Oh good, United healthcare is up.

Worth noting that it’s against international law to leave a person stateless.

What is the strict topological definition of a hole?

Number of holes beneath the waist.

Feel like shit in general since January, not only because of global events but also because of various shitty things happening in my personal life that coincidentally occurred around the same time. I have to say that when it seems like the world is actively on fire and burning down it severely affects my ability to compartmentalize. Like there’s an extra layer of gloom over everything.

It’s nice out today and I’m not feeling particularly awful, though. I made mini chicken pot pies so I’m looking forward to lunch.

AC mainly. I have a ceiling fan as well.

Let’s not use the word “controversial” when “nobody with any qualifications would ever fucking agree with this” is more accurate. Controversial suggests a lack of consensus.

Not trying to be judgey, just trying to give you a push. You’re right, we all have stuff. It’s how you deal with it that counts.

You’re actively sabotaging yourself, your relationships, and your physical health because of your thoughts. Also you come across as more than a little unstable. I am not a therapist, but if I can get this impression reading 5 paragraphs of what you write, I would say you have serious issues.

My advice: budget for it, you really need one. There are lots of therapists who offer sliding scale.

This seems paranoid to a silly degree

Edit: Oh it’s police propaganda, no wonder it’s bad.

Are you just PMing random people on Reddit about Lemmy?

Getting an account on a big general tracker like TorrentLeech is a pretty good foot in the door. They do open signups frequently. There’s also IPtorrents and their whole network, although they’re pretty looked down upon by the private trackers community. If you want to start working towards invites to more selective trackers, MAM, OPS, and RED all have an interview process. MAM is by far the easiest one to build a ratio on, although note that they do not like to be thought of as a stepping stone.

I’m curious how well polished the stuff you get off of soulseek is. Private music trackers have pretty strict standards for uploads, which generally means making sure that everything is organized consistently, that all tracks are tagged correctly, and that things are encoded to high standards (filtering things like bad transcodes). If you’re having to manually check all of this stuff, it would be pretty time consuming for a large collection.

OPS is probably the one you want. RED has more selection but also a very difficult economy. OPS still has a great library and the economy is far more manageable. Of course you will still need to build up a ratio if you’re planning to download a lot

You might want to get on a general tracker like TorrentLeech that has 0day scene releases. But you won’t find as good retention on older releases. It works as a nice supplement to a more selective tracker.

Is there a particular reason you need a brand new model? I tend to look at flagships that are a year or two old.

Some of the apps add this as a feature client side. For example I know sync has this. Not aware of it on the web site though.

Mind you, news subs are depressing right now for a reason.

The fact that your autocorrect is capitalizing Exchange makes me think you’ve had some bad times.

The problem with the question of why is that you can always ask why again. Say we do understand the mechanism of the big bang. You can still ask “why” about why things are that way. Which is why in my view that’s still more of a “how?” “Why” is more of a question for philosophers than scientists imo.