@raphjd Yes, I understand how the system works. But what I'm saying is that active freeleeches always count against my download rate even while the freeleech period is open. I've never seen the D/L rate stay the same and the U/L rate increase on a freeleech, ever.
If you want, I can take screenshots of the phenomenon.
@bi4smooth said in Teenage knife fights are no big deal, say liberals:
from your viewpoint:
There is nothing wrong with the status quo - in fact, the police should "step it up a notch" because crime is "so bad"
Thus, I'm posing possible solutions to a problem you do not believe exists... and that is "a bridge too far"... to go on would be pointless.
Might i suggest you buy a bullet-proof vest... LOL
The reason "we will not agree here" is, indeed, fundamental -- you literally misconstrued everything I said and attribute opinions to me that I have not claimed for myself, and have -- in fact -- explicitly disclaimed earlier in the thread. It's clear that there's no point engaging with you; you've arrived at a caricature of what I've been saying that very obviously doesn't match the actual words I've typed in this thread. It's like you're deliberately lying about the plain text of things I've written because it's easier to argue with a straw man than with an actual human being.
FWIW, I never bother with freeleech because 100 percent of the time, my traffic/ratio acts as if the torrent weren't freeleech.
Geez, where to begin?
It's amazing that you're an experienced martial artist with real-life knife skills, trained by police trainers in firearms and tasers, and a danger-zone diplomat to boot. Yet, you have time to write lengthy reubttals anonymously on a gay-torrent forum? Color me skeptical. Everything you say about your expertise sounds suspect. If you'd like to prove your claims, I'm happy to retract and apologize, but for now, you sound like the 98 million other forum-dwelling trolls who claim omnicompetence about every aspect of an argument as a way of avoiding inconvenient facts about the matter.
National news correspondents and law-enforcement commentators on television and in print have asserted that the officer's response was justified. (See: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2021/04/22/columbus-police-shooting-makhia-bryant-appears-lawful/7318300002/). I suspect that part of the reason you claim omnicompetence about knives and guns and tasers is to pretend that your plucked-from-the-air assertions are just as valid as the documented, broad consensus among real experts that the officer reacted appropriately and according to training.
The socioeconomic status question is absolutely relevant. Police use-of-force incidents are a response to something -- i.e., criminal behavior wherein officers have legitimate fear of being attacked or killed. And in the United States and Canada, criminal behavior is strongly correlated to low socioeconomic status (see: https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/crime/rr06_6/p2.html). If we want to reduce use-of-force problems, we absolutely need to do something about police training, but we also need to do something about the cultural systems surrounding the people most likely to commit a crime. When people refuse to submit to apprehension or think that they'd rather go down swinging because it'll increase their street cred, the risk to officers increases -- and officers' incentive to prioritize their own safety also increases. You simply cannot look at this as a police-only situation and retain any sense of intellectual honesty.
Officers killed in the line of duty don't come from "organized crime" as you assert. FBI statistics for 2019 show 48 dying from felonious acts by criminals and 41 by on-the-job accidents. Of the 48, 15 relate to law-enforcement activities, 9 to tactical situations, 5 from unprovoked attacks, etc. See https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2019-statistics-on-law-enforcement-officers-killed-in-the-line-of-duty for more information.
I've never said police should stand down. From where do you source that mischaracterization?
I've also never said that I think nothing should be done. I have not outlined a comprehensive "If I were in charge" reform plan in this thread, nor do I think (at present) that such is useful for me to share. For now, I'm more interested in correcting the falsehoods about the Bryant shooting that everyone really, really, really wants to shy away from so they can shout from their generic anti-gun/anti-police soapboxes.
Sigh.
@bi4smooth said in Twitter does NOT suspend liberals spewing hatred:
Twitter is a private company.
But, you have options:
- Choose another platform, or
- Start your own competing platform (clearly you think there is a market for it!), or
- build-a-bridge and get over it!
Actually, no. When Parler took off a few months ago, it was de-listed from both Apple and Google's app stores, and Google AWS banned Parler from using its back-end infrastructure. "Build your own platform" only works when the Leftists in charge of the AdTech ecosystem allow it. It's ridiculous and intellectually dishonest, given the Parler situation, to claim that private companies ought to compete when they're not allowed to access the infrastructure to compete in the first place.
@bi4smooth said in Twitter does NOT suspend liberals spewing hatred:
You couldn't be MORE wrong:
- Parler was not de-listed on Android's "store" at all, but Apple DID de-list them - but not for politics... when they were de-platformed, they became in violation of Apple's agreements.
Why do you insist on telling people they're wrong when a simple Google search will prove that you are either lying or woefully ignorant? Parler WAS pulled from Google Play Store -- see https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/08/tech/parler-google-play-removed/index.html for the story.
Biden won. I don't like it, but facts are facts.
These "audits" are nothing more than a clown show. These elections have been audited in detail in November and December according to statute -- and, in many cases, by Republican clerks and Republican elections boards.
A class of grifters, sucking up to Trump's anus like remoras, is peddling a demonstrably false claim of a stolen election. Every chance they've come before the courts, they've been dismissed -- including by Trump judges.
You are lying. Stop it. People like you are undermining our democracy, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit to find out that you're not really an American but rather a Russian troll somewhere in the Moscow suburbs engaged in disinformation campaigns on behalf of cruel dictator Vladimir Putin.
@oxala00 said in best "duplicate finder" for image & video?:
fslint
I am a fan of dupeGuru, which supports fuzzy matching that should help with crops and overlays. It doesn't work on videos, but it does work on still images.
Of course, that claim is disputed, probably because it's a lie: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/06/14/report-claiming-hundreds-of-thousands-ballots-missing-in-arizona-disputed-n1454565
Of course, some of the loudest preachers of the "election was stolen" lie, when confronted in court, back down and admit that "no reasonable person" could believe such hogwash. See, e.g., Sidney Powell: https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/3/25/22350378/sidney-powell-admits-lie-mona-charen
For a good insight into how decent, patriotic Americans can be persuaded by the Comrade Commissars of the world to believe things that are utterly batshit crazy, read this: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-12-06/donald-trump-election-fraud-lies-psychology
@manhandler said in Mike Lindell, Another Billionaire, on Infowars.:
@jsl76 Silence Worm! The audit was completed today, we'll see what they have to report. You acting like you have some kind of premonition or foreknowledge of what they found is stupid and dumb. Especially when you haven't been keeping up with it from the beginning.
Oh, I've been keeping up -- I do enjoy a good clown show:
We see what you're doing, Comrade Commissar. And we won't fall for it again.
@manhandler said in 3 States Touring the AZ election audit today, Georgia, Alaska, Colorado.:
@jsl76 USATODAY was one of those that reported "Donald Trump removed the Bust of MLK from the White House. OMG!" When he never did. Infowars called them out on it. You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
I'll leave you with this, Comrade Commissar: https://www.wsj.com/articles/roger-stone-admits-spreading-lies-on-infowars-11545093097
@manhandler said in Everyone Wants to Be on INFOWARS:
@jsl76 You're lame. You're also gaslighting us. We know because it's obvious. You are a liar. Period.
Still on the #KeepItClassy train, I see. Choo-choo! You post lies and insults; I post links to facts. But I know that the Russian Disinformation Handbook you've been working from does require playground taunts when you have no recourse to facts.
So far, so predictable, Comrade Commissar.
@bi4smooth said in One Pallet of Ballots left to count.:
@jsl76 said in One Pallet of Ballots left to count.:
@raphjd said in One Pallet of Ballots left to count.:
Go back to sniffing Pelosi's panties.
Can you imagine what all that formaldehyde would do to your sinuses?
Sigh - you continue to refer to your cause as Conservatism - even though you were never a Conservative before Trump, and Trumpsim is far more Authoritarian and Fascist than actual Conservatism.
If there's a RINO in this room, it's the ca. 2016 convert, not the one with a 30-year history in the party.
I'm pretty sure you've never met me, dude.
I am not a fan of BLM as an organization, but when Cullors is focused on buying expensive property while local BLM chapters get little or no funding from the national headquarters -- you know it's a corrupt organization.
https://nypost.com/2021/06/12/blm-infighting-gets-ugly-as-members-blast-national-group/
Same logic goes for things like confirming SCOTUS nominees and nuking the filibusters -- a moral imperative when the Left is in power, and a Threat to Democracy
when the Right does it.
@raphjd said in One Pallet of Ballots left to count.:
Go back to sniffing Pelosi's panties.
Can you imagine what all that formaldehyde would do to your sinuses? 
@manhandler said in Mike Lindell, Another Billionaire, on Infowars.:
@jsl76 You are so hilarious and lost in the sauce. I feel like I can guide you. But you can only lead a horse to water. You can't make it drink.
Translation: You have no facts to share, despite that I've posted a link.
Here's a tip, Comrade Commissar: Everyone knows you're lying/gaslighting when your only response to facts is to suggest you have secret knowledge and everyone else is clueless. It's a trivial error in informal reasoning that most people learn not to commit, in their middle-school English classes.
@manhandler said in 3 States Touring the AZ election audit today, Georgia, Alaska, Colorado.:
@jsl76 You are ridiculous. I'm not clicking that garbage website.
Translation: You refuse to accept facts. So you claim USA Today is a "garbage website" yet you glowingly praise Infowars. Dude, the cognitive dissonance is dialed to 11 with you.