Posts made by eobox91103

@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."

@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.

@massafera There is another LGBT torrent site (something.org...I won't mention the name) that is not publicly accessible, and has lots of torrents from sources that send takedowns to gt.ru. As a member of that site I have no problem using it. Whatever they're doing should be done here.

@bi4smooth said in Karen in FL files criminal charges because school library didn't censor a LGBTQ book.:

20 years ago (eek, maybe closer to 30?) I was visiting Indianapolis and was taken to a "private club" (I had to pay $5 at the door to get a membership!

There was a similar law in North Carolina some years ago that prohibited bars from serving a "predominantly homosexual clientele" (or something like that). So, gay bars had to be "private clubs." I recall visiting a friend there and having a similar $5 membership fee. I also had to sign in...I signed as "Jesse Helms," a senator from that state with rabidly homophobic views.

@bi4smooth said in Karen in FL files criminal charges because school library didn't censor a LGBTQ book.:

I don't think it's legal to drive naked in this state, much less attack people with your car while naked...

The Florida statues don't address specifically address driving while naked (would that be a DWN?), but it is a first degree misdemeanor to be "naked in public in a vulgar or indecent manner." This gives rise (!) to three questions:

1. Is being in one's car on a public road considered being "in public?"
2. Does being naked in itself inherently imply a "vulgar or indecent manner?"
3. What is the definition of "being naked?" Florida law is silent on this.

I'm not going to research the case law here, although there are probably some amusing precedents. I wouldn't, myself, want to drive while naked: I always wear the seat belt, and the lower portion of such would be in position to saw off my gentleman's bits. This would be uncomfortable was well as unsafe.

(As an aside, the definition of "naked" is not as straightforward as one might think. Some time back I was visiting a friend of mine in Washington, DC, and he took me to a gay bar that had male "dancers." They appeared to be completely naked, but on closer inspection (!), I noticed that they were wearing socks--and I was told that this was to quash any accusation that they were naked.)

@bi4smooth said in Required military service... or?:
...(Can I volunteer to be a tester - someone who confirms their gay sex eligibility??????)

Some years ago I was at a university with on-coed dorms that had a strict policy that persons of the other sex could not be in the dorm between 11pm and 8am. One student complained to me that this policy was discriminatory, as straight students couldn't have a sex partner stay over with them, but gay/bi students could.

In a column for the student newspaper, I proposed a solution: Have each student declare their orientation at the beginning of each year, and apply the rule to them accordingly: For example, straight male students could not host women, gay male students could not host men, and bi students couldn't host anybody. This approach would preserve the "sex prevention" intent of the rules.

As I predicted, in the next week's edition a student responded that people could game the system by declaring the opposite orientation: e.g., straight male students would declare themselves gay so that they could have women stay over with them.

I was ready for that, so the following week I proposed that we needed a "Qualify Undergraduates by Interview and Carnal Knowledge Evaluation” (QUICK-E) process to determine if a someone who declared himself gay was, in fact, gay. I volunteered to be part of this activity, available to do a QUICK-E with students as needed.

Unfortunately, my proposal was not implemented.

@raphjd The law that applies here appears in every state: One is prohibited from distributing obscene materials to minors, and I provided Florida's legal definition of obscenity. Criminal charges would only apply if the book in question contained obscene material. Given Florida's definition of this, it would not appear that it does. As @bi4smooth reminds us, there are professionals who can be called on here.

The other item at issue is, "who decides what books [my] children may read?" Parents are the first line of defense. If Suburban Momzilla Karen doesn't want her children to read a particular book, she is within her rights to enforce that.

But she doesn’t want to stop there: She wants to govern the reading list for other parents’ children. Think about the inherent self-contradiction here: “I think parents should decide what books their children can read, so I want to decide what other parents’ children can read.” She cannot argue both for and against parental responsibility at the same time.

@raphjd The relevant question is, "Would this material be considered obscene under Florida law?"

That is defined in 2021 Florida Statutes, Title XLVI, 847.001 as:
(10) “Obscene” means the status of material which:
(a) The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
(b) Depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct as specifically defined herein; and
(c) Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

It is far from clear that the book contains material that satisfies all three of those criteria.

@dorftimbre said in Why is everything new being deleted from the "Fan Sites" category?:

@therock07 wow never knew about that! The things one can find on the internet. gay-torrents.net does not seem to be tat affected as this site. I have never seen their search results pop up on Google. I guess I'll be using them instead

I think gt.net has fewer takedowns because they don't permit posting of torrents with material from quite a few sources--for example, EnglishLads can't be posted there. They also have a much smaller collection, usually less than 50 torrents per day, so there's less likelihood that they'd have takedown-prone material. (But I'm not criticising the site: It's well-designed, the content it has is good, and the forum has nice discussions.)

@hubrys We should note that the book was in the library of a high school, not an elementary school. At that point, most of the kids are sexually active. And...for some of them, it will be their last formal education and thus the last opportunity for them to experience content outside of their own narrow bubble.

Also, the right-wing book burners who want government (i.e., school boards) to censor library content also rail against a nanny state that would override individual responsibility. If a parent wants to regulate what their high school student reads, s/he should step in and do so. It sounds like "Karen in Florida" wants government to take over that job for her.

@flozen said in Why is everything new being deleted from the "Fan Sites" category?:

I feel as if half of the posters (guess) are late for their Ivermectin boosters.

You're right! Not only was I getting my booster, but I had to change my IV bag because it ran out of bleach. But now that I've had my litre of Clorox, I can return to the forum.

@deliverator9 said in Greetings from somehwere in the US :

@bi4smooth I'm south of Hell, MI - one state downward lol

That might be Indiana? I lived in South Bend for two years.

Another great place name for @bi4smooth's list: Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

Unfortunately, there is no more Fucking in Austria; the residents of that town voted last year to change its name to Fugging. You can, though, still visit Fucking, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AZbO2rcbX8.

@kytec G'day from Canada, and welcome. I have some good friends in Queensland, and it's always a pleasure to visit down there.

@vmalar Please re-read what I said, and I'll also try to simplify it for you: There's a big difference between a parent who circumcises a child without his consent, and that child who grows up to be a circumcised man.

I think the parent was wrong to enforce this upon the child. While this might fall under the category of child abuse, it cannot be compared to the holocaust.

But the guy who was circumcised is not wrong. He had nothing to do with the decision, and he has a right to enjoy his sex life--and his penis--to the fullest. Telling him that he is defective and mutilated serves no purpose.

@bi4smooth said in American circumcision:

...there is ABSOLUTELY no cause to discriminate against people with or without a foreskin! Virtually NONE of them had a say in the matter!

This is very important. Much of the anti-circumcision "intactivist" conversation can have the effect of causing what might be called Foreskin Dysphoria--a concept that being circumcised is deficient, and that such person would have an inferior sex life, etc. We cannot demonise people for a situation that they had no control over. I have many circumcised friends who have very satisfying sex lives.

@bi4smooth said in Where are the Biden supporters?!:

There's a lot to unpack here - forgive the length:

Your unpacking skills are admirable. Can I call you the next time I move?

In my mind though, the CENTRAL ISSUE in both "fights" is the complete and utter lack of CRITICAL THINKING - not only by the parents who weren't taught how to think critically in THEIR schools 20 years ago, but ALSO by the students not being taught this basic skill in our schools NOW - out of fear that somehow they'll grow-up thinking DIFFERENTLY than their parents!

This is absolutely on point. It is so much easier, though, for people to follow a Dear Leader than to engage their own minds--especially when they are being fed simple solutions to complex problems.

....

PS: Know who else gets up-to $164k/mo in pension? Former Speakers Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Dennis Hastert (in spite of his criminal convictions), & Newt Gingrich! (ALL Republicans!)

I think it's $164K/year, not month...but the fact-free websites wouldn't want to hear that.

@martin526 & bi4smooth I agree with what's been said above, especially the "pulling out before you cum" stunt.

One peeve of mine is bored actors. I realize that it's a paying job, and one actor might not be turned on by another actor...but hey, guys, you are acting. Act like you're enjoying it even if you aren't, but don't overdo it.

Then there's lack of communication between actors. Yes, we know that the reason you switched from doggy style to missionary is because the director told you to. But again, it's acting: Have the bottom say, "I want to try it on my back."

Also, let's be creative: It seems that 90% of the time the bottom sucks the top's cock first, and then maybe the top reciprocates before they start fucking. How about switching it up more 50/50 so we can be a little surprised at the outcome (so to speak). While top/bottom identification can be obvious from the start when there's some "macho" guy paired with an effeminate twink, if it's two Fratmen-type guys, leave us in suspense for a while.

On a more general level, these problems don't occur as much in purely home-made porn. The lighting and camera angles aren't as good, but real people having real sex often make better videos than the "professionals." Maybe the pro directors need to get laid more often.

@lololulu19 said in HOAX - Black woman charged with posing as white male KKK member, leaving terroristic threats in mailboxes:

@raphjd That's nothing, in the USA, we have
Hmm, thought you were Scottish

@raphjd a senile pedophile with dementia posing as the President!
Wasn't he voted out of office, and now lives in Florida?

@bi4smooth said in Question About Using Bonus Points:

So far as I can tell, if you STOP SEEDING, the site will eventually STOP listing the torrent as "downloading" - e.g. you CAN abandon a download - but to do so, you have to REALLY abandon it...

Just remember that "stop seeding" means removing the torrent from your client's torrent list. You can keep the files you've downloaded, and even keep the .torrent file on your computer if you want to come back to it in the future. In uTorrent, this means right-clicking on the torrent in question, and either selecting "remove" (which keeps the .torrent file, but it's inactive), or choose "remove and delete the torrent [and perhaps the downloaded files if you don't want them]."

Full disclosure: Brother bi4smooth has convinced me that uTorrent is a POS and I'm going to migrate to qBitTorrent, but I don't know how that one works.

@bi4smooth said in Quick questions about uTorrent:

@eobox91103

uTorrent has a colored past.

You DO NOT want the latest version, nor any of the recent versions. There is a forum post about how to install the "recommended" version. I think there is a link to it in the QTM howto?

I personally use qBitTorrent...

Thanks for the information. I did see the post about the "recommended" version of uTorrent, but following those instructions still got me a block from my anti-virus software (Norton 360).

I'll have to give qBitTorrent a try--it seems to get high marks from many people. I don't look forward to setting up all the various options of where to put torrent files, downloads, etc., but it sounds like it will be worth it in the long run.