and it keeps coming so I mark it as spam but Gmail does not care.
