Dyskolos

Indeed. I was unfair of me to pick only one favourite, as there are more candidates :)

Aaah i get it now, thanks mate :)

not exactly like lemmy. It’s more like ONE base of content they all share. But it’s not like instance A only gives you interracial gay midget-porn, and instance B only farming-simulators and C only linux-apps :) But yes, you pay one of the providers and usually have it all. There’s a chart somewhere to which one is backed by whom, and hence the best retention you could get. AFAIK Eweka is one of the root-providers (I use them and they have regularly cheap deals). For automated easy downloads you’d also need an indexer. There are free ones but they aren’t offering API-acccess. You can get those very cheap to moderatly cheap. I pay like 20 bucks a year for two indexers (where one would really totally suffice). Kinda like the same you’d need for torrent too. A site to get your torrent from.

Exactly!

Oh yes, this one too of course!

Errr…I don’t get it, someone cares to explain?

I really really dig the fuckaround/findout. It paints the try/catch with a more dreadful undertone and reeks of mystery.

It’s just as old as the internet itself. Primary reason was communication. A gargantuan federated forum. The binary-part was just there but not that extensively used. Now it’s the other way round (sadly). Communication is down, binaries are up. As to the legality: It’s federated, worldwide. Some providers do take DMCAs, but (as with the rest of the net) it doesn’t do much. Because first most pir8-content is obfuscated and pwd-protected. And second, the moment something was taken down, someone else re-ups it again :-) Benefits to torrent and debrid and all: Retention. So a thing from 10yrs back you can still get with absolute maximum speed your line can do (and your provider gives you ofc). Fuck seeders and upload-ratio and co. Just get it as fast as anything could be. I usually download with ca. 250mb/s. 100 parallel connections. Only some group’s FTP can beat this. But they’re not for the public.

As to legally paying: It’s just a service that gives you access to something. like debrid. You can have usenet access just to communicate with people or download linux-distros or anything else legal. Also, even in my very restricted country, downloading is legal. Uploading is not.

Depends. I never have had anything that’s not available. Except one older series that wasn’t available anywhere, not even streaming legally. And for dubbed shit it can be more complicated. But i rarely consume that. I use usenet btw with only two indexers. Could add more and even torrents too, that might even make it better. But i would already be fine with just one indexer at all.

Exactly. Movie? Enter name, wait a minute, watch. Series? Enter name, wait a while longer, watch.

Totally don’t care for mobile games, but this, for sure, is one very helpful resource to comb through this pile of rabble.

But that exactly is the problem. You would never happen to “suddenly have it”. As you lack the requirements to hoard and exploit enough. And if you were a nice dude that would just inherit it…you wouldn’t be nice to begin with, as your empathy would’ve been indoctrinated into oblivion by your environment. You’d rarely even have met people not “suffering” from the worst of humanity’s personality disorders.

And even if you’d be the one billionaire out of a thousand that still is decent and helpful…“your” people will find things to make you look like an are. And in the end you’re poor again and your offspring inherit nothing and have learned nothing of value. Capitalism wouldn’t budge under your empathy.

Our society (and by that I mean every society, no matter where you’re living) highly rewards the dark triad of personality disorders. And it literally punishes you (financially mostly) for being kind, humble, empathetic or just decent. So, to be a billionaire, you will simply have to be a mean piece of human garbage. By definition.

We, as a species, are fucked. There is no way out of capitalism anymore and it only will get way worse. One reason I became anti-natalist long ago. Now boo me.

Thanks man, your kind words are appreciated. Yet, in the end…who cares? People are still flooding the association with donations and work-force. If i left or not didn’t change anything at all. I couldn’t even leave a nasty virus this time as any damage would’ve just been taken out of the 5%. It’d be great if everyone (or at least >50%?) would never work in such a company/assoc. But a single entity? Futile.

Also I must add, that I could’ve easily done it. First I didn’t even need to work, i just wanted to. And second, here you’re not screwed if you loose your job. So a regular US-American would’ve probably made another choice here. By force. The system sucks and it heavily rewards the dark trinity of psychological disorders. In fact, they’re often a requirement.

But thanks man, either way. Guess how many understood why i left? exactly ,-)

" It’s literally the capitalism’s basic rule. Exploit the weaker, buy low sell high."

…your point being? Capitalism sucks, yeah. Exactly. The scalper is just another asshole partaking in it. Like you and me.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally against those fucknuggets. But I would just not asses them with a higher evilness than any other company/person that’s acting in and upon capitalism.

Yeah sure, people are idiots that need to be protected (from themselves). Saying that for decades, but…that’s literally not capitalism’s job. It’s a government’s job. Ours does pretty well, but far from perfect/ideal. Yet that’s not the point.

Someone sells a product for X moneyz. I buy it and sell it for X+Y moneyz. My goal, as a buisiness, is to a) maximize Y and b) maximize the percentage of quantity i can buy of that product, so I alone can dictate the value of Y. If I’m the producer of the item, why should I care for a diverse sellout? Seeing my product so high in demand that people pay triple the street-price is exactly what would get me hard, right?

I get it, i’m a gamer, i am victim of scalpers, i already paid triple for my last GPU and probably will pay even more for the next. But we all seem to love capitalism unless it’s fucking us? that is everything the system is for. fucking the vast majority blind.

Probably the scalper-next-door is a more grasp-able object to project hate upon than faceless bigtech?

And hate both? Yeah sure, i’m anti-capitalist. I hate both. I hate people per se. But that still doesn’t make the scalper worse than any other partaker in a lousy system.

The whole system is an asshole per definition. What’s so special with scalpers? Because hating them is so easy?

Not that I like this shit, but why the hate for scalpers? It’s literally the capitalism’s basic rule. Exploit the weaker, buy low sell high. I mean Apple sells a piece of cloth for 29,99 and people wait in line. Hate the game, not the player.

You’re absolutely totally right. Would I still work, I’d be ashamed if I had to say “I work at google”. Since they removed “don’t be evil” as their motto, that is.

But you also explained it…we all get brainwashed. From indoctrination to outright brainwashing. Daily, every where. And if you dare to question something, you’re suddenly alone. One sane in a herd of insane? Must be me,they can’t ALL be wrong,right?..RIGHT?

Tiny story: when I still worked, one job was at a very highly deemed top association that stood for curing cancer. Or helping people with it, or doing studies, paying studies, you name it. Sounded awesome. I was admin and had access to everything. I quit 6 months later, I couldn’t take it anymore.

-a whole floor with lawyers to legally fuck people out of their money and to fend of incoming.

-another floor full of marketing people who did nothing else than quench old (or dying of cancer) people for their inheritance.

-the cellar was full of hundreds of millions worth of inherited stuff, paintings and shit.

-the bosses drove 250k cars, flew multiple times a month to “meetings” (which meant at least 1000 each for food alone, coz it had to be fancy).

-oh right the building was just recently bought, because it was soooo fancy and in front of a large river here (in our small country it’s like US’s central park). It was an 8 figure move. Totally unneeded.

And the yearly spending for curing cancer? 5%. Still a large sum, but it was just an alibi for everything else. And it was probably THE most reputable association here. Last day I ever donated anything. I understand that overhead is needed. But it should be, by definition, kept to a minimum.i wanted to work there for the cause, not to get moneyz.

In that case disregard my comment. “Top to bottom” made it sound like you made her clean a whole fucking house.

BTW, not abusing power over people isn’t high-horse in my book. Just basic human decency.