Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 1/7/25 2:47 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-01-07, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
 

On Mon, 6 Jan 2025, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
 

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

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

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

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.)

 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.
 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! =)

 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...

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 The first impulse is to blame the US border problem on
 Joe/socialists trying to import lots of people who will
 vote for them. However most 'Mexicans' are relatively
 conservative Catholics and those from further south
 have had very bad experiences with 'communists'. They
 are not gonna be the next leftist slave class.
>
 What they are is the fill-in for native-born Americans
 who aren't borning many or any kiddies themselves.
 The problem exists in the EU as well, and is worst in
 Japan and Korea. Given the option, a LOT of women will
 not have many or any children. This ages the overall
 pop rather quickly. So, gotta start importing labor,
 esp for the Shit Jobs. Downside, this keeps diluting
 yer native culture and eventually You become Them.
>
 The Taliban seem to have solved this - give women
 no options but to be breeders. General wealth is
 also not high enough, so kids become yer support
 army.
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 In the USA it is poor politics to SAY you need to
 import foreign labor (we've seen this attitude
 in play just the last week). In other nations
 the notion is more politically acceptable.
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 Some imagine robots doing the shit work ... but despite
 the hype I don't see General Purpose robots any time
 soon. Yer human pop will still keep declining until
 even the robots have nothing to do but maintain the
 other robots.
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 Read "R.U.R." (Capek 1920) for fun.
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I think robots and automation will save the day. They don't even have to be automating/saving elderly care, they can automate/save menial office jobs, and those workers can then move into elderly care instead of fiddling around with meaningless powerpoints and excel spreadsheets all day.
Everyone wins! =D
Yes, you may call me an optimist as an insult if you wish. I am an optimist, so deal with it. ;)