@anythingold said in This Is Such Bullsh*t:

@bi4smooth said in This Is Such Bullsh*t:

Blaming this (or even attributing this) behavior to leftists is like looking at a see-saw and only seeing the guy in the UP position! Extremists on both (to be more correct: ALL) political spectrums use the same tactics (and apologists will always resort to escape clauses like what-about-isms)...

The problem isn't with extreme leftists - it's with extremists of all ilks!!!

The truth is, these extremists learn from each other and duplicate tactics that work for any one of them... When one of them finds something new that works, it doesn't take long for the others to appropriate the methods for their own ends...

I completely disagree. The democratic party are under the spell of communism and socialism. Whatever issues with the republic party, is nothing to what the democrats have done. They're an very, very dangerous party. And what I see now is that the democrats have become equivalent to religion. I now feel the same kind of stress when I try to tell christians that being gay is ok, and that it's perfectly normal. It's impossible to talk with leftists, they can't smell their own shit, and they really believe they have a superior knowledge to anybody else who doesn't think like them. And the fact that democratic voters can't see it, is fucking insane! I still don't know how to process that! And the most disappointing is people of color! Knowing how Blacks have been devastated in ALL democratic cities, how the fuck can you be so trusting of democrats after you've been lied to so many times? Again, this is synonymous with religion I'm sorry to say. It is insanity, doing the same fucking thing, over and over again, expecting different results.

This is will not end well for Black people. 20 years later, the democrats will still blame every misfortune for people of color on Trump, and every dumb ass Black person will believe every stinking word the democrats say, because that's what they've been programmed, just like religion.

My problem with what you've said is that you fail to acknowledge that people who believe differently from you can possibly be anything but stupid, uninformed, or just plain evil. And that prevents virtually any possibility of trying to find common ground. They're just completely and totally wrong, on all counts, and there is no sense discussing it further. Every breath they take, every thought they have, every word out of their mouth is tainted and untrustworthy....

And the problem gets worse because they then develop the same feelings about you and your side: to believe what you do, you must be stupid, uninformed, or just plain evil!

Further, your clear belief that nothing changes is demonstrably false... for the only thing you can count on in life, technology, and politics is that everything changes.

While it's questionable (and up for debate) who has done more good for people of color in the past 40 years, its just that: up for debate... and intelligent, well informed, highly educated, good people can disagree! Even when presented with the same facts they can come to different conclusions.

Furthermore, both can be right, at least up to a point!

This life and this world in which we live is COMPLICATED and COMPLEX. There are very few issues that truly come down to simple "black and white" decisions.... If things were that easy, our ancestors would have solved these problems centuries ago!

Each new generation has its challenges and issues. Our grandparents had the benefit of having a globally acknowledged evil to coalesce against: nazis! It's part of why so much was accomplished in their time: they had a common enemy that the overwhelming majority of people agreed was the enemy.... today, we're not so coalesced... what we are, instead, is deeply and almost evenly divided and that makes things more challenging (and difficult to enact change!) But, change is inevitable!

Dems are in-charge right now - but the smart ones know it won't last! And when we Republicans are in-charge again, that won't last, either! And it won't be because of mistakes or evil forces - it's just that change (and chaos) are inherent in our universe - at ALL LEVELS! From the smallest atoms to the largest galaxies - and every size in-between, the Universe craves chaos, and that means change!

@anythingold said in This Is Such Bullsh*t:

@raphjd I've learned fairly quickly, the leftist will always run frantically in the opposite direction from truth and reality.

Blaming this (or even attributing this) behavior to leftists is like looking at a see-saw and only seeing the guy in the UP position! Extremists on both (to be more correct: ALL) political spectrums use the same tactics (and apologists will always resort to escape clauses like what-about-isms)...

The problem isn't with extreme leftists - it's with extremists of all ilks!!!

The truth is, these extremists learn from each other and duplicate tactics that work for any one of them... When one of them finds something new that works, it doesn't take long for the others to appropriate the methods for their own ends...

@raphjd said in New York undercounted C-19 deaths:

Well, it looks like I was right.

Cuomo is a murderer and tried to blame Trump.

NY Dems are calling him a liar and that he covered up the deaths he caused.

Hmmm... you mean LIBERAL DEMS are holding one of their own accountable?

How ironic that my own party can't bring itself to do the same...

Time will tell. There's going to be an investigation here, and the spinning is going to get un-spun.

Of course, the final results will be on "Page 6" and not get any of the coverage the early parts of this story got... but that's the nature of the "headline news" world we live in!

@ldavidbr

If you've seen it here and then disappears, it is most likely a DMCA request...

I'd guess their tech people are pretty active & aggressive...

2 Suggestions:

• 1 If you see it, GRAB IT!! The DMCA request takes it off the tracker, not the seeders! Even if the tracker removes it in 30-seconds, if you get connected to the seeder, the transfer can complete
• 2 Expand your search. Those guys went on to create the website HERE

Good Hunting!

@damirmarotta said in Constant drop to 0.0kbps every 5 seconds.:

@damirmarotta
Clarification: this only happens in this website. Others work fine

I'll reply to raise the issue further, but honestly, the idea that torrents from any tracker - private or otherwise - would, because of the tracker, make what you describe happen makes little sense to me:

Remember: you only download the rather TINY little .torrent file from the tracker... EVERYTHING ELSE comes from the seeders... and the tracker (in spite of some common beliefs) is not a middle-man in that transfer -- your client (the leecher) and the seeder (some other guy's system) talk DIRECTLY for each "piece" of the torrent that you download.

What I will add is that on my Linux qBittorrent client I have issues with "spoiled cache" - and when I have too small a cache for the number of torrent's I'm trying to download at once, I will see transfers drop to zero (because there is no available cache) until the cache clears (there is an "expiration" on the cache)...

Now Mac OS-X is built on the same core as Linux, so maybe this is what's happening to you?

But i don't own a Mac to test this out on - nor to load your client to tell you where this setting is... but look to DISABLE your cache (forces write to disk cor all data) and see what happens.

NOTE: Can I suggest that the fact that you only see this on GT.RU torrents may be because you are downloading either larger files, or a larger number of simultaneous files???

@bobi1990

I'm not 100% sure, but I think you have to be leeching the file to request a reseed...

Give it a shot... download and start the torrent first, then try the reseed button..

@bijicjic

I am equally impressed that @MrMazda recognized this error from WinXP

... and that @bijicjic is actually using a system that old!

@raphjd

Honestly, I thought this had to be bullshit, but I read it...

In this article it says:

"The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so," the course states. "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict."

I'm sorry, but unlike your English class, where color and colour are technically BOTH correct spellings, 1 + 1 = 2 and the square-root of 25 is exactly 5 are not "open for debate", nor are they - at least at the level taught in non-graduate school level classes - open to being re-interpreted and changed anytime soon!

If math was subjective - and open to debate based on your cultural heritage, or other factors - then we'd have never landed the lunar or martian explorations!

Now THIS is some LIBERAL BULLSHIT!!!

@mrmazda said in Connection closed by peer:

@bijicjic This can also happen if you're using Windows XP. Due to some security upgrades and the lack of updates to support them in Windows XP, you are now unfortunately limited to using the non-SSL tracker. You can do this by disabling the SSL tracker option in your profile.

In case you're interested, it's that the SSL versions supported in WinXP are now deprecated... you should be using TLS 1.2 and/or TLS 1.3 exclusively today.... and those didn't exist in the days of WinXP, and they are beyond the computing power of most systems that would run that OS today!

As well, you can change the tracker URL manually on your torrents by modifying the beginning of the URL

change this:
https://tracker.gaytor.rent/

to this:
http://tracker.gaytorrent.tw:2710/

That is interesting information - a shadow tracker!

@andergarcia said in THIS or THAT: the game:

@bi4smooth

I would say shaved... I hate it when I'm licking there and I get hair in my mouth... no way!!!

what about ass: shaved, trimmed or full-natural?

Ass and balls shaved - rest of pubes, neatly trimmed please...

Piercings: yeah, por nay? (talking in "private" areas - perineum, penis, etc.)

@mrmazda said in Just started getting Usage Violations -:

@raphjd You are correct. I run a cross between Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linix, depending on what system I'm on.

Cool then - so other members of Staff should know then to direct help inquiries about Linux-specific problems to MrMazda!

@raphjd said in This Is Such Bullsh*t:

@bi4smooth

Your beloved RINOs and swamp monsters wanted to cancel Trump from the very start.

I'll take this example of "what about-ism" as acquiescence to the validity of my earlier point...

However, there are legitimate reasons, from time to time, when politicians should be removed... though it should be rare.

But let's be honest: Conservative Republicans were the first to use impeachment as a political weapon - against Clinton: for the high crime of having an extra-marital affair with a White House intern and lying about it!

Let's review history:

• Johnson was impeached for firing a Secretary of War the other party wanted to keep
• Clinton was impeached for lying about sex in the White House
• Trump was impeached for covering up an attempt to get a foreign leader to interfere with US elections (two things there!)
• Trump was later impeached for Inciting a riot for the purposes of insurrection against the US Government

Of ALL of these things, the Clinton impeachment stands alone in the pages of history as frivolous political nonsense... and it is we Republicans who are to blame for using impeachment for such base, purely political, means... it has (predictably) back-fired on us!

Do I, personally, think Trump should have been removed from office in the FIRST impeachment? No - not really, but he should have "gotten a bigger scare" - MORE Republicans should have voted to remove him, and the vote should have been CLOSE, but not enough to remove him.

Do I, personally, think Trump should have been removed from office (and barred from future office) in the SECOND impeachment: HELL YES!!

Given the precedent the (WE) Republicans have now created, President Biden can, in January 2025, LITERALLY ARREST sufficient members of Congress on January 5th - enough necessary to override the Electoral College's count, throw the election into the House (and Senate), and GUARANTEE that his replacement (assuming is isn't him) is a member of his own Party - as chosen by the remaining MoC... and there isn't SHIT Congress can do about it because he'll be out of office by the time they can try him in the Senate!

The idea that one can resign or otherwise leave office to avoid impeachment is an anathema to the concept as a whole (which comes from British Law!).

One of our Founding Fathers, John Quincy Adams, ca. 1832 - AFTER his term as President - proclaimed on the floor of the House that: “I hold myself, so long as I have the breath of life in my body, amenable to impeachment by this House for everything I did during the time I held any public office.”

Yes, Virginia, there IS impeachment after you have left office!
... and this new precedent is wrong: historically, politically, and logically.
I just pray that, like the "impeachment as a political weapon" has, bite us in the ass a few years down the road!

Also, this can happen when your ISP detects your use of a torrent program and they block the port.

To test this theory, open your BitTorrent client's options, and under connections, choose a different port... a random one is best, because you don't want to pick one (like 80, or 21, or 1443) that are used for other well-known services!

@bijicjic said in Connection closed by peer:

From some time I can't upload, neither download. I'm using utorrent 3.1.2.It says "connection closed by peer" down in the tracker info.

There are times, after lengthy inactivity, when this message will appear. This is just an "idle timeout'...

The connection may/should re-establish at your next refresh interval (usually 30-minutes). You can also manually refresh the connection by clicking on the torrent (file) in question and choosing to "re-announce".

If the re-announce fails, then there is an actual problem.
If the re-announce is successful, then you're all good

@raphjd said in This Is Such Bullsh*t:

@bi4smooth

There's a huge difference between wanting politicians out of office and getting random people fired from their jobs.

Um... no, there isn't! Their position is their job!

However, there IS a huge difference if you just want to elect someone different in the next election cycle! That's not cancel-culture - that's politics!!!

Agreed that "normal" people don't have to re-interview for their jobs every 2/4/6 years! But that should be enough! Barring serious misconduct, those people (politicians) should be allowed to keep their jobs until their term is completed. (And, if they're re-elected, until THAT term ends!)

Honestly, AOC has said some of the DUMBEST SHIT I've ever heard out of a politician's mouth -- but then, so has Rand Paul! Liz Cheney isn't my favorite Republican MoC, but she's a loyal, thoughtful, conservative LEADER in the House... she shouldn't be "cancelled" because she's realized the "Emperor has no clothes"... If the voters in her district disagree in 2022, she can be retired - just like every other member of the House!

Forcing her to resign because she voted against Trump is Cancel Culture.
Voting her out of office (which I hope they do not do) is politics!

@ricky said in Just started getting Usage Violations -:

@goodblowjob Has your User Agent or other Firefox settings changed?

Please try Google Chrome or a different browser to see if you can download a torrent.

Just a technical note: The user pointed out that he was using Firefox on Ubuntu 20 - that's a Linux system.

A lot of tech-savvy users (like myself) use Linux systems to browse porn and download Torrents because these sites are often RIFE with viruses and other malware. And, quite simply, most of those attack-vectors just do not work in Linux! What's more, Linux does a much better job of "privilege separation" so that any malware installed is limited to the logged-in user (unless they're fool enough to do these things logged in as "root")!

The point being: Chrome doesn't exist on Linux.
There is the open-source chromium - upon which both Chrome and the new Microsoft Edge browsers are BOTH based - but no Chrome, per se.

If the GT.ru team is in need of Linux-aware "support", I'm happy to oblige... when you get a Linux-oriented question, just shoot me a note and I'll look at it! I've been working in/on/around Linux since before Linux Torvolds released 1.0 of the kernel!

@raphjd

As has been pointed out, "Cancel Culture" is a societal problem, not a liberal or conservative one...

Liberals have "deployed" cancel culture on certain conservative extremists, and conservatives have done the same to liberals.

Hell, conservatives are "doing it to their own" - right now, with the attempts to oust the Republicans (in some cases [e.g.: Liz Cheney] LEADERS of the party!)... solely because they won't fall in line behind "The Orange Don-ald"!

Part of the problem is that the Internet has given us nearly unlimited capacity to store data - so, for example, there was a CFO who lost his CAREER because he was incensed about hearing that Chick-Fil-A (a chicken fast-food joint in the US) was making corporate statements that were anti-LGBTQ. His (the CFO's) offense? He video'd himself lambasting a Chick-Fil-A drive-thru clerk for working for a hate-filed company. (Damn, the poor girl just wanted a JOB! I'm pretty sure she didn't check the political leanings of the company when she applied for that low-as-shit-wage job!)

So he got some hate mail (ok, deserved)... his COMPANY (employer - he was the CFO of the company) was attacked in the social media: threatened with bomb threats, boycotts, etc, so they fired him. (MAYBE deserved, but only because he was a C**-level employee, and he "represented the company" poorly)... But shit didn't stop there... he got a new job (NOT a C**-level job), but "activists" found out, notified that company, and he was fired again! (NOT cool!) And this repeated for over 5-years! These people would not let the man get and keep a job to support his family?

EDIT: OOPS! To be clear: maybe he should have lost his job for posting the video and identifying himself as the CFO of his employer. NO! His employer should NOT have received bomb threats, etc from social media activists!)

When is enough, enough? In the Internet Age, you cannot outlive your past sins! It's there FOREVER!

Should that nutball lady in Central Park be FOREVER ostracized because she called the cops on the birder in the park - because he was black, and she was scared? (Totally a racist thing - but not unforgivable, and should not be a life-ruining thing!) Even the victim told activists: enough! Leave the poor lady alone!

Should Kevin Hart never work in hollywood again because he made some anti-LGBTQ jokes 10-years ago??? Fuck no! He apologized for it - noting that they were different times - but "cancel culture" wouldn't hear of it! There can be no atonement! He cannot host the Emmy Awards if he - even 10 years ago - made fun of queer people!

BULLSHIT

BUT some of the arguments in this thread are off-base too:

There is no such thing as Speech that is FREE OF CONSEQUENCES!

Speech in America is free of persecution by the Government!
When you call your neighbor a FAG in a street-side argument, and the neighborhood queer kids TP your house that night, your rights weren't violated! You were sent a message - by the local queer kids - and now, you have a 6-month supply of TP! The only problem is: it's in trees!

In America it is legal to believe the Holocaust isn't real. (In Germany, making such a claim is a criminal offense.)
In America telling people your belief that the Holocaust was faked will get you thrown out of a lot of parties, but it won't (at least, not by itself) get you thrown in jail!

Thus, "cancel culture" isn't illegal - at least not in America...
But it IS (IMHO) completely amoral and wrong (I know, redundant much?). It's an ugly addition to our culture, and one that history will not remember with any fondness...

@andergarcia said in THIS or THAT: the game:

@ricky

I would say outdoors when there is no privacy... fucking outside with snow around must be so dammed cold!!!

fucking in an orgy or just with one person?

Oooohhhh.... I love a good orgy! For a totally VERSATILE and insatiably horny guy, that's just a BUFFET of good times!

OK, a 3-way (in honor of the orgy question):
Pubes: shaved? trimmed? of full-natural?

@hottie124

I had a friend (had - quite a long time ago - we're not friends now because we moved to different places and just never kept in tough) who worked in a pet shop...

People think "puppy mills" are bad!

The "fish as pets" industry is 10-x worse! And SO MANY people buy fish because they think they're "hassle free"! Those poor creatures go home to tanks that aren't cleaned, food that's either too much or too little (or old!). Hell, sometimes fresh-water fish are dumped into salt-water tanks, and vive-versa! Water is water, right?

Locally, our tap-water is treated with chloramine & flouramine... but once a year, or thereabouts, they switch up to chlorine for a few days (about 2-weeks usually) to disinfect the primary distribution systems... more fish are killed by owners NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THE MAILED WARNINGS!

Anyway, my point is:

KUDOS TO YOU for doing right by your scaled little dependents!
They are living creatures, and if you take them into your home (for other than food purposes), you OWE them a decent, safe habitat!

NOTE: the "other than food" I'm referring to here are the pets who eat live prey - like some snakes and some spiders....

@raphjd

Honestly, man! As-if the left had a monopoly on STUPIDITY?

Qanon? Donald Trump's Big Lie?

Enough said?

That's not to say the left DOES NOT come up with some stupid shit!

Bernie Sanders "free for all"? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (the AOC) "free the planet, now!"?