Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 1/13/25 12:14 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-01-12, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
 

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:00:56 +0100, D wrote:
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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On 1/11/25 9:26 PM, rbowman wrote:
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On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:41:53 +0100, D wrote:
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Nigra? This group is a wonder of education! Something to study deeply
tonight, as soon as I get off my current, delayed and very, very
shitty ryanair flight back to eastern europe.

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'Nigra' is sort of a southern thing in my experience. I think they're
really saying Negro. Or maybe Nigger. It's hard to tell.

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  Kinda half and half ... term heard most often in Alabama and
  Mississippi.

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Ahh! I know a thing or two about Alabama. I've seen Forrest Gump! =)

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You're about 70 years too late for the real fun. My brother worked at
Redstone in Huntsville AL in the '50s. Alabama was completely segregated,
with the whites and blacks working out a more or less comfortable
arrangement. The engineers, mostly white northerners, didn't have a clue
how the social boundaries worked. I'm sure von Braun's crew had some
interesting thoughts on American hypocrisy.

 The movie _Hidden Figures_ has an interesting take on this.

   Be careful of 'movie truths' .......
   The 'black'/'white' equation in the USA south
   was much more complicated, nuanced, than the
   various literary/media/film crusaders want to
   portray.
   And yes, I'm old enough to remember the tail end
   of "Jim Crow" - SEEN "Whites Only"/"Colored"
   drinking fountains and waiting rooms and such.
   But it was NEVER as simple as the Crusaders
   now sell us.