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@Naomi_Wu you've mentioned a few times that you do freelance ruby on rails dev work for overseas companies- generally western salaries are a lot higher than the average job in china, wouldn't that put you into a pretty cozy lifestyle in shenzhen? I get that it wouldn't launch you into the upper class or anything, but you occasionally talk about financial distress which is surprising because rails freelancers can make bank even with only a little experience. You're also good at getting your name out there so it doesn't seem like you'd struggle to find work like a lot of online freelancers.
Oh, I was a Junior Dev at best and worked under a male pseudonym to avoid the obvious issues. The pay was ok, but these days working on Upwork and similar sites you are going head to head with South Asian programmers etc. so it's really not all that great anymore. But yes, if I ever had to I could go back to that- and did for a short time after Vice defunded me. But I can't earn a living coding and do technical builds at the same time, both are so time-consuming it's kind of a one or the other thing.
Working as Naomi Wu turns into dudes who claim they want hardware sourced, but can only talk about it on the phone, and then want to ramble on for an hour about their hopes and dreams and how I factor into that. I've tried a few times. To date, Chinese can stay professional, so far only a few Westerners can. It almost always gets weird. I'm probably going to pivot into hardware, but I'm going to do my best to make sure it's not customer-facing and I don't have to work in English anymore.
Note: I'm ignoring the "I disagree with you, debate me" type questions. You are obviously welcome to but there's not going to be any resolution so it's not exactly a productive use of anyone's time. Also if you're insulting me in the same message, why would I bother? Again, you're welcome to put on a childish show of how not a simp you are, but I'm probably not going to answer someone who is being preemptively hostile. Pulling pigtails and giving your dessert to a girl you have no relationship with are both broadcasting the exact same sentiment in childlike ways.
All she fucking did was post the same usual pasta with some extra added points and stories to save her "reputation" despite the fact you still can't find anything on some Chinese sites about her lol
Yes, I think the first thing that jumps into most people's minds when they view my replies here is "Wow, she just doesn't engage or provided detailed replies"

I'm pretty well scrubbed these days from Chinese web sites. Chinese netizen speculation about me now gets taken down by censors/moderators. Perhaps they don't want to encourage other Chinese who might go open up YouTube channels and try and get famous? Other famous Chinese YouTubers are primarily famous in China, but also abroad. I'm the only one who focuses solely on the overseas market. This local media blackout may be changing though, they recently did this story about me https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/CNxhu5iPzFLJz4ZBPSuJ3w
Third: What I doubt is your actual goal. If you are fighting for social reform in China using tech as a crowbar, We have an awesome thread about 3D printing and CAD milling firearms. Come join us!
3D printing chokers and bar bots is bullshit masturbation. Use your abilities in a way that actually matters.
I haven't done any of that in years. I think the last LED wearable I did was almost a year ago? I do stuff more like this now: https://youtu.be/vMbS9CdnnC4
I just got an industrial CNC machine in so I'll be showing the process of learning how to use that and how they can be incorporated into small business to onshore certain components: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCBQRJmnYQ4/ I'm trying to move more in this direction.
I'm mostly interested in encouraging people to be more technically proficient- even if just a bit. The rejection of science, of acquiring expertise and competence through diligent self-application is clearly a global problem we have to push back against. In the process of doing that while being somewhat atypical, I seem to have the effect of showing the powers that be here that greater tolerance of the atypical on their part is something that gives China face. Or at least that's what I've been told.
I'm fairly active in the det_disp and 3D printed gun community, they have some novel fabrication methods. Not something I can build here of course, but I support their general goals of making sure people everyone has the option.
My real beef is with Chinese pretending China is some horrible dystopian oppressive regime against all things progressive. China does not care women do tech, and in fact encourages it. And stop pretending to be on the run from the CCP for being a lesbian. That's not illegal in China, either.
How do you rectify your overtly positive tone towards China on social media with your claims of oppression? That is what causes the most dissonance for me and much of the reason why I'm still pretty convinced you're a Chinese attempt to infiltrate Western maker communities to look for up and coming tech innovations.
This is kind of the problem, I am accused of being both anti-China, and an obvious Chinese agent- in the same breath. You can find countless posts of mine that support some things in China, and others that (carefully) call out certain things in China. Chinese think I'm a foreign agent, foreigners think I'm a Chinese agent, neither side is willing to accept that one person's subjective experience may not fit their personal beliefs about China or represent the experience of all Chinese. Demands that I characterize my life in China in some neat, binary way are naive. Because I will not, both pro and anti-China tribes denounce me as a tool of the other.
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