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@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.

@LydiaConwell@exile.social I'm sorry to break it to you, but neither was a very good joke, theirs nor yours.

BTW, DNS is the Domain Name System, which translates domain names (i.e., exile.social) into the IP addresses that computers actually understand. “What is an IP address?” I'll let you look that up.

Related to that, yesterday I went to buy a Chinese dictionary and the clerk convinced me not to, because “you can get all this on the Internet.” Had the dictionary been for myself, I would have bought it.

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@ErickaSimone Ramones, “Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)”

@radiofreefedi

To be honest, I never stopped trusting books over the Internet, and, depending on the topic, older books over newer ones.

After all, before MGC, there was SEO, and before that there were stupid blog authors who wouldn't do proper research.

The only problem with books is that certain fields changed so quickly that they made books obsolete after a very short period of time. Also, editors got progressively worse at their job, to the point that I'm beginning to suspect they may no longer exist.

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How bad are the thousands of new stochastically-generated websites? Last night I wanted to roast some hazelnuts, and I could not remember the temp...

I can't wait for tiktokers to watch _2001, A Space Odyssey_ and make videos saying: “OMG, the Barbie song!”

@jaruzel They usually say so, so you can filter out if it disgusts you that much. You'd be getting pure, unadulterated posts.

Keep in mind, though, that some of those are about machines that were mostly used to play games, so you risk missing out on interesting stuff.

My advice is that you use the hashtag to find retrocomputing-related accounts and follow those.

@MudMan

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Aunque en este caso concreto se puede deducir el país e incluso la ciudad por la instancia y el prefijo telefónico, lo suyo sería aportar esa información explícitamente.

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