@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.

• a person with HIV (called an HIV+ person) can transmit the virus unless they are on medication that suppresses the virus.
• There are a number of these medications - you've likely seen them on TV: Dovato, Genvoya, Biktarvy, & Descovy to name a few...
• People who take one of these HIV medications - and currently they are all DAILY pills - can (over time) achieve a status called "undetectable" (that is, the amount of virus in their blood is so small as to be undetectable)... but it takes TIME to reach this level of "suppression" of the virus, and you must remember to take the medication every day! Failure to do so can potentially allow the virus to adapt & mutate to become unfazed to the medication - which could lead to your HIV becoming untreatable (aka: deadly AIDS).
• Those who DO achieve "undetectable" are also non-transmissible... that is, they cannot give the virus to others through sex.

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:

• These HIV meds - whether to treat HIV, or as PrEP, are strong drugs - and they are processed by your liver (which is why you have to take them daily)... which can put a strain on your liver AND kidneys.
• People who take these medications typically have to maintain a regular visitation with a supervising physician - in the US, you have to see you physician every 3-6 months. Part of the protocol for both drugs is to screen you for most STDs, including HIV.
• If you're on PrEP and do become HIV+ (likely due to multiple missed doses combined with risky behavior), your drug treatments have to change.

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!

@Yorai1212

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:

@bi4smooth

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:

• is a known, and admitted drug addict
• as a drug addict, he squandered HUGE sums of money on drugs, alcohol, and prostitutes - an allegation made by his ex-wife and he has admitted to
• he cheated on his wife, having multiple affairs - including with his dead brother's widow (that doesn't say much about her either!)
• he attempted to disclaim a child - born to one of his one-night-stands - only to have is paternity proven by DNA testing
• his addiction was so bad, the Navy discharged him - from the reserves!
• he is KNOWN to have claimed to be able to get his "clients" close to his father, but all reports so far say none of those "schemes" came to fruition - it seems Joe Biden loves his son, but also knows NOT to trust him and keeps him well away from his political career
• owed about $450k in back taxes on property in Washington, DC - but those have been paid, although the source of the funds seems to be in question

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:

Hunter Biden has never - once - held a political office.

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:

@bi4smooth

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:

@hubrys

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:

@gerggently

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.

@raphjd said in CIA Officer Who Signed Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Claims Credit for Trump Loss:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/cia-officer-who-signed-hunter-biden-laptop-letter-claims-credit-for-trump-loss_4369180.html

Jeeez... give it a rest!

First of all, the I know a guy (a Republican) who claims to have voted twice in the 2020 election, and says HE's the reason Trump won Florida!

And I personally will claim credit for tomorrow's sunrise in Antarctica!

Let's work with some actual facts here:

• The seized laptop still hasn't been confirmed as belonging to Hunter Biden
• The Justice Dept has been unusually tight-lipped (there are usually leaks) about the whole Hunter Biden investigation, but Daddy Biden LEFT the prosecutor (in Delaware) in place (a Trump appointment)
• Remember: new Presidents from opposite parties usually fire the Federal Prosecutors (DAs) and replace them with their own... it's common practice: Trump did it, Biden did it.... except he left the prosecutor in Delaware in place -- "to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest" (something career politicians are used to, but Trump never worried about)
• There HAS been a lot of activity in the Justice Dept with regards to the case(s) against Hunter Biden lately... there is speculation that the investigation is winding down - he'll either be cleared (a Dem wet dream) or charged with something (given what he was up to, this is more likely)
• There has been ZERO indication - from any source - that Joe Biden has been involved in any of Hunter's business dealings
• Hunter may be clean or dirty - either way doesn't mean his dad is either clean or dirty. The same can be said of the Trumps... If daddy gets prosecuted for the Jan 6 coup attempt, that doesn't mean Ivanka is guilty of anything... although the more appropriate analogy would be Baron Trump - after all, he's a completely non-political son of the (past) President.... the same as Hunter Biden.

IMHO: Is Hunter dirty? Likely yes - ironically in many of the same ways Donald Trump is dirty... backroom dealings, payoffs, and "dirty deals" to make money. Will either one be convicted of these "white collar" crimes? unlikely... expensive lawyers usually find a way out....

@tombrick

If you need to build ratio, limit your search on the torrent search/browse page to "freeleech" torrents...

Then, look for NEWLY freeleeched torrents that have only a few seeders....

If you can become a seeder EARLY in the "limited life" of a freeleech, you will likely be seeding plenty of data - because freeleech torrents are very popular downloads!

It's no use trying this on freeleech torrents that already have dozens of seeders - your "share" of seeding won't be that much.

If you need to build ratio, limit your search on the torrent search/browse page to "freeleech" torrents...

Then, look for NEWLY freeleeched torrents that have only a few seeders....

If you can become a seeder EARLY in the "limited life" of a freeleech, you will likely be seeding plenty of data - because freeleech torrents are very popular downloads!

It's no use trying this on freeleech torrents that already have dozens of seeders - your "share" of seeding won't be that much.

@lololulu19 said in IRS Gave Stimulus Money to Dead People, Even After Error Was Identified: Audit:

Hey... if dead people can vote (for democrats), then they are also entitled to stimulus money!
If one did not have to be 18 years old to vote, the democrats would win every election by having the average million healthy babies aborted every year being able to vote.

400-million dead people voted for Joe Biden! That's the ONLY way he could have won!

Just ask the Trumpites in Ohio - who are still complaining (falsely) that Donald Trump received more votes than there are registered voters in the entire State! (That's a great trick!)

I still say that the #1 reason Trump was so easily goaded into thinking that the Dems MUST have cheated is because he knew that he had cheated and so it made sense that the only way he could have lost to Biden would have been if they'd cheated even more than he had! (Looked at from that perspective, he's not quite as loony... loony as a bat, still... but not quite as loony as a toon!)

I understand your issue - but to be frank, this isn't a porn distribution site, it is a porn SHARING site.... it's not fair to others that you intend to download without "helping" others on the site.

Recently another user - who was using a web-browser-based torrent client to download porn into a tablet lamented that he couldn't share either... well, I'm sorry, but if you can't share then this is NOT the appropriate (fair) way for you to get your porn! Pure and simple. The "technology" of P2P only works when the porn is "crowd-sourced"...

As has been noted here already, there are other ways - but not "free" ways - to "play fair":

• there are ways to use "other" systems to seed (either a cloud-based host of some kind, or a seed-box designed specifically for that purpose)
• you can "buy" your way in (see the donate link on the main page)
• you can pay for "more" Internet connectivity so that you CAN share more appropriately

@gerggently said in Dems who once decried "loose canon" Trump, now defending Biden "going off script":

Yes, which is why his remarks were so refreshing and the fact he's not backing down is making talking heads assplode is beautiful.

Refreshing? His remarks practically panicked our allies - who are even more AFRAID of war than Biden is himself - and fed the Russian paranoia that we were "out to get them" (You know the "red scare" we knew just a few decades ago? Well, they have their own "Yankee scare" culture!)

So many people who I had good time for are misinterpreting what he said, outside of the deliberately dense dullards at Fox and DSA, that I've stopped following a few dozen people on Facebook and Twitter.

Unfollowing people because they don't agree with your own interpretation of events ... how Trumpian of you! (You have learned well, grasshopper... the dark side of the Force strong within you!)

Speechwriters are not noted for their bravery.

Do you think Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" comment was "off the cuff"?

Speechwriters don't PUT the words into the politician's mouths, they POLISH the words that come out of their mouths! If Biden wanted to call for regime change in Russia - without giving Putin the soundbites he'll use to excuse many many more heinous war crimes - his speechwriters could have found a way....

I suspect the NSA is learning to "cull" actual national secrets OUT of Presidential briefings for Biden the same way they did for Trump... loose lips sink ships!

R-O-F-L ... it comes full circle now!

Read the article...

Hunter Biden conspired with other Democrats from the Clinton and Obama administrations, along with those evil Ukrainians (what happened to the Chinese?) to release COVID-19 to get Trump out of office!

Of course, they planned the COVID-19 crisis - because it's so common that US Voters choose to oust a sitting President during a crisis! (Historically - not so much! Had Trump handled the crisis as most Presidents would: by galvanizing the country around a unified response, he'd have been re-elected in the landslide he always dreamed of! Instead, he turned it into a political football, blaming others for stupid things and setting Americans against Americans over a distrust of science! DOH!)

Re-read the article - without the "world-view" that every one of the 7 billion people, except for the 70+ million who voted for Trump in 2020, were conspiring to get him (Trump) out of office...

You can certainly try to "couch" Biden's remarks vis-à-vis "regime change" in Russia - as "harmless" and "misinterpreted" ... all the liberals ARE!

Just the same as when Trump wanted a "bleach infusion" to stop COVID-19, the Trumpites lamented exactly the same thing!

The one thing the Dems (when it was Trump), and the talking heads you now disagree with are agreed upom is:

The words of the President of the United States matter!

I cant find a source, but I'm pretty sure that's a close actual quote from ... candidate Joe Biden ca. 2020!

Biden's off-the-cuff remark may have been intended as a plea to the Russian populace to rid themselves of a tyrant - but it's also perfect fodder for Putin's narrative that the "West" is plotting against the Russian People and that NATO is poised to attack at any moment!

Could Biden have said the same thing WITHOUT providing a "the yanks are coming - after us" soundbite for Putin's propaganda machine? you know it! That's what speechwriters are for!

I'm afraid you've both made multiple claims - all without proof (or, at least a reference)... some obviously exaggerated, some questionable, some laughable, and some believable...