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Oh right I totally skipped tv shows haha

Depends on how picky you are as well to a degree. I’m an “archival” person - I download shit in remux and flac pretty exclusively. When it comes to anime I have some strong opinions about what fan subs are the best and what ones are total shit (to the point where I pretty regularly mux my own releases). If you can get an AB account I would highly recommend, imo best of the three

tv shows i agree usenet and western movies usenet most of the time. Unless you want a specific high quality release group (wildcats, 3L, etc) instead of framestor and random groups, who dominate usenet releases.

The only thing with tv shows and usenet: if you want a long running tv show, say the Simpsons. Torrents easier 100% of the time. If you’re manually downloading through an nzb site then it’s still faster because I guarantee you at least one torrent site you’re on will have a set of season or series packs that works; the season packs on Usenet are often the quickest things to die.

If you’re grabbing with sonarr I guarantee you will get a ton of shit that sucks, especially for an old show like that. Like some of the old episodes will be the ones they upscaled and stretched to 16:9 by zooming in and erasing a third of the image. A bunch will be in German, even with trash guide filters, because German dub people don’t tag their releases in ways that play well with any of trash guides regex. Even if you adjust your regex to scan for it (German in title, basically) then you have the occasional issue if the episode name has the word German (plus other dubs that are labeled poorly)

And for any hbo tv show and many Netflix tv shows (tho nf is far less aggressive) you will often find a sea of dead postings where torrents are fine. Like a remux of the sopranos? Better hope it was posted very recently, like in the past few days, because hbo monitors usenet like crazy. Netflix does too but not as strictly. Dmcas everywhere.

It’s still worth having of course and I use it a lot. Like you said it’s my go to for western movies and certain western shows. Especially when they’re actively airing. But there’s a lot of scenarios where it sucks

Usenet: you missed the window but Black Friday and Labor Day are in my experience the best time to sign up. I pay $35/yr unlimited.

Private tracker: it’s not as hard as you think

Get in red: either via invite (easy mode) or do their interview (not that difficult). Once you do you need to upload 25gb of stuff and have a (I think) 0.7 ratio (maybe 1.0?).

Easiest way is to rip songs from streaming sites: https://github.com/nathom/streamrip and upload. If you’re fast and get a hot album you can literally get it in like 2 days. Don’t bother with insanely popular albums like if charli xcx or Tyler the creator or whoever drops something. Old heads on the site will have that shit scripted and dropped so fast. Or browse requests with bounty and upload whatever.

Then you open up the invite forum. Then you ask for invites to wherever. Then you maintain ratio to not fuck over the person who invited you. Then you’re done, basically

Usenet is good for some things, torrents are still king for others

Like if I want a specific release of a movie in a certain quality, like a dv remux then I might pop on blu or ptp. 90% of the time I’ll just grab a dv/hdr10 remux on usenet though

Anime is all about trackers, ab/baka/nyaa destroy usenet. Animetosho makes usenet passable but still destroyed by the first three

Music is the same. If I want some basic mainstream release in scene quality then sure usenet is fine. If I want to be sure it’s tagged decently and actually a solid 16bit flac? Red/orpheus. If I want anything remotely niche, international artists, indie shit, like even singles and eps by popular artists? Or I’ll pop on soulseek but the downside there is I can’t figure out how to automate it

The deinstitutionalization and movement to prison was something that began long before Reagan. Really goes back to the end of ww2 and Kennedy. though reagan definitely accelerated it by a great deal by decreasing budgets substantially and increasing incarceration rates significantly

Reagan was a monster though. What a great day it was when he died

So what you’re saying is cows, pigs, and chickens just gotta start eating people to save themselves

People eat alligator, crocodile, shark, bear, and snake, all of which are or can be carnivorous

Again, you just make a weird distinction. This isn’t even an “American culture vs Asian culture” thing. Gator and crocodile are pretty big in the southeast.

But whatever you need to justify killing a pig that has a deeper capacity for emotional intelligence than your dog does as well as stronger ability for numerical reasoning skills and independent thought

I forgot to mention he not only has never apologized for mistakenly holding the black jogger at gunpoint (when he had no reason to do so other than being suspicious of black folk in “his” town) he has actively refused to do so. This became a problem during his senate run because of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder, which was essentially the same exact scenario except two dipshit white idiots that egged each other on into murdering the innocent jogger they kidnapped for no reason.

The dnc actively worked to downplay the fact that their new wunderkid was a racist shithead because he polled well, aligned with Israel, was a class traitor, etc. they fuckin love fetterman. Now he’s the heel that lets them get gop bullshit pushed through which they love even more (so much that their fucking leadership does it)

No it didn’t. He was always a class traitor. He was always a rich entitled prick

Paraphrasing from a comment I made where this was posted somewhere else:

He once held an innocent black jogger at gunpoint with a loaded shotgun because someone set off some fireworks nearby, who was elected to gentrify his town and mainly did his “amazing projects” because his rich dad suddenly was willing to dump a ton of money into the town now that his kid was mayor (on top of paying his kid 50k a year since the mayor gig paid dick)

Also his second election he literally abused his power to release confidential arrest records on his opponent to smear his record. And he only won the first time by a single vote.

He was placed in the mayor gig to gentrify the town and remove “undesirables”. He is a class traitor from the beginning. He is a rich daddy’s boy who never did any serious work and was bank rolled by privilege. He was happy to take his generational wealth and use that to uproot people from “his” town that he felt didn’t meet the “target demographic”. Neolibs loved this because on paper he raised property values! He lowered crime! But he didn’t do this by addressing any systemic issues or helping the community in any real way. He did it by sweeping problems under the rug

This was all during his mayor time. Looooooong before the stroke. Oh and also he refuses to apologize for the holding a black guy at gunpoint thing and always has. He refused during his senate run, even though it was a super high tension time because Ahmaud Arbery had recently occurred which was basically the same exact situation except ending in murder this time. Neolibs kept burying the story in the media because “he wears a hoodie!” played well and ultimately he hits the dnc points (rich kid, class traitor, aligned with Israel)

John fetterman, who once held an innocent black jogger at gunpoint with a loaded shotgun because someone set off some fireworks nearby, who was elected to gentrify his town and mainly did his “amazing projects” because his rich dad suddenly was willing to dump a ton of money into the town now that his kid was mayor (on top of paying his kid 50k a year since the mayor gig paid dick)

Also his second election he literally abused his power to release confidential arrest records on his opponent to smear his record. And he only won the first time by a single vote.

He was placed in the mayor gig to gentrify the town and remove “undesirables”. He is a class traitor from the beginning. He is a rich daddy’s boy who never did any serious work and was bank rolled by privilege. He was happy to take his generational wealth and use that to uproot people from “his” town that he felt didn’t meet the “target demographic”. Neolibs loved this because on paper he raised property values! He lowered crime! But he didn’t do this by addressing any systemic issues or helping the community in any real way. He did it by sweeping problems under the rug

Fuck John fetterman. I unironically hope that pager blows up

Yes and I also remember when there were stupid things like early universal remotes that had big timers on them to circumvent the internal programming needs (but then you had to program the remote and sync it)

Lots of cultures eat horse. I have a Japanese friend whose favorite decadent meal is raw horse meat.

I think eating any meat is fucked up if you’re in a developed nation where it is simple to get adequate protein and calories without animal sources

I also think if you’re going to do it it’s weird to make a distinction between animals that are simply domesticated (like dogs and cats) versus animals that are quite intelligent (like pigs, who are objectively more intelligent than dogs)

This is such dumb rhetoric

How did Obama win? He ran on a platform of systemic change and healthcare reform. He made change his primary message and sent that down your throat. He didn’t deliver and he droned the shit of a bunch of kids, but that’s how he won

How did Kamala lose? Same way Hilary did. Not because they’re women. Because they ran shit neoliberal campaigns pandering to centrists and conservatives rather than trying to capture disillusioned workers who are desperate for change

Trump voters make up like 27% of voting eligible population