It can be two things.

A backup plan would imply he had an original plan to begin with, and we all know that’s not true.

For some reason, I picture this being on some military generals desk…

Like an Irish version of the Red Telephone (see - In Popular Culture)

Honestly, I think they’re better off than the girls licking the radioactive paint brushes… Not that either group is having good time.

You first.

Honestly. I can’t say I blame Iran.

The cost in lives, global uncertainty, and rising oil prices really really suck for the rest of the world; but that’s what happens when you wage unnecessary wars; especially with nations that effectively control such an important shipping lane. (or at least have the capacity to disrupt it)

I’d retaliate too.

Be real nice if the article actually linked to the statement instead of just talking about it…

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6300-A6C4-519D-A3F5

Your neighborhood is using more power as time goes on, so instead of updating your power grid with the funds you’ve been shoveling into our pockets; we’re just going to shut off half your stuff for you. No, you’re not getting a lower bill either; in fact, we’re going to bill you extra for the privilege of using power during ‘peak’ hours (you know, when everyone is awake and using power as expected).

A pissed off stingray is what killed Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter. Though that’s supposedly the only stingray related death caught on camera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin

Let me know how it goes, lmao

You heard it here first folks, straight from the horses mouth: it’s all this guys fault the world sucks.

buys cloud storage

uses it as swap space

For me, Usenet isn’t about availability; but speed, risk exposure, and convenience.

Torrents take longer, even with lots of quality seeds and fast network speeds; mostly because of the seeding process. Plus, while you are seeding: you have to publicly expose yourself as a content host, even if just through a VPN. Hosts are what copyright holders target, they don’t GAF about the people downloading, they try to take down the hosts to stop the spread. Finally you have to keep the content you downloaded in the format you downloaded, at least until seeding is done.

I prefer to use Tdarr to automatically transcode downloaded content into h265 (HEVC) to reduce it’s size. Most content is found in h264 (AVC); converting it, on average, reduces its size by ~30% while maintaining good quality. Overall this step has saved me at least ~7TB so far (Tdarr reports it’s saved 4.8TB, but I converted a ton of stuff with Embys convert feature before implementing Tdarr). That conversion can only be done after seeding or the torrent breaks as the original files are no longer available to seed. Usenet removes the seeding step completely, so I can do whatever I want with the files as soon as they’ve downloaded, which in it self only takes 5min.

Screw the experiment; I wanna know more about that FrontSide 50-50 Franklin Grind. What a boss XD

I’m thinking about this, but my HR rep isn’t here today.

Now my ASM is ‘following’ me on that platform. (notification about it, ~2hrs after deleting the comment)

You’ve done a pretty good job here, so I’ll just add this:

A map of providers and some info on their benefits.

https://www.ngprovider.com/current-usenet-map.php

There’s also a ton of info about usenet, how it works, and what to look for, on that site. (you may have to manually go to the homepage to see the rest)

I don’t have time atm, I’m literally leaving for work rn; but I’ll write up some details later tonight if nobody else has.

This was one of my biggest motivations for moving to usenet. I don’t like exposing myself by seeding. I have a giant folder full of copyright notices forwarded by my ISP because of it, and I don’t want to pay for a vpn as it’s far more expensive than usenet and just moves the problem/target to the vpn provider.

But an ssl connection to a usenet server goes unnoticed… Plus WAY faster download speeds, far more consistency in available files, and less spam/garbage content (at least in my experience, anecdotal).

Torrents took anywhere from an hour to multiple days before either completing or giving up and trying a different torrent. And then there’s the seeding process ontop.

NZBs (usenet) take at the very most, 5min to finish or fail, at which point a new one can be tried automatically by sonarr/radarr if it had failed. Requests for media are now pretty much always ready to watch within 25min of requesting, and most of that is waiting for the library scan to trigger (I’m using SAMBA so filesystem updates can’t trigger scans automatically, they’re on a timer instead)

My favorite part of this is the ridiculous scale. A human-in-the-loop would have seen that and chuckled, not pulled the trigger.