Also:
Are you a time traveller?
We are talking about the Civil War.
mindbleach
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The Cornerstone Speech is in black and white, in history books and this conversation. Abusive troll. Referring to it is not even a matter of your grand claims to be a nuance understander. It's basic reading comprehension. I am describing the aggressively obvious for-its-own-sake bigotry of the goddamn Confederacy - the central fucking topic of this post.
"the sky is blue because we can only see blue light!" The answer would be "no, but there's a bit of truth there."
... no, that'd be running interference for morons. Insisting "he's not entirely wrong!" when the only sane aspect of someone's worldview is that the sky is blue is the biggest motte-to-bailey ratio I've ever heard.
Thank you for making crystal clear why this thread is a trainwreck. You're twisting complete nonsense claims by obvious idiot liars into an out-of-context interpretation of a few words they kinda said.
In the case of the OG Facebook dolt, he didn't say "the civil war about more than slavery," he said "the civil war WASN'T ABOUT SLAVERY, UNTIL blah blah blah." Bog-standard Lost Cause propaganda. Picking a few words from that and going yeah-but is exactly the sort of dissembling excuse that overt racists like his dumb ass will do all the fucking time.
If you can't spot the problem when third parties do it for him, you're why it's a problem.
Underlining an inability to identify bigotry when it's any less blatant than declaring an ethnicity subhuman, in as many words.
And turning it into personal insults about mental health. Real classy.
Again: even the obvious bigot we're all bickering about would loudly insist he's against slavery and racism. And then he'd immediately say some shit that promotes, excuses, or minimizes outright bigotry.
And you two pipe-chewing scholars would scoff, asking: what's so racist about that obvious dogwhistle? Technically that bigot's point about crime rates was factually correct! Are we not free to litigate whether those bad-faith justifications make valid claims before an insane conclusion? There's no way that's how every racist asshole launders their evil bullshit. Surely it's not exactly how they shield their views, when they can't outright say, "fuck the outgroup."
Meanwhile.
Back at the distant point:
The civil war was about slavery. For its own sake. Any human conflict is going to be more complex than a single word, but few wars have ever been clearer about their overwhelming central focus. If you say the sky is blue because of light from the sun and I add "and from the stars!," that's how uselessly tangential it is to insist "and trade."
Humans have done unimaginable evil for its own sake. Tell six generations they're the only people who count, and of course number seven's ready to end you for questioning it. You don't count. This is unmistakable and unavoidable in strongly hierarchical honor cultures. For example: the south. Seeking a calmly reasoned explanation when a senator beats someone half to death with a walking-stick leads to "4D chess" self-delusion. Like it has to be strategic.
Like systemic violence against an entire race has to make sense without bigotry, even if you fully acknowledge there is "also" bigotry.
Describing those flimsy justifications at all requires considerable context to avoid coming off as just another racist asshole.
Using those flimsy justifications like they're interchangeable for the actual fuuucking reason is inexcusable. And you lurched into this conversation specifically to excuse it. Feel free to stop.
Cheese, Harry!
Everyone in this thread that I have seen is roundly denouncing slavery and racism.
So would the asshole claiming "the civil war wasn't about slavery."
That's how these excuses function as propaganda. They don't come out and say "yay evil." But they're still defending evil... by degrees. The nuance of their claims is kinda fucking important.
We have the freedom, now, to be able to discuss nuance without worrying about whether it will be used as a shield for bigots.
You live on a different internet.
We don't ALWAYS have to dismiss context and nuance
... reducing this to 'well you just hate nuance' is so goddamn ironic I'm not sure where to begin.
Much nicer.
IIRC the original Xbox has even worse emulation, to this day, despite being infamously close to a stock PC.
What makes RDR's emulation struggles noteworthy is that it's a highly desirable game that still took ages to unfuck. Most nightmare cases for emulators seem to be random D-list titles. Pinball Fantasies on Game Boy had incomprehensible crashes, early and reliably, for no discernible reason. True Crime New York on Gamecube was a white whale for Dolphin despite being absolute garbage.
RDR was a huge deal for its own sake - and it ran bad, looked worse, and stayed that way for a while. Back in the day it was common for emulators to only work properly for big-name games. NESticle and SNES9X absolutely cheated to run major titles. Early N64 development was nothing but. So having this killer app refuse to work, year after year, was a lingering presence in people's minds.
Finally getting it working, only to have a nearly painless alternative drop, is pretty goddang funny.
Anyway it's something like data:text/html,{script} ac = new AudioContext(); wn = ac.createScriptProcessor( 4096, 1, 1 ); wn.onaudioprocess = (e) => e.outputBuffer.getChannelData(0).forEach( (v,i,a) => a[i] = Math.random() ); wn.connect( ac.destination ); {/script} except with whatever dark wizardry makes output reach a speaker.
Also I'm not sure .forEach works on whichever array-like type was chosen for audio channels. This stupid language has so many incompatible and incomplete array implementations.
edit: And angle brackets on script and /script, because this stupid website fucked up its Markdown. Preventing random HTML strings in comments: excellent, necessary, obvious; it is not 1999 anymore. Doing so by deleting the entire goddamn thing as if you parsed it before removing it: DEEPLY TROUBLING.
Did:
Tell me the holocaust was really about land rights and I'll tell you where to shove it.
The both of you are trying to rationalize the worst evils in the world, as if extraordinary bigotry isn't thoroughly sufficient.
You in particular scoff, "You really think they would have fought a war and died by the tens of thousands just because they like slavery so dang much?" Like you cannot imagine shockingly violent conflict emerging from sheer hatred. In the south. A culture stereotyped for generational blood feuds. A region that if we're brutally honest still has a problem with lynching.
All for "nuance."
Nuance you're blind to, when it's me pointing out, people make these excuses as propaganda. The other guy dying on this hill keeps ranting about Lincoln for some reason and just coincidentally drops that well okay the war was about the business of dehumanizing misery. It's just business! A perfectly reasonable dry bloodless economic incentive. Co-equal to, y'know, openly declaring black people subhuman. Both sides.
Again reaching for the hopefully obvious comparison: would you say the holocaust was about the Nazi desire to kill Jewish Germans...'s businesses? How seriously would you take someone's insistence that they're not doing apologism, when all they talk about is Japanese internment and lebensraum? "I don't know why we can't address Hitler's vile antisemitism, and his totes sincere good-faith criticism of wealthy minorities. Why can't both be true? Discuss."
I'd have a Javascript one-liner producing white noise, except web audio is a Gordian knot of inscrutable identical-sounding types and contexts and maps and whateverthefuck. Documentation reads like they forgot to implement it and hoped nobody would notice.
How do you generate noise? Well you need a sink. How do I get a sink? Well you need an event. How do you get an event? Well you need a processor. How do you get a processor? Well you need a context. How do you get a context? Well you need a node. How do you get a node? Well you need a sink. I'm going to stab you now. Understandable.
Hilarious, after the tortuously long road Xenia took to get there.
Elmo tries to be Facebook and pulls a MySpace instead.
... god dammit, that's pretty good.