#Anyways if they can say dumb shit like that so can i

[fishmech]

no thank you i also used to work in both onsite and call-based tech support so your attempt to pull rank here means nothing to me.

the described scam has nothing at all to actually do with the computer or the internet.

most likely the caller did not even say anything specific at all about the computer the old person had. before computers were widespread this exact same scam would usually be something about a nonspecific debt or impersonating an aspect of the phone company or any other thing a person might conceivably have. in fact they still do this all the time! and the idea with this category of scam is that you just keep trying to deploy the low effectiveness but also cheap hook until someone bites and pays out a

also once again: it does not matter that widespread personal computers were not around when "old people" were young. it doesn't matter either that they were around before perhaps you were born. this does not make either group less or more able to deal with technology! that is just dumb media spin, and besides that it misses that we are not talking about something that just showed up 5 years ago or whatever, these are things that have been in the average person's life a solid decade plus. these are things people have used at work before they retired. your brain doesn't stop handling doing new things just because you're old or it didn't happen to be around when you were very young.

also you do "balance a checkbook" frequently, most likely. you have surely checked your balance on a banking app or website or a phone call in the past year at least once when deciding to buy something. probably even occasionally noticed you had less money there than you were expecting, and went to check for any fraudulent purchases or subscriptions that you forgot to cancel. that's what you did with a physical checkbook too! in-between visits to a physical bank branch to check balances or receipts of bank statements in the mail, you would write down what you'd written each check out for, in order to know your expected balance once all the checks went through. absolutely nothing special there, you probably make note of when you buy things anyway and have a tough estimate of how much cash you have between actual balance viewing too! that's the same shit. after all, many transactions that happen instantly from your perspective can still take a few hours to days to pop up on your online banking balance so even diligently checking that every few hours is still going to have some edge cases you'll need to remember to avoid an overdraft. you're not using a physical check and a physical checkbook to do it but debit transactions are handled exactly the same over the same payment rails the physical checks were.

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[i-didnt-choose-to-ship-it]

Okay so this might get long

The way that purity culture ruins fandoms is so infuriating but ngl like it’s so funny. On one hand I feel bad for people getting bullied for shipping or headcanoning stuff only for the fandom police to be like “well actually🤓😡” or even get bullied. I miss the days when fandoms weren’t so mainstream and we could be weirdos together (even tho I’m younger but I got into fandoms early)

But as I said it’s also funny to me because I. Don’t. Give. A. Shit. Like you’re really think saying “no you can’t ship that” or even insulting me will make me feel shame? Nope. Please allow me the freedom of reading and thinking what I want thank you😇

Also the arguments are so stupid. Even if somebody ships truly I mean TRULY problematic ship I’ll be like “wow weird but okay” and go about my life? Because it doesn’t effect me? Revolutionary I think.

Take the Arcane fandom and how people are hating on Jayvik because “they’re like brothers” “but Jayce is with Mel” “they’re not even gay”. A few tipical arguments you might notice (I should write a study about this lmao). And my counter argument would be: *ahem* “And?” (This is my take for most of them tho)

“They’re not gay”? Um yes in my head they are. And you can’t do anything about it. Must be infuriating. (Ngl I really want my biggest probelm in life to be what strangers think about literal FICTIONAL characters)

I’ll say these people must not have siblings because I do and we sure don’t act like Jayvik. I also ship Vander and Silco and people’ll be like “but they called each other brothers” Aaand I still don’t care. Or they’ll conclude that I hate Mel because I ship Jayvik. Which is dumb she’s a queen and Jayce can be with Viktor and Mel can be with me. There, all happy.

My Detroit: Become Human obsession also returned (thank you hungarian dub for making me replay it��) and boy oh boy do the puritans hate Hankcon. Listen I don’t care if you don’t ship it or don’t like it, I care if you’re belittling others for it. If you see them as father and son fine but let’s not say it’s incest or pedophilia when they’re literally not related (known each other for a week I think) and Connor is a whole adult? Thank you.

Or the fandom police says that they barely interacted or haven’t even met. Okaaay? That’s why I read fanfiction, to explore the relationship more? This is from someone who didn’t know Reed900 was as big as it is and has been obsessed since last week. But I also shipped Mystrade back in the day or characters from different fandoms.

They also act like shipping characters is the equivalent of actually wanting them to get together in canon when most of the time it’s not. Like ma’am I know I’ll never see Obi Wan kiss Cody on the mouth in legit Star Wars media but I still ship it. I’ll even say I like it when the couple is not canon because it allows room for the creativity of fanfiction writers.

This goes for any pairing btw but these are the ones I’m recently into.

Idk what these people’s purpose is other than spread hate. Anyway I was bored so thank you for attending my yapping session.

Oh and if you have experience with the fandom police please share 🫶

[shinsau]

"You ruined your life once before by not listening to me" OKAY REGINALD.

You may smart, but you're dumb at parenting.

Wow, so great how a father can go out of their way and blame their own kid for something they didn't know what was going to happen. What a great father!!

Imagine just being 13, a stubborn teenager that just wants to prove their parents that they're ready. Ready for something they think they can do it, but their parents think they don't.

We've all been stubborn before. We've all make mistakes. We've all done things that we didn't know the consequences of it. Yet being blamed for not knowing those consequences?? What do they think of us?? Having a power to see the future or shit??

Reginald blaming Five for "ruining" his own life pissed me off. Sure, it was PARTIALLY Five's fault for disobeying his father in the first place, like how we would disobey our parents and do the exact opposite of what they say and know the consequences. BUT It was kinda also Reggie's fault because what the hell does he think would a 13 year old to do? Listen easily? Especially for a kid like five who is clearly stubborn and arrogant. (A bit egotistical to add that in)

But Five didn't know what was going to happen, so how was he supposed to know that he would be stuck in an apocalypse for way too long without a way back home?? (Yet)

If I was Five, I would've been SOOO upset bro. It sucks being blamed at by someone for ruining your own life, like bro it's not my fault. It's not five's fault either. He's already getting blamed at by his siblings, now he's getting blamed at by his abusive father who blames him for "ruining" his own goddamn life just because he didn't listen to him??

Reginald should've known any better either. I bet he didn't care abt Five when he time travelled, even though Pogo says he's been waiting for him or something in s1. Yet still. He didn't even try to go out looking for him?? Maybe try to do something?? Anything?? Instead he just WAITED for him to come back and not actually TRY anything??

Honestly most parents would've already tried searching for their child at this point, not just WAIT FOR THEM TO COME BACK. But oh no, that's not the type of parent Reginald is. He's a shitty father that couldn't care less abt his own children that he himself adopted.

AND ALSO Five was so impatient in using his powers, OF COURSE HE'D TRY AN ATTEMPT TO TIME TRAVEL EVEN IF HE'D DISOBEY HIS FATHER. If I was Five, having a power like that, I'd be stubborn and impatient too. I think we all would be eager to use a power of ours that's so powerful, you can't resist to just disobey ur parents and use it without knowing the consequences.

...

SORRY this was just a lil rant abt Reginald lol. He may be my top 10 favorite list of characters but God do I hate him. Anyway sorry if I offended anyone or anything,but the point is...It's not Five's fault for ruining his own life when he didn't know what would've happened. Because hey, we've all done mistakes too, right? We did mistakes that we didn't know what would happen/the consequences after it. It's like the same for Five too.

I felt bad for him at that scene bro, he should've been upset with him, but hey it's not lile we'd get any breakdown from him ever. 🙃

[pumpumdemsugah]

I fucking hate how white queers and their token enablers talk about Black women and gender. White slave masters didn't think Black women were women the way you don't call female pigs women. It wasn't about gender but saying Black people literally lacked humanity, so they are perfect slaves.

I think the fact that a Black woman is a masculine presenting lesbian is very important to the story. You're not doing solidarity by misrepresenting experiences. Idk why everyone is suddenly acting like because they read so many " all oppression is interconnected " statements about Black women and trans women, it means interchangeable and it's not racist to omit the full story when talking about a Black woman. Stripping the complexity of a Black womans experiences isn't helpful to Black women. There's lots of experiences unique to trans women that aren't translatable to cis black women.

The type of Black women who are misgendered have similar things in common with other women who get misgenderd; they're either tall or gender non-conforming. You'll notice average height Black women in the media plain do not get people trying to ask questions about her gender. It's a tall, not skinny and not light skin issue. Black models, even when they're dark skin, don't go through it because they're skinny. Turns out we don't have interchangeable issues.

Idk why people are pretending cis Black women can wholesale relate to the trans experience because some Internet figures told you she does by stretching what is meant by slave masters didn't see us a women but glossing over the fact is was because slave masters were saying we were beasts of burden like donkeys and they were the only humans.

People used to say gross shit about Jamie Lee Curtis genitalia because her name is Jamie. Some questions about gender aren't based on confusion but saying something seen a disparaging, especially if it's a beautiful woman who wouldn't spit on them. Remember when these men were calling Margot Robbie mid ?

Even when people talk about Megan Thee Stallion, they will literally say " stallion is the name of a male horse" because it's not based on some inherent gender non-conformity of Blackness where this is a common question for all Black women. Megan is also tall, not skinny, and not light skin. The 3 things people like to mock and her stage name doesn't help. They aren't confused they're asking the question because they see it as a way to humiliate her because of the way trans women are seen. This is the same Megan that got shot and some people didn't believe her because they wanted to support male violence.

Some of you think that blackness making you a bigger target means Blackness is the reason you're being targeted, all while ignoring there's a pattern to the Black people who are targeted in certain ways. I dont relate to a lot of things that have become the online defing stories of Black womanhood because those stories are about virality and not commonality.

Anyway, when Black women say, " we're not treated like women," we're talking about people being verbally and physically abusive, but sure, let's sideline that. It's not like there's a Black femicide issue in the US and high Black maternal deaths in the West because people think Black people feel less pain and don't believe women.

People have got to become less addicted to virality because it's dumbing down the complexity of how oppression exists.

[lyricwritesprose]

"Karim?" Joey says very quietly. We're both pretending to use the library computers. Neither of us are. We're here because it's fucking freezing out there and it's warm in here, and the librarians are pretty good about not throwing anyone out unless they're making noise or causing trouble. Freezing doesn't matter to me but I worry about Joey, he's got things going on that turn his self-care skills into pure shit.

"Yeah?" I say, just as quietly.

"Need a reality check."

Yeah, that's one of the things that's going on. Joey gets more or less anchored depending on the day. "Go ahead," I say.

"Thought I saw you fly off yesterday." Joey frowns. "Yesterday? Maybe Monday. Shit, what day is it?"

It's a fast struggle but a surprisingly difficult one. I don't like life on the street any more than the rest of us, but Seriously Bad Things could happen if my real name gets out. I could just lie to Joey. He'd believe me. It might not even bother him that much. He's hallucinated before. All I'd have to do…

Is lie to him about the state of his own brain.

Yeah. No. "Yeah, you saw that."

Joey thinks about this for a moment. He's scrambled at times but nobody ever said he was dumb. He's got a degree in astronomy. Planets sometimes talk to him but when he's on top of his game, he's sharp. "Shit."

"I'd like it not to get around."

"Why the hell not? You could be a star!"

"I could also be an experimental subject or a guy whose family is strapped to a big machine with a laser pointed at them. Prefer to avoid."

"Yeah, but—but why stay here?"

"Same as everyone else, I'm dead broke. Look, even if it weren't for ADHD issues it is really hard to hold down a job when you might have to disappear at any given second to save someone's life. You know? And I won't take money from my sister, she's barely scraping by already." And has mixed feelings about me ever since I terrorized her nasty piece of work ex, since she's bright enough to figure out that I couldn't have done that without some sort of power.

"I guess you can't just rob a bank," Joey muses. "I mean, I guess you could, but—"

I sigh. "The truth is, if some costume figures out how to do that without violence, I usually give 'em a lecture and let 'em go. Just because I won't do it doesn't mean I don't get it. Way I see it, I'm here to protect people, not things."

Joey nods. "Seems like there should be ways you could make life easier for yourself, though."

"Mm. Sometimes. There are some ways it is easier. I don't feel the cold and I don't feel the heat, that's something."

"Lucky motherfucker," Joey says without rancor.

"And, well, you've probably noticed. That things do tend to happen to those bullshit benches."

I see the start of a smile on his face. "The ones you can't lie down on."

"Yeah, those. The dividers get ripped out eventually and nobody knows how, you know? Honestly it's a stupid idea anyway, even if it wasn't for us, who wants a bench where you can't even sit next to your date? A bench where you can't sit next to someone is called a fuckin' chair, and what sort of bitch goes to city hall and says, "I'd like to install a park chair?" Who's ever heard of a park chair? Dumbfucks."

Joey nods in perfect understanding. Then he says, a little hesitantly, "You know the Golden Tomato?"

"I couldn't afford that kind of yuppie food even when I had a place, but yeah, I know it."

"They've put spikes out front. Like, little nubbles in the concrete so people can't sit down under their awning."

I think about this. On the one hand, I've got to be very careful about the favors I do, but this is a good cause…

"Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if something happens to those, but, Joey? Really keep it under your hat."

"Even if I wanted to tell, nobody believes a schizophrenic," Joey pointed out. "Especially one with the twitches. Fucking bitch doctors." Tardive dyskinesia virtually always happens because some son of a bitch screws up on dosage, and—as Joey can tell you—it's also an instant ticket out of a job interview.

There are reasons I look out for Joey. Beyond, you know. Liking him. Kind of useless as fuck anyway, liking him, I'm ninety-nine percent certain he's straight, but it would take a real shitful asshole to drop a friend just because I'm never going to get in his pants. We've got each other's backs, that's what's important.

"I worry a lot about people getting scooped up and questioned," I admit. I could probably stand to talk to a psychologist about it, actually, but…who? "Don't worry about it. I trust you."

And I will probably never admit to Joey exactly how much that took to say.

You're a superhero. While in your suit, you're beloved by the city, but outside of it? You're a homeless man, unable to get a job nor pay rent because of your duties.

[extravagantliar]

wild that the ama said that we can now do whatever we want

[kitamars]

high school joui 4 shenanigans

[epic-sorcerer]

“Arthur can totally dress himself he’s just spoiled” why are you giving him that much credit

[autisticlancemcclain]

Could you explain your position on Shallura? Since Allura was established as a teenager when she started dating Lance and Shiro was very clearly an adult. I can understand the bi shiro headcannon but the shallura thing worries me

i am going to remind yall that i have been in this fandom since 2016. and in the early seasons, allura was not established as a teenager. in fact she was coded as older, as closer to shiro's age -- there was a specific divide between her and the younger paladins that she did not have with shiro. they made her younger (both explicitly and in mannerisms) as the show went on. and i do not give a fuck about voltron like...post s4 and i didn't even watch s7-8. so like. especially with older fics, im going to enjoy shallura.

[taamlok]

people will be like i hate taash because they're sooo immature, unlike my babygirl pookie bear emmrich 😍 who told on them to his boss 🫡 because they called him a skull fucker death mage 😤 which is not nice 😡 and hurt his feelings 😢 he is 55 🥵

[xxplastic-cubexx]

friend notoriously bad at videogames said shed play marvel rivals with me tomorrow chat if i never post after tomorrow night its because a blood vessel bursted

[theheadlessphilosopher]

I really don’t understand why people hate Tommy so much? Like. It’s okay not to like the guy, but if you think he’s just a temporary love interest anyways then literally why do you care???

[shannonsketches]

One of my favorite differences in the DBZ manga that makes Vegebul make More Sense To Me, is that because Vegeta never left Earth, he was living at Capsule Corp for over two years before Bulma got pregnant (assuming Trunks is like 3-6mos old when we see him as a baby), but she said she 'wouldn't live with that jerk' afterward, which implies (to me) that he'd been a chill enough housemate up until the pregnancy, which tracks with his generally private and professional behavior as a Lord in the Freeza Force (in the manga).

I like to think it became a compounding factor in learning that he was slated to be killed in a year, and led to him being uncharacteristically overzealous and performative (and so opposed to Trunks getting close to him) in the android saga as opposed to how strategic and cautious he was with serious threats in the Freeza saga.

I am also always thinking about how Something Happened between him losing to Cell and re-entering the time chamber in the manga, because he was back living at Capsule Corp and staying near Trunks and Bulma when the Cell Games were announced.

[ratatatastic]

local man haunts (me) open practise yet again more news at 11

[memorys-skyscraper]

alright here's my pirate yakuza psa: if you have any interest at all in collecting fortunes for kamulop and/or treasures in the overworld, do all 3 sicko snap routes & complete the subsequent substory first, bc that gets you a ring that makes fortunes & treasures show up on the minimap

[dullahandyke]

how it feels to have articulated opinions and principles about art criticism and 'modern' art and human relationship to it 🤩 but youre on tumblr 😶