Mother Nature always bats last

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[andreablog2]

Phone world has been so bleak & stupid lately but real world has been beautiful & promising

[coast-modern]

I was 12 years old in 2011.... you could NEVER make me hate stomp clap hey music

[coast-modern]

How it feels to be 10 years old and hear Little Lion Man for the first time

[caspercryptid]

And it was

NOT YOUR FAULT BUT MINE

And it was

YOUR HEART ON THE LINE

I really

FUCKED IT UP THIS TIME

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[sailermoon]

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

[sailermoon]

[beemovieerotica]

he literally ran on this campaign promise and won

[fagcrisis]

i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic

[maryoliveoil]

rolling up to Wendy's to get an erotic chicken sandwich

[kikunai]

(face of terror) oh no.... they blorbofied my blorbo....

[kikunai]

to illustrate my point, a blorbo is like red wine. yes u can cook pasta or braise beef with it. but i think itd be a genuine waste if thats all u do with a century old wine. have u considered drinking it

[chirasul]

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

[chirasul]

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

[fishmech]

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

[chirasul]

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

[promethiae]

If you like the wellerman, try on this classic

this is a pathologic ass song 

[rosslynpaladin]

The Chemical Worker’s Song. Not far off our current days’ wage slave experience. I’m telling you, you need Union Songs.

Sailors aboard a ship used to hum to warn the captain they were THIS close to a mutiny and didn’t like conditions AT ALL. Because humming was something others could keep doing when you stopped. Anyone comes close you stop, but the hum of the rest keeps on and they can’t prove who, exactly, is doing it.

Just saying.

[fuckyeahnaturalphilosophy]

Sea shanties are a gateway drug to work/labour songs of all kinds, labour songs always end up including union songs, and that’s how you end up extremely hardcore for organised labour.

And if people want more information, this particular song is called “The Chemical Worker’s Song (Process Man)”, written by the Canadian folk group Great Big Sea.

Sea shanties and labour songs are an active tradition! Are you pissed? Sing about it.

[trisshawkeye]

The Chemical Worker’s Song is iconic (and in fact a longtime staple of UK LARP filk!) but while Great Big Sea did a cover of it, it was in fact written by Ron Angel in the UK, in 1964. Originally called the ICI Song, it referred to the grim working conditions in an Imperial Chemical Industries factory in north-east England. 

[beowulf22121]

The lighting in this video takes it from great to awesome.

[sally-mun]

I have officially concluded that this woman is a siren. My evidence:

1) Outstanding vocal ability no mere mortal could hope to achieve 2) Haunting lyrics that speak to deep and depressing truths of the world 3) No way to prove she has legs 4) I feel so enchanted listening to her sing that I’d probably let her drown me

[spiritsonic]

Here’s a full version of The Chemical Worker’s Song, for anyone who’s curious

[gwywnnydd]

This whole song hits like a sledgehammer, but the stanza that sticks out to me lately is this one: 

There’s overtime and bonus opportunities galore The young men like their money and they all come back for more But soon you’re knockin’ on and you look older than you should For every bob made on the job, you pay with flesh and blood

[prostatestar]

let's take ibuprofen together

[rialtostation]

ok so. hypothetically. I make it into Assassin School. My stellar grades and talent for maiming have caught the eyes of the top officials of Assassin School. I pass with flying colors. I take my internship with a respected Assassin Guild and they love me. I graduate Assassin School with a master's degree and a pretty knife. I take a job at another respected Assassin Guild. (I cannot take a job at my place of internship due to having killed their leader, per the requirements of my senior project.) I sit in on my first assassination planning meeting, finally a full assassin. We discuss details and clients. The target is a corrupt politican. I raise my hand and ask the leader, "So who actually gets to do the job?" The leader memerly sighs and says "New people. You'll get the information on that later." That morning, I am checking my work email (we all use yahoo ^_^) and I see an email to all assassins in the guild from the leader. The email directs me to click on a link. I am taken to a Sign Up Genius- *gunshots*

[rialtostation]

i like reading andy weir his books are great but his endings are the closest i think ill get to knowing what edging feels like

[rialtostation]

andy weir the type of guy to write a fantastic 10/10 no notes scifi thriller and end it with "everyone high fived each other the end"

[rialtostation]

andy weir the type of guy to say "my work is apolitical" while writing nasa fanfiction

[rialtostation]

sleeps on it

[weaponsofclairvoyance]

are you drinking the - the yuri wine? yeah i am

[localpoopdealer]

[entitty]

overstimulated in the club tonight

[entitty]

understimulated in the home tonight

[entitty]

at peace in the abandoned grain silo

[entitty]

happy anniversary to the undying curse upon my notifications. wretched post

[farahhaboub]

Can you donate to save my sister from death ?

Yes , I can

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Voting ended onMay 31

Deadline 31 May

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Donate to Gaza Family Left With Nothing Help Them Start Again, organized by Rania A

In the heart of Gaza, a family of four clings to survival in the shadow of… Rania A needs your support for Gaza Family Left With Nothing Hel

$491 is all that stands between my sister and the medicine that could keep her alive. Her condition has become terrifyingly worse, and every moment in the ICU feels like we are waiting to lose her. I cannot describe the pain of watching my sister suffer, weak and exhausted after her surgery, while we are unable to afford the treatment she desperately needs to survive.💔

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[mohammedhaboubs-blog]

Can you donate 10$?

Yes , I can

No , I can’t

Voting ended onMay 28

I very very very urgently need $321 within 2 days to complete my mother's treatment

Subject : Collecting money for my mother's treatment, her condition is very critical

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Donate to Help my family , organized by Mohammed H

I am raising funds to support my elderly parents who are currently living in extremely difficult condition… Mohammed H needs your support f

Hello friends, 💔

My mother’s condition has become extremely critical, and her health is getting worse every single day. The doctors prescribed 4 urgent medications she desperately needs to survive, but because of our situation, we were only able to buy 1 out of the 4 medicines.

We urgently need to raise $460 within the next 5 days to buy the remaining treatment before it becomes too late. Watching my mother suffer in pain while I stand helpless is breaking me completely inside. She is exhausted, weak, and fighting every moment just to stay alive.

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[mohfamilys-blog]

Please share and donate, please help my mother 💔🙏

[catchymemes]