Here's what I do to maintain my healthy ratio (currently at 5.070):

• Make sure you have at least 1 torrent seeding 24/7 even if it's not uploading anything, because you gain 0.5 seed bonus points for every hour the system registers you as a seeder. It's not much, but it slowly builds up over time.
• Keep a healthy stack of seed bonus points on the side so you can use them to buy upload GB's if your ratio ever drops too low.
• Ideally you want more to have more torrents seeding all the time. How many depends on your available disk space, upload bandwidth etc. I would target 20-100 for most users.
• Prefer seeding larger torrents if you have the disk space for it, so your torrent client doesn't get bogged down with seeding hundreds of small ones. A single downloader for a 300GB torrent requires the equivalent of 600 downloaders for 500MB torrents. They may be fewer and further between but they more than make up for it in sheer bandwidth.
  On the other hand, smaller torrents tend to get higher ratios (since they get downloaded more often), so they can be preferable if you are trying to get the most upload bandwidth out of limited diskspace (or limited download capacity).
• Search for freeleech torrents periodically (every day if you can). Sort them by freeleech start time. Your prime targets are the ones with the most recent freeleech start time, as those will not have a lot of seeders yet and most of the interested downloaders have yet to come across them.
• After a suitable torrent has finished downloading, leave it seeding for a few weeks/months. Evaluate your seeding torrents every few weeks/months. Look at their ratios and total upload bandwidth relative to the time they were added to your torrent client. Keep the good ones, remove the bad ones to avoid bogging down your torrent client.
• Do not change which torrents you are seeding often. Stick with the ones that worked even if they haven't seen any traffic recently. Most torrents automatically settle down to a small number of seeders over time. You want to pick your horses and stick with them (rather than constantly dropping them and finding new ones) for two reasons:
  1: It benefits you to become one of those few consistent seeders for a given torrent, even if it's not very active anymore. Other seeders will jump ship over time, so when a downloader does come by you will be able to provide a significant amount of the bandwidth (rather than just 1-2% on a more active torrent).
  2: It benefits the ecosystem and avoids torrents dying, which benefits us all. We can't all seed 10k+ torrents. Each of us is technically forced to pick a handful to seed, so switching around all the time just causes interference with other seeders.
• In a crunch, you can always recommence seeding on a torrent you've already deleted from your client (so long as you still have the files intact). You can redownload the .torrent file if necessary, then pause it immediately, move your existing files into place, and choose "recheck files" in your torrent client to get it back up to 100% right away and go back to seeding.

I hope that helps.

Sex while talking about someone's break-up sounds terrible tbh...

There is nothing selfish about clearly communicating what you are looking for. If anything it's more selfish to dump your personal problems on random people you are meeting for a hookup. He's just looking for a listening ear in the wrong place...

Personally my compassionate / constructive way to deal with the situation would be to tell him this:

If you want to move on, I can help you do that. By taking your mind off it and replacing old memories with new ones. But you gotta focus on the guy sitting in front of you. If you keep your ex alive in your thoughts by constantly thinking and talking about him then you're just keeping yourself trapped in the misery and preventing it from becoming a thing of the past.

If you don't want to move on, that's fine too. But I'm not going to help you keep it alive, because I don't want that and I know this isn't helping you either. When you're ready to try putting it behind you, or want a distraction to stop you from thinking about it, my door is open.

@EchoAxel said in How many people watch multiple porn videos, while they jack off?:

I just have to watch more than one video to get off.

I think this sums up why it's probably not a great idea. Our ape brains adapt to the increased level of sexual stimulation. Once they get used to it, anything less doesn't really cut it anymore.

For me it's one video at a time and never while jerking off (it's more of an optional foreplay thing to get me in the mood). But I do sometimes queue up a selection of clips so I can watch them back-to-back at the end of my browsing session, before I head off to do the deed. Watching multiple videos simultaneously would just annoy me because while I'm looking at one I miss out on the great moments in the others. Kinda breaks the immersion too.

@jaroonn I wish I could say the same about your contribution to it. Unfortunately slinging an insult by implying that only people who live in trailer parks hold these views is neither inspiring nor discourse.

If your point is that you are more intelligent, civilized or sophisticated than us this seems like a strange way to demonstrate it.

I stand in awe of @ianfontinell-0 's encyclopedic porn knowledge (or investigative abilities).

@ianfontinell-0 I assume this is why he did it:

The site does kind of make it seem like this is the recommended approach.

And just to reiterate, because I can't stress this enough: ratio doesn't matter, bandwidth is what matters (raw GB's).

A 1GB torrent with a ratio of 50.0 means you've gained 49GB.
A 300GB torrent with a ratio of 3.0 means you've gained 600GB.

Sometimes size does matter, because that's what determines how much you can download. The same is true for global ratio. For example my ratio may be 5.070 but that's with 28.63 TB up / 5.65 TB down, which means I can download 30.15 TB before reaching my minimum ratio. This means I'm much better off than someone with an identical 5.070 ratio but with 253.5 GB up / 50 GB down, who can only download ~257.9 GB before reaching their minimum ratio.

Ironically that's almost right. It should be: "the climate change measures I promote with my virtue signaling are having a disproportionate impact on black communities". Since they're making everyone poorer and thus the poorest communities suffer the most...

I wasn't able to identify him or the source, but...

Longer video of him jerking off

Video of him getting fucked

A small photoset (probably promo material)

That last one was posted in 2012 so that gives you some idea of when this production was made.

Enjoy!

@lololulu19 If you mean that accepting yourself as you are is essential to be at peace with yourself, I'm inclined to agree. I don't see how any good can come from rejecting the reality of your own physical being.

@blablarg18 said in Top CA teacher gets 30 years for sexual abuse:

Just as I always reject Gay = Pedophile as false......

So do I. All I said was gay people don't choose who/what they are attracted to. I certainly didn't choose to be attracted to men. I don't know any gay person who did, nor anyone who could choose not to be. As poorly understood as sexual attraction is, the one thing we do know pretty much for sure is that it's not a matter of choice.

I'm pretty sure straight people didn't "choose" to be attracted to the opposite sex either. Now that I've said that, are you gonna say OMG Rapsey reinforced the straight = paedophilia stereotype?

@blablarg18 Thank you for proving my point. There really isn't any point in trying to have a conversation about this topic with someone like you. All you get is outrage and false accusations.

@blablarg18 said in Top CA teacher gets 30 years for sexual abuse:

They don't, maybe because

1. obscure corner of internet

2. they need "safe space". Their arguments can't hold up to scrutiny, much less ridicule.

3. or maybe they don't trust if anonymity will hold. If it doesn't hold, they might have legal problems.

Or...

4. There's no reason whatsoever to try to have an objective good-faith discussion with people who are clearly not interested in doing the same

For example, I find it fascinating how pedophiles (= people who are attracted to minors) are treated as synonymous with child molesters (= people who act on those attractions). Like most of you I believe that anyone who abuses a child (including indirectly by providing a market for underage porn) deserves the worst punishment, i.e. castration, life imprisonment or death. But I find the lack of nuance interesting because as gay people we should know better than most that people don't choose who/what they are attracted to, and that you can't just change it. Telling pedo's to "just like grownups" seems about as myopic as when gay men used to be told to "just like women".

So in my mind that puts pedo's in a strange duality, where on the one hand they are the most pitiable people on earth, condemned to a life of desire unfulfilled. But on the other hand, if they ever act on it, they immediately become the least deserving of any sympathy. Plus they are kind of a threat regardless, just like a psychopath fighting to contain his homicidal impulses, but I'm pretty sure none of them chose to be this way (who on earth would?).

But why even try to have that conversation when the other people in the room are like: fuck nuance, all pedo's are monsters! Why would I bother putting myself in the line of fire? I don't even have a stake in this. It's just an interesting intellectual quandary.

Those of us on the more conservative side often bash the libs for their "emotion over rational thinking" tendencies, and rightfully so in my opinion. Which makes it all the more curious that on this issue it's the complete inverse. When it comes to people being attracted to minors it's the conservatives who take their positions on the basis of emotion and moral outrage, abandoning their usual cold detached rationality. Not to defend the libs though - many of them who treat the issue more "open-mindedly" only do so because they are themselves pedo's who seek to push for normalization of sex with minors. But that also goes back to my original point: no one who doesn't have a personal stake in this is going to risk taking any position other than wholesale condemnation. Except maybe the occasional idiot like me who cares more about abstract reasoning than his own reputation.

@raphjd said in Top CA teacher gets 30 years for sexual abuse:

Before that, most people seemed to agree that pedos were evil. There was a lot of comparison in how women pedos were treated compared to men pedos.

I don't think you're ever gonna get much debate on pedos since that's the only permissible standpoint. Anything else is probably flirting with a forum ban.

It's good to see that female pedos are also getting harsh punishments, and to see it enter the public eye more. I think far too often women get a pass on these things, just like they do on any kind of sexual crime. I have no shortage of stories from my straight guy friends about non-consensual things girls did to them that would get a guy years in prison.

@ianfontinell-0 You're gonna have to explain how that follows from his logic. To me it seems like an entirely different and unrelated line of reasoning.

To his point, he would be correct if those adults actually uploaded their pictures to the public internet themselves. If they shared them in private (as is typically the case with baiting) then the situation could be subject to privacy / harassment / revenge porn laws (depending on jurisdiction). Either way that's not an error in logic, it's a faulty premise. In addition claiming ignorance has no relevance to this situation because unlike underage content, those laws only criminalize the sharing of such content, not the downloading of it. Although sharing such content might be illegal in some jurisdictions, barring rare exceptions (e.g. possession with intent to distribute / harass / extort) it is totally legal to download it.

Hit ctrl-F5 a few times.

@Rapsey-0 "trying to conquer the whole country" - 1. Not what's happening and 2. No one thinks that.

• Absolutely what is happening. They tried to take Kyiv from the start, remember?
• Everyone thinks that except for propagandized conservatives in the US

"They give their life to protect their homeland" - Many were kidnapped off streets against their will.

Interesting how you keep bashing Ukraine for conscripting people but never a bad word about Russia doing the same to a much greater extent.

Or how you bash Ukraine for not being a perfect democracy but never criticize Putin for being way more of an undemocratic dictator.

Or how you bash Ukraine for allegedly mistreating some of its Russian-speaking population, but not a peep about the widespread mistreatment of Ukrainians in the territories Russia annexed.

Where is your objectivity?

If you think otherwise: Go join them. Volunteer. You still can.

Why would I go throw my life away for a righteous cause that the major world powers have decided to let lose?

Besides, as much as the Russian invasion of Europe concerns me, I have a more urgent invasion here at home. My country will be conquered by Islam long before Russians set foot in it. I'm a patriot, I focus my efforts on the immediate threat that is on track to take over my country within my lifetime. Going to do the right thing in some distant country is something you can't afford when your own country is headed for extinction from a different source.

Literal Hitler-worship stares you in face - from Ukraine side - and you overlook it if not support it. Disgusting.

Where do you get that idea? I don't overlook it and I don't support it. What kind of logic is this... If you condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine then you must be support the Nazis?

As to Putin: I have always said, it's war of Evil vs. Evil.

When it's Evil vs. Evil, only crazed morons get involved. Sit it out. Do something else. Constructive.

There's always a lesser evil. You seem to have chosen to focus all your efforts on badmouthing the lesser evil and making excuses for the greater evil. Or maybe you think Russia is the lesser evil in which case... Well I don't know what to tell you then. Keep accumulating knowledge about both countries I guess. Maybe one day you'll reconsider.

As for WW3, I suppose the question of how best to avoid it is entirely subjective. Personally I believe that rewarding a nuclear-capable aggressor by letting them take territory unopposed, and teaching them that you will let them get away with anything if they threaten to use nukes, is a guaranteed pathway to WW3 in the future. I think the best way to avoid it is to draw a hard line against that unacceptable behaviour and teach them that you will never allow them to cross it. Don't even try to expand your borders, don't even try to threaten us with nukes, it's unacceptable and if you do there will be hell to pay. You cannot have peace if your enemy knows you're not willing to risk a war.

@blablarg18 Pretty crazy that some people think those things justify trying to conquer the whole country and killing tens of thousands (maybe 100k) in the process. Pretty crazy that they act like there is any equivalency, and use it to apologize for and even defend the side committing the much worse transgressions. Or to sidestep the point of how ridiculous it is that their president acts like not conquering your neighbour is some sort of compromise, rather than acknowledging it.

I don't evade your points. Yeah, the US should admit to its meddling in Ukraine. But it's pretty arrogant to think that everything that happens in the world is 100% because of the US. Other countries have their own agendas & motives too. Sometimes they simply use the actions of the US as a pretext to pursue those. Not everything that happens is all about you.

Pretty crazy that 100000s die for nothing & USA won't admit its near-total defeat.

They don't die for nothing. They give their life to protect their homeland from being conquered by a (more) oppressive regime. If it was your home being invaded you wouldn't say that the people who fell holding the line died for nothing. Don't be a hypocrite.

On the other hand, the endless supply of men Putin sends into the meat grinder... also didn't exactly die for nothing. They died to expand the borders of the Russian empire, one yard at a time.

So if you want to point fingers about which side is causing the most senseless loss of life, why aren't you pointing them at Putin? Why are you constantly highlighting every negative thing about Ukraine, placing them at fault for all the deaths and every other bad thing about this war, but you never say a bad word about the side streaming bodies into Ukraine with the message "surrender or die"?

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1915477270757523667

Reporter: "What concessions has Russia offered up thus far to get to the point where you're closer to peace?"
Trump: "Stopping the war. Stopping... taking the whole country. Pretty big concession."

Pretty crazy that the supposed leader of the free world says that not conquering your neighbour is a concession.

Can't really blame him for saying that though. He's a smart man, he knows the answer is NONE WHATSOEVER but he can't very well say that while maintaining the narrative that Ukraine is the uncompromising side standing in the way of peace. After all, "they should make a deal" sounds a lot better in the media than "Ukraine should stop fighting back and give Russia what it wants". That way you can at least uphold the illusion of being an impartial mediator.

@thor9023 It's explained in the FAQ: Why do you have different user classes? & How to ascend toward another user class:

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