Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 1/8/25 5:45 PM, chrisv wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

Andrzej Matuch wrote:

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No, Carlos, telling the world that we will all be under water unless we
give lots of money to some cabal of elites is what's propaganda and
complete bullshit.

 Worse yet are the mandates that take away our freedoms.
 Everyone knows that they want to be able to shut off our cars
remotely, to restrict our travel freedoms, right? 

I was consultant on such a study twenty years ago.  No, its purpose wasn't to restrict travel freedoms: it was that police pursuits often becoming high speed chases which were dangerous to the public, as they often ended in a crash with collateral damage/death to innocent bystanders.

And control when we run our air conditions, ...

If you don't want expensive utilities, then accept some conveniences. Its a simple principle & trade-off.

... and what we eat, and all sorts of other
things.  Utter tyranny, is the plan.

If you want safe food, expect restrictions on the dangerous stuff.
Its a simple principle & trade-off.

Yes.
The impact of a putative net zero campaign will massively outweigh a 1
°C rise and a sea level rise of four inches.
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In both cost and environmental destruction

Golly, its interesting to see the goalpost shift here from "it ain't happening at all" to now being "oh, but its too expensive to fix".

I agree.  There is no answer to the problems with mining.

Depends on what answer one is looking for:  a short term gratification of cheap energy, or more holistic perspective of addressing the costs of most of its actual externality costs too?  For example, a "clean up the mess you've caused" tax to pay for the damage that it is doing (and has done) would create the market incentive to reduce its externality costs, and shift the market to less bad alternatives...even if the tax money is never spent as it should be on actual clean-up.

There is no
answer to the problems from being utterly dependant upon communist
China for everything from minerals to the completed car or solar panel
or wind turbine or power transformer.

True, the West has allowed short term capitalism to be the priority and outweigh strategic positioning, but there has been some leadership to allow some rebalancing.  For example, because of policy, domestic manufacturing capacity of solar cells has quadrupled since Biden took office.
<https://seia.org/news/american-solar-panel-manufacturing-capacity-increases-71-q1-2024-industry-reaches-200-gigawatt/>
<https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/news-research/latest-news/electric-power/102224-us-solar-manufacturing-soars-but-gaps-and-uncertainty-persist>

The West takes a massive hit, while China laughs and builds a hundred
coal plants every year.  They are happy to take our money and make
everything for us, until we are as dependant and as weak as babies.

Yet we keep on buying stuff at WalMart, because we're unwilling to pay more for domestically produced.
Gosh, its almost as if there strategically needs to be Federal mandates which prevent us from being so dumb and avoid doing what we know is profoundly bad for us ... but there's folks who bitch it "takes away our freedoms":  one can't have your cake & eat it too.
-hh