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Do we have any actual documentation of anybody who might be called a ‘gimp’ actually being offended by the name?

You want documentation that gimp is offensive? Go call your boss a gimp. They’ll give you some documentation. Feel free to share it here.

Gimp does not refer to people with movement disabilities. It stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program.

Pretending to not understand when an acronym spells a word is a new one to me. Maybe you should be writing bill names for congress.

Or is this just more performant bullshit?

I dunno about you, but last time I used it, gimp was pretty performant.

See? That’s me intentionally misunderstanding something obvious in order to ignore a point you’re making. See how transparent and ineffective it is?

I hope they really commit to this. Keep gimp as an option for the obstinate among us, but make wlbr the default. Gimp is, even to people who don’t recognize it as a slur, an informal and rude word and it makes it hard for people who already don’t care about open source to not just dismiss it out of hand when they hear that name.

I have been a staunch advocate of open source software at my company and I promise you the vast majority of people do not know what gimp is.

I just got on this website and this is the first shit I see. Guess I’m done

The giant tube of pills feels relatable as I pick up meds for my wife and myself and there’s like a dozen bottles between us

Redemption tour in the next year or two. He’ll be filling the role of Liz Cheney in 2028 if he doesn’t outright run as a Democrat. Imagine a Newsome-Carlson ticket after Carlson has successfully genuflected for a couple years about how much he regrets Trump and hates Israel.

Capitalists don’t exist. Capitalists can’t hurt… wait…

It’s always seemed like negative attention seeking to me. Pretty much bullying with the facade of “compliments”

This image looks very different from the last time I saw it

I want one so fucking bad. I understand I have to pay fucking double for one, but are any of them cleared to be on American roads?

Throwing rocks is “catty”? First time I’ve heard that one

oh well it’s still far off lol, we’ll see when we get there

This is not something you want to wait to figure out until you’re actively grieving btw. I’m in my early 30’s and my wife and I are in the middle of saving for headstones/funeral and drawing up our wills because we just saw how bad it went when one of our grandparents passed. You don’t expect people to get petty over stupid shit and ruin relationships over a relatively negligible estate but people do.

“I’ll just have it make a Hello World to validate my workflow”

“Oh no”

Larry Ellison? More like Go To Hellison.

Turns out, under the Federated Data Platform contract, Palantir gets access to pseudonymised patient data across all of England.

Everyone should read “pseudonymised patient data” as “data that took us a few minutes to assign to a real person instead of a few seconds”. And that’s being generous. If Palantir bought your phone’s geolocation data (they have) and knows you were at your doctor’s office from 11:25 to 12:10 and they get some chart data with your exact age, height, and weight that corresponds to what they have your demographic data set as for the exact same time, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out who “Person McPersonface” is in their “anonymized” records.

They’re literally trying to finalize the creation of the digital panopticon and police precrime. This is something that privacy nerds would have said said as an exaggeration 10 years except now there’s no hyperbole.

They know they have to do something to make sure the rest of Europe doesn’t follow suit and heavy handed aggression is the only tool in their toolbox

1. The amount of money spent on NASA is negligible compared to the MIC
2. Human intuition about what STEM stuff is useful is very poor. The basis for your ability to securely do online banking is a quirky little number theory equation that was useless for centuries. Or think about the reactionary complaints about “they’re paying scientists to study cat urine” or whatever. Those studies typically have a practical reason for getting some and practical implications once they’re finished. Even the stuff that is practical looks impractical to the layperson. Space travel is very similar in that the technology it enables can have other uses.
3. Whoever figures out asteroid mining first is going to make a lot of fucking money

Imagine if we had a centrally planned economy. We could throw the puzzle demons at logistics