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This is without question an arrogation of powers that belong to Congress.

The Constitution is crystal clear on the subject. 

If you aggressively pinch tender soft tissues for 36 hours, you will do some real damage. It will take time for it to heal. Basic care is important - keep it clean and do your best not to irritate it any further. It would also be appropriate to seek medical help - they might, for example, be able to give you medication to reduce the inflammation.

11 minutes ago, hntnhole said:

According to the googler, the population of Norway is around 5.5 million, while the population of the US is around 340 million. 

That would suggest that a much greater percentage of the population in the US is (at least at present) not productive relative to the population than in Norway.  In your view, why would that be the case (if it is)? 

The data in the chart that @Pozzible posted, plus the population numbers, do not by themselves lead to the conclusion you have drawn here, so far as I can tell. What other assumptions have you used, or what is your logic in concluding it?

I have osteopenia (not quite osteoporosis yet, thanks be), which I found out about because I broke a wrist earlier this year - first time I've ever broken a bone. I believe it's likely that Truvada had some role in that and have now switched to Descovy. And a lot of calcium supplements.

On 10/8/2025 at 5:31 PM, pozme92 said:

What goes down at Club Orlando?

You, and just about everybody else. 😉 

I'll second @tobetrained's recommendation of American Nations - it is truly excellent. 

Hideously uncomfortable.  However, I once owned a bikini swim suit with a seam down the back and the fabric shaped to cup the ass cheeks and separate them. That was comfy and hot and got me a good bit of attention, back in the day.

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I never had any issues with them until about 2 weeks ago, when I got some rather nasty burns (not yet healed) on the skin at the entrance to my nostrils. I certainly didn't splash any on me, but it is possible that my nose touched the (possibly moist) bottle. I've been thinking about the incident and doing a bit of research since.

What was different than other times I used them? 1. I used to store them in the refrigerator, but I haven't been doing that recently because of a shared living situation. 2. I was using them more frequently, and therefore opening and closing the bottle more often. 3. I was using them from a small bottle that I was refilling from a larger bottle (to avoid opening the larger one so often).

Buckle your seatbelts, time for some science!

Poppers decompose fairly easily (fact). At least one of the by-products of decomposition catalyzes the decomposition and makes it proceed faster (fact). At least one of the by-products of decomposition is nitric acid (fact). I've never had a problem with burns from a fresh bottle of poppers, even when I spilled them on my skin (fact). At the time I got burned, I had noticed during both that session and the session before that the poppers had a "sharp" smell to my nose (like horseradish or wasabi), which is characteristic of strongly acidic vapors. My hypothesis is that the burns are caused by nitric acid, which comes from the degradation of the poppers over time. I'm planning to do some experimentation (not on my nose!) to probe this further, when I get around to it. 

Further note: Some poppers are sold with a small round white ball in the bottle. I don't know for sure, but I believe this is probably a small ball of an alkaline substance such as lye or washing soda, which can absorb the acid as degradation occurs, thereby keeping it from catalyzing further degradation. There is a patent from the 1950s on using such alkalies for this exact purpose.

I'll be happy to explain myself, @SomewhereonNeptune.

1. The question had already been asked once. @TaKinGDeePanal is not obliged to respond, and shouting (all caps) a demand for an answer is simply rude.

2. @rawfuckingonly says "You made a claim so you best back it up." But if you go back and read the post from @TaKinGDeePanal, his actual claim is about your (@SomewhereonNeptune) assertion regarding the example set by moderates and conservatives. The only role the clause about the bullet plays in his post is as a time reference dividing a "This Is War" behavior from one of  "prayer, vigil, and remembrance". Whether the source of the bullet was proven or merely perceived to be from one source or another is not cogent to his statement.

12 hours ago, SomewhereonNeptune said:

And some of those missing are odd. Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood is a drug supermarket with junkies in every corner and very open dealing that has been beyond police control for some time.

Philadelphia isn't in the FBI statistical report that was the basis of the US News list. 

FWIW, the FBI has this to say about ranking the list: 

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Each year when Crime in the United States is published, many entities—news media, tourism agencies, and other groups with an interest in crime in our Nation—use reported figures to compile rankings of cities and counties. These rankings, however, are merely a quick choice made by the data user; they provide no insight into the many variables that mold the crime in a particular town, city, county, state, region, or other jurisdiction. Consequently, these rankings lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions adversely affecting cities and counties, along with their residents.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/caution-against-ranking

2 minutes ago, Poz50something said:

On 9/16/2025 at 6:43 AM, BlindRawFucker1 said:

You are healthy, right?

That’s better than asking ‘are you clean?’ - like, I douched, washed my pits and bits, shampooed my hair…yeah I am clean…if someone asks if I am healthy. I’d say - my cholesterol is a bit high- and my blood sugar is borderline, but whose isn’t? 

You've taken this out of context, @Poz50something.  @BlindRawFucker1 was asking @Pozguyinchi whether he was healthy because of the comment the guy at the sex club  made about his "look" (i.e. if he was actually in poor health he might indeed have looked "diseased").

14 hours ago, SomewhereonNeptune said:

For someone who wants another bite at the apple in '28

If I were Kamala, I'd rather juggle live squid in a confessional booth than run in '28.

53 minutes ago, Tiboer said:

if you’re starting a new relationship, PLEASE be upfront about your status.  Hiding something like this at the beginning has a strong potential of destroying relationship later on because you held it back.

I'd add to that: If you're starting a new relationship, BE UPFRONT about your true feelings/habits about monogamy. If you're the kind of guy who, deep in his heart (or balls), truly is the roaming kind and needs to get some (or at least inevitably is going to be getting some) on the side, TELL your potential romantic relationship partner. Because if they are not OK with it, that's an incompatibility as fundamental as straight vs gay, and it's extremely likely to destroy your relationship (or at the very least make it miserable).

On 9/16/2025 at 12:10 PM, tr4veler said:

- a lot more guys explicitly stating racial preferences for partners, in all directions (e.g. no whites, no blacks, but also parties that are black tops/white bottoms only, white bottoms who express a preference for black tops, etc. etc .) or who state their own race in their posts, as though it's part of their own sexual identity (e.g. come fuck my white/asian/latin ass)

- a lot more guys who equate submissive with feminine and female.  Lots more "turn me into your little fem sissy bitch" or the like.  

I'm not trying to yuck anyone's yum, but I do feel like there's a trend here that goes along more broadly with the rise of hate and categorizing people by race, gender, etc ., in the country, and that the pushback I used to see in gay spaces around racial preferences seems to have evaporated, at least in the spaces I've been looking at.

YMMV (never more true than in the online hookup world).

I completely agree about the prevalence of fem/female presentation, though I see it even much more so on Grindr than on Sniffies. To the point where (apparently) cis women have profiles on there. And there has been an increasing prevalence of male-presenting guys who are explicitly and exclusively seeking transfem, CD, or fem-presenting male. I don't see this as misogynistic so much as an unexpected consequence of the increased visibility of trans (and especially transfeminine) people, enhanced by the echo chamber effect of the internet (where prevalence of a particular meme in an environment causes people interested in the meme to post more and to seek out that environment).

I also see a vastly higher proportion of race-oriented content here in majority-black Baltimore (where I moved a year ago) than I did in West Virginia (90+% white by my estimate).

I was just noting the same thing yesterday.

Excellent start! And very much enjoying all the nods to various other stories, videos and people.

8 minutes ago, sluttony said:

It doesn't seem to be available anymore?

Next question if it is still there somewhere can it be applied to a moderator?

It is still possible to ignore members. Use the "Ignored Users" option from the pulldown menu available from your screen name (in the upper left corner of the screen).

You can not ignore moderators.

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Why? What's the problem? 

Let me rephrase in words of one syllable:

DON'T FEED THE TROLLS.

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I'm going to put this in the porn forum on the presumption that his X postings qualify (and because otherwise this post would be kind of stalker-ish, y'know).

1 hour ago, kinkyF1977 said:

As a "new member" (been here a year but forgot about it 😅) , what is the things not to do ?

You can find the rules (plus quite a lot of discussion) in this topic (and some other topics linked from there).

TL;DR:

Make sure you post the following topics in the designated forums:

• Drugs (other than alcohol, cannabis, and poppers)
• HIV fetish
• Trans fem/CD
• Straight/bi sex
• Exposure fetish

The following topics are forbidden everywhere on the site:

• STD and AIDS fetish (see here for details)
• Erotic descriptions of sex with minors under 18 (including FICTION)
• Seeking, providing, discussing, or promoting current real-world escorting (prostitution)
• Seeking, providing, or promoting drug use
• Scat
• Snuff
• Advocating harm to real people
• Abuse of other members

1 hour ago, EastTNbareback said:

Man I hate to be a pain in the butt, but there are no little checkboxes at the right margin or anywhere on the Attachments page.  I would send a screen shot but I can't seem to make it small enough to post or send. 

They are there on my screen (desktop browser, not a phone):

Way over there at the right margin in a nearly invisible gray on charcoal. The red arrows in the screen shot are pointing at them.

24 minutes ago, MascTop said:

Thank you. Do you happen to know anything about the risk of viral spikes/blips and how that could affect being undetectable? I was fully UD on my last test (below 20 copies), which was within two weeks of these encounters. Just wondering if that’s something I should be concerned about. I’ve been fully adherent to my ARV as far as I remember.

 

Short answer: No, it's not something you should be concerned about!

Long answer: First, the other guy is on PrEP, which means that even if he were fucking someone with a viral load, he'd be OK. Second, the studies that proved that undetectable=untransmissable didn't test people every day or week, so those statistics included the risk of viral blips - and the conclusion was that U=U even if the partner was not using protection. Third, @norefusal is right - you are already doing everything that you should be, and a mild fever is a common symptom of just about any virus that produces symptoms at all.