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@geobear40 said in Russia rejects European Court of Human Rights order to recognise same-sex unions:

@bi4smooth said in Russia rejects European Court of Human Rights order to recognise same-sex unions:

Sigh... why must every political argument in here circle back to US politics? That's just sad... as-if the US were the only country that mattered.... pathetic and sad....
For what it's worth,

I am a citizen of the US and am only concerned about international events that have a direct effect on the US or that we can learn from their mistakes. The American Experiment has worked for almost 250 years we are the model for others.

Considering that the US accounts for about 4% of the world's population, and that we continue to battle economic, social, and criminal injustice - institutionalized injustice - I would say you are demonstrating a level of HUBRIS common among poorly educated US citizens, and often derided by the rest of the world as "Ugly Americans" (not in appearance, but in attitude).

You're welcome to have interests solely in US politics and news, but shouldn't you then leave discussions about World Politics alone, rather than steer them to US issues?

I mean, you're free to post in any topic you want - I'm not the content police! (LOL) - but it would seem to me to be more respectful of others for you to NOT steer their conversations to your own myopic, US-centered view...

When you're not under the jurisdiction of those courts, I would call them independent countries!
The US has, for decades, ignored World Court and other countries' court's orders... citing our sovereignty! Why is it we're so upset when other countries do the same thing?

The United States is not a State Party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute), which founded the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002 as a permanent international criminal court to "bring to justice the perpetrators of the worst crimes known to humankind – war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide", when national courts are unable or unwilling to do so.

There are plenty of examples of the US declining to participate in treaties the rest of the world - in some cases, UNANIMOUSLY - approves of (for example, we won't sign on to the treaties that ban the use of land mines...aka: Ottowa Treaty - although we are not alone in that one...)

But, I should point out, you appear in this statement to be in support of my argument that the Russians are not under the jurisdiction of the EU courts! LOL

Not that I agree with the Russian failure to recognize (or legalize) same-sex unions, but they do have a point they are not members of the EU, and are not subject to their courts!

The Russian Federation ratified the European Court of Human Rights May of 1998.

https://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list?module=signatures-by-treaty&treatynum=005

Silly @geobear40 - ratifying the treaty did not put them under the jurisdiction of the EU courts! Indeed, I'm not aware of a single non-EU country that has agreed to "submit to the authority" of any EU court!

@geobear40 said in Utah Billionaire Leaves LDS Church, Donates to LGBTQ Group:

Being a former Mormon myself anyone leaving the church is a good thing.

But why now? I am wondering did he come out to himself? or maybe his business interests forced him to choose between his religion or the Woke mob.

I'm confused.... when you refer to the "Woke mob", are you referring to:

• The liberals who support LGBTQ+ rights, or
• The conservatives who want to suppress, even amplify, discrimination (and recrimination) of LGBTQ+ people?

@geobear40 said in The truth about liberal media:

@raphjd
Why does it matter that one in 4 women are homeless?

Is it not also their own decisions that brought them to this situation?
They didn't pay attention in school or didn't graduate at all. They had sex before marriage and or didn't use birth control. Maybe they got hooked on drugs or just have untreated mental issues. Either way it is not my responsibility to care for them.

We need a generational purge. Where we stop making it easy on people who have made poor personnel decisions and discouraging people from making them.

I'm going to refrain from poking fun at you (other than pointing it out) that you're using the wrong word:

• a personnel decision has to do with hiring/firing people (as-if these homeless women were employers!)
• a personal decision (what you meant to say) has to do with a decision about one's self

I'm actually surprised that the percentage of homeless women is so low - think about it: women make up about 51% of the population (no, it's not 50/50!)... so that makes men 3x more likely than women to be homeless...

There is a line from Jesus Christ Superstar:

• "There will be poor always, pathetically struggling, look at the good things you've got!" (from the song "Everything's Alright")

@geobear40 said in France’s Macron Stuns As He Declares Un-Vaxxed ‘Not Citizens’.:

@bi4smooth
The vaccine that the FDA approved is "Legally Distinct" from the one administered in the USA. It is called COMIRNATY and is not used in the USA.

https://heavy.com/news/comirnaty-vs-pfizer-vaccine-legally-distinct/

If it was the same vaccine then the FDA would approve it.

Why were boosters not given to the full FDA advisory panel? Did the FDA which receives 45% of it operating budget from the Pharma industry have a vested interest in pushing vaccines?

No, it is NOT distinct... under the EUA, Pfizer cannot legally market the vaccine, so it cannot have a "name" - once it was approved, Pfizer - as they do with all of their products - gave it a name when it was approved!

READ THE FDA APPROVAL NOTICE

You don't need a PhD to understand it, nor a legal degree! It's in pretty plain English!

As for boosters, they are the exact same vaccines as the other doses... the only vaccine doses that are different are the ones for children, which are at a lower dose.

Once approved by the FDA, there is no "separate" approval for administering the vaccine in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th dose! (FWIW: many people with compromised immune systems have received WAY MORE than 3 doses!)

@serenity said in Russia rejects European Court of Human Rights order to recognise same-sex unions:

@geobear40 I am not excusing Biden, I have not heard of it. And Biden is not socialist. But we were talking here about European affaires, not American.

Sigh... why must every political argument in here circle back to US politics? That's just sad... as-if the US were the only country that mattered.... pathetic and sad....

For what it's worth, @geobear40

What do you call a leaders and governments that doesn't adhere to court orders?

When you're not under the jurisdiction of those courts, I would call them independent countries!

The US has, for decades, ignored World Court and other countries' court's orders... citing our sovereignty! Why is it we're so upset when other countries do the same thing?

Not that I agree with the Russian failure to recognize (or legalize) same-sex unions, but they do have a point they are not members of the EU, and are not subject to their courts!

BTW: I wholeheartedly agree with @eobox91103's description of Russian history... though I would suggest that the failure to "westernize" in the 1990's was more due to the population's willingness (almost DESIRE) to accept authoritarian rule again (vs. democratic government)... it's all they've ever known!

@geobear40 said in France’s Macron Stuns As He Declares Un-Vaxxed ‘Not Citizens’.:

@serenity
It was clear how he was using the word "Citizen" in his statement.

The vaccines are for use under a emergency use authorization and have not yet been approved by the FDA. You should look it up before you write here. They are not doing what they intended to do which was provide 90%-95% protection from the virus. So they are "Experimental" as to what they actually do.

FDA approval of the Pfizer vaccine is completed. I have posted the link to the FDA website itself in the past. That you continue to claim that this is not true is either stupidity on your part, or a deliberate attempt to deceive. Either way you are EASILY proven wrong in that assertion... time to move on to something equally ludicrous but less easily refuted, if you ask me! LOL

It's kind-of-hard to find information on the full-approval status on the Moderna or J&J vaccines, because results are overwhelmed by results on their EUA and Pfizer's full approval status... but I did find a site that seems to be tracking it: GoodRX

In summary:

• Pfizer is fully approved for ages 18+
• Pfizer's approval for people ages 12-18 and 5-12 is still in-process, but they remain available under the EUA (authorization vs. approval)
• Moderna applied for full approval for ages 12+, but there are some questions about the myocarditis some have experienced with the Moderna, so approval (aka: full approval vs authorization under the EUA) has been delayed
• Moderna's authorization for ages 12+ remains under the EUA
• Johnson & Johnson has not yet applied for full approval, but remains available under the EUA.

To be clear here, he's not using Executive Authority to remove their citizenship... he's just saying so to "piss them off"... something he makes clear, and something he's getting quite a bit of push-back about.

Probably not a great strategy, but he's getting his name in the headlines... I can think of another politician who used to say truly stunningly stupid things to make sure he was in the headlines... what was is name again?

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

@bi4smooth

Facebook (all big tech) publicly claim that their "fact checks" are factual.

In this lawsuit, as always, they are singing a completely different tune.

Now their "fact checks" are simply OPINION.

Strangely enough, they still maintain that their "fact checks" are completely factual on their site. They don't allow appeals to "fact check" claims based on them being "accurate and well researched".

The Meta claim is that they are protected by their First Amendment rights - not from you, who wants your crap posted - but, from Government intrusion into their private enterprise... that which you call Facebook.

It remains to be seen if those claims will hold water... but, either way, they aren't claiming the factual or non-factual basis as a defense, rather that the Government cannot interfere regardless because their "editing" of their site is protected by their 1st Amendment rights.

As for their PR defense for removing posts conflicting with their LEGAL defense for the same.... well that is unique...

NOT!

@geobear40 said in Facebook uses 1st Amendment in lawsuit:

@bi4smooth
The President is currently acting under the Emergency Power he thinks he has due to COVID.

Those examples are possible under Liberal or Conservative Presidents or Governors.

Talking to you about this is like talking about calculus with a 5-year-old...

The President using Executive Powers is not Facebook, and Facebook is not an arm of the US Government.

The fact that you cannot understand the difference is equivalent to explaining what in integral is to someone who can't understand multiplication yet...

So, let's just let this go... you can believe that Facebook is a pawn of Biden, the Dems, the N Koreans, the S Koreans, the Israelis, the Palestinians, the Russians, and the Chinese for all it matters...

The FACT is that attorneys (who do understand these things - for most of them, better than you and I put together, even if that isn't saying much) are now arguing about this is a Court... with a real Judge... Perhaps (just thinking aloud here...), just maybe... we should let them decide the case before we jump too far into the rabbit-hole?

@dandylion

From the horse's mouth....

No offense, @DandyLion LOL

@eobox91103 said in Is there a "Removed Torrent List"?:

@archiver55 To answer your topic question--no, there isn't a list of removed torrents that's available to users, according to what a moderator told me a few years ago.

As @john32123666 says, torrents can disappear if the copyright owner asks it to be taken down. Material from EnglishLads and OnlyFans is often removed. If the torrent is taken down but you're still connected to seeders and/or leechers, those connections will stay active and you can download/upload material from those other people. It will not, though, be counted by the tracker and figured into your ratio.

I can imagine its frustrating to have a torrent disappear when you're using it to boost your ratio. I suggest no using EnglishLads or OnlyFans for this purpose. The torrent you mentioned (Guys of London) sounds like it might have been a thinly masked bit from EnglishLads or its affiliated studios...and those folks watch this stuff carefully.

What you've said is true - except for one minor (possibly?) point. According to a moderator I spoke with back in the 20-teens:

• Once a torrent is removed, the reports to the tracker are ignored. All transferred data AFTER the torrent is deleted is "free" (freely given by the seeder, freely taken by the leecher)
• All data transferred and reported BEFORE the torrent's deletion WILL continue to count for/against your ratio.

That's not the same for "duplicate" torrents. As it was explained to me, duplicate torrents aren't DELETED, so much as HIDDEN. That way, people who start to download a torrent that's marked as a duplicate can still finish what they started, and they're also "charged/credited" for that data as well (the torrent being reported on actually exists, it's just not listed on the site any longer).

Thus, if you download a torrent and it disappears on the site, but the tracker still shows your connection, you stumbled into a duplicate. But if the tracker says the torrent is "unregistered" - that means it's deleted... gone... vanished... torrent? what torrent? LOL

I don't think I'm disagreeing with anyone else on this - just fine-tuning the details a bit

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@geobear40 said in Watch how fast the southern border closes:

@bi4smooth

That is why passing BBB bill is so important to Democrats it contains faster pathways for illegals to gain citizenship.

You need to look at what is happening in the US from a ten thousand foot level and you can see how things fit together.

Ok, so I disagree on 2 counts:

• The Dems want to push thru BBB faster because they assume that spending $Billions on infrastructure jobs will convince the working class that they're not so bad after all (it won't work!)
• Yes, the Dems want to have an easier path to citizenship, but that's more about illegals (esp dreamers) gaining a path to citizenship - and CERTAINLY not a path to citizenship that is only weeks or months to completion! That's just absurd hyperbole and racist scare tactics, IMHO! Maybe not yours to start with, but you're repeating it!

Look, the Dems are scary enough when you look at REALITY (without the hyperbole and race-baiting)... using lies and hyperbole to make them look even worse actually undermines the FACTUAL (true) part of Republican messaging!

We CAN blow this opportunity to re-take both houses of Congress! It is NOT baked-in that we win in November! If we come off to the average voter as bloviating and incapable of speaking REAL truth, we can lose them... and the "fired up base" that actually buys into the bullshit isn't enough to win!!

Why do we require citizens to be vaccinated but allow hundreds of thousands of untested unvaccinated illegals into the country?

As for this ridiculous comment, consider a similar question:

• If we don't allow criminals to have guns, why are so many felons killing people?

Gee, Einstein, maybe illegal immigrants aren't following the law? You think? (HINT: the solution is in the name: illegal immigrants - we're not LETTING them into the country, they're coming in illegally!

Comprende hombre?

@geobear40 said in Watch how fast the southern border closes:

According to a WSJ poll of Hispanic voters in mid November 2021. It found that the support for Democrats (44%) and the GOP (43%) are currently even, It is down from Biden's support of 63% of the Hispanic vote in 2020.

If the support among Hispanics favors the GOP then Biden will close the southern border and stop the import of new voters.

While I agree that Hispanic support of Biden is (and should be) waning - and for good reason, your follow-on statement makes no sense.

Immigrants - whether legal or illegal - do not vote in US elections (barring some wacko-liberal places like NYC where "everyone gets to vote - even illegals!"). It takes YEARS for immigrants - LEGAL IMMIGRANTS - to gain citizenship, and with it, the right to vote!

Closing the Southern Border might affect the number of Latino voters in 2030, but it won't change the numbers for 2022 by a single vote!

Of course, if you think our Republican-led State of Texas is wholly incompetent at running free and fair elections - then you're a moron! Gov. Abbott and the Texas Secretary of State do an EXCELLENT job of ensuring free & fair elections in Texas - even if the district lines are gerrymandered! (Them that wins the elections, draws the lines!)

@geobear40 said in Fauci: Removing masks on airplanes 'not something we should even be considering':

He should be fired and charged for lying to Congress.

You're entitled to your opinion there, but there's not much call for that from others... you're in a considerable (albeit loud) minority there...

He should be assigned a special prosecutor to look into all the Graft and corruption within the NIH. He should lose his pension and all his vaccine patents.

I thought we covered this earlier: Dr. Fauci does not run the NIH, just 1 department within the NIH. But what's your basis for GRAFT and corruption within NIH?

According to Federal Law, if he were found to have acted unprofessionally and convicted of a felony for doing so, he would lose his pension.... but it he were to have personally patented any vaccines (he has not - since at least 1984, he has worked as a Director in the NIH. As such, any work product - including vaccine patents - which might include his name, are owned by his employer: the US Government), I'm not aware of any basis in Law where you could just generally rescind his patents. But, again, there are no vaccine patents that Dr. Fauci owns.

FWIW: My name is on a few patents - having to do with modem technology dating from the 1990s - but my employers (from that time) actually OWN the patents, not me!

It is my right to way the risk to myself and those around me. They should go back to making recommendations instead of demands. It is not my responsibility to protect others. It is their responsibility to stay away from situation if they are concerned for their health.

That is, pardon the expression, and ASSHOLEISH opinion.... akin to, if you don't want to be shot, don't stand in front of my gun! Or, if you don't want to be run over, get out from in front of my car!

You can't infringe on my Freedoms to cover for the irresponsibility of others.

You are an idiot! You hyper-inflate the intrusion of wearing a mask as-if it were some life-altering requirement!

Do you wear pants (or a dress) and shoes when you go into a restaurant? Do restaurant workers HAVE to wear hair "restraints" (aka: hair nets or caps) while they prepare food? Are food handlers required (by law) to wash their hands after using the bathroom?

Do you really HAVE to stop at those red, octagonal signs on the side of the road? Is it really a problem if you cross over those double-yellow lines to pass that slow-ass tourist in front of you? What's so bad about going 80 in a school zone if you're running late for work?

Wearing clothes not only protects you from minor scrapes and cuts, and potentially from the cold - it also protects the rest of us from flying excrement from your filthy body (don't worry, we're all filthy! Look under a microscope sometime!) - much less the visual distress of seeing your aged and crumbling excuse for a body (don't worry, most of us have a body "built for radio"!)....

Obeying traffic laws doesn't just protect you, it also protects all of those around you...

We all share a responsibility to do SOME THINGS for the safety and protection of both ourselves, and those around us! It's not just masks, it's EVERYWHERE!

But that's why it's REQUIRED that you stop at the stop-signs, but only recommended that you wear sunscreen at the beach!

@geobear40 said in Whiplash - CNN & CDC clash on "validity" of cloth masks:

SARS-COV-2 is not new is has been around in one from or another for a very long time. It's the study of which caused the current pandemic.

Sorry, but you are mistaken (you are so often wrong, we should give you a sash and tiara: Miss Taken!):

• COVID-19 is new in the human population, ca. 2019 - thus, it's name.
• COVID-19 is a coronavirus, which may (being generous) be what you're referring to - which, like Influenze, and the "common" cold virus are also... so, yes coronaviruses have been around a very long time.
• COVID-19 has many unique characteristics: different from other coronaviruses - like it's rate of infection from even minor exposure (greatly exacerbated by this new Omicron strain), or its LACK of an ability to transfer/survive on surfaces, and thus its reliance on respiratory aeration as a vector of transmission... but also on its DEADLY effects on the human respiratory system - far more lethal than other coronaviruses.

Your statement that COVID-19 may have been released into the population as a result of studying coronaviruses - even this particular virus (or, at least the one that was going 'round the world in early 2020!) - is nothing but a theory. One that has been neither proven nor disproven. As such, it is a possible theory... but honestly, at this point, is that the point? Does it matter? 800,000+ lives in the US alone, and you mostly want to point fingers? Really? To what purpose or end? How will blame - properly OR improperly applied - save additional lives?

There are hundreds of studies around the world that provide us a wealth of knowledge. The currents edicts have no data to back them up.

Actually, by now, I'm pretty sure there have been THOUSANDS of studies done on COVID-19... some have turned up new "findings" (like its aerosol respriation vector of transmission), others have just disproved oddball theories (like hydroxychloroquine as a miracle treatment for the disease)... But, if you think we "know enough" after less than 2-years study - even if every Scientist on the planet had studied nothing else - you're hubris and naivete are on bold display.... there is MUCH we do not know yet, and with new variants coming like they have been, there are more new questions than new answers!

Where are the studies and data that Fauci and his cohorts are basing there claims on?

I'm not shocked that the CDC's data isn't being detailed in the media, but the studies and papers are being published - and peer reviewed!

But I think you, and your ilk, give (or attribute to) Dr. Fauci far more power than he actually has, and as a result you parse his every word and every opinion as-if it were one of these study results! In many of these interviews where you demand to see the data, he's being asked for his opinion, not for the data that backs that opinion!

Show the data don't just say it exists and that it supports their claims.

Again, you seem to think that when Dr. Fauci says something like "in my mind" that he's quoting from a study vs. stating an opinion... likewise, you conflate his opinions with official CDC, FDA, or even NIH policy!

And mostly you do this to "shoot the messenger"...

@geobear40 said in Open relationship?:

@bi4smooth
I have every right to comment on other peoples actions. It's called free speech

You are truly clueless.... on so many levels.

Free speech rights have to do with criticizing the Government, not about anything anywhere about anyone! Thus, there are laws on Copyright, Trademark, Patent, & Plagiarism (taking another's work and representing them as your own). There are also laws against saying things to incite others to violence (inciting a riot, for example).

You know, just because you (presumably) have one, doesn't mean you have to be a dick to everyone else!

@geobear40 said in Fauci: Removing masks on airplanes 'not something we should even be considering':

@bi4smooth
His thoughts become policy and mandates.

Have you read his email from early 2020?

Do you not see the lies he has told the American people?

He works for us and "We The People" have every right to challenge him and the FDA, CDC, NIH and WHO. It is a scary world we live in now that "We The People" have given up so many rights and Freedoms to these Authoritarian agencies.

You act like they're telling you what cereal to eat in the morning, how many times to wipe your ass when you get off the toilet, and how many cups of coffee you can drink in a day!

Wearing a mask is no more uncomfortable than wearing a bra (according to 2 of my daughters) or Army-issue boots (according to my Soldier son).... and since the goal of wearing a mask is to protect OTHERS, I don't see the harm in mandating their use in public places.

You can disagree, but to me this is more of a "seatbelt rule" than an affront to the 2nd Amendment!

I'd personally like to "forget Fauci" - IMHO, he's become a distraction. By being the "mouthpiece" for the President on health matters, and with his past - esp from the Trump Administration - he's become a lightning rod. Again, IMHO, the country would be better served if another scientist/researcher was the official advisor to the President (which entails being the mouthpiece)...

@geobear40 said in Whiplash - CNN & CDC clash on "validity" of cloth masks:

@bi4smooth
Read the book it may reinforce your views it may change them.

Government doesn't happen in vacuum. They coordinate their messaging.

I'm not suggesting that Dr Fauci is working in a vacuum, but I am saying that, as the Advisor to the President, he's often stating opinions that are his, and not necessarily those of the CDC or FDA (as I recall, Fauci was in favor of granting EUA for under 18 vaccinations long before the FDA actually granted such use... as a member of the NIH, he had no control or REAL influence on when the FDA finally granted that EUA extension!)

If you listen to Fauci's extended interviews, he's often candid about the early missteps he, Dr. Birx, the CDC, and the NIH took as COVID-19 first came on the scene. He does NOT claim to have always been right, but he does claim that he always spoke truthfully about what was known - at the time.

As a scientist myself (not in medical science), I can attest that "accepted facts" change as we learn more about things. (Remember: it was once "accepted fact" that the Sun & Planets revolved around the Earth!)... COVID-19 was (and still is, relatively speaking) NEW... which means there is a LOT of data yet to be analyzed... it would be downright stupid for us to think we've "figured this thing our" already! We know SOME about this disease, and certainly a LOT more than we knew in December, 2019! But there is a LOT we do NOT know yet... but we continue to test our assumptions, confirm (or disprove) our "accepted facts" (like the early "accepted fact" that COVID-19 was spread easily by shared contact on surfaces! That has been shown to be false: COVID-19 is now believed to be almost exclusively spread by aerosol respiration! BUT! If more facts - more data - comes to light that also disproves THAT, we'll need to rethink yet again! But, in the meantime, that's what we think of as fact, so that is what we base our plans, suggestions, and rules upon...)