[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago

I think that there's a lot of anxiety more than puritanism. There's a lot of reasons, but one of them is certainly the growing political divide; women are trending more and more liberal, and men more and more conservative. Women don't want to get trapped by a man that doesn't think that she should have rights, while men seem to think that they are 'owed' a woman to have their babies (...and how are they going to fucking pay for those kids, when they think their wife is going to stay at home, and they have zero fucking job prospects...?).

TBH, if I was a woman, I sure as fuck would not want to risk dating men right now.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago

I'm thinking of the voters that are at the margins, not his core demographic. I agree that MAGAs are going to be unswayed no matter what. But there are def. voters that are thinking about personal finances, and think Trump will be better for their wallet (spoiler: he wouldn't be), and you might be able to peel them off if something really gross came out just before they voted. Or peel enough of them off to make a difference.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago

Ah, I was thinking that it was a ban from lemmy.world completely.

Poop.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 8 hours ago

It is neither Dean nor Sam.

Besides, a motorcycle is far more fuel efficient; I typically get about 40-45mpg, v. 12mpg for a '67 Impala.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 8 points 8 hours ago

That's... Interesting. This site is considered to have a significant right bias, but it's still reporting on these claims, and seems to give them credibility. OTOH, Times Now News has a very mixed record on facts, so this might be total bullshit.

We'll see what happens. If it's real, and it comes out with a week left before the election, that might be just enough to tip the scales. Maybe.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago

@jordanlund@lemmy.world did this get reversed? Because I'm seeing posts again when I'm not signed in on a mobile client. Or did they move to another instance?

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago

My gut feeling is that, the more guns you own, the less likely it is that you're going to commit violent violent crimes. I don't know if anyone tracks any kind of data on that though. People that collect firearms and/or are seriously involved in competition are not typically the people that will be involved in other illegal activities. But, again, I don't think that there's data to back this up.

My caveat on that is that there are non-insignificant number of high-volume gun owners that are committing gun crimes, that is, they're violating the National Firearms Act by owning illegal/unregistered machine guns, unregistered silencers, Other Destructive Devices, etc., or are violating local laws regarding storage, etc. (There's no storage laws where I live, and, uh, I def. have guns out pretty much all the time. But I have no kids, there's always someone at home, and I'm in a very rural area where breaks ins are very rare.So I think that there probably should be a distinction between commission of violent crimes using firearms, or crimes related solely to ownership/possession.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

Regardless; the TSA was caught lying about the capabilities of the machines, and I'm just not willing to step foot through one. The ionizing radiation doesn't worry me, because I was never flying frequently enough for it to be an issue.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

That is correct, yes.

Idaho is not a state you want to live in unless you are white, hard right conservative, Christian, cis-, and straight. You probably don't want to have too much education either.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

Lots of home internet does have a data cap, but you might not realize it. Typically what will happen is that, once you hit your cap, you'll be rate throttled. That throttle might not affect most video streaming since Netflix is really good at video compression, but you'll see the hit if you are, for instance, downloading large games from PSN, Steam, etc.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 29 points 1 day ago

I refuse to fly domestically anymore just because the TSA is all security theater, I refuse to go through their backscatter x-ray, and I'm not interested in their enhanced groping. I will ride my motorcycle 1000 miles in a single day rather than take a plane anywhere.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 38 points 1 day ago

Juggalos have always been weirdly wholesome and okay as people. Yeah, it's a weird subculture to me. But not bad. The biggest negative I can say about the juggalos that I've met is that they all want to talk about ICP and marijuana all the time. But they treat people decently, and seem to be fairly progressive. I can live with that.

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Win 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC, 10.0.26100, AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D processor, 64gb RAM, ASUS ProArt X670E-Creator mboard, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics card.

All other drivers except the graphics card driver be up-to-date and working correctly; they have been updated directly from the manufacturer sites.

Every time I try to install the most recent graphics drivers (amd-software-adrenalin-edition-24.7.1-minimalsetup-240718_web), I get about 48% of the way through the installation, and then get a BSOD, with the stop code KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE. I've already tried using the AMD removal tool, rebooting in a clean environment and safe mode to reinstall, and had the same issue. Their driver installation tool gives me the option of installing PRO 24.Q2 (which appears to be for their PRO W and PRO WX series of graphics cards, rather than the RX 7000 series; it's listed as a downgrade), but gives me a 195 error when I try. I've just sent the DxDiag.txt and MSinfo32.nfo to AMD tech support.

Since I'm not running games yet, this isn't impeding much of anything. However, I am having issues with my Meta Quest 3--specifically the link software--but I don't believe that those are directly related; I think that's a problem with my home network. The software is telling me that my system doesn't meet minimum spec though, which is not good.

Any ideas?

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