Posts made by eobox91103

@bi4smooth said in A neighbor’s noisy toilet is a human rights violation, Italy’s top court rules:

But I also think the idea that the problem is the freaking TOILET is actually FUNNY....

...and that it took nineteen years to resolve.

Italy’s top court has added a new human rights violation to a list commonly thought to include enslavement, torture and forced starvation: the sound of a toilet flushing at night. That country’s supreme court ... concluded a 19-year legal battle that began when a couple living in a flat near La Spezia complained that their neighbors’ new toilet was keeping them awake with “intolerable noises,” according to the Milan-based newspaper Il Giornale.

Full story at https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/18/italy-noisy-toilet/

And we thought judicial issues were messy in the US...

@vortensen said in Can a bottom rape a top?:

Hi, I wonder if a power bottom can overwhelm a top resulting in a so-called bottom raping the top?

In theory, yes: Forcible* rape only requires that one of the parties involved does not consent to the act. The most likely scenario here would be if the top is impaired by alcohol or other drugs and is not capable of giving consent, but still has a dick hard enough to penetrate.

Also, I could envision two completely sober people,** with the top lying on his back and his cock completely hard (maybe right after blow job), and the bottom straddling him. If the bottom's hole is loose and lubed, s/he could quickly sit down on the top's cock without there having been any discussion/consent/expression of desire on the top's part. From a legal perspective this would be a difficult case to make, but it would still count as rape if the top didn't agree to have this happen.

*The comments above about "forcible" rape assume that both parties are at/above the local age of consent (and that age varies by country, and even by province/state in Canada/the US). If the top is below the age of consent, and the bottom is above the age of consent, then any intercourse would be considered statutory rape of the top by the bottom.

**This discussion also applies to a situation where the "bottom" is a female and takes the top's cock into her vagina or ass.

There's probably some rape-fantasy porn showing a situation like this, although I can't recall having seen any.

@vancer Thank you! It's going to be fun exploring this stuff.

@john32123666 Thank you very much! I look forward to experimenting with these.

I know we have a lot of IT-savvy folks on here, so here's the situation:

• A good friend of mine is music director at an Anglican church that has now gone back to "remote/online" services.

• These services have, in the past, included choral pieces with multiple singers (N<6) who record their parts independently (while listening to a master track), that are then merged into a single audio/video file..(See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYBliPhLAE0 for the kind of result we've had, although there aren't our people.)

• This was being done by someone using "acapella" software by Mixcord. This runs on newer iPhones and iPads

• The person who has been doing this is retiring. I've been asked to take over.

I have a high-end Windows workstation that would have the horsepower to run pretty much any a/v software. If the artists send me video files that are synched to a common master track, what would be good software for Windows that would allow me to merge the audio and video content of those files, as well as (rather tediously) slide each file in order to synch to the rest? I don't expect that this kind of software would be free, but I don't mind buying it, or buying a subscription.

Any suggestions you have would be very welcome.

If so, make one up on your own, just like many other people do.

It's simple: Just pick one entry from column A, one from column B, one from column C, one from column D, and one from column E.

There aren't many rules for this, just like in real life. But a few suggestions:

• Originality is important. Saying, "Biden stole the 2020 election with Jewish space lasers" has been around a lot. But "Robert E. Lee invaded Ukraine with face masks" is creative.
• Credibility is not important. The Biden-space-laser thing proves that.
• You can swap nouns between columns A, C, and E
• You can add articles or other parts of speech to make the grammar work, if you're familiar with grammar.

This is a work in progress, and I would welcome additions to the items in the columns. I'd also enjoy hearing what new theories you come up with...and then we can have a contest to see how soon somebody finds a website that "proves" it. After all, if it's on the internet, it has to be true.

@lmixxo Thanks very much! I did some scuba a while back at the Great Barrier Reef and got hooked on it.

We can do better than off-the-shelf Charmin; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpXtAhiKHBE

@kekkaishi said in Why people use the phrase "w/" to mean "with"?:

@bi4smooth Thanks for the explanation.I genuinely believe that people use it because it's trendy, not because it's easier

I'll take your word on this one, because I'm probably the last person to know whether something's trendy or not. Some abbreviations are used by people to save keystrokes, but a "/" character, while accessible on a regular keyboard, usually requires an extra step if people are typing on a phone.

Some years ago it was trendy among some younger people to TyPe LiKe ThIs. I saw this on hookup sites like Adam4Adam and gay.com (no longer in the hookup business). While I found it annoying, it was a flag to me that the guy doing it was below my age threshold of interest.

@bi4smooth said in Anyone Recieved Letter In The Mail From Flavaworks Studios?:

Can I ask a significant question here:

How did Flavaworks get your address (since you say you received a paper mail item)?

Various sources I researched said that FlavaWorks sent these threats to current or former paying subscribers, ostensibly to recover damages for sharing their IP, but mostly intended to "out" their customers as gay porn consumers unless they paid a ransom. The term "extortion" comes to mind.

One of the early cases here involved a customer who was a "prominent Hollywood figure" who seemed an ideal target for this kind of scam. A strategic error on the part of FlavaWorks is that such "prominent figures" also have good attorneys to smash the bits out of such a scheme, as opposed to the C-team that FlavaWorks retained (and apparently didn't pay).

A side note here is that FlavaWorks was also sued successfully by the cities of Miami and Chicago for their production locations: In Miami, the issue was running a "business" in a residential area, and in Chicago, it was filming CocoDorm material in a residence with lights on and windows open so people on the street got a free show. It wouldn't have surprised me to hear that the FlavaWorks people were on the sidewalk trying to sell tickets to the passers-by.

I'm going to a conference in Dubai next month, and my travel agent said that the airfares are actually a bit cheaper if I return through Southeast Asia. (I know that's weird given that I'm in Canada, but prices are set by supply & demand, not cost.) Apparently a very covid-safe place is Phuket island in Thailand, as the government has pretty much isolated it from the rest of the country and put in strict vaccination and testing requirements for both visitors and residents.

I visited there for one day on a cruise ship stop a couple of years ago, and I enjoyed the scenery, the food, and the people. I'm not interested in the sex tourism angle. Has anyone spent time there, have any recommendations of hotels, tour guides, places to see, etc.? Thanks in advance for any insights you have!

@hottie124 said in Help with my ratio:

@eobox91103 you guys are amazing thank you!! I didn’t think to have to go after the most updated freeleaches for the biggest bang for your buck! Man, keeping your ratio up is a lot of work

You're very welcome. It's tough to get started on a torrent site that monitors ratio (not all of them do)--it's tempting to excitedly download big torrents that have nobody else seeding them, and get in ratio jail in a hurry.

I just did a search, and there are several freeleech torrents posted in the last couple of hours that have many files in them--so pick a small number of the files and then watch your upload ratio climb.

Another way to help your ratio is to upload some new material (i.e., make a new torrent). It's not that hard, and there are help pages here to guide you through the process. If you don't have any material that isn't here, send me a chat/private message (only works if you've been a member for six months or more), and I can put something on DropBox that you can download, and then make a torrent for it here.

@bi4smooth said in Help with my ratio:

@hottie124
So, it's not enough to just seed freeleech torrents - to get the most "bang for your buck" you need to seed freeleeches EARLY - as-in SOON AFTER they become freeleech!

To do that, search specifically for freeleech torrents, and look for those with relatively low numbers of seeders!

Also, I suggest looking for freeleech torrents that are huge, with a large number of files, and then select just a few of those files to download (and example being https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=ab1d1a53af0f5b6a3f627acd8bc2072f3c5549679cb33bc7 that was posted about an hour ago). That one totals 18 GB, but if you select only 5% of the the total, you'll download that very quickly and become the "source" for many other leechers. For example, just select the photos (not the videos), as most people will want those. You could add a few smaller videos as well. This technique also works well with non-freeleech torrents if you're able to download those.

@amazeingrave said in High school teacher charged after locking COVID-positive 13-year-old child in trunk to 'quarantine':

I wish people could just react logically instead of getting into fist fights on planes because someone isn't wearing a mask.

I agree that a calmer approach is needed: Instead of a fist fight, just escort the offender out of the aircraft's door. Ideally this would be done at the gate with the jetbridge attached, but it's also effective if the plane is flying at 10,000 feet.

@geobear40 said in Leftie NFL is trying to move the Superbowl from California to Texas:

@eobox91103
Not statewide but Sofi stadium is located in Los Angeles county which has some of the country's greatest restrictions on personal freedoms in the Country.

So if it's a county government thing, then we should purge this thread of mentions of the state governor (Newsom--note correct spelling).

But the essence of my question remains: "Can someone identify the most recent county-wide lockdown for us?" See https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-21/l-a-county-says-no-lockdown-needed-now-as-california-require-boosters-for-health-workers from about two weeks ago.

@raphjd said in Leftie NFL is trying to move the Superbowl from California to Texas:

@eobox91103

I guess you forgot that they have had a lot of them.

"Had" is a verb in the past tense. Those lockdowns occurred when vaccinations were less/non-available, and understanding of transmission mechanisms were not as well understood.

Can you identify the most recent statewide lockdown for us?

@raphjd Lockdowns in California? My friends in California would find this quite surprising.

See https://covid19.ca.gov/safely-reopening/, updated four days ago. The top banner says,

Thanks to millions of vaccinations, California’s economy is open. There are no county tiers, capacity limits, or physical distancing requirements. But COVID-19 has not gone away. To safely go about our daily lives, we need to keep taking steps to prevent the spread.

If you want examples of lockdowns, look at some European countries or China.

@iaimtoplease said in Twitter suspends Daily Wire's Matt Walsh after he posted gender critical 'transphobic' tweets:

can't help but think of this photo when i see matt walsh content

I don't know the context of the photo (or even the overall discussion), but the picture reminds me of a Zoom meeting a couple of weeks ago when one of our younger associates stood up with his laptop camera on. It was a very pleasant view, but I wasn't able to hit "print screen" quickly enough. Damn....

@bi4smooth said in Turn-on: Mixed condom use:

Several years ago, I used to host sex parties... some bottoms would insist on condoms, others would insist on bare... but my favorites let the top decide.

That said, I'd estimate that ALL, or at least nearly all, of those bottoms became HIV+ in time... being a "party bottom" is not synonymous with "safer sex practices"...

One data point: A friend of mine (gay/total bottom) preferred to fucked bare, but in the late 1990's/early 2000's many tops insisted on using a condom...so he would supply a condom, which he had punctured a few times with a very small needle. It would often break during fucking, and he'd get a load inside of him.

He became HIV+, and fortunately the meds are working for him. But I don't think many of the tops that he stealthed were very pleased.