Travelingguy

I honestly was looking for good massages. And I got good massages. I didn’t really go into it assuming that I would get anything sexual. I had plenty of massages in Thailand that were non sexual and that was my primary goal. Most sexual massages really are very poor quality massages. Here in Siem Reap, I went hoping for a good massage (except Gekko, but got good massage there), but every time it got sexual. Sometimes I was up for it and other times, I just let them grope me while they continued on with the massage or scrub. Some of those massages were even better than the ones where I got off. I never touched any of them unless they were seriously groping me or them put the crotch on my hand.

Add Kmer Wellness to the list

Currently in Siem Reap. Every massage I have had here has been happy ending available. I did not go to the two gay places, but I did go to Gekko, Kmer Relief, and my hotel (upscale). I think that if you ask for a man, they will assume that you want a happy ending. The guys do the massage and get closer and closer to your crotch and ass asking “Okay?” If you say yes it goes further and if you say no, it stops there. There is a legal prohibition against full on sex in a massage parlor, but hand jobs and oral were available anyplace I went.

Hey, guess who I found a picture of?

Is “runaway DC jury” also code for black?

It was no accident that these women who were targeted were black. Trump focused his lies about voter fraud on countless with significant black populations. Much of the hate and threats directed towards these women has been racist. Look at your own attacks on these women and they are full of racial stereotypes. Trump and Rudy are the ones who played the race card. These women were just collateral damage. They are human beings. Their lives were destroyed. But it is clear from this discussion that the lives of these black women don’t matter to some people. But none of us who were raised in America are surprised.

An appeal is not automatic in this case. In fact, it is discouraged by the requirement that a bond for the amount of the judgement must be made in order to file the appeal. This rule is in place specifically to discourage the behavior that your advocate. Your level of contempt for these women who had their lives endangered by Rudy’s lies is disturbing. Black women’s lives matter too.

Rudy doesn’t appear to be appealing. He instead filed for bankruptcy which will not protect him from the defamation judgement. It may create delays in paying the judgement and that may be his Hail Mary pass. Just another example of a person who destroyed their life for Trump.

The amount awarded cannot be lowered without an appeal, and there cannot be an appeal unless Rudy can come up with a bond of $146 million. So I don’t really see that happening.

Apparently bankruptcy may not protect him from a defamation judgement.

You can also put your paper copy in a ziplock plastic bag to protect it from the elements.

Probably won’t appeal. He apparently can’t appeal without putting up bond for $146 million. He will never do that.

Weak study with low to moderate confidence in the results that runs contrary to my experience in an ongoing life threatening situation. You would argue to accept these studies whole heartedly and suggest that I am taking the less scientific approach. I think that I have more trust in my N95 mask than your analysis of these studies which is way more bullish than the actual authors.

The authors said they had low to moderate confidence in their results from the Cochrane study, not the individual studies. Like I had said, originally, the standard view prior to Covid was that masks were not effective in preventing viral infections. Many of these studies in the Cochrane analysis are pre Covid and during non epidemic flu where the people being studied were unlikely to be worried about dying of flu. However, I worked in an ED with sick Covid patients throughout the pandemic. We weren’t turning people away or having them seen by younger staff outside. We were intubating patients as well as doing other procedures on them. People were dying around us. My partners and I were extremely diligent about masking. I wore an N95 from before I entered the hospital to the time I left without ever taking it off. I did not eat or drink inside the hospital. Most of my partners did the same. We literally left the building if we needed to eat or drink. We did not start getting sick until the end of the Covid pandemic despite taking care of people from day one. Many of us got sick after our kids got sick. My personal Covid infection did not occur from the hospital, since I had been off for a while when I got sick and that was more than 2 years into the pandemic. You can discount my experience as anecdotal, but my experience with Covid and the risk of contracting a deadly disease with people dying around you every day gave me an insight into what real compliance with masking looks like. I would disregard any of these studies pre Covid because there was no real fear of dying. I also doubt that there were many high quality studies of masking being done during the deadliest parts of the pandemic, since the focus was on patient care and keeping anyone that did not need to be around these patients out of the hospital. But for all of us who took care of these patients for years without getting sick with one of the most infectious agents that humans have been exposed to is not due to luck. We took care of these patients for many months before the first vaccine. If masks were completely ineffective, we should all have gotten sick, yet only 1 or 2 of my partners got sick in the first year or so of the pandemic. When looking at a study, you have to look at the weaknesses and limits of the study. Also, if you have insight into the question being studied, you can rightly apply skepticism to conclusions based on your experience and your knowledge of what masking diligently involves.

You present these studies as somehow definitive to the question, but the authors of the studies themselves do not support your confidence. They report having low to moderate confidence in the results of their study based on the weaknesses that they identified in their study with regard to compliance with masking and handwashing.

I do not have much confidence in these studies, but you seem to have a great deal of confidence in them. So, the next time a covid patient comes into the ED and is sick enough to need intubation (yes, that is still happening from time to time), you would be comfortable intubating them without an N95 mask? I don’t know any ER doctors who would be willing to do that.

Studies prior to the pandemic argued that flu and other respiratory viruses could not be prevented by masking. So that was the default belief prior to Covid. These studies now arguing that masks don’t prevent the spread of viruses don’t seem to address what happened during the first winter of the pandemic. There was no flu. That was true all around the planet. Previous studies had shown that masks did not help prevent getting the flu, but all those studies were probably confounded by people not religiously wearing masks. The pandemic showed that we could stop flu, which would have been hard to imagine previously. Also, once the pandemic really got going and hospital personnel got very good about N95 masks and avoiding exposures, very few doctors or nurses who worked with Covid patients every day were getting infected. I am not talking about medical personnel who had already been infected and had immunity. So, based on what happened during the pandemic, I find these studies arguing the ineffectiveness of masking as not addressing the elephant in the room. Masks and social distancing literally gave us a flu free winter. First one in my lifetime.

He looks like he is choking.

For what it is worth, I stumbled on this post from the feed on the right side of the forums page. So, I never noticed that this was in any particular forum.

I am guessing Filipino. There is a particular way they do the circumcisions there at around 10 years old that leaves that collection of skin on the underside of the penis. So yes.

I guess they aren’t going to call it LIttle Saigon….😂

Just a clarification… Freedom of speech is a concept related to being able to say whatever you would like without being punished by a government authority. The freedom of speech guarantees in the United States are quite extensive. In other western countries, there are certain things that cannot be said, publicly, without violating specific laws. There are very specific issues in Thailand that cannot be discussed publicly without violating laws. In repressive dictatorships like Russia, the list of things you cannot discuss is extensive and not always clearly defined, making it easier for the government to arrest you if they so desire. Freedom of speech also does not mean freedom from the consequences of that speech. People can counter your speech with their own speech. They can hold you in low regard. They can go so far as to shun you and refuse to have anything to do with you. None of this violates your freedom of speech. You seem to confuse freedom of speech, which is a government issue with the right to say whatever you’d like in a private domain. You can’t just go into somebody’s house and insult them and expect that they’re going to respect your freedom of speech and not kick you out on the street. The same actually applies to the Internet. the host of the website can decide what is acceptable behavior or not. People on the Internet, who are arguing so vociferously for their freedom of speech are often times just arguing for the right to state offensive things without consequences. No internet host has to put up with speech that they find offensive. They don’t even have to put up with speech that they find boring and trollish. It seems bizarre to argue for freedom of speech on someone else’s internet site, when one has their own internet site where they could post whatever they would like, but choose not to. That sounds more like trolling behavior. Being banned from a site because you deliberately post things with the sole intent of provoking others would not be a violation of your freedom of speech. You have your own website on which you can post whatever you like. Therefore, your freedom of speech would not have been violated.

Plus ça change… I remember, as a kid, reading about armed gangs, robbing entire apartment buildings in Rio . This was in the pre-cell phone times. They would cut the power and the telephone communications to the building. They would have armed people on the first floor /garage level. Then they would go through the building door-to-door robbing everybody. it was far away the most outrageous thing I ever remember hearing. And I grew up in a violent neighborhood in the United States. Anyway, Rio has been extremely dangerous for my entire lifetime. I’m guessing this waxes and wanes somewhat. But with extremely high levels of insecurity, it is easier to understand why people would support fascist politicians with easy answers.

“Not once a problem....I'm not new at this, I worked on a cruiseline for a bit (in a senior position) , I know EXACTLY how it works and the logistics of doing it, is why I have been able to do it.....so don't jump to conclusions before knowing the whole story 😉” Now that is a story that I would love to hear….

Not all of these oligarchs fell out of windows in Russia. Some suffered their fate in other countries. But more to the point, why do you feel so comfortable dismissing the persecution of fellow gay people in Russia and why do you feel safe in Russia from persecution yourself? As far as propaganda goes, have you ever criticized the Russian government or Putin on this board for anything?