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@gaypraha2:

What "gays " have anything to do with theses transgender problems

Because there can be uncertainty regarding a person's own standing within their particular group, status comparisons with other in-groups and out-groups can take place, motivated by a search upwards, downwards, or sideways.

Not understanding the discrimination that Trans people experience and how this could relate to the discrimination Gay people experience indicates that in your search, you more easily identify up, rather than down. I would suggest a more sideways approach.

@obras62:

24 states with laws such as this

There is only one entire state with this type of law. Six other states have proposed similar bills: Nevada and Texas had theirs [desc=A decision by a committee's legislators not to act on a bill, which effectively "kills" it just as would voting against it in the full legislature]die in committee[/desc]; Wisconsin's was revised to mandate separate, gender neutral bathrooms; South Dakota's was vetoed by its governor; Arizona's was withdrawn by the bill's sponsor; and Tennessee is still considering theirs in the legislature.

@semurg30:

Most women do not want transgendered women (who were born male) in their locker rooms.

If they thought sharing with trans women was bad, just wait till they have to share with trans men (born female) — which the law now requires them to do.

Those women who didn't want to share bathrooms with men, will now be forced to do exactly that.

That's classical irony, in all its splendor.

@furrydad:

it shows that it has been snatched 31 times ….  Certainly I should at least get the credit for the first upload

An avi the exact same size as yours has been available online for over a year, so it's possible that some of the 31 had that file already, and clicked Download in order to seed it.

The number you see in the Snatched column increases whenever someone downloads the torrent file only. It is not necessary to download the entire content itself for that number to change.

@emule:

download the files directly from this site to the iPad

Watch torrents on your iPad by using your Mac-based client with Bitport. You can use iTransmission to control the client from the iPad itself.

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No More Parties in the Attic

@bobbert:

How long does it take to see your ratio updated

The gaytorrent tracker's minimum announce interval is 1800 seconds. Clients that reannounce accordingly can expect to see the values shown on the member's page under Currently seeding updated with the added amount every 30 minutes.

@cannonmc:

I really can't see what the problem is

The torrents added timestamp displayed in digital format (00h:00m:00s) can be, to the uninitiated, mistaken for the "time left for freeleech" which is shown in a similar hours/minutes format (00h:00m).


The Range
Copper Wire

Transgender Law Makes North Carolina Pioneer in Bigotry
by the Editorial Board of The New York Times
March 25, 2016

Officials in Charlotte, N.C., spent more than a year carefully considering and debating an antidiscrimination ordinance that was passed in February to promote the city’s culture of inclusiveness. State lawmakers quashed it on Wednesday by passing an appalling, unconstitutional bill that bars transgender people from using public restrooms that match their gender identity and prohibits cities from passing antidiscrimination ordinances that protect gay and transgender people.

Gov. Pat McCrory, who signed the bill into law late Wednesday, said it was necessary to undo Charlotte’s ordinance, which included protections for gay and transgender people, because it allowed “men to use women’s bathroom/locker room.” Proponents of so-called bathroom bills, which have been introduced in state legislatures across the country, have peddled them by spuriously portraying transgender women as potential rapists. Supporters of the measures have been unable to point to a single case that justifies the need to legislate where people should be allowed to use the toilet. North Carolina is the first state to pass such a provision.

Under the law, people are required to use public restrooms that match the gender on their birth certificate. Transgender people in the state can request to have their birth certificate changed only if they have had gender reassignment surgery. Many transgender people cannot afford surgery or choose not to have it. By promoting the idea that transgender women are inherently dangerous, the law endangers citizens who are already disproportionately vulnerable to violence and stigmatization.

Transgender men go largely unmentioned in bathroom bill debates, but that could change. James Parker Sheffield, a transgender man with a beard, exposed the foolishness of the law in a tweet to the governor. “It’s now the law for me to share a restroom with your wife,” he wrote, attaching a photo of himself.

North Carolina can expect a backlash from leading employers, a potential cut in federal education funding and lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the law. American Airlines, which has a hub in Charlotte, and PayPal, which recently announced it would create 400 jobs in the state, are among several companies that have already criticized the law.

@kco:

The entire post was about rephrasing the rules…

That post represents the current thinking about the rules and as such, is much more instructive about what the rules mean as opposed to what the rules say. This is important because in the end enforcement of them is performed by people who are given wide latitude to interpret them according to their understanding of the context, and not necessarily the text, of the rules.

@kco:

• cropped videos
• reencoded videos
• "compilations"

should not be allowed

Reencoded videos when labeled correctly are not against site rules. Compilations are, by definition, a reorganization of video titles not normally found together in a singular location. This type of repackaging is allowed.

@kco:

Not adding all the information regarding the videos attached to mislead people. Those compliations should considered duplicates.

Only certain parameters are required in a compilation's description area. (See Rule #9: "The description must contain a list of any video files or titles including their formats and file sizes..")

Posted torrents carrying pics depicting one title which are, in fact, another one entirely – are not in violation of site policy. This is considered an error to be corrected by site managers upon detection, at their convenience. (See note to Rule #11: "If pictures are wrong, it is helpful to add correct pictures and then report the wrong. Without added right, all staff can do is to remove the wrong or been (sic) left in doubt if the report is correct.")

@kco:

Making a new torrent of a video because 15% of the original footage was remove should be consirederd duplicate too.

This is already site policy. Your recommendation of 15% would increase the currently allowed threshold by 50%. (See Rule #2: "A file is considered a duplicate if an existing torrent has the same format and similar size (<10% difference)")

U.S. Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL)

@gusfring:

Is there a way to buy bitcoin without leaving personal info?

Use a [desc=an automated teller machine which allows for the purchasing or exchanging of bitcoins and cash]BTM[/desc]. Locations here.

@wesleyrayne:

where can i find the bel ami dvd "cherries"?

4.37Gb mkv

1.62Gb mp4

702Mb avi

1.38Gb avi

You Won't Stay The Same, Study Finds
by John Tierney of The New York Times
JAN. 3, 2013

When we remember our past selves, they seem quite different. We know how much our personalities and tastes have changed over the years. But when we look ahead, somehow we expect ourselves to stay the same, a team of psychologists said back in 2013. They described research conducted on people's self-perceptions. They called one phenomenon the "end of history illusion," in which people tend to "underestimate how much they will change in the future." According to their research, which involved more than 19,000 people ages 18 to 68, the illusion persists from teenage years into retirement.

"Middle-aged people often look back on their teenage selves with some mixture of amusement and chagrin," said one of the authors, Daniel T. Gilbert, a psychologist at Harvard. "What they never seem to realize is that their future selves will look back and think the very same thing about them. At every age people think they're having the last laugh, and at every age they’re wrong."

Other psychologists said they were intrigued by the findings, published in the journal Science, and were impressed with the amount of supporting evidence. Participants were asked about their personality traits and preferences — their favorite foods, vacations, hobbies and bands — in years past and present, and then asked to make predictions for the future. Not surprisingly, the younger people in the study reported more change in the previous decade than did the older respondents. But when asked to predict what their personalities and tastes would be like in 10 years, people of all ages consistently played down the potential changes ahead.

Thus, the typical 20-year-old man’s predictions for his next decade were not nearly as radical as the typical 30-year-old man’s recollection of how much he had changed in his 20s. This sort of discrepancy persisted among respondents all the way into their 60s. And the discrepancy did not seem to be because of faulty memories, because the personality changes recalled by people jibed quite well with independent research charting how personality traits shift with age. People seemed to be much better at recalling their former selves than at imagining how much they would change in the future.

One reason for this is the well-documented tendency of people to overestimate their own wonderfulness. Believing that they just reached the peak of their personal evolution makes them feel good. The 'I wish that I knew then what I know now' experience might give people a sense of satisfaction and meaning, whereas realizing how transient their preferences and values are might lead them to doubt every decision and generate anxiety.

Or maybe the explanation has more to do with mental energy: predicting the future requires more work than simply recalling the past. "People may confuse the difficulty of imagining personal change with the unlikelihood of change itself," the authors wrote in Science. The phenomenon does have its downsides, the authors said. For instance, people make decisions in their youth — about getting a tattoo, say, or a choice of spouse — that they sometimes come to regret. And that illusion of stability could lead to dubious financial expectations, as the researchers showed in an experiment asking people how much they would pay to see their favorite musical artists.

When asked about their favorite artist from a decade ago, respondents were typically willing to shell out $80 to attend a concert of that same artist today. But when they were asked about their current favorite artist and how much they would be willing to spend to see the newer artist's concert in 10 years, the price went up to $129. Even though they realized that favorites from a decade ago like Shakira or Justin Timberlake have lost some of their luster, they apparently expect Beach House and Katy Perry to blaze on forever. Thus, the end-of-history illusion seems to represent a failure in personal imagination.

UN stamps, for the next time you find yourself in Turtle bay needing to mail grüße to Prince Zeid in Geneva.

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Goth Star

@hatrick:

most people don´t like that book that much.

I'm kind of curious what it was that they didn't like about it. Was it Ms. Ward's argument that those who identify as straight are not straight in a sexual sense but only because they want to appropriate the idea of straight in order to have sex?

Was it her argument that by distancing themselves from homosexuality, those that occupy the straight stance actually get closer to it?

Or maybe they didn't like her assertion that being gay is about how sex is done – the language that is used, the type of ‘porn’ films that are watched, the beverages consumed, and the motivation that drives the sex itself.

Perhaps they just didn't care for her references to the heterosexual costumes, scripts, and codes like ‘being chill bros’ and ‘male bonding’ which are used to help those who identify as straight to reframe sex as the kind that bolsters, rather than threatens, the heterosexual masculinity of its participants.

@hatrick:

I have read plenty of shorter reviews

But don't those reviews feel as if they're half-done–like half the review was left out? I mean, they say that they didn't like it, but they didn't say why they didn't like it, and I guess it's kind of a shame that we'll never know…being that those shorter reviews probably didn't have much room to explain a whole lot, since they were shorter.

But then again, the book was written as an academic discourse, meaning that unlike 50 Shades of Grey, it wasn't meant to evoke the kind of response that one would characterize as 'liking'. People should no more 'like' this book than they should like a book discussing the taxonomy of benthic fauna.

Which, by the way, seems to be what Ms. Ward is doing....albeit above water, on dry land.

;D