Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-01-07, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2025, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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No amount of political will can solve the coming shortages, because
that's not where the will is being applied.  It's all going toward

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This is incorrect. Shortages, and lack of political will, makes for
excellent opportunities for political entrepreneurs.

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Unfortunately, these people often do not have the common good in mind.

This is the truth!

increasing our population beyond the ability of science to provide,
and ensuring that technological advances will never catch up with
ever-increasing demand.  (Besides, shortages drive prices up, which
is good for The Economy.)

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This has been said since at least the 1800s, and has been equally wrong
every single time. We have not even started to farm the seas and space.
There are enormous areas available for farming on the planet, limitless
energy, and NASA has proven that we're seeing global greening. Do not
worry about increasing population.
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In fact, if anything, population is stagnating. So throw away the
mainstream media and enjoy life. We've never had it better, and we'll
have it better still! =)

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I hope you're right.  Most governments are quite alarmed at signs that
population growth is showing signs of slowing, and are doing their best
to push it back up.  Canada's soon-to-be-ex-prime minister managed to
double immigration, to nearly 500,000 people per year (multiply by 10
to scale it to U.S. proportions).  Some of these people were just dumped
onto the streets of Toronto with no place to go, having served their
purpose of getting the numbers up.  Meanwhile, last I heard there were
still 50 communities in the country without drinking water.  Priorities...

Ah... they copied the swedish method. It is not good. Sweden is the rape capital of europe, as well as quickly becoming the leader in shootings and public bombings.
I did see on the public mainstream news however, that the trend for shootings is down in 2024.
The question now is... is that just the combatants being a bit tired of the war on the streets, catching a break, or is it a trend?
If a trend, the answer might be to build out the mother of all surveillanec states, like sweden has just done.
We'll get another piece of the puzzle in 2026!