Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 1/10/25 9:18 AM, CrudeSausage wrote:

On 2025-01-10 04:12, RonB wrote:

On 2025-01-10, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 15:32:01 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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     Social conceptions and groupings of races have varied over time,
     often involving folk taxonomies that define essential types of
     individuals based on perceived traits. Modern scientists consider
     such biological essentialism obsolete, and generally discourage
     racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical
     and behavioral traits.

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To be perfectly clear -- fuck modern scientists and modernity in general.

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Science and scientists need to be put in quotes. Almost all so-called
"science" these days is pure politics.
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Apparently L.A. is burning because they quit making fire breaks on the hills
overlooking the city because "they interfered" with the migration of some
breed of mouse. And the water shortage is partly caused by the removal of
dams in north California. (That and they sent their "extra" fire equipment
to Ukraine.)

 I believe your claim about Los Angeles sealing its fate to save some breed of mouse.

You shouldn't.

As we know, part of why California is so dry has to do with the fact that during the Obama period, water was diverted away from its destination in California into the Pacific Ocean to save some parasitic species of fish. This is actually well known, but one of my local "independent" news agencies claimed that Trump was lying when he brought that up (I have since decided to stop giving that news agency a chance).
 

Because the lawsuit that CA won on that was resolved in a different fashion:  the need was met without trampling the environment as Trump wanted to do.
Plus that topic had no role anyway, because of physics:  one can only push/suck a finite amount of water through a pipe of a given size.
So once demand exceeds this physics limit, water pressure drops to ~zero --> even when the reservoir on the hilltop is still full(!) <--
Water is an incompressible; this is textbook Fluid Dymamics 101.
And before trying to claim that cities should have infinitely large pipes everywhere, doing so isn't free.  Which is why no city in the world has the degree of municipal infrastructure overbuild that would've been needed.  Its the same reason why no one here has a full blow 10GBe Ethernet network in their home, let alone a 25GBe on:  TANSTAAFL.
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-hh