Posts made by bi4smooth

@raphjd said in Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism:

@bi4smooth

You are full of shit. They said that getting the vaccine prevents you from getting and spreading covid. Sure, later they changed their tune.

Why must you continue to "micro" analyze "macro" scientific statements? Having 80% of the population taking the vaccine would prevent the spread of the virus - on a macro (population) level, not an individual level.

It's not worth repeating - you insist on misinterpreting the statements to meet your own twisted idea of being "right"... I could no more convince you that they've been truthful in their statements than I could that Mary was a fraud and Jesus was just another kid, albeit one with some very uncommon ideas for his time.

No - both of those are faith-based beliefs, and no science or fact will dissuade you from that... and arguing with you more on that subject is like wrestling a pig in shit - you both get covered in shit, but the pig actually likes it!

Trudeau is an authoritarian. You don't have to invade another country for that.

Trudeau is exercising the powers that were given to him by his own democratically elected Gov't. Indeed, in some cases, the Canadian Courts have held that he's exceeded his authority!

As an Authoritarian, he should have sought to replace the judges, or declared the courts to be illegitimate! (See Putin's behavior in Russia over the past 20 years or so where he's been the President and/or Prime Minister - in spite of term limits or 8-10 years!)

Nope - he took the losses in the Courts and changed to rules/policies that were upheld...

Speed Limits and Seatbelt laws were once derided as "authoritarian" - and to the degree that you use the term, virtually ALL laws are authoritarian!

Viva Anarchy! (at least until the mobs turn against YOU!!!

Trudeau has personally praised both BLM and Antifa, as has his Deputy PM.

No argument that he's praised Liberal causes... he's a Liberal! <I know! I was shocked, too!>

Are you shocked that Donald Trump praised the Proud Boys and 3 Percenters? I am not! - and those organizations are ACTUALLY ON the Terrorist Groups recognized by both Canadian and US Gov'ts!

Why must you downplay everything BLM and Antifa do?

I don't downplay it - I just don't buy into your hyperbolic representation of what those groups stand for!

I don't believe in what they stand for, and I agree that some of their demonstrations have gotten out of hand... but none of the rioting or looting was for the purpose of overthrowing the Gov't! It was just people being "Mad As Hell, and Not Going To Take It Anymore!" Out of hand? Yes... Criminal? Yes... Terrorist? No... Treasonous? No... I can't say no to those last 2 for the Proud Boys or 3 Percenters....

But these aren't the ONLY Liberal groups that go "over the top" sometimes... Greenpeace has crippled ships in the Pacific in the name of "saving the whales"...

And it's not limited to Liberal groups... Some Conservative "activists" go over the line - tho most not AS FAR as the Proud Boys, et. al....

LOL, shutting down traffic versus rioting, looting, and murdering. I see you and Trudeau are of the same mind.

I see - and if I lit a movie house on fire and locked the doors, it'd just be a "prank" for locking the doors? Your "description" of the truck drivers' protests as "just blocking traffic" is equally "under-reporting" the facts...

Have you forgotten what your side has done in DC and elsewhere? Maybe you should use DuckDuckGo and have a look.

"My side" is not BLM, or Antifa, or even Democrats - much less Liberals in general. "My side" are the "Rational Republicans" who believe in principals of smaller Gov't, more freedom, and fiscal restraint. I also believe that "my side" doesn't have all the answers - there are valid points to be made by some Liberals... which is why compromise as a Governmental Art Form is necessary... to work out which parts of "my side's" beliefs about what's best, the "their side's" beliefs about what's best will actually work, and which ones won't... keep the good, dump the bad.

Of course, you will always make excuses.

I present facts, not hyperbolic interpretations of facts... those aren't excuses.

@raphjd said in Proof that black privilege is real:

@bi4smooth

You being the good liberal that you are, believe that only whites can be racist.

Actually, me being the scientist that I am believes that the whole construct of race has been proven to be invalid. We are - genetically, and scientifically speaking - one "race": the Human Race.

"In the biological and social sciences, the consensus is clear: race is a social construct, not a biological attribute."
- https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-reshaping-race-debate-21st-century/

Oh, but you were taught about the 3 (or 5) different races as a small child - this destroys your "world view", so it must be false... never-mind that the DNA of humans hadn't even begun to be studied when you were "taught" about races 150 years ago (joking - 40 years ago? 30? even 20!)...

ANY idea that one person's ancestry gives them innate power over others is genetically absurd, and proven to be so...

And, as I've pointed out in these forums before, the American "idea" of race as being principally tied to skin color is unheard of in most other parts of the World - where White Christians and White Jews very much believe they are of different races! Not only that, but White Jews and Darker-Skinned Jews - even Black Jews - very much believe that they are of the same race: the Jewish race!

And again - it's all in our collective heads... there is NO biological difference ... and basing decisions - pro-White, pro-Black, or otherwise based on outdated concepts of "race" is wrong.

While that is scientifically true, it is of little value to ignore the social constructs and ancestral histories that have provided "race-based" advantages and disadvantages to people of certain skin colors based on these outdated and dis-proven concepts of "differences"...

While there is no scientific basis for race differentiation, there certainly are social and societal bases... it will take generations for us - as a society - to tear down these now discredited social belief systems. And it will take a concerted effort - among all - to accelerate the path to a "one race" society... but that won't be my generation, nor even my grandchildren's... and so each generation must do its part to move us (societally) to a more honest and just acceptance of people - all people - as "racially" equals...

Sounds "pie in the sky" - but 400 years ago, it was a popular belief that Black people were "inherently inferior" to other races - and were incapable of being educated to the same degree as Whites! (That's historical fact, not my belief!) Take a look at any college campus today and you'll see proof that those beliefs were wrong - and while considerable progress has been made, there is much more to be done...

@raphjd said in Smollett: Hoax Gets 150 Days Jail:

@flozen

I was hoping he got the full sentence possible.

Hoax hate crimes do real harm to actual victims of hate crimes.

I think the sentence is fair - that is, on par with what a non-famous person would receive. IMHO, fame should not be a "free pass" to do illegal things, but it also shouldn't come with harsher penalties either!

Those fines are not inconsequential - especially since he is all-but blacklisted in the Entertainment Industry.

As for his continued insistence that he's not guilty? Well, the jails are FULL of people who swear they're innocent, contrary to what a "jury of their peers" determined....

@ixylem

I don't know that @raphjd is a racist - but he does seem to see racism everywhere he looks! You know, like when you buy a new ABC car, and suddenly you see ABC cars everywhere you look?

I suspect @raphjd believes that the Asian culture's preference for white rice is somehow racist....

@raphjd said in Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism:

@bi4smooth

But your beloved Biden, Fauci, and many others said that the vaccine would prevent us from getting and spreading covid. They lied. Even the Mayo Clinic said it would prevent you from getting and spreading covid, but only fairly recently changed their website to the true facts.

You are so black/white about this... if I can vaccinate you and make it so that, when you are exposed to COVID-19, your chances of being hospitalized are reduced by 95%, and your chances of dying are reduced by 99% - well, that's not stopping the virus.

As I've repeatedly pointed out - what you claim they said is not what they said! Your "interpretation" belies a complete lack of understanding of simple, "boy scout first aid" levels of understanding.

Let's use a non-COVID example: Say you were exposed to Measles this past week. You had your MMR shots as a child, so you were "protected"... that didn't mean that the measles virus was somehow, magically, blocked from entering your body - but it did mean that when the virus invaded your body (measles is VERY contagious!) your body reacted quickly... you most likely got a low-grade fever and never even felt particularly ill! But don't fool yourself - you WERE infected with the virus!

If Trudeau is going to be a mask nazi, then he needs to follow his own rules.

Of that, we can agree... hypocrisy - especially in the areas of Public Health - is bad... but it's not "invade another country" bad!

Trudeau's government supports BLM and Antifa, despite the rioting, looting, and murdering they have done.

The Canadian Gov't received applications from, and awarded grants to BLM (I don't know about Antifa - I suspect that may be hyperbolic, but let's assume for now that you're correct). Thousands of these grants went to community organizations - some of whom are Liberal, some of whom are Conservative. BLM (unlike Proud Boys or 3-Percenters) do not advocate overthrowing the Gov't, they advocate (albeit sometimes in ways that get out of hand) for change within the Gov't and society as they are!

Do I agree with everything BLM (or Antifa) stands for? hell no! But I don't agree with everything the Catholic Church stands for either, and I don't think they need to be jailed for it!

You act as-if Trudeau personally reached out to BLM to give them money - and that's just not the case. These are community grants, and BLM is a community-based (yes, Liberal) organization, and they qualified for the grant.

Do you purport to live by "the rule of law", or do you (like Trump & Putin) think that your views overshadow the law and take precedence?

The truckers didn't riot, loot, and murder but the liberal government did call them terrorists, insurrections, etc, etc, et.

why must everything be "tit for tat" and "zero-sum" for you? No, the truckers are not mirror images of BLM or Antifa - and they aren't Proud Boys or Islamic State-ists, either!

What they did was shutdown an international trade route - even in defiance of a legal court order to cease and desist. Just like BLM protests in Seattle, their protests went too far.

Protests at abortion clinics is illustrative:

• perfectly fine to stand outside and hold signs and even shout at patients & staff going into the clinic
• NOT OK to actually block the entrance to prevent people from doing what's perfectly legal.

The Proud Boys and Three Percenters have done none of the stuff that BLM and Antifa have done.

No - they attempted to overthrow the Gov't, broke into the US Capitol Building, threatened the Vice-President of the US, and the Congress with bodily harm, and insisted that their candidate be installed as President. (Does the term "attempted coup" ring a bell?) Thus, they made it onto the Terrorist Group list... For what it's worth, that makes them ineligible for the community block grants that BLM received!

@Postwhore02 said in Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism:

@raphjd Allow me? Proof's in the pudding darling. You're the only one here. Hypocrite. Yeah, I can stalk you but it doesn't discount the fact you don't post this anywhere else, just here on "YOUR" site. Prove me wrong and start posting your "tolerant" views elsewhere too

To be fair to @raphjd:

• He IS the Forum Administrator - this is HIS playground we're all playing in! I don't think he is the site OWNER, but if not, only the site owner "outranks" him here.
• This is the Politics section of the Forum - the only area of the Forum where this kind of "heated" discourse is tolerated (if not encouraged). Hence, his tone in other areas of this site is significantly different - by design, and by his own rules.
• Unless he is retired and/or independently wealthy, @raphjd has his hands full (volunteer hands, I might add) taking care of this Forum... I'd be surprised if this was the only place he posted - but it'd be understandable

Does any of that excuse his hard-headed refusal to ever admit to being wrong? Or even "misinterpreted"? Of course not! But as I do in other areas of this Politics section: let's be fair and avoid unnecessary hyperbole.

We can disagree without insisting the "other guy" is stupid or just-plain-evil! (even if one, or both, are actually true LOL)

You have a misunderstanding of how the system works. (It's OK - most people do! Indeed, MANY people think they're downloading all this porn from GT.ru (or the new gaytor.rent) itself!)

The reality is that you ONLY download the .torrent file from here... after that, all file transfers are between peers: (the peer WITH the data being the seeder, the peer NEEDING the data being the leecher)... hence, the technology is called P2P (as in: peer-2-peer).

Just as the .torrent file itself doesn't contain any porn, the tracker itself doesn't either - only computer instructions on how to GET IT!

So, if your speeds are slower, blame the seeders or something else in your system - but the site itself plays no role in setting, capping, or even measuring your speeds!

ISPs are starting to use this tactic more and more - when they discover torrenting sites, they don't block them on your IP - instead, they stop resolving them in DNS (which, presumably, blocks them for all!)

As noted, one easy solution is to use alternate DNS solutions.

I, personally, use the CloudFlare DNS services at IP addresses 1.1.1.1 & 1.0.0.1. CloudFlare is a major Internet provider - just not in the "last mile" delivery of services. Their DNS servers are non-logging and if you want REAL protection, they offer DNS services over encrypted channels!

Of course, if you use a VPN, the DNS servers you use will usually be those assigned by your VPN provider - which can ALSO be overridden to use the CloudFlare (or other) DNS services!

@NF16 said in Hello Hello..:

Welcome, non-newbie.

Favorite topics... hmm.... Well, there's sex ... and then there's sex... and, oh yes, sex.

I'm with @NF16 - in spite of a majority of my posts being in the politics section, I come here for the sex!

The problem with this bill is that it (like so many other "social engineering" attempts) solves a problem that either doesn't exist at all, or is already handled by other means.

Let's be clear about this bill though:

• the PRIMARY FOCUS of the bill is not to ban the teaching of LBGTQ+ concepts to grades K-3... no, that's a no-brainer, and a false-flag designed to disguise the real "meat" of the legislation - which is to empower parents to sue school districts over the teaching of LGBTQ+ positive messages.

This is not unlike the Texas law that empowered pro-lifers to sue abortion providers independently and separately as a method of driving them out of business.

Even so - what, exactly, is a Florida Kindergarten teacher supposed to do next year when 5 y/o Billy draws his family - with himself, his dog, and his two mommies?

Oh, and I want to lend my support to those who correctly identify the "grooming" concepts being touted by some in the media (and the Governor his idiot-self) as being anti-Science (like that's new for them) and fear-mongering at its worst!

You cannot "learn" to be homosexual - but you CAN learn to accept homosexuality as a natural occurrence! One seen in nature far beyond humans and other primates!

@raphjd said in Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism:

It's been discussed here many times before. We were originally told that the vaxx would prevent us from getting/spreading covid.

You continue to be a whore to your Russian masters... forever more!

We've been through this before:

The COVID-19 vaccines do exactly what every other vaccine does, and has done, since 1798 (the first smallpox vaccine - the first ever human vaccine - was invented in 1798).

Let's be clear... first about what vaccines ARE NOT:

• Vaccines (not COVID-19, not Chicken-Pox, not MMR, not the 1798 Smallpox, not Polio, not even the Anthrax vaccine!) do not prevent pathogens (bacteria- or viral-based) from entering the body - that's why researchers and scientists wear "space suits" (protective gear) when researching pathogens - even when they are known & they have been vaccinated!
• Vaccines are not (ever) 100% effective
• Vaccines do not (directly) fight actual diseases or infections!

It's helpful in understanding those statements, if you understand what vaccines are actually developed and designed to do: vaccines are designed to trigger an immune response in those who receive the "treatment". That is: the point of the vaccine is to prepare the host (human body) to more effectively fight (by itself) the targeted pathogen. As a result:

• People with compromised or weak immune systems are not helped (or at least not as much) by vaccines. These are people like the elderly, the very young, and people with certain diseases - like leukemia or HIV (especially if it has progressed to AIDS).
• People who receive a vaccine do not immediately receive a benefit - it takes time for the body to react (and build white-blood-cells as a result).
• Some vaccines can provide a lifetime level of protection - that is, the body "permanently" learns how to "fight" the pathogen. Other vaccines (like the early Polio vaccines, and all "modern" Flu vaccines - and the current COVID-19 vaccines) require a "booster" to "remind" the body of how to fight the pathogen, and to trigger the "correct" immune response quickly enough to prevent illness.

So, why is it Scientists say that vaccines "prevent" the disease? Well, in most cases the pathogens multiply inside the unvaccinated human host, who then spreads the pathogen to others. The longer the infection lasts, the more infectious the original host becomes.

Things work differently in a vaccinated host: when the vaccinated host detects the presence of the pathogen, the vaccine-boosted immune response keeps the levels of pathogen growing in the body much lower. For some pathogens, this means that the level of infection never rises to the point where the host is contagious, in others (with particularly virulent pathogens), it reduces the period of time that they are contagious.

Most pathogens do not make the host sick immediately upon infection... it takes time for the pathogen to "build up" before the effects are noticeable by the infected host. Again, the "pathways" for vaccinated and unvaccinated hosts differ:

• in unvaccinated hosts, the pathogen multiplies quickly and the host is often contagious long before symptoms of illness are felt. Once ill, the infected host often has an inadequate immune response that often contributes to the spread of the pathogen to others: coughing, sneezing, vomiting, diarrhea, etc. The "natural" immune response may - or may not - be effective against the pathogen. Even if it is effective, it takes "some time" for the immune system to successfully eliminate the pathogen, or if it cannot, the host often dies as a result.
• in vaccinated hosts, the pathogen triggers a quick immune response - one that the vaccine has "programmed" to be effective against the pathogen. As a result, the host often "defeats" (clears) the pathogen before it has replicated enough to make the host either contagious or ill. However, some pathogens work very quickly, and it replicates quickly enough that the host DOES become contagious and/or ill - but the immune response (if the vaccine is a good one) still allows the body to effectively eliminate the pathogen with minimal illness and a greatly reduced level and/or length of contagion.

THIS IS HOW THE COVID-19 VACCINES SAVE LIVES

Not through some magic that creates a barrier that prevent the virus from entering the body. Not by directly attacking the COVID-19 virus itself (that would be a TREATMENT - like an antibiotic for some bacterial infections - not a vaccine!).

No, just like all the other vaccines we already have in our lives... by strengthening our own bodies' immune systems! Like we have been doing for over 200 years, now!

No vaccine (and, indeed, no treatment) is 100% effective. But Trump's new m-RNA based vaccines are EXCEPTIONALLY effective, and require a TINY FRACTION of the research and testing time needed to adjust (tweak) for variants - or even for whole other diseases!

The m-RNA technology that Trump jumpstarted will be a game-changer in immunology research! (No, he didn't invent it - but he gave it the funding and attention needed to move it a decade or more along in its research "path"! And that has saved untold thousands - perhaps even millions - of lives!)

And your whining that it doesn't "prevent all infection" (it never could - not even by design!) or "prevent all contagion" (also never could - also by design) won't change any of that! We won't "unlearn" the science, and 10-years from now, MOST of our vaccines will likely be based-on the m-RNA vaccines developed for COVID-19!

Trudeau has been photoed/videoed without a mask, despite his mandates for his own people. It's not just him, but all world leaders.

Again, you act as-if Liberals were the only hypocrites! OK, maybe they're more hypocritical of mask-wearing rules - but that's just one example! Conservative lawmakers are hypocritical in all sorts of areas too!

That doesn't make their hypocrisy any less important or any more acceptable... but dogs who bite need to be handled too - but aren't worthy of headline-level attention!

OK, so some ass clowns joined in. But did the truckers do any of the violence BLM and Antifa did and still do? Your government gives them money while calling truckers "domestic terrorists".

OK, so the Canadian Gov't doesn't list BLM or Antifa as official Terrorist Groups (domestic or otherwise) - and neither do they list Truckers (See here)

Who they DO list includes the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters - organizations who support the overthrow of the current Gov't, vs protesting for change within the current Gov't. (It's a subtle difference - I doubt @raphjd will get it!)

For the record, the Canadian Gov't never called the truckers "domestic terrorists" - they said they were acting like domestic terrorists! There's a difference! I can say @raphjd acts like a Russian agent without meaning that he is actually a Russian agent! (I can show the former, but I cannot prove the latter!)

@Arago44 said in Case Fans Going Top Speed:

Hey, so after every time I log into my pc and It gets to the log in screen on windows 10, my case fans start to spin up really fast to their maximum rpm. But after I login they go back to normal. Also when the computer is shutting down, the fans spin up again. Can anyone here tell me what the problem is with this? It's kind of an annoyance. And the kind of case fans I have are the Corsair ML120's assuming that info would help. They are also plugged into the commander thingy. Someone please help.

When you first startup your PC, the fans run full speed because that's normal - the software that controls the fan speeds (based on temps) hasn't loaded yet, and it's necessary to be "better safe than sorry" - a PC can overheat to a disaster point in SECONDS without cooling!

As for the end, I suspect that's just the fan monitor/driver software unloading...

@524144 said in Hello:

25 years old Canadian, happy joining here.

Welcome to out site, eh?

We're a pretty friendly lot - so long as you stay off the Politics boards! Lots of folks here willing to help out - just ask!

In the meantime, order some more lube, download some porn, and polish yer knob!

@vortensen

Within "mainstream porn", revernge-fucks are just attempts to give porn videos a "plot" (and usually fail miserably - if porn stars have any actual ACTING ability, it's purely coincidental/accidental - it is NOT why they're hired or cast usually!

But in real life, a "revenge fuck" is different from what is commonly referred to as "revenge porn"

A "revenge fuck" is, by way of an example, sleeping with your ex's brother (or father or son) and "letting it slip" to him... or seducing your ex's NEW b/f on Grindr...

"Revenge porn" on the other hand is usually some form of publicizing what once were "private" pics or videos of your ex - often to places like here, or twitter, or facebook ... but somewhere for the "public" (although, more specifically acquaintances of the "victim") to see.

To be clear, it is my understanding that THIS SITE's rules prohibit the publication of people's actual names, locations (addresses), and non-sexual social media information (including your own!)

So: want to upload that homemade video you and your ex made 2-years ago? No problem - so long as you don't identify him (with a real name) or contact information.

If either of you have an OF account, you can post that... Got a XXX Twitter handle? Fair game! Got a GayTube channel for your amateur content? Cool!

But pics of his Drivers's licene, or home address, or "real" twitter handle... not so much...

We're all about PORN here - and porn is fantasy! There is little room (or tolerance) of "reality" here! ROFL

@jc2o said in A giant real cock:

I had never seen anything like this, and did not think cocks could get this big:
https://xhamster.com/videos/ignorant-xhI8eV8

"normal" penises don't get that large...

Honestly, is that thing even useful? What could you put it into? A farm animal? maybe! A human? unlikely - not into any human orifice I could think of - not mouth, not vagina, and certainly not an anus! Not without there being something seriously wrong with that orifice: no jaw, no hips, or whatever...

To the folks saying: "Just get out - run away - give up all hope"...

You're thinking with your logical mind and the original poster is clearly thinking with his heart.

I've had only a handful of times in my life when my logical mind and my heart were at serious odds... I have to say that, while I lost out financially when I went with my heart, I was overall much happier.

ALL relationships are risky - you're entrusting another with your "heart and soul", and they may (honestly, usually do) wind up showing themselves unworthy of that trust... but it's the journey that makes life (and love) worth living - not JUST the destination!

That said: like ALL risks, its about your "risk tolerance" - how far are you willing to go?

When I was in my 20's, a co-worker was "outed" by a jilted lover... this was the 1990's, and we worked in a high security government location - and the result was, he lost his security clearance (and his job) over the incident.

10 years later, he was still working in his field, was very successful, and had a long-time lover - whom he lived with in a very "out" manner. However, that lover was NOT the one who outed him, and at least until I lost touch with him several years ago, he still despised the guy that did that to him... even while admitting it was likely the only way he'd have ever come out!

My point is: it's complicated... it's always complicated! And no 2 situations are exactly alike.

As I noted above - I've been lucky in that my heart and my "logical brain" have usually been able to come to a consensus... and when they haven't, it's been chaos (no matter which one "wins", or for how long)... I wish I could tell you there was some logic, or planning, or conscious decision-making involved in my own "figuring out" what to do when they were so diametrically opposed... but I can't... sometimes my heart wins, sometimes my brain wins... that is the human experience!

@realstik said in Been barebacking too long:

@pasha Get tested. Get on PREP. Get a condom that fits. Put lube inside the condom.

All excellent suggestions:

• Get PrEP to protect against HIV infection... as a positive side effect, you'll visit your Dr once every 3-6 months and get std and other blood tests to help make sure you remain healthy!
• Try to have sex with other guys who ALSO take sexual health seriously - either on PrEP, on HIV meds (e.g. Poz-Undetectable), or who are otherwise aware of, and manage the risks of human sexuality (which is nothing new - sex has been "risky" since the beginning of time!)
• Use condoms when you can - and lubricate yourself BEFORE your put on the condom (as well as after) - this increases the sensations exponentially and should eliminate the "dull" sensations you're experiencing now

Unregistered torrent is the tracker's way of saying that sometime between the point where you downloaded the .torrent file and now, the torrent has been removed from the tracker.

SO - if you get this error, and the file is still showing on the website, delete the torrent in your client (delete, but do not delete the files - even partially downloaded ones), then re-download the .torrent and re-add it.

Far more commonly, you'll get this error and find the torrent has been removed. A very VERY common reason for that is that it's a duplication... if you see that, look again and USUALLY the original torrent will be "promoted" (pushed to the top of the listings again)...

@di3di3di3 said in Bareback sex...:

its never safe for gonorrhea chlamydia herpes hpv mycoplasma genitalium - hominis, and UTIs. hepatitis b and c only when blood present (aka big dick / traumatized /infected mucosas)

if u mean safe for HIV - with prep it is mostly safe.

Odd that @di3di3di3 overlooks the available treatments for all of these - including the HPV vaccine - in what appears to be an argument against bareback sex.

Your question tho (Is bareback sex safe) is deeper than that tho... sex - even masturbation - isn't "safe"! There is risk in EVERYTHING you do! So, the implied question is actually: "Is bareback safe enough?"

Quite honestly, that's not really a good question to ask here - not because you won't get answers, but because you won't get GOOD answers!

Other than herpes, all of the ailments mentioned above are risks that can be mitigated/treated. (Herpes is incurable and largely untreatable, tho thankfully almost always non-lethal).

IMHO, I look for partners who understand "risk" and take actions to lessen them... that's why I'm on PrEP, and I prefer partners who are either on PrEP or who are Poz-undetectible... in other words, guys on anti-viral meds...

Not entirely for the protection the HIV meds provide, but even more so because it's also proof-positive that they see their Doctors & get tested frequently for other STDs... it's a requirement to remain on either set of drugs!

What's safe enough for you? That's a decision you have to make for yourself...