Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 03:58:39 +0000 Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy References: <35a09fa5-08b1-8121-51c7-28d3aac1cd0f@example.net> <3002e7b9-095e-c292-1202-b151f7776587@example.net> <8b262a1f-507f-ef10-e4d3-a981dca5b7d1@example.net> <4RVeP.812124$bYV2.164030@fx17.iad> From: "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> Organization: wokiesux Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 22:57:52 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 33 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.101.150.97 X-Trace: sv3-sDPk1Prc4k0BTYjR45UTE6Wo5aHiA5h8j3znQOBYrKur+2Al7pRZDDCbKimUvCD/EwhtJJzvbP+uAGE!UwBUnP+Ou0uSX/DKcodg0dcb6UYFuM8eCYuo+vTgyvsi+R4LAlACcWl0rQVvPL+vaqC9KTj6w8t0!n2QSULrZt+VDEB4RsJBd X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3735 On 1/6/25 5:37 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote: > On 2025-01-06 16:20, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: >> The Natural Philosopher wrote this post while blinking in Morse code: >> >>> On 06/01/2025 19:06, Andrzej Matuch wrote: >>>> On 2025-01-06 10:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>>> On 06/01/2025 13:49, Andrzej Matuch wrote: >>>>>> The way they sell it, warming means a lesser availability of fresh >>>>>> water. Obviously, this would result in people dying. With cooling >>>>>> though, there would be a decreased availability of food in general, >>>>>> so I don't see how one is worse than the other. >>>>> >>>>> Except the narrative says that all of greenland will melt. That's a >>>>> fuck of a lot of fresh water >>>> >>>> If all of Greenland will melt, the people who are suddenly >>>> inconvenienced by the world's warming could move there and turn the >>>> continent-like country into something inhabitable for the first time in >>>> thousands of years. I imagine that as a result of it never really being >>>> used for agriculture, that land is incredibly fertile. >>>> >>> Not wrong there. In fact huge areas of Canadian, Alaskan and Siberian >>> tundra would be really quite nice places to live. Scarcely worse than >>> Scotland >> >> Except for buildings and equipment sinking into the melting tundra :-D > > There is soil underneath all of that, Chris. The geologists say it'll be a nice place ... with a huge long lake in the middle. Condos, hotels, speedboats, $$$ ... I wonder what a square mile of now-glacier COSTS there ???