The two party political system isn’t the only problem.

Proportional voting in say, Germany, hasn’t stopped the rise of the far right in other countries that have it.

A more common underlying problem is that more and more people get their news and information solely from social media, which actively promotes the most sensational and polarizing stories and disinformation because it generates more clicks for advertising dollars.

Time to buy shares in VPN providers?

There are actually quite a few casts of Rodin’s famous The Thinker statue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Thinker_sculptures including Cleveland, Louisville, Detroit, NYC, Washington DC, and San Francisco.

A bunch more “later casts” further down the above wikipedia page.

There’s probably one near you.

Other Rodin pieces usually accompany The Thinker in museums.

RPCS3’s website says GoW3 has problems with this emulator.

https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=God_of_War_III

This title is currently not considered “playable”, as the hardware requirement is too high. But it can be played from start to finish with decent performance on a good CPU, especially if you use the game’s patches.

I think it’s for the best…

Flud looks proprietary and has ads.

Libretorrent works just as well and is open source.

Willy Wonka predicted this. Just spit it out before it gets to the blueberry pie.

Not when the community notes will be written by AI, and voted on by bots.

Whomever has the most AI and bots to swamp the notes with their text and generate votes wins.

Does that sound like a good way to get facts?

I doubt that Costco has gnomes sitting in the back room processing their unsold rotisserie chickens after hours.

This is probably from a factory somewhere that specializes in semi-processed chicken products originally intended for industrial kitchens that make things like gas station burritos, chicken nuggets, bagged soups for cafeterias, etc.

Depends on how much shredded chicken you need.

If you run a restaurant, then maybe it’s the right thing to get.

I used to join the smokers on their smoking breaks, and I don’t smoke.

It’s true, beans are amazing winter food.

I make big batches and always try to have some ready for a quick meal when I get home.

Chili con carne, navy bean soup, Italian wedding bean soup, (other legumes) split pea soup with ham, lemon lentil soup with chicken

Baked beans with runny eggs sunny side up

Refried in a burrito or huevos rancheros.

It could be that your torrent program is firewalled, and unable to fully connect to all sharing peers.

If you’re using qBittorrent, to display the Status Bar, go to the menu item View > (check the box for) Status Bar

The Status Bar should appear a the bottom.

Just right of center, there should be an icon where if you hover your mouse over it, tells you your Connection Status, i.e. whether you’re connected or firewalled.

Good point.

Vintage Baseball https://richmondsunsetnews.com/2024/10/03/playing-like-its-1886-gg-parks-vintage-baseball-throwback/

Fielders wear thin gloves with separated fingers, teammates give each other nicknames, and use vintage vocabulary, and exhibit sportsmanlike behavior towards teammates and their opponents.

I ate the onion on this one…

JDownloader is a tool whose continued development is well worth supporting.

1. Mastodon’s recommendation algorithm isn’t sufficiently addicting
2. Mastodon lacks venture capital to fund an army of PR flacks to plant stories in EVERY FUCKING NEWS WEBSITE IN THE UNIVERSE.

I believe that eD2K was the next P2P to gain wide popularity after those went down.

It’s de-centralized, so unlike Napster/Kazaa, the feds can’t take it down by seizing only one server, which they have tried.

Consider non-torrent P2P platforms like eMule/eD2K. If you know what the name of you’re looking for, there’s a fair amount of obscure material to be downloaded that can be difficult to find otherwise.

eD2K is slow, but effective.