FakeGreekGirl @ FakeGreekGirl @lemmy.blahaj.zone

She/they. Greek-American. Trying something new.

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It's mostly working, but there's some minor stuff that doesn't work well.

No idea if it's abandoned, or if it's just going through a slump, or if I'm just impatient.

Minor things, mostly. Like, animated gifs don't animate in comments, video links don't always work, etc

I was using Eternity for a while, mostly because I used Infinity on Reddit and it's a fork of that. But it's still not feature complete and it hasn't been updated in ages, so I'm on Voyager now.

Ah, the French

Dck

Yeah, that was my intention here. As well as Ars Technica's apparently.

Honestly, if it was better, it would be worse.

Yeah, prices went super high during the pandemic, and prices for GPUs in particular stayed high for a while due to crypto miners. They're largely back down to earth now, though.

Yes, but also no.

Meanwhile, on Xbox, you need Game Pass to play Final Fantasy 14, on top of the subscription to the game itself.

Nope. You need Playstation Plus or Xbox Game Pass Core for online play on their respective platforms. And they charge subscription fees for that.

Plus, no monthly fees for online play on PC.

That wasn't my plan before, but it is now.

I'm not sure why you think I think they are mutually exclusive. I said the exact opposite of that.

I'm not saying we don't offer hope. But hope and anger are not incompatible.

You can't offer hope for a better tomorrow unless you are willing to point out and fix the problems of today. And as long as we are avoiding scaring the right, we cannot do this.

And how well has being the adults in the room worked for us? In the US, it's done nothing but marginalize the left time after time. Our choices for leadership boil down to a contest between center-right and fascist, and fascist is winning.

The fact is, people want anger. People understand anger. People are angry, and for good reason. Our society is completely, utterly fucked, and everyone knows it, even if they don't quite know how or why. And it's precisely that sentiment that fascists like the MAGA movement prey upon. They give people something to blame for everything being fucked, while what laughingly passes for the left continues pretending everything is fine. And so people go to the right, over and over and over again, because at least the right acknowledges their anger.

There's a reason that the last time the left had a real moment in this country was when there were massive protests all over the nation, screaming at the top of their lungs, "BLACK LIVES MATTER!" and "DEFUND THE POLICE!" We finally let our anger show, and guess what? This country stood with us, over and over, and mobilized like hell to get Trump out of office. And then the Biden administration abandoned us and called for "civility" and "reaching across the aisle" like we all knew they would, and now the fascists are back.

We are not going to get anywhere as long as we keep trying to be the "adults in the room" and try to be "civil". We need to get fucking mad, and stay fucking mad, and do the work to make real change whether the other guys want it or not.

The left gets massacred for prosaic slogans like "Black lives matter" and "Trans rights are human rights" while the right straight up chants "Jews will not replace us" and nobody bats an eye. So I don't think the left's tone is the problem here.

And yes, for the record, black lives matter and trans women (note, no hyphen) are women.

What'd we do?

Happy to be of service