ilinamorato

@ilinamorato@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably meant “65-75 million,” but hey, even the typo is correct as long as you’re talking about a very specific 65-75 people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to look at this three times to figure out whether it was a troll or not, and I’m still not sure. But ok, I’ll bite.

  I’m an American citizen, and while I was a pretty angry neocon as a college student in the early 2000s, I settled down into a much more open, responsive, empathetic conservatism by 2008-2010 or so. And for about ten years, my politics didn’t change a bit. I still voted for smaller government, I still voted against wars (super funny in retrospect), I still voted in favor of my values (which also didn’t change).

  But in that timespan, the far right worked themselves into a lather about Obama, a fury that I didn’t (and still don’t) quite understand apart from cable news stoking the fire; yeah, I disagreed with a lot of his policies, but I certainly never wished him dead. To everyone else, though, he was the antichrist. And so I watched as friends of mine went down the rabbit hole, getting more and more worked up and rabid. When Trump came down the escalator in 2015, I thought it was a blip, and we (conservatives) would collectively realize how far off the rails we had gone.

  Instead, I got death threats. My kids got death threats. From people who used to be my friends, all because I dared say that I didn’t think Trump was a good choice. And, remember, my opinions and values hadn’t changed over the previous decade or so.

  Since then, it’s gotten much, much worse. And, in fairness, I’ve seen how much I had been lied to, even before Trump, and moved over to the left as a result; but the right wing has gone so far over the edge that some of the posts I made on Facebook in 2005-2006—at the peak of my conservative rage, the stuff that was basically just Sean Hannity talking points—I’m seeing MAGAs pillorying Democrats making those same points for being “radical woke communists.” I’m not talking about similar viewpoints. I’m talking about nearly identical wording, in some cases.

  So, no. This meme is absolutely bonkers, in a way that’s so obviously backwards as to bewilder, and the best way to prove it is to point out that George W(MDs in Iraq) Bush opposed Trump. MAGA has moved the window of acceptable political thought so far to the right that today’s Democrats sound like 2008’s Republicans, yet they’re being called socialists. Some of MAGA’s “centrists” are actively looking to rehabilitate the words “nationalist” and “Nazi.” “Small government,” “personal liberty,” and “values voters” are considered left-of-center ideals. At this point even Ronald Reagan would’ve been considered a “lefty” to this new-look GOP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Took me a full year, and I still get panic attacks sometimes when I put it on, but honestly you can do it if you need to. Go see a sleep doc. I was terrified, but I discovered after I got the thing how tired I really was (and I already thought I was pretty tired!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It legitimately took me a full year to get used to it. I still have a panic attack every once in a while when putting it on and have to walk around for a few minutes before bed. Anyone can get used to it if you need to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Anybody “could” do anything. It’s all made up. Government is just a set of rules we all agree to play by, so any group of people could “decide” to stop playing by the rules and start playing by different rules. That’s why the Confederacy happened.

  The only question is, do you have the strength (militarily, usually) to back it up. Because, no, legally what you’re talking about isn’t a thing.

  Not that there’s an alternative, of course, if no agreement is reached. The government just stops. Taxes continue, the military goes on (at least for two years), but that’s about it. There’s no default state or last good save for us to revert back to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Constitutionally, it doesn’t matter. Practically, the two year limit has been very generously interpreted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, with the Switch 1, I was worried about wanting to play a game but oh no it’s back at home. Happened a bunch of times with my 3DS.

  But then I bought a case that had card slots in it, and that concern wasn’t much of a concern anymore. Then the pandemic happened, and I never really left home anyway, which meant it mattered even less. So now I have a few digital games that are super annoying to share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fine. It’s probably the weakest of the modern Trek shows, but only because SNW and LDS are so good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they could add a setting to automatically start up the game in the background after an update. Since shader compilation happens right at startup, that could get the job done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if I was from the Southwest I’m sure it would be different. But as a Midwestern kid, our “culture” is almost entirely used to ferment milk for cheese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Very much not true. Accounts from the development team call the dev process “fork and run;” meaning, they made a fork of the operating system. Yes, it diverged over time, but part of the reason that a Windows port of an Xbox game is so much easier is that they’re fundamentally the same OS.

  And Android is Linux under the hood. They’ve committed code back to the Linux branch and maintained alignment with the LTS kernel since the start, and even the Linux Foundation calls Android a distro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not visually, but under the hood it is Windows. Windows 2000 in the case of the Xbox and Xbox 360, Windows 8 (and later Windows 10) in the case of the Xbox One, One X & S, and Series X & S. Kernels, drivers, APIs, etc. are all shared with the Windows codebase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I played BL2 at launch and don’t regret it. But I only just picked BL3 up again over the last couple of months. It wasn’t only the loading screen, but I will say I don’t think the writing shines quite as much as it did in BL2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s smart of them to keep all gaming products under the XBOX brand.

  I don’t have any issues with that, I just think that fragmenting your brand across so many different SKUs makes it tough if you’re a retailer.

  I suspect the next XBOX (if there is one at all) will be just like the Steam Deck, just a PC in a suit, booting into the XBOX PC app, with an optional Windows desktop.

  That’s more or less what the Xbox already is, just without the Windows desktop. In fact, that’s pretty much what the original pitch for the first Xbox was. Obviously they don’t bother with the desktop environment or the print spooler or whatever, but “PC in a suit” is basically the way they do everything. And the Switch is Nintendo’s “Android tablet in a suit.” I think PlayStation is still on a bespoke kernel, but I’m not sure.

  The game subscription is XBOX GamePass and the cloud service is Xbox Cloud. Simple enough.

  Is it simple, though? You boot up your Xbox (app) to connect to Xbox (Cloud) and play a game on Xbox (GamePass) with your friends on Xbox (Live)? That’s simple?

  If they were all bundled, that would be one thing. But you have to buy all of those elements individually, and there are probably different tiers of each, and it might be doable, but I guarantee you that I’d prefer not to think through it all.

  I know it may be confusing but it’s a transition that’s long overdue. The console market as a whole is losing market share to PCs, so why not just make a PC that works like a console?

  That would be pretty nice, and since Valve has already done the market research on that, it seems like an easy win for Microsoft. But then again, that is what they’ve nominally been doing this whole time, so who knows if it’s ever going to happen.

  And anyone can optionally buy their own hardware and use that as an XBOX.

  I doubt they’ll ever truly give users that freedom. OEMs (like ROG) sure, but I kinda doubt they’re going to let people just put the Xbox app on whatever hardware they bought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for that info! I do most of my PC gaming on a very underpowered Linux box. Gonna need to check that setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mean people who earnestly pronounce it the way they do in Barcelona, I mean the people who make a huge deal out of saying it as intensely as possible, trying to call attention to how well-traveled they are by making it sound super alien.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe if there were any variation at all in the dance. Or a cycle of two or three different dances he goes through. Maybe give him a hat at random intervals. But no, just the same nonsense, over and over, for five minutes every time you start the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly feel like it would be better if Steam would compile the shaders in the background after the download finishes and before it tells me that the game is ready to play. That seems like a thing they could totally do.

  They could even precompile shaders for known setups (the Steam Deck, the last three generations of Nvidia and AMD, that sort of thing) and just add that to the download for people with those devices. It would improve the experience for a lot of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Woof. I want to play BL4, I’ve always been a huge fan of the series, but like…I distinctly remember BL3 and watching Claptrap do that stupid Vanna White thing across the screen for ages after every update. I kind of want that time back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes sense. Xbox is a very fragmented brand. What is “Xbox?” They just made this big deal about how it’s a tablet, or it’s a PC, or it’s a Steam Deck competitor, or it’s a game store with a subscription library, or it’s a game streaming platform. And that’s before you even get to the fact that there are currently two separate consoles with two different feature sets. If you want to carry “Xbox” as a brick and mortar retailer, you’re either going to have to devote a lot of floor space to it, or you’re going to have to be okay with the fact that a lot of people are going to come to your store wanting the ROG Ally but you only have the Series S.

  Contrast that with the Switch 2. Aside from clearing out backstock, Nintendo has one active platform. Every game currently in print runs on it. If you want to carry Nintendo stuff, you can fit a pretty substantial display (especially in Costco’s terms) on a single pallet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For the food thing, as a Midwesterner I feel like I come across as making fun of the other person when I try too hard. Like the people who say “Bærthélōnã” after they get back from two weeks in northwest Spain; it’s not going to fit into my normal speech pattern, it’ll just sound like I’m trying to draw attention to it if I say “bûɽɽɽito.”

  But for names? I dunno man, that’s your name. I don’t want you to feel left out if I’m pronouncing “Evelyn” and “Leo” and “Elliott” perfectly, but then I stumble over “Rekha” or “Urooj” or “Joãozinho.” I’ll try to at least get as close as I can to the way I hear you pronounce it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some nice attention to continuity by the SNW team!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro they designed and sewed a screen-accurate Monster Maroon uniform for Anson Mount to wear in a thirty second scene where he meets himself from an alternate future. They established, then sidelined the Recreation Room so that they could do a holodeck episode without breaking continuity. They wrote an entire episode that explained why the 1990s changed between TOS and reality. I don’t know what kind of continuity you’re looking for, but they’re doing a lot of hard work to keep the continuity rock-solid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steady⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the most stable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steady⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched that movie right after I started as a pharmacy tech. Stuck with me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Brennan, Lily, and Tao each have a moment during that episode where they’re reading a thing and their brains turn back on in emergency mode and they realize to their astonishment what they’re reading. I usually don’t like cringe humor, but those looks are the reason I can still watch True Facts About Grant Anthony O’Brien.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨in sickness and in health⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know your doctor can prescribe literally anything. Whether or not you can get your insurance company to pay for it is another question

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand, it seems slightly less ideal to have the same organization that develops mastodon also providing hosting for it. On the other hand, they probably have a better chance of doing it well.

  Yeah, I could see it going two ways. On one hand, they could devote too much time to their for-profit arm and neglect the FOSS branch, or worse, make the .com a favored child over the .org, like WordPress does. But on the other hand, they could be like Canonical which, while they’ve made some questionable decisions with Ubuntu over the years, has pretty staunchly put open-sourced all of their improvements and opened up their improvements to everyone downstream.

  And I too miss moz.soc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump insiders claim

  Suuuuuuure. I’ll believe it when I…actually probably never.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨in sickness and in health⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a whole study in a medical journal trying to figure out what disease Tiny Tim had in A Christmas Carol that

  1. crippled him, but only in one leg;
  2. would kill him over the course of a single year;
  3. could be healed with 19th century medicine if a sufferer had access to enough money.

  The smart money is apparently on either rickets or distal renal tubular acidosis, the treatment for both basically being oranges and beach vacations (two things a rich guy could provide).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not if you lived on Pandora.