mctoasterson

POV you are walking down the street when you clip through the sidewalk and find yourself in the Backrooms.

You do have to get an invite, seed, and maybe toss them a small crypto donation occasionally. The ratio thing depends on the tracker but usually it's just a requirement to seed back anything for at least a week. Popular torrents become FreeLeech and they don't count against your ratio.

Because the participants are all vetted, you don't get RIAA and MPAA shills in swarm trying to vacuum up IPs to start sending nasty legal letters out.

A decade ago when I used public torrents I remember getting those stupid ISP strikes. I know shit-tier regional ISPs would even try to embarrass you with the content you pirated. They'd send you a letter like "the Copyright holder for 'Anal Hookers of Beijing' told us they're big mad at you, and if you do it again you'll get your service revoked". Some of these ISPs were integrated with cable companies so they'd freeze your internet and cable, and display the text of the copyright strike on your fucking TV for your girlfriend or grandma to see.

Fuck that noise.

Since using a private tracker I have never received a single cease and desist or ISP warning letter. Then again, I only use Bit Torrent to download Linux ISOs.

Perfect that Wilson goes to the Steelers because dude is straight up stealing money from whoever is dumb enough to sign and start him. Buddy is washed.

Only took her a full month and a week as the nominee before answering any real questions.

Private Trackers are the way forward.

I keep seeing his chocolate in stores. Seems overpriced.

Can you burn a Luigi board?

I had a plumber once, older guy, who was really eager to teach somebody the trade. He "made" me do half the work and I didn't even mind because I learned how to do a lot of shit I didn't know how to do before.

Be coachable in life and you will be surprised the info you can get from qualified people for free.

Also if you are handy you always have a fallback job if your 9 to 5 shitcans you unexpectedly.

Anakin: In this anime the wife regresses to an elementary school kid.

Padme: Because it's wholesome, right?

Anakin: ...

Padme: Because it's wholesome, right?!?!

I'm house Ryobi. I realize Ryobi is probably Hufflepuff (the "lame but at least not evil" one) in this scenario but so be it.

Don't mistake it for apathy. I didn't vote for either major party candidate in either of the last 2 presidential elections because I didn't like either of the options. I'm not going to be schoolmarmed by anybody on Lemmy for doing so, especially since many of the people participating in US politics discussions on Lemmy seem to be Canadians or Europeans who, just like Russian trolls, cannot vote in US elections.

If you want viable third party options leading towards reform, you have to act accordingly. In '92 Ross Perot won 20% of the popular vote despite only re-entering the race in October. In June of that year he was polling as the leader in the 3-way race, before questions about whether he would qualify for all states ballots. He could have won that election.

Since then, the two mega parties have done all they can to ensure no viable 3rd option ever emerges again. This year we were given a matchup of historically unpopular R, nominated pretty much by default through a party controlled process of primaries that couldn't be meaningfully influenced by primary voters...and on the D side we were given a historically unpopular D for whom the party scuttled all potential primary challengers, then at the last second they replaced him via their national process, subverting the entire point of having primaries, with a candidate who won zero votes in that initial process or the previous election cycles primary process.

That said, since as an individual I have no meaningful way of influencing or reforming either major party, and both continue to force candidates upon us I don't like, I will be voting for whoever I want. It is not even remotely similar to "apathy". Thanks.

Her campaign doesn't even think this is true. They are essentially running a "basement" campaign. Zero events off prompter, speaking through surrogates, and trying to ride any potential DNC bump all the way through the election (or at least until early voting is underway in many states).

Harris is deeply off-putting to listen to when she speaks extemporaneously on virtually any issue. Therefore her campaign is banking on more or less hiding her, "freezing" the poll numbers approximately where they are now and avoiding big risks.

Literally the only inflection point that can change the race any further is the debate (or debates) if that happens.