MangoCats

Yeah, I got my son a draw-on monitor explicitly for use with Krita. It's a normal PC too, but it makes Krita much easier to use well.

I'm a mostly procedural thinker, even though I program in OOP all day long. OpenSCAD works a lot like the rest of my code: write it, try it, look at the results, curse, revise it, try it, look at the results, curse differently... you get there eventually. I do highly suggest not coding a masterpiece in OpenSCAD without visualizing the components first.

I compare today's GIMP to the Photoshop I used in the 1990s, and they're not very different at all.

Maybe I'm doing too much engineering - I found Open SCAD to be way easier than Blender for making stuff, and that's saying something because Open SCAD is quite a pain.

I (distantly) knew an indie software developer who was putting up a pretty good Photoshop alternative in 1996: ONE GUY alone in his bedroom was making a decent living selling a Photoshop alternative that he wrote himself. And he wasn't exactly a super-wunderkind coder, just a guy who knew the photo manipulation space well enough to get enough customers to float selling his software for a few years - in direct competition with Photoshop.

Adobe isn't selling magic dust ground from precious gemstones by thousands of artisans. They had a decent product that they marketed the hell out of and eventually got overly greedy.

GIMP, Krita, and many others are right up there if you haven't been sucked into the Adobe addiction vortex.

He watched the Madonna interview on Letterman and remembered it wrong.

Understand this: they're not his own EOs (well, maybe this one is) - I think by now they've got his choke chain short enough that he's actually getting committee approval before doing stuff, even stuff like this may be his idea, may be his words, but the timing of the EO and the language on paper as well as the press release delivery has all been considered for maximum effect by people who know what the hell happens when stuff like this goes out in the press.

He's shot off his mouth about the multiple flushes many times in the past. The strategy committee decided that now was the time to use an actual EO of the concept to fill the news cycle with their crap instead of somebody else's.

when you eat McDonald’s every day, you probably get backed up pretty badly and maybe overload the toilet on a regular basis.

Al Bundy things. I do believe that the administration is targeting the Al Bundy demographic looking for support in November.

Those would have been his Daddy's concerns - you know, the Daddy that gave him all that money, GREAT man.

I think it's an extreme case of attention seeking.

This is another case of completely misusing words with the implicit "you know what I mean" attached. The truly insincere thing about this method is that because everything it says needs interpretation everything it says is interpreted in the most convenient ways for those with the power to choose which interpretation they prefer.

Think of someone you know with an IQ of 100 and then take a moment to realize: half the world is dumber than THAT.

Meanwhile, a lot of the less technically, physically, intellectually capable people I know seem to place value on "sucking up" to "their betters" in hopes that some of that success will rub off on them. "Their betters" are well aware of this game and often keep the hangers on around just because they're occasionally useful and don't cost them much, if anything.