Turniper
10d ago
You just want a large list? Data entry, content moderation, sales, repackaging AI generated images into book covers, actually making book covers, teaching english via zoom, customer support, all the ancillary shit software companies need that isn't code like project management, basically 70% of finance and insurance, streaming, selling curated AI generated porn. I'm sure there's more but that's all I can think of immediately without googling.
Turniper
11d ago
We've had this conversation before, like 20 months ago, and you detailed your many limitations, though their specifics escape me now. I still maintain that if you can write with this clarity and frequency on the motte you are theoretically capable of earning income through intellectual work, you just need to find a way to cross the gulf between it impacting your benefits and it being enough to live on. There are huge numbers of jobs that can be done entirely via interacting with a computer or phone these days. I personally have made money writing software, tutoring high schoolers, and accepting donations for fiction. LLMs are changing many of those niches, but at least for the moment near as many opportunities are being created as are being destroyed, though that may not hold forever. But for the moment, if you want freedom, you'll need to earn income. That's the way the world works. If this 'slaughter' you cannot speak of arrives, well, that might change as some nation begins accepting US asylum applications. But until then, not a single nation is interested in acquiring dependents with no ties to their citizenry.
Turniper
14d ago
Design isn't the bottleneck though. We have designed fabs before, most of the hard part is solved. It's actually building these massive facilities, supplying them with water and energy, keeping them at pressure, staffing them with technicians, and troubleshooting the million small issues that can eat into yield ratios that is hard. It would take some world changing advancements in robotics or AI just leapfrogging our current understanding of how to build chips for them to make a dent in the difficulty of the process.
Turniper
18d ago
Yep. I think it's possible to go further back if the relevant relatives are still alive, because actually claiming citizenship resets the generation gap (I don't have the rules open, but I'm pretty sure if your great grand-parent was born in Ireland, and you got your grandparent to claim Foreign Birth Registry citizenship, the grandchild would then be eligible despite the grandparent not being a citizen at the time of the parent's birth, let alone yours. I might be wrong on that though). But overall it's a very generous amount of diaspora citizenship, and really worth claiming for those eligible.
Turniper
19d ago
Without savings, the ability to claim us benefits abroad, ancestry, or changing that disabled status, nobody. Ireland would take you if you were irish. Paraguay and portugal if you had even moderate savings. Plenty of places if you're self supporting. You're probably stuck in the US if you can't find any paying task you can do.
Turniper
23d ago
I like Bad Bunny as a halftime show but that's mostly because the field of 'music sufficiently popular with the average american to be a halftime show' is a pretty low bar for me these days. Like, we're never getting a halftime show that's all Sabaton singing about the US in WW2, or any of the Christian Rock bands I don't mind (The most mainstream/patriotic options on my playlist). So, Bad Bunny is... Fine? Don't love his lyrics, but the beat's good and the show was aight. No complaints.
Turniper
28d ago
They'd probably know something's up if you show with a raging boner. The goal is a big hog not a tentpole.
Turniper
29d ago
Yeah, I'm really not pleased about this and if we see a shutdown over it the odds of me voting D in '28 will probably slip from medium back to low. Really need to see some actual compromises about actually doing immigration enforcement from Dems before I'll be happy with any further restrictions on how we execute it.
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Man, you can respond to things however you want. But I do think you should try some. If you're already so worried about doom, what could failing really cost you?
Subscribestar and Patreon. Patreon's rules are actually pretty lax, basically no underage, no rape, and no real people. Not sure the other platforms even go that far. There are people clearing tens of thousands a month just reselling curated image sets. Probably won't be a thing for more than a year or two, but they're making money now. This is a 'skill' that didn't even exist two years ago, you're not competing with ML engineers, you're competing with random degenerates who asked someone on discord what model they used and how to set it up.
You say you sell images suitable to be book covers. You don't say those images are largely AI. A lot of books come out every year. The same people who were previously willing to pay 200 bucks for some stock images photoshoped on top of each other (Go browse some romantasy covers on Amazon) are now perfectly happy to pay for AI ones. Fiverr is the starting marketplace, but anyone who gets real business just makes their own portfolio site eventually.
Actuaries are a very small percentage of finance. Remote is also very available these days. That being said, a 4 year degree (Literally any major) is very important for these jobs, and if you don't have one, it's probably not a good path.
(Doing art. Print shops are a dying breed, but people still commission covers)
PEOPLE LITERALLY PAY FOR THIS. Seriously. People love the evening news, they love their various youtuber naysayers, and all those AI Doomer substacks. If you actually think you're good at it, go put your money where your mouth is and start seriously seeking a broader platform instead of contenting yourself to be a replyguy on niche reddit offshoots. It doesn't matter how good your content is, if it isn't top-level on a large site, it will never gather an audience.
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