Hemingways_Shotgun @ Adderbox76 @lemmy.ca

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Anybody who says Inkscape is a replacement for Illustrator simply does not use it in any serious professional capacity. It doesn’t even have any means of adding paragraph spacing!

That's sort of where I see the issue as well. What proprietary software does is takes the features of a bunch of different pieces of kit and puts them together into one package.

There isn't one particular thing that Propietary software does the FOSS software can't. The problem is that you need multiple different software solutions to do it.

So while Illustrator offers Paragraph Spacing (for example) Inkscape doesn't, you get that in Scribus. But Scribus lacks the more advanced pathing vector tools, which Inkscape offers. Meanwhile neither of them have strong photo editing abilities, which GIMP brings to the table, but GIMP can't really do painting well, which KRITA brings to the table...and so on and so on.

Every open source alternative does something as good as their proprietary alternaties. But not everything. You have to use a combination in order to match the capability of one adobe product, and that's just not feasible in a professional environment.

If you wan’t to use FOSS I get it, I want to. But when it comes to professionnal workflow you sometimes have to put your ego on the side. When I tried to ditch the Adobe Suite, the Free(dom) alternatives didn’t worked for me or the proprietary alternatives were simply better.

Then, I would argue, the alternative isn't to sign petitions to make the corporate guys make their proprietary stuff available on FOSS operating systems. The alternative is to contribute to the FOSS alternatives in order to make them as good as the proprietary.

I'm not saying that you in particular haven't contributed (either financially or developmentally). I don't know you, so this isn't particularly directed at you.

But in general, the "FOSS isn't as good as proprietary stuff" crowd has overwhelmingly never actually tried to fund or contribute to the development of the software itself and their complaints amount to "Why isn't my free thing as good as the thing they make me pay for?"

In which case the answer is "of course it isn't...you're telling me the software developed on the evenings and weekends by enthusiasts doing it in the spare time for NO money isn't as polished as a fully funded business software!? NO WAY!!! I'M SHOOKETH!!!"

The alternative to the (perceived) quality disparity between FOSS and Proprietary isn't to go begging at the Corporations doorstep; it's to make the FOSS alternatives good enough to take the throne of "industry standard" away from the corporations.

It's not impossible...hell, Blender is the poster child for pretty much doing exactly that. It's not the "industry standard", but it's accepted in the industry in ways that GIMP and Inkscape still aren't. And the reason is because it's good enough to be there.

A daughter who, although a terrible terrible human being in her own right, at least had the brains to stay well away from his bullshit and keep her head down this time around.

Don't know where she is, and I don't particularly wish her well or wish her ill. I'm just glad we don't have to hear about her and I'm glad that wherever she is, she's staying out of her father's shit show this time. It's better for us, and I'm sure it's better for her mental health.

Because of wave function collapse.

Think of it this way:

We live in a universe where we did NOT travel back in time to kill Hitler.

If we then jump backwards in time to kill Hitler, we create a tangent universe in which we DID travel back in time to kill Hitler.

Its not the act of killing Hitler that creates the tangent universe, its the act of going back in time itself. We are moving from a universe in which we DIDN'T go back in time to one in which we DID.

If we then travel back to before our initial jump backwards, yes, we are travelling back along the original universe, but we are then simply creating a third tangent universe starting from THAT point.

I think time travel is possible, but you can only change things from the perspective of the person who travelled back. The original timeline just keeps on going.

Person (a) travels back in time to kill Hitler and succeeds. That new timeline exists now without Hitler, but in the original timeline is already written in stone. There is no changing it. The moment that person travels back, they've created a new timeline. It's both impossible for them to change the original timeline, and impossible to ever return to the original timeline because if they go back to the future they'll only be travelling along the new timeline.

That was the first thing I thought watching it. Eerily too close. Makes it a bit more difficult to be entertained by it.

I'm not convinced that someone at the Heritage Foundation didn't read the book and think EUREKA!!! It's too on-the-nose for it to be a coincidence.

Or Atwood is a time-traveller and that's why she has a secret book in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years. On the day of it's opening, she'll pop up in a surprise since it's before she travelled back in time, thereby closing the paradox loop.

None. A very long time before any of this started going down, both my sister and myself informed my parents that neither of us were having children and that this particular line stops here.

Not because of any trauma (that I can remember). But we've both seen the state of the world and decided, with our respective partners, that forcing children into this shit-show is unconscionable.

I check various polls daily. Yes, Liberals have flattened out. But so have the Cons. All polls still point to 80-90 percent change of a Liberal Majority and it's been that way for weeks with only a few percentage points changing either way. I'm not in panic mode.

edited to add: https://338canada.com/polls.htm

This scrolls through every poll daily and lists them individually. Conservatives have actually been dropping support (44 - 39).

That feels kind of like a half-truth/obsfucation from lapresse.

While we may indeed lack a dedicated foreign intelligence service (I don't know...maybe they're just really really good at their job.) I do know that CSIS rolls a lot of those duties into their own purview. Whether that reaches the level of secret agent spy shit, who knows. But it's not like they're not out there figuring out threats to Canada.

Keep on going, Poppinfresh. You're already polling well behind in your own damn riding and will likely lose your seat completely.

But sure...let's just keep paddling that Trump canoe regardless of the fact that the Trump brand has been suicide for anyone who is not Trump (because happily it seems the rest of the world is still slightly intelligent)

This is precisely why I know he's bought and paid for by the same people who got Trump, Modi, Meili, etc... into power in their own respective countries; because ANY actual politician would immediately serve their own self-interest and decry Trump in order to help him with victory. In fact that's what the rift in the Conservative party is all about right now; his own Conservative leadership is telling him to do exactly that on the campaign trail and he refuses. Why?

Because it's his job to be a Trump enabler, not a politician. He was Shenaniganned into the Conservative leadership role for precisely that reason; not to run the country, but to act as a surrogate for the same cabal of rich people who pull Trump's strings.

Flirting is chatting with more intense eye contact

For me, "like", "love", and "in love" are not separate emotions. They're the same emotion resonating at different frequencies, for lack of a better metaphor.

"Like" and "Love" are largely hormonal as far as I can tell.

• You get along with someone and you want to hang out together, the chemicals in your brain say "hey...this person gets me and I'm happy being around them. I LIKE them."
• You get along with someone, and you want to hang out together, and you're sexually attracted to them. The chemicals and hormones say "Hey...I really really want to be alone with the person and tell them everything and share my intimate self with them. I LOVE them."

"IN LOVE" is the one that takes work. Because "IN LOVE" happens long after you've started in that relationship. You know their goods. You know their bads. You know what makes them tick and what annoys them. You know what they do that annoys you, and yet you STILL have gotten so addicted to having them as a part of your life that you wouldn't have it any other way. It's like the old saying "Yes, we fight. But there's noone else I would rather fight with."

They are all one and the same emotion, and where it lands with any one particular person depends on the individual circumstances.

Every accusation is a confession. Conservative politics 101; accuse the other side of doing everything that you are actually doing.

Sadly, young incels are dumb enough to fall for it.

Haven't checked today since I woke up and went to work. But the post is 14 hours old, which means when it was posted I was happily watching some Red Letter Media on Freetube last night. So working fine for me (then at least). Will check when I'm home.

The fastest way to tell if something is the right thing to do is to ask whether or not Orange Julius Caesar opposes it.

Trump thinks literally everyone is supposed to be subordinate to the U.S. because 'murica.

I say Mexico drone strikes the source of it's gang's weapons supply; namely the gun manufacturers in the United States.

MAGA is pretty much entirely a cult of personality. Take out the Jim Jones, and they tend to go back into hiding. That's the only hopeful part of all of this is that when Trump finally dies (by any means necessary), I'd bet everything that MAGA goes with him. Or at least as a political force. Hillibillies are still gonna hillbilly, but without Trump to embolden them, they'll go back to ranting about 'libs after finishing up fucking their cousins and nothing more.

I feel like even though there were probably instances of it before this, the "Yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falcon" is kind of the OG, because it's the first one I remember to become well-known on this new thing called "the internet".

I don't disagree. But despite my best efforts, I have friends who insist on sharing crap from there with me and while I used to be able to view in browser without having an account or logging in, they changed it so that to watch something someone shared, it just pops up a "view on the app" message.

TikTok is only bearable if you set it to open muted by default.