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  • Well, it depends.
    This specific application here is for usenet, so it is of no use to those who torrent.

    If you do casual coughs torrenting and search for your stuff once in a while and download on your main machine, then no. Theres no need for anything else.

    If you self host a media server, maybe a torrent client on the same machine, an arr stack can help out with it to the point that you will no longer visit a torrent site again. Once set up, instead of searching directly on a specific site, you would visit a self hosted page for say, movies, and search there. The search would be handled by another self hosted app which would search from a list of torrent sites you configured.





  • I’ve not been privy to much censorship in my life (that I noticed) but I distinctly remember in Giants: Citizen Kabuto, there was a quest to slay some sheep and bring back their meat for food and the meat was green. As a 10 year old, I thought it was part of the lore. Since you were on another planet, it made sense to me… maybe these are alien sheep!
    I only realized it years later when I had forgotten the game’s title and asked about it, describing the green sheep meat, on a forum. I was told it was censorship and which game it was. Replayed it in its pure form and the meat was red.





  • Toilet’s chipset is only good for network connection and video recording. Business logic is on servers. As I said, users want to know if their shit is good before they flush so they dont lose a sample in case it is bad.

    You may have stumbled on multiplayer shitting though. Conference call with random strangers on the internet, biggest splashback, fastest bowel movement… endless possibilities. Yeah I think always online is the best course of action here.



  • Maybe it needs a connection cause it takes a picture of your feces and sends it to an AI analysis service. If anomalies are detected, it tells you that you should take the stool sample to a laboratory for further study, then lets you flush. Poof, smart toilet. I could see people with too much money buying this.

    Edit: Thought about it some more… why stop at feces images? Why not also have a high resolution camera pointed at your anus taking crowning shots and analyzing those. Tell users if anythings wrong. The future is bright brown boys. The future is brown.

    Edit2: You could even have motion based security… alert if anyone broke in through your bathroom. Cameras in toilets people! What could go wrong?

    Edit3: Hear me out. User controlled bidet mode + anus camera. Take out your phone and clean your ass in first person. Score points if you clean your whole ass and compete on an online scoreboard. Tech sure is amazing.







  • Virtually all of your examples involve US hegemony instigating and winning

    Hmm, I disagree. There are some but I purposely wanted to include the ones where the US was not in change in order to show its been a shitshow everywhere. They obviously had a hand everywhere, since they are considered a superpower but them leading the show every time? That’s a stretch.

    Ive also given examples I personally thought were extreme that happened in that century to paint a picture that it’s been pretty bad for a while now and you can draw your own opinion on whether is better now or not. I don’t wish to compare these events to today’s but I can acknowledge they were there and that they were also, pretty fucking bad.


  • Media bias. Trump is outrage and outrage moves views and views are profit. Trump is the greatest thing to happen to the media - regardless of side. We’re also more connected today than we ever were before so this media gets to everyone in an instant.

    Are evil people really winning globally more than they were in the past? Well… no. We’ve seen more shit in the second half of the 20th century than we are now. There’s still 25 years to catch up though. Heres some shit thats gone down fro 1950-2000.

    • Cold War - though it does seem like we are moving back to this state, we’re far from living like that
    • Korean War, Vietnam War, Kuwait,
    • Cuban Missile Crisis,
    • Basically every Arab nation against Israel - wars galore,
    • Suez crisis,
    • Iranian revolutions,
    • Sino-Soviet Split,
    • India-Pakistan,
    • Soviet-Afghan war,
    • Numerous African civil wars in the 60s, 70s and 90s (till ongoing),
    • South African Apartheid,
    • Numerous south American dictatorships (+ CIA interventions in south America backing right wing dictators),
    • Falklands war - the fucking UK went to war with Argentina in the fucking 80s!
    • All the shit in Yugoslavia (wars, genocide),
    • “The Troubles” in N. Ireland.

    A lot of these have been resolved.