Posts made by bi4smooth

@raphjd said in Proof that black privilege is real:

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls white people "crackers" and liberal media is silent.

Very true - but let's put this in context...

• Adams was an ex-cop, and "general citizen" when he made those comments.
• Adams was not (yet) Mayor of NYC, nor even a candidate (it was 2019)

Does that make it OK? Hell no, and he's apologized (now that he's Mayor and these recordings have surfaced)...

But its inaccurate to describe them as "comments made by Mayor Eric Adams" -- that implies that he's made those comments while Mayor, and that isn't what happened here (NOTE: I didn't say it isn't TRUE - he may have used that slur while in office, we can't really KNOW for sure!)

More accurate would be: comments made by now-Mayor Adams, or something similar.

It is also reasonable to note that this was not the first time Mr Adams "stuck his foot in his mouth": in the early 90's, while still a cop, he chastised a Puerto Rican candidate for having married a Jewish woman, and not a Latina one.

But hey: let's go after Mayor Adams for real transgressions - not shit he said 3 or 30 years ago!

@raphjd said in Peng Shuai's Olympic 'forced confession': Communist minders are caught lurking in the background.....:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10484213/Chinese-tennis-star-Peng-Shuai-speaks-time-foreign-media.html

Autocracy sucks, eh?

@geobear40 said in Seattle planned to transfer police precinct to Black Lives Matter during the deadly autonomous zone:

@bi4smooth said in Seattle planned to transfer police precinct to Black Lives Matter during the deadly autonomous zone:

Back to the main topic - DAMN! Seattle was a real shit-show back then!

Back Then?

Yes, you shit-for-brains... Seattle is (as are most American cities) a beautiful place. During times of crisis, things can get hairy - as it did for Seattle during the George Floyd protests.

Austin, TX is a beautiful city (and I love their downtown areas, and once even saw the Jim Cullum Jazz Band live!) - but it's a shit-show right now, what with the freezing temps, the rolling blackouts, and now the boil water warnings!

As with Seattle, they'll work through it... We Americans rarely fail COMPLETELY! Rather, we often fall on our faces, get up, brush ourselves off, and get back to work!

THAT'S why I'm proud to be an American - EVEN when the country is being led by Democrats! EVEN if we're doing some DUMB things right now (to be fair, the Dems aren't the ONLY ones being DUMB right now... but they ARE the ones in power, and with power comes responsibility - and that means taking the blame...)

(Virtually ALL of the city leadership - even Police leadership - are different now. Less incompetent?

Where they all fired or voted out?

Many resigned, some retired, and a couple were term-limited out. None were voted out that I could find. As for fired? They're usually allowed to "retire" or "resign to seek better opportunities" - so who's to say which ones were really fired.

That's not the point tho - the leadership was shown to be lacking... at the top, as well as the next layer... so they've done the right thing & brought in new leadership.

No way to know until another crisis comes!

Sure lets just cross our finger and hope for the best

Barring another emergency - which is unlikely to be just like this one - how would you propose to know how they'll do? Your crystal ball isn't even glass! It's a fucking bowling ball and you can see into the future as well as none of us!

Nice work by the paper to uncover just how discombobulated City leaders were during that month!

Dicombobulated! is that a nice word for corrupt?

No, but since you're so inept as to even be unable to look up the definition of a word, try here.

Geez - you'd have thought you'd have learned how to use a search engine by now!

DON'T tell me what I mean. You speak for yourself and I will speak for me. If you listen to others you may learn something new instead of thinking you know everything.

Indeed, Humpty Dumpty - your words mean just what YOU mean them to, the English Language be damned!

For what it's worth, I listen to other people often - and usually learn a great deal from discussions with other intelligent people...

However, I don't generally listen too closely to clowns for advise... they're just there for the entertainment...

In case you were not aware, at least to me, you are a clown: nothing to be taken seriously, just enjoyed for the entertainment value

@geobear40 said in Georgia Officials Tampered With and Deleted Hours of Ballot Box Video Before It Was Released to Investigators:

@bi4smooth

When the majority of votes in the state come from the county you bet.

And if cats had wings, they'd fly...

@geobear40 said in Nancy Pelosi’s son linked to five shady companies probed by feds: report:

@bi4smooth said in Nancy Pelosi’s son linked to five shady companies probed by feds: report:

ROFL - as a licensed Foster Parent, I've been investigated plenty of times (it's called a License Renewal!)... And I was a speaker at a national conference on adoptable children - about parenting children with special needs (in my case, Asperger/Autism Spectrum kids)....

You are right every foster parent is perfect and has never harmed a child in anyway.

Again with the I am an expert because I did ________.

Most foster parents are wonderful, caring people.

Most cops are wonderful, caring people.

Not all foster parents are wonderful, caring people. And when they misbehave they are investigated - and if found to be inappropriate to the job, they are dismissed.

Not all cops are wonderful, caring people. And when they misbehave they are investigated - and if found to be inappropriate to the job, they are dismissed.

If you want absolutes, move to Russia! They love Western immigrants! (Just DON'T tell them how much better things were back in the US... they HATE that!)

I honestly think you'd fit in better there! And, they'd LOVE to have you!

@geobear40 said in MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan: non-Muslims and atheists are 'cattle,' compares gays to incestuous pedophiles:

I bet you have never seen either network and are just going off of the opinions of others.

If you mean to say I don't watch these "hyper-partisan" channels often, you would be correct. I also only go to the dentist once a year.... that doesn't mean I don't know what's in store for me at the dentist's office every year!

@geobear40 said in Johns Hopkins Researchers: Lockdowns Had Little Impact on COVID Deaths:

@bi4smooth said in Johns Hopkins Researchers: Lockdowns Had Little Impact on COVID Deaths:

When you tell a politician they were wrong, they fight back and try - with everything they can muster to prove that they were either NOT WRONG, or were misled...
When you tell a scientist they were wrong, they ask to see the data, file it away, and move on... mistakes are how science makes progress! Mistakes are "part of the gameplan!"

I guess that makes Fauci a politician not a scientist.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist (note: I say that often because I was one, working in Range Safety at Cape Canaveral Air Force [now, Space Force] Station for 7 years in the 80's and 90's) to see how the lockdowns failed.

What's with the this?
Do you think it means you are an expert?

Did NYC and SF need a lockdown? YES!

Did Des Moines and Green Bay need a lockdown? NO!

Where is your evidence to back this up or are you talking out your ass again?

Science is mainly "educated guessing" - and when you realize your guess was wrong, you learn from it! Rarely, you may guess wildly and discover you were actually right (like the discovery of penicillin) - but usually, you guess 3000 times and finally find one that kinda-sorta works, so you try to find out WHY it works so you can guess better (and faster) next time!

Science is not your strong suit. The core elements of scientific activity involve articulating hypotheses, laws, or models, designing experiments or empirical investigations that test these ideas, collecting data, and using data as evidence to evaluate and revise them.

Why is that important? Because:

a) it took a YEAR longer to get a vaccine "the old way";

b) now we can compare the results of old vaccine tech and new vaccine tech; and

c) had we NOT had the new vaccine tech, the Delta variant likely would have added upwards of 2-million more deaths in the US alone

We're approaching 900-thousand deaths in the US now, in early 2022

a) it would have taken tell 2033 according to the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/opinion/coronavirus-covid-vaccine.html
b) in a decade or two we will have enough data to claim one is better than
c)Where did you get that number?

Of the 900-thousand how many are because of Covid and how many are with Covid? We will never know for sure. They are no longer reporting Covid deaths directly to the CDC on a daily basis. I guess now they don't want people to know the truth since it doesn't fit the Liberal narrative.

Where to start...

a) Fauci is a scientist / puppet whose strings are being pulled by politicians.He's admitted (that politicians sometimes tell him what he has to say) as much in public before. You can vilify him, I actually feel sorry for him. He didn't sign up for this.

b) I reference my work experience as evidence that I am a bona fide scientist. (I don't just play one on GT.ru)

• As a scientist, I know (unlike some, hint hint) that there is far more that we DON'T yet know, than the pittance that we DO know...
• What's more, I also know that a LOT of what we "think we know" is wrong! Not wholly wrong, but at least a little-bit wrong. (That is: we don't know EVERYTHING about ANYTHING!).
• And lastly, I also know that the RATE at which we - as a species - are learning is accelerating... quickly!
  ... And some of the answers we're coming up with are scaring the pants off of some people (like you, @geobear40! Thus, your constant attacks on anything like science!)

c) Google is your friend... or DuckDuckGo, or Bing, or any other search engine... when we did the lockdowns, NYC was FLUSH with infections! Their hospitals were being crushed. Des Moines had yet to see a single case.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to do simple research - but it does take someone willing to actually TRY!

d) OK, smartypants... what's a synonym for hypothesis... I'll give you a hint: it's an educated guess ROFL
True, a hypothesis embodies more than JUST an educated guess - there's a reason for the different wording - but since I knew my audience, I chose phrasing that they would understand.
I should have to point this out, but YOU (@geobear40) were not the sole member of the intended audience.

e) Let's see - the NYTimes hypothesized that it might take a decade to develop a vaccine in 2020, and I cited a case where it was actually DONE (well, at least as far as EUA goes)THIS MONTH...

Did you pay attention to your own pathetic attempt to explain the scientific method? The hypothesis (in this case) was that it might take a decade (using the old methods)...the actuality was that it only took a YEAR... unless, of course, you want to claim that NOVAVAX is a hoax... you would...

f) Not reporting COVID deaths daily is not the same thing as not reporting deaths at all! Hospitals report to the Government on EVERY death - pandemic or not! That's how they spot trends early on...

@geobear40 said in Because the science says so:

@bi4smooth said in Because the science says so:

You stupid twit, the German doctors who did experiments on prisoners didn't claim that Science told them this was the right thing to do, they used the human prisoners to conduct scientific experiments... experiments that were known to be fatal to the subjects and were little more than "morbid curiosity" and complete disregard for the value of human life.
Scientists in the US did not tell the President to experiment on people, or to indiscriminately kill people "for the curiosity about it"... they operated on a basis of "save as many as we can" - showing GREAT regard for the value of EACH human life...
Again, your educational background (or lack thereof) is ASTOUNDING!

You will twist anything to validate your comments.

Yup - my analysis was as twisted as a ruler - and your understanding of history is on par with, I'd say, my understanding of sub-particle physics!

Which is to say: you can spell it (well, sometimes!)

@lololulu19 said in DOH Whistleblower Says Covid Inflated for Profit ‘He went for gunshot wounds and was coded as COVID’:

@raphjd Hospitals, doctors virtually ALWAYS lie to inflate their profits.

Geez.. you guys and your conspiracy theories!

If the world was actually just half as evil as you purport it to be, I don't know how you keep from putting a gun in your mouth!

Gee.. the Federal Government said that IT would cover medical expenses for patients with COVID.

Let me ask you this:

• Toyota issues a recall for brake pads... Says it'll cover the repair costs for any damage to cars who crash because of those brake pads
• You get t-boned (hit from the side) as you pass thru an intersection, and your car is nearly totaled! BUT - your car is a Toyota and has those faulty brake pads!

You can:
a) not file any claims at all - pay to have all the repairs done out of your own pocket
b) decline the offer of Toyota to repair your car at no cost to you - after all, you never even hit the brakes! You never saw it coming! Instead, you file your claim with your insurance company, and pay out the $1000 deductible for your comp & collision coverage. Then you prepare to rework your budget because your insurance rates are going up by about $150/mo - because you were in an accident!
c) You accept the offer from Toyota - get the car fixed and save the $1000, AND save the extra $150/mo for the next 5 years because of the accident history.

I mean, the choice is clear: @lololulu19 would take option a in a heart-beat!

We told hospitals that COVID patients' bills would be covered by the Federal Government... a guy - WITH COVID - comes in with 3 gunshot wounds. Do you:
a) treat him for free - eat the loss and keep your resume up-to-date, because this facility is going broke fast, for all the free healthcare they give out!
b) treat him and try to bill his insurance company, or if he has no insurance, find coverage somewhere. If there is no coverage, bill the State's uninsured pool - you'll only get pennies on the dollar, but it's something! Also, keep that resume up to date!
c) check the box for COVID - after all, he DOES have COVID - and bill the Federal Government... get paid at full Medicare rates for everything you do for that patient. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy....

And you wonder WHY they would code the patient for COVID-19?

If you leave an open can of tuna outside overnight, are you surprised that local feral animals (cats!) will eat it?

I'm not sure which one you are... Dumb or Dumber!

Write the helpdesk & check your messages. (Helpdesk is on the torrent site, not the forum site).

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say you were suspected of having a duplicate (multiple) account. That means simply: other people from the same IP address are using the site.

Staff will have to figure it out...

And you get ahold of staff via the helpdesk!

@raphjd said in Dan Bongino permanently banned by YouTube for challenging COVID-19 narrative:

@bi4smooth

Actually, they do. Ask MTG, Jim Jordan, and many others.

Dems rewrote the rules to allow your supreme goddess and gin supplier to choose who Repubs can assign to which committees.

No, you incompetent twit, they didn't re-write the rules... what they did was violate the "norms" of the House Rules.

The House Rules have always said the Speaker has to approve of all House Committee appointments... what has always been the NORM is that the Speaker delegates and accepts the appointments of the minority party by the minority leader. Pelosi violated that norm for the Jan 6 investigation committee because McCarthy tried to appoint people to the committee who had already tipped their hands that they thought the Committee was a farce.

Truth is, it's just another "shot" across the bow of the long-held American norm of a "loyal opposition"... the Parties - for over a century - generally worked together. When one was in the majority they still worked with the other side - and remained cordial and even somewhat deferential... after all, if there's one constant about American Politics, it is that the OTHER GUY will eventually be in charge again!

Sadly, the end of this "loyal opposition" phase of our Political History started in 1995, when Newt Gingrich took over as Speaker and refused to work with or support any Democrat supported legislation - even amendments. And thus began the slow decline of civility between the sides in our Federal Government... It truly DOES make it SUCK ASS when you're in the minority...

Good news: The Dems will be in the minority soon
Bad news: The Dems will be in the majority again too...

I don't know how it ends... but I don't think it ends well.

@raphjd said in Seattle planned to transfer police precinct to Black Lives Matter during the deadly autonomous zone:

@bi4smooth

Ah, you are defending and praising liberal media, but I can't prove they are shit.

Typical liberal.

I said ONE liberal newspaper did it's job - how typical of you to extrapolate that to ALL liberal media!

Sad... just sad... that you are so mentally and emotionally committed to the idea (belief) that all things liberal are de-facto, and irrefutably evil & irredeemable ... that when a liberal newspaper investigates a liberal city government and reports on their incompetence and leadership failures, you are incapable of supporting a statement as simple as "they did their job"...

@garyperth said in Well hello there:

Hello people. I'm Gary from Perth West Australia. I happened on this website by pure accident (while looking for porn) and thought I'd sign up and see what all the fun is about.

Welcome, mate! Chances are pretty good wrote some of the code that controls your water and power systems! (I worked on a new SCADA system for SECWA about 30 years ago!)

I was originally hired to be one of the lucky devils to get to travel down under and install the thing, but it turns out I left that job just after a year! No clue if it was ever delivered, but I like to think my code is helping to keep the water & gas flowing, and the power zapping down there!

I also have family down there - Melbourne and Darwin... two cousins... guess they wanted to be just about as far apart from each other as they could, once they left home! I recon they accomplished that pretty well!

@raphjd said in ‘Transracial’ Influencer Wants Penis Reduction Surgery So They Look ‘100 Percent’ Korean:

@bi4smooth

So if a person hates American blacks, they aren't racist because they are indifferent about blacks in other places?

It's racist in that he thinks Koreans have tiny dicks.

You still don't get it... if he derided Koreans for having small dicks, THAT would be racist. If he discriminated AGAINST Koreans because "they have small dicks", THAT would be racist...

But he wants to BE one of them! There isn't any of the negative connotation of "racism" in his actions - quite the opposite: he practically worships them!

Again, I'm not defending him - just saying that your use of the term "racist" is misplaced.

@raphjd said in Because the science says so:

@bi4smooth

Your heroes in 1930's Germany used science to justify a lot of what they were doing.

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You stupid twit, the German doctors who did experiments on prisoners didn't claim that Science told them this was the right thing to do, they used the human prisoners to conduct scientific experiments... experiments that were known to be fatal to the subjects and were little more than "morbid curiosity" and complete disregard for the value of human life.

Scientists in the US did not tell the President to experiment on people, or to indiscriminately kill people "for the curiosity about it"... they operated on a basis of "save as many as we can" - showing GREAT regard for the value of EACH human life...

Again, your educational background (or lack thereof) is ASTOUNDING!

@raphjd said in Seattle planned to transfer police precinct to Black Lives Matter during the deadly autonomous zone:

@bi4smooth

You are forgetful, as we just talked about this in another thread.

Russian Collusion

What about...

It's a rhetorical question - you're not addressing the points made, you're diverting to different things...

What about Nixon's trip to China?

@raphjd said in Gavin Newsom defends himself after he's busted partying maskless at NFL game:

@bi4smooth

A mask nazi making mask mandates and then repeatedly caught without his mask, is not the same as the Cruz situation.

You're right:

• a Democrat Governor telling the people in his State that they need to wear masks, but not wearing one himself, and
• a Republican Senator telling the people in his State to "hunker down" and ride out the ice-storm without power - while he literally "escapes" to a Mexican resort

These are totally different!

• One is a Democrat dirt bag
• The other is a Republican scum bag

I see now! Dirt vs Scum!

@kulmel36 said in Completed files show up as currently leeching.:

Hi
I'm trying to improve my ratio but my two current slots seem to be blocked. When I check under currently leeching torrents, two files show up that I downloaded completely an I'm currently seeding. Any idea how to fix this? I'm using uTorrent.
Thanks

Re-check the download in your client - and make sure that there are no parts marked "do not download"

@raphjd said in Johns Hopkins Researchers: Lockdowns Had Little Impact on COVID Deaths:

Think about how many people died and will die thanks to the lockdowns and the missed medical treatments and diagnoses.

Then you have the people that committed suicide over loneliness, loss of income, etc, etc, etc.

Oh, but think of all the traffic deaths and industrial accidents avoided because people were in lockdowns...

Elmer (Fudd), you're searching down a rabbit-hole that has no end (and no actual rabbits!) - so-called "collateral damage" can be inferred to just about anything!

In hindsight the lockdowns were a bad idea... but hindsight is often 20/20! And lest we forget, the lockdowns came during a Republican administration!

It was a poor decision... and you don't often hear me give Trump a pass for a bad decision, but in this case, he did what all the experts said was right, and for good reasons.

@raphjd said in Gavin Newsom defends himself after he's busted partying maskless at NFL game:

@bi4smooth

Your buddy got butt hurt because I pointed out a bunch of liberals acting badly, to counter his comment about Boris.

Did Ted Cruz violate any laws, especially his own law?

Dude, is it a criminal offense in CA to not wear your mask? I don't think so!

Was it a bad decision, yes. For both Newsome & Cruz... it looked bad, and in politics OPTICS MATTER!