What is UPI?

100% this ☝️

Interesting.

I agree with a lot of what you say. But I’m not sure that social mobility being desirable should be taken as self-evident.

I believe equality is good for us, so if social mobility results in greater inequality, for me that is bad.

And of course social mobility goes both ways when there are finite resources. It can go downwards. You recognise the need for social safety nets, and I would say that these are both more necessary and harder to supply in a more unequal and ‘socially mobile’ economy. At least that is what is happening in English-speaking countries like mine and yours.

The basic assumption is that we should be able to work our way from poverty to prosperity, but I’m saying that all of us should be kept somewhere roughly between the two.

How am I supposed to get to sleep if I’m hungry?

I agree to an extent - a few tools are indeed different, but the majority (including the core ones that 95% of people use) work almost exactly the same. Levels, curves, crop, clone stamp, sharpening, move etc.

Yeah, you should definitely try using it again - especially since the big 3.0 release.

Menus and tool names/functions still do not map perfectly onto Photoshop’s (it is its own thing after all, so why should it?), but it is a serious and sophisticated piece of software. Easily adequate for my professional reproduction work.

I switched to it from Photoshop two or three years ago and had to spend a few hours watching tutorials and reading the manual to make the transition. But now there is hardly anything I can’t do in GIMP at least as fast, easily and reliably as I could in Photoshop.

I strongly agree.

I find personal viewpoints way more interesting to read and easier to relate to. And I’d also like to post more of my own, but it doesn’t seem to be the ‘done thing’ for some reason, which is off-putting. I don’t know if there is a genuine thought-out reason for this on the part of moderators, or whether it’s some kind of unconscious internet tradition 🤷

It’s a missed opportunity for connection between people.

Certified Dadmeme.

Give it time 👍

GoToSocial supports RSS and is extremely lightweight. Posts and account also federate, and you can use Mastodon client apps on desktop and mobile to write posts (no web UI). Might be worth a look 👍

I think having children in this world is one of the most revolutionary things you can do.

I see your nescafe jar Aussie, and I raise you a fire extinguisher and narwhal tusk

Profile pic checks out.

No, but it’s trying to.

That’s what I thought.

It’s probably worth remembering that censorship and moderation are two sides of the same coin.

And they’re not just used to silence viewpoints (like you’re saying about the Fediverse) but also an absence of it is exploited to keep people addicted to ragebait and jealousy (mainstream).

I think it’s a fundamental problem of social media as a technology tbh, and we’d be mostly better off without it.

I don’t think there would be anything stopping them spinning up instances. It would be up to others whether they want to see their posts though.

I’m a leftie but I can handle having a conversation about immigration, as long as it’s mature, lucid and respectful.

Good feckin point.

I don’t suppose you’ve got the ratio between heat and noise?

Thanks for the numbers, that is interesting.

Just to be clear; my criticism is not of direct electric transmission; it’s of waste, inefficiency and overconsumption in general.

For me, one of the coolest things about electrification is the ability to read the number on the box (or out of the socket) and easily be able to compare it to other things. You can more readily quantify energy use and make an informed value judgement about it. Fossil fuels help to obfuscate this by putting energy use behind at least one additional layer of abstraction & calculation.