Comment on klown show 6 x-treme

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• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve never heard gimp used that eay luckily, only the sexual slave fetish thing.

  Pinta is more of a paint.NET alternative than a gimp alternative

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  https://skiesofarcadia.fandom.com/wiki/Pinta%27s_Quest

  Also The GIMP is not named after a slur, don’t be ridiculous.

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Things don’t have to be named after things to sound offensive to people if they have phonetically the same name.

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s true but it’s also not really worth very much.

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• Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Which of course is miles better than to be named after a slur for disabled people, but still not the best SSO.

  Huh? Which software?

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  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unfortunately GNU Image Manipulation Program, when shortened to its 4-letter acronym and common name, is also a slur against people with disabilities.

    The developers didn’t name it after the slur on purpose, but they also refuse to change it for some reason :/

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I always thought it was named after the character from Sex

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      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is that a movie called Sex? Pretty sure the developers didn’t know about that either

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    • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Should have at least been GNUIMP. Maybe people would have used it.

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      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why not just GIP Gnu Image Program? Manipulation is honestly kind of a given.

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    • Malfeasant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because it’s not commonly used that way. If we avoided anything that had at some time been used as a slur, we’d only have about 3 names to pick from. (Of course I exaggerate, but it’s better than saying “it would retard growth”, isn’t it?)

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      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Maybe people don’t say it around you. I’ve heard it, especially as a verb.

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  • Raptorox@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gimp is a slur apparently

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    • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s something you might have called someone with a physical disability on the school yard in the 90s but I have not heard anyone use it in that way in a long long time

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      • Raptorox@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’ve never seen it used as well, hence the “apparently”.

        Even wiktionary lists this as Etymology 2 with little explanations

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• fireyomismo@chachara.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thats also the spanish word for a pint!🍻

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  • Pirtatogna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And a finnish word for surface.

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• tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pinta is more like a fancy paint alternative.

  It has layers but it way more accessable than gimp

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