Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 09:11:37 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <4RVeP.812124$bYV2.164030@fx17.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:11:38 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3960e52bc8a7e181268836879abc7f0a"; logging-data="581038"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18XZBX/fbBgB/+M/ol/8NO1" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CCsYh+Ms6551mIh9MKGfgernuW8= Bytes: 3810 On 2025-01-10, CrudeSausage wrote: > On 2025-01-10 04:12, RonB wrote: >> On 2025-01-10, rbowman wrote: >>> On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 15:32:01 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: >>> >>>> Social conceptions and groupings of races have varied over time, >>>> often involving folk taxonomies that define essential types of >>>> individuals based on perceived traits. Modern scientists consider >>>> such biological essentialism obsolete, and generally discourage >>>> racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical >>>> and behavioral traits. >>> >>> >>> To be perfectly clear -- fuck modern scientists and modernity in general. >> >> Science and scientists need to be put in quotes. Almost all so-called >> "science" these days is pure politics. >> >> Apparently L.A. is burning because they quit making fire breaks on the hills >> overlooking the city because "they interfered" with the migration of some >> breed of mouse. And the water shortage is partly caused by the removal of >> dams in north California. (That and they sent their "extra" fire equipment >> to Ukraine.) > > I believe your claim about Los Angeles sealing its fate to save some > breed of mouse. As we know, part of why California is so dry has to do > with the fact that during the Obama period, water was diverted away from > its destination in California into the Pacific Ocean to save some > parasitic species of fish. This is actually well known, but one of my > local "independent" news agencies claimed that Trump was lying when he > brought that up (I have since decided to stop giving that news agency a > chance). Inconvenient facts are always labled "misinformation" by the lying MSM. -- “Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien