ChicagoCommunist [none/use name]

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  • You worked as an independent contractor doing transcription. You decided to get out of it because AI is getting too good.

    Then cast a wide net using indeed or whatever site to mass apply.

    I’ve worked at 12 places in the last 5 years with gaps in between, but my resume and narrative doesn’t say that. And then I apply to so many places that even if 95% found out and rejected me it doesn’t matter, cause I only need one job. 5% success rate of 200 applications is way more than necessary.

    Alternatively look into seasonal jobs, a lot of them don’t care about your resume as long as you can pass a drug test and (very basic) physical.




  • With that timeframe you might be better off watching nextdoor, craigslist, and Facebook for local gigs like yardwork and moving boxes and the like. Or posting yourself maybe. Had a friend making an extra few hundred a week helping people after work and on weekends with their lawns and housekeeping and whatnot.

    Online stuff:

    Prolific.com surveys can be decent. Not good hourly rate but can fill in some cracks, maybe couple hundred bucks. Pays quickly to PayPal upon request.

    Usertesting is a site I’ve never done but seen people potentially make a lot in their first couple months

    Swagbucks is usually pennies but depending on offers you might be able to make a couple hundred bucks.

    I’d keep checking dataannotation for approval, that’d be the highest hourly and instant payouts.

    Mturk and clickworker (uhrs primarily) were my main sources of income at different times, but I haven’t used them in a while. May take a while to approve and payout.

    3playmedia seems to be hiring voice writers, not sure what the work entails but the company is legit. Used to be my main source of income for years doing regular captioning.

    Other names I’m seeing in online work discussions: intellizoom, verbit, respondent, cloud connect, proxypics, alignerr, outlier.

    Also various online CS jobs that don’t pay great. Phone or chat. Depending on your certs some might pay better.

    Focus groups can pay 200+ if you can find them.


  • Great answers in this thread already so I’ll talk more generally:

    When we try to understand the world by fitting it into conceptual boxes, we are necessarily reducing it to simpler, more digestible models. This process is a double edged sword in that it allows us to understand and communicate ideas about something that’s otherwise infinitely complex, allows us to brush over a million other variables so we can focus on key ones of interest. But at the same time these models are not reality, variables are being ignored or de-emphasized, leading to potential inaccuracy (rather than merely imprecisions). Additionally, that human component is prone to being influenced by bias/ideology.

    So in the multitude of concepts clustered around the word “materialism”, some of them may ignore or de-emphasize variables that actually have meaningful influences, resulting in models that are too reductive and that might lead one to make choices that don’t have the desired and expected outcomes.

    Class reductionism is one you’ll commonly read about in Marxist circles. Mechanistic materialism (as opposed to dialectical materialism) might be another. But as with most categories, the lines are fuzzy and sometimes arbitrary. Two people who ascribe to materialism might call each other vulgar materialists because they disagree on which variables to de-emphasize or where to draw the line between idea and material. Similarly among diamats and what constitutes base versus superstructure.






  • There’s good bad and bad bad, sometimes which category a movie falls into is very mood and context based. Off the top of my head, Sound of Freedom was bad in a not enjoyable way, although I enjoyed podcasts discussing it.

    There’s also “incredulously bad”, which are movies/shows that are terrible but have good ratings and reviews. Like you can’t understand why they’re generally considered good. West Wing is probably a good example of a show in this category.

    One problem is arguably the worst thing a film can do is be forgettable, so I probably don’t even remember the worst ones I’ve seen.




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    In a similar vein to the above comrade’s comment, you may enjoy these quotes:

    From Disco Elysium:

    The Deserter - “The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone – everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed.”

    “And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death… the sweetest, most courageous people in the world.” He’s silent for a second “You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you know.”

    YOU - “What?”

    The Deserter - “That the bourgeois are not human.”

    From Carlo Cafiero’s summary of Capital:

    So the daydreaming worker arrived at home; and there, dined, went to bed, and slept deeply, dreaming of the disappearance of bosses and the creation of government workshops.

    Sleep, poor friend, sleep in peace, while hope still rests within you. Sleep in peace, for the disappointing day will soon come. Soon you will learn how your boss can sell their goods for profit, without defrauding anyone. He will make you see how one becomes a capitalist, and a large capitalist, while remaining perfectly honest.

    Now your dreams will never again be so peaceful. You will see capital in your nights, like a nightmare, that presses you and threatens to crush you. With terrified eyes you will see it get fatter, like a monster with one hundred proboscises that feverishly search the pores of your body to suck your blood. And finally you will learn to assume its boundless and gigantic proportions, its appearance dark and terrible, with eyes and mouth of fire, morphing its suckers into enormous hopeful trumpets, within which you’ll see thousands of human beings disappear: men, women, children. Down your face will trickle the sweat of death, because your time, and that of your wife and your children will soon arrive. And your final moan will be drowned out by the happy sneering of the monster, glad with your state, so much richer, so much more inhumane.