100% this ☝️

Interesting.

I agree with a lot of what you say. But I’m not sure that social mobility being desirable should be taken as self-evident.

I believe equality is good for us, so if social mobility results in greater inequality, for me that is bad.

And of course social mobility goes both ways when there are finite resources. It can go downwards. You recognise the need for social safety nets, and I would say that these are both more necessary and harder to supply in a more unequal and ‘socially mobile’ economy. At least that is what is happening in English-speaking countries like mine and yours.

The basic assumption is that we should be able to work our way from poverty to prosperity, but I’m saying that all of us should be kept somewhere roughly between the two.

I agree to an extent - a few tools are indeed different, but the majority (including the core ones that 95% of people use) work almost exactly the same. Levels, curves, crop, clone stamp, sharpening, move etc.

Yeah, you should definitely try using it again - especially since the big 3.0 release.

Menus and tool names/functions still do not map perfectly onto Photoshop’s (it is its own thing after all, so why should it?), but it is a serious and sophisticated piece of software. Easily adequate for my professional reproduction work.

I switched to it from Photoshop two or three years ago and had to spend a few hours watching tutorials and reading the manual to make the transition. But now there is hardly anything I can’t do in GIMP at least as fast, easily and reliably as I could in Photoshop.

I strongly agree.

I find personal viewpoints way more interesting to read and easier to relate to. And I’d also like to post more of my own, but it doesn’t seem to be the ‘done thing’ for some reason, which is off-putting. I don’t know if there is a genuine thought-out reason for this on the part of moderators, or whether it’s some kind of unconscious internet tradition 🤷

It’s a missed opportunity for connection between people.

Certified Dadmeme.

So, your own politicians won’t let China help pay for your stuff?

OK…

Give it time 👍