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- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 4 hours ago:
The vast majority of the increase, is what I said. In other words, I’m saying it wouldn’t be nearly at the 3% mark without those users, and with over a quarter of all Linux users coming from the Steam Deck userbase, that is, in fact, true.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 16 hours ago:
Just boot the computer, choose which DE you want to install
Yeah, that’s not at all accessible to the average consumer; they don’t know what a “DE” even is, much less why they should choose any over any other.
Very, very few people want to deal with something other than a ‘just works’ situation.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 16 hours ago:
I think it will continue to rise. People are updating their rigs all the time. Whenever they update their rig they’ll have to ask themselves whether they want to continue with Windows on their new rig, or try with something new.
The vast majority of this increase is from people playing on Steam Decks, which run on Linux, not from people switching to Linux on their PCs.
If it continues to rise, this is the reason. The general public is less and less into using a desktop at all as time goes on, much less running, and much less changing to, an extremely niche operating system on one.
- Comment on Get over yourself 17 hours ago:
Don’t like to think about things, do you? You just comment.
- Comment on Get over yourself 1 day ago:
I repeat the oblivious words of someone projecting their own thoughtlessness onto another, as well-deserved mockery of their foolishness.
- Comment on Get over yourself 1 day ago:
Don’t like to think about things, do you? You just comment.
- Comment on Get over yourself 1 day ago:
- “Actively trying to avoid looking gay, is fucking gay.” is not a joke.
- That’s actually not really true. A lot of great comedy is born from the ‘dissection’ of previous comedy, understanding how/why it was so effective. Analysis isn’t destructive.
- Comment on Get over yourself 1 day ago:
Don’t like to think about things, do you? You just comment.
- Comment on Get over yourself 3 days ago:
Don’t like to think about things, do you? You just comment.
- Comment on Get over yourself 3 days ago:
Extremely ironic thing to say, considering you’re the one actively failing to follow your own line of thinking.
Why does it make you so uncomfortable to be asked a simple question that directly follows from your own words? Ironically, your decision to insult me instead of simply answering the question “screams insecurity”.
Also ironically, you’ve almost certainly put zero thought into how statements like that are fundamentally homophobic; they indirectly perpetuate stereotypes about how gay people act.
Perhaps think about that, instead of projecting your thoughtlessness onto others.
- Comment on Get over yourself 3 days ago:
Trying your best to not look gay just makes you look closeted.
Only to those who’ve already made assumptions about that person.
- Comment on Get over yourself 3 days ago:
So, insecurity is gay?
- Comment on Get over yourself 3 days ago:
How do you figure?
- Comment on Get over yourself 3 days ago:
This is the original article the bitly link points to:
psmag.com/…/how-gender-stereotypes-affect-pro-env…
I see nowhere in there talking about anyone actually ‘avoiding green behavior to avoid being considered gay’, in real life.
The studies mentioned are surveys of hypothetical people, and its conclusion is something that’s already known and obvious: the more things you do that are associated with the stereotype of the sex you aren’t, the more likely it is that the average person will assume you are gay.
The only distinction is that they were looking only at how ‘acts of environmentalism’ are stereotypically aligned with femininity, but the above is true of literally everything that’s stereotypically aligned with either femininity or masculinity.
This post is disingenuous tripe.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 1 week ago:
cis he/him
insert ‘I’m gonna pre’ compilation
- Comment on Anon is a comedian 3 weeks ago:
Some of my favorites:
I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody’s fingers.
I’m not a hypochondriac, but my gynecologist firmly believes I am.
My mother, she never breastfed me. She told me she liked me as a friend.
Nothing goes right. I joined Gamblers Anonymous. They gave me two-to-one I don’t make it.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been using Firefox for over a decade, and Windows has never complained about it. What are you talking about?
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
were those numbers perhaps cherry-picked to make the situation look more dramatic than it actually is?
If anyone can go from 554th to 5th in any sport/event just by competing among the other sex, nothing else changing, then that obviously indicates something. You can’t handwave that away.
Her personal 100m freestyle time dropping less than a quarter of a second post-transition is honestly a bigger indicator that transition is not making a substantial difference, because that angle completely removes the ‘chance’ element in your opponents being different people.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
The very fact that their ranking is lower than what it should be is an issue in and of itself, your disingenuous mockery notwithstanding.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
The question is fair, but so very few people are affected, who cares?
The vast majority of people are never murdered, either. But I’m sure it matters to them and their loved ones.
It’s an extreme example for the analogy, but the point stands: it doesn’t follow that a bad thing being rare makes it less bad. This is not a valid argument against.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
My understanding is that there is absolutely no evidence that trans women have an advantage.
Going from 554th place pre-transition to 5th place post-transition doesn’t line up with that claim.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
The fact that the University of Pennsylvania swimmer [Lia Thomas] soared from a mid-500s ranking (554th in the 200 freestyle; all divisions) in men’s competition to one of the top-ranked swimmers in women’s competition tells the story
In the 100 freestyle, Thomas’ best time prior to her transition was 47.15. At the NCAA Championships, she posted a prelims time in the event of 47.37. That time reflects minimal mitigation of her male-puberty advantage.
During the last season Thomas competed as a member of the Penn men’s team, which was 2018-19, she ranked 554th in the 200 freestyle, 65th in the 500 freestyle and 32nd in the 1650 freestyle. As her career at Penn wrapped, she moved to fifth, first and eighth in those respective events on the women’s deck.
It may not be an issue to you, but it’s an issue to every woman whose ranking is lower as a result. I imagine it especially hurts if you’re pushed out of first place in that way.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 2 months ago:
Incel implies a level of indoctrination into a misogynistic POV
No one is thinking this deeply when they call a man who just said/did something they don’t like an “incel”. People just use it mindlessly as an insult, same as with “virgin”.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 2 months ago:
Please don’t equivocate homophobia with closeted homosexuality.
There are tons of homophobes who aren’t in the closet, and tons of gay guys in the closet who aren’t homophobic. Not to mention that using this as an ‘attack’ toward a homophobe is literally using gay as an insult, which is the same thing homophobes do.
It does gay people no good.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 2 months ago:
It’s not out of fashion at all, “virgin” just became “incel”. The intent is identical.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 2 months ago:
To make that joke? No.
To make the joke, having already decided to make it, as funny as possible? Yes.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 2 months ago:
People (I’m in the US) are pretty much always astonished to realize, when I ask them to say the word “important”, that they more often than not will pronounce zero of the T’s in the word, when I point it out that they didn’t.
It always really stuck out to me as a kid when Shawnee Smith (probably most famous for the Saw movies now), on the old sitcom Becker, would always enunciate the T’s in that word—that’s what made me realize how weird it was that everyone wasn’t saying it that way, lol.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 2 months ago:
Apparently, there’s some sort of linguistic exchange program within British English where T’s are traded out for R’s, and then a persistent logistics issue causes the R’s to be distributed incorrectly.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 2 months ago:
“stop” doesn’t mean stop
calling a lie a lie is ad hominemFuck all the way off, pathetic liar.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 2 months ago:
Where did I “exactly” say we should stop taxing the rich, liar?