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Bring it, fuckers. We’re calling your bluff.

IMO the upvote/downvote system is the Fediverse’s biggest mistake, and eliminating it its biggest missed opportunity. There simply isn’t enough of a userbase for it to be meaningful, most threads end up with just a few dozen comments so sorting them by vote ratio doesn’t really accomplish much. Meanwhile it helps drive communities into ever tighter social bubbles by giving such an easy mechanism to express “go away” vibes to anyone with a view that isn’t perfectly in line with the existing consensus.

I can literally look out my window right this moment and see the yard sign I’ve got up opposing separatism. I’ve canvassed for anti-separatist movements, I phone banked for the NDP in the most recent provincial election, I went door to door in support of them. I live in one of the ridings that sent an NDP member to parliament, I voted for them too.

But yeah, clearly I’m the bigot here. It annoys me that Alberta is considered a big blob of traitors and racists and therefore I must be a racist myself.

Do you not see how this kind of attitude is harmful?

The classic “if you’re offended then you must deserve to be offended.” Kind of ironic in the context of an article about bigotry.

The article is discussing a Canada-wide problem and he jumped straight to “it’s about Alberta.” The article actually calls out Saskatchewan as having the steepest decline in acceptance of gender diversity.

By blaming this all on Alberta you’re making the situation worse rather than better. For one, many Albertans who would otherwise be your allies are now offended. For two, it gives a pass to all the other hateful people throughout the rest of Canada.

Gerrymandering can push the needle but it can’t hold back the tide. It can actually backfire if the projections that the gerrymanderers were working with turn out to be inaccurate, since it’s specifically “betting” on a particular arrangement of votes.

Pretty specific cutoff date there. Look at the full history of elections in Alberta, there was a run of PC governments in that specific window that you’ve conveniently specified but before that the political landscape was completely different. And in recent history too, it’s unstable.

But if you want to write the province off and permanently leave it to conservatives, that’s a choice I guess.

That “diehard majority” was a few thousand votes in the most recent election. The one before that, they actually weren’t the majority - Alberta had an NDP government.

Insisting that Alberta is eternally UCP will only help make it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I just spent a bunch of time talking about PC emulators, why would I just keep repeating myself?

I just checked, that game came out in 2001 so I assume it runs on Windows 98. You can install that on DOSBox.

The PS1 hardware isn’t being made any more, it’s not going to last forever either. PS1 emulators will be needed for that as well.

perfectly tuned for it… for how long though?

Perfectly tuned forever, just keep the game bundled with the same emulator.

If eventually the system that the emulator runs on diverges too far from what the emulator was able to run on, then wrap it in another emulator to emulate that. Or just update the emulator, DOSBox is under the GPL.

How many indie titles on PC aged out of the platform and have no maintainer?

If you have an emulator then you don’t need a maintainer. As far as the game is concerned it’s still running on the exact same computer that it did when it was first released.

A person who purchased Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone for PC would be unable to launch the game in any modern OS. But if they have it on PS1, it still works.

They’d need a PS1 emulator for that. DuckStation, for example.

A person who purchased Minecraft in 2011 can no longer play that game on the same computer they purchased it from.

The newer versions of Minecraft can’t. The old version they purchased in 2011 still can because it hasn’t changed.

I’m saying PC is a moving platform.

And I’m pointing out that an emulator need not be a moving platform. It can be a frozen snapshot of a particular moment in time. Get a game working on an emulator and you can freeze that emulator’s code and configuration and then you’ll know that the game will always work on it from then onward. Bundle the emulator with the game, like GOG does, and there’s no “fiddling around” - you can indeed just sit down and play it.

You can swap out their dosbox.exe with a version that includes CRT shaders, such as DOSBox Staging or DOSBox-X.

Or you could wrap the existing DOSBox window in an external shader using ReShade, it’s a universal post-processing injector that can add a CRT filter. That way the emulator they wrap the game in remains untouched, you’re just modifying the visual output.

My search also found all-in-one frontends called ExoDOS and LaunchBox/RetroArch to do this to a whole library of GOG games so that you don’t have to do it individually to each.

The answer there is emulation. Good Old Games sells old DOS games and they work fine on modern computers because each comes wrapped in a DOS emulator tuned perfectly for it…

This coming from the country that still has slavery codified into their constitution. It just needs to be “as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”. Ie, their prison-industrial complex.

Breaking news: Screaming toddler repeats the same threats he’s made numerous times before.

So, the same deal we originally had. Once again Trump is a comical failure at the one thing he claims to be good at.

Ah, so this is an entirely self-contained belief system. He chose this option because he’s “eurocentric,” and he’s eurocentric because he chose this option.

From the perspective of someone who’s leading a country that’s around number 3 or so on Trump’s “invade and annex” list, having America lose a war against Iran in an expensive and humiliating manner is very much worth it.

Also we need to fund a proxy army in Mexico.

Well, I did say it would be nice if people made reasoned comments instead of just repeating whatever makes them popular.

But ultimately the question this thread is about is “What’s behind the growing backlash towards AI data centers?” And I’m answering it. I think the backlash is a moral panic and it’s magnified by the nature of fora like this one.

You’re saying the same thing I’m saying - that these discussion fora don’t have well-substantiated content. Makes it easy for emotional arguments and groupthink to go off in whatever direction and exclude any contradictory viewpoints.