I mean, you made me look at it again myself, as the multi-part rar files on Usenet are still very much a thing. The allowable “article” sizes for binary content are larger than for text articles, but still too small for video or high-quality audio.

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Pirated media(images, movies, ebooks, ROMs) uses binary posts, not text. There are different limits and retention policies for binary versus text articles, and most Usenet servers, particularly cheap or free ones, don’t host a lot of the categories a pirate would want at all.

Please don’t imply that all Usenet providers facilitate piracy.

Magical times before my own on Usenet.

Exactly this. I don’t need 1080P or 4k mp4 rips with 10bit audio, and I definitely don’t have the storage for it, but when that’s all that is seeding, its usually quicker to just download it and re-encode.

Downloading large files from Usenet was paid pretty early on. If the core functionality of Usenet is now paid, this is news to me.

For your second point, its not at all uncommon for previously-legit sites to go malicious. Age alone means nothing, nor does reputation after a few years.

Why in God’s Green Earth is the number-line backwards, and the negatives, on the right-hand side?

Worth highlighting, Cadsketcher is parametric. https://youtu.be/1jNDLUDL0gc

You can buy add-ons for this to auto-generate standard gear-forms and threads/bolts/holes. It is also parametric.

https://youtu.be/1jNDLUDL0gc

Indeed. Call me when metal soviet-tank-girl-aesthetic cybernetic limbs with hiden extra functions that inspire fear and disgust in the elites, not just for "mobility aide"s likely to be rejected at both recycling centers and land-fills.

Putin doesn’t have the guts to give those veterans what they need, if not deserve.

I thought that too. I was almost pleased with the state of the world for a few months, over that misunderstanding.

His progress is exceptional, but far from impossible, without doping. He was in the right age-bracket for it as well.

Thanks for reminding me I’m not being loud enough at night. Gotta keep them potential Luigi’s sleep-deprived, I guess?

Eliminate state capital-punishment. Make prisoners wear their convictions on their sleeves and only use solitary-for-protection while trials are still in-progress or pending. It’ll work itself out.

It’s been done. Whether against Angron or not, I have no idea, but the lore and attrition tactics go together like pb&j

35lbs is the single heaviest weight I have at the moment, and honestly, that’s for workouts, not precise measurement. In all honesty, I mostly brought up weights and measures to explain what I meant by “reference materials” as a seperate category that happens to include some books, and is far from confined to them.

All that said, the single most extreme or “esoteric” such thing I own is a 24x36x6inch granite surface-plate I got free when some jackass abandoned it in his girl-friend’s garage. No idea the quality or weight of it.

Be more specific. As is, you’re describing the actions of states and madmen, not anarchists.

That’s the fun part. They aren’t all necessarilly effective.

Literally me. The only wealth I put stock in is family, friends, food, tools, reference materials and books.

No, I didn’t list books twice. There’s a lot of shows I keep copies of, also posters, weights, standard measures and such.