Speculative questions/observations.
It seems obvious to me that as these trials go on that Republicans are going to use increasingly brazenly corrupt means to dodge/alter/fire D.A.s/pardon crimes.
Is this in conjunction with various state legislator shenanigans and districting bullshit i.e. how Alabama and Ohio (and also potentially Tennessee depending on an on-going lawsuit) are going to ignore re-draw orders to wait out the clock and use the psychotically gerrymandered maps for 2024 enough to get the U.S. to actual cool-zone balkanization discussions or are even things this openly corrupt and in plain sight not enough to get the ball rolling?
I know (well guess) that ultimately US balkanization rests on either capital deciding that the state of things are too untenable for its profit interests and/or the evangelical base in the states to start trying to express state-captured power openly, but I guess I'm asking do you think the continually escalating corruption is enough to get liberals to actually push back in some concrete, non-performative way.
I guess I'm wondering what level of overt corruption sparks these conversations in the mainstream (or even if that discourse is possible).
Copied the full post over as I imagine it gets buried under the news
Things to get out of the way:
- I know a U.S. president can't pardon state level crimes
- I know the Georgia governor can't pardon state crimes in Georgia
In Georgia a council, appointed by the governor, has the pardon power in the state after it was stripped from GA governors because of corruption in the past.
As far as I'm aware (per coverage of things tonight), that council is all Republican and only has loose self-imposed guidelines/norms about the process by which a person can apply for a pardon.
Why do liberals think this is a slam dunk when that council can seemingly at any time change these rules to the extent of even giving a preemptive pardon? The governor can't replace these people instantly as they're on some x year term scheme.
Is this just more hopeful "the walls are closing in" or am I missing something here?
Edit also the Georgia state republicans gave themselves the power to fire D.A.s in 2 weeks time. It's obvious this is going to be used, no?
Things to get out of the way:
- I know a U.S. president can't pardon state level crimes
- I know the Georgia governor can't pardon state crimes in Georgia
In Georgia a council, appointed by the governor, has the pardon power in the state after it was stripped from GA governors because of corruption in the past.
As far as I'm aware (per coverage of things tonight), that council is all Republican and only has loose self-imposed guidelines/norms about the process by which a person can apply for a pardon.
Why do liberals think this is a slam dunk when that council can seemingly at any time change these rules to the extent of even giving a preemptive pardon? The governor can't replace these people instantly as they're on some x year term scheme.
Is this just more hopeful "the walls are closing in" or am I missing something here?
"Let's talk about the current genocide the CCP is carrying out"
"Here's a source from western-aligned organizations disputing this"
"I'm not reading this"
Liberalism in a nutshell
Also just to corroborate your experience absolutely ignore the "no one respects Chinese degrees."
At the university I attended for undergrad the plurality of grad students in my area had degrees from Chinese universities and my program had hired two full-time lecturers the year prior (and one of them was my favorite instructor in undergrad).
Just posted from jerboa. Maybe try clearing cache/reinstalling
If you do this could you try to provide updates that don't identify you?
I'm hoping to do the same thing in a few years and have also had massive difficulty getting past the "gommunism chiner bad" research phase
I say at the end that we'd probably immediately use those powers to revert back to better working conditions (WFH).
I can't see any scenario where this doesn't happen immediately and was mostly just riffing at the absurdity of thinking companies would implement these things (outside of maybe free lunches) in order to empower labor (to the company's shareholders' detriment) willingly.
Some things that would make me consider it:
- Free high quality lunches every day
- Transportation compensation in the form of both work time (if the office is poorly located) and monetary compensation for transportation expenses
- Management improvement plan with actions they're taking/implementing to reduce the time they're wasting of laborers on a day-to-day basis
- Alteration of the company structure to force a large percentage (simple majority) of ownership to workers to push back against reactionary and profit-driven anti-labor whims of shareholders
- Services/compensation that complete tasks that previously I could do during downtime at home
- Yearly inflation-pegged CoL raises that apply to every laborer in the company before salary raises are made
- Massive investment in in-office employee training programs in the form of role-based training that is chosen by laborers in that particular role/function
If every single one of these things were implemented I would then still probably leave the place for another WFH job if we didn't use our new ownership powers to revert back to WFH immediately.
The only thing that shines brighter than KBJ's dissents is the institution that makes them possible.
Pod can't Save America, but we can.
As a progressive, it disgusts me to see how many Bernie bros didn't elevate Hillary in the Midwest.
Many people say campaigns are a marathon, not a sprint, but really it's a relay race and we should have picked up the baton and brought her over the finish line there by knocking on every door in the region.
I think it's critical for progressives to join DSA in order to organize and push back against tankies in their ranks.
The only way to defeat fascism is at the ballot box. Republicans won't be able to sustain this long term, so long as we don't push for radical progressive policies (like healthcare entitlements or climate reform) we won't lose the critical white suburban voters who delivered us Joe Biden in 2020.
The most important thing we can do is to remind true-blooded Americans that no one slowed the rate of middle and lower class spending power decline as quickly as Joe Biden. (Sanity side note- if you're ever in a position where you're forced to use the second derivative of spending power as a talking point it's already over)
It's time to highlight leaders cut from the same cloth. It's time to rally behind Buttigieg 2028.
Remember that it's critical to criticize, but don't call for reform of, the Supreme Court.
If we lose ourselves to radical positions like court expansion imagine if it's ever used against us in the future.
This primary season it's critical to ensure that any candidate you vote for is pro-NATO.
Some of the more tankie members of the progressive caucus may not be openly pro-NATO, so make sure you do your research in case you need to vote for a real American in these districts.
Here are some educational resources/explanations for the games community about emulation and other game-related tools.
Note: Check my top-level replies in this thread as I ran out of text in the post
[Informational Resources]
[Emulation as a field]
Emulation is the process of re-implementing the functionality of something (hardware and/or software) in a separate software environment. You're probably most most familiar in the term as it relates to game system emulation- like the Dolphin Wii and Gamecube emulator, but it's actually much broader than that.
While emulation does cover physical systems, it can also cover things that strictly exist as software (for example, the recent server emulator created for Genshin Impact). If you've ever played on WoW or any other MMO private servers, the actual underlying software that was being run was likely a server emulator (or in rare cases the actual official server software itself may have leaked or released).
These server emulators are created by analyzing the network information exchange (packets) sent from the game client to the server and those received by the client from the server. A painstaking and brutal process of analyzing these packets allows server reverse-engineering projects to then re-implement the functionality of the official servers, and then we can point the game client towards our reverse-engineered private server (that speaks the exact same "language" as the official servers). This then allows the private servers to provide additional or changed functionality (for example, more exp per quest) which allows a much more customizable experience.
Emulation can also be used to re-implement vendor solutions like the Steam API which provides various utilities like DRM (which the emulator could choose to ignore). A great example of an emulator in this regard is the Goldberg Emulator.
Let's say you've acquired (through legal purchase only of course) the clean steam files for a game and want to run it offline. Normally you wouldn't be able to because the steamworks DRM check wouldn't be able to authenticate against the official steam servers. If we instead replace the steam_api.dll (this could also be named steam_api64.dll depending on the game) with the one provided by the Goldberg Emulator, when the game makes the check for the steamworks drm authentication status, the Goldberg Emulator's implementation of steam_api.dll will simply return true and let us play our game offline. The game itself just knows that it asked for a DRM verification check to a service, and the Goldberg variant of steam_api.dll looks (to the game) exactly like the "real" version, except that it always returns that the steamworks DRM has been verified.
Refer to the readme within the Goldberg project for more information about what to do with specific games. Also take note that this only works with games that only use steamworks drm (most of them) and games using other/multiple DRM solutions won't work with this method only for offline play.
[Console Emulators]
All of the emulators listed below are my personal per-console pick. Each is at least in the recommended section of a great general emulation resource, the Emulation Wiki
Game Platform | Emulator Name | Emulation Platform | Comments
Nintendo Consoles
NES | Ares | Windows/Linux/Mac
SNES | Ares | Windows/Linux/Mac
SNES | bsnes-hd | Windows/Linux/Mac | Widescreen modifications for some SNES games
N64 | Simple64 | Windows/Linux | N64 emulation has a lot of viable candidate emulators, check the page here
GC | Dolphin | Windows/Linux/Mac/Android
Wii | Dolphin | Windows/Linux/Mac/Android
Wii U | Cemu | Windows/Linux
Switch | Ryujinx | Windows/Linux/Mac | Has a free multiplayer-enabled build called LDN 3.1.3 on Patreon
Switch | Yuzu | Windows/Linux/Android | Less accurate emulation than Ryujinx but generally more performant
Nintendo Handhelds
GB/C | mGBA | Windows/Linux/Mac
GBA | mGBA | Windows/Linux/Mac
DS | MelonDS | Windows/Linux/Mac/Android
3DS | Citra | Windows/Linux/Mac/Android
Sony Consoles
Playstation | DuckStation | Windows/Linux/Mac/Android
Playstation 2 | PCSX2 | Windows/Linux/Mac
Playstation 3 | RPCS3 | Windows/Linux/Mac
Sony Handhelds
PSP | PPSSPP | Windows/Linux/Mac/Android
PSVita | Vita3K | Windows/Linux/Mac
Sega Consoles
Sega Master System | Ares | Windows/Linux/Mac
Genesis | Ares | Windows/Linux/Mac
Saturn | Mednafen | Windows/Linux
Dreamcast | Flycast | Windows/Linux/Mac/Android
Microsoft Consoles
Xbox | Xemu | Windows/Linux/Mac
Xbox 360 | Xenia | Windows
[Graphics Packs]
A lot of emulators have texture replacement capabilities built into them. What this means is that users can manually and/or AI upscale textures from the game into higher resolution or outright replace them with other textures. There aren't currently (that I'm aware of) area that have consolidated links to these things, so you'll unfortunately have to search individual project forums and look for texture or graphic packs links.
Some known graphics packs repositories:
[Graphics API Translation Layers]
Sometimes there are scenarios where a game may only use DirectX to draw it's rendered graphics to screen and we may not want this. This could be for performance reasons (maybe the Vulkan graphics api has better performance, maybe DirectX isn't available on our OS, or maybe the DirectX version is really old and not properly supported by our OS/GPU/Driver combination). In these instances we can use translations layers to translate DirectX graphics api calls into Vulkan calls using utilities like DXVK . Explaining which files to copy over depends on a per-DirectX version basis, so you'll have to use a combination of the PCGamingWiki and DXVK documentation to figure out which files to replace.
[Graphics Post-Processing]
With a utility called ReShade we're able to inject various post-processing effects into the final stage of the graphic rendering pipelines of games. This allows you to adjust color curves, inject path-traced global illumination (a method like ray-tracing), and add a bunch of other effects to DirectX9/11/12/Vulkan games.
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