Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 09/01/2025 18:01, D wrote:

  On Thu, 9 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:
 

On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 17:53:21 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

Someone was circulating the theory that Trump's (and Musk's) desire to
annex both Canada and Greenland is the result of wanting access to the
minerals there, which are crucial to the development of electric
vehicles. I would imagine that there are lots of strategic military
reasons too. Maybe the man isn't joking...

 https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/china-arctic-russia/
 Shipping, gas, oil, minerals, fisheries...  Historically, Denmark hasn't
done well protecting its interests since the Danish-Hanseatic War and
certainly can't defend Greenland nor is an independent Greenland feasible.
 Canada is a far reach but with Trudeau the Lesser quitting, who knows. The
SAM provinces might be weighing which is worse, DC or Ottawa.
 

 I don't understand why the US doesn't just bribe their way to greenland? Promise every inhabintant 1 MUSD in subsidies or some kind of government money, and then have a "vote".
 Since the EU is bound by democratic values, and, since greenland legally is allowed to vote for independence, they would be forced to accept a yes to greenlandish independence.
 Once independent, it is then up to them to discuss joining the US.
 

Greenalnd is not formally part of the EU any more. It is associated, only.
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Argument over, and the EU would not be able to criticize a democratic vote by the people.

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Wanna bet? Criticising peoples votes is a global fashion these days.

This is the truth! But I still think the EU would have a hard time to criticize the election.
But we shall see!
But I saw on the news that there's some esquimaux politician currently milking the situation for all that it's worth. If they are shrewd, they will now move to some kind of auction, trying to extract the maximum bid possible.
To make it even more fun, they could invite china to the auction as well! =D