Please just ask your doctor. They aren't going to report you.

Well, it's not like he could make MTG any worse at this point, I guess.

I hate to ask, but how does one "break into" an industry like that?

I'd probably recommend estimating down to a few dollars on a good day instead of $5~$10.

Hmm, that has been my experience over the last year, but I just figured that was because I was doing most of my HITs after I got off work. I'll probably change that.

Lots of tasks are locked behind requirements of having 100's of accepted HITs already and I've noticed that its getting harder and harder to find short $0.01 tasks to pad. Its rare that the "you have to pass a test to qualify for these HITs" or "you have to request permission to work on these HITs" tasks actually have anybody on the other end to accept the test results or request for permission.

There is a way to find and take some of the qualification tests without having to contact anyone, but I was too lazy to actually find the link. I'll try to get that edited in a little later. I do agree that getting hundreds of approved HITs to really do anything is a steep ask, which is why I might include the names of some requestors that can help people get to that level. I think 500 approved HITs is where most requestors have their standard cutoff if they qual for that kind of thing at all.

About a 1/3 of the HITs on the first page just link off to other "survey" sites that loop you through an infinite series of survey qualifiers that rarely bring up an actual survey... and it will take longer to "get matched" with a survey than the mTurk HIT time limit. These do seem to use the same submitter's names so they can be avoided even though there doesn't seem to be a way to automatically filter them out.

That is part of the reason I never fuck with anything but academic surveys on there. You almost never get screened out of them, and they pay better than most other tasks. I'm sure there's a way to get consistent approvals on them, but I don't know what that is. Can you drop the names of a few requestors that you think might be beneficial to people (and are able to be accessed)?

It has been a while since I've come across HITs that seemed reasonable but the actual task was often impossible. There used to be a cargo ship company that would submit HITs to look at scans of Bills of Lading for some information... but about every second or third scan just wouldn't have the required information anywhere on the document (and the instructions were very explicit that the information MUST be found and it ALWAYS has a specific format). A chunk of my "rejections" were from this.

Sounds like p9r

I have to turn off all my "safe web browsing" extensions and my computer's VPN for mTurk to work. Though I've got a cellphone with a VPN service that works as a hotspot that doesn't make mTurk unhappy so long as I'm using a server in the USA, which is how I access the internet without trying to figure out a way to use the company's internet.

Has Amazon ever given you a hard time about the VPN? It was my understanding that they'd ban you for that.

I hear good things about furry porn too, but both of those things are a bit beyond my capacity artistically. Translation work might be good for that kind of thing too.

EDIT: I will add this into the guide.

Twice the 2008 Obama campaign for reference.

She also mentioned that America doesn't have a leg to stand on in regards to Ukraine. Pretty rare to see this type of guest on Democracy Now, especially this close to the election.

I was never really a big fan of GITS for its action sequences, but they are a nice touch. I think you're right in your second point. The only anime that comes to mind in that milieu would be Kaiba (Kino's Journey too, but that's a totally different premise).

What would you recommend instead of GITS? I've always had a soft spot for it considering it was my first "adult" anime.

This month:

Last Exile: WW1 aesthetics, but taking place entirely in flying ships. Tons of passable CGI with very ok dogfights. It's pretty average, but you do get one of the leads as Haruko from FLCL. I've had this one on my to watch list for over a decade, so I'm pretty disappointed that it turned out to be passable at best.

Oshi No Ko S2: I'm also disappointed with this one, but for a different reason. The first episode (movie?) of the first season was absolutely stellar. Psychological thriller par excellance. It seems to just be a harem with pretty animation now, I guess? I feel like it has all the potential to be something great, but it misses so many layups that I might just drop it considering what is supposed to be coming in the manga. I'm particularly irked with Kana being written to fawn over the main character, when she has the depth to be more than that.

I'm looking forward to starting Dan Da Dan sometime soon considering the studio behind it.

This was in a place that I had been before and had experienced the same treatment, which us why I brought the recorder. I left my backpack in the spot I was sitting to get up for a few minutes and they rifled through it. They found it about an hour and a half in to the recording.

The talking shows up on Audacity. One would think a decibel rise would be enough.

For context, I have no idea why they didn't delete the recording outright. One of them came back to turn the recorder off after about 2 hours and fifty minutes, seemingly to taunt me.

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For your reading pleasure: https://archive.org/details/aberrationinhear0000pain

The movie covers a third of the actual story. It was made while the Manga was being published, so it left a ton out out of necessity. The biker gangs are more fleshed out, and there's a good amount of post apocalypse story telling. It is long as hell (2000+ pages), but there's still nothing like it.

Obligatory "Goodnight Punpun" recommendation. Also, the original Akira manga is a masterpiece, the movie doesn't do it justice (even though it's still pretty good).

Putting up posters is cheaper and less legally dubious.

Is running the Native American caucus again this year?

Did they honor it? That's an expensive fuck up on their part.