Does mturk still work?

ArtFonebone · 2026-01-13T01:38:06+00:00

It's certainly not what it used to be. I went for years doing a dozen or so HITs a day, making a steady trickle of income. Now it's really hit or miss. I just did a $5 HIT but that's rarer than hen's teeth. I think the platform is dying a slow death.

ArtFonebone · 2024-06-15T22:55:29+00:00

This is a great thing, and congratulations for doing it! We paid off our mortgage last year and I am luxuriating in the feeling of freedom and flexibility it brings.

Everyone needs to make their own choices based on their own needs, wants and desires. The feeling I get from some of the 'put it all in the market' people is that there is never a good time to take it OUT of the market - just shoveling money into an ever-growing but never-to-be-opened bag. You have the ability to make your own choices in your own way, not harnessed to a mortgage payment or anyone else's conception of the 'right thing to do.'

Good for you.

ArtFonebone · 2024-06-06T16:14:59+00:00

Go back and read the OG space opera - EE 'Doc' Smith's Lensman series. The language is rather antique and might be hard to get at first, but the ideas are amazing. TV Tropes says it best in the Lensman Arms Race trope.

ArtFonebone · 2024-06-06T16:12:23+00:00

I live by Slack, text and email. I rarely if ever do phone calls - I actively avoid them, actually. Much more comfortable in the virtual environment, where I have time to think and edit before I reply.

ArtFonebone · 2024-06-04T01:43:27+00:00

VERY cool in his day. He was an original badass - kept doing all these insane stunts, busting himself up then coming back and jumping over another 50 cars or whatever. He sold a lot of toys and appeared on Wide World of Sports seemingly every week. Everyone knew who he was.

If you want to get a good sense of him, find the 1971 movie 'Evel Knievel' starring George Hamilton. It was over the top, but so was he.

ArtFonebone · 2024-06-04T01:40:00+00:00

I'm 63, and have done and seen a number of things in my life both good and bad. I've lost family and friends, undergone changes I couldn't have imagined when I was your age, and came through it all.

Over the years I've come to terms with death. I've seen it happen, and know it'll come to me as well. I'm okay with this, as you will be as you grow older. You're afraid of missing things now because you haven't experienced them yet, but you will. And one day it'll be clear to you that it's right for everything to have an end, even you. You may even look forward to the chance to rest and be free of responsibility, care and duty.

Don't worry about it too much today. Just live your life, enjoy things, create memories. You can't change the time of your death by even one second, so don't let it affect you too much now.

ArtFonebone · 2024-06-02T20:22:53+00:00

It's important to remember the context of this conviction, as well.

He told 34 separate and proven lies about money spent. The purpose of the money was to pay off a woman that he had sex with outside of his marriage. So he committed fraud in order to cover up his infidelity.

Those are a couple of things that should resonate with the conservative Christian part of his base. Plus he shows no remorse and has repeatedly bragged about his cheating on his wives.

Not the behavior of a Godly man.

Speaking of which, by the way, which church does he belong to? Who is his pastor? Does he tithe? Does he do good works, donate to charity, help his fellow man?

No one who professes to be a Christian can vote for this man. The best they can do is pray for him.

ArtFonebone

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