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If you need content taken down off the site you need to work with the moderation team by using a "report" link next to the content. If that doesn't work send me and/or a moderator a DM. Anyone who files a DMCA with the host will get permanently banned from the site. Some exposure fetishist idiot from Asia has twice uploaded content and then filed a DMCA with the host. That's NOT OK. It could harm the site and if you do it you'll be banned permanently. [In case you're not familiar with the term - a DMCA is a legal take down request.] -
Technical Issue with BZ and Safari 16.1 / MacOS Ventura 13.0
rawTOP replied to AirmaxUK's topic in Tips, Tricks, Rules & Help
I've been considering dropping Google Analytics completely for a while now. Was definitely going to do it before next year when they're forcing people to migrate to GA4. Guess now is the time to turn it off. Thanks for giving such a good bug report! Update: Google Analytics is now turned off. api.js is part of reCAPTCHA v3 (also by Google). That I'm reluctant to turn it off because it's how I tell if site visits are by humans or not. Once you're logged in I don't mind turning it off (since that's another way to tell if you're human), but I'll need to do some research to figure out what my options are. -
IMHO, you should still try to get vaccinated. Getting MPX is miserable and it's not going away completely.
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Two people have died of MPX in NYC… https://apple.news/ARmIl8ogKTNS7nSWClQosXA That brings the total deaths in the US to 4 (or is it 5?)
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The leading edge of STI prevention is DoxyPEP. Basically it amounts to taking doxycycline after having sex. Multiple studies have shown that it reduces incidents of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis by more than 60%. That said… So if you get frequent STIs, talk to a doctor who specializes in sexual health about DoxyPEP. (Your regular doctor probably know what in the fuck you're talking about when you say DoxyPEP). https://apple.news/AjoWzXDCqRVqayuxg-wkuGg
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Vaccinated people can get infected. It's not likely, but it can happen. If they get infected they can infect you. And because of the vaccine they may be asymptomatic - so neither of you will know there's risk. Again - all of that is unlikely, but it is possible. And as others have stated - you can't get infected from the virus that's in the vaccine.
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A new study is out and apparently there are two new variants of MPX going around… Presumably the mutations will (given time and more research) explain how MPX basically turned itself into an STI with a much lower death rate than the variants found in Africa. [The study has not been peer-reviewed yet.]
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NYC won't give you one if you've had the other in the last 28 days. However they're fine giving the flu shot (another vaccine) at any point. Not sure what data that's based on.
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It doesn't feel like you're a good fit for this site, so I've put you "In Purgatory" - which means your ability to use the site will be restricted forever.
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BTW, someone here didn't believe that the Smallpox vaccine that was administered 50 years ago required boosters, so here's a copy of what my mother stapled into my vaccination record back in the late 1960s… Point being, if you weren't 15 years old when it was phased out you weren't fully vaccinated.
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For god's sake! 30 million emails and now a forum post? I replied to you and explained your situation via email. You're not going to get a different answer if you ask a lot of times.
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The primary reason reactions are limited and grow as your membership level goes up is so newbies don't distort what's good/bad. If it were unlimited reactions for everyone then a person's status wouldn't mean much because a one or two people could just upvote everything they've ever posted and give the poster a high status. Ultimately this is a community and how important you are to the community depends on how much you've contributed to the community. So people who've contributed a lot get to be the primary arbiters of what's good and bad on the site.
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Or they could look like something innocuous like a small pimple or ingrown hair.
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But it's FAR less likely and the outcomes are far less severe. Vaccines save lives and in the case of MPX they save people from a buttload of pain. You are flat out wrong. The number of required shots did not change when they went to 1/5th dose administered right under the skin rather than into the fat layer. A study showed that the two methods yielded the same immune response. And the 5 dose vaccine from 50 years ago was a completely different vaccine than what's currently being administered. In fact it's 2 generations removed from that vaccine. The vaccine from 50 years ago required 5 shots (over many years). The current vaccine requires 2 shots.
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I'm not sure when it will go down exactly, but don't be concerned if you can't get to the site or if the site looks messed up. The drive that has all the static files is getting upgraded to a bigger drive. The downtime shouldn't be more than 15 or 20 minutes.
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Most gay men should get both the Hep A & Hep B vaccine. If you ever do rimming or ass-to-mouth you need the Hep A vaccine. They were right to push it. (Though I don't know why they were asking for insurance info.)
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First off, Smallpox vaccines were a series of 5 shots. Many of us only got one or two of them. To pretend one shot 50 years ago will protect you is just silly. Doctors should be challenged when they make ignorant statements like that. I'd probably say "so can I sue you for pain and suffering when I get MPX after following your advice?" And your logic on COVID makes zero sense. You say the vaccine protects the person, but they can still infect others then say the vaccine checks at venues make no sense since they can still infect others. But if everyone in the venue is vaccinated (which you call protected), then how are they going to get infected? The point of the vaccine checks was two fold: 1) to keep vulnerable, unvaccinated people from putting themselves in dangerous situations, and 2) to strongly encourage vaccination. It achieved both of those goals. The fatality rate is 0.1% when you're vaxxed and boosted. It's 1.71% when you're unvaccinated. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-compare-covid-deaths-for-vaccinated-and-unvaccinated-people/ If no one was vaccinated and no one social distanced and every one got COVID eventually, then it would mean 5.6 million people in the US would die. Right now only 1.05 million have died. A million is far too high a number. But it sounds like you're advocating for something that would kill an additional 4 1/2 million people. Advocating policies that lead to mass death is not allowed on this site. Be very careful what you say in the future or you will get an infraction and a ban for advocating harm to real people.
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I think "maximum immunity" would be better phrase than "full immunity". I think at its best it's only 85% effective. But if enough guys get it, then there's herd immunity… [To be honest, I'm not sure they've tested the vaccine enough to have a definitive percent efficacy. They didn't have an outbreak to test against until now.]
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Maybe read up before passing judgement. I did NOT say it was better to wait 2 years. I said there's no difference in efficacy if you get the 2nd shot before the 2 year mark. The US studies that authorized use only looked at 28 day timing for the 2nd shot. But other studies have been done and the CEO of the manufacturer is well-acquainted with those studies. The CDC/FDA doesn't believe it unless they do the study themselves. It's a failing of the CDC/FDA. And I didn't give medical advice. I quoted medical authorities. HUGE difference.
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From what I read the moment they bring it to the US the clock starts ticking on the expiration date. But their agreement with the manufacturer is if they store it in Denmark then the clock doesn't start. So it's much more cost effective to have it stored in Denmark given that the chances of a smallpox/monkeypox outbreak were very low. There are aspects of what the government did that can be criticized, but that's not one of them.
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So you haven't gotten your first shot yet despite the fact that they're now allowing walk-ins? If you got your first shot today, you could get your second shot November 11. So your saying "end of November" means you weren't planning on getting your first shot until about 2 weeks from now. Why are you putting it off? And I know some conservatives like to label everything they don't like "porn" or "socialism" but waiting 10 weeks isn't actually a problem - in fact it may be better. For starters, as I posted in a response above, you can get the 2nd shot any time in the first two years and have pretty much the same level of protection. That's according to the CEO of the company that makes the vaccine - and he's also a virologist. So who gives a shit when you get the 2nd shot? I mean you're complaining about something that's not really a problem. Second, places that made people wait longer periods for their 2nd COVID shot saw better, not worse, immune responses. There's every possibility that the same could be true of MPX (though I can't point to any study to prove it). NYC has been pretty smart about their rollout of the vaccine. We have one of the best health systems in the country, if not the world. On this particular topic you don't know better than they do. They're not putting your health at risk. I'm eligible for my 2nd dose in 9 days. The time passes pretty quickly.
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Justice Thomas makes it clear decisions support our rights are next
rawTOP replied to drscorpio's topic in LGBT Politics
Not sure your age, but I was alive and paying attention back when this was happening. Here's a historical run down of Clinton and gay issues. Bottom line he was promoting gay rights during his campaign - which was radical for the time. There were two things that really caused him problems the first year of his presidency - 1) his support of gay rights and 2) Hillary's attempts to get the ball moving on universal healthcare. The Clintons understand that politics is about compromise (unlike Bernie who has accomplished almost nothing because with him it's all or nothing). So when Clinton couldn't get the full recognition of gays in the military he settled for Don't Ask, Don't Tell. It was still a step forward. There are some battles where you take what you can and fight another day. DOMA was one of those battles. To say Democrats or Clinton didn't support gay rights when they were at the forefront of the battle (in terms of mainstream politics of their time) is just ignorant. That's not how it happened. ^^^ THIS ^^^ is brilliant! Civil rights should never be voted on. It's always the place of the courts to point that out and change things. I'd add that I think the Jewish religion has it right on abortion issues. They believe life begins when you take your first breath and ends when you take your last breath. Which means the fetus is part of the woman until it's born. And being part of the woman - it's her body which she can do with as she wants. [BTW - I happen to disagree with the Jews on the life ends when you take your last breath bit. I think brain death is when you die, but that's the topic for another day.] -
As @Sfmike64 mentioned, ramping up vaccine production isn't simple. One of the reasons why we don't have vaccines is because the manufacturer started making them in a new plant and the US didn't inspect and approve the production at the plant quickly enough. So there are millions (?) of doses that we've purchased that are just sitting in a warehouse. As soon as we approve the production from that plant they can be shipped to the US. It's a huge failure on the part of the Biden administration, but at the same time we want safeguards like that to be in place. I think they're also talking about licensing the process of creating the vaccine to US drug/vaccine manufacturers in case it becomes a wider problem and the manufacturer can't produce as many doses as we need. But nothing about that is simple either.
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Done. I also deleted a bunch of other old stuff (e.g. Jabber user name) and added Telegram User Name since a lot of guys are on there. That said, Telegram links are still verboten since everyone posting them in the past seemed to be into kiddie porn (!)
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I'm pretty sure I remember reading that the 1/5 intradermal produced a better immune response than the full shot into fat. It's just there's slightly more risk of minor side effects. That said, it's based on a single study. Let's just hope the study authors did their work properly.
