My opinion as a user:

I don’t personally care. I don’t necessarily see GIMP as being a slur at all, since to me it’s more related to a completely consentual sex thing than to something a person has no control over. It’s not called “R-word” or anything like that. If a person wants to be a gimp, more power to 'em. Let their freak flag fly, I say. And I’m not aware of the other use being at all common anymore, having been replaced with other more modern slurs.

However, in the matter of optics, sure, it still comes off as a little odd, possibly immature, etc… But the argument that “No body wants a name change” actually does hold some merit because GIMP is completely open source. There is nothing stopping people from forking it and releasing it with a new name, and even though this has been done (Glimpse) nobody jumps ship to this new, more maturely named alternative that is exactly the same. They stay on GIMP. Why…because no one really cares. We’re all mature enough to say “haha…stupid name” and then move on with our lives without getting into a huff about every little thing.

It shouldn’t be a crime if it’s objectively hilarious.

Or what? Literally OR…FUCKING…WHAT?

It’s called tact. Adults generally have it.

With the number of politicians/mayors who get killed each year in Mexico, how in the hell is someone allowed to get that close to her? Holy shit.

I loved the ending because it fit Sam’s character perfectly. He’s essentially told (by god or whoever) that the only one who controls when Sam goes home is Sam himself. That when Sam truly, deep inside feels that his job is done, he’ll go home. The fact that he never returned home means that He never truly felt his job was done. And Sam wouldn’t. The essence of the heroic journey…always one more person to help.

It made the ending bitter-sweet, sad, heroic and tragic all at once. Just like Sam’s character.

I thought it was brilliantly done for something designed to also be a season finale “just in case”

I don’t hate AI. It can be quite helpful when I go to where IT lives and ask it a question sometimes.

What I don’t want is that AI to have unlimited access to my devices and just be a ‘thing’ that is constantly watching me in the background.

It’s like if my neighbour is a mathematician, and I’m having trouble figuring out a complex equation. It’s very helpful that I can go next door and knock on his door to ask him. But that doesnt mean I want him sitting in my house forever looking over my shoulder.

unrelated. But genetics is wild when you can have Lily Allen and Alfie Allen in the same branch.

Call his bluff. He just wants to wag his dick around. So mexico should mobilize their army at the border and say “cross this line and you are declaring war.”

Guaranteed someone up high makes him understand how politically stupid that would be. Probably in pictures. With small words.

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR)

Did anyone else’s parents tell them when they were growing up that it you put a coin on the tracks you could derail the train?

Yeah… About that…

I’m going to throw in a sleeper pick and recommend the Motorola Edge 2025.

I’m still running the 2023 version and I dare anyone to tell me the difference between that series at 700 or so versus a 1000 dollar Samsung.

The reality is that once you pass the 600 dollar mark, your primary difference is whether the phone uses Snapdragon or Mediatek chipsets. And the people who tell you that make any kind of regular use difference outside of heavy gaming are flat out lying to you.

Save your money. Motorola is the last company that is seemingly still trying to price their products sanely rather than chasing Apples policy of “charge as much as we can until people say no”

https://www.motorola.com/ca/en/p/phones/motorola-edge/edge-gen-6/pmipmhp40mv?pn=PB7A0002CA&tab=techspecs

Correction. You’re just one glorpdelorp

Because I’m a dirty commie who believes in the adage “give a brick, get a house”.

Something that is built by a community will always survive longer than a corporate profit-motive alternative.

If one instance turns to crap, there will always be others to fill the gap. It’s the same reason most FOSS software exists, because the community wants it too. As long as there are people that are enthusiastic about something, they’ll keep it around as long as they have the tools to do so (source code). That is the ultimate power of Federation and of FOSS in general; it was built by humans, for humans for motives that are separate from profit.

If Gimp went away tomorrow, someone would fork it the very next day because they want to keep using it. If a Fediverse instance gets filled with nazis tomorrow, someone will create a new instance the very next day and people will move to that and then defederate from the hateful one.

I firmly believe that if humanity is to have a future, this is the way that it has to be, and I’m going to champion that mentality everywhere I can.

Unpopular opinion, but as unpopular as Charlie Kirk was, I’d put up with a dozen of him if it meant that this asshole got kirked instead.

They ALL know what’s going on with Trump. But keeping quiet protects their own priviledge for as long as possible. They don’t give a shit if he’s coming for everyone else, as long as they’re one of the last people standing.

“Mistakenly”

read as: “Illegals are bad except the ones that work for me.”

It would enable him to start fucking his daughter, or Laura Loomer.

Marriage has never stopped him before. I wouldn’t expect it would now.

TFW high priced business lawyers walk in and tell little worm eaten idiots what happens if they don’t walk back their stupid claims.

I’d like that. I’ve enjoyed being on Motorola for the last few phones. Good, serviceable, middle-of-the-road priced phones and a company that doesn’t think so highly of themselves that the majority of the price amounts to a prestige tax. (ahem…Apple and Samsung)