[-] knightly@pawb.social 19 points 1 week ago

Nvidia drivers are mostly OK now.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 21 points 2 weeks ago

Especially considering inflation will eat half of it.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Would love for you to expand "already doing that" in relation to what I was suggesting. I do not see political opponents being physically attacked, I do not see/hear of any armed mobs actively physically trying to 'take their country back'.

You already forgot about Paul Pelosi? The plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan? January 6th? Gabby Giffords? The Proud Boys? Charlottesville? Austin Combs? Kyle Rittenhouse?

Do you need me to keep going? I can name the armed mobs trying to 'take their country back' until the cows come home and barely scratch the surface.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
  1. I'm not a "Progressive". American Progressives are called "Moderates" in most other countries, and their Progressives would probably call me a Communist or an Anarchist without bothering to distinguish between the two.

  2. The people holding this country hostage are the ones who ran the only primary challenger out of the party rather than admit that the incumbent is expected to lose re-election.

  3. America has to excise the fascist rot at its core before it can become a "Progressive" country. Voting alone cannot accomplish this, it would require a massive perspective shift across the general public on the scale of China's cultural revolution. After Covid failed to induce anything but a shift to more work-from-home, I don't see that happening.

  4. The first baby step I'm focused on accomplishing is trying to convince liberals that if democracy is really at stake, then they can't run the risk of trying to play it safe like they did in 2016.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh, it's true. Even without any unlawful computer access, the amount of personal info your average IT furry can access is pretty astounding. There's furries quietly keeping things running in the background across tech, finance, industry, science, and just about everywhere.

Our Bacon numbers are tiny, too. It might be six degrees for any two random humans, but in the furry community you rarely have to go farther than friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend.

So; if you've got a problem, if nobody else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... A Furry.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 19 points 3 months ago

At some point you have to ask yourself if it would be less hassle to switch now or to try and tough it out until Windows becomes unbearable.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 19 points 5 months ago

Sure seems like Helldivers' multiplayer works just fine without a Sony account.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 21 points 5 months ago

The internet is a government project. Without "Communism" you wouldn't even have a single website, imagine that.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sadly, many educational institutions still teach a prescriptive form of English that fails to acknowledge this, but singular "They" is decades older than using "You" instead of "Thou" as a singular second-person pronoun. It was already in common use way back in Shakespeare's time. If thou thinkst this confusing, change thyself before demanding others change for thine own comfort.

Also, some people are plural, so the ambiguity of "they" is inclusive to them.

Also-also, the only other pronouns in common use that aren't explicitly gendered are "it/its", which some people find dehumanizing. Nonbinary and agender folks often (but not exclusively) prefer "they/them" over "it/its" or neopronouns.

Also-also-also, "picking new words to use" is extremely non-trivial for pronouns because it requires the entire English-speaking population to relearn fundamental communication habits. It's much easier to simply accept the fact that singular they is extremely common.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 20 points 7 months ago

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