Posts made by bi4smooth

@anythingold said in Illinois Dems want to ban all violent video games:

@raphjd They've been after video games for a while. How about tryin' to ban gangs too? Let's see how that will turnout shall we?

Believe in science:

• Studies show that the incidence of ACTUAL violence are statistically no different between players of "violent" video games and others....

This is the political party that loves to scream: "trust the science" when it suites their "Green New Deal" agenda, but then throw it away when it doesn't match their agenda...

How can you tell a politician is deceiving you?

Their lips are moving!

@anythingold said in Historic LGBTQ rights bill passes — after exposing GOP divisions:

But, we need to see the bigger picture here. We need to keep an eye on automation. These companies aren't hiring human beings anymore. With every emailed question, is followed by a random script. With every phone call, there's hours of button selection, to then listen to a 10 minute recording. This is why we have no fucking business letting massive immigrants in to this country. I'm really concerned about the level of devastation this is going to have in our country. The whole of United states could end up looking like Detroit.

This is not new - the Information Age is changing us (our society) in many of the same ways the Industrial Revolution did...

• The industrial revolution created machines that could harvest entire fields in a matter of hours, not days.... and it only took 1 man! Where would all the displaced farm workers go?
• The Information Age is replacing a lot of "menial task" jobs (some fast-food places are experimenting with AI-driven order takers... and if you've looked inside a McDonalds or Burger King lately, there isn't a huge grill anymore... those "cooks" have been largely replaced by automation already)... you mention call centers, but computer "front-ends" are being used more and more for handling all kinds of customer-service jobs.

Where will all of those displaced workers go? I don't know, but I do know that our economy consistently expands and creates new kinds of jobs - for new skills, as well as unskilled labor.

Love them or hate them, but our Economic Boom under Presidents Obama and Trump was unprecedented... until COVID, we were breaking all the rules: continuous expansion, continuous declines in unemployment across nearly all groups... we'd never EVER done that before, at least not for more than just a few years, and it'd always "burned itself out"...

You may be fearful of immigrants taking jobs, but I look at it differently.... once COVID is finally managed, and the economy once again starts to expand, we're going to be limited in our growth by the available workforce... and when that happens, there will be wage - and therefore overall - inflation.

Now, in the middle of a pandemic, is not a good time for migration - but, once the economy starts up again, we're going to need people! Doing what? I don't know - but that's the beauty (and genius) of Capitalism: we don't have to plan it! We just let it "grow organically"!

The system works! It's taken us hundreds of years to learn how to manage it properly (to avoid the lurches forward and backward), and we FIRST had to learn that it had to be managed at all! PLUS, we most certainly have more to learn about it!

But, we know how to do this! Post-COVID, we'll do it again!
A rising tide lifts all boats!

@codycummings said in some torrents not downloading:

Hi. I am just wondering how come some torrents are not downloading eventhough there are seeders?

There can be a LOT of issues there...

• Tracker data is not instantaneously updated... sometimes seeders drop but the tracker isn't aware
• Sometimes seeders are in parts of the world you don't have access to (e.g. China) - so the seeder can register with the tracker, but you cannot connect to the seeder
• Sometimes seeders aren't configured properly, so just like above, the seeder can register with the tracker, but you cannot connect to it

There are many other (less probable) reasons too, but if you can download a popular torrent, but cannot download one with a low-number of seeders, this may be the explanation... and it's not likely YOUR problem. (If you're like me, you wish it WAS your problem - you could "fix" it... but, when it's out of your hands, and you feel soooo close, it can be very frustrating!)

@raphjd said in ACLU does something right, for once:

@bi4smooth

I thought you said you were a conservative-libertarian.

IF we went with national service, I do agree that no one gets an out for any reason, except for extreme mental/physical disability.

Mandatory public service is considered a conservative idea in many other countries... but it most certainly does not jive with pure libertarian idealism!

Still, 27 countries have mandatory MILITARY service: here

But I am not a slave to any political ideology: Social Security and Medicare are socialist programs - but I'm not fighting to abolish them! In other words, Conservative Libertarian describes my beliefs, but it does not define them!

In the GENERAL CASE, I think the Government should be small and keep out of people's personal lives... But, in practice, there must be exceptions: we need laws against fraud, for example...

@raphjd said in Mr Potato Head goes gender neutral:

@bi4smooth

Are you sure it's not damage control?

According to another article that I just read, they are adding a gender-neutral version to the line-up.

I don't care if they add extra mustaches, or extra girly-lips (or whatever makes a Mrs. Potato Head feminine - I haven't played with a Potato Head toy in a very long time!) ...

Just don't take away the Mr. Potato Head box, or the Mrs. Potato Head box.... if my son (ok, grandson now) wants to play with a Mrs. Potato Head, I'm all for it! But let's not pretend the genders and gender roles don't exist! We may not be beholden to them, but they DO exist!

Personally, my MBA cynicism pushes me strongly in the belief that this is just a publicity stunt... no REAL change, just something blatantly controversial that actually has no real risk...

@raphjd said in ACLU does something right, for once:

The ACLU, among a couple of others, has petitioned the US Supreme Court to declare the male-only draft unconstitutional.

The argument is that since the US has allowed women into combat roles since 2013, they too should be forced to sign up for the draft or no one should be required to sign up for the draft.

Not surprisingly, feminists and their cucks tend to be against such gender equality. You may remember the stink they kicked up before when the possibility of women being forced to sign up for the draft.

You will find this amusing: Not only am I, personally, in favor of a gender-neutral "draft", I'm all-in for mandatory 2-year civil service stint after High School and before College (which can be deferred by up-to-5 years by application)... but, no option on the 2-years: can be in the military, can be in the peace-corps, can be in something like the forestry service... but 2-years in public service before you start your career. (And absolutely no way to buy your way out of it!)

@andergarcia said in THIS or THAT: the game:

@bi4smooth

Never thought about that... so I guess I can't tell the difference

Related to that, do your prefer to suck cut or uncut dicks? Is there any difference for you or not?

DEFINITELY a difference... but no preference. I'm not a "cock connoisseur" - a dick is a dick, it's the man it's attached to that matters more to me! (Not that there can't be extremes... but I don't prefer a 9" dick to a 5" one, nor cut vs. uncut... aesthetically, I love "skinny" dicks (an unusually smaller circumference)

So,

• Big booty, or skinny one?

NOTE: I used to be told, as a younger man, alternately that I had a HOT ASS, and that I had NO ASS! LOL

@raphjd said in Mr Potato Head goes gender neutral:

In time for christmas 2021, Mr Potato Head will be gender-neutral. The new name is simply Potato Head.

Mrs Potato Head will be dropped from the line.

Baby Potato Head will continue, as will the Potato Head Family boxsets.

Actually, per the Hasbro Twitter feed Mr & Mrs Potato Head aren't going anywhere... what changed was the "Brand"...

Apparently, the actual toys: Mr & Mrs Potato Head, Baby brother Spud and daughter Yam are still there too... Not one toy or box containing the toy is being changed...

In other words, this is just a publicity stunt.... and its working!

They haven't changed any part of the product, or its packaging, and yet everyone is talking about the Potato Head toy line!

@dvt said in THIS or THAT: the game:

@andergarcia

Im jealous :D, I need a doctor like that.

Nope, I havent been fucked but was with a gay couple a few times, but they were fucking me alternately lol

Have you ever been fucked with a toy and a dick at the same time, or not?

BEEN FUCKED? No... But I have fucked (topped) that way a few times!
Sadly, I could never cum that way... (and the dildo never came, either LOL)

So, as a bottom, and while being fucked (vs. other activities)

• can you tell a difference between cut and uncut dicks in your ass?

@raphjd said in Harry Shearer fired as Dr Hibert:

@bi4smooth

It is hypocrisy when they say that whites can't play any other race, but that other races can play whites.

I'll give you that.... (Hey! We agree on something!)

But, it's important to note here that no one lost their jobs: Harry Shearer (the prior voice of Dr. Hibert) will still be the voice of Principal Skinner, Mr. Burns & Smithers, and several others... just not Dr Hibert.

And, no one new was hired: Kevin Michael Richardson is already the voice of several characters (including Maggie LOL). The character was simply re-cast

That said, Harry Shearer has regularly threatened to leave the series over salaries... they make $300,000 PER EPISODE! (No one is paid per-character, so no one's pay is being changed, either!)

So this is either extremism looking for something to be outraged about, or rich people fighting over who voices a bit-part... (Did you see that dog pee on that mailbox over there! That's disrespectful to the men and women of the USPS! -- Oh wait, maybe its just a dog being a dog...)

In more striking and unsettling news:

Did you know that Blue's Clues replaced the mail with email?

"We just got a letter" is now "we just got an email"

AAAACCCCKKKK!!!
WHAT
IS
THIS
WORLD
COMING
TO??

Is NOTHING SACRED!

What about the voice actor who played Mailbox?

@raphjd said in Business rights vs the left:

@bi4smooth

You prefer defending your fellow leftists.

OK, so now you're dangerously close to failing the Turing Test...

@raphjd said in Harry Shearer fired as Dr Hibert:

@bi4smooth

Ah, so we can't call out their extreme hypocrisy.

Do you know what hypocrisy means?

They don't rail against this kind of thing, they REVEL in it! Sure, its bullshit that the guy lost his gig, but these people REVEL in this shit! It's why most of America ISN'T LIKE Hollywood, and why their wacked out views on things aren't mainstream, even when they're proselytizing it on out most popular social platforms!

We love their music, love their shows - but we also don't buy their politics...

@andergarcia said in U.S. House Passes Equality Act:

@flozen

Hope it is finally passed in the House for the benefit of Americans.

Correction there: you hope if passes the SENATE... it just passed the House.

Little doubt that Biden would sign it.

However, a comment to @flozen's post: it would be possible to pass on a 51/50 vote, IF the Republicans who are not in favor didn't attempt to filibuster it...

And if pigs grew wings, we'd have some awesome bacon-flavored gameday pork-wings!

@raphjd said in Business rights vs the left:

@bi4smooth

More excuses from our resident leftist.

If liberal prosecutors refuse to prosecute liberal rioters/looters/criminals, then they are exempt from the law.

You can shit on the streets/sidewalks of SanFrancisco unless you do it in front of one of Pelosi's many houses.

We all know that you will be back with your leftist mental gymnastics to excuse it away.

Let's see - exactly when did I say that violence was OK?

NEVER

I just prefer that my wine come from a bottle, and not your keyboard!

@raphjd said in Harry Shearer fired as Dr Hibert:

@bi4smooth

More excuses about liberals being hypocrites from you, who woulda thunk it.

Dude - ALL of Hollywood is FULL of liberals (and I mean REAL ones, not right-of-center, but left of you!)

But complaining about liberals in Hollywood is like complaining about white people at a KKK meeting!

@raphjd said in Harry Shearer fired as Dr Hibert:

Harry Shearer was fired as Dr Hibert by the Simpsons show, for being a honkey.

As I've posted about many times, it's always ok for non-whites to play whites, gays to play heteros, etc, etc but not the other way around.

Joan of Arc was a 17yo ginger chick, but it was ok for her to be played by a 20ish black chick and a 40ish black chick.

Ann Boylen is being played by a black chick in a BBC series that is in production.

A Netflix series has a black queen of England and we know that never happened.

Elliot Page is a trans-man but playing a CIS woman.

As always, "you can only play what you are" only seems to apply to CIS, hetero white male actors, though occasionally it applies to CIS hetero white women playing trans, and some other cases.

Casting is casting - and totally up to the producers ... if black producers want Marie Antoinette to be black, so be it! If the producers want the entire cast of Mulan to be ethnic Chinese (and black/white/korean/japanese/eskimo/martian actors need not apply), so be it! And if another producer wants HIS Mulan to be all-white actors, that's within their prerogative too...

Casting has exclusions in all kinds of employment laws... Here in Florida, the Disney properties (Disney World's Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, etc) call their front-line employees "cast members" so that they can demand all kinds of otherwise illegal requiements:

• until recently, men could not have facial hair
• women's hair had to come down to at-least their shoulders
• men's hair could NOT be long (could not touch their shoulders)
• visible tattoos were not allowed
  just to name a few... some of these have changed over the years, but Disney asked for, and got, legal permission to do these things from the Florida Legislature (as a precondition to building Disney World here!)

The point is, just as porn producers can choose to cast only white men with abnormally large penises, so too can The Simpson's producers choose to hire or fire "talent" for any reason they so wish... racial, ethnic... or even penis size!

@raphjd said in Business rights vs the left:

@bi4smooth

NOPE!!!

Over the last several years we have seen the proof that certain groups are exempt from the laws that the rest of us must follow.

When certain groups do it, it's "mostly peaceful protests" or "the summer of love".

Silly man - you are equating selective enforcement (e.g.: when the cops let people drive by going 10 miles-per-hour OVER the speed limit and don't move to ticket them) with it being acceptable or legal.

Whether the cops or district attorneys choose to prosecute or not, it's still illegal!

If you want a perfect system, move to China! (Just ask them! It's perfect!)

@raphjd said in Business rights vs the left:

@bi4smooth said in Business rights vs the left:

until you get violent or threaten others

But it's not criminal or even wrong when certain groups do it.

No, it is ...

ALWAYS

wrong to resort to violence... (unless you are responding to a violent attack)...

Whether it is prosecuted is another matter...

175 cars speeding on the highway, and the cop pulls YOU over...
that doesn't mean it was OK for the others to speed!

... and unless the cop that pulls you over is your ex-significant other or something, you still have to pay the fine... selective enforcement isn't fair, but its not illegal either (unless it is targeted)!

Sigh... there are no absolutes in the law (There's always an "unless"...)

It's illegal to yell FIRE in a crowded room...

Unless there is an actual fire!

@anythingold said in Business rights vs the left:

In order to keep ourselves sane,

There is no societal (overall) benefit to requiring other people to change to help you retain (or regain) your sanity... Sadly, in current-day America, there is precious little help for you if this isn't hyperbole and you really are having trouble with your sanity.

In America today, the primary source of mental health care is the prison system. Just sad (even disgraceful).

the easiest way to explain this is, anyone on the far left side (or even "moderately left") are fucking insane.

A healthy, broad-based, Political Diaspora is/was the dream of our founding fathers. Everyone agreeing is a sure-sign of tyrany!

It's about America being fucking stupid and can't think for themselves.

Hmmm... someone else doing the thinking for you...

Tyrany!

I can't see this bullshit being corrected without American citizens having a serious physical battle to take America back from these insane fucks.

There is nothing to correct - this is America, and people are allowed to be stupid! It's a free country!

• You are allowed to believe that Trump won the election and it was stolen from him - in spite of there being no evidence to support that claim...
• You are allowed to believe that the Earth is flat because it says so in the Bible - even though that depends on whose Bible you look at (even ancient ones do NOT claim this), and is it demonstrably true that Earth is a globe...
• You are allowed to believe that all Democrats are pedophiles that actually eat (consume) children, even though this is farcical - registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans... there aren't enough children to actually feed that many people!
• You are allowed to believe that that vacuum advertised on TV at 3AM really CAN suck a bowling ball through a garden hose, even though the videos clearly are faked...
• You are allowed to run ads at 3AM on TV selling a piece-of-shit vacuum that couldn't suck hard enough to pull a Pepsi through a straw, but claim it can suck a bowling ball through a garden hose!

Take the politics/religion out, or insert politics/religion into it - it's a still free country, and ...

until you get violent or threaten others

you are free to believe anything you wish, and to evangelize those beliefs to others!

However, when you physically threaten, much less actually carry out, violence against others because of their beliefs, you've crossed a line into criminal behavior.

@raphjd said in Business rights vs the left:

Liberals love it when businesses crap all over conservatives; ie big tech.

Not surprisingly, they get butt hurt when businesses use the same rights against liberals.

There's a private membership gay/bi men's campground. They do not allow people who identify as women, nor do they allow people who identify as male but don't have a penis.

Liberals claim it's transphobia and they should be forced to allow men with vaginas. Oddly, they aren't claiming that women should be allowed.

Anyone care to explain why liberals have no problem with "Twitter is a private company, so they can set their own rules" but they don't believe the same applies to all businesses?

I saw that story and wrote a comment on the site where I saw it. To wit:

It's a private business and they can exclude anyone they want, but:

• It's generally bad for business when your largest media coverage about your opening is who you DON'T want for clients, and
• The intent of the business (according to their own marketing) is to be a gay-friendly nudist RV resort.... only thing is, nudist resorts are generally already gay-friendly! True nudists do not associate naked bodies with sex!

The end result is:

• LGBTQ activists won't go because they're discriminating against trans people...
• Nudists won't go because they're sexualizing nudity.

Who's left for your customers?