@nagatha95 said in Whitelists?:

Hello all! Forgive me if this has been already discussed but I cant find the post anywhere. I was having trouble seeding my uploads when I was using Transmission on MacOS, and then after using both Deluge and Folx I was seeding without any issue, even though I was following the same process to seed....

My question is, is there a whitelist for acceptable torrent clients? Or will anything go, and its just whatever youre comfortable with?

Thanks everyone! Stay horny!

It's unlikely the fact that you're using that client vs. another - at least on the tracker end. It is more likely that the other clients are using other ports or have other settings that are allowing them to work.

Apple is, in general, very unfavorable to file sharing in general (unless you're using iCloud to do it). They ban torrent clients and the like from their "App Stores" (iTunes, etc) and have for decades now.

It's not impossible that it's the client vs the tracker - I haven't looked in detail at it - but I would say its unlikely...

Think of it this way: you're microwaving an aluminum ball (doh! YouTube video?), and after about 10 seconds of sparks flying there's the sound of thunder and at almost the same instant your microwave oven literally explodes.
Was it caused by the aluminum ball and the sparks? Or, was it caused by the lightening a few miles away?
From a purely scientific point of view, it could have been either... but, it's more likely that it was the aluminum ball that caused your microwave to explode...
Either way, post the video!

@manhandler said in 99.7% Survive, so why a vaccine when TB kills x1000:

@bi4smooth Solved? You're ridiculous. 1.2 MILLION died in 2019 from TB. And you say it's "solved." Again, more nonsense from someone who has no idea what they're talking about. 1.2 MILLION is just a statistic huh? God you're dumb.

OK - solved may have been overreach... when detected, most TB cases are successfully treated... but it IS and REMAINS a highly infectious - bacterial-caused - disease!

But if you REALLY want to get down to brass tacks here: one of the best ways to protect against TB? (LOL - you're going to soil yourself here!)

Wearing masks!

So - follow my (and the CDC's) advise and wear a mask in public to protect against COVID-19... or,
follow the advise of @raphjd & @ManHandler and wear a mask in public to protect against Tuberculosis!

Either way, the public wins:

WEAR A F-ING MASK!

@manhandler said in Carl Sagan's advise on Critical Thinking:

@bi4smooth Arguments from authority carry little weight... hmm. Yet you spew "authority" lines all day long. Fauci is your GOD. He IS Science to you. You need to read what you posted again.

Not at all... Fauci (to use your example) is no authority! He is an EXPERT!

To repeat what I posted to your absurdity on another thread:

Funny about the difference between you and actual scientists:

• Actual scientists go out of their way to prove they are wrong - about everything! It's the scientific method!
• You go out of your way to prove you're right - about every insignificant detail - even when you've clearly made a mistake, you insist you are right - mostly in a childlike manner: repeating yourself, saying it louder or multiple times, and lastly calling the other person names...

That is germane to the topic because you like to point out Fauci's having been wrong in the past as evidence of his incompetence. I point to Fauci's having been wrong in the past as evidence that he's working with DATA and not POLITICS!

• Data changes as more and more is gathered. More data means better conclusions.
• Politics nearly never changes... Just look at you and Trump!

@manhandler said in Voter Suppression - a new twist:

@bi4smooth Nah. You're just stupid. I don't think that nurses are in on a conspiracy. I think you're dumb. The numbers are in, and it IS 95% in the highest vaccinated places, Israel, Norway, Iceland, Maine, Singapore, Australia.... the hospitals are filled with people who have been VACCINATED. You're stupid. There really isn't much to say because it doesn't matter. The ones in the hospital are not as Fauci claims without evidence, the unvaxxed. You just don't know what you're talking about.

Plus, that number (95%) is even in question, because Covid is just the Flu. The PCR test has been UN-authorized. That's the test they use to determine if you have Covid. That means the test itself is no longer authorized, and your numbers are based on a false test. Meaning, all your numbers are bullshit. So you can pick and choose which federal agency you want. The CDC versus the FDA. It doesn't matter. We all know that you're full of shit. Just let it go. The creator of the PCR said it's not a diagnostic and it can't determine if you're infected. It can determine if a steel wall has a little Vitamin C. That doesn't mean anything. God damn you're dumb. Just shut the hell up already.

I'm not the illiterate one...

• 95% of the people in hospital with COVID or COVID-like symptoms are UN (non) (did not take the shot) vaccinated.
• There are DOZENS of kinds of tests for COVID-19. (Look out on Tic-Tok for a way kids are fooling one of the quick-tests by dipping the specimen stick into a coke! - Mind you it doesn't mean coke products have COVID-19, all it does is "break the test" - and rinsing the stick restores the test results, if there were any)

Funny about the difference between you and actual scientists:

• Actual scientists go out of their way to prove they are wrong - about everything! It's the scientific method!
• You go out of your way to prove you're right - about every insignificant detail - even when you've clearly made a mistake, you insist you are right - mostly in a childlike manner: repeating yourself, saying it louder or multiple times, and lastly calling the other person names...

@raphjd said in CNN Participates in $200k Go Fund Me Scam Failing to Vet Childless “Single Mother”:

@bi4smooth

The same truth that allows you to use mental gymnastics to defend liberal policies at every turn while keeping your extreme TDS.

Where was your indignation about all the blatantly fake "news" stories by your beloved liberal media? I don't remember you speaking out against CNN and Chris Cuomo faking him being on his death bed with C-19, only to be caught out fighting with a cyclist because Chris had to jog in the bicycle lane, because he's special.

I don't remember you saying anything when CNN was caught faking the protest in London, thanks to the local businesses filming them faking it.

You don't like conservative "spin" but you are silent on liberal lies.

You are a moron:

• I said months ago that Gov "Kiss me" Cuomo in NY was in trouble, and while I could not care less about how CNN covered it, they did - and in the days BEFORE his resignation, they highlighted other DEMS asking him to resign and lambasted his stipid and ill-advised responses and counter-claims.
• I said months ago that Biden's wild-ass spending would spur inflation like we haven't seen since the 1970s - and its starting, and CNN (again, only because they're your own personal whipping-boy) seems to be agreeing: see for yourself

Mind you, I didn't say that Cuomo was the worst Governor since George Wallace - just that he was an abuser and that his personal behavior was going to cost him his position. I also didn't make shit up, like claiming he repeatedly RAPED these women, or that he ENSLAVED them for his sexual games... no, just the facts: women made claims that he kissed them and groped them without clear consent, and that he TRIED to gain their consent to go further and failed.... but given the power imbalance, even his unwelcome touching and kissing was too much - and in the me-too world, it was enough to get him out. (Mind you: he was just following in the footsteps of his heroes: JFK was a serial molester, and we all know about BFClinton & his attraction to interns!)

While we're at it, ALL of the MSM is after Biden for this Afghanistan thing - most are likening it to the Vietnam pullout!

Doesn't that run counter to your claim that they basically suck his dick because he's a liberal?

@raphjd said in Too late for this guy... will you be next?:

@serenity

Politi-"facts" can't be trusted, as I've shown more than a few times.

Their so-called facts are political.

They didn't trust the vaccine because of Trump. It's still a distrust of the vaccine.

Fauci has been proven to be a liar about many things. How many people did Fauci kill in the AZT scandal?

Also, read that article.

Biden said that people don't believe that he (Trump) is telling the truth about the vaccine. So if people can believe Trump is a lair, we can believe that Biden is also a liar. As we all know, unless you're a liberal, Biden has lied about countless things just in the last 2 years. So, once again, Biden has cast doubt on the vaccine because he is a proven liar.

Let's not forget that last year Biden slagged off Trump for not ending the pandemic and that he (Biden) knew how to end it and here we are 7 months in. That was when we were 8 months into the pandemic. Biden has 1 month to go to match when he slagged off Trump claiming that he was going to end the pandemic.

Also, when you read the Aug 2020 Binden interview, don't forget what he said. That people were not going to trust it unless it's gone through all the testing. To date, none of the vaccines are approved for general use. Instead, they are only approved for "experimental use". They have not gone through the testing for full approval.

I know you will ignore all this because of your liberalism. It's just like you voted for Honest Joe and Camel Toe the Ho because you don't care how dirty they are, just that they aren't Trump.

Let's not forget, my sister, niece, and brother-in-law aren't black according to your Chinese worshipping Biden.

People in 500 BC thought that applying leeches cured consumption (aka Tuberculosis)... it took CENTURIES to debunk that myth. It wasn't the "politicians" (or the "aristocracy" of the time) that told them this, it was their DOCTORS (who were also their barbers, so ... you get what you pay for?)

Science today is moving much more quickly. What people thought about COVID-19 (whether Trump or Pelosi - doesn't matter) in January of 2020 or even January of 2021 is immaterial to the known facts TODAY.

Your claim that Liberals "flipped" on the vaccine when Biden took office may or may not be true - but either way, it came on the heels of new, added knowledge about the virus (and the vaccines). The "flip" didn't happen in a vacuum.

You also leave out that Conservatives also flipped on the vaccine when Biden took office: what was originally "The Trump Vaccine" suddenly became suspect because Biden might get credit for shipping it! (100% of the development of the Pfizer, Moderna, & J&J vaccines were funded by and completed DURING the Trump administration... The only thing Biden has done is to distribute it (and encourage people to take it!).

People who believe Politicians (and talking heads) when it comes to healthcare get what they pay for... and when there has been AS MUCH effort made to show that the COVID-19 vaccines are both safe and effective as we have seen, the people who insist otherwise get what they deserve. (Harsh, but true. Mother nature is a cruel mistress... and she is completely unforgiving of idiocy!)

I understood the people in December (2020) and January (2021) who didn't want to "be the first - to be an experiment"... but that ship has sailed. World-wide, 500 million PLUS have had the vaccine... your opportunity to be "one of the first" has long-since passed. In the US alone, 350+ million doses have been given, and nearly 170 million are now fully vaccinated.

It's no longer about "trusting the science" - now it's become purely policical - and as-if the 2020 US Census numbers weren't troubling enough for Republicans, the fact that a HUGE majority of those CURRENTLY dying from COVID-19 are Republicans who deny the need to protect ourselves or our society from COVID-19 is a significant RISK to the future of the Party. My Party.

@raphjd said in CNN Participates in $200k Go Fund Me Scam Failing to Vet Childless “Single Mother”:

@bi4smooth

The only thing of mine is the sentence below the link. The title is from the video.

As always, you defend liberals while trying to pretend you aren't a liberal.

I defend truth - whether it is in support of Liberal or Conservative causes... TRUTH is apolitical.

I also DETEST spin! Which is why I hold CNN, FOX, and most other cable-news outlets in such LOW regard. They LIVE on spin. They also LIVE on hyperbole - like the Tabloids of old...

The HEADLINE is "Trump admits to sexual battery" - and only deep in the story, and after doing additional digging do you realize it's just Trump bragging to a reporter about the liberties some women afford to celebrities...

Alternatively, the HEADLINE is "Pelosi hates Capitol Cops" - and only when you look deep into the story do you realize it's just that she voted against one bill in favor of another - in support of the Capitol-Hill PD.

They do it because it drives ratings. Sadly, too many of their "viewers" have the attention span of a gnat (or less), and don't look beyond the headlines.

The fact that you re-post false and misleading data (stories) and I call you on it doesn't make me a liberal or a conservative... it makes me critical of your ability to provide any information in this realm without applying hyperbole, falsehoods, misleading claims, and outright deception.

As I've said multiple times: I agree (more often than you think) with the underlying claim you make (like that policing in western culture is out-of-hand) - but I do not agree that making up facts, or grossly exaggerating stories in any way helps spread that message... indeed, I think those "tactics" actually detract from the "believability" of your message, weakening your overall argument.

When you scream "FIRE!" every time someone lights a match, your alarms when there is an actual, significant fire will fall on deaf ears.
The fact that those lit matches really were fire notwithstanding.

@manhandler said in 99.7% Survive, so why a vaccine when TB kills x1000:

@bi4smooth You're starting off with a total falsity: TB is the number one killer in the entire world. You really are just lost with fake news.

Fatalities from TB haven't been significant in developed countries in DECADES. TB is a "solved problem".

Your seemingly endless "river of shit-facts" however, is a problem modern science has no answer for...

From Carl Sagan's book:The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (ISBN-10: 0345409469 or ISBN-13: 978-0345409461)

There is a chapter called: The Fine Art of Baloney Detection

In this chapter, Sagan shares nine tools to apply when attempting to determine whether something is fact, fiction, or deception:

1 - Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the “facts.”
2 - Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.
3 - Arguments from authority carry little weight — “authorities” have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
4 - Spin more than one hypothesis. If there’s something to be explained, think of all the different ways in which it could be explained. Then think of tests by which you might systematically disprove each of the alternatives. What survives, the hypothesis that resists disproof in this Darwinian selection among “multiple working hypotheses,” has a much better chance of being the right answer than if you had simply run with the first idea that caught your fancy.
5 - Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it’s yours. It’s only a way station in the pursuit of knowledge. Ask yourself why you like the idea. Compare it fairly with the alternatives. See if you can find reasons for rejecting it. If you don’t, others will.
6 - Quantify. If whatever it is you’re explaining has some measure, some numerical quantity attached to it, you’ll be much better able to discriminate among competing hypotheses. What is vague and qualitative is open to many explanations. Of course there are truths to be sought in the many qualitative issues we are obliged to confront, but finding them is more challenging.
7 - If there’s a chain of argument, every link in the chain must work (including the premise) — not just most of them.
8 - Occam’s Razor. This convenient rule-of-thumb urges us when faced with two hypotheses that explain the data equally well to choose the simpler.
9 - Always ask whether the hypothesis can be, at least in principle, falsified. Propositions that are untestable, unfalsifiable are not worth much. Consider the grand idea that our Universe and everything in it is just an elementary particle — an electron, say — in a much bigger Cosmos. But if we can never acquire information from outside our Universe, is not the idea incapable of disproof? You must be able to check assertions out. Inveterate skeptics must be given the chance to follow your reasoning, to duplicate your experiments and see if they get the same result."

I'll leave it to the "Gentle Reader" to take from this nugget of wisdom what you will. I only offer it as a way to bolster your own "bullshit detector" on these forums.

@manhandler said in Voter Suppression - a new twist:

@bi4smooth You're dumb. 95% of Covid hospitalizations are vaccinated. 5% are not. Let's go back to kindergarten math, k?

Your source is badly misinformed.... and you need to apply even a modicum of critical thinking when you post crap like that. Your numbers don't pass the smell test - not even close!

What are some real numbers?

So, on Aug 2 (2021), the US CDC reported that there are a little over 60,000 people in the US who are actively (on that date) in Hospital, diagnosed with COVID-19. (in 49 states and 5 territories... 1 state (unlisted by the CDC) is refusing to provided data - Probably Florida: our Governor seems to think this is all a joke).

Of those, 50,000 (yes, Virgina, this is a SPIKE in new cases! That's 80% of the people in Hospital RIGHT NOW) are new patients (admitted THIS WEEK).

• Don't forget, every week: some go home: family or funeral, some go home...

About 16,000 of those US COVID-19 patients currently in Hospital are in an ICU unit, with another 1,000-2,000 in hospitals that WOULD put them into an ICU unit, but there are none available. (That is between 1 and 2 thousand "loved ones" who CANNOT get the care they need because there is no room)...

but all of that doesn't address your utterly ridiculous contention that 95% were vaccinated...

The CDC doesn't have (or at least doesn't provide a current tally of patients who are considered "breakthrough" - had the vaccine and still got sick enough to need hospitalization... but that's because those numbers are insignificantly low... what they DO have (and publicize) is a running tally - of ALL vaccinated people who have been hospitalized with COVID-19... and on Aug 2 (2021), that number was 7525. TOTAL - from when vaccines were introduced in January/February, 2021 to Aug 2, 2021.

Oh, and of those "breakthrough" cases, 5557 (74% if you like statistics) were age 65 or older!

This does 2 things:

• 1 shows your "numbers" to be wildly off-base... (If 95% of hospitalizations were from people who WERE vaccinated, don't you think SOMEONE - in a MEDICAL field, not some political hack/talking head - would be trying to convince the Government to shutdown the vaccination programs? If not in the US, then in any of the OTHER 192 countries in the UN? (Or is this a giant, world-wide conspiracy... probably being run by the lizard-people?)
• 2 These numbers show why the CDC and FDA are so strongly considering authorizing older, and immuno-compromised people to get a BOOSTER shot of the vaccine. (UPDATE: They authorized boosters for immuno-compromised people TODAY!)

This may come as a shock to you, but people who choose careers in medicine (whether as physicians, nurses, PAs, or other front-line people - or as researchers) rarely, if ever, make that choice because they want to harm people, or even control people. As someone with 3 members of the "medical community" in my family, I can attest that these people want (in general) to help other people - that is their calling. (Yes, there are some who took that career path for monetary reasons... you can't paint a family of professions with one broad stroke and not expect to miss some people! But the VAST majority of the people I know in medicine are in that profession - chose that profession - in order to help people... not make them sick, not to kill them, not for politics (there are, statistically, very few DOCTORS in politics!)

@unoqualsiasi said in Living together before marriage:

Io non ho mai sentito la necessità di sposarmi. Lei neanche.
Quando abbiamo deciso di andare a convivere abbiamo fatto una festa con un piccolo ricevimento e poi un viaggio, come fosse un viaggio di nozze.
Fu bello vedere entrambi le famiglie attivarsi per terminare i lavori nella nostra nuova casa entro la data prevista del trasloco. Organizzare la festa, le tappe del viaggio..
Fu un pò come organizzare il matrimonio, ma senza lo sbattimento della cerimonia e i rischi legislativi che comporta.
Da quel dì sono 14 anni che conviviamo senza problemi..

Or, in English, he said:

I have never felt the need to get married. Neither did she.
When we decided to go to live together we had a party with a small reception and then a trip, as if it were a honeymoon.
It was nice to see both families take action to finish the work on our new home by the scheduled move date. Organize the party, the stages of the journey ..
It was a bit like organizing the wedding, but without the hassle of the ceremony and the legislative risks it entails.
Since that day, we have been living together without problems for 14 years ..

In my own experience, marriage is a construct that was largely based on keeping mothers and fathers together for the betterment of their children. That certainly didn't mean all married couples HAD to have children - but it is instructive to know that in some religions, it IS expected - and that being barren (unable to have children) is a legitimate reason/cause for divorce/annulment in most of those same religions).

I was married once (and had kids)... we're divorced now, and I will not seek "marriage" again... though I would like to find another romantic partner...

@raphjd said in CNN Participates in $200k Go Fund Me Scam Failing to Vet Childless “Single Mother”:

https://rumble.com/vkyt0d-cnn-participates-in-200k-go-fund-me-scam-failing-to-vet-childless-single-mo.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Charlie+Kirk+Show&ep=1

Because liberals don't care about the truth, just the narrative.

Your facts are true (the woman was misleading the CNN reporter)... your characterization less so (typical hyperbole, actually):

No outside fact-checker reported on the woman's status (as NOT the mother of the children in the video)... the ACTUAL mother contacted CNN, and CNN published a complete clarification: (here, if you want to read it). Further, the woman in the interview often cares for those actual children (they are her boyfriend's kids, although they do not LIVE with her)... and she IS facing eviction...

Misleading, and factually unsound? yes. A SCAM (intentionally defrauding people)? not so much...

I'm no fan of CNN - and I think it shows a lack of judgement editorially that they published (and broadcast) this story without proper vetting.

But again, your hyperbolic inflation of the actual facts and failure to look at your own facts (is it a surprise that Charlie Kirk didn't include the fact that CNN "broke the story" that the story was in need of clarification? NO!) severely degrades the validity of your REAL proposition: CNN was easily deceived and was editorially lazy.... and it is a pattern (honestly, it's a pattern at FOX too!)

@raphjd said in Too late for this guy... will you be next?:

@bi4smooth

You obviously live under a rock.

The police let the rioters/looters run amuck but went in full force against peaceful anti-mask/lockdown protests.

Liberals constantly told us how rioting and looting didn't spread C-19, while claiming that peaceful protests were super spreader events.

And again, religious gathers were restricted and police putting a stop to them while allowing rioting and looting.

Of course, politicians exempt themselves from their own laws. I am the chairman of my royal borough (not the entire city) and the City is putting in Low Emission Zones across the city. They have exempted themselves from the LEZ rules so they can drive anywhere in the city, without a care, no matter how polluting their cars are. The same applies to the dirty-ass city vehicles, that should have been replaced a decade ago.

You would have a lot more luck "spreading your word" if you weren't so damned hyperbolic... let's just take one of your arguments as an example:

Liberals (wrongly) claimed the BLM marchers weren't spreading COVID because they were wearing masks (some, but certainly not all, were) and were social distancing (laughable!). Their claims were bogus, and can be called out as such without:
a) calling them all rioters - some were, some weren't... the rioters were arguably not so much there in support of BLM, but in support of ANY protest - they were mostly angry, and, well... any port in a storm! But even if all of the rioters WERE BLM, not all the BLM marchers were rioters... and making them all out to be so is inflamatory, easily debunked, and weakens your argument.
b) claiming that the events were "super-spreaders" - they were outdoors, and even back then masks and social distancing weren't being pushed for outdoor events.

Again, by hyper-exaggerating the facts, you marginalize your point, lose the "middle of the road" folks you might have otherwise persuaded, and overall weaken your argument.

Another example:
Religious gatherings were not curtailed... INDOOR religious gatherings were... how do I know? Because my church "moved outdoors"! (I live in Fla... the winter months are our DRY season... moving to the field across from the church property was EASY and the property owner didn't mind one bit! (In fact, he didn't even complain when people left a trashy mess behind and the youth group didn't come to clean up until Wednesday!).

Now, CLEARLY, I'm talking about where I live, and your mileage may have varied... but here in Fla (home of Florida Man - and, no I don't know him - he's a nutjob!), there were LOTS of churches who just moved outside. (That's a lot harder at THIS time of year - we're in our WET season, and the ground is mostly saturated with water 24/7). Northern climates may not have had it so easy - but my daughter was the choir director at a church in NC, and they broadcast their services online via their website (they already live-streamed them pre-covid, so it wasn't a big deal!)

But still, I know that some churches were really put-out by the bans on indoor gatherings... and as I've said before, if those bans were specifically (or even indirectly) targeted to religious services, they'd have a valid constitutional argument! But the bans were a public health issue and applied to ALL indoor gatherings - even (especially?) sporting events and political rallies!

But there were no police in riot gear blocking entrances to churches! And - speaking for us here in Fla - police didn't interfere with pro-mask or anti-mask protesters at all - they just tried to keep them apart and only arrested people who threw things or got violent themselves.

Again: the point you're trying to make is being lost in your hyperbole - which makes your whole argument carry less weight.

But this is the whole problem with our politics today!

It's not enough that you have a better argument or better reasons than the other guy... no, you have to make the "other guy" out to be a traitor, a communist, a nazi, an evil, no-good-in-him, disgrace of a human being! And, naturally the "other guy" retaliates in a like manner.

When the protesters raise their lighters in solidarity in support of someone killed by the police, the "blue line" folk have to describe it as "threatening to burn down the city" or other hyperbolic bullshit.

THAT'S why I get most of my US news from FOREIGN sources... it's not that the foreign sources don't have some bias - face it, we all have SOME bias - but rather they are "removed" from the "burn them at the stake" level of heated rhetoric. Their reporting is calmer, and contains more FACTS than opinions (yes, the choice of WHICH facts to broadcast establishes an opinion... in a perfect world, you would piss gasoline and shit edible food for lower animals... this isn't - and never will be - a perfect world!)

@raphjd said in Too late for this guy... will you be next?:

@bi4smooth

It could come from the very DNC politicians who said, before Honest Joe became President, that they didn't trust the vaccine.

Religion has special rights to believe whatever stupidity they want and to spew it to anyone and everyone. People have been allowed to kill their kids with a lack of medical care because of their beliefs.

Politicians can spew whatever BS they want and have immunity. Elizabeth Warren and a couple of others come to mind when they were given absolute immunity for libeling and slandering the Covington Kids after the facts were proven.

Then we have to think about all of the politicians who blatantly violate their own C-19 rules. I mean, it can't be that bad if you can "kick it" with celebs without masks as long as it's at a maskless music festival.

We were told, even on this site, that you can't get C-19 if you loot and riot as part of BLM and Antifa.

OK, I was along for the ride until that last statement...

• BOTH political parties in the US are guilty of politicizing the COVID-19 response, though at current that means that the Republicans are the ones intentionally killing their own voters by convincing them NOT to take the vaccine... That doesn't make the Dems right - but, it does make them safer right now tho...
• Religious freedom in this country (US) does sometimes have a heavy price... While i agree that preachers (priests) should be "allowed" to tell their flocks that vaccines are good or bad for whatever reason they care to have... I do NOT agree that public health rules prohibiting large gatherings - including religious ones - to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is an attempt to stop/block their free expression of religion. (It might be different if the rules were SOLELY applied to religious activities - but that wasn't the case. The rules were broad - all-encompassing, even!)
• Hypocritical and Politician are essentially synonyms... How many employment rules has the US Congress passed - that exempted Congress from those rules? I could spout 2-dozen examples of guilty parties from both DEM and REP sides of the isle... it's not a partisan thing, it appears to be a "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" kind of thing...
• Again, politicians from both sides have problems here... Nancy and her hairdresser during COVID-19 is no worse than Cruz and his "escape" to Mexico during the TX power outages... it's privileged politicians taking advantage of, and abusing that privilege for personal gain... and it should be punished (at the polls)... VTBO (vote the bums out!)!!! Sadly, the typical US voter thinks that the ENTIRE US Congress is full of corrupt, awful human beings - EXCEPT for their own representative and/or senator!

Oh, and that last one is just bullshit... no one has claimed that believing in BLM, Antifa - or Trumpism, for that matter - has any affect on the virus. I'm pretty sure the virus isn't checking politics, race, or religion before infecting people! You had a good article there, up until that last bullet... (Not that you give a damn about my critiques! LOL)

BLM rallies without masks in the middle of the pandemic were STUPID and DANGEROUS...
But, so were Trump rallies without masks in the middle of the pandemic!
Neither political party has a leg-up (much less a monopoly) on stupidity in this COVID-19 thing! Both parties allowed and fully participated in making medical responses to COVID-19 political footballs... as Shakespeare wrote: "A pox on both your houses!"

RE: Link

Here it is in short:

• Scott Apley was a 45-year-old, healthy husband and father of an infant child
• Scott Apley was deceived by his political heroes into believing that the COVID-19 vaccines did not work, that masks were ineffective, and that COVID-19 was "no big deal"
• Scott Apley was elected to his Texas town's City Council on a platform that was largely COVID-19 defiance, and little else...
• In May, 2021, Scott Apley invited his friends & constituents to a bar for a "mask burning party" - even though it was too far for him to attend himself, he hoped lots of people would attend.
• On July 30, 2021 Scott Apley likened the COVID-19 responses - like requiring vaccines by employers, and requiring masks by some municipalities - as NAZI propaganda in a Facebook post
• Just 5 days later, Scott Apley was admitted to the hospital & diagnosed with COVID-19
• 3-4 days later still, Scott Apley died of COVID-19, leaving his wife and son ALSO infected with the disease. No word yet on their conditions.

I'll leave it to you: was Scott Apley killed, tragically, by COVID-19? Or, was he killed by the mis-information being spread by people who, apparently, think this is a joke and that it's not real - and whose peddling of anti-science bullshit convinced Scott Apley to NOT protect his wife and child from this virus - costing them everything in the process.

Sadly, the misinformation campaigns seem to be aimed at my own political party - the Republican Party. It is no shocker to me that Scott Apley was a Republican. My worry is that stories like his already litter the Internet:

• Preacher who said prayer, not vaccines, would protect you from COVID-19... dies of COVID-19
• Congressman who ran and won on an anti-COVID science, anti-vax platform in LA.... dies from COVID-19 before he can even be sworn in... his wife wins the special election to "replace" him
• The leading Conspiracy Theorist in Norway - yup, died of COVID-19 back in April (link)

IMHO (and you can call me a conspiracy theorist on this one): this anti-vax and anti-science misinformation is coming from the same foreign adversaries as tried to influence the 2016 & 2020 elections: Russia, China, Iran, N Korea, and likely others. This is a non-traditional war on our country, and the goal is to get us to turn on ourselves - and if a sizeable part of the population can be killed off by the "gift" of COVID-19, then so-be-it!

Their goal is to de-stabilize our country, and we're falling for it: hook, line, and sinker!

I will pray for the family of Scott Apley (there is a go-fund-me page to help support his family, but I believe site rules prohibit THAT link in here - just google his name and gofundme and it'll come up).

@james2jodie said in Improve Upload speed:

How can you improve upload speed. I have it set to unlimmted but im always stuck at around 90-100 kb

Your throttling could be from any number of sources - including the 90-100 kb/s being the download speed of whomever is leeching from you.

But that said, also look throughout the settings in your client - sometimes there are multiple ways to throttle upload speeds (including limiting the number of connections) that all have to be removed to enjoy FULL upload capabilities!

@raphjd said in CDC now says Vaccinated are the ones spreading the new Delta variant.:

@bi4smooth

Lots of people got C-19 and never knew it, unless now you are gonna claim that Fauci and the CDC are liars., but only on this topic.

This applies to both the vaccinated and unvaccinated.

Hell, I could have had it 45 times before I was privileged enough to be allowed to get the shots. I could have had it 45 times since I got the vaccine.

Only a fool doesn't believe that Bat Lady, Fauci and Bill Gate's Eco-Health created C-19 from the samples Bat Lady collected from that mine in 2009 after all the miners got sick.

I do agree about the Indian variant being a mutated version of the one created in the lab.

Well, depending on who you ask (and there isn't much evidence to back up either story - the Chinese have pretty well scorched the Earth trying to make sure we never know... which arguably might lean (even heavily) towards the man-made-accidental-release theory), the original COVID-19 was a man-made variant, or a nature-made variant... of a virus that Mother Nature put here first.

Still, regardless of the origin of the FIRST one, the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, & Delta variants were all NATURE made... and you can't turn off Mother Nature, and she's a real bitch when it comes to making living things stronger/faster/better!

And now, there's a new Lambda variant - they don't know much about it yet, but theoretically it could make Delta (which is the one responsible for the re-ignition of the pandemic) look like childs-play. (It could theoretically also be more like the others: Original, Alpha, Beta, etc...) Only time will tell.

What we DO know is that Mother Nature is still hard at work trying to create a COVID-19 that successfully defends itself against the immune responses generated by the COVID-19 vaccines... and WHEN she succeeds, we start the vaccine development process all over again - and until we get new vaccines against these new viruses, we'll be helpless (and dying).

In the meantime, I mask up when I'm in public... because, whether I'm vaxxed up or not, I don't want this bug in me! And I live in a hot-spot filled with "it's a freedom issue" idiots and assholes. What can I say: we're home to "Florida Man" and it's showing!

One last thing: studies have shown that immunity from the original COVID-19 infection (derived from getting it - and, presumably, surviving it) does little to protect you against the Delta variant... your body's NATURAL immune response from that strain doesn't recognize the Delta variant as a different verse to the same song. Likewise the immunity derived from the AZ & J&J vaccines (which are based on COVID-19 DNA) are significantly reduced against the Delta variant.

However, immunity derived from the mRNA vaccines seems to be still significantly effective against Delta - albeit not AS effective as against the original - but that is possibly because the Delta is so much more aggressive and virulent than the original to begin with...

Regardless, the exciting thing about all of this is the effectiveness of the mRNA vaccines and their ability to trigger our immune systems to attack specific proteins... this could be used to treat HIV (its original intended target), some cancers, possibly even sickle-cell and leukemia!

The research is new - and therefore, we shouldn't get our hopes up too much... but the efficacy of the mRNA against COVID-19 was expected to be in the 60-70% range... they never DREAMED it'd be in the 95-97% range (what it was against the original COVID-19 strain)....

I've been saying for several years now: my grandchildren are going to live in wonderful (or possibly frightening) times: we're unlocking medicine and material science unlike any other time in human history... used properly, we could see many diseases and ailments completely wiped out! Used improperly, we could have new "tools of warfare" that will scare the pants off of you!

We already live in interesting times (Chinese curse being the origin of that statement)... and they're not looking like they're going to get boring any time soon!

That said, I think we should think about storing more than plant DNA in those arctic vaults... we should start storing significant human knowledge up there. IMHO, we're going to eventually kill ourselves - the human race will extinguish itself completely, or at least knock ourselves back to the stone-age. We should leave something for the "next thing" to get some of our technology: tools, materials - maybe not nuclear physics tho LOL!

For a reference, read Larry Niven's old SciFi book: The Mote in God's Eye... a really good read, if you ask me! (advances in material science could include a frictionless toilet! LOL)

• Correction: The Mote in God's Eye was a collaboration between Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (link)

@manhandler said in 99.7% Survive, so why a vaccine when TB kills x1000:

Why the hell are we worried about Covid when Tuberculosis is the number one killer? It's ridiculous.

Where do you get your data? Tuberculosis is not even ON THE LIST of major killers in the world... it's a disease caused by a bacteria (not a virus) that is generally treatable by antibiotics. While also highly communicable, TB is seldom deadly in this century - except in parts of the world without access to quality medical care.

Stick that jab right up your ass, big pharma making a killing, literally.

As it was widely publicized during the Trump Administration, 'Bit Pharma' made their profits on the front end here! That is, the US Government paid (handsomely) for the research that resulted in the vaccines, and the companies get to keep the new technologies that resulted. **BUT the COVID-19 vaccine itself has to be sold/given to the US Government - AT COST.

Put more simply: Pfizer made their profits from COVID-19 vaccine in 2020. They are required (by contract - and Trump knows contracts!) to sell their vaccines (whether 1 does, or 100 billion doses) at NO PROFIT. That was the trade-off for taking the Government money up-front!

Such morons... No word about Tuberculosis. No word about heart disease. Nothing about the actual things that are killing people... No... just take this vaccine so pharmaceutical companies can make billions in profits. You guys are dumb.

COVID-19 has killed more than 4 million people world-wide - and the numbers continue to rise, EVEN in countries like the US that have easy (and free) access to vaccines... vaccines that are over 90% effective at preventing hospitalization from the disease.

If you think its bad now - with the DELTA variant so much more virulent (and affecting kids) - just wait a few more months. Mother Nature altered COVID-19 to create the DELTA variant so that the virus could survive better.... there's already a LAMBDA variant that we don't know much about.... but there's BOUND to be a new variant soon - what with the virus spreading so widely already - and it could (one eventually will) make the DELTA variant look like a walk-in-the-park.

Mother Nature never sleeps, and she does what she can to help ALL species evolve and proliferate on Her planet! She will, given the opportunity, improve on the COVID-19 virus yet again!

How do we stop it? Vaccines and masks.... DOH!

So how do we get from your original absurd claim:

• that people WITH the vaccine are the only ones spreading the DELTA variant of COVID-19

The fact is that the vaccinated can spread the DELTA variant virus about the same as UN-vaccinated people, but that is immaterial the the fact that they (the vaccinated) don't get as sick.

All the way to:

• There is no COVID-19, it's just the common cold and all these people are just dying of natural causes

It is TRUE - COVID-19 is a natural cause, because it came from Nature... Nature is always making new things... new viruses, new worms, new birds, new dog breeds, new human variants! Granted the tiny changes made in each of these cases is exaggerated in something as tiny as a virus...

But I'll grant you - it is possible that CIVID-19 itself may have been man-made. But the DELTA variant is all nature... improving on itself, the way Nature always does....

Oh, and if there are no tests for COVID-19, how do we know what a DELTA variant actually IS?

Talk in circles much? (actually, in my brief experience with you, that seems to the ONLY way you talk!)

Darwin? Dr. Charles Darwin? Over here please! Cleanup, aisle 7!

@manhandler said in Voter Suppression - a new twist:

@bi4smooth No Dum Dum. The Chief Pathologist in Germany said that 1/3 of the deaths in Germany are in vaccinated people. That's what he said. He's the Chief Pathologist. I guess you missed that part. Or how severe it is. I think the old adage "you can't handle the truth" is the truth here. You're just too fucking stupid too get it.

Ummm.... let's spell this out - in FIRST GRADE terms so you can see:

If 1/3 of the COVID-19 deaths in Germany are in people who have been vaccinated, what would that tell you about the other 2/3 of the COVID-19 deaths in Germany/

| You have 3 apples:

• 2 are RED (representing people who died of COVID-19 WITHOUT a vaccine)
• 1 is Golden (yellowish) (representing people who dies of COVID-19 even WITH a vaccine)

Test Questions:

• Did the vaccine turn the one apple yellow?
• Did the vaccine turn the orange INTO an apple?
• Would eating any of the apples turn you into a computer?

Now, here's a 2nd Grade question: What is the RATIO of RED apples to GOLDEN ones?

And an even HARDER, 4th Grade question: From the data provided, does having the vaccine alter your odds of dying from COVID-19?

Answers:

• no, the vaccine did not alter the apple colors - the apples are just representations
• no, the vaccine did not change the nature of the apples
• no, there is nothing you could eat, drink, or even DO to turn you into a computer - this isn't Star Trek!
• There are TWICE the number of RED apples (dead people who WERE NOT vaccinated) as there are GOLDEN apples (dead people who WERE vaccinated)
• The odds of dying of COVID-19 are DOUBLED if you are NOT vaccinated

I'm sorry, but from your earlier posts, it appears that you will need to attend summer school - for the next decade - to catch up.