Ace T'Ken

Looks like what I’d want to use, but to reach broad support it needs a Windows client as well.

Boy do I have a treat for you.

Hey, wake up! The new Clippy skin just dropped!

But they are scientifically accurate beliefs. They are true.

Emotionally, plant communication is awesome. Simultaneously factory farming also sucks.

Getting mad at a poster because you draw an uncharitable conclusion from the beginning of a post chain is extreme.

What I’ve stated is not baseless. There are many sources and studies claiming how plants communicate via root systems, pheromones, and other mechanisms (some we’re discovering continually). As someone who worked in forestry (and lived on a non-corporate farm that produced mostly alfalfa), it’s somewhat more apparent once you’re there and present in that world.

To quote myself on another thread:

I trust you know how to use search, but some brief citations: https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/botany/plants-feel-pain.htm https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/24473/20191218/a-group-of-scientists-suggest-that-plants-feel-pain.htm

You can find many more if you look. We’ve known for quite a while that trees do this, and fungi are absolutely notorious for this. Speak to a botanist (or read the articles above) and they’ll tell you that plants respond to warnings from their peers about dangers, brace for pain, and signal pain to others. To be clear they don’t seem to feel pain (but keep in mind that they said this for years about crustaceans as well, but it was simply because we didn’t know how they functioned well enough) - not understanding the pain does not mean there is no pain.

Life for some organisms means death for others. Period. You can not avoid it on a micro or macro scale, all you can do is change WHAT you kill.

Plants are cool as hell though I suppose that understanding the above means that it can fuck with the worldview of vegetarians, and nobody likes that. If you disagree, please be respectful and let me know what your reasoning is.

Most likely they’ll continue to heavily downvote me when I describe the complex communication systems plants and fungi have.

The I.T. firm I run does this except we donate them to nonprofits.

If I may ask, what would you be running if you had to pick today?

That’s what I hoped but the FAQ doesn’t say why. All it says is that it only accepts two clients, the S-tier ones on this list.

No problem! It’s actually part of the add torrent dialogue and is extremely convenient!

Does anybody know why Tixati is banned on private trackers? I switched from it quite a while ago but they didn’t really say why.

It can and has since I started using it about 3 years ago.

Because if I don’t understand something, I would like an understanding of what the reasoning behind it is. We get smarter by asking people about the world. I find a lot of issues with people emerge because they don’t think about the reasoning behind any of what they are doing and simply fall into a rut of convenience instead of finding a better way to do things.

But of course on the internet, people get pretty angry when questioning a behavior they just adopted and never bothered to think about.

I just grab them and then delete them when I’m done. I still don’t understand the need to involve a corporation and their analytics in my listening activities. There’s not much time lost or regained either way so I don’t really see the benefit?

I could see how that would be handy if I listened to them on more than one device.

I don’t understand how going to a website once a week for under 10 seconds is a detriment?

I’m going to ask a legitimate question and I promise I’m not trolling but this seems insane to me and I have to ask.

Why in the fuck would anybody use a special app just for podcasts?

I just go to the website, download the show, throw it on my phone and I’m good to go. It takes very little time I don’t have anyone selling my listening data.

I’d genuinely like to know what the benefit is.