AROOOOOO!!!

gets shushed by librarian

i mean arooooo…

I also thought I’d miss Hulu and Netflix a lot more than I do. What used to irk me so badly was how utterly shit Netflix is when you just want to sit down and find something new to watch. Their front page would be list after list of things like “Hot New Comedies” “Best Independent Films of 2025”, “Classic Action Flicks” and somehow it always felt like the same 30 or 40 movies randomly shuffled together. So I’d spend 15 minutes scrolling through the same slop in different orders, get frustrated and search for a movie that I remembered wanting to watch, only to find that it was on none of the services I was subscribed to, and cost $8.99 for a single watch of a 20 year old movie.

We had been Netflix subscribers since the very start when they delivered discs through the mail. Kinda sad how they went from having virtually anything you could think of to watch (and having a halfway decent recommendation algorithm to boot!) to where they are today.

Bingo.

I don’t go in for the death-porn aspect of it, but there’s something intriguing about these stories of people who seem to just have zero innate fear response.

I must be watching too many cave exploration videos on YouTube, because I thought this was going in a vastly different direction.

“Don’t want to go to school? How about dying from hypothermia over 36 hours while stuck in the pitch black with your arms pinned over your head? Okay, school it is.”

It sounds super obvious, but i never thought to cook hasbrowns in the bacon grease… Mostly because I’m fully converted to making bacon in the oven these days.

Definitely going to give this a whirl next time we’re doing breakfast.

That is equal parts terrifying and cool as fuck!

What a nasty question!

I didn’t get it til another poster pointed it out – instead of the kid eating the marshmallow, the marshmallow is biting the kid’s arm.

I glanced over the comic a couple times, and each time I saw the kid tossing the marshmallow in the air as if to catch it in his mouth.

Same here. I heard on the radio that he turned 99 today, but I still did a quick panic-reread when I clicked this image.

Whorf

I think I think i read that fanfic back in the 90s… co-starring Long-Luc Dickhard and Chestly Crushher?

Bloody hell OP, amazing stuff!

This reminds me of the OG internet, in the best way possible… Stumbling across a random geocities website with dozens of cool photos and researched/cited text about some obscure topic that you really don’t care about, but can’t help getting sucked in by the sheer level of passion evident!

You will actually get some hardcore libertarians unironically making the argument that regulations are completely unnecessary as long as you have a strong court system to award damages in the event that harm is actually done to an individual.

Which, sure, in a frictionless, spherical universe full of perfectly rational actors that exists only in a textbook, maybe that argument has some merit.

In the real world it means arguing that disfiguring people or giving them horrific terminal cancer should just be a line item on your ledger, next to rent and breakroom coffee.

I just searched it a bit, and I think you’re right. I was thinking the paid tier only let you use port forwarding and access their servers optimized for P2P traffic, but it sounds like they actually block P2P traffic on the free tier.

My bad!

Technically you can torrent with it, but the free tier does not include port forwarding, so you will not be able to seed very effectively.

Edit: disregard, I was remembering incorrectly.

If people don’t want these things in their air, why don’t they just vote with their wallets and NOT BUY products that create these byproducts, or move to a place that better suits their snowflake-lungs?

Worst case, if you develop cancer after 5 years of exposure, you can exercise your right to sue the company for damages and be made whole again.

We don’t need government hamstringing industry when the free market can sort these things out!

/s (because who the fuck knows these days)

I don’t want to be an alarmist

But in that harmacy there’s a harmacist!

Have you looked into Remote Path mappings? I have not had to employ this myself, but my understanding is this allows you to avoid file duplication when your *arr and torrent client are using different filesystems.

Maybe I’m mis-remembering though…

Maybe a dumb question, but have you enabled port forwarding in your torrent client and ensured that the VPN server you are connected to allows port forwarding? Proton has decent documentation on how to do this, but it’s not obvious if you didnt already know you needed port forwarding.

This had me tripped up for nearly a full year after I got back into torrenting.

Exactly, if you prevent crime in the first place, there’s no criminals to be tough on.

Conservatives don’t want to actually prevent crime, they just want to be able to loudly and visibly abuse and imprison an out-group.

I was thinking it looks like AI. What’s with the dude on the balcony below glitching through a random curtain outside the balcony door??