@geobear40 said in The truth about liberal media:
I was calling you out but like most cool-aid drinkers you never take responsibility for your actions and turn the blame on others.
Calling me out? For making you look like a moron?
Seriously?
You didn't need my help there, nor a simile... you manage that on your own quite well! 
@geobear40 said in Black Lives Matter sent millions to Canada charity to buy mansion:
@bi4smooth said in Black Lives Matter sent millions to Canada charity to buy mansion:
A legit story, yes - sure - in 2020 and maybe in 2021!
A little "old news" for 2022 tho...Is it "old news" because they have done it before?
Are you "letting it side" because you expect NFP to spend most of their donation on over priced assets and high payrolls?
I guess the Liberals took cues from the Churches.A real 501(c)(3) should be spending 90% - 95% of their donation on helping people in need not the other way around.
While that percentage is a bit on the "unrealistically high" side, I agree in principle that non-profits need careful watching... sadly, the IRS has been de-fanged and de-clawed - largely by Republicans, but also by some fat-cat Dems trying to save some dough...
But dude, to say that Liberal NPO's (Non-Profit Organizations) are any worse than Conservative ones is just being blind! The NRA hasn't been dirty?
Without oversight, they're ALL dirty!
@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:
Read the story: Pelosi's son was employed (possibly as a contractor) by these companies - he wasn't on their boards of directors, he wasn't their leadership... just hired by them. Also, he hasn't been accused of any wrong-doing!
So, @raphjd, you were hired by a company in 2019 to unclog their toilets, and they also employed, at the same time, a pedophile of the worst kind. I guess that makes you "linked to a pedophile", if you follow the logic of this story... ???Maybe once I would let it pass but 5 different companies. That is a pattern. Maybe they were just selling their name to make investors think highly of the scam. There fee for services rendered was awarded as a contractor. That was they have plausible deniability.
Either way they are selling influence gained thru public office just like the Bidens and the Clintons and every other immoral politician who goes from middle class to one 1%ers in a few election cycles.
That is all this Green New Deal crap is awarding lucrative contracts to the donors of the Liberals. I am old enough to remember during the Clinton administration that all the science grant applications were rewritten to include the words climate change in order to receive funding.
You are paranoid and pathetic.... you know, your church was once let by a pedophile... so that makes you a pedophile supporter! Rot in hell!
(Just using your own sick, twisted logic! - I don't actually know anything about your church - if there even is one!)
@geobear40 said in NTSB to investigate Pittsburg bridge collapse just hours before Biden visit on BBB plan:
@bi4smooth
A great deal of infrastructure spending had been considered pork belly spending or was doled out to buy votes on bills that should not pass.
Dude - I've been saying it from the start:
No Trump-specific dis here... there's enough history of fault to go 'round!
And in fact, my "suspicion" here is that Biden's "team" setup this as a stunt to garner support for "Build Back Better"...
@nycram said in Just wondering:
Does anybody ever read this forum? It is so well hidden.
LOL - I wouldn't call it hidden - but yeah, there are only a couple-dozen posts a day in here...
Twitter it ain't!
Let me clarify something:
I'm not opposed to infrastructure spending... even "deficit spending" (which is a misnomer for reasons I've spelled out several times before)... gov't spending FOR THINGS (including for work-projects) is all well and good. People work the work, make the goods, and get paid fairly for them... economic activity is good!
What's more, our infrastructure really is crumbling at our feet, after DECADES of being overlooked and back-burnered!
That's not what I was "complaining" about in this post - I just think it's awfully "convenient" that a bridge - in the very city Biden is headed to, in all these United States, and on he very eve of his arrival - takes that precise moment to fail... and fail, not at a time of great stress, but in the pre-dawn hours, when traffic is pretty much at its lightest!
Do I think this bridge needed repairs? sure!
Do I think this bridge failed on its own? I'm not so sure!
And that is what I'm raising questions about - was this a "setup-job"? Was this a "demonstration"?
I won't make unfounded accusations - but I will ask the questions... and as noted, the NTSB is looking into this bridge collapse, so maybe - just maybe - we'll learn more!
@raphjd said in Georgia Officials Tampered With and Deleted Hours of Ballot Box Video Before It Was Released to Investigators:
It's amazing how a pair of losers turned a thread about voter fraud into an anti-Trump tirade, AGAIN.
OH! You were talking about the alleged voter fraud about the election of Marjory Taylor Greene, not Trump!
My bad!
@raphjd said in Nancy Pelosi’s son linked to five shady companies probed by feds: report:
5 shady companies under federal investigation.
Shady by whose standards? Federal Investigation doesn't make anyone or anything "shady"
This guy is non-political!
Trying to go after Nancy Pelosi by focusing on her apolitical son is garbage
@raphjd said in Black Lives Matter sent millions to Canada charity to buy mansion:
https://nypost.com/2022/01/29/black-lives-matter-sent-millions-to-canada-charity-m4bj-for-mansion/
BLMers are as marxist as Bernie.
Yet another NY Post hyperbolic and misleading story...
So, the person (not the group) who finagled this abuse of not-for-profit-organization money (doesn't matter if it's a liberal cause or a conservative one - it's a NFP organization!) has already resigned as a result of these things coming to light... resigned last year, and others involved are also either resigning or being forced out.
A legit story, yes - sure - in 2020 and maybe in 2021!
A little "old news" for 2022 tho...
This just in: famed Presidential dog Checkers has died...
@raphjd said in NTSB to investigate Pittsburg bridge collapse just hours before Biden visit on BBB plan:
They love their whataboutisms.
I predicted this exact thing. Before Trump even took office I predicted that liberals would demand that no one mention Obama after he leaves office, but once Trump left office, they would never shut up about him.
You clearly don't follow any liberal news outlets (I follow liberal, conservative, and moderate media!)...
My point being, as Saintly as Trump is to the Republicans, Obama is just as much so to the Dems... every utterance he makes generates headlines in their world! (Obama doesn't demand loyalty and fealty like Trump, but he actually GETS it from Dems - without the demands, threats & retaliatory "strikes" against those that would dare oppose even a single breath... something that likely eats away at Trump's ego nightly LOL)
The difference is that Obama followed the "old playbook" at the end of his term, and at least initially, tried to stay out of the spotlight. Trump LIVES FOR the spotlight!!! Now though, both fight for news coverage, even though BOTH are "old news"...
But, as much as @eobox91103 is correct in stating that Trump paid lip-service (and little else) to infrastructure issues, the exact same can be said of Obama before him, and even Bush and Clinton before them! Infrastructure woes are nothing new!
Putting off Infrastructure projects has been bi-partisan agreed-upon folly for decades now!
@raphjd said in Nancy Pelosi’s son linked to five shady companies probed by feds: report:
https://nypost.com/2022/01/14/nancy-pelosis-son-linked-to-firms-probed-by-feds/
This explains why Pelosi is no longer retiring from Congress.
Can we NOT extend the vitriol and hatred of "the other side" to including their children (I don't care how old they are now)...
It was in bad-taste in the Kennedy-Nixon years, it was not tolerated in the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama years, and it shouldn't be tolerated now.
No, that doesn't mean Don, Jr or Eric, or Ivanka Trump "get a free pass" - they put themselves in the "public spotlight" themselves... But, Barron and Tiffany have done no such thing, and should be off-limits for this kind of trash.
Read the story: Pelosi's son was employed (possibly as a contractor) by these companies - he wasn't on their boards of directors, he wasn't their leadership... just hired by them. Also, he hasn't been accused of any wrong-doing!
So, @raphjd, you were hired by a company in 2019 to unclog their toilets, and they also employed, at the same time, a pedophile of the worst kind. I guess that makes you "linked to a pedophile", if you follow the logic of this story... ???
This whole line of reporting - on people's kids, no less, is beyond the pale of decency or even journalism as a whole...
@gayfox996 said in Any VPN recommendations for torrenting?:
@raphjd Thanks! someone suggested 1.1.1.1 for me and its working well.
However I am worried would it trigger any issue ? I remember there was a rule about 1 user / 1 IP or something.
1.1.1.1 is a CloudFlare DNS service - maybe also a VPN service too, I know CloudFlare has one... but it's generally an alternate, privacy-oriented, DNS service....
I'm an IT guy by profession - honestly, I haven't looked into the CloudFlare WARP service yet.... but I think I shall
@geobear40 said in The truth about liberal media:
So are you drunk or high?
You made a great effort into that rant. It a shame a real shame.
Saw a little too much of yourself there... sorry, not sorry...
ICYMI: Pres Biden, octogenarian leader of the free world, was slated to go to Pittsburgh, PA to talk about his "Build Back Better" Plan - the plan to re-build America and re-ignite inflation like we've never seen! (OK, the first part there is HIS, the latter part - about inflation - is mine.)
Literally HOURS before Biden arrives - to talk about our "crumbling" infrastructure, the Forbes Avenue Bridge near the very same Pittsburgh, PA mysteriously collapsed.
While the bridge was old (built in 1970), and had been rated in "poor" condition for the past 10 years, it was NOT seen as in any imminent danger at its last inspection in Sept (2021).
Sound a little "Luck 'o the Irish"? Just a little "fortuitous" to come just before Biden's visit?
Also, the bridge collapsed in the wee hours of the morning - even though it's a "major thoroughfare" in the area... not when there were dozens or even hundreds of cars and heavy trucks on it - no, when there was almost no-one on it!
Hmmm... couldn't have planned it better, no?
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I see some red-flags here... this was just "too perfect a setup for Biden!
That said, I trust the NTSB to determine the cause - its what they do! If they say it was just dumb luck that it failed pre-dawn instead of mid-rush-hour, I'll take it... but it's definitely worth looking into!
With $billions already in the budgets to repair these kinds of things, I do not put it past politicians to "plan this out" this way... nobody gets hurt, and the nation "gets the message"
Time (and the NTSB) will tell...
https://twitter.com/NTSB_Newsroom/status/1487470437705596931
@guzzofan said in Does anyone know what happened to Stag Collective site?:
@soulcalibour It merged into Next Door Studios
Sho 'nuf
https://www.gaydemon.com/blogs/stag_collective_moves_to_next_door_studios.html
@di3di3di3 said in Vuze and Seeding (not seeding that is):
i have same issue with qbittorrent 4.2.5 i cant seed anything even super seeding mode, or force resume. anyone can help me? i am noob when it comes to settings etc.
Read the docs:
The action you need to take to force your torrent to seed is to PAUSE IT (aka STOP SEEDING IT), wait for any existing traffic to END, then re-start the seeding.
This causes your client to RE-ANNOUNCE itself (different from a scrape)
As I understand it, the not-supporting-scrape issue comes down to some ability to cheat the rationator system using scrapes... (clearly, I do NOT know the details there!)... But IMHO, having to work around that is a SMALL PRICE to pay for all this free, quality porn!
@di3di3di3 said in Goodbye, SlamRush:
i digress. what is issue with these providers /censors?? they deemed themselves worthy to choose what is allowed and what isn't?? is bb sex without testing/prep any safer than what this site had?? why are such bb sites allowed to run and have been allowed to run?? majoral stupidity.
adults can choose what to do with their bodies and as a non drug user myself, i believe in free will and choice.
ps : in countries where public health systems are in place to offer free healthcare, i think it gets more complicated, but the site was run in USA so it doesnt affect any taxpayer if a adult chooses to ''get high'' and ''fuck''
Someone who is high is incapable (at least in US case law) of giving consent.
As @flozen clearly & correctly pointed out, while we mostly know that in the real world kids are getting high, getting fucked (partly why we call it "getting fucked up", no?) -- and sometimes being raped (used in ways they object to and didn't / couldn't consent to)
And let's face it, often the rapists are equally as high...
But, by most accounts, this site tried to INFER that, without actually DOING that...
So, I agree with the majority that the site was "morally offensive" to me... and I'm not "sexually" sorry that it's gone.
HOWEVER - I also do not believe that a BANK should be the one making those decisions. So I am "intellectually" (in the sense of wanting to keep a free and open society) sorry that it left us this way - and I would like to see steps taken to curtail the ability of banks to do this to other businesses.
@barbusex75 said in Quality of Files low:
@bi4smooth Hi Thanks. I use Format Factory, free!
I don't need to see each hair but I dont' like pixelized dicks that look like a chess game!
A fair point - that's why I generally download the collectibles in 4k or 1080p and recode them myself to 720p with an H265 codec... the files are small-ish and the images are clear - even on my 8k TV screen!
@eobox91103 said in Georgia Officials Tampered With and Deleted Hours of Ballot Box Video Before It Was Released to Investigators:
@raphjd said in Georgia Officials Tampered With and Deleted Hours of Ballot Box Video Before It Was Released to Investigators:
extreme TDS
Is this the Tardis from Dr. Who?
No, he thinks I don't see Donald Trump for what he supposedly is: the rightful leader of the new world order, a perfect, infallible, soul sent by God himself to show us the way to righteousness and glory
Free to do what He wants and to believe only what He wants us to believe!
Instead, I ridicule his self-righteousness & obvious flaws, identify him as the cult-leader that he is, and excoriate his authoritarian / fascist tendencies as being wholly un-American. Oh, and sometimes I make fun of his fat ass, orange hair, and fake tan... but that last part is just to piss off the Trumpite Believers... They're fun to watch when they're poked that way!
Like many Americans, Trump has already planned for his funeral... a State funeral at that!
@geobear40 said in The truth about liberal media:
@bi4smooth said in The truth about liberal media:
So where's the benefit to the scammers about masks?
FEAR and CONTROL
Only N95 or KN95 masks properly worn are effective masks and the rest are just for show.
N95, KN95, and KFN4 (a Korean design) are more effective at providing protection than cloth or "surgical" masks - but more effective does not mean the others are ineffective...
You've at least come around to agreeing that masks are effective!
OK, so you claim that mask-wearing is being used for "fear and control"... sounds like a legit possibility on the surface, but dig a little deeper, friend: fear and control are used to limit the actions of people - often by military and dictator/authoritatian leaders. It is used to "subdue" the masses, and enable ever more and more control over their movements and activities.
Is that what's going on here? Are we using COVID-19 to prevent people from protesting? Are we criminalizing not-wearing masks? (I know some wakko's actually would, but not the scientists)
ACTUALLY, if you had listened with your thinking-mind open, instead of your fear-mind, you would have realized that:
Let's look at a simile:
Now, we can focus on getting rid of the robots?
No! Some nincompoops insist that wearing the RED suits - or the bulletproof vests - are infringing on our freedoms! They march in the streets, sans jumpsuits or vests, DARING the robots to shoot them (which the do - by the thousands), but the idiots keep marching.
What's more, they alert the robots that they're missing a lot of us because of the red suits! So the robots "mutate" and can start to see some of the red jumpsuits... scientists start looking for other colors - and point out that specific shades of red are better then others, but in the meantime, the robots still miss most of the red jumpsuits, and the bullets still bounce off the vests.
And MOST of us go about our lives - except for the medical professions, who have to keep treating the morons who refuse to believe the robots are real, or that the color red will protect them, or that the bulletproof vests actually work... and they keep filling up our hospitals with casualties.
IN THIS SIMILE: