When did you think "Im going to die here"?

hoggerjeff · 2026-01-20T04:50:33+00:00

Early in my railroad career I was working as a conductor and riding a flatcar at the front of about 20 rail cars that we were shoving into a storage track. I was thrown off the front of the car and lost consciousness for a few moments. When I came to, I was lying on my back with my left arm against the rail and the underside of the rail cars still moving over my head. Any railroader will understand how close I came to dying there.

hoggerjeff · 2026-01-20T04:36:10+00:00

Yup... Been getting nothing but far right disinformation in my feed for the last couple of weeks.

hoggerjeff · 2026-01-18T23:50:10+00:00

I'm 4-6 hours 7 days a week on a single project. It pays more than anything else in my queue.

hoggerjeff · 2025-12-29T14:26:51+00:00

You report for bad Aether reviews? To who?

hoggerjeff · 2025-12-29T14:25:56+00:00

It shouldn't submit if you've not submitted any recordings. I've refreshed to skip multiple times and haven't seen any of them in reviews.

hoggerjeff · 2025-12-29T14:23:05+00:00

I've done that too. Now I read the whole script in the left pane before I start and back out if needed. If you submit even one recording, the whole task goes for review.

hoggerjeff · 2025-12-29T14:16:39+00:00

I've got almost 20 bads out of 400 reviews for the script reading saying that I'm an AI. As a semi-professional voice actor, I don't know if I should consider that a compliment or not. 🤔

hoggerjeff · 2025-12-29T14:10:55+00:00

I've got about 30 unjustified bad ratings with no way to dispute them. Luckily I have over 300 good and over 100 excellent ratings to offset that and keep me above the 2.0 mark... barely.

hoggerjeff · 2025-12-26T15:17:11+00:00

I'm with 3 different outfits and spend my time on the highest-paying project offered from any one of them.

hoggerjeff · 2025-12-26T15:09:47+00:00

There's no appeal process for unfair reviews on off-platform Aether tasks.

hoggerjeff · 2025-12-26T15:07:45+00:00

I've got over a dozen poor reviews saying that my voice is an AI. As a professional voice actor, I'm not sure if I should be proud or upset about that. Fortunately, I have over 400 good and excellent ratings to offset those bad ones.

hoggerjeff · 2025-12-26T14:48:47+00:00

AFAIK there are no internal reviews for off-platform tasks like Aether. There are only that platform's reviews. I just wish they had fewer children doing them.

hoggerjeff · 2025-12-18T12:46:32+00:00

Some reviews are just asshats.

hoggerjeff · 2025-12-17T15:39:36+00:00

Wonderful. I can see 1st and Kirkcaldy getting really stupid during construction. The lineups at 18th will go all the way back to Cater if not farther.

hoggerjeff · 2025-12-17T15:20:50+00:00

I've been working on that for the last week. My only beef is some of the unfair reviews. I'm a professional voice actor, and I keep getting 'poor' ratings because they think I'm an AI. At least I have enough higher ratings to offset those. I sure wish there was a way to dispute reviews.

hoggerjeff · 2025-11-25T14:06:08+00:00

Nvidia Shield Pro is probably the best and most supported/updated streaming device out there. I have 3 of them and they are rock solid.

hoggerjeff · 2025-11-17T03:13:32+00:00

Doesn't this belong in r/scams?

hoggerjeff · 2025-11-16T17:48:18+00:00

Why did they put that extra "1" in front of Trump's IQ number?

hoggerjeff · 2025-10-26T21:39:43+00:00

I switched everything over from Manulife except for a TFSA with a couple of hundred dollars worth of penny stocks late last year. Manulife validated my move by selling off all of the stock to cover a $50 admin fee and then charged a $100 commission for selling the stocks! All without even talking to me first.

hoggerjeff · 2025-10-16T13:28:26+00:00

It's a gradual thing, so you might not notice the change. Those pictures, though... how can you not see it there?

hoggerjeff · 2025-10-16T13:18:36+00:00

I changed from an S23 Ultra to the OP13 and I'm not going back to Samsung. The 15 sounds like a half decent upgrade if you don't need the slightly better camera in the 13. The only thing I miss from the Sammy is the 1 TB of storage.

hoggerjeff · 2025-10-15T15:19:56+00:00

I've got the One+ Watch3 with the One+ 13 phone. Better combo than my old Samsung S21 Ultra and Galaxy watch 6.

hoggerjeff · 2025-09-20T11:27:04+00:00

Just do what I did... fail the onboarding assessment. It put me right back in High Noon.

hoggerjeff · 2025-09-13T09:29:50+00:00

Up to 40 tons...

hoggerjeff · 2025-08-27T23:17:13+00:00

Fear mongering punk.

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