A “Junk” is a type of Chinese sailing ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_(ship)

But it’s a pretty rare and specific term.

Not saying they never existed or they weren’t a problem. I’m trying to emphasize that overuse of those labels towards the undeserving has allowed the true problem people (actual nazis, fascists) to get by with the benefit of the doubt.

Look, at this point I’m not sure what to say except to lean back on lived experiences of myself and a number of friends.

Some specific “my friend is black” style examples from my social group, if you’ll pardon me:

• racial/ethnic minority who is also lgbt+
• one of the most politically active people I know, involved in countless public works and community supporting projects, who at one point worked teaching kids stuck in juvie skills they could use to make money legally once released
• union organizer and rep, can’t even drop that shit for a game of DnD, sidetracking the plot to try and unionize side characters
• multiple and diverse PoC

I’ve seen each individual there and people like them, be called all sorts of horrible labels (mainly online) that do not fit them or even the worst possible interpretation of the opinion they were espousing at the time. I’ve seen them called capitalist bootlickers, nazis, racists.

One who was only stopped from joining the US Antifa movement by being overseas taking classes in Australia called a fascist.

African American man who grew up in the roughest schools in our state be called a fucking white supremacist for talking about issues in the black community.

Gay men be called homophobes.

Lesbians active in the local LGBT+ community, who provided safe housing and care for a FtM after his top surgery, and who forced a local highschool to offer legally required support services for an ASD genderfluid student, called transphobes.

Again, the wolves absolutely fucking exist, have existed for a long time, and there have been plenty of people shouting about them. But there have been even more, louder, people jumping at shadows for just as long.

Doing the equivalent of “Well it’s your fault for not heeding our warnings!” is short sighted, ignores lived experiences from a wide variety of people, and most importantly does absolutely nothing for positive change in the current scenario.

You can’t just keep going “I told you so!” or “nuh uh!” at people and expect to gain allies.

I get the frustration, but save that energy for the real targets. Attacking our own for not being as prescient as some others is wasted effort and furthers the goals of those in power.

Aknowledging that there is a reasonable explanation for why people don’t take these labels seriously doesn’t lose you anything. It gives you extra knowledge amd understanding that can be used for more effective forward momentum.

Don’t just call Elon a nazi. Anyone who could be convinced by those words alone already has been.

Do something like link this comparison gif:

and approach from a different angle.

Is he aware he does this shit? Does he delete them in the morning when he’s sober? Do you know if anyone has talked to him as asked “what the actual fuck?”

Like this is going to significantly and negatively affect his social life, and craters job prospects if he ever has to go on the job hunt again.

Like maybe he needs to be shown how to favorite things instead of posting it to FB to find later?

I’m not particularly happy about it, but many years ago (like 2007-ish) I had to have a talk with my father (in his late 40s at the time) about how to clear browsing history on the shared family desktop. And again about private browsing mode a year or two later when that came to IE and other browsers outside of Firefox.

Your own image labels it as “sexual initimacy”, which is a very different thing than sexual openness. Both of those, and having frank talks about needs, are also worlds away from “I post my porn choices on fucking facebook”.

I get that envisioning the path to proper sexual intimacy can be frustrating and confusing when you feel like you aren’t having your needs met…

but there’s a drastic difference between a parent telling their kid that it’s okay to touch yourself and having a discussion about appropriate time/place (and that porn isn’t realistic, the dangers of forming opinions and expectations based on it, the concepts of kinks and preferences, consent, etc etc there is a lot that people don’t get any proper guidance on), and a parent doing the equivalent of “Yo! Did you see this shit? Makes me rock fucking hard my man! Hot AF!” in front of their kid and potentially in public.

The proper response to trauma/repression usually isn’t to go to the opposite extreme. A boy who grew up in a household where his father beat his mother shouldn’t cut off his own hands to try and prevent himself from beating his own SO.

Sexual intimacy is an extension of intimacy, and it shouldn’t be nearly as “hush hush learn it on your own the hard way” as it is. Intimacy in general should be discussed more. I’ve had some wonderfully illuminating, quite explicit discussions with some of my closest friends (with no sexual tension between us. Life isn’t porn).

But again, big big difference between even something as blatant as “Hey, don’t shy away from being on the recieving end of ass play unless you know it’s not your thing.” (paraphrase of discussion among close friends, all straight men) and sharing “Did you see the new clip? Fucking hawt! My rope hit the fucking ceiling!” to the public.

Jon Stewart called out the dilution of labels like racist etc in his closing speech of the 2010 Rally to Restore Sanity. It was a problem all the way back then.

By the time you started yelling about the real dangers, the boy who cried first had already came and went. The sheep were fine. The boy grew up, got a decent paying job amd moved out of the state. Another boy came by yelling the same thing. Still no wolves. Sheep still fine. Repeat more times than you can count.

It’s not your fault, but it’s stupid as hell to pretend that people didn’t start taking those labels less seriously due to overuse.

You personally? Sure. But there have been people online misusing the word (and similar things) for fucking ages, going back at least as far as 2010.

This goes back a lot farther than the last election campaign, farther back than Trump’s first “reign”, farther back than his first campaign even.

Jon Fucking Stewart called out the dilution of labels through overuse in his closing speech at the Rally to Restore Sanity in 2010. The rally done as a reaction to the Tea Party rally in D.C.

That is to highlight that the “boy who cried wolf” shit was happening all the way back then and was already a big problem.

“If we amplify everything we hear nothing. There are terrorists and racists and Stalinists and theocrats but those are titles that must be earned. You must have the resume. Not being able to distinguish between real racists and Tea Partiers or real bigots and Juan Williams and Rick Sanchez is an insult, not only to those people but to the racists themselves who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate–just as the inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe not more. The press is our immune system. If we overreact to everything we actually get sicker–and perhaps eczema.”

People didn’t get the fucking message, which gave cover for the real racists and nazis to slither around and significantly helped to get us where we are today.

Where an over rich manchild clearly on some sort of substances can give two half assed sieg heils, and then follow it up with the most half assed excuse during a fucking presidential inauguration and instead of being tackled by security and hauled the fuck off never to be seen again, people are sitting around giving him the benefit of the doubt.

This is why expandable storage (microSD slots) exists. And also why phone manufacturers are doing their best to normalize not having it anymore.

Pay the cloud storage subscription or upgrade your phone! Provide us with more of that sweet, sweet money!

For the record, C4 is a putty. You’d just mold it like a piece of play-doh.

Plenty of other very dangerous things easily smuggled all sorts of ways. Get creative (but seriously DON’T).

It would have been considerably better if that was all they had done. Preferable even, compared to what we ended up with.

The GTA remasters are shit because they tried to actually remaster them, the contracted company wasn’t given enough time, they sold like hotcakes anyway, so Rockstar kicked the remaster devs to the curb because they got the money they wanted anyway.

At least the RDR port was just a port.

I’m going to assume you were raised by at least one narcisist. This hits way too close to my childhood, and I’ve been out from under my parents’ thumbs for well over a decade now.

Good luck getting out, and with the therapy that you seriously should look into. That I seriously need to schedule.

It’s a fun meta-game to see in any survival game if the katana is good or not.

Zomboid? Rare, one of the best melee weapons.

Death Road to Canada? Otaku Katana breaks in about three swings.

Plus housework, plus child rearing for some people.

How in the fuck did this pass peer review?

I mean, Paypal is a bank that isn’t beholden to all the normal bank regulations and customer protection rules due to technicalities. They have been caught effectively seizing customer funds through locking accounts for questionable reasons before, and offer no reasonable way of recovering funds from locked accounts. Numerous stories of people operating online etsy (and similar) storefronts getting accounts locked for vague claims they were actively money laundering, with no means for appeal.

Anyone just now becoming aware of the paypal execs’ corruption hasn’t been paying attention.

Man, someone put a lot of effort into this shitpost of a site.

That would make an excellent album name

Holy shit, the amount of pure seethe in the jkpress post could power a small city.

The more of Mullenweg’s posts and such that I read, the more he comes across as someone that took some professional/business writing classes and thinks that just because he’s using business speak conventions it means that he’s not coming across as a massive petulant child.

It’s a shame, because he does have some valid points it seems: that the proper existing process wasn’t followed for offering to take the lead, and questioning security and sanity controls in a distributed theme/plugin system.

But it’s buried so deep in barely concealed shitslinging that it’s nearly impossible to take seriously.

Man, this meltdown just keeps fucking going, doesn’t it. Every time I think Mullenweg has finally settled down, he does something else incredibly dumb.

Sad part is that he’s likely to get away with this pne since it’s not effecting a company with enough money to make it a legal battle.

a mother in ar who had kill her three kids, they are taking the three babby back to new york too lady to rest.

Christ, I would think that the last thing you’d want to be doing on acid is browsing the internet where you can’t be sure of what exactly you’ll scroll across.

Maybe I’m vitally misunderstanding acid trips, but where’s your trip guide/designated driver/sober buddy? Where’s your pre-prepped/vetted media to keep you from a bad experience?