josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@LydiaConwell@exile.social The movie is not racist. You have to understand that Ford makes you look through the eyes of a racist, but that doesn't mean the movie is or Ford was. (He was beloved by indigenous people. That's one of the reasons he shot at Monument Valley, because he loved the people there.) And even that is not the point. Racism has nothing to do with the movie. Forget about that already. The movie is about someone who, when he finally returns to his family, loses it. He's suddenly left alone, not belonging anywhere. That fills him with rage. You could say racism is a McGuffin here. He could be raging about something else entirely. But the point is that you go through what he's going through. It's the story of a man destroyed by hate.

The genius of John Ford is that, in a modern movie, you would be judging Wayne's character, even if the director said: “I wanted the audience to see the story through the eyes of my psychopathic killer character.” John Ford says: “I don't give a fuck. He's going to be the hero all the way through.”

But, seriously, saying _The Searchers_ is racist is like saying _The Silence of the Lambs_ is transphobic of that it endorses cannibalism.

@swurl The PC in the 80s was a useless piece of metal and much more difficult to configure (I remember needing a professional to make MS DOS work in Spanish. That's where the meme about “not repairing your computer” came from) than a Spectrum, but that's not even the point.

A Spectrum was affordable. In a way, it was the first personal computer. IBM PCs were mighty expensive. You could say sir Clive Sinclair was the real creator of home computing.

Also, a Spectrum (and by Spectrum I mean all Z80-based computers, and even the Commodore and the Amiga) put you in control of your machine, which is what delighted us. The PC demoted all of us to users until Linux appeared. Nobody programmed on a PC in those days. We didn't even know it was possible until the 1990s, and even then only with crap like GW BASIC.

So, yes, if you wanted to use WordPerfect or dBase III, I guess a PC was fine, but if you wanted to do real, creative, amazing stuff with computers, a PC was not the best option.

@coolboymew

@LydiaConwell@exile.social Ok. First of all, you should have started with _The Man who Shot Liberty Valance_, _The Quiet Man_, _Stagecoach_ or _The Grapes of Wrath_, but that aside: you missed the whole point of the movie.

Wayne's character is supposed to be racist. That's what makes the drama. I mean, the Comanches took her niece and killed his family. From his point of view, this is a revenge story. He's so blinded by it that he doesn't even want her back. He's perfectly willing to kill her on sight.

Jeffrey Hunter's character, on the other hand, only wants to find his sister, so, from his point of view, it's a tale of undying hope.

They search for her for years. It's fucking epic.

About the acting: John Wayne was a bad actor, yes. but that's not what matters in movies. What matters is _presence_. Humphrey Bogart or Gary Cooper were also bad actors, but they had an enormous presence on film. That's why they are stars.

Now go finish the movie. Everything gets explained at the end. And stop judging art using those petty standards. Oscar Wilde would be so ashamed of you.

And sorry for my tone, but I'm mad at you. You don't have to like it (it's not my favourite Ford movie, either), but you should have at least recognised it greatness.

@mrsaturday See my “etc.” at the end of the non-exhaustive list or architectures.

The chan poster derided Amigas, too, if I understood him correctly. Maybe not the Commodores, given that they came from the US, but these had two things against them: they were more expensive (thus most people n Europe prefering a Spectrum or an Amstrad) and not interoperable, like the MSX, which was more of a Z80-based standard.

What I'm saying is that Commodores were for rich kids, basically. Most people didn't have them here.

@coolboymew

@fluidlogic To me, it was the MSX2, but I'm biased, because that's what I grew up with. That said, I could compare it with the Spectrums and the Amstrad CPC, and I still stand by my Philips VG-8235.

@coolboymew Burgerlanders would never understand the happiness of having a cheap home computer that was designed, not only for playing, but also for learning and tinkering. Most of us discovered the pleasure of computer programming and electronics thanks to the Spectrums, Amstrads, MSX, etc.

Also, having a whole ecosystem of microcomputers, as opposed to today's PC/Mac monopoly, lead to the publishing of technical books and magazines where you could learn more about your systems and get in touch with other fans.

It is my belief that the PC becoming the dominant architecture is responsible for us not having flying cars today, as we were promised, but a fuckton of js frameworks instead.

@euklidiadas Ya contarás qué tal. Mucho ánimo.

I've criticised Evan in the past, but this seems to me like a pretty good idea.

@euklidiadas No sé cómo será el libro, pero el título es horrible. Parece salido de la mente enferma de un experto en SEO.

@realcaseyrollins
> Why should it be taught in schools though? Neither of us are pretending that schools should be teaching every single fact of life, I am sure.

Of course not. Only the ones that are needed for being a fully functioning human living in an open society. I assume we both agree that sex is one of those.

> Interesting, since I believe that you also said that sex education should be “sex positive”

Yes, positive in the sense of Positivism, but also as in something to be celebrated and not shameful. (This derives from it being a fact of life. Should anyone be ashamed of being bound by the laws of gravity?)

One of the saddest things anyone can do on social media is announcing that they're blocking someone. The other is thinking that being blocked by others is a badge of honour.

@realcaseyrollins Well, sex is a fact of life, and facts should be taught objectively, which is what schools are all about.

If you want to teach morals, that's another thing entirely, but confusing the two leads to learning neither, as the meme showed.

@SirBemrose

@realcaseyrollins Because, as the meme proved, people don't know the literal first thing about it. And they should, if only to avoid looking like idiots on the Internet.

@SirBemrose

@Kyrylys
> no pongas en mi boca palabras que no he dicho

Dijo la persona que puso unas cuantas frases en boca de universitarios que han realizado un estudio científico (y de los que están de acuerdo con sus conclusiones). Si tanto te molesta, no lo hagas tú.

@SirBemrose Ignorance is not understandable (or forgivable) at all. That's literally why they made a meme of it.

Sex (and sex-positive) education is a must in every school.

@realcaseyrollins

@coolboymew Just use Seamonkey's own Developer Tools (Ctrl-Shift-C) and modify the CSS on the fly. (Of course, you'd have to write the values down and edit the actual files later, because you're not really editing the page with the Inspector, just previewing the changes.)

@raccoon

@Kyrylys A ver, entiendo que esa comparación te parezca apropiada e ingeniosa cuando la persona que lo dice no te da ningún otro argumento, pero en sí misma es un poco infantil: “Si te gusta lo que había antes, eres un viejuno y un reaccionario. Hala.” Así suenas tú.

A mí el papel me sigue permitiendo, entre otras cosas, comparar dos o más páginas de un vistazo (por ejemplo, para ver una gráfica y el texto que la explica, o la definición y el ejercicio) sin tener que hacer el pino puente ni dividir una pantalla, limitada en tamaño, en $n$ partes.

Además, el acceso a la información me parece mucho más rápido y cómodo en un libro impreso que en cualquier otro formato, sobre todo cuando sabes en qué página está, pero también cuando no.

(Luego está, por supuesto, la belleza y la sensualidad del objeto físico, pero eso es otro tema.)

Y te lo dice alguien que ha sido editor y consumidor de libros electrónicos en casi todos los formatos (PDF, EPUB, mobi...).

¿Quiero decir con esto que los libros electrónicos no llegarán nunca a ser iguales o mejores que el papel? No. Es posible que algún día inventemos un formato nuevo que aúne las ventajas de los que ya tenemos, pero (en mi opinión, siempre) aún no estamos en ésas.

@maestrapaladin Yo tenía un profesor de Literatura que se paseaba entre los pupitres, y cualquiera que fuera lo suficientemente sutil podía sonsacarle respuestas (o al menos pistas) si se quedaba atascado. Él sabía perfectamente lo que hacíamos. Era un pedazo de pan, pero no tonto. Lo digo por si quieres ser ese tipo de profesora. Lo único que hace falta es acercarse, preguntarle si se ha atascado y dónde y soltarle alguna perla de conocimiento no demasiado explícita.

@LydiaConwell@exile.social From the Cambridge Dictionary: «Quirky is an adjective that means unusual in an attractive and interesting way.» Unfunny is just unfunny.

I honestly thought quirky was an upgrade, but ok. I'll add the interesting part in, though.

@LydiaConwell@exile.social Best I can do is calling yours quirky.