Posts made by bearbearbear

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/us/politics/maryanne-trump-donald.html

Maryanne Trump Barry, President Trump’s older sister and a former federal judge, described him as a liar who has “no principles” in a series of audio recordings made by her niece, Mary L. Trump, in 2018 and 2019.

“His goddamned tweet and the lying, oh, my God,” she says in one of the recordings posted by the newspaper. “I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying.”

In one recording, she calls him “a brat.” In another, she says he “doesn’t read.”

@Beardycub86:

A really unpopular opinion here, but circumcision is mutilation. Men are born WITH foreskins for a reason and its ancient nonsense to think that any man should have it cut off. Especially a brand new born baby with no anaesthetic or consent. Humanity needs to stop mutilating men.

Agree 100%.  If an adult man chooses to be circumcised, that's fine, but it should definitely not be done to babies.

@fun17:

This is an interesting article about the coronavirus..

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/04/hiv-teach-us-to-survive-coronavirus

Can't get HIV from going to the grocery store or eating dinner in a restaurant, though.

@kalayaan:

One will wonder what made him do that except that he is a pervert. With his looks, he can have a legal hookups

Apparently almost all of his victims were straight and it was a game to him.

@guandanarah:

People creating torrets merging multiple files (pictures and videos) into a single huge video to force people to download the whole torrent instead of sharing the individual files so anyone can download what they want.

This shouldn't be allowed! It's a loophole to increase the uploader's upload ratio.

A few examples:

https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=4c9e38fbda4e93d5a0831030dfc68e4ce50117448d07ae08

https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=2f6296080370234e320ccc4de1b183c6f35fcdf186b57cbd

https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=696e980630a3f93d320ccc4de1b183c6325781ce229b885e

Admins, what do you think?

Thanks for reading.

I'm just another user not an admin but the entire file for the first one you linked to is under 600 MB.

I personally would find a bunch of tiny short videos more annoying and think that the uploader probably does, too.  I doubt there was any thought of gaining more upload credit that way.  It took quite a bit of time and effort to combine multiple short clips into a longer video.  Upload credit is not that hard to come by here, especially for advanced users who make compilation videos.

However, if you are watching them on a tiny screen on a phone, you might prefer multiple small files.

So to summarize, you should be thanking the uploader, not complaining about the free content he provided.  If you don't like that torrent, find another one you prefer.

@luisfmm:

Hey guys, not the most savvy when it comes to torrents, but I know my way around.

I've read the guide and know that there's a recommendation to use uTorrent, which is precisely the client I've always used.
However, I've noticed that my upload rate is really low for torrents from this particular website/tracker (tw), even if they're recent and popular.

Is this a recurring theme?

When I download from other websites or trackers the upload rate is usually pretty good so I know my internet isn't the issue. Am I doing anything wrong?

Recent and popular videos that have a lot of peers could naturally result in low upload speeds because of the nature of torrenting.  If torrents from other sites don't exhibit the same problem, then it is most likely just bad luck.

If a torrent is not recent and popular, for instance if you're the only seeder, then upload speed would also depend on the downloader's download speed.  I frequently see rates of 0.7 KB/s.  Might not be their actual maximum download speed but maybe there is some other bottleneck such as their ISP limiting certain kinds of traffic.

@gayaznboi22:

Though with my brother, I once got onto his computer that he left on and looked at his email.  He posed as a woman and asked for dick pics.  I don't know if it was an experimental thing or if he has had a taste of dick before; I honestly couldn't say.  Granted this was years ago and he's now engaged to his girlfriend, so maybe he is bi or was simply curious.  Or maybe even bored and wanted to catfish some guys.

It's safe to assume that he wanted dick pics.  Can't think of many realistic motives for that besides looking at pics of dicks but it is interesting that he didn't just search for dick pics and asked for them instead.  Seems to indicate a higher and more specific level of interest to catfish and ask for them.

@Asimpledude:

My uncle has a swasika on his facebook page and talks about how the holocaust was just them spraying for rats he also complained about me being half black saying "I didnt ask for a black nephew"

Dude, that's awful.  I hope you avoid him as much as possible.

@chia:

search for ss108 from your link and click on the result. awesome workaround btw  :funny2:

Right.  A Google search often returns results for torrents that are no longer available on the site because Google caches pages on their own systems for faster search results.

Very cute and well-hung but those tattoos are not improving his appearance.  They're not poorly done but they don't complement his physique at all.  Very distracting.

@AllThatChonk:

So this is new.

I uploaded a torrent with QTM, redownloaded the *.torrent file as usual, loaded it into my torrent software and after hash checking the torrent it only got up to 98.5%, as if somehow there is 1.5% of the data missing in my own files. I haven't deleted any files from the folder - it's still identical to what I originally put in the torrent, so I'm totally baffled.

If you are 100% sure that you didn't change the name or make any alterations, you could have had a random data loss from corruption of the drive.  Every few months I verify the data for all of the files I'm seeding and sometimes one or two are missing small amounts.  I think sometimes it may be caused by moving the file and it can definitely be caused by deleting some of the files in a multi-file torrent.

@leoleo12321:

In the good old days there was gaypasslist.net where you could share passwords and exchange premium passwords for various gay porn sites, and they really worked for a while, the site was updated every day
For some reason this site went down and never came back.
now you only find fake/scam password sites.

Does anyone know of a website or  private forum that still works somewhere on the web to share these passwords?  :blownose:

Were those sites primarily for password sharing or were they mostly part of an advertising scheme with referral links offering passwords as a form of free trial?  It always seemed to me to be the latter.

The current favorite scheme seems to be video compilation sites similar to PornHub with teaser videos and referral links.  Click on a thumbnail of a video and it might go to the video or it might go to another page of video thumbnails, a referral page, a paid video website, etc.

@chia:

isn't reporting bugs and getting them fixed better for this site in the long run rather than having to rely on troublesome workarounds?

Few sites have a search function as good as a regular Google search with all of the search operators and features available with Google.  None of the many torrent sites that I have used come close.  Most of the time a site's search function will suffice but the versatility and customizability of a Google search can't be beat.

@ben351500:

With todays’ vastly different attitudes about sexuality (at least in the West) coming out is no longer a declaration of liberation/rebellion against mainstream society. Non-straightness has become part of mainstream society.

Many parts of the U.S. are still hostile territory for LGBT+ people even though it is certainly better than it used to be if only because of the internet and availability of media.  The current federal administration is fighting as hard as they can against basic civil rights for LGBT+ people as are many state and local governments.  In NYC and many other cities, acceptance varies depending on neighborhood, career, workplace, etc.  Even some LGBT+ people hate other letters in the acronym,  trans people in particular, and there is plenty of evidence for that right here in this forum.

Coming out still requires a lot of courage for many people depending on their circumstances and liberation is not complete.

@LostStoner:

I'm kind of familiar with the seed bonus as far as how you earn it, and what you can spend it on.

However I don't understand why one torrent will cost,
55.783 Seed bonus Points per day (2.324 points per hour)

Meanwhile another torrent will cost,
1531.463 Seed bonus Points per day (63.811 points per hour).

Can anyone explain why they cost different amounts?
What is the amount based on/determined by?
Or does the system randomly assign a Seed Bonus cost that isn't really based on anything?

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

I think you posted this question twice.  It's based on the size of the torrent.

@evermind89:

I've been happily torrenting Drag Race since like season 7, and now, when i search with the tags 'drag race' nothing comes up, tonight is a new episode, and the search results are completely empty, i tried 'canada's' instead, and it worked, it showed me the new release, plus all the other previous episodes, is this only my issue? what can i do to correct it? are other people experiencing this?

The search function here is wonky.  For some reason it is not accepting searches with more than one word right now.  If you search for just the "drag" or the "rupaul" the torrents will show up.

@Pornbaron:

Does anyone else find the new browser is reducing the use of the site? I used to use the browser when it was 1 pic per post showing to quickly scan to find vids of interest and then hover over to see the other pics.

Now with very long series of pics for a vid, its almost impossible to spot vids with only one pic showing.

This has greatly reduced my use of the site. Quite frankly I think it is selfish of the posters if its done deliberately - like trying to drown out other posters.

Personally, I would like to see it deactivated.

PB

It is irritating but I don't think it's done deliberately to crowd out other posters.  Some studios make those strips of photos available for publicity.  There must be some reason they release them in that format but I don't know what it is.  Perhaps it is a tradition from pre-digital times related to proofs?  If anyone knows the reason, I would be very interested to know.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/20/gop-is-refuge-bigots-wackos/

It is a favorite game in politics to take the most extreme member of the other party and then paint the entire party as extreme. However, when many candidates and officials plus the head of the party evidence nuttiness, it is fair to label the party as such.

That’s where the Republican Party is now. At a White House briefing on Wednesday, there was this exchange:

_Reporter: QAnon believes you are secretly saving the world from this cult of pedophiles and cannibals. Are you behind that?

President Trump: Is that supposed to be a bad thing? We are actually. We are saving the world._

QAnon believers, Trump says, are just a bunch of people who “love their country.” Actually, the FBI, in May 2019, said the conspiracy theory is a domestic terrorist threat pushing baseless allegations such as Pizzagate: “The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts.”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html

The recent Black Lives Matter protests peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across the United States. That was a single day in more than a month of protests that still continue to today.

Four recent polls — including one released this week by Civis Analytics, a data science firm that works with businesses and Democratic campaigns — suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd and others in recent weeks.

These figures would make the recent protests the largest movement in the country’s history, according to interviews with scholars and crowd-counting experts.

Black Lives Matter is not just in the U.S., it's also a global movement.  Protest in London:

Mr. Bannon and three others are accused in a scheme to use funds raised for construction to pay for personal expenses.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/nyregion/steve-bannon-indicted.html

Mr. Bannon and three other defendants cheated hundreds of thousands of contributors to the initiative by “capitalizing on their interest” in the wall and falsely telling them that “all of that money would be spent on construction,” said Audrey Strauss, the acting United States attorney in Manhattan.

Mr. Bannon was arrested early Thursday on a $35 million, 150-foot yacht that was off the coast of Westbrook, Conn., law enforcement officials said. Working with the Coast Guard, federal postal inspectors and special agents from Ms. Strauss’s office boarded the vessel, which belonged to the exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, the officials said.

All three of the people in charge of Trump's 2016 campaign have now faced charges!  :cheers:

Further information about the level of corruption in the Trump administration in relation to Bannon:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/20/bannons-indictment-raises-more-uneasy-questions-about-william-barrs-gambit/

Two months ago, Attorney General William P. Barr launched a hasty, questionable and haphazard effort to get rid of U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman at the Southern District of New York and install a new acting head of his office. Critics suggested it was a thinly veiled effort to get rid of the man whose office investigated allies of President Trump, including Rudolph W. Giuliani — the latest in heavy-handed and seemingly political actions by Barr to protect Trump.

It turns out the office was about to indict another Trump ally: Stephen K. Bannon. And the person responsible for charging the former top Trump aide is the acting U.S. attorney whom Barr tried and failed to bypass.