knightly
@knightly@pawb.social
- Comment on outlawing pedestrians 2 days ago:
Holy Shit, making it from the nearest hotel across the canal turns a 1-mile walk into a 6-mile hike =U
That has to be deliberate, there’s no other excuse for it.
- Comment on The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 3 days ago:
Save everything you want to keep
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 6 days ago:
Now that “Anti-woke” ideology has been revealed as a psyop by the Epstein files, I’m very curious to see if Trey Stone and Matt Parker will choose to reckon with their own contributions or if they’ll double-down.
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 6 days ago:
The long arc of the South Park plot follows Trey and Parker’s political development from bitter, unknown California Republicans with sarcastic, nihilist tendencies to disillusioned Big Hollywood Conservatives with sarcastic, nihilistic tendencies being forced to reckon with the fact that their past attempts at satire have either had no impact or have actually reinforced the perceived social ills they originally set out to mock.
Al Gore’s reappearance in S22E06 “Time to get Cereal” exemplifies this, even after he is proven to have been right about ManBearPig all along, this later appearance shows him as still being a huge weenie that cares more about being acknowledged as having been right than wanting to actually solve the problem. Having belatedly acknowledged the existential threat, Trey and Parker still can’t bring themselves to issue a call to action, and everything goes back to normal after they kick the can a little further down the road.
The smug, sanctimonious tone has been a constant throughout, as if they still imagine that the greatest sin is caring about things. They’re so heavy-handed about it that they lampoon this aspect of their own show in Kyle’s “Don’t you see,” and “Y’know, I’ve learned something today” closing monologues. Even when he’s telling a real political truth, like in the banned S16E06 where the text of the monologue is an admission that terrorism works and the subtext is a refusal to acknowledge their own contributions to post-9/11 anti-muslim discrimination, their only advice to the gingers that act as a stand-in representing all minority groups facing irrational discrimination is that they just need to get as violent as the most aggressive extremists so that people will respect them. Which is itself a smug, sanctimonious way of suggesting that they can never be respected as people, only either seen as lesser or feared as an enemy.
- Comment on SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers 1 week ago:
And not just the resources, those orbits are going to be cluttered with slowly-deorbiting junk too. Until we get around to making something that can clean them up, we won’t be able to put anything else there.
- Comment on What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms? 2 weeks ago:
I think the opposite of harassment isn’t so much celebrating the targets as defending them directly. In that case, the opposite of kiwifarms is community defense. Everything from infiltrators watching kf from the inside to give the targets an early warning to the folks who provide safehouses for people that can’t stay at home or publish personal infosec guides to help reduce one’s target profile. Every little bit can help when you’re the target of a harassment campaign.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 5 weeks ago:
Move to Washington D.C. or Cheyenne Wyoming, if you’re inside the blast radius then you won’t have to live to see the world end.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 1 month ago:
As an enby who’s best described as “the polar opposite of an agender person”, I experience gender both intrinsically and extrinsically. Dysphoria is a good example of the former; I used to have a deep and profoundly uncomfortable sense of “wrongness” about my body, like the feeling of wearing your shoes on the wrong feet but for skin texture, body odor, the shape of one’s hands, vocal pitch, etc etc etc.
Extrinsically, I’m mostly seen as a guy, which can be irritating when it results in getting called “Sir”, or a pleasant experience when someone recognizes that I’m not one of the guys.
- Comment on Hiking survival gear 2 months ago:
She does at least have a trash bag on her, so she might be OK if she polices those cups effectively. =/
- Comment on What types of cleaning products do you *really* need to clean the bathroom? 2 months ago:
Any kind of soap for basic cleaning, but you don’t can substitute water and elbow grease in a pinch.
For sanitizing, get a hypochlorite generator. They’re cheap (you can get them on Amazon for less than $25), and use electricity to turn a pinch of salt and some water into the same dilute bleach solution that Hospitals use to sanitize surfaces.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 2 months ago:
Unvarnished stainless steel can be non-stick if you use it right.
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 3 months ago:
I want to hack one of these machines so I can dial in a precise and repeatable mix. =3
- Comment on Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data 3 months ago:
The legality is questionable, but just listening is harmless.
- Comment on Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data 3 months ago:
You can get a cheap SDR for a few bucks and an antenna for about the same. The rest is software and ingenuity.
- Comment on Been there 4 months ago:
I interpreted the “beautiful starry night” in the context where most of the populated world lives under so much light pollution you can barely see any stars…
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 4 months ago:
Saying so once would have been fine. If he’s fine with the Safety Friend and she wanted to pay her own way then there’s no conflict.
But saying so twice? That’s some insecurity right there, and it would have me reconsidering even if I was desperate both for a free meal and to get laid.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 4 months ago:
Mow
- Comment on Become irresistible to women 4 months ago:
[Groundskeeper Willie Meme]
Damn taxonomists, they’ve ruined taxonomy! XD
- Comment on ‘Maybe we should go after you’ Trump threatens ABC reporter asking about free speech 4 months ago:
Follow in Al-Zaidi’s footsteps.
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 4 months ago:
No, he’s just the one who gets credit for it.
- Comment on Did I used to be homophobic? Am I? 4 months ago:
Whether it’s a choice or something that was imposed upon them isn’t really relevant, deprogramming either case needs therapy with some extra steps.
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 4 months ago:
Luigi showed the world that if you write your manifesto on your ammo then the media will spread it everywhere.
- Comment on For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why? 5 months ago:
I realized I wanted to stop living in Texas the first time I traveled outside of the state in my early teens.
I tried once in my 20’s, but I was too homesick for my partners to leave them behind. It took another 15 years after that point before the universe conspired to let me move to Colorado and bring them with me.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 5 months ago:
Obviously, Linux.
- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 5 months ago:
Parenting
- Comment on Valve continue building up their new game Deadlock with a big update with six new heroes 5 months ago:
Who is this game for? Mobas are so 2007…
- Comment on "Multiple" future Hardspace projects are coming, as Hardspace: Shipbreaker devs Blackbird Interactive take full ownership 5 months ago:
Both of these are very good ideas.
Getting multiplayer to work well sounds like a very real challenge, given that the physics are complicated enough to slow the game to a crawl when a core blows.
- Comment on beaver girls rise 6 months ago:
I know precisely one beaver furry and they are more girl-ish than girl. XD
- Comment on Is it okay to cover the outside of a microwave in aluminum to prevent or lessen microwave WiFi interference? 6 months ago:
Short answer is “Yes but your mileage may vary”.
Actually blocking microwaves effectively requires more than just a sheet of aluminum foil, but it’s a start: haitmfg.com/microwave-shielding-materials/
- Comment on She's a keeper 6 months ago:
Aka “jogging pants”, “lounge pants”, “tracksuit bottoms”, “trackies”, “tracky daks”, or “trackpants”.
They’re a kind of soft trousers or loose leggings worn typically for comfort or athletic purposes.
