It’s just starting. I woke up not too long ago and checked on my torrents.

It’s just starting. I woke up not too long ago and started doing my laundry. I watched some new videos from Our Changing Climate and Second Thought.

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It was good. My coworkers really appreciated all the food I bought for a coworker’s retirement party. I bought several bags of Takis, two packs of Jarritos, and a pack of Tostitos dip. After work I went to Costco to activate my card to use online. Then, I went to Walmart to purchase a money order to pay a court fee and withdrew $100 from the atm to give to my mom for groceries. Later, I went to the Sam’s Club gas station to get gas.

Near the end of elementary school and the beginning of middle school. It also didn’t help that my parents would swear often as well. I’m glad my little brother is calling out the hypocrisy.

Pay off my debt, some credit card debt and an auto loan.

Communities for making friends and meeting up irl.

Instead of using terms like normal or crazy, I’ll instead use terms like stability. Things are pretty unstable where I live right now. The economy is unstable; high gas prices, high rent and home prices, high mortgage rates, high homeowners insurance rates with some leaving the state, the closure of small and local businesses are increasing, etc. My state also has a political crisis, a restrictions of rights and extremism from the far right.

I’m here. I left reddit for good, I don’t even lurk it anymore.

Yes, I mostly pirate anime and some live action. I was saddened by the closure of RARBG, I used to torrent from there daily. Nowadays I mostly use Nyaa and 1337x, Nyaa for anime and 1337x for live action and other animation. I pay for Spotify premium, YT Premium, and Amazon Prime. I use Steam to purchase video games.

Piracy via torrenting is my preferred way for watching series or movies, I just want the mkv files, I don’t care for the BD menus, UI, bloopers & extras, buffering, etc. I remember trying Netflix a few years back and noticed that some content wasn’t available for offline viewing. I also don’t have to worry about things like licenses expiring meaning the streaming service no longer has the right to have it in their catalog or the drm in Blu-ray discs.

I think piracy exists in a gray area like “illicit” drugs among other things and labeling or moralizing it as either good or bad paints it with a broad brush traps and confines it to a dichotomy that we really should look beyond. Heck, even services like Crunchyroll and Napster(Rhapsody) started off as piracy sites before they legitimized. Piracy also has benefits like preserving content from being lost due to it being out of print or licensing issues that limit sale or access. Old games can be played again by using emulators and roms.

Personally, I’ve become more technologically literate through piracy. I started off with apps like PopcornTime and sites like Kissanime, 9anime, and Putlocker. I used to exclusively stream or use direct downloads until I discovered torrenting. I used to use UTorrent until I discovered Fosshub and Qbitorrent. Most of content I’ve torrented I’ve yet to watch so I’m more of a data hoarder. I have multiple external hard drives filled with data. I don’t thinking purchasing would’ve made me more likely to watch the content I’ve watched as I’ve purchased many physical books that I have yet to read.

Imo the term piracy means the unauthorized tampering/modification, access, and distribution of a product or service. That also poses the question whether or not consumers actually own what they buy. Piracy fights back against anti-consumer practices such as DRM which has been around since 1983. Also I’d say that corpos have gone way overboard with their anti-piracy measures when they can prosecute and extradite individuals.

I’ll end with this video, "Why We Should Get Rid Of Intellectual Property.

Eggs

I’m estranged with my father. I’ve been no contact for several years now and I intend to keep it that way despite how much my family wants me to reconnect with him. I feel that I’m better off without him.

I know the common theme is to blame ignorance and while in many cases that’s true, but we often overlook other causes. Imo, it’s sometimes due to ressentiment, “sense of hostility directed toward an object that one identifies as the cause of one’s frustration, that is, an assignment of blame for one’s frustration. The sense of weakness or inferiority complex and perhaps even jealousy in the face of the “cause” generates a rejecting/justifying value system, or morality, which attacks or denies the perceived source of one’s frustration. This value system is then used as a means of justifying one’s own weaknesses by identifying the source of envy as objectively inferior, serving as a defense mechanism that prevents the resentful individual from addressing and overcoming their insecurities and flaws. The ego creates an enemy to insulate themselves from culpability.” A lyric from one of my favorite songs, “Lunatic Fringe”, sums it up nicely. 'Cause you got to blame someone for your own confusion.

r/IWantOut has some pretty good resources, OP.

Edge. I hardly use my PC for any actual browsing other than torrent sites.

Exercises that don’t require equipment, just using your body. I like push-ups, squats, lunges, jumping jacks, but I love bicycle crunches, I just like how the burn feels when doing it.

I’ve no kids of my own. This is mostly about my experience. I grew up with tv, internet, and video games. I used to have a portable screen that played dvds and a music cd player. I grew up watching cartoons on satellite then cable TV. I played on the ps1, ps2, PS3, and psp. I surfed the web on desktop computers, my folks used to have an old Compaq then later an HP Pavillion. I didn’t have an actual smartphone till mid way through middle school. My folks limited my screen time.

My little brother on the other hand has been glued to his tablet since age 3. My folks limit his time, but his tablet is all he’s ever known and he’s inseparable from it. I didn’t really start getting sucked into tech and screens till age 10 when I got my first PS3 and even then I was pretty well rounded.

To be honest, I’ve gone back to Facebook to discover local events. I never knew that the local comic shop had events like boardgames and book signings. I also discovered that the South Florida fairgrounds has its own comic con of sorts and my county has an annual event named “PalmCon”.

Hobby clubs, fitness groups, volunteering, specific interest events. Personally, I plan to attend more local events. There are some upcoming local events that pique my interests.

I’m trying to meet people irl by going to events that involve my interests. There are some upcoming events, but they’re months away from now.