• justastranger@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Anyone who chose to stay on the Elon train after his first weeks at the helm gets no sympathy from me.

    Except for the green card holders whose residency in the US was literally held hostage by Elon.

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      1 year ago

      Pretty sure they were held hostage by the US government policy of getting deported if they lose their job.

      Xitter was just a vessel on which that was presented.

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      1 year ago

      A lot of people say this, but there seems to be almost zero effort being put into resolving many of the systemic issues with the US visa system.

      As a British person in tech, I’d love to work in the US for a year or two, but I have zero intention of dealing with the shitshow that is visa slavery in big tech, and how the visa system is lop-sided to deal with 2-3 countries and a handful of companies over others. In the UK, it’s much simpler to offer visas to Americans, and even mid-sized companies can sponsor visas.