Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 07/01/2025 03:52, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

   Ain't gonna be MAGA
   forever (GOP thinks it has four years to coast)
   and soon enough the ultra-left will regain power.

I don't think so.
Ultra left can only thrive in an affluent society, but they have no idea how to create or maintain affluence.
As poverty kicks in, people are more concerned over potatoes than pronouns.

    Being NRA means you're an Enemy Of The People,
   a terrorist, a 'threat to democracy', a maniac.
   They'll push that and then send midnight raiders
   to your house to 'save America' the way Vlad
   disappears 'dissidents'.
 

Plenty of parts of the USA that would quietly 'disppapear' and goddam 'Liberals' that got out of their EVs...
...

   A return to a more sensible/tolerant America ?
   No longer sure that's possible. We've kinda
   drifted into the 3rd-world mentality of
   dictators, czars, warlords, presidents-
   for life and ayatollah-substututes. Hard to
   come back from that. Not everything lost can
   be regained.

America was so rich when I first visited it in te 1970s that it didn't have to do anything special. When food and minerals are just there waiting to be picked up, you didnt have to be efficient.
And an English speaking market ten times the size of the UK, and bigger than the commonwealth.
That is not the case anymore.
Its happening first in resource poor Europe, but its will happen in the USA. people want government that can achieve results, not spout moralistic bullshit and condemn you for having a bit too much to think.
The first response is 'vote in anyone who isn't the establishment' . The Donald is that. Its happening elsewhere with so called 'far right' parties on the rise everywhere.
After that once people stop voting for what they think they want and look at who can deliver what they desperately need, things will change.

    It'd take a real, prolonged, space-alien
   invasion. Don't think the Jersey Drones
   are gonna do it.

The Virus From Outer Space?
I don't think so. The prime requirement for a society to survive is that it survives!
Moral bullshit and neo-religious Leftism is all very well, until it threatens society's survival. Look at Net Zero and think Putin.
Look at LGBTQ and think 'so who is making babies?'
People who are cold in the winter will burn anything they can find, because there isn't much use in an ecologically perfect planet when you are already dead from hypothermia.
--
“it should be clear by now to everyone that activist environmentalism (or environmental activism) is becoming a general ideology about humans, about their freedom, about the relationship between the individual and the state, and about the manipulation of people under the guise of a 'noble' idea. It is not an honest pursuit of 'sustainable development,' a matter of elementary environmental protection, or a search for rational mechanisms designed to achieve a healthy environment. Yet things do occur that make you shake your head and remind yourself that you live neither in Joseph Stalin’s Communist era, nor in the Orwellian utopia of 1984.”
Vaclav Klaus