This is yet another example of our hyper-partisan political environment getting out of hand.
Wanting someone dead because of their political views is despicable.
Personally, I hope Clarence Thomas (and any other Justice of the Supreme Court) dies the same way RBG did - at the natural end of a long and historically significant lifetime: revered by some, reviled by others, but as an honorable public servant who did their part.
@fredfranco said in Upload privileges revoked for 90 days?:
Hey guys!
Yesterday, I tried to upload a file via QTM a few times, but after all the torrent creation and images uploading was completed, the app simply didn't make any torrents at all, and the "upload" button then became enabled again for clicking, as I hadn't clicked on it the first time...
So I decided to upload it manually, but when I clicked on the "Upload" option on the website, it showed me the following message:
"Due to our receiving a multitude of takedown requests regarding material you have uploaded, your upload privileges are hereby revoked for 90 days."
I wasn't even aware of such rule! I've had "a multitude of takedown requests" many times after uploading several files by the same studio (sometimes by totally different ones) in a short period of time.
Anyway, I'd never been suspended because of this before. I haven't posted anything against the rules, they're all only DMCA takedowns...
Has anyone else ever had this issue?
Only a moderator will have the access to see why your rights have been curtailed in this manner. You ask for help in that way through the helpdesk:
https://www.gaytor.rent/helpdesk.php
Your premise is off... you cannot "categorize" bisexuals any more than you can homosexuals!
In this forum alone, you likely have men like me, who:
I could go on and on - deep into a diatribe into all the different kinds of things men like (or do not like) sexually...
But here's what I've taught my sons:
As an aside to readers here: I strongly believe in experimentation - I've known men who thought they were 100% straight - until they had their first m/m encounter! I've also known men who thought they were 100% gay, until they had a sexual encounter with a woman!
Even in the realm of most "kink" - my belief is "don't knock it 'til you've tried it!"
You are the left-wing "blinded by the light" liberal "heads" to @raphjd's right-wing "blinded by the dark" Trumpite "tails" (Note: "light" and "dark" are used here simply to highlight the concept of opposites - swap them if you like, the intended meaning is the same!)
You are as incapable of finding fault with Biden and his actions as @raphjd is with Trump's...
Which, honestly, makes you both look downright foolish to the majority of the 3 other readers of this forum! LOL
There's always chemical cremation - although 30 States outlaw its use on human remains.
When I die, I want my kids to just weigh down the carcass and drop me in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico! That way, every trip to the beach is a visit to my grave! LOL
Oh, and the fish will get a smorgasbord that will last for days, if not weeks! 
@gerggently said in Dems who once decried "loose canon" Trump, now defending Biden "going off script":
Don't be afraid of a change, and you've likely noticed that the comments have not been retracted and WWIII isn't any closer.
Change for change's sake is dumb...
I re-iterate: if there was a policy change, it should have been announced in such a way that it didn't scare the pants off our allies! (They were blind-sided by the remark)
As for WW-3 being any closer, I'm glad you've got it all figured out... I'll sleep better knowing you already know the future, and the world will be safe because (even though) the old men "in charge" can't keep their dick in their pants and keep themselves from going off half-cocked!
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I didn't unfollow them because of them differing in their views, I did so because they are stupid.
Who do you think you're convincing with that? You do know I'm capable of thinking more than one-layer deep (just ask @raphjd - he gets burned by it all the time!)...
You think they're stupid because they don't agree with your viewpoint!
Again, you are what you say you despise in the Trumpites!
Biden didn't set the ball rolling on regime change under the guidance of the dark arts masters at CIA, it was an appeal to the Russian people to make the change.
You'll get it someday, but you'll need to move beyond the stale talking heads who are ascribing motivation and intent where there is no evidence of it.
Are you getting your viewpoint from "talking heads", or just plain partisan apologists...
(NOTE: When your party is in power, they're apologists... when your party is NOT in power, they're... Trumpites? ROFL!)
For what it's worth, you're demonstrating behavior that is exactly like what you decry @raphjd for doing - that is, responding to what you THINK I'm writing, without (apparently) having actually read it!
Mind you - I'm not saying @raphjd doesn't actually do that - only that YOU are doing that here!
The whole COMPLAINT here is that Biden DID NOT HAVE a motivation or intent when he said it! He hadn't really thought it through at all! HE PULLED THAT COMMENT RIGHT OUTTA HIS ASS!
Not to be lost on anyone here: That's EXACTLY the Trump behavior that Biden ran AGAINST - claiming that HE would be better, more disciplined, more polished - because HE had so much experience!
PISH POSH! All that experience got us a feeble-minded old man who can't stop himself from sticking his foot in his mouth - which is the same behavior that made Trump an embarrassment (and a risk/threat) to begin with!
You may remember this: Former Rep Devin Nunes (R-CA) resigned from Congress in January to take the helm of Donald Trump's Media & Technology Group - the Trump company that would oversee the "Truth Social" app - designed to give Trump a platform aside from Twitter and Facebook, which had taken to censoring his ... er... imaginative, fact deficient, borderline delusional posts.
Launched a little over a month ago (Feb 21, 2022), Nunes (who once sued the owner of a Twitter account named "@DevinCow" - an account largely used to lampoon the Congressman. Shocker: the suit was dismissed as frivolous) has quickly learned that all the marketing in the world can't fix a broken app! As someone who has worked in tech for my entire career, I have one piece of advise for him: if you're going to run a tech company, high some GOOD tech people! (The site has struggled to scale, even though the base code is from Mastadon - a free and open-source platform that has proven to be quite scalable in the "right hands").
But tech hasn't been the whole problem:
One more factoid: Axios reported that there were multiple official-looking accounts for entities, like: @NFL, @FoxSports, @ESPN and others. These "accounts" had legitimate-appearing links and logos, but were not created with the help - or even permission - of the named entities! Some were removed when the rightful owners of the service and trademarks complained.
Needless to say, The Donald is not pleased. Rumors around the TMTG water coolers is that Mr. Nunes is avoiding Mr. Trump, for fear of hearing those infamous words: YOU'RE FIRED!
Maybe he can run and get his old seat in Congress back?
@DamaDama said in Have you ever been caught masturbating?:
no, not ever because i have always been careful.
Assuming you mean accidentally caught...
I've been "caught" masturbating several times - on purpose tho!
Accidentally? not so much...
Dad Joke:
My Doctor told me I had to stop masturbating!
I asked why, and he said: "because I'm trying to examine you!"
@raphjd said in BREAKING: Matt Gaetz Claims He Has Contents Of Hunter Biden's Laptop, Attempts To Enter Into Record:
Papa Joe brags about using tax money to protect Hunter. It's on video.
A crackhead and criminal will say anything to keep out of trouble.
Of course, he's gonna claim some mysterious Russians stole his laptop, since 51 spies (the same ones that lied about Trump colluding with Russia) said it.
You are easily confused, aren't you...
If Joe Biden uses "personal" money to bail out his son, it's Government money - because he works for the Government... there are all kinds of controls and audits on how actual Government money is spent... and if it was spent on defending HUNTER Biden, I would think that'd have come out by now. (Of course, you can't prove a negative. I can't prove there are no angels on any heads of any pins - only that, under a microscope, we've never found one - yet!)
The person who claimed Russians stole the laptop is Hunter Biden - who, while he claims (and there is no evidence to the contrary) to be clean now, as the tale with his illegitimate child shows, he doesn't always remember what he did when he was using... not a credible witness, to be sure.
But the point(s) here aren't that Hunter Biden isn't a very "good guy" - the point is that you're trying to use the moral and physical failures of an apolitical son to sully the name & reputation of his father! And that's just wrong.
I'm dropping this thread because, as with your other Hunter Biden thread, you are just trying to throw mud at Joe Biden (who has his own foibles to attend to and atone for!), and are inappropriately using his apolitical family member as a weapon. That's just sad, immoral, and pitiful on your part.
Argue about it with someone else... (mic drop) I'm outta this one!
@lololulu19 said in Condom or Bareback?:
No offense, but as a gay man, you should know more about your sexual environment and health. To wit:
Certainly bareback looks much better in porn. But in practice, guys should wear condoms when having "random" sex. There is no way that I could ever achieve orgasm with a condom on.
The human orgasm is a mostly-mental thing. If you can't cum in a condom, it's because you've convinced yourself that it isn't sexy (or that you can't - a self-fulfilling prophecy!)
That doesn't make your preference wrong - it's just important that you understand that, conscious or not, not being able to cum in a condom is a mental choice you've made, not a physical barrier.
I know of a very prolific escort.. VERY prolific.. who sucks more cock and gets fucked by more cock than you would believe.. from totally random guys. All bareback. He is HIV+, and technically what he is doing is illegal.
That really depends on where you live... in many parts of NV, prostitution (regulated, licensed prostitution) is legal.
My understanding is that one is only contagious if they have full blown AIDS and not just HIV+. But still, I would consider him to be high risk. I would never have sex with someone that I knew was HIV+.
Lots to unpack in those few words.
There are people who are HIV+ who only have sex with other guys who are HIV+.. but even that is a bad idea, because there are many different strains of HIV, and you can have more than one strain.
While that was once true for a significant population in gay culture, with the success of the drugs above, that is seldom the case any longer - except for the "bug" community: a group of men who intentionally transmit the virus (giver or receiver)... I don't understand this group, but I don't have to... it's their body!
Your comment about different strains is absolutely true, as well... if you're not "Poz Undetectable" you should be playing safe in some other way...
For straight people, I don't understand how a guy can stick his cock into a female without a condom.. because at some point, regardless of whether the bitch says she is on the pill, she WILL get pregnant and you will either be forced to marry the bitch, abandon the bitch... or she will have an abortion. I've never had sex with a female, so I've never had to deal with that.
I'm guessing that you're referencing the fact that condoms are not 100% effective at avoiding pregnancy (or HIV transmission, for that matter!).
There is another "group" that should be mentioned here: people who are HIV- (that is, have never had the virus), and who take a daily HIV medication (in this use-case, it's called PrEP - short for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis).
PrEP as a drug essentially helps your body fight the initial infection from exposure to HIV. The "efficacy" of PrEP (that is: how well it protects against HIV infection when you're having sex with an HIV+ (infected, un-treated) partner is even higher than using condoms!
Finally, it should be pointed out:
While what I've written here is factual (according to CDC and NIH data), that doesn't mean that you should judge your sexual behaviors solely on this information. I know a small handful of people who use both PrEP and condoms - it makes them more comfortable to know that there are 2-layers of HIV protection, plus condoms ALSO protect against most of the other STD's in addition to HIV. I also know some guys who are Poz Undetectable who still refuse to have condomless sex with HIV- men (out of fear that they may yet transmit the virus).
My point is, this is just data - how you interpret it for your own life and lifestyle is up to you!
You continue to seed torrents to maintain your ratio.
I think you have experience with other sites (like IPTorrents - where you must continue seeding for 2-weeks subsequent to completing the download)
This site hasn't done that (at least not since I joined in '08)... you just have to maintain ratio! However you do that is up to you!
@lololulu19 said in Freeleech for one's own uploads:
There should be a way to set one's OWN uploads to FREELEECH as soon as they are uploaded.
I believe you have to wait a week before you (or anyone else) can freeleech a torrent...
That's from observation - there is likely a timer of some kind, but I am guessing as to exactly how long it is... but for some of my own uploads, I have freeleeched them after about a week...
@raphjd said in BREAKING: Matt Gaetz Claims He Has Contents Of Hunter Biden's Laptop, Attempts To Enter Into Record:
Are you saying that Hunter's laptop, emails, photos and all are fake?
I'm saying the laptop's "bona fides" aren't clear, and remains a part of the Justice Dept's investigations...
Look, as I said before: Hunter Biden has a LOT of skeletons in his closet - REAL ONES - you DON'T have to make shit up (e.g. make claims that are still unclear as to whether they are valid)...
Hunter Biden:
So, we can all agree, Hunter Biden is not a "good guy"!
The contents of the laptop (who Hunter claims was stolen by Russians - making any contents suspect) remains a maelstrom of speculation from assholes who don't care about facts... if and when those contents are revealed in a credible way (like, for instance, as evidence in a trial!), we can then believe what's there... until then, the speculation has been rampant - with nary a credible source around...
One last thing:
Not even as a Senate Page when his dad was a Senator. (Again, it seems to me that Papa Joe has always known his boy was troubled - and kept him away from "important" parts of his life as a result. That said, as a father of 9, let me tell you - you don't love your kid less because they're a scumbag. You love them still. You try to protect them as much as you can. And you protect yourself from them!)
@NightStalker said in Sen. Blackburn asks Supreme Court nominee to define 'woman' | USA TODAY:
So did anyone ask her if she's a woman? And if she said "yes", was there an immediate follow up of "how do you know you're a woman if you can't define what one is?"
It wasn't a legitimate question - it was a not-so-thinly veiled attack on trans people.
Indeed, the audience for the question wasn't even the Judge, it was the televised audience, and this was a "dog whistle" call to them: "The trans people are coming! Be afraid!"
Well, for one - this isn't a dating site - try Grindr? Maybe Adam4Adam.com?
But on a more serious note: videos of actual drug use are prohibited here (see list of banned videos)...
@raphjd said in BREAKING: Matt Gaetz Claims He Has Contents Of Hunter Biden's Laptop, Attempts To Enter Into Record:
If you watch Congress, they constantly put things into the record without reading it.
If it's so easy to disprove it, let's see what you have.
They put written material into the record... go ahead, add a tractor the the Congressional Record...
Again: the laptop is in the custody of the Justice Dept. - if Gaetz (who is a clown) actually has the laptop, someone (who works in evidence lockup) is going to prison.
Again - plenty of REAL dirt on Hunter - made-up shit is unnecessary and detracts (further?) from your credibility... right, Rep Cawthorn?
@raphjd said in Sen. Blackburn asks Supreme Court nominee to define 'woman' | USA TODAY:
What hatred towards trans people?
If you paid attention to my posts, I have repeatedly praised some trans people. I have also called out people for demanding that trans people think a certain way.
Woman: a human female. Period. No more need be said. Next question?
@raphjd said in BREAKING: Matt Gaetz Claims He Has Contents Of Hunter Biden's Laptop, Attempts To Enter Into Record:
Actually, there's a longer video which is much better.
Funny how Democrats don't want Hunter's laptop in the record.
If Matt Gaetz actually has the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, and wants to read it into the record, well then:
1 - someone at the Justice Dept (who actually DOES have custody of the laptop in question) isn't just in trouble, they're going to prison for losing, and tampering, with evidence in a Federal Investigation
2 - let him read it (but insist he read ALL of it - for context, don't ya know)... including log files, events, and crash dumps! Assuming there's about 100GB of data on there, it should take him about 6-7 years to read aloud all of the data on that laptop!
This is such bullshit... an incredibly easy to disprove claim... maybe he's trying to take the heat off of Rep. Cawthorn - he who claims to have been invited to Capitol Hill orgys and to have seen other Reps do lines of cocaine!
Note: Cawthorn is being threatened with "being primaried" by his own party because his antics are so "over the top"...
I like a good Republican - but an asswipe is an asswipe, regardless of who they caucus with!
I looked at the post on twitter - saw no flag.
The pic is legit: it's from Ukraine
The pic is not timely - it was taken ca 2016 as part of the Crimea crisis of those times...
I suspect an apology may come from Kinzinger's office soon - like most other politicians, his twitter account is "administered" by staff, and not himself personally. (Same was true of Trump - and I defended him when Dems tried to make hay out of his tweets, although you could tell that Trump himself did write some of his own tweets - mostly the ones with speeling, grammur, and referee errors LOL)
Does that mean Kinsinger gets "off the hook"? No, but your claim that Twitter is flagging his post is off...
It is one thing to harass and belittle people who are overweight... that's just shitty behavior...
It is another ignore the negative health effects of obesity.
It is important to your own mental health to develop a positive self-image - whether you're under-, over-, or "prefect"-weight...
It is equally important to understand that sometimes we need to change our behaviors and habits due to health concerns.
Not quite apples-to-apples, but I was just recently warned by my Dr to drastically reduce my caffeine intake - as it's affecting my heart rhythm! I don't want to die, so I'm doing just that - and it's very difficult! I love my coffee, and I get rather irritable without it... but I'd rather be irritable than dead, so I muddle through it...
I am sorry this woman has passed at such a young age. I appreciate her devotion to maintaining a positive self-image in spite of her weight (and sharing that with others)... but I am also sorry she wasn't able to do enough health-wise to prevent this tragic ending.