Where is my Jet-Pack?

A cornucopia of fandoms alongside liberal politics. I mean *lefty fuckin' capital-L Liberal*, not "weaksauce center right that passes for liberal because today's American conservatives make Nixon look like a Goddamn hippie." If you don't want to see those posts, block the tag "Fuck the GOP." Also, I swear a lot.

[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 bittorrent or utorrent.

[the1920sinpictures]

1924 Sheridan Trust and Savings Bank Building (Teller House), Chicago (addition in 1928). From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

[tzikeh]

It's still here! I live an eight-minute walk from here!

[chateauofmymind]

have you ever suddenly + involuntarily lost consciousness

yes (fainted)

yes (head trauma)

yes (substance-induced)

yes (lack of oxygen)

yes (blood loss)

yes (multiple)

no

Remaining time: 5 days 7 hours

[ghostly-cabbage]

Chat am I on to something

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[irishironclad]

So actually if you really wanted to use your analysis skills you'd realize that what people are annoyed about is the implication that there's never a story or creative work they can create that can escape people like you attempting to assign political meaning to it when they just don't want that. That in fact people's presumptions about life are not, in fact, political (at best they are cultural, which is not an inherently facet of politics). And that by you people arrogantly pushing this idea you are intruding on the fact that a lot of people use fiction as escapism from politics and insisting that "urm no actually your favourite cartoon actually has politics cause no human being is 100% unbiased" is in fact, supremely fucking annoying

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Stop having fun wrong, it ruins my fun when you have fun wrong, it's not enough for me to just scroll past the analysis I don't like, if anyone anywhere is saying that the cartoon exists in a political context that's undermining my enjoyment of it!"

That's you. That's what you sound like.

[tzikeh]

Don't you love when a post gives you a blocklist right out in the open? Three more down...

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE. 

[heroineimages]

I’m not sure I knew the thy/thine distinction. Thanks for this!

[notpotable]

To take it a step further into the grammar, you do NOT make the verbs into funny “-st” endings for ANYthing other than “thou”, and unless you’re confident, it’s better not to try.

Think of the grammar mirroring German grammar: du kannst -> thou canst. But never “you canst”, “we canst”, “I canst”, no no no

thou goest, but you go, we go, I go, s/he goes

thou shouldst, but you should, we should, I should, s/he should

thou mayest, but you may, we may, I may, s/he may, etc

[tzikeh]

Regarding "thine" - it is also used as "yours" when the predicate is implied and it ends the sentence. "This is my gown and that is your gown" = "This is my gown and that is thy gown."; but "Here is my gown and there is yours" = "Here is my gown and there is thine."

[wordfather]

'AI Overview' I DIDN'T ASK FOR THAT. I WANT OBSCURE REDDIT THREAD. I WANT 15 YEAR OLD QUORA POST. GET OUTTA HERE SCRAM

[tzikeh]

use UDM14

use DuckDuckGo

If you simply must use Google Search, type your search terms and then type "-ai" (no quotes) at the end. For example:

Why does google suck so much -ai

will get you answers with no ai-generated anything.

If you're hoping for an obscure reddit thread, type:

Why does google suck so much reddit -ai

If you're only looking for answers that say "fuck google", type:

Why does google suck so much "fuck google" -ai

Learn how to use the search engine - it's not just a matter of typing in what you want. Learn the Boolean operators and learn how to implement them.

[victusinveritas]

Yes, Sam Altman really said that (the intelligence is utility quote). The response to this absolutely cannot be meek acceptance.

[adoptourcrew]

HBO Max’s 2-Part Pirate Show Never Got The Credit It Deserved

Our Flag Means Death is an underrated show

"Even with rave reviews and excellent ratings, Our Flag Means Death never got the popularity that it deserved at the time it aired. Part of this may be because shows with strong LGBT+ representation are still portrayed as niche, which leads to potential audiences missing out on some TV masterpieces, doing their casts and writing team a disservice in the process."

[bookshelfdreams]

Wait what? What?

It wasn't the audience that did ofmd a disservice now, was it? ofmd was a massive, incredible, instant success, considering that it was completely original and quite niche. Does anyone else remember May of '22, how everyone on the damn internet talked about this? How it was the most in-demand show for weeks??? Am I the only one who remember this? Am I insane?

It wasn't that the audience missed out on a gem. The audience was absolutely there. It was that HBO refused to promote this show. No marketing, no support, no parading the actors and writers around. They strung everyone along for months before even ordering a second season, and then didn't promote that, either. There was no hype, not a single attempt by HBO to profit off of this unexpected success in any way whatsoever. It wasn't licensed, no physical release, no merch, nothing. S2 had its already shoestring budget cut down even more, and suffered a significant decline in quality as a result.

ofmd wasn't underappreciated or an undiscovered gem. It was big and could have been huge, but it was deliberately sabotaged.

I'm not surprised it was cancelled, I'm surprised it got a second season at all. HBO very clearly did not want this show to be successful.

[geneva-pnw]

Reblog if you dont shave your legs everyday.

I just want everyone to see how unrealistic some expectations are.

[softcalf]

who the fuck shaves their legs everyday?

[jammiepinkincarnation]

To be honest, I’ve never shaved my legs once

[bowlby4]

[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.

[ms-demeanor]

How do you feel about driving?

I can drive, I am good at driving, I enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am good at driving, I do not enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am bad at driving, I enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am bad at driving, I do not enjoy driving.

I haven't learned to drive, I think I would enjoy driving.

I haven't learned to drive, I do not think I would enjoy driving.

I can't drive anymore, I was good at it, I enjoyed driving.

I can't drive anymore, I was good at it, I didn't enjoy it.

I can't drive anymore, I was bad at it, I enjoyed it.

I can't drive anymore, I was bad at it, I didn't enjoy it.

Remaining time: 18 hours 9 minutes

[marasfanfics]

I am an angry gremlin, I shouldn't be behind the wheel of a car.

[electric-skillet]

One project hail mary character dynamic from the book that I love is Grace moping around like ough I'm just Stratt's little lapdog, her pet scientist that she drags around everywhere, this sucks so bad

Meanwhile everyone else is apparently like waow. There he goes. Mr. Number Two of the hail mary project. Stratt's right hand man. And also her lover.

[ltlemonpop]

Not to focus on only the last sentence of this post because genuinely it’s so real and true but

The book didn’t have a romance subplot, they had everyone was so stressed and busy and scared trying to save the world, so the best thing to do was ship their bosses. Like. They match each others freak. Grace follows her around as her competent boyfriend. Like yes girl yes.

This is the worlds leading scientist on astrophage and the woman who can bend the world into Swiss cheese if she wants. The gossip on the ship is that they need to fuck.

Because the most important part of this is that neither of them even had a HINT of a crush on each other. Like. Stratt begrudgingly mildly enjoys his company. And Grace had Litterally never thought of her that way one. Like canonically. Litterally just gossip on the ship.

[tzikeh]

Some people think Grace has a crush on Stratt in the movie but no, that's just a combo of Standard M&F Storyline Expectations and Ryan Gosling's default state of having chemistry with literally everyone.

[yesornopolls]

Would you consider the hate for AI at the moment “excessive”?

Would you consider the hate for AI at the moment “excessive”?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 3 days 16 hours

[graceebooks]

hudson williams will forever be the first person in history to ever accept a major acting award by noting that the character he portrays loves getting fucked in the ass. nobody can take that from him

[dorian-they-ao3]

jonathan's speech

listen i love HR as much as the next gay and Hudson's speech was great but we can't be rewriting gay history like this on the very first day of pride month 💀

[animentality]