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.
And worse, the strategic oil reserve can't physically handle this kind of fill-and-empty cycling. It's oil that's been pumped into an old salt mine, the mine's structure gets stressed every time the oil level changes. It's going to collapse someday.
"I ordered you to win. Why haven't you won yet? And note that I won't accept any answer you give."
Right before the AI boom really started to take off there was a robot "companion" named Moxie that I thought struck exactly the right balance - it was nowhere near the uncanny valley, staying firmly on the cute robot side, and it used a projected cartoon face that was simple but expressive. Unfortunately the company's timing was rather poor, they went out of business right before the AI back end would have been able to make full use of an avatar like this. I'd love to see another version of this approach.
More for the rest of us, I guess.
Sure, if they subscribed to literally everything and had started doing so right from the beginning.
Not holistically, as an archive. When new content is posted on an instance it gets pushed out to any other instances that are subscribed to it. That's the only time the content is sent out. So if you start up a new instance but don't subscribe to anything nothing will be sent to you, and you won't get any historical content sent to you from beforehand. The Fediverse isn't a "flood fill" mesh.
You can download archives of Reddit comment and submissions from Academic Torrents.
I'm not aware of any similar public archives of Fediverse content.
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.
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..
Only just now? Better late than never, I guess.