At this point in history … the only legimate way to be a Christian is to just say you’re one. It’s about the only criteria anyone goes by now.

It’s used to mean something a hundred years ago … it doesn’t mean much any more

Beautiful work … I really don’t mind the long wait between releases … the previous Gimp 2.0 versions were so robust and practical that they have lasted for close to 20 years

In the early 2000s, I started off with cracked version of photoshop before I discovered GIMP and as soon as I did, I stuck with them since. They’ve saved me several thousand dollars in software costs over the past 20 years that I really don’t mind waiting for the latest major release.

They can take their time releasing 3.0 for all I care. I’m still using 2.10 and I probably will for the next long while until 3.0 becomes stable. They’ve done a mountainous amount of work already and I congratulate them on everything.

This makes me realize too that I should probably donate something to their community for all the money they’ve saved me over the years.

I was going to correct you on the comparison and I tried making my own scaled image … but I couldn’t because yours is a correct scale

I just couldn’t believe that Helene was that massive and widespread compared to Katrina which was known as a major event. wow

Polar Bear on the Hudson Bay coast in northern Ontario.

I’m Indigenous and I’ve gone hunting and trapping with my relatives a few times in my life. On one of those trips we happened on a polar bear on the mud flats of the bay during the late autumn. We drove by in our freighter canoe (a very large oversized canoe with a 60 HP outboard motor) and the bear swam near us and then walked by a few hundred feet away. It wasn’t afraid but we were. We watched for a while and then fired rifle shot into the mud next to it to scare it away. From the moment it started to run to the point it disappeared as a speck on the horizon was about a minute or two. I went up later to look at the prints and the clay mud looked like a tractor had driven over it. I couldn’t believe how fast it could move on the mud. I quickly sank in my boots and could barely walk around.

One paw print was about the size of my head. I never left camp without someone nearby or a rifle in my hands.

I can blame the parent for bad parenting and call myself informed and everyone else should be … because I know about bats carrying rabies

But I also know that most people have no clue that any of this can happen … it’s the first case of someone dying from rabies in Ontario from an infection that originated in Ontario since 1967 … people have no clue that this is even possible in this day in age

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/rabies-death-1.7341335

About eight or ten years ago I woke up one night in my cottage to a bat flying around my place. It was dark inside and I saw this thing fluttering around in my room. I opened a window and let it out and never thought anything of it. About a year later, I happened to be reading some stuff about rabies … the hair in the back of my neck went up and it’s freaked me out since.

After that bat in my room, I never went for treatment, I never got checked out and I never thought anything of it. It’s been about ten years and I keep worrying that some day I’ll start feeling the effects of it. I think most people in Ontario would do the same because everyone thinks we got rid of rabies decades ago or that it is a third world disease that isn’t possible here.

I feel terrible for that parent … death from rabies is a horrible way to die and it happened to this child with their parents watching it all happen.

I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy … let alone someone I would accuse of bad parenting.

How do we not know that this isn’t an AI generated Sam Altman?

The problem is not what he is lying about this time

The problem is news services like NYT trying to normalize and accept that someone like Turnip should be presented as a sane public figure that has something to say.

The biggest source of election interference in the US … is the general intelligence of the whole of the US

I haven’t eaten in three days and my stomach is still full of existential horror

If a good percentage of Americans can fall for Turnip

… a good percentage of them will fall for this image.

This is the main reason why I seldom install anyone’s “app”.

Most of these apps aren’t true apps anyway, they’re just customized browsers that lead you to a website and are free to collect as much data from you and your phone as they want.

I’ll go on your website first if I have to and 9 / 10 I get what I want. Besides, I’ll only ever visit the service once or twice so I don’t need to install a permanent app on my phone for that.

subtle

Some of my people have been saying this for 500 years.

I don’t have kids but I have lots of siblings that do … and I have a few friends in southern Ontario who have their own kids.

Hockey parents are the worst, especially in small town rural southern and northern Ontario. They all believe that their four year son (specifically boys) are all going to grow up to become a multi million dollar NHL all star by the time they turn 18.

The format is all the same with them. The kid has lots of potential when they are four, nurture the sport into them and they’ll become great. By the time they’re six, they haven’t shown promise but there’s still time. By the time they’re eight, signs are starting to point that they aren’t that athletic, but we can still try. By the time they’re ten, they are definitely not raw talent, but we can still hope. By the time they’re 12, they are an average player in the little leagues but the kid is just lazy and not motivated enough at this point. By 14, we’re starting to blame the kid for not making it. By 16, they are being blamed for not doing enough or working hard enough. At this point, the parents give up and they forever live with a disappointment of a son who never made it to the NHL like they wanted. At 18, the kid is in the beer leagues and doesn’t like playing hockey any more but loves to talk about it.

Not all parents are like this … but I’ve seen about half my friends with kids go through either all or part of this scenario.

I got to know two players from northern Ontario that made it to the OHL and QMJHL, basically one step away from the NHL. Both players were natural athletes with huge muscular forms and they could run/skate/train like an olympic athlete. They trained 365 days a year and spent mornings at the rink, the days at they gym, and evenings with more training. They did this from the time they were about 12 or 14! And even with all that and years and years of hard work … they didn’t make it to the NHL and their hockey careers dried up and the best thing they got out of it was a university education.

The estimate I’ve heard is that each little hockey player out there has about a 1 in 100,000 chance of making it to a league that might give them a chance at the NHL … and that’s if the parents dump tens of thousands of dollars into the kid every year for about ten years … and that’s if the kid has natural raw talent and the genes of an olympic athlete. It is about a 1 in a million chance for them to make it to become a highly paid professional athlete.

I’ve seen far more kids being destroyed by organized hockey than I’ve seen any make it.

This thog wants a piece of you

Shitposters also run the risk of being torn apart, ripped open or impaled by giant alien super bugs from space.

I hurt my back just reading this comment section.

Isn’t that what the second monitor is for? Seems like a perfect description to me.

you think? … at this point headlines like this feel more like sarcasm

The dumb part here is that the American people and the American political environment and media has normalized all this.

This is no longer about dumb politicians … it’s just putting on display a very dumb nation.