@manhandler said in 82% Miscarry After Vaccine: Prestigious Medical Journal:
@eobox91103 https://www.newswars.com/top-doctor-covid-vaccines-killing-babies-in-first-trimester-at-astonishing-rate/
Texas A&M professor of medicine Dr. Peter McCullough warns against vaccinating pregnant women for COVID-19, claiming the vaccines are completely unnecessary for pregnant women and are “directly killing babies in the first trimester.”
One nutcase on a conspiracy website. No more need be said.
@MrMazda said in user title:
Auto upload is something we used to have ... eventually, we got so big that we couldn't keep up with the rate at which people were uploading torrents, so we had to auto approve everyone.
Thanks for the information. I remember getting a PM quite a while ago saying that I had reached auto-approval status, and it felt good 
Having auto-approve for everyone does explain why some torrents show up described only as "Hot Sex" with no pictures. In the past, those might not have received moderator approval. I'm sure those were tough calls--after all, we want people to share their material, and disapproving a torrent probably needed to convey "it's not that we want to disapprove--we want you to improve."
@serenity said in A question about DMCA takedowns:
what videos that are okay to upload.
I think it's "okay" to upload anything that satisfies the site's rules (https://www.gaytor.rent/rules.php#102) and isn't banned (https://www.gaytor.rent/notallowed.php), although it might go away very quickly.
That said, it's a lot of work for moderators to get a takedown request, verify it, and then delete the torrent. I would understand if they were to say, "Don't upload stuff from <some studio>.com, because it creates a hassle for us." Thus far, though, they haven't done that.
@manhandler said in 82% Miscarry After Vaccine: Prestigious Medical Journal:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104983
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/ocqrto/the_new_england_journal_of_medicine_shows_that/
You're mis-reading the statistics.
First, let's dismiss the reddit post--it's on their "conspiracy" page.
Next, let's take a careful read of the NEJM article. The sample set was of 35,691 women. Table 1 shows that 86.5% of these were pregnant at the time of vaccination, and the remaining 15.5% became pregnant shortly after the vaccination. This does NOT mean, as conspiracy theorists want to believe, that the 86.5% somehow lost their pregnancy shortly after vaccination. It means that those 15.5% were women who became pregnant after the study and thus were included in it.
What was the outcome of the vaccinated pregnant women? Let's look at Table 4. The pregnancy and neo-natal outcomes from vaccinated-mother pregnancies were completely in line with incidence rates from the larger population--in fact is some areas, adverse outcomes were a bit lower than the larger population averages, but a much larger study would be needed to establish that.
So, based on real data rather than prejudiced preconception, one can confidently assert what the researchers (and their peer reviewers) stated:
RESULTS
Although not directly comparable, calculated proportions of adverse pregnancy and neonatal outcomes in persons vaccinated against Covid-19 who had a completed pregnancy were similar to incidences reported in studies involving pregnant women that were conducted before the Covid-19 pandemic.
CONCLUSIONS
Preliminary findings did not show obvious safety signals among pregnant persons who received mRNA Covid-19 vaccines.
@john32123666 referred to @lololulu19 in user title:
Why someone keep complaining about Take Down issues ...
Because someone wants attention
Are you not aware of legal issues/action
No, he's not.
About three weeks ago I uploaded a six-minute "hidden locker room" clip, probably taken at some college or city sports club. It now shows as "unregistered," but I didn't get a message from a moderator claiming DMCA or some other rules violation. All of the guys in the clip were definitely 18+, so I don't think that was the reason--and if it were, I would have expected a justifiably firm message.
I'm not complaining about the removal--the site does what the site does, and I accept that...and several hundred members snatched the clip. But I'm curious to know if there's a rule I violated so I don't do it again. I can't give a URL for the torrent because it's gone, but I can say that it was uploaded on 16 October, early afternoon Eastern US time.
Thanks!
@manhandler The linked video page description says that the New England Journal of Medicine came to these findings.
That's not true, and likely why that video page didn't cite a specific paper.
If you're willing to learn about this topic, see:
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-724952235185
https://news.wttw.com/2021/04/21/new-data-reassuring-covid-19-vaccination-pregnancy
https://www.jwatch.org/na53527/2021/05/03/covid-19-mrna-vaccines-appear-safe-during-pregnancy
your disc players, tv's, and sometimes also your media players on your computer all can do the same thing
Exactly--and a TV or computer monitor does this very accurately, because it knows the target resolution of the display screen. There's no need to upscale a lower-resolution video and make a new file from it, which is going to be considerably larger that the original.
The exception would be if someone is using some AI software that actually sharpens things up using a complex algorithm that analyses each frame and then produces a clearer result. Some uploaders here have tried to do this (with mixed results), and this can be an improvement. But simply stretching each frame and quadrupling file size offers no benefit.
The upload page says rather clearly "Please upload only BIG Pictures in GOOD quality!" If people are ignoring this, it might be worth reporting the torrent to staff.
@hubrys said in Is FOX even "news" anymore?:
It's strange that ordinary Joes think that Tucker Carlson really understands them
A while back some people sued Tucker Carlson and Fox News saying that Carlson's on-air rants were a breach of an implied contract between a journalist and his audience. Fox News responded by saying that Carlson was not a journalist, but rather an entertainer.
If that's the case, Carlson knows how to work his room of uncritical Trumpers: Feed them baseless conspiracy theories reaffirming their unhinged world view that they can absorb within their 30-second attention span.
In the real world, complex problems don't have simplistic solutions, but in the Fox world, facts are inconvenient and ignored.
@flozen said in Paying for porn scams and other internet scams:
I'm so glad you uncovered that scam before you put big money down on that unicorn.
Especially since the critter will be immediately seized by the Department for Management and Control of Animals (DMCA).
@john32123666 said in has staxus been banned from the site?:
they even misspelled prosecuted lol ...
Or maybe they meant, "prostituted?"
@illustrious said in Is FOX even "news" anymore?:
@raphjd LOL. Literally not a single piece of evidence.
Did you read the Mueller report?
The first part of the investigation was not about Donald Trump (although his worldview thinks everything is about him). It was a "Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election." That interference did take place "in sweeping and systematic fashion," according the report. (The report is available at https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download. It's 448 pages long, far exceeding a Trumper's attention span. The introduction and executive summary is only 10 pages, and one hopes that people could read that much.)
While it has been clearly established that the Internet Research Agency of Russia interfered with the 2016 election, it is not surprising that there was no provable conspiracy between Donald Trump and the Russian actors. Putin and his gang are as smart as they are evil: They did not want an erratic and naive person involved in a carefully designed and executed project.
After the Mueller report was released, Trump and his sycophants (none of whom read the report) screamed loudly that they had been "totally exonerated." That is factually false. The investigation was conducted according to a rigorous standard of proof, which found sufficient evidence to establish that there was Russian interference in the election.
While there was also much evidence of interaction between Trump campaign staff and advisers and Russian actors, there wasn't a provable link that Trump himself was involved in the conspiracy. This is hardly "total exoneration."
@john32123666 Oh dear...I thought he had stopped his petty crusade. I have the "straight" category turned off so I haven't been seeing his latest droppings.
A few times when I've been waiting for a print job to finish, I've searched out likely targets for the one star troll and given them a five star rating. That way when the jerk sees one of them, and wants to piss on it, all he can do is drop a "five" to a "three." The poor thing must feel so frustrated.
@Richiroma I think the star rating on the torrent list is the average of the votes to date, even if there aren't three of them. It's odd that the search page rating is done differently from what's on an individual torrent page, but it's likely a "feature" of the software that would be painful to change--and unnecessary.
I say "unnecessary" because I don't think the ratings are used consistently by members: Some people give five stars as a way of saying "thank you," and there's at least one troll who puts one star on torrents that he doesn't like...which seems disrespectful to the uploader. (When I see one of those, I do a five star rating so it averages to three.)
Rather than using rating stars to assess a torrent, we can look at how many people said "thank you" on the torrent page and/or how many bonus points were awarded. That said, we all have different tastes. For example, I'm not at all interested in seeing two completely shaven twinks fucking, but there's still an audience for that and it could get lots of applause from people who like that content.
Sorry for the long essay. Maybe I had too much coffee this morning...
Marcus Lamb, 64, whose Daystar network reaches an estimated 2 billion viewers worldwide, had pushed alternative therapies. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/01/marcus-lamb-covid-19-daystar-christian-tv-network-dies
This score just in: Science 1; Dumbass 0.
I've used this process myself for a hundred or more uploads.
Note that the "Trackers" window will show http://gaytor.rent:------- to reflect the new site domain.
Be sure to follow all of @john32123666's other recommendations, like unchecking "start seeding" which seems to be a default. Leaving that one checked can cause issues.
I know I join with other members in looking forward to the material you share on here.
@beachbum99 said in Hey everyone! Bore da!:
Send some snow our way, Ill take some pictures in it haha
We can send snow, but maybe we can also send you some you some vowels. With place names like Cwmystwyth and Bwlchgwyn , it seems like you might have a shortage of them...
(Just kidding/teasing; my family is from the England and I remember nice visits to Wales when I was a wee lad.)
@raphjd said in Co-founder of Christian TV network that railed against vaccines dies of Covid-19:
Even the Mayo Clinic website said that if you get the vaccine, you won't get covid.
No, it doesn't
If you search for "mayo clinic covid vaccine," the first page that comes up is https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/why-get-vaccinated. This page says, "A COVID-19 vaccine might ... Prevent you from getting COVID-19 or from becoming seriously ill or dying of COVID-19"
Notice the word "might" in there. I think this wording is quite clear.
So, by your own definitions, this would make you a fucking liar. (I would prefer to say that it suggests that you are illiterate and/or ignorant).
I think there are two topics going on here: (1) I think the OP was asking about thumbnail files that would be part of of the torrent itself, and (2) others were addressing thumbnail files that would be part of the description on the torrent page.
Both approaches are useful, depending on the circumstances: If the torrent has only a few videos (four or less, maybe), then having thumbnail files posted as part of the torrent page is a good idea, along with some large single photos.
For torrents with a lot of video files, I like to see a separate folder of thumbnails in the torrent itself; then I can download only the thumbs and then decide which video files to download.
Whether a thumbnail file is part of the torrent page or downloadable from the torrent, advice from members above should be heeded:
Set the thumbnail generator to make each thumb a good size--150 pixels high at a minimum.
Don't have the video sampled too often--once every two minutes will give a sense of what's going on.
