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@roz said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

@friendlybee something something don't call people assholes outside the hog pit something something

Honestly, I'm seeing more some disturbing levels of gaslighting attempts at this point.

@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

Someone claiming to represent a group =/= what the group represents. Harassing a victim of unwanted sexual contact for speaking out is not at all in line with the ideals of social justice or really even being a good person.
There are violent jerks in every subgroup. They do not tend to define the subgroup, unless the subgroup itself is founded on violent, jerk-like beliefs (see: white supremacists, etc.)

And yet that is what a good number of political disagreements come down to. It's what a lot of things on these boards come down to.

@Templari brought it up early on. We witnessed it again later.

Right-wing supremacists are terrible. Even most conservatives will agree to that. Yet there are very public places on the internet where all you see is 'All conservatives/Republicans/Centrists/Libertarians are idiots/racists/nazis/etc'.

In this day and age, people believe that the subset is the entire group. That even if the main group decries them, works against them, routes them at, the main group is still, in the end, at fault. I mean, churches like Westboro have, for many, come to define Christianity despite the fact that true Christians utterly loathe them as well.

It does not matter that 'SJW' had good "intentions," it has become sullied. So, so many people have seen vicious, terrible attacks. Been viciously, terribly attacked themselves that they want nothing to do with the term. That they immediately shy away from anyone who will bear it 'loud and proud' because to them that's a warning sign already.

@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

someone using SJW (a person who has chosen to not be a dickwad online)

One could argue the usage of 'dick' there is utilizing a gendered slur and thus we have come full circle.

And many of the people who label themselves 'SJW' can be very violent, threatening individuals. Oh, sure, they avoid gendered, homophobic, transphobic, and racial slurs, but there are those who will dox people, stalk them, threaten them, and engage in other forms of utterly gross behavior.

I recently reported a woman to Twitter (who did, indeed, acknowledge that it was out of line) because she was harassing Terry Crews for being 'just out for a quick dollar' for speaking out about his sexual harassment. In many of her posts to him, she was outright telling him to kill himself. But her profile proudly proclaimed her as a feminist and SJW.

So yes, for many people, SJW is a bad thing nowadays. It is not 'someone who just doesn't behave poorly online' because many, many who call themselves that do.

My job has tipped in to 'definitely must get new one' territory.

I'm exhausted. I'm annoyed. I'm angry.

We're a team of 4. Our 'working hours' span from 6a-9p. There's the 6a-3p guy. The 8a-5p guy. The 11a-7p guy. And me from 3-9p or 4-9p (because I have another project that I'm beholden to at the moment in the mornings).

Except these guys have so complained that 'daytime is too hard' that the 11a-7p guy is now a 2nd 8a-5p guy.

So I spend 4 hours a day working solo. The calls don't generally cut off until 8p. The other 3 also like to leave a lot of work for me. Our PMs and the client also hand me special projects because these 3 have been so vocal in their complaints they have them convinced that I do nothing at night.

I walk in the door at 4 and before I've even sat down, it's 'can you get on the phones? We need a break.' and generally, they've left before it's even 5p. Some days they'll cut out at 4:30p.

And if a call is missed? We get reamed. So if I, oh... go use the restroom? And some executive calls in needing assistance? I will get chewed out to no end. I have had days where I don't even get through half the dinner I bring with me because I am so busy.

And that's not counting the 'oh btw we forgot to do all this work earlier this week and it's due tomorrow sorry bye' they leave on me.

Long and short of it: I'm not gonna give a 2 week notice if I get this new job. If Atlassian calls me back Monday and says 'Hey, can you start on the 30th?'

Why yes. Yes I can.

Oh, yeah, forgot the real fun part:
I got pulled over last night on suspicion of drunk driving. That is how tired I am. The line of questioning stopped when he asked how much sleep I've been getting and I said 'Not much. There's a truck in my complex that parks outside my window whose alarm keeps going off. I reported it to the APD a couple days ago.'
(Yeah, said truck moved for a day? Then came back. It now has a resident tag. Alarm doesn't go off AS often, but it still does. )

@surreality said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

@faraday It doesn't even have to be a hot button issue. Heck, I got insulted in this thread (which is supposedly inappropriate) in a completely baseless fashion because I'm 'not pure enough' an idealogue for someone's liking, and they decided it meant something patently absurd and disgusting.

And they got cheered on for doing it. So... yep. Pretty much that. This actually is a problem. Saying "that person is ignorant" only gets us so far collectively when that ignorance is bolstered and encouraged at the expense of truth and sense.

The "ftfy" imo fell into attack on idea rather than person.

Which goes back to my: learn to tell the difference.

And no one cheered it on. Not one person. It was almost immediately followed by you making a series of rants on it.

I've never felt the need to do this before, but since you keep beating the poor dead horse... There was no dog piling in this case. There was no personal attack. There was a disagreement with an idea and no one responded other than mood.

I know you're on pain killers and maybe that's why, but this is not one of those situations. Leave it be.

Today's ear worm.

@Ganymede

Why not this?

(Awwwyeah clickable gif. But y'all already know where it goes.)

@insomnia said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

There are streams where people just eat. Nothing else, but eat.

I discovered that the Asian grocery near me has an amaaaaaaazing selection of ramen and noodle bowls and briefly debated a YT channel where I review one a week.
<.<

@deadculture said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

@auspice I would literally pay someone 2 dollars on patreon or some other funding website if they could fold origami while cursing profusely in a stream of consciousness Al Pacino-style rant about an issue.

How many other people do you think would do that?

I can fold teeny tiny origami cranes. Like, pinky nail sized.
I am p sure I could fold standard sized ones while ranting no prob.

Crocheting while swearing is super easy. Knitting is a bit harder.

Anyway, I know @deadculture is who he says he is but damn if I'm gonna read an article in Portuguese you bastard.

@haven

@three-eyed-crow said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

@deadculture
I mean nobody's government is going to come to MSB and say we can't call each other nasty names (or, if they do, that'd be pretty amazing). I always cringe at the conflation of laws curtailing freedom of speech and the moderation private companies and groups like a bunch of fucks on a message board should or shouldn't engage in.

At the same time we get people expecting us to read every single thing posted somehow.

Shit, I've had paid full-time jobs for moderation and even then no one expected us to read every single post made. We were expected to check reports, emails/messages to the moderators, and read "hot spots." Not every single thing.

Even on paid moderated sites, there was an expectation that the community could handle itself to an extent. That it'd function as a sort of ecosystem.

Look, when it comes down to it: I don't give a shit. I don't want to police people. But a fairly large portion of these boards wants to attack people for the sake of attacking people and for whatever reason they can't go to 4chan or reddit to get their kicks. No. They wanna do it here. And once you're into the 'ha ha I'm just gonna be an ass even though no one is having fun except me' it's gone beyond free speech and into the equivalent of pulling one fighter off another because the fight is fucking over goddamnit.

Hence the: attack the idea, not the person.

But at the same time, people... learn to identify when someone thinks the idea is bad and isn't going after you. Learn when 'That's a fucking ridiculous concept' is different from 'You're a fucking idiot' so you don't lash out at them and oh look your thread is in the hog pit.

We play text based games. 'Tools Required: Reading Comprehension' is on the tin.

@mietze said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice OOOOoooOOOOoooOOOOOOOO my body sayin let's go

Nope! Today's song is Massive Attack's Teardrop.

Gentle impulsion
Shakes me, makes me lighter

@arkandel said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

@auspice said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

@arkandel said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

@auspice said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

Forum is not a game.

Citation needed.

Okay then:
We are not developing a game. This post was mis-filed. Move it, dagnabit. Do not sully the filing system!

FINE!

Good boy, have a cookie.

@arkandel said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

@auspice said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

Forum is not a game.

Citation needed.

Okay then:
We are not developing a game. This post was mis-filed. Move it, dagnabit. Do not sully the filing system!

Game Dev is a bad place for this.

It should go in Mildly Constructive.

Forum is not a game.

Bad, @Arkandel.

I only have one cast iron right now. A Dutch oven. I bought the chain mail scrubber when I got it after reading through cleaning suggestions and I agree: it's amazing. I made this roast curry chicken in that thing and the chain mail took it right off with barely any effort.

I use it on cooking sheets and racks when I make wings now, too, and those take even less. No more wanting to cry over the sink!

Being on the game in question has been pretty great. There are a couple people who I think may be struggling to adapt to the idea of "you gon' die" and that there isn't some easy win condition, but we are in our first story scenario.

Most of us are approaching it from the angle of: I'm going to die, it's just a matter of when....and how long can I put it off?

@Botulism puts together a really good story. I was thrilled to see the spot the Judge got put into these past few days and that even though I felt like my choices led him there.....it was all part of a greater plan.

The other great part is because it's all horror movie tropes and you sometime hit enter on that pose.....knowing that it's appropriate for your Archetype/PC, but that the plan could go incredibly wrong. It's kind of thrilling. Like: I may have just written my own (or someone else's!) death sentence down the road, I didn't make a dumb decision, but I made the one my character would make all the same.

It's freeing!

@haven said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Right?

It's a fuckin' catch-22. Thanks to genetic/health issues (PCOS/hypothyroidism), stomach flu seems to be the only way I consistently lose weight. Ugh.

I am no doctor, but ALL CAPS followed by long medical terms sounds bad.

My thyroid don't work and other stuff that means my hormones are out of whack and ultimately my body v. v. v. v. stubbornly retains weight, regardless of exercise, dieting, etc.

But then add in intestinal issues from birth defect and I also can't really do "special diets." Thankfully I have begun to actually shed weight this year. The combo of proper anti-depressant and anxiety meds seem to have helped me start to get rid of stress weight. I had two huge bouts of stomach flu (ha ha!) that got rid of a fair bit........ which is a terrible way to kick start weight loss, but.... ehhhh?

@haven said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Yet the stomach flu insta-diet is bliss.

Right?

It's a fuckin' catch-22. Thanks to genetic/health issues (PCOS/hypothyroidism), stomach flu seems to be the only way I consistently lose weight. Ugh.