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  @Robgbysea@mstdn.social That is a little bit like watching a recording of Nureyev in his prime and concluding it's easy to dance ballet. @mattblaze@federate.social

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  @NunavutBirder@mas.to I have nothing like 300,000 photos so I can't speak confidently about volume, but I find I use https://rawtherapee.com/ more than I use Darktable.

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  @mediaevalfishsandwich Only plausible SARS-CoV-2 (etc.) fix is some kind of massive advance in medical technology that can produce a sterilizing vaccine for coronaviruses. That's not obviously impossible but it's not something I'd want to plan on.

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  @isaackuo @cstross The US victory conditions are for the Islamic Republic to go away. (US elite consensus that it's illegitimate, generational offense at daring to claim ownership of oil, etc.) They don't need to be Napoleon and be lauded as a conqueror. Take a look at Iran on Google Maps; switch on the traffic. Sparse transportation network, very concentrated; single export economy. Think kinetic sanctions; blow up the ability to export oil and the roads over the mountains. Mine the...

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  @michaelcoyote If we give up on ubiquitous networking, much of the utility goes away. (We are eusocial and we like to talk to each other and very little else generates enough activity to pay for things.) And even then, what you want the device to do varies; there are people who want a camera more than a music player (and the reverse) and people who want a tricorder more than anything. (even just the degenerate tricorder case of "a ruler".) It's always going to be many problems....