My point is that it is within the realm of normal annoyances from other people and there should be a reasonable expectation of both politeness from the smoker and tolerance from others. A strong perfume, a fart, body odor, spicy food, and many other gasses can be encountered at any point from a similar distance, but nobody suggests punishing people for those.

I find the desire to over legislate things due to personal preferences about how other people behave is a bigger and more annoying vice than smoking.

Like outside more than 10 feet from a doorway? Surely 10 feet is enough to change your walking path and save yourself from a waft.

Everyone forces their vice on bystanders in some capacity. I consider censorship and Puritanism to be a vice that is forced in nearly every aspect of society. It’s moral fetishism.

Between the two, I’d rather see someone smoke a cigarette than be judgmental towards others.

School playground might be a bit much, but I unironically support your right to sun your anus in the park. We all have them, we shouldn’t be ashamed.

So where do you fall on the natural tobacco brands?

I don’t smoke, but I also don’t want to live in a world where you can’t.

I don’t smoke.

Anybody who thinks they are breathing clean air just because they banned smoking is kidding themselves. At least the cigarette makes the smoker happy and causes minimal damage to passersby when smoked outside—meanwhile the massive air pollution that companies emit is shortening lifespans of every breather across the globe.

Sure, don’t smoke inside, whatever, but the criminalization and exclusion of addictive behavior is bullshit, in my opinion, especially when it comes in the form of pearl clutching “for the children”.

If you can’t smoke outdoors and you can’t smoke indoors, where can you smoke?

You joke, but we already know that simply using Linux gets you on an NSA watch list.

https://www.eweek.com/security/linux-lands-on-nsa-watch-list/

And the asterisk is for what reason, exactly?

Piracy is the great economic equalizer in the age of digital exploitation.

I’m doing none of those things, I just think it is plausible that he was hanging out with some swingers and accidentally got a woman pregnant in a time when abortion was less common. I also don’t think that it is likely that the daughter has the power to edit the articles about this event, so they can use whatever word they want.

Well…yeah. The point of seeding forever is that you are uploading. Though I am not familiar with TheGeeks specifically, I imagine that rule is in place to keep people from setting a low bandwidth limit on their client and exploiting bonus points for free downloads.

Regardless, you are talking about a sample size of one. Most reputable private trackers have a required ratio that increases with the amount of data you’ve downloaded, eventually hitting 1/1 when you have downloaded enough content to be expected to be a good seeder.

Why do you doubt that? It seems to be pretty in line with the promiscuous behavior of his social circle at the time.

We don’t really know if the friend was ok with it or not.

That honestly just sounds like a bad site. Others are far more active than that.

That is simply not true. I’m a member of many private torrent sites, and the key is to simply seed all of your content for as long as you have it in your collection.

Freeleech events allow you to build a large library of content that you expended no credit to download, but will get credit for uploading. Most sites have some kind of bonus point system for seeding content long term, and those points can often be used to buy more credit.

At this point, I have so much credit building up on a regular basis that I like to put terabytes worth of it towards requests just to spread the love around. I have managed all of this through simply perma-seeding everything with a computer that is on 24/7. My current internet speed isn’t even stellar, but the sheer size of my seeded content gets the job done. I tend to be actively uploading multiple things every second of the day now.

Cats are usually cool to me. Strangers too. It’s people you think you know well who can really fuck you up.

I meant our confusion about if science is real or whether minorities deserve basic rights, which seems to be afflicting about 50% of the population.