stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

It’s gonna sound lame but get a 90s copy of the boy scout handbook and learn all the stuff in it by putting yourself in situations where you will use them. For things like tourniquets and other first aid, take a class. Don’t be afraid to update the methods by looking up stuff online.

If you’re not sure why I suggested this: bsa operated at one point as a pipeline into the military for children. The skillset it teaches is basically hobby infantry.

There was still a penny chickle gum machine in the second floor of the courthouse till a couple years ago.

Yeah, I usually put it in the little pocket until I get home or keep it in the ashtray of the car.

Actually I only ditch the small change, the bigger ones are nice when you run across a vending machine.

Yeah, when you buy stuff they give you change.

The little pocket keeps it tight against your body so it doesn’t jingle around when you walk.

I’m gonna start doing that. Hell yeah.

I had a couple of hot dogs and a half gallon of sweet tea. Bout to eat an orange though. You save and candy your peels?

You’re fine, I had t had breakfast either so I definitely acted like an asshole. It’s just frustrating to broadly generalize with a disclaimer and still catch it.

The thing I didn’t say was that Stalin had no choice but to bring em home and the ideology I link that decision to and its consequences are not an indictment of him.

It’s just that often times decisions of state aren’t really made freely and except for certain circumstances, super deterministic systems tend to inherit a powerful inertia.

Socialism in one country leaves a place for a nation with a socialist developmentalist aim to occupy. China ended up being the one who occupied that space. Socialism in one country is a contribution generally attributed to Stalin, not that I think he had any choice in the matter.

Then what happened

Redditors read and quote even one entire sentence challenge level: impossible.

In all seriousness, we have to at least acknowledge that the ussr, under Stalin, stopped trying to expand the communist world so aggressively and that created the space for a nation like China to develop the way that it did after events like the sino-Soviet split.

To deny that China had this role is even more ahistorical than distilling 1945-maybe ‘51? - Idk I’m thumbing this sucker out at a truck stop away from any books - down to “Stalin decided it was better to build the Union up and pay out at least some peace dividend than to keep up the hellish war economy against the west.”

When Stalin abandoned internationalism and adopted socialism in one country (this is an incredibly broad generalization of events bordering on the ahistorical but please bear with me for the sake of brevity) it became possible for another nation to take a socialist developmentalist line without needing to support the ussr.

The history of Chinas post ww2 20th century is one of threading that needle. They did a pretty good job.

The most interesting and telling thing will be the Chinese governments actions in the next ten years. Will they make the same mistakes as the ussr did or will they chart a different course as America tries to align itself against a new communist bloc.

What’s your current router? What is the symptom you’re experiencing?

With that much stuff connected you absolutely have to be doing some kind of subnetting and traffic shaping.

If you’re pretty far out from your neighbors then you can use different wireless aps to make up the backbone of the subnets. If you’re close enough to the neighbors to see their networks in a site survey then there may not be enough spectrum to do that.

Give me the job.

No more or less than those who come before.

I think we see more obvious fascist indicators because conditions have advanced to the point where protecting the American state and its apparatus can only take those forms.

Gatorade is more refreshing and hydrating.

Even though blahaj is lame, they were right to do this.

Also campaign to refederate with blahaj.

Not much, what’s updawg with urnetwork?

Private trackers: they’re easy to get into. Ipt will probably temporarily open signups this month, mya is always open afaik and plenty of others have signups where you just have to take a test they give you the answers to. Once you’re in you just gotta maintain a ratio by seeding instead of just downloading all the time and climb the “tracker ladder” to get to the ones you want.

Mya is the one most people start with now.

On VPNs: you have to understand your own security, just like anything else. Ones like mullvad refuse to keep information about you (your login credentials are a random string of numbers and they do cash transactions similarly anonymized), and ones like proton allow you to use information that isn’t tied back to you (it’s your responsibility to make sure that information can’t be tied back to you!). It’s worth learning about them now even if you’re not in a position to pay for one because knowing will help you make good decisions when you are in that position.

If you aren’t gonna use a vpn then require encryption, disable dht and pex, use doh or dot and only use private trackers.

Require encryption, distributed hash table and peer exchange are options in your client. Requiring encryption means a mitm observation of your traffic won’t show you are doing torrenting. Turning off dht and pex prevents someone who’s not a member of your tracker jumping into the swarm and clocking users. DNS over https or tls makes requests to get the ip of a website from the url encrypted, so a mitm observer can’t even see that you went to the bad website to ostensibly do bad things. Private trackers get you out of the low hanging fruit category where enforcement is usually focused.

Of course, anyone who monitors traffic patterns will know you’re torrenting, so laws (or a change in laws or enforcement strategy) can still get you.

If you read all this way and you want to know what the solution is, it’s not i2p or tor, it’s a vpn service. I know you said you don’t want that, but it’s the solution to your problem. You figured out yourself that i2p and tor don’t suit your needs already.

Good vpns have infrastructure that makes it impossible to keep logs and will pass independent audits. They will also not have a history of turning over users data or otherwise acting badly.

I use airvpn for torrenting. It works fine as long as you’re not in Italy.

If you want to understand how a person can trust and afford a vpn, ask away. If you cannot or do not want to use a credit card, use a vpn service like mullvad or proton that accepts cash.

E: edited for a typo

That client doesn’t support it, but for your purposes, bind will do the same job.