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"Why do they hate us? … They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other. "

— George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, 20 September 2001.

That, of course, is why the USA (in its current guise) hates Canada and Europe.

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Part of what's funny is that Americans named the Gulf of Mexico as they did because they were *already* in America. Of all the various gulfs available to them, *that* as the one adjacent to Mexico.

This renaming is as though we in the UK renamed the North Sea and the Irish Sea both to The British Sea.

"DEI is the new N-word. In fact, the Black podcaster Van Lathan argues that DEI […] has become “the worst slur in American history”. The term “DEI hire”, he explains, “is not just being used to undermine the qualifications, capability and readiness of Black people … DEI is placing the blame of all of society’s ills at the feet of these people”."

I don't think is true of *everyone* who refers to DEI. But it's certainly true that for some it's racism pure and simple.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/11/dei-trump-republicans-racism

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9-1 is the most dangerous lead in football.

#LFC

I use the GIMP for image editing. Suddenly my Layers window is using five times as much vertical space for each layer as it did previously, as in the attached screenshot — I must have typed something wrong and accidentally changed a setting.

Anyone know how the change it back? It's not "Default layer and channel preview size" in the Interface preferences.