norgur

norgur, 5 months ago

You got the Quote wrong. This was actually said by St. Ulrich of Augsburg… gosh damnit! This shit isn’t hard to look up, people!

norgur, 5 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

While I wholeheartedly support all your gripes with the streaming services, how come everyone loves fucking Plex with *arr so much? Plex has been nothing but janky for me and constantly tried to push it’s own bullshit through dark patterns (some plex-tv-stuff added to a menu here, some recommendations to their own BS there), while looking and feeling super outdated. This is without the need to switch applications just to get to overseer.

Isn’t Stremio more comfortable for most ppl?

norgur, 5 months ago

Yep. Got such a service as well. I’ve got this one docker container that’s supposed to connect to a VPN and provide access from the outside to another one. The bitch keeps just crashing to a point where even “restart policy: always” will give up on it. Doesn’t matter too much usually, since I can start the container before I need it, and it will usually run for half a day or so, yet still

norgur, 6 months ago

Get into de bus?

norgur, 6 months ago

My theory: OP is Austrian. Notice how they go out of their way to claim Beethoven was Austrian and Hitler was German.

norgur, 6 months ago

Spotted the Austrian

norgur, 6 months ago

That’s Australia, mate! You got the two confused!

norgur, 6 months ago

Unreadable! Needs even more jpg compression!

norgur, 6 months ago

That’s not raw,.it’s fucking boiled. No frying pan in sight I guess.

norgur, 6 months ago

Really? Never seen or eaten boiled chicken? Where do you think chicken broth or chicken soup comes from?

norgur, 6 months ago

That’s why they, just like elevators, need overspeed brakes. They are not required to have those in all places sadly.

norgur, 6 months ago

God: Almighty being that just blinked everything into existence in a.week Also God: me am no completent enourgh to strip theses sattrilghts

norgur, 6 months ago

Well, I was in a student exchange to Boise, Idaho about 20 years ago and did a daily walk around the neighborhood for some fresh air. Three days in, I was stopped by a frantic police officer with his fucking gun drawn because someone had reported me as some kind of child molester who was scouting for victims, because someone just walking was a completely alien concept there.

I was taken to the fucking police station because the policeman thought I was making shit up either. My host family had to wiggle around with my German passport and threaten to get the Embassy involved until they decided I wasn’t worth the hassle and dropped the whole thing… So I learned two things from that exchange:

1. 'Muricans do not know what “walking” is
2. US police is next level power tripping

norgur, 6 months ago

Same

norgur, 6 months ago

All that delicious e.coli!

norgur, 6 months ago

Zoom in, Abby!

Zoom factor increases by 100000% and numbers on a smartphone become readable

Here you go, Gibs!

Slurps weird poison that’s sold as drink somewhere

norgur, 6 months ago

It’s not at it’s peak because shit like this still exists. Captain Picard, where art thou?

norgur, 6 months ago

This sounds awfully like one of those weird debates where twisted and contorted buzzwords get thrown around and once one of us Europeans innocently enters the discussion gets downvoted and hated into oblivion because everything we say is taken in some weird context we didn’t know shit about.

In what context dies a “Nordic model” come up and what’s it supposed to entail?

norgur, 6 months ago

Well, I’d say at least less exploitation than the raw capitalism the US has right now.

The funny thing is that the Allied powers helped establish a nation that has fixes for many problems the US faces right now, both constitutionally and economically in 1949.

Germany’s economy calls itself “social market economy” and acknowledges that the state has to interfere with “the market” whenever the developing power gradient in capitalism threatens to stomp the weaker. Does it work perfectly? Of course not! Nothing does on that level. Is it in danger of being hollowed out by capitalist fuckfaces constantly? Absolutely. Yet the model might give.some ideas.

deutschland.de/…/social-market-economy-in-germany…

norgur, 6 months ago

If anything didn’t need a source then it’s that the wealth of rich nations is upheld by the less rich nations. Anyone who isn’t aware of that should not be listened to on any political or economical topic

Yet, what you said earlier struck me as incredibly “buzzwordy” so to say. You hinted at the choice being Marxism (we’ll come back to that one) and capitalism with the “Nordic Model” (reductive US-centric naming schemes at work) being sold as a (for you not satisfactory I assume) middle ground.

You seem to reject this middle ground because (and correct me if I’m wrong, I’m reading between the lines here) it will not solve the huge discrepancy in wealth between our richest and our poorest countries in earth.

So far, so good. Now: when you talk about “Marxism”, what do you mean by that exactly? I’ve seen this word thrown around countless times (again, mostly from the US) and most of the ppl doing so would have made Karl Marx vomit in his luscious beard when he heard what wild theories go by “Marxism” these days. So you’ll have to be rather specific as to what you mean. "Marxism " isn’t a clear-cut thing in the best of times.

Secondly: I’m assuming you want the global revolution the theories by Engels and Marx discuss im their economical parts and change the whole world towards a classless society by an uprising of the working class (however that would look). Isn’t any call for such a thing another manifestation of the same air of superiority we 1sr worlders tend to fall victim to? Any capitalist would tell you that the nations held back by the “1st world” just needed to fend for themselves and all would be great, right? While I can see how this is not a sentiment one would support (I don’t either), it’s not completely off. Even if we in the west decided that Marxism (again, whatever that means) is the Bee’s Knees right now, isn’t it just the same kind of patronizing if we just assume that the people in poorer countries think the same and expect them to (again) follow our lead into what we tell them is a better future? What if they want capitalism or whatever else? (Unlikely, yet still)

Now regarding the “Nordic Model” or all other forms of social economy: I think it’s safe to assume that the US and Europe have a comparable amount of “oppression per person” regarding foreign industry, yet the amount of exploitation of domestic workers will vary greatly.

Lacking many state-driven social security nets, the US will likely come upnfirst when it comes to local exploitation. So, if there was a way to ease this up while the rest of the world is not up for revolution stuff, why wouldn’t it be worthwhile to take that route?

norgur, 6 months ago

Well, you’re usually in the general vicinity of the root cause of any problem by that assumption.

norgur, 6 months ago

Oh you must be joking.

There is absolutely zero system in half of French’s letter salad!

norgur, 8 months ago

It’s a trap! Don’t answer that!

norgur, 8 months ago

Hey, wwhile I indeed didn’t even know one could do a custom format with a negative score, I solved the issue by adding the corresponding releases those par2 files were for manually.

norgur, 8 months ago

No, it means that there was a Par2-File (which I didn’t recognize since I haven’t used Usenet for long) and a regular file but Readarr kept picking the Par2 file.