A very good Russian torrenting site for software and games. It is way better than TPB and most other popular english torrenting sites. Not many people from outside Russia will know about rutracker, but the ones who do (and now) know are in for a gem.
It has an extensive catalogue of quality torrents (more than TPB), reliable 24/7 seeders, a large user-backed contributor base, and is always up-to-date with the latest software/games. The torrenting site is also very long-running too, dating back to the early-2000s. I gotta hand it to the Russians, they really do provide the good stuff.
Lyon: Hey dude where can I find "XYZ" software for free?
Tony: Have you tried looking at torrents?
Lyon: Yeah I tried searching on TPB and found nothing but scam torrents. I tried other torrenting sites and also nothing.
Tony: Oh you're looking in the wrong places, you won't find much on TPB, especially new stuff.
Lyon: Then where?
Tony: Try rutracker.org, you'll have to translate it though
Lyon: WTF, this site has literally everything! How did I not discover this earlier....
Tony: You're welcome 😉
OnePlus phones used to be lauded by the Android community for bringing premium hardware and specs at a budget price. They are known for inventing the quote-on-quote "flagship killer". They lost all that merit once they started including a premium price alongside their premium phones, as well as "settling down" by removing the headphone jack. That is not to say their phones are bad, but they lost the core virtue of what they stood for. Today, people mainly buy a OnePlus just for the brand.
Like a famous Tech Youtuber once stated, "you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain."
User X: After using an iPhone for my entire life, I finally decided to switch over to the OnePlus 9! So this is the flagship killer they've been talking about.
User Y: I hate to break it to ya but you're late to the party my guy. OnePlus has already settled, what you have is not a flagship killer anymore, it's just another high-end smartphone with a high-end price tag attached to it. IMO the OnePlus 3 was their peak smartphone.
User X: Idk man, the OnePlus 9 seems pretty great to me.
User Y: Oh don't get me wrong, the OnePlus 9 is a great phone and is a great pick for someone who's transitioning over from iPhone to Android. But this isn't the budget-friendly OnePlus we used to all love and know. That was my point.
The epitome of quality customer service. What all customer representatives should be like in every realm of business.
The way Jane was treated by the flight attendants was far superior to the "professional service" she received when she called her ISP to cancel her internet plan.
The little orange traffic cone that could.
Created in 2001 by VideoLAN, a non-profit organization, VLC is probably one of the best programs to ever exist and never fails to deliver. Because of its wide support for all types of media files and codecs, it is always reliable no matter what you throw at it. It offers much snappier performance than the default video player on Windows, especially for high-bitrate files. And the best part is that it's free and open-source.
VLC is like a long-time friend that you can always trust and depend on. Long live VLC.
VLC media player is the most wholesome software ever. Every time I see that orange traffic cone pop up after the video ends, I feel right at home.
1 (joking) Someone who is sexually attracted to the fearsome dinosaur Allosaurus.
2 Someone whose favorite dinosaur is Allosaurus. They are such a huge stan for Allosaurus that they refer to themselves as Allosexuals. See also: Tyrannosexual.
Leslie: Yo check out the Allosaurus exhibit on your right.
Jenn: Omg what the heck that's the sexiest dinosaur I've ever seen, I'm officially an Allosexual now.
CBT, short for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, is a form of psychotherapy that aims at improving one's mental health through the process of challenging and correcting any unhelpful thoughts, attitudes, and ways of thinking. The idea is that most of your negative thoughts come from unrealistic and irrational mindsets, so by challenging these irrational thoughts and beliefs, you can see past the "negative filter" (cognitive distortions) you unknowingly imposed on yourself.
A girl who's—in reality—skinny but think she's obese is a typical example of an irrational negative belief, which can be fixed with CBT.
CBT differs from other traditional therapies in that, rather than letting you vent out all your feelings (while the therapist nods to whatever you're saying), it is entirely "solution-orientated". This generally involves a structured approach where the therapist first identifies the flaws in your thoughts, and then tells you to see your thoughts as just ideas, rather than as facts. After that, the sessions generally involve trying ways to fix your perception (by looking at different viewpoints).
My friend persistently thought he could never get a girlfriend, so I told him to go seek CBT. After two months of CBT, his previous ways of thinking (I'm too ugly for a pretty girl, I can never find the perfect time to talk to her, I sweat too much, etc etc) were trashed and replaced by more helpful and realistic thoughts. Six months later and he's already dated two hot college chicks.
Person 1: Hey are you a fan of imagine—
Person 2: —imagine dragon deez nuts across your face? Of course I am!