Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, “the love of nature” seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe.
For the record, I’m aware that this is not your quote. I am adressing a rhetorical “you” in my message. However, I’ll use the more direct you now. You asked for discussion about the quotes you posted, and I gave it to you. I am not sure what’s weaponized about my sincerity but it is, indeed, quite sincere.
Incredibly bad take. How one can look at the global negligence of COVID prevention, which I remind is a novel, highly-transmissible neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure, and conclude that it is actually bizarre and antisocial to care about it, that it is playing into conservative ideology to have trust issues from the immense trauma of navigating said global negligence as one cares about it, is beyond me. I treat people who are not doing anything to prevent the spread of COVID as a threat because they are. As it turns out, that’s a majority of the world population right now. We are all living the “if everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?” scenario in real-time. Don’t blame me for not jumping with you.
No one knew how to use computers at all until they learned. GUIs do not mean anything until you learn them, too.
GIMP is a very powerful and important piece of software that I wish they weren’t so obstinate about giving the worst name ever. I know it’s just an acronym, but it is in effect the name of the project. I’ve taken to calling it GNU IMP instead.