The Not-So-Serene Dragon

For all your sarcasm needs

[halondrus]

I CANNOT GET THIS VIDEO OUT OF MY FUCKING HEAD. HUNGRY HUNGRY PIZZA FOR ME. MY HUNGRY ASS WILL EAT JUST ABOUT ANYTHING!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[hollowboobtheory]

you cannot convince me illegal immigration is a real problem and I'm sick of pretending it is. yk when you were a kid and you got mad at your sibling for crossing an imaginary line that you drew in the car? that's what you're doing right now except you're actually killing people over it

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

Dick Cheney directly and knowingly caused the death and torture of literally millions of people and in a world with even a modicum of justice he would have died blindfolded against a wall in a hail of bullets, standing next to Donald Rumsfeld

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

if you want to understand how sick american society is, today we're publishing soft exculpatory "tough but fair" obituaries for basically Skeletor

[byjove]

there was an extremely aggressive and persistent anti-vaccine dude in the comments of a virologist who was explaining the science behind vaccines and explaining research and studies about their safety. I clicked on the guy’s account. he doesn’t believe in germ theory. not a troll. a guy who does not believe microorganisms are the cause of disease. what the fuck would she debate him about? HE DOES NOT BELIEVE IN GERMS.

[drferox]

Sometimes, when one has the energy, one engages the debate not the change the other person’s mind (already a lost cause) but rather to influence the quiet bystanders who are watching the show.

If someone has questions or is on the fence and is watching the showdown between the virologist and the germ denier, and the virologist is consistently clear, logical and presents well while the germ theory denier presents as an increasingly unhinged lunatic… that bystander is going to end up on the virologist side. It’s not about changing one germ denier’s mind, it’s about influencing all the other people watching.

Which is much the same reason right wing influencers like to find the least experienced feminists or debate partners possible. Not in the interests of a fair debate, but to influence the undecided bystanders.

[serenedragon]

Yeeeeah, except it doesn't work like that. Let me take you back to Brexit (edit because I originally had his name in but moved things around and forgot to put it back in) and Nigel Farage because it seems we've forgotten the lesson that you should not debate these kinds of people. The tv networks fell over themselves to give him near constant debate time because he was a complete muppet, just an absolute raving asshole who wanted to break away from the EU. And guess what, he fucking won. Not the debates, he lost those because he's a fucking idiot, but just having all the debates at all exposed people to his platform and some people were swayed by it. We got Brexit because people thought that logic and reason would win and it didn't, feelings and vibes did.

If you want an American example, they did the exact same thing with Trump. They expected people to point and laugh at the idiot and instead exposed hundreds of thousands of people to him and some of them liked the bullshit he said.

We like to think that logic and reasoned debate will win over people but it doesn't. Some people will watch that debate and think "well but the germ denier has some good points". We've literally seen this happen time and time and time again with climate change denial when networks have debates about it.

I think there's even an Alt-Right Playbook video about this very thing (looked it up, Never Play Defense is the one I'm thinking of). Do not debate. Educating your audience without platforming the other side is the far better way to handle it.

[animentality]

[aminta]

[identitty-dickruption]

there is also something kind of gross to me about the constant insinuations that the "questioning social norms" component of autism immediately turns every autistic person into a genderfuckery kinkster leftist who don't give a fuck. and I say this as someone who is a genderfuckery kinkster leftist. autism isn't a political alignment, it's a disability. sometimes the autism 'sense of justice' is wrong. sometimes an autistic person will find a home in conservative ideologies for many of the same reasons as other autistic people will find a home in communist ideologies. sometimes the autistic communist will come up with dogshit analysis even as they're guided by their sense of justice, because good political analysis isn't a feeling or a neurotype, it's a skill that you cultivate. I know it would be pleasant and emotionally soothing for you to be able to believe that autism turns someone into a superpowered leftist but it's a politically fraught and deeply questionable line of thought to be feeding into

[identitty-dickruption]

my autistic ass is currently doing a phd in disability & political theory on account of my special interest in late 20th century political philosophy. I am still frequently wrong. I read theory that I agree with for a while, only to think it through and realise that the theory has bullshit applications. I am a human person who happens to be an autistic leftist. it is important that I am allowed to be wrong and it is important that you are allowed to be wrong and it is crucial that we do not pin any of this to Autism

[serenedragon]

Can whoever is putting "AI art isn't bad actually" posts on my feed fucking stop please? AI art is fucking garbage that is literally making the Internet and the world worse to exist in and I'm not interested in hearing people who don't know what the fuck they're talking about saying it isn't.

[oleander-teacup]

and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024

no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay, I'll rebark that!

[magicratfingers]

[throughtimeandstarlight]

[charlesoberonn]

This post goes around Tumblr every year, and it’s always true. There’s never been an uneventful or boring January.

[esthermika]

[whiteshakira]

listened to my very first powerpoint presentation abt how to apply for h1b visa, yeag every single leftist who had anything to say abt how h1b visas negatively impact american workers needs to die. kinda crazzy how noone else is bothered by the fact that elon musk, the guy who recently did 2 sieg heils on stage, had a less fascist opinion on this immigration issue than many americoid leftists. what can i say, i will never forgive i will never forget

[whiteshakira]

did you know that the united states government can only issue 65000 h1b visas every year, meaning that out of all the flawless applications for h1b, only 65000 are randomly selected, i repeat Randomly Selected, to get a visa & the rest can get fucked. did you know that if you get a stem degree as an international student & you get a job offer in your field after graduation, you can stay in the us for only 3 more years without a visa ? meaning you only get 3 chances to enter the h1b lottery (1 every year). did you know that if you get a non-stem degree & then get hired in your field, you can only stay in the us for one (1) more year without h1b so you only get to enter the lottery ONCE. did you know that h1b is a temporary 6 year visa & if you want to stay in the us for longer you need a green card, which is another difficult process. did you know that in order for you to get a green card one of the things your employer has to do is prove that they TRIED & FAILED to find an american citizen with your skillset they could hire in your place ?????? genuinely did you know. did you know any of this lol

did you know

i had no idea

i only knew some of this

i knew everything you said

i actually know more than you, you got smth wrong (comment & tell me

Voting ended onJan 25, 2025

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various fees associates with H1B to the employer, but often priced into the kind of job offers foreign nationals get –

Table 1: H-1B Legal and Government Fees For Employers

Table with 2 columns and 14 rows.

Application Fee $780

H-1B Registration Fee $215

Asylum Fee $600 ($1200 for extension)

Attorney Fees $1,500 to $4,000

Attorney Fees if a Request for Evidence $2,000 to $4,500

Scholarship and Training Fee $1,500 ($750 for employers with 25 or fewer employees) (initial petition and extension)

Anti-Fraud Fee $500 (on initial petition)

Premium Processing (optional but generally necessary) $2,850

“50/50” Fee (for employers with workforce over 50% H-1B/L-1) $4,000 (on initial petition)

Visa Application (cost based on reciprocity) $190 ($0 - $800)

Additional Cost to Sponsor Employee for Permanent Residence $10,000 to $15,000 or more

TOTAL $4,535 to $17,885 for initial petition

$7,165 to $33,365 for initial and extension

Up to $50,000 (est.) for initial, extension and green card

Source: National Foundation for American Policy. All government fees in effect as of April 1, 2024.

A Look At The High Fees Making Hiring H-1B Visa Holders Challenging

The USCIS fee rule represents the latest federal action making it more costly for companies to employ H-1B visa holders.

[serenedragon]

When I was looking into immigrating to the US to be with my now-husband, I did originally look into going the H-1B route because going the spousal route gives the US spouse an insane amount of power over you. On a fiancee/spouse visa, you cannot legally work at all until you get your green card or you apply for and receive an Employment Authorization Document once you're in the US (which took 10 months back in 2018 and I can only imagine it takes even longer now). I was entirely reliant on my husband for everything.

I've heard horror stories from other people who were totally fucked over by their spouses cheating on them or dumping them years in but before getting their unconditional green card (because, fun fact, your original spousal based green card only lasts 2 years and is based on still being married to said spouse. At the end of those two years, you need to apply to get a proper unconditional green card and by the time I got mine, I was actually eligible for citizenship, that's how long it took to get) and then having to just hope that USCIS let them stay anyway.

So when I say putting my life in the hands of my husband who I'd known for years but never lived with before was preferable to trying to get in on a work visa, you know that it sucks nuts. I have a PhD in Chemistry, done a couple of postdocs, I'm white and English speaking and from the UK so I was in one of the best positions to apply for a work visa (universities and such are exempt from the H-1B cap so academia was a route I looked at) but the process was still so horrendous, I gave up after applying for a few jobs and just went the marriage route.

For some reason, Americans really think getting visas and green cards is piss easy. My in-laws were appalled at how awful the process was for me, they had no idea how expensive and long it is and how much a crapshoot and how much you're constantly worried that something is gonna go wrong. I can only imagine it's infinitely worse doing this with an employer who has limited loyalty to you and having a longer and worse route to a green card and then citizenship.

[rickrude-deactivated20231031]

Annoying everyone with my new obsession

[thydungeongal]

Uncharacteristically political take, I know, but I personally think if you want to blame any particular group of voters for Trump getting elected it should probably be the people who voted for Trump

[sleepy-bebby]

ultraviolence

[bogleech]

Physically deadliest monster to walk the modern earth

[cinemamind]

Might as well post this here for posterity, since Youtube has yet to resolve the matter.

A couple of weeks ago, my short film 'Pleasant Inn' got a false copyright strike from an individual named Kazi Zidane Mim. He has been striking any Youtube channel that reacted to my short film in the hopes of uploading his own stolen version titled 'Paradise Hell.'

For comparisons, here is my original short film:

[This is a horror animation and contains flashing lights, so viewer discretion is advised]

And here is Kazi Zidane's stolen version:

Kazi Zidane Mim has a history of just flat out stealing.

As an example, this is his 'Bloody Mary graphic novel,' which is actually a manga called 'Ibitsu,' with only the text/dialogue changed.

He's literally just selling this on Google Books and Amazon without any push-back.

I also found out that he has a Sketchfab account.

Why is this important? Because Sketchfab offers a great library of 3D models made by other artists, such as this animated deer by Games in Motion Studios;

Look familiar?

I'm sure coincidences are possible, tho 🦌

Kazi Zidane even made a bogus IMDB page of my stolen short.

And to add insult to injury...

So far, Youtube hasn't done anything about this and I'm tired of waiting. Many channels have received false copyright strikes by Kazi Zidane Mim just for reacting to 'Pleasant Inn' since 2019.