He is an American oligarch, bad faith and dishonesty are to be expected in everything they say or do.

Super sad. As someone of mixed euro-south asian background (although I identify more with the euro side of my background), I had a mad crush for Gwen Stefani in the 90s/2000s. She had an Indian boyfriend and wore the bindi in her video clips (as a hot blonde).

And their music from the time is really fucking good. Tragic Kingdom and to a lesser extent Return Of Saturn have only gotten better with age. Stefani’s early solo stuff is solid too, not even close to Tragic Kingdom, but that’s a big mountain to cross.

EDIT: Watched the Twitter video with Stefani, it looks like a parody. I have no issue with Lent or religiosity, but American-style Christianity is clearly fake. I say this as an atheist, but one that has read the Bible multiple times, both independently and as part of college courses.

Bu that’s not it. The video/music in “Sunday Morning” is fun and full of optimist. You have the upbeat ska-rock, the 90s style slapstick video direction.

And then you watch the Twitter video with Stefani shilling “the incredible 40 day [religious app] challenge” and immediately what comes to mind is “Fuck this!!!”

This is a super good track.

Appreciate the comparison to the Taliban. Makes you look very reasonable and not all unhinged.

I have already read the first link you posted. As I mentioned in my OP for this thread, it is not convincing or logically sound. He literally says “It is not a bad thing that Republicans have moved so far on this issue”. Zero critical thought about this.

Keep on acting obtuse. Hitler/Bitler. “You didn’t ask “what did the attempts accomplish”, did you?” Asking for outcomes on anti-trust is the same thing as “they completely obliterated Big Tech”. Small steps? What small steps are you talking about? We both know there are none and if any future action will happen it will be for show only and will never have any real impact.

This sort sleazeball rhetoric is why I don’t trust people like Yen and you.

I am done here.

What you seem to be saying is: “he didn’t criticise Trump, therefore he went against his client-base’s belief system, and that’s a bad thing”.

Am I getting this right? Maybe elaborate on what’s your exact stance on Yen if I’m getting something confused?

As I mentioned earlier, try and look at what I am saying outside the lens of internal US politics.

I don’t buy into Yen’s (and seemingly your) statements about little guys, big guys and anti-trust. From my perspective, this makes no sense.

An oligarch gang does not engage in good faith with respect to anti-trust. This is not up for discussion as far as I concerned (remember that I said I am not American).

To try and imply otherwise (and be all high and mighty about it) is essentially mocking your customers.

The examples you cited mean nothing, if they did mean something, then you would actually highlight some real world results (can you cite an outcome not preliminary actions, I don’t believe in American polemics about their judiciary and so on). But there are none, so instead you go with calling childish.

Although I will say there is a beautiful irony in the following phrase:

Don’t be childish. We’re not talking about completely redefining the tech landscape, we’re talking about reining a couple of “too big” companies in.

Maybe you have your answer here (one that, I repeat, is not tied to internal US political matters).

The disrespect I am referring to has nothing to do with US politics or tribalism.

It’s disrespectful because he think his customers are stupid enough to buy his ruse about “genuinely” thinking that a Trump admin would be concerned about anti-trust.

In a global context, skepticism of oligarch groups is not “minority position”. In many countries, if you start spouting random polemics about how “Oligarch X actually cares or might do some good”, people will think you hit your head or you’re trying to launch a new career as a standup comedian with a focus on politics.

You referenced the current US admin assigning someone who is allegedly anti-trust? So what? What does this have to with anything? This is not some sort of silver bullet and it’s a bit sophomoric to claim this is of any significant importance.

But, again, we NOW know what the true intentions were. In 2024, looking at the first term, you COULD honestly say that Trump did some good in a fight against Big Tech.

In 2024, you couldn’t, because his previous admin, as bullshit-filled, corrupt and dishonest as it was, DID do some good things (mostly in a bad way - if it was all good, it was usually by accident). The anti-trust stuff was some of those good things.

This is not at all convincing. There are multiple examples of two-stage oligarch/authoritarian takeovers in flawed democracies (I can come several of the top of my head). This is not unique to the US. An oligarch regime is not going to suddenly have a massive change in heart.

What exactly were the good things? Which major company was broken up? Which executives went to jail?

Try and look at what I am saying outside the lens of internal US politics. As I said earlier, I am not even necessarily saying that the Proton CEO is a Trump supporter, that doesn’t make the situation any better.

I am not American, but this doesn’t sound particularly convincing.

Irrespective of where you stand on the political spectrum, you can reasonably state that Trump and his regime are extremely corrupt and are unlikely to have any good faith interest in targeting American technology oligarchs via anti-trust.

Yen almost certainly knows this. So there had to be something else going on. Doesn’t necessarily have to be support for Trump, could be an attempt to gain favour.

At any rate, Yen clearly disrespect his customers by engaging in faux-anti-trust polemics.

This is a good. Everyone always says how cute our dog is when they see him moving about in his sleep when he is dreaming.

I would go with banning the bots.

At this point it’s easier to just subscribe to the relevant YT channels. No point to going to Lemmy see mainly their activity (with text URL links and no thumbnails no less).

I remember seeing the video as a young kid, my mind was blown.

Later on I got into Jamiroquai’s albums and I realized this track/video was just the tip of the iceberg.

if you can’t find it there too, you can be pretty sure that there never was a release, neither p2p nor scene.

This is not really true. I tried a few searches of more obscure movies and they don’t have releases that are available on multiple private trackers.

That being said, if you can’t find a release, the best option is it just to buy a DVD or BlueRay version of it.

This is a good one.

The original track is bomb, probably one of my favourite of my DNB track.

But then I heard the Klute remix… Respect to Concord Dawn for making such a banger!

This looks like an interesting tool/service.

Ah I see. The bots can be useful for finding new tracks, but IMO they should have proper links at least (YT thumbnails would also be good).

If you have access to the bot creators on other channels, I personally would reach out and ask them to fix them.

It might be worth creating a META thread to see what people think of banning the bot.

Group chats and telegram as a quasi social network (you can comment on a feed of news in a public group chat channel) are extremely popular in Eastern Europe too.

Surprised the authorities would go after users of a private tracker, seems like a low impact area compared to public trackers or even pirate movie streaming sites.

These are private trackers, right?

What’s the availability for movies and shows like?

Recent stuff? FHD/4K? Availability of more niche content? I am just curious. I used to eMule way back when, but I eventually switched to torrent since they seemed to have offered better retention of older/niche content and high availability of new content.