AvailableAudience6 [he/him]

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  • I feel like his show is slowly turning into a Cowdy's Showdy with the increasing amount of rage he emits in the last I don't know how many episodes.

    For those that don't get the reference, look up Some More News on YouTube. It's by far my favourite news dude.



  • AvailableAudience6 [he/him]todankleft*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    I'd suggest a combo of three things:

    1. torrentz.is to search for torrents. It's a meta search engine, so you enter a term and it searches across other sites actually hosting the torrents.
    2. qbittorrent as a client. Especially useful when you're downloading videos because you can right-click on a torrent file and select sequential download (download the torrent in order).
    3. VLC. Assuming you've found a good torrent and used sequential download, you can just wait for qbittorrent to download like 2-5%, right-click it, and choose "preview file".

    You can also go a lot fancies. Grab a spare computer look up radarr/sonarr and automatically download movies / new episodes as soon as they get out, and then slap an interface like Jellyfin on top. Definitely tricky to set it all up, but if you do so, you'll basically have a full-blown Netflix experience without being restricted to just Netflix's catalogue. There's also lidarr for music and bonarr for porn.


  • They have shitty lib takes on so many issues, but I appreciate their calmness instead of chasing "breaking news" that other news media is chasing.

    Here's another reasonably good take: The neoliberal era is ending. What comes next? A quote I especially liked:

    The way we conceive of activism tends to forget the fact that we need all those different roles. Our inclination – in talk shows and around dinner tables – is to choose our favourite kind of activism: we give Greta Thunberg a big thumbs up but fume at the road blockades staged by Extinction Rebellion. Or we admire the protesters of Occupy Wall Street but scorn the lobbyists who set out for Davos.

    That’s not how change works. All of these people have roles to play. Both the professor and the anarchist. The networker and the agitator. The provocateur and the peacemaker. The people who write in academic jargon and those who translate it for a wider audience. The people who lobby behind the scenes and those who are dragged away by the riot police.

    One thing is certain. There comes a point when pushing on the edges of the Overton Window is no longer enough. There comes a point when it’s time to march through the institutions and bring the ideas that were once so radical to the centres of power.

    I think that time is now.

    Also see Fucker Tarslon losing his shit while interviewing the author of the article.







  • Here's a nice start: Stop Reading the News.

    Otherwise, just find a topic you're really interested in and find a book that explains it. You'll learn way more from a single book than you could from hundreds of articles / forum posts. Books are a wonderful escape from reality and there's plenty of leftist book publishers (Verso, Pluto Press, AK Press, Zer0 Books, Repeater Books, Haymarket Books, etc.) if you want to know about the topic from a similar perspective to yours.