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i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

but looked at in relation to the rest of the play, the combination of henry literally just having forced her father to hand over his crown & the earlier scene of katherine listing her body parts in english immediately following henry v's threat of rape at harfleur is hard to forget. henry also spent the preceding 2 plays talking about how good he is at lying, constantly code-switching between the commoners and royalty, and flawlessly adapted himself to the kingly ideal the moment he ascended to the throne. henry's claim to speak as a plain soldier and without the refineries of a king is obviously not true (he's shown to be an incredible orator through the whole play, most famously in the st. crispin's day speech) and viewed in conjunction with his prince hal self during the henry iv duology, his identity as king could easily be another mask.

so like (1) are we sure katherine isn't aware of the military threat to her country and possibly a sexual threat to her in this scene (2) are we even sure henry v is telling the truth here, if he's not just seeing katherine as another falstaff or poins or bardolph but in the opposite way, since now she's going to enhance his image as king & together they'll create the perfect ideal of a king and queen.

like i get it!! it's a really sweet and funny scene when it's done right! i've praised kenneth branagh's movie multiple times and i think his rendition is fantastic mainly because he successfully undercuts a lot of the tension i'm talking about here, like really emphasizing the lightheartedness in the scene of katherine listing her body parts in english & severing any possibility for connection to the immediate preceding rape threat scene.

She thinks I'm joking

This is what's so fucked up about "nothing that requires the labor of others is a human right".

The labor is already being done under capitalism. The laborers are already being underpaid under capitalism.

When you propose removing the greedy profiteers and paying the workers a reasonable wage, people call that "slavery" while they have no problem with the current system.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.