Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 23:19:03 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <366b4ad1-4849-d7a9-cade-67d1eba035c3@example.net> <35a09fa5-08b1-8121-51c7-28d3aac1cd0f@example.net> <3002e7b9-095e-c292-1202-b151f7776587@example.net> <8b262a1f-507f-ef10-e4d3-a981dca5b7d1@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:19:04 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e696eabafe10ebb9bd4b4c929363155b"; logging-data="717854"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18dDGP5U0kRL7Aj5MB7AolRgx0K2V27QfA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:1ZqaABlamb1pqXNx+J/HqRdqHoA= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3281 On 04/01/2025 20:48, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > The Natural Philosopher wrote this post while blinking in Morse code: > >> On 04/01/2025 15:58, TJ wrote: >>> So the climate IS changing. I've watched it do so. But is it natural, or >>> man-made? In my layman's opinion, it's probably both. The basic >>> mechanism is probably natural, augmented by Man's contribution. >>> >> The point is that far far more drastic changes have happened without >> modern humanity being involved. > > Nah, the point is that the effect of modern humanity have caused changes > far more rapidly than normal, leaving ecosystems/species little time to > adapt. > >> The odds are in favour of natural change and CO2 doesn't make any real >> difference at all,. > > Nonsense. > > And humans have had other effects, such as environmental degradation, > extinction of species due to over-hunting, eating up all the local nutritious > vegetation like a swarm of locusts. > So locusts arent natural either? Hmm. I wonder if you know you are looking through a religious lens? > > -- "Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it." - Stephen Vizinczey