@geobear40 said in In dismissing libel suit, judge accepts FOX argument: Tucker Carlson exaggerates & bloviates - devoid of any expectation of fact:

@bi4smooth said in In dismissing libel suit, judge accepts FOX argument: Tucker Carlson exaggerates & bloviates - devoid of any expectation of fact:

Tucker Carlson is a bloviating, exaggerating, hyperbolic caricature of a journalist... but he is, nevertheless, a primary source of "fact" for many of the Trumpites you see here and elsewhere...

That is your opinion not a "fact". Trumpites again is not a word and what does Trump have to do with Tucker Carlson?

Carlson is not even a supporter of Trump. Carlson sometimes go a bit far but most of what he says ends up being truth unlike the MSM that will lie about anything that supports their brief.

Maybe if you watched his show instead of reading the MSM cliff notes you would expand your knowledge a bit.

I can therefore... legally... claim and infer that they are not "reasonable" people!

Are we back to the Hillary Clinton Deplorables comment? Attorneys try every angle to get their client's point across. I think the Judge dismissed the case based on the merits not by any single statement of the attorney.

Follow the link - the Judge's rationale for dismissing the suit was well laid out: to bring a libel case successfully, you have to show that a reasonable person would believe them! Thus, you cannot sue the town fool for libel! (That's a little "closer to home" than I intended, but if the shoe fits!) LOL

Hillary wasn't ever prosecuted for her "deplorables" comment (except in the court of public opinion) - at least not that I know of! So, "This ain't that"

@geobear40 said in Gen. US Grant's prediction ca. 1875...:

@bi4smooth
I believe that he was referring to any outside influence that would keep citizens from learning about the basics without a bias one way or the other.

Our school system has progressed to the point that it's what his warning was. I fear the only way it's going to be fixed is a revolution. Let the state money follow the student and bankrupt all these public, union controlled districts.

You certainly are a "throw the baby out with the bath water" kind of person, aren't you?

I have to wonder - within the constraints of Grant's admonition, are you a "patriot with intelligence" or "superstitious, ambitious, and/or ignorant"?

I'll leave the "gentle reader" to decide....

@geobear40 said in Fla Gov diverts State funds to promote SENIORS FIRST agenda:

@bi4smooth said in Fla Gov diverts State funds to promote SENIORS FIRST agenda:

He lets his Trumpist politics interfere too much for my tastes, but he's a damned site better than any Democrat alternative I've seen (EVER!) LOL

When Republicans have a policy you don't approve of you call it Trumpist (Which by the way is not a word). What does Donald Trump have to do with not allowing government of private enterprise to MANDATE anything.

No, there are plenty of things I disagree with that aren't "Trumpist" (and BTW: That term simply means a policy or opinion that comes directly from Sir Loses a Lot, aka: Trump the Loser King)

In this case, had you been here (in Florida), you would have known that early on in the pandemic, DeSantis was very much "follow the science" - until Trump started to defy the science.... DeSantis "saw the writing on the wall" (which was that the Republican base was going to follow Trump - to the ends of Hell, if that's where He wanted to take them!)

And I'll say again, there are a LOT of things DeSantis does that I wholeheartedly AGREE with! I'll have no qualms voting for him (yes, Virginia, I live in Florida - he's MY Governor!) in November.... maybe even again in Nov, 2024! I'd damned sure prefer him over Sir Loses a Lot.

@orhaqi123 said in Fla Gov diverts State funds to promote SENIORS FIRST agenda:

The page you linked said 1 million, not 100.

Putting seniors and those vulnerable to covid first is what DeSantis always did and he is continuing to do that here. I don't think he is doing it for votes -- this is the best thing any governor to do at this point because the vaccine is already out and widely used.

Interesting - another site (the one that directed me to that site reported 100 million.... I propagated that error in mistake.. oops!

Just goes to show how easily misinformation can spread! Thanks for the notice!

I'm of 2-minds on DeSantis as Governor... some things make a lot of good sense... then he goes and does things like forbidding mask mandates at any level! And forbidding - even private companies - from having vaccine mandates...

He lets his Trumpist politics interfere too much for my tastes, but he's a damned site better than any Democrat alternative I've seen (EVER!) LOL

@arago44 said in IF "we" get PURGED?:

I don't mean to intervene, but should I be accessing this website with a VPN all the time? or are you just talking about whenever someone is downloading a torrent?

Your torrent client should be using a VPN, at a minimum.

I've mentioned before: I do all of my access to these sites on throw-away $5/mo Linux systems at Linode.com.... what I download (at EXTREMELY fast rates, I might add), I then copy to my home system... every month or so, I destroy the old system and build a new one (at a new IP!)...

Not everyone is THAT security conscious, nor is everyone sufficiently skilled at Linux to make that work... but the point is, you should (IMHO) NOT be running your torrent client (uploading or downloading) on your home IP address!

Your access to this site is probably less problematic, but I don't segregate that traffic... I browse from the same cloud VM as I upload and download from.

[Source: here]

Florida Governor (and Trump wannabe) Ron DeSantis announced recently that the State would divert and spend general healthcare funds to purchase 100-million rapid tests for Florida Seniors - specifically, those in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

This is on-top-of the 500-million the Federal Gov't is set to procure for the general population.

I get it - we need more tests! I just paid $100 ea for tests (that my insurance was SUPPOSED TO PAY FOR) right here in Fla!

But 500-million for the country, and another 100-million tests SOLELY for the oldest and frailest in just Florida?

IMHO, we're entering a phase where tests and vaccinations are being used to pander for votes - from BOTH SIDES!

The CARES act already says COVID testing is supposed to be free - although, as my case illustrates, that law has either loopholes, or people exploiting the idea for huge sums of cash! (I have filed a complaint, for my case, with both my Insurance co, AND the Fla Insurance Commissioner - hopefully, if this was a scam, they'll get caught and lose their asses!)

Still, a race to see who can "provide the most" as a way to pander for votes is sickening... and morally repugnant!

A pox upon both their houses!

To be clear: Grant wasn't so much warning about another Civil War as professing the need for public, non-sectarian, non-religious schools...

To further quote:

"Encourage free schools, and resolve that not one dollar of money appropriated to their support, no matter how raised, shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school. Resolve that the State or Nation, or both combined, shall furnish to every child growing up in the land, the means of acquiring a good common-school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistic tenets. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. With these safeguards, I believe the battles which created the Army of the Tennessee will not have been fought in vain."

Civil War hero & eventual President Ulysses S Grant said in an address in 1875 (at the Annual Reunion of the Army of the Tennessee in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sept. 29, 1875):

"If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence (e.g.: another Civil War), I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other." Citation Here

Ummm.... was the "Drunken President" also prescient?

Back in 2020, Fox was sued for slander by Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model whom Tucker Carlson had accused of extorting hush-money from Donald Trump.

The facts are that she had never contacted Trump, or his associates, about any payments - instead, receiving payment from David Pecker - owner of the National Enquirer - who paid for her "story" solely so he could quash it.

In defending Carlson, Fox's own lawyers stated:

• Carlson's comments were "loose, figurative or hyperbolic"
• Cited an earlier court finding where a nonjournalist's use of the word "extort," proved nondefamatory because it was mere "rhetorical hyperbole, a vigorous epithet." (Essentially: Tucker Carlson is not a journalist)
• Cited another earlier precedent where Don Imus won a case more than two decades ago because an appellate court ruled that "the complained of statements would not have been taken by reasonable listeners as factual pronouncements but simply as instances in which the defendant radio hosts had expressed their views over the air in the crude and hyperbolic manner that has, over the years, become their verbal stock in trade."

More damning: the PLAITIFF alleged in a brief that "a reasonable viewer of ordinary intelligence listening or watching the show ... would conclude that [she] is a criminal who extorted Trump for money" and that "the statements about [her] were fact." - But, the Fox lawyers responded to that claim - quoting here: "that the reasonable viewer would do no such thing."

For the record: the judge agreed & dismissed the lawsuit.

Tucker Carlson is a bloviating, exaggerating, hyperbolic caricature of a journalist... but he is, nevertheless, a primary source of "fact" for many of the Trumpites you see here and elsewhere...

I can therefore... legally... claim and infer that they are not "reasonable" people!

@najo124

I believe you are not creating a valid .torrent file in the first step in the process... you'll have to look at your client program to debug that step...

@perro2492 said in IF "we" get PURGED?:

Because all of us have our porn saved somewhere, if the page goes, everything can be found somehow someday right? Is there a backup plan?

What are you referring to?

If the site goes down, there is nothing preventing you from keeping all the porn you've downloaded.

If the site were to be "taken over" by the "porn-sharing-police", the only thing they'd get are IP addresses... which, for many of us, aren't our HOME addresses, but rather VPN or cloud-hosted IP addresses.

If I've missed the mark, what exactly are you concerned about?

To the point of the topic...

YES: Pfizer (and other Pharma companies) have pills that have a tiny chip in them... the value of this is to be able to see if the patient ACTUALLY TOOK the pill.

The transmitter doesn't stay for long - it is NOT absorbed by the body - so, like so much of what you put INTO the alimentary canal, it cycles through your stomach and intestines and makes its way OUT within 2-3 days. Also, its more of an RFID kind of tech - after all, there is no power supply!

This is not the same as some kind of super-tiny microchip in the vaccine (whose needle is smaller than a human hair follicle!) that can be used to spy on you!

(Those will be in the COVID-25 booster liquid-gels that the Nazi secret-police will force down your throats!)

@geobear40 said in “Pfizer CEO: New Pill Will Have a Microchip That Transmits Info Once You Swallow It!”:

@eobox91103 said in “Pfizer CEO: New Pill Will Have a Microchip That Transmits Info Once You Swallow It!”:

Let's see: The Food and Drug Administration is part of the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, which reports to the president of the US. Who was that in 2017? Must have been a nasty liberal socialist communist.

The FDA is an independent agency or so that is what the current nasty liberal socialist communist tell us. LOL

No, the FEDERAL RESERVE is an independent organization... the FDA, as was correctly noted above, is one of the 11-or-so agencies under the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)

But, don't take MY word for it, why not ask the HHS website?

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@mdx8472 This is the link I use, from which I get prompted for a username:password: https://www.gay-torrents.net/torrentslist.php

That link works for me - you need to reset your password

@lololulu19 said in US science teacher arrested for vaccinating 17-year-old student:

Also.... it is curious.. where did this teacher obtain the vaccine?

An obvious question - one of many... this is WRONG on so many levels!

Even if it is the real vaccine.. it is doubtful it was "active" because those vaccines must be stored at extremely low temperatures.

The storage has to remain far colder than just sub-zero... but it's not that cold when it is injected! (Injecting even that small amount of fluid - at -100°F would cause massive tissue damage!)

The specifics (from the CDC) are:

• The mRNA vaccines are stored long-term (and shipped) in freezing temps between -90°C and -60°C (-130°F
  and -76°F)
• Those vaccines are then de-frosted and "mixed" - after which, they can be stored in refrigerated temps
• Once mixed, vaccine can be left at room temperature
  (2°C to 25°C [35°F to 77°F]) for up to 6 hours. (This is what happens at Pharmacies and Dr. offices that distribute vaccines - which is how some people "cut in line" in the early days - showing up at the end of the day to get doses that had already been prepared, but not administered - and if not administered, would go to waste after 6-hours.

But again, this overlooks the BIG PICTURE: What was a school teacher doing with COVID-19 vaccine supplies?

And.. even if she did manage to steal a super sub zero refrigerator.. the current vaccines are useless against the current strains of Covid. They might as well take all the current vaccines and just flush them down the toilet.

Total hogwash - not being AS EFFECTIVE against Delta, and now Omicron is a far cry from being ineffective at all.

Not only are the current vaccines not protecting from the current strains.. it seems like they might actually be inducing illness where there was none!

Completely false - no study has shown that any one, much less all, of the authorized (1 of which is fully approved) vaccines pose any significant risk or danger... none!

This is not just my opinion.. it is the fact.. which can be seen by looking at the death rate which WAS 300 per day in the USA for a month.. but has now climbed back to an average of over 1400 per day. I was at my doctor's office last week, and she was saying pretty much the same thing, without me even bringing the topic of covid up.

Conflating death counts with vaccine effectiveness is like confusing weather with climate...

The death counts are rising because the new Omicron variant is far more virulent than its predecessors! That's a characteristic of the new variant, not the validity of the vaccine!

What you should look at instead is the rate of deaths among those who are infected! This RATE is far lower than it was in the early days of the pandemic. That is because the vaccines ARE doing (still doing) what they are designed to do (what ALL vaccines are designed to do): reduce the severity of infections.

So, rather than people dying, they're getting cold-like symptoms and getting better (yay vaccine!)... of course, the un-vaccinated are getting sick and going to the hospital... where many of them are dying, but even the unvaccinated aren't dying at the rates previously in this pandemic - because Omicron (which is now prevalent almost everywhere) is far more contagious, but also far less deadly....

@iaman said in Onlyfans should have gone under...:

onlyfans is not a porn site, you shouldn't sub if you don't care about that person

OnlyFans was created to be a forum for artists to create/sell access to their works (originally intended to be art and music) without the need for the "art establishment"...

As has been noted, it turned out that the "art" most people were interested in was pornographic.

At first, OF tried to "turn a blind eye", which failed - 75% of their content providers are peddling pornographic material.
Next, OF tried to "purge the porn", which failed - 75% of their content providers are peddling pornographic material!
NOW they are simply sitting back and squeezing the "goose that laid the golden egg" for as long as the ride lasts...

As for complaints about the contributors, that's like going to the Mall Management to complain that your Mrs. Fields Cookies were stale! If the content sucks, you're following (paying for) the wrong providers! OF is just the "mall management" (or, perhaps more accurately: the flea-market management!) - they are not responsible for the quality of, nor any real part of, the contents that are "for sale"!

For what its worth: I agree that most content on OF is of little to no real value... and when you factor in the time it takes to obtain the material, it's even of negative value!

I can't remember the last OF content I even bothered to D/L from here, much less pay for! But that's not OF's fault! Just like those ultra-cheap socks you bought at the flea market that fell apart the first time you tried to wear them aren't the flea market's problem!

We are losing so many of the greats!

RIP

@raphjd said in Facebook uses 1st Amendment in lawsuit:

@bi4smooth

Why are you calling Facebook's TOS a "public relations statement"?

There TOS says that fac checks are "accurate and well researched" which is why there is no right to appeal. At the same time, they claim that their fact checks are simply OPINION.

Obviously, as you are an agent of the CCP/DNC, you love Facebook since they are doing your bidding.

I have no skin in that game: I have no Facebook (or any other Meta) account.

"Terms of Service" statements are not legal arguments!

Let's drop this... you can't get past the blanket statement: Facebook = bad so there is no point. If they came out against child molesters, you'd find a negative spin, so there is no point in taking this farther...

@mdx8472 said in Anyone having trouble getting on gay-torrents.net?:

It seems that there's a 404 error problem with gay-torrents.net and if you try any of the workarounds, you are prompted that your username/password is incorrect.

Does anyone have any word from mods or admins from there about it?

If you go to gay-torrents.net "wrongly" (that is: without the https or just to the main site) you will sometimes get errors - and that's on purpose! The site owners don't WANT to be so easily found (or discovered)...

Use the full URL to the torrent part of the site: https://www.gay-torrents.net/latest/ and use your login information... you should get in without a problem...

But don't forget: these torrent sites are really part of the "dark web" you see on the news! We're sharing - mostly in violation of copyright - files that we have no real right to share! As such, the site owners have to balance:

• attracting new members (which means new content)
• NOT attracting accidental, copyright-holder, or law-enforcement members (who want to stop the sharing)

In other words: make the site easy to get to if you know where you're going, not so easy if you're just looking around!

@mrker1234 said in Is anyone on PrEP? Any side effects?:

@bi4smooth The CDC report, which tries to be the most stringent source, also states "Some health departments in the United States and some health organizations in Europe and Canada are offering guidance for “on-demand” PrEP as an alternative to daily PrEP for gay and bisexual men at risk for HIV."

Sometimes it is simple math. I'm older and have sex very occasionally. I wouldn't go on PrEP if it meant taking 365 pills a year instead of the 40 I use for the 10 weekends I may have sex. That amount of chemicals being ingested unnecessarily seems to be even riskier than depending on just condoms.

Obviously everyone's mileage may vary. I'm looking at almost a 90% reduction of chemicals in my body. Someone having sex every week or several times a month, will have significantly less benefit to going "on demand".

Please don't take my comments wrongly: PrEP - no matter how you take it - is doing something to protect one's self, and I APPLAUD that! It's wonderful that we have options, and the science is continuing!

I agree that the CDC often takes an overly cautious tone - but it's the opinions of the FDA that matter here: they control the ability of physicians to prescribe the medications. (Two very separate federal agencies, with different goals, methods, and agendas!)

I choose to continue to take my PrEP daily - even though I've been in a monogamous relationship for a little over 2-years now. It's not that I don't trust my partner, it's that I'm unwilling to risk HIV - either with him or anyone else - period! I'm 58... and I presume I'll take daily PrEP until my dick falls off and my ass closes up! (Always the optimist!)