@raphjd said in CNN let's Biden get away with LIES:
It's a weak fact check.
They are watering down Biden's falsehoods to excuse them away when they would call Trump a liar.
Well, you being you, anything short of lighting Biden on fire - literally - would be "too little"... 
@raphjd said in I just wanted to share the logo:
The new forums aren't as user (or staff) friendly as the old one, but that is what makes it safer.
I wish there was a way to have the security of this one, with the features of the old one.
I don't have a reference to go on - Even having been a member here on GT.RU since 2008, I have only recently begun using the forums. (Maybe another cause for you to prefer the older one? I WASN'T THERE! LOL)
Still, I'm still learning the system, and I suspect you (and others) are in the same boat... it'll take time to learn the ins and outs, and I'm sure there will be some hidden nuggets here and there...
In the meantime, I'm enjoying the forum - wish I'd discovered it a long time ago!
I don't think you got any of your analysis right there, though the news report that the suit was being dropped is interesting and I thank you for sharing it.
Still... funny thing - Facebook does not use AWS for any of its own hosting (although some 3rd party FB apps certainly do).... Not only does FB have its own datacenters, it even builds its own servers (after all, it is a major contributor to the Open Compute Project). Then there's the fact that they moved all of Instagram's storage OFF of AWS when they purchased the company...
Twitter, on the other hand, has moved virtually all of its infrastructure to AWS. (Just to complete that part of my answer). So, my above statement that you got everything wrong is now, demonstrably flawed....
ALSO: It may shock you to learn that AWS is NOT the only cloud platform provider! When they de-platformed Parler, there were dozens of other platforms to which they could have moved: Microsoft's Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud to name the BIGGEST.... then there are dozens of 2nd-tier cloud providers (my personal favorite is LiNode.com - they host all of my own servers!)
I cannot explain why Parler panicked when AWS shut them down, but if they'd had even a rudimentary and minimally competent IT department, they'd have been back up in 24-48 hours on another platform. (This is truly like Ford saying they won't sell you a truck - when there are many, many other trucks to choose from!)
Finally, Parler was not kicked off AWS for its political views - it wasn't even kicked off for the violent rhetoric posted on it... you're right - again - in your inference that those happen on FB & Twitter as well! The problem with Parler was that they weren't policing those types of (illegal) content, and removing them...
FB and Twitter do.
Finally, my guess as to why they dropped the lawsuit was that their suit had little chance of success. Your good friend Section 230 of the CDA protects them, so long as they move to remove illegal content when discovered, and respond quickly when reported.
Exactly what Perler was accused of NOT doing by AWS - which is why, to protect themselves and their other clients, AWS first warned, then threatened, and finally de-platformed Parler...
All the squealing by Parler was just their attempt to make AWS look bad - but, at least to the tech world, it actually made AWS look BETTER!
Cultural icon and Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee Rush Limbaugh has died.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-dead-talk-radio-conservative-icon
A pioneer of Conservative Radio Infotainment (a term HE coined), Rush Limbaugh had been struggling with his health for some time, and finally succumbed to lung cancer.
Joe Biden held his first public Town Hall in Wisconsin this week.
Naturally, CNN - being the liberal hatchet-job they are, didn't even bother to check his outrageous "facts" (a $20/hr minimum wage?)
No... wait... what?
CNN actually found 4 major gaffes in his Town Hall, and they're still looking into some others.
What gives? CNN isn't supposed to find fault with a Democrat President, are they?
@bi4smooth said in I just wanted to share the logo:
I have posted 2001 as Shawn Kody
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=63a50696e156f564adcd15dca940e84d4d8a378694bcf747
For now, I'll seed from 2 separate sources...
Question though: what happened to the ability to edit your own posts?
@andergarcia said in THIS or THAT: the game:
Face up for sure: I love to see my partner's face when he cums inside me and he also loves to see my face when I'm enjoying so much his fucking
As a bottom, you always need to clean yourself inside before being fucked or not?
Preferably - if you know some action is on the way... but not having done so shouldn't prevent you from being spontaneous!
As a top there is nothing quite as annoying as a bottom who insists he cannot have sex because he hasn't prepared enough...
Sex shouldn't need advanced planning, and as an rather experienced top, I can say with confidence that all the prep-work in the world won't prevent some occasional "dirt"... sex is supposed to be a hot mess!
That's not to say that there aren't times a good bottom won't know that now just isn't a good time.... and that's fine. But if now isn't a good time because you haven't douched within the last 3 hours - well, that's a bit TOO fastidious for my tastes.... However, if now isn't a good time because you're 30-minutes away from the dump of a lifetime, that's just being polite and considerate!
Ugly topic, but a part of our everyday sex lives, to be sure!
So - after you and your partner have both cum...
I will admit to not being active in the old forums.
But I will also point out that I'm a self-described Conservative-Libertarian, not a Liberal by any means (unless you think keeping the Government out of our bedrooms, our relationships, and our doctor's offices is Liberal!)
That said, I don't respond to every political posting @raphjd makes - or others, but honestly, @raphjd starts most of the political threads I've seen 
But my not responding to every post does not imply I support, defend, or agree with them (or that I oppose them)... only that I chose not to jump into that particular foray into right-wing extremism.
@raphjd said in I just wanted to share the logo:
You could post the entire thing slowly in chunks.
I will endeavor to do that, although in my experience, if I use the words Sean Cody in my posting title, it'll get DMCA'd...
I figure I should maybe post in YEAR increments: 2001 being the first...
Before I post it though, any ideas on avoiding DMCA detection?
@andergarcia said in "The person below me" game.:
I don't... I'm a bit shy for those kind of things
TPBM has been fucked while sucking another guy
That's called being spit-roasted! I've been there a few times (in the middle), but more often on one end or the other.
TPBM has had sex with more than 2 different people at different times but in the same day. (e.g.: fucked one guy in the morning, and a different one that afternoon)...
I've had sex on-stage at a gay nightclub! Does that count?
Back to sauna or underwater: Sauna's are not problematic for lube (even if it's spit)... water, on the other hand, most certainly IS! My ex-bf and I fucked in the Gulf of Mexico once... his ass was sore and my cock was sore as a result of the saltiness of the water creating a too-much-friction environment...
As a bottom (and, please only answer as a bottom), when you're being fucked "flat" (e.g.: not doggy-style), do you prefer face-up or face-down?
When you live on a short street in a small town, and 2 of your neighbors are Nazis, it can seem like a large and dangerous movement!
However, when you realize that the 2 Nazi's on your street are actually just 2 of about 200 in your State of 30+ million people, you realize it's just a fringe element... still dangerous, but not quite so large or overwhelming!
My point is: when you "exist" in an echo-chamber of like-minded people - AND your viewpoints aren't mainstream - it can lead to some serious misconceptions about the real world
Oregon wants to teach kids that math has a racial component, and Texas wants to teach kids that evolution is crap-science! That is freedom! That is absurd on both State's parts, but that's my opinion, and as a resident of the State of Florida (a state not well-known for good governance, mind you), my views on the matter don't influence people in Oregon or Texas!
First: cool! I'm glad your aquatic friends have some fresh, clean, softened water! I wish them good health! (You too, while we're at it - we go at it on some of the political topics, but I don't take politics personally... I wish you well too!)
As for the points: cool... it can help boost my membership level! (Every little bit helps!)
Mind you, I've done the math:
I've DL'd almost 24TB (23.88) of data here
I've received about 20TB (19.89 TB) of upload credits (that is, tracked uploaded data + seed points converted into data)
That makes my ratio a cool 0.83 - but while that may be troubling to some, with my exceptionally large UL/DL volume I have a buffer of nearly 1 TB! I can live with that!!! )
Still, I would need about 4TB worth of upload credits to get my ratio to a full 1.0
At 600 credits for 10GB of uploaded data, I'll need 400 10GB units x 600 points per unit = 240,000 bonus points!
1-down, 239,000 to go!
Mind you, MY CLIENT reports my overall share ratio at about 2.5:1 upload to download... but that's across 3 gay-torrent themed private trackers: org, net, and ru...
But I am a "computer guru" in my own right, and I am aware that "hiding" behind a VPN, as well as using Linux-based clients (I recently switched from deluge to qBitTorrent) affects how my uploading gets applied... it also affects my "availability" as a seeder, even though I leave my Linux client open on my server...
Still, when I first joined here - what, 2008 or thereabouts? - I complained about this, but found almost no help available for the combination of VPN and Linux.... nonetheless, things remain "tolerable" if I just keep uploading and use the seeding credits to supplement my upload balance.
I don't know if the different sites' admins talk to each other (they should!), but somehow the NET admin's tracker is able to keep up with my setup where the others cannot... (That said, his volume of data is a fraction of yours here!)
That's a lot of gibberish - except that you're the (an?) administrator here...
@anythingold said in This Is Such Bullsh*t:
@raphjd Once I read the liberals associated "mathematics" with racism, I knew America is in real trouble.
Whoa now - one nutjob liberal claiming that math's inherent "rightness" or "wrongness" is somehow racially charged or biased does not make ALL liberals just as dumb and wrong-headed as that confused and misguided author! (I'll bet they are bad at math and would love to blame that on their race instead of their academic or mental shortcomings... but that's conjecture on my part...)
Unless, of course, you want to allow actual Nazi's to represent we Conservatives, too!
When a majority of Liberals (or Democrats) agree to this idiotic proposal, I'll get worried... but colleges and universities are full of academics who make wild-ass claims... without the Internet, they'd be ignored as they have been for the past 1000 years! The Internet changes things... gives people a "platform" they often do not deserve.... (perhaps, you and me included!)
Democrats have surpassed the realm of logic. The fact that so many Blacks are following this frightens me, by a lot. If no one doesn't see a problem with this "new world order," I have to think, what the fuck school did you go to? New age/metaphysics has always talked about the world evolving as better human beings. I now know they're all bullshit. Humanity is actually regressing. And pretty soon shortly after our deaths; human beings will probably revert back to praying to the sun, and thinking the world is flat; because the DEMONcrats see it as reliable information.
Wow! Someone needs to go back onto their anti-anxiety/anti-depression meds!
The fact that Democrats are in control of the Federal Government for now is not the end of the world:
There is plenty of room for optimism here! For CONSERVATIVES.
Not likely so much optimism for Trump - he's burned a lot of bridges, and looks to be financially and legally in quite a pickle....
@walker1234 said in New York undercounted C-19 deaths:
@erich214
You are right. I live in China now. I can speak and write Chinese now. My graduate student studied in China. In my mind, China is my home.
No worries there - I'm a believer in freedom to live where you want - part of my Libertarian views! That doesn't mean you get to move to the US (or China) and get free GOVERNMENT support, but if you can live here without Government support, I think you should be allowed.... and you should be allowed to leave when you want, as well (barring things like jail for criminal offenses, of course).
No one is allowed to slander.
Now here you run into some trouble: "slander" is often in the "eye of the beholder". You're not allowed to slander in the West, either! The question isn't whether it's allowed, it's what the consequences are: Is it Government Enforced and a CRIMINAL offense, or is it a CIVIL matter between individuals.
In the US, you cannot "slander" the Government - you are protected under the 1st Amendment. But you can certainly slander individuals (as Trump and Giuliani are discovering from the voting machine companies - to the tune of up-to 1.5 Billion US dollars! But it will be CIVIL courts, and a CIVIL jury that will decide!)
If you have not been here. , Don’t talk to me about your knowledge of China. Your knowledge comes from the so-called free media in the United States. If I live in China, I don’t know that China is developing so well.
I think you made some grammatical errors there that belie a less-than-native knowledge of the English language. It could also be a simple mistake... but it IS suspicious.
Mind you. there are plenty of media reports - from Western "free press" media - that are reporting on the fantastic progress that is being made in Chinese infrastructure - some of your new highways are almost as beautiful as the countrysides that they are crossing! HUGE investments there! And beautifully done!
Don’t forget, I The C-19 vaccine was only injected yesterday, you know, it’s free.
I suspect your media may be giving you false information there: the Covid-19 vaccines in the US are totally free as well. I just received my 2nd-dose of the Pfizer vaccine yesterday! $0.00 cost!
I won't posit on whether the mistaken notion that only the wealthy can afford the vaccine here is your's alone, or stems from your media outlets... it's just incorrect.
Now China is the safest place in the world. You just wait for the vaccine slowly.
Again, maybe your media outlets are misleading you: we're administering over 1.5 million doses per day in the US... and the Government thinks that is still too slow.... the limits of our vaccine distribution are the limits of the vaccine manufacturing... we're literally distributing and injecting people as fast as we can! It doesn't mean we can't do better! But, it does mean that we're not doing poorly!
I believe I saw a statistic last week that the number of people vaccinated in the US has now surpassed the number of people known to have been infected... I find that suspicious, and I don't have time to look up the source, but we're only getting 50-60K new cases per day right now, and 1,500K (1.5 million) are getting the vaccine every day - so if we haven't already passed that mark, we certainly will soon!
Oh, and again with the grammar issues... normally would ignore it (I hate the "grammar police" - except when the errors either leave the statement incomprehensible - or, as you did a few sentences before, they make the actual statement significantly different from the clearly intended statement.
But, in this case, as you have made your country and language of origin to be an issue, it's a valid point to make...
@anythingold said in This Is Such Bullsh*t:
@bi4smooth said in This Is Such Bullsh*t:
Blaming this (or even attributing this) behavior to leftists is like looking at a see-saw and only seeing the guy in the UP position! Extremists on both (to be more correct: ALL) political spectrums use the same tactics (and apologists will always resort to escape clauses like what-about-isms)...
The problem isn't with extreme leftists - it's with extremists of all ilks!!!
The truth is, these extremists learn from each other and duplicate tactics that work for any one of them... When one of them finds something new that works, it doesn't take long for the others to appropriate the methods for their own ends...
I completely disagree. The democratic party are under the spell of communism and socialism. Whatever issues with the republic party, is nothing to what the democrats have done. They're an very, very dangerous party. And what I see now is that the democrats have become equivalent to religion. I now feel the same kind of stress when I try to tell christians that being gay is ok, and that it's perfectly normal. It's impossible to talk with leftists, they can't smell their own shit, and they really believe they have a superior knowledge to anybody else who doesn't think like them. And the fact that democratic voters can't see it, is fucking insane! I still don't know how to process that! And the most disappointing is people of color! Knowing how Blacks have been devastated in ALL democratic cities, how the fuck can you be so trusting of democrats after you've been lied to so many times? Again, this is synonymous with religion I'm sorry to say. It is insanity, doing the same fucking thing, over and over again, expecting different results.
This is will not end well for Black people. 20 years later, the democrats will still blame every misfortune for people of color on Trump, and every dumb ass Black person will believe every stinking word the democrats say, because that's what they've been programmed, just like religion.
My problem with what you've said is that you fail to acknowledge that people who believe differently from you can possibly be anything but stupid, uninformed, or just plain evil. And that prevents virtually any possibility of trying to find common ground. They're just completely and totally wrong, on all counts, and there is no sense discussing it further. Every breath they take, every thought they have, every word out of their mouth is tainted and untrustworthy....
And the problem gets worse because they then develop the same feelings about you and your side: to believe what you do, you must be stupid, uninformed, or just plain evil!
Further, your clear belief that nothing changes is demonstrably false... for the only thing you can count on in life, technology, and politics is that everything changes.
While it's questionable (and up for debate) who has done more good for people of color in the past 40 years, its just that: up for debate... and intelligent, well informed, highly educated, good people can disagree! Even when presented with the same facts they can come to different conclusions.
Furthermore, both can be right, at least up to a point!
This life and this world in which we live is COMPLICATED and COMPLEX. There are very few issues that truly come down to simple "black and white" decisions.... If things were that easy, our ancestors would have solved these problems centuries ago!
Each new generation has its challenges and issues. Our grandparents had the benefit of having a globally acknowledged evil to coalesce against: nazis! It's part of why so much was accomplished in their time: they had a common enemy that the overwhelming majority of people agreed was the enemy.... today, we're not so coalesced... what we are, instead, is deeply and almost evenly divided and that makes things more challenging (and difficult to enact change!) But, change is inevitable!
Dems are in-charge right now - but the smart ones know it won't last! And when we Republicans are in-charge again, that won't last, either! And it won't be because of mistakes or evil forces - it's just that change (and chaos) are inherent in our universe - at ALL LEVELS! From the smallest atoms to the largest galaxies - and every size in-between, the Universe craves chaos, and that means change!
@anythingold said in This Is Such Bullsh*t:
@raphjd I've learned fairly quickly, the leftist will always run frantically in the opposite direction from truth and reality.
Blaming this (or even attributing this) behavior to leftists is like looking at a see-saw and only seeing the guy in the UP position! Extremists on both (to be more correct: ALL) political spectrums use the same tactics (and apologists will always resort to escape clauses like what-about-isms)...
The problem isn't with extreme leftists - it's with extremists of all ilks!!!
The truth is, these extremists learn from each other and duplicate tactics that work for any one of them... When one of them finds something new that works, it doesn't take long for the others to appropriate the methods for their own ends...
@raphjd said in New York undercounted C-19 deaths:
Well, it looks like I was right.
Cuomo is a murderer and tried to blame Trump.
NY Dems are calling him a liar and that he covered up the deaths he caused.
Hmmm... you mean LIBERAL DEMS are holding one of their own accountable?
How ironic that my own party can't bring itself to do the same...
Time will tell. There's going to be an investigation here, and the spinning is going to get un-spun.
Of course, the final results will be on "Page 6" and not get any of the coverage the early parts of this story got... but that's the nature of the "headline news" world we live in!
If you've seen it here and then disappears, it is most likely a DMCA request...
I'd guess their tech people are pretty active & aggressive...
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