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I think the "nothing I can do will change anything" is actually a predominant theme that's emerged over the past decade. I don't know if you've watched any of Adam Curtis' documentaries, but his documentary HyperNormalisation explores this in great detail (most of this documentaries have a similar theme I've found).

Edit: Apologies, I think I mean his documentary: Can't Get You Out of My Head. Essentially it asserts that all revolutions fail, because the people who attempt to overthrow simply become the new guard.


Night Watch (2002), by Terry Pratchett.

> People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.

Additional context: The city is being (mis-)ruled by a paranoid dictator, whose brutal secret police don't care too much about if you're innocent. The cynical protagonist is frustrated that some of the resistance is also extremist or at least overly-optimistic about what's going to happen next.


My favorite quote from any novel comes from that book as well;

"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes."


"Meet the new boss..."

Adam Curtis docs are wonderful. I've grown so accustomed to when people suggest a doc, its some youtuber that posts a doc once a week and utilizes the youtube documentary style to disguise how poorly executed it is. Adam Curtis is certainly not that, for anyone considering this suggestion.

God that guy pushes conspiracy theories I haven't heard anywhere else!

Does this exclude Australia?



This comment is completely ignorant of at least the past 80+ years of Middle East history.


This comment is completely devoid of refuting evidence.


When I was a lot younger I built a very big and complex platform with Phoenix. Although it was a technical marvel, it's one of my big regrets as far as the tech stack I went with, because it's now useless for my actual work now a decade later.

In retrospect, I wish I had built it with C#/.NET


Do you mean because you can’t use Elixir/Phoenix for work? Because I don’t quite understand, doing a big project and learning/using a particular tech stack should have many transferable skills.


Weren't Elixir devs consistently ranked to be some of the most well-paid ones year by year? Sounds like you're underselling yourself.


Anyhow, Elixir has it's rebirth now due to Nx


Why is it useless?


The technical term for what you're broadly describing is Jevons Paradox.


Which debrid service do you use?


alldebrid. their 4.0/4.1 api has all the stuff to decode magnets and browse their files. filter mkv,mp4,etc. i made a little database of imdb tt values to assist autosuggest for searching and a nsfw filter for the few friends and family using the app.

have thought about extending it to realdebrid/torbox/etc but it's just been kinda set and forget. every once in a while will add a feature... most recently i think was seeing if there was a matching srt file and feeding that along with the video file to vlc so you get subtitle support if it's not baked into the video file


Real debrid has been pretty good for me


Not to justify this, but is this possibly the reason why those opportunities existed?


I think you're also forgetting the other aspect that allows this which is having readily available public transport.


Most of Japan doesn't have excellent public transport.

Car ownership is less common in most of the places in Japan with excellent public transport.

But I do like that each car legally requires its own parking spot. It is tricky to go to people's homes, because often extra parking is extremely limited or non-existent. It requires specific planning.


The more you subsidize automotive infrastructure, the more public transport will suffer for it.


On the flip side, maybe those traits are what lead to the existence of the emulator in the first place. Better something than nothing.


It would be great if there was something like this, but for not wearing reading glasses.


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