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I'm still not doing it.
Though Ensemble Stars! has been doing it unintentionally for like ever.
but it was after this guy
It can always be removed, or made to work like a regular chatroom except not real time. I 'unno, I like the generalized liveblog feel.
Anyhows, I've kept using MTurk on and off. I've made over 90 bucks so far, $30 of which
where made in the last eight hours or so through a really nice HIT (forming questions about verbs in sentences, presumably for some machine learning thing). I already transferred $40 to my Amazon account with no problems. I've also reached the 1000 approved HITs milestone which supposedly opens up many opportunities from well-paying requesters. I've also started getting qualifications for stuff.
Though on the downside getting around on MTurk feels like walking around eggshells, it's very easy to not realize that you're risking screwing yourself out of nice things in the long term if not literally forever, for example if you think a 95% approval rating is okay and aim towards that, you're seriously going to have problems down the line trying to find things you're allowed to work on. There are also those times not much gets done.
As weird as it might sound, I kinda feel like I found a real-life cheat code, although I still need to find a convenient way to transfer Amazon money into Bs.F. or otherwise something I can use to sustain myself and my family. Regardless, I'm going to be spending some of it when I get the chance to have stuff brought here, I'll buy a multimeter, a mouse (one of the last I had just broke, although I might be able to repair it), a keyboard and maybe some batteries.
Also I've learnt that my English is not as good as I had thought, I have a harder time transcribing things than I think I should have, and I encounter a lot of everyday words that one doesn't often see in video games or the rest of the internet. It's kind of humbling.
That is such a thing to share.
It was probably [putting anything here would make it sound like 14w knows things about the gay adult film industry, which he does not as he is a super-pure soul who knows nothing more than hand-holding].
(also seriously I probably wouldn't know)
I sometimes get the impression that there's an inverse relationship between how well I get along with someone/a group of people and how much effort I actively put in trying to get along with them.
Also I can't find my wallet.
Also I have found my wallet.
stalkinglooking for him to ask where he got it.^ I think I'd have gone
stalklook for them anyways.He always had the best menes, I wonder where he is now.
Or even right now, since the USA can't stop being insane in every way right now.
I'm still not even 10% sure why it happened (aside from like, very deeply seated historical reasons), and I feel like this is my fault for relying on the mainstream media.
I dunno elsewhere, but it's been everywhere in the hispanosphere.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/naas
YOU'RE A NUT
*Less dramatically, by rating Spanish text on how positive-negative it is for a neuro-linguistic programming thing.
"Woman arrested for kicking dog in elevator in Aventura"
"Man arrested for impersonating Miami Beach Police spokesman"
TL;DR flooding at king tides. As you may know, the tides are the result of the gravitational pull of the moon, and the "king tide" is when the tides become strongest because the moon is closest to the Earth and thus its pull is strongest.
These are entirely predictable events, but they didn't used to cause flooding like this. They do nowadays, a little more and a little more as the years go by, because the mean sea level has risen as a result of global warming, which adds water from melted glaciers and makes the water that's already in the oceans expand. I mean, if you look at those houses and you know the architectural history of this area you'd know they were built just several decades ago.
My monitor is starting to show dead pixels. Yesterday it was two vertical lines of ~8 damaged red/green lights, now one line more or less doubled with dead red lights. I hope this doesn't extend too much.
Well, fuck this shit, I tried to fix it using those flashing screen softwares and the only thing I did was create a white outline made out of stuck pixels around some of the pixels (like a reverse lightsaber). From all the lack of warnings I thought it was a safe method but apparently not.
Maaan, I hope I don't have to replace this monitor at some point.
Edit: Actually, I'm not sure what's going on, some things cause the white pixels to turn off, some that should, don't, and it seems kind of random what it is. Also the blue and green parts of the previously red-dead pixels are now similarly "selectively stuck".
Edit edit: Wait no nvm lolz, The software (PixelHealer) stays in the background after theoretically closing but the UI element (a flat-coloured rectangle) stays on the screen, causing it to look like it made some pixels get stuck and for some reason some things occlude it and others don't.
The red parts are actually kind of half-stuck, theoretically this method often fixes that problem. I wonder if I should try again...
I want to say something hopeful but I feel like once computers start to bork the problem is very rarely actually fixable.
The dead pixels have spread a bit upwards since. Supposedly pixel-death isn't "contagious" and instead whatever killed the early pixels is also killing those around it, but the region of dead pixels is already fairly long (~1.5cm), so I dunno. Even if it becomes two screen-long blue-only vertical lines I don't think I'd mind as long as it doesn't also spread horizontally.
Also, I'm still bitter about HH and I don't think that'll change in a good while.
I dunno, I felt like letting that out.
I bring this up here because I also posted an article about how Unilever let a tone-deaf Dove soap advert stream on facebook, but today during my usual shop I still bought a few bars of Dove soap and didn't even remember the article until I was unpacking my groceries.
I read an article over the weekend about how, to overcome empathy fatigue, we need to prioritize our issues. I guess I am; in one case, I will be more concerned about how a healthy relationship between two boys develops because that's ultimately my own "ideal", whilst I can basically step out of a relationship where a little sister idolizes her big brother too much.
In the other, Dove's advertising is terrible, but it's also really the only soap that won't turn my skin into a desert once I use it.
Meanwhile, the Catalan president is really confusing me, and the only reliable thinkpiece that analyzed his thoughts I was able to find on him was from before he announced that he was going to seek dialogue with Madrid. It was also from France24.
Compare to the 900 "thinkpieces" that boil down to "Isn't Donald Trump kind of a bag of mean? Let's get our righteous indignation on!" and like, you can see why people kind of worry about the state of journalism.