Decompilation means that they can deterministically recompile the code and get the original ROM back minus assets. Someone may be able to wedge in shims of emulator code for the subsystems that need it. But at that point you’re still emulating realistically and still dealing with bottlenecks. The true power of a native Port would open it up to Modern graphics apis larger faster system bus etc that wasn’t available initially. It’s going to take a bit more programming work before you see something that really blows the doors off emulation. But it will happen.

The national debt is meaningless when it’s invested at home. Often generating many dollars per dollar spent. Everything doesn’t need to be cut. A lot of things need to be expanded. But what absolutely needs to be cut is the income streams of the wealthy including all the loopholes they use. And our spending on Military and wars.

Question who are you talking to?

Storage space is valuable for their AI stuff. Why would they keep around copies like that on valuable storage space if they don’t think they’re going to be using them again once they’ve trained their model? I really hope they are scanning them to a format or something like that that. But I doubt it. These aren’t the most forward looking or intelligent people you’ll find. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out that they never did anything more than scan it into train the model and then flush it from the system. It’s 100% on brand for them.

Then what group that isn’t running in their areas should they vote for. That’s what’s so inflammatory about your statement. Yes Democrats serve the same corporate masters by and large. Yet even by your own admission they are better than Republicans while still doing this.

You can only choose from the choices available to you. If someone asks you if you want cake or death. If you say chimichangas you’re getting death.

I hope, I really really hope that DSA keeps moving on the DNC and we might actually see change at State and National levels. Maybe you’ve already seen it in your state. I’ve run into a lot of attached Blue State dwellers who have the same things to say as you did. But the majority of the rest of the country isn’t in the situation they find themselves and. And making fun of or admonishing them for choosing from the choices actually available to them is counterproductive we need to give them and ourselves better choices that are viable. Something this new DSA initiative might actually accomplish fingers crossed

Both are indeed bad. Though there is some hope sanity might come to one of the two in the near future. Who knows how long it stays. Probably will be fleeting again.

Unfortunately in the case of both. Justice will never come to those who are harmed.

If you go to their safe spaces you’ll see that and plenty more regularly. Though I recommended you don’t, for sanity’s sake. It’s like maga with a different mask.

They don’t have to. It isn’t about socialism or being socialist. It’s about being anti-west. All else is optional to them.

The late late show. RIP

They are ripping them from their spines and pulping them once the have what they want.

Chow is awesome. I’ve always enjoyed the more original work he’s done. He’s not the stunt man Chan is. But he has a similar sense of humor and comedic timing. Then pushed to 11 with Looney Tunes CGI shit. But even his takes on their Journey to the West have been enjoyable.

Well, arguing when they show no interest or aptitude to think about what’s being said. When they think it’s a game, and that everyone else thinks so just like them. That’s absolutely a lost cause. Even when they are perceptive and genuine, it’s absolutely exhausting still. Ultimately you can’t generally just lay out the facts and be done for the most part. You have to ask questions to lead them to find the understanding for themselves. They might not trust you. But if they come across it themselves its much harder to dismiss. Its a lot of hard work.

Nope, doing a community service. Walmart is a parasite.

It was also purposefully turbocharged by Rodger Ales. Millions of people unknowingly live in information deserts today. Purposefully erected around them just for this purpose.

Honestly don’t follow the news that much, but notice that for all the saber-rattling, China hasn´t actually done anything, in contrast to the US over the last, oh, 200 years.

Honestly, China has had a history of it as well. Though that China technically isn’t this china. There were technically at least a China or two between then and now. Maoism was mostly toxic at home. Dengism ramped it up and will eventually export it sooner or later. This China is only just getting to the position where they can start doing it. Which is why they are starting. The main reason that it hasn’t escalated into military conflict. Is that most of the people they’ve been intimidating know that they would lose in that sort of conflict.

I also have a theory that power eventually corrupts society as the powerful enrich themselves to the detriment of their supporting society–the parasite kills the host. It’s already happening the United States. I’m honestly wondering how China, with it’s centralized authority structure, has managed to not only survive so long, but actually make advancements as a whole.

The same way the US did. If we would be around 250 years post Chinese empire. I would 100% wager you that they will take a very similar path as the us. Because the US did similar to the countries that came before it. And they did similar to the countries that came before them. I’m 100% on the same page with you about power corrupting. That’s why it happens and with their centralized system they may not let the information or data out that it is happening. But it is happening.

I’ve literally seen them post calling out ML and tankies directly. So you might want to work on your hypothesis some there. It would be like someone calling you a Zionist or a nazi. Something which I’m sure you had happened to you. But not something I think is true of at this point. Which is why I try to engage with you maturely like this. For now. Just because someone disagrees with you does not make them a tanky.

It’s their own words. I’ve seen their posts. And I’ve Seen Nothing To Doubt them.

The same China that’s currently saber rattling at every single direct neighbor they have? The United States Used to Know the value of soft power too. But it’s the nature of states. They always corrupt. And the corrupt don’t value soft power or diplomacy.

And don’t bother trying to argue that China isn’t corrupt. Billionaires and millionaires exist there. Allowing that from the start was a corrupt move. Don’t question that the state doesn’t covet that power. Just because they will imprison or kill those Millionaires and billionaires if they cross “the state”. Does not make them uncorrupted.

As to the tanky bit… Honestly outside of the horrendous social policy, China has actually done a number of things right or at least better than the US, which isn’t a great achievement. I honestly wouldn’t mind discussing and dissecting those things if it wasn’t for disingenuous defense of their cultural and social abuses by them or the ML. That think the world will be a better place if they were the bully. Without understanding that who the bully is, isn’t the problem. It’s the existence of said bullies.

The only way to know is to try. The only way to truly lose is never to try. 100% PBS and public media stations should absolutely try to do something like this everywhere. Whether it’s something like Mastodon servers for local users in the state or viewing area. It’s a great way to build modern communities. We have someone that runs a local instance for our city area. I don’t generally post there. But I absolutely log in to check the local feed.

You’re attacking the messenger. Look at what they said and just take it on face value. What did they say that was false or untrue? I don’t see anything false. One of my grandfather’s fought in World War ii. The other in korea. My father was drafted into Vietnam. What about all our military mucking about in Afghanistan and Iraq and now Iran. Bosnia/Serbia? The African continent and South America. All the myriad of miscellaneous groups we armed with the goal of destabilizing governments in the region.

Now step back for a moment from whether you think X or Y was justified. Just look at the overall volume and frequency of it. Yes some of them were in response to Russian imperialism. But just the sheer number of military or weapons aid interventionism on the part of our country we absolutely have a problem. One that I definitely see China taking up the banner of as we collapse. But that doesn’t make it right. Or make those pointing it out wrong.

Imagine what kind of healthcare we could have, how much our cities and communities could be, how good our schools could be. If our first response wasn’t to blow people up or enable others to blow people up. Imagine what goes effective hundreds of trillions of dollars could have gotten us at home if it hadn’t just been blown up or thrown away.