So, nothing to do with the fact that Venezuela has the world's largest reserves of oil?

He is the first US president to bomb 8 countries in one year, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, and now Venezuela.

But he is, of course, the President of Peace

When it comes to Trump and Putin, I am reminded of the ending to Animal Farm:

But you can't do this. How would the billionaires survive if you took even a little of their money off them?

Nothing to do with diverting attention from the Epstein shit show, absolutely not...

Not decrying Gimp, but it isn't the best app for handling and processing large numbers of images in raw format.

My application of choice for this is darktable.

To not touch either

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I used to work for a company that tried laying copper cable for networking in Africa. You could rely on the fact that it would only work for a short period, since it would be dug up and sold for the price of the copper.

Nonsense. What has become more accepted is that everyone should have equality of opportunity, but that this does not necessarily lead to equality of outcome.

(Speaking as a former fencing coach, whose pupils have ranged from those engaging in social fencing to those competing at national and international level)

Can I point people to Quine's thesis on the indeterminacy of translation.

The major point is that there is not and cannot be a determinate and uniquely correct translation, meaning, and reference for any linguistic expression

You made me look, yep, Conservapedia is still a thing.

He was sacked by Boris Johnson, someone who was himself sacked several times for lying.

The Cabinet Office has rejected Cummings' claims.

A little difficult for me in that he didn't stand for First Minister of Scotland.

I'm not qualified to diagnose people, especially over the Internet. How about you?

If one person says that bleach is a good way of defeating COVID, while the very, very large majority of doctors and medical scientists say that this is bollocks and that vaccination is the way forward, I am going to follow the medical advice. Similarly, if the same person says, on the basis of something he heard from one other person in his administration, that Tylenol causes autism, against the vast amount of evidence that says there is no link, then I am going to follow the evidence.

If someone rails against "windmills", and calls climate change the biggest hoax in the history of the world, while the 91% (all scientists) to 100% (climate scientists with high levels of expertise, 20+ papers published) agreed human activity is causing climate change, then I am going to accept that anthropogenic climate change is actually occurring.

As the UK minister for health said yesterday, "So I would just say to people watching, don’t pay any attention whatsoever to what Donald Trump says about medicine. In fact, don’t even take my word for it, as a politician – listen to British doctors, British scientists, the NHS".

This is largely a product of the price of energy being linked to the price of gas, most of which we import. If that link could be broken, then we would see energy prices fall.