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  • I think you may be getting unfairly downvoted for this particular comment. Because yes, the focus should be on prevention - lack of exercise and poor diet on the physical side and the breakdown of in-person community and brainrot screen time on the mental side.

    Too many people are losing control of their lives for avoidable reasons and that is what should be addressed.

    The point obviously remains that removing people’s support after they have become ill is a bad idea and there are also people who are sick/disabled for unavoidable reasons e.g accidents, violence, genetic disorders etc.

    I hope this conversation has helped change your mind about sick people a bit. We’re all guilty of not thinking things through sometimes and there are a lot of malevolent voices shouting for our attention.




  • As a fellow millennial and Vice City alumni I agree with you and Gareth Southgate.

    But I also think that the quantity of time that kids are spending online and in front of screens is playing a bigger part than we recognise. We didn’t have smartphone on us 24/7. And of course content producers have gotten better at making their stuff visually stimulating and addictive.

    Funnily enough though, a few weeks ago I had some late night sessions playing GTA for the first time in about 15 years and noticed afterwards that I was driving faster and accelerating much hard in the car IRL!



  • Man, there is a lot that you can correlate with economic stagflation. High residual nitrogen in soil. Gay marriage. Sales of left-handed ukeleles.

    Why specifically choose welfare?

    More to the point; do you know what happens to sick people who become poorer? They get sicker and become more expensive to look after. Check out the public cost of helping a disabled person keep some independence versus the cost of looking after them in hospital or a care home.

    These people won’t magically disappear if you pull the rug on them.

    The issue is health, not welfare.



  • Sorry for the confusion; I didn’t mean you were a GIMP hater - I was trying to make a joke about how the way you want to configure the UI would upset other people who like to complain about GIMP.

    I’m not sure why 3.0 doesn’t copy across configs from old versions but apparently a lot of the code has been changed, so maybe they aren’t compatible. It’s definitely annoying when you’ve configured something and can’t remember how to do it!