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If you spend 5 minutes on facebook, every hog in the imperial core wants to impress their overlord by incinerating $15 on a t-shirt.

What's the best design or messaging to actually do marketing into the hog-o-sphere?

A kind user from Lemmygrad recommended me DataAnnotation, which I'm sure some of you may have heard of. I got accepted into DataAnnotation, and it's generally been going incredibly well for me. Unfortunately, however, I recently went through a moment in which any access to work or projects I had was completely wiped.

In getting in contact with the aforementioned Lemmygradder, they told me that this is not really too uncommon of an experience and it doesn't necessarily mean that termination is the likely outcome. She thinks that I'll be doing just fine, and seeing as how it's a Sunday, she told me that by some weekday such as Tuesday, things will likely be back to normal as they might just be doing a manual review of my work on the platform.

This has all been a major scare for me because I had a sense of suspicion that the reason why DataAnnotation is reviewing my work is that I've worked a lot of hours as of late. As a matter of fact, the most amount of hours I've worked in a single day within the past 10 days or so was roughly 13 and a half hours. Sounds crazy, right? Well, such a value didn't come about in the way you may think.

I've been having an incredibly inverse sleep schedule that has led me to stay up past midnight somewhat frequently. I adopted a practice in which I have told myself, "If I'm gonna stay up late, I might as well stay up late doing something productive," and this would lead me to work from around midnight to however long. Once I'm unable to keep my eyes open, I go to sleep in some early part of the morning like 6, 7, or 8 AM for instance, and I'd typically wake up in the evening and work even more.

What this means is that, for instance, if I worked 6.75 hours in that first portion where I was working after midnight and 6.75 hours in the evening after I woke up, even though all of this activity, including work, sleep, and work again, would've been spread out through nearly a whole damn 24 hours, this would mean that 13.5 hours would get recorded in a single day according to my time log on the website.

What I find so funny about this is that DataAnnotation themselves advertise "work whenever you want" and "work however much you want" as some of their strongest selling points. It's also extremely ironic that, on top of this, they require you to log your own time, as they do not track it for you. Mind you, there could be concerns for people inflating logged hours, I get it, but that isn't me.

I strived to abide by their demands and ensure that I wasn't in violation of any part of their code of conduct, and you know what? I don't believe that I was. Regardless, it's absurdly disingenuous for a company to advertise "You can work any amount of time you want at whatever time you want! 😃👍" as one of their strong pros and then turn around to get skeptical of people who take advantage of that exact fucking benefit. And no, DataAnnotation isn't transparent about any of this either. They have absolutely no coherent explanation in any form of communication that touches on what something like having an empty dashboard after previously having a dashboard full of work can mean for the worker.

I've been working so much because I have been trying so damn hard to get into this new apartment complex that I found, and that has been incredibly motivating for me to work such lengthy hours. I have been living in this really poor residence where I hardly feel safe anywhere outside of my room, so even if it could be an unlikely outcome, having any bit of fear whatsoever that I may have lost a job that's going incredibly well for me is destructive.

It makes me distraught, extremely mentally unstable, and honestly concerned to a highly intense degree regarding how much I'll be able to keep myself together. Unlike most people, due to me being black and trans, I have absolutely no family and really not too many people IRL in general to turn to in instances where I need any kind of support, be it practical support or emotional support.

I'm so thankful that this Lemmygradder recommended this job for me and that it has been going as well as it's been going, but I'm sure that many of you know, before I started working doing DataAnnotation, that I've been struggling constantly to find a job as a black trans person in Florida. I'd apply for jobs that the general public would condescendingly perceive as "unskilled labor," such as being a barista, a waiter, or a grocery store cashier, and not a single one of these places had any interest in hiring me whatsoever, despite me literally having experience in such jobs!

This horrendous scare of possibly losing my job with DataAnnotation is so damn daunting that it's bringing my mental health down to the lowest it has been in a minute, and the outcome of that will not be fucking good for me as a person who has zero support in my personal life.

All that out, as I asked in the title, because I desire at least some kind of backup plan if the worst has truly occurred, does anyone here know any WFH gigs that I can apply for as an alternative? I honestly would greatly prefer to do WFH jobs, as like I said, I'm a black trans person in Florida who has practically zero hope that I could ever get hired at an in-person job. All support in whichever way possible is greatly appreciated.

In , the , and now the the ruling parties have essentially decided to give up on this year's elections. What are they trying to avoid being blamed for? Is it more than just a global recession? Wrong answers preferred.

Does anyone know what episode of Chapo foretold the Biden presidency? I’ve only heard later references to it. I think it might have been in 2016.

You don't wanna know what happens if you end up guessing right.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5089720

Ye see, I've been reading a book called "Cambodia 1975-1982" by Michael Vickery (you can find its pdf), and needless to say, its goal is to:

prove{s} that the truth {of 'Democratic Kampuchea'} was much more complex than the situation as portrayed by anti-Communist Western media, by pro-revolutionary sympathizers, or by the regime itself, and would dishearten all three of those groups.

In the first half, it talks about how D.K Cambodia was split between 2 main power-holding sections, East Zone and Northwest (Viet-allied and gradualist) and Southwest (Anti-Viet, chauvinist), and the Southwest one led by Pol Pot won and purged the rest...

1975-1977 wasn't that bad (more or less attempted economic recovery), but 1977-1979 was Pol Pot's purge time we all know and hate...

Besides that, it talks of People's Republic of Kampuchea from 1979-1982...

I reached this section over here:

Children's work in the old days though was accompanied by much fun and play, as the elephant dung story clearly indicates; and the suppression of fun and play is one of the things which distinguished DK invidiously from pre-revolutionary Cambodia.

Among the comments accompanying the children's drawings was the account of a boy who had worked minding water buffalo, a typical children's chore in Cambodia. He told of being punished twice in one day, once for allowing the animal to run away, also typical, but once for laughing and joking while at work, which for Cambodia was entirely aberrant.

Thoughts on this book, or just on D.K Cambodia?

I love cheap instant noodles myself...

I noticed this was also asked 4 years ago but I'm asking again anyways.

What about you chapos?

How do I get it?

It seems like they're all really expensive, with most halfway decent ones being over $1000. It also seems like they're really finicky and hard to get working consistently.

Are there any 3d printers that are actually a refined product, something you can just get and start using? I don't want to spend most of my time fiddling with the settings and having to buy a ton of upgrades in the hopes of getting it to be a functional machine that can actually be used to print out parts.

If there are any out there that are basically self-maintaining or highly automated in terms of configuring themselves correctly, is it only the really expensive ones, or are there more affordable sort of "get and forget" printers that you can just set up and start using?

Specifically I'm unable to change my keyboard input language when in the app, emojis don't always work, and there is no way to use hexbear emojis in app.

If there is an app or there that solves these issues I'm all for it

Looking for a good quality pair of over ear headphones to listen to music and podcasts on my bus and train home. I've got a big ass head so something adjustable and preferably Bluetooth. My budget is $150 or so.

Who's up?

How would you use this nose?

Genuinely curious

A mystery wound is any unexplained cut/bruise/scar/scab/injury about your body.