I think it was the '70s where Starburst candy used exciting sports like hand gliding to demonstrate how yummy the candy would be. They would show somebody pop the candy in their mouth, then go hang gliding off the top of a mountain or coast down the top peak of a huge roller coaster.
I was like fuck this shit, I'm never eating Starburst. I don't want to get flung off the top of a mountain or something high up.
I live in a city called Winnipeg. Winnipeg was never going to be anything but a podunk mudville and the nearby Selkirk was to rise, this as a result of rail lines running nearby and through.
Right around the late 1800's Winnipeg signed a tax amnesty with the rail lines, granting them $1 taxation for 100 years. This attracted the private interests to relocate and build here, and the rest is history. Winnipeg is the main city, Selkirk is NowhereVille.
Fast forward to around 2000 when the amnesty was about to lapse. What does the city do? Instead of telling the rail lines to fuck right off, reclaiming the land for the necessary and imminent investment in Bus Rapid Transit, moving forward with pedestrian and bike friendly infrastructure...
They renew the amnesty for another 50 years.
Now. Our city has spent over $3 Billion dollars in the last few decades to build/rebuild/repair infrastructure that exists exclusively to circumvent rail lines. We just rebuilt a bridge 18 years ago to the tune of $400M (800M today) and the one adjacent is now being demolished and rebuilt. This is to go over stockyards. You know, a train parking lot. I wish so bad that I was kidding.
We have spent nearly a TRILLION DOLLARS (hyperbole) for the BRT infrastructure. Which also has to go up, over, and around rail lines that should have been launched the fuck out of this city 25 years ago. Dozen and dozens of new bridges and underpasses just for this. We could have repurposed the vital land squandered by largely inactive rail lines. Our bus service has become a complete travesty... there is no money left to operate busses now.
There were three major underpasses built in the last 5 years, EACH of which was $300M+
Virtually NOTHING is shipped by rail within the city. It is handled by our $?Bn CenterPort depot/infra where the trucks take over.
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Fast food people are addicts. Addicts cannot be reasoned with.
It really does suck, it is one of the worst tools ever made. I have the resume to back this up, I worked in digital media for over 30 years, and was a professional developer for 20. Gimp is an appalling piece of shit, it is a joke. No professional artist who has access to proper tools would ever choose to use it. These are the facts. Gimp is "better than nothing" but just barely.
It was made by a programmer who does not understand anything about how professional imaging people use software. It would be like an artist to somehow manages to cobble together some kind of crudely functional IDE, but he's never programmed in his life and he doesn't even know what programming really is.
To me the funny thing about these online squabbles is the people insisting gimp is somehow good. It is not, it has never been - it is an appalling embarrassment of a tool. Sure, a programmer who doesn't really know anything about professional imaging can use it to make a couple icons, but if you want to do any form of professional work, for-fucking-get it. It's a joke and it always has been a joke.
I was a professional game developer/producer for over 20+ years and gimp has ALWAYS been the laughing stock.
I don't need a "laugh track" in my joke to tell me it's funny.
I like how the bottom panel adds nothing and detracts from the humor.
Much is illuminated, thank you for that comment
Political chameleons are human shit pieces
I always love this type of thread-squabbling.
Obesity has become such a pervasive problem that people do not even understand what it means to be skinny.
I grew up in the '70s when we ate the appropriate amount of food. 50 years later let me tell you my friends, what you think is skinny is NOT skinny.
My name is Jackson Halsk and I live at 44 Disk Dr