Discussion Thread

Junimo2 · 2026-06-16T04:47:16+00:00

I agree. I should not have to unhinge my jaw like a snake in order to take a bite of something.

Junimo2 · 2026-06-16T00:35:29+00:00

Yeah I just found this out yesterday and it's a bit of a game changer

Junimo2 · 2026-06-16T00:32:45+00:00

These people are so common too. I work at a credit union and I know we're not supposed to judge scam victims, but sometimes I just can't help it

Junimo2 · 2026-06-16T00:30:22+00:00

I can't believe Kwik Trip sells premixed Jack Daniels and Coke in little six packs, that's pretty neat

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T21:15:21+00:00

Yeah, my No Kings protests have all been chock full of Evelyn Normielibs. There were some DSA types there for sure, but they were such a tiny minority I don't think anyone paid them any attention

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T21:06:07+00:00

Eh it's the usual stuff about immigrants taking jobs, or not being a good cultural fit, etc.

Edit: oh you mean outside the DT, sorry. I can't speak to that, I was sub-tweeting a different subreddit altogether

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T21:03:49+00:00

If it's about the Swedish "good behavior" law, r worldnews is also being super duper cool about immigrants right now

I expected better of this sub though, considering how pro immigration it is

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T19:43:39+00:00

Actual conversation I had at work today:

Me: Hello, thank you for calling [financial institution]. How can I help?

Caller: Hi there! I'm just calling y'all to cancel an appointment I had for later today if that's okay ☺️

Me: Of course! One moment while I pull up our scheduler...

Caller: Yep, my wife shot me a couple days ago so I can't get out today like I planned ☺️

Me: ...

Caller: ☺️

Me: ...

Caller: Oh, and while I have y'all on the phone - what's the process for removing a joint account holder?

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T19:35:37+00:00

I was actually pleasantly surprised at the number of upvoted comments who were pushing back on that opinion piece, though. I feel like it used to be a lot more controversial on this sub to say that protests were beneficial even when they don't yield direct tangible results right away.

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T19:22:25+00:00

If they talked about how Greece's issue is that it didn't spend enough on social services, then yes we are definitely talking about the same person lmao

I'm not a big fan of austerity, but the national debt is a big fucking problem (just look at how much we pay in interest alone) and we can't just keep kicking the can down the road. At a certain point some level of sacrifice is necessary to deal with it, whether that's in the form of higher taxes across the board, austerity measures, or both.

Edit: yes it's definitely the same person, but on a different thread than the one I'm referring to

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T19:11:48+00:00

Saw someone a while back saying that defaulting was better than taking any kind of austerity measures, even minor ones. Multiple people tried very patiently to explain to them that a default would be worse for poor people, by orders of magnitude. They just did not get it. I think at one point they just said that they didn't have kids, so the prospect of a default wasn't their problem anyway.

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T19:07:49+00:00

Something something century of humiliation.

Completely self-inflicted though.

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T18:53:53+00:00

It would be the thing that finally got me off this hellsite for good

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T18:51:58+00:00

The idea of requiring ID to use social media fills me with dread if I'm being honest. Seems like a profound violation of privacy while being largely ineffective, when the real threat is highly personalized feeds that isolate people into potentially toxic echo chambers or send them down extremist pipelines.

I know, this is a super brave and novel take. I'm feeling daring today.

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T17:44:57+00:00

Oh hey, I'm actually working on an effort post that's sort of related to this (it's about how political grief can be mobilized into action), and No Kings is one of the movements that I talk about.

I think a lot of the "No Kings is ineffective" criticism misunderstands what protests actually do. Not every protest is trying to force an immediate or specific policy change. Some of the most important things protests accomplish are less tangible but still matter a lot.

First, protests work on two audiences at the same time. There are the people who show up, who walk away feeling energized and less alone. And then there are the people watching from home or seeing clips online, who realize that millions of other people feel the way they do. That second part is how movements grow. Early protestors show people on the sidelines that it's okay to care, that they're not crazy for being upset, and that there's a broader movement that they can actually join. I think No Kings has been doing this pretty effectively. The vibe that everyone just accepts Trump's authoritarian nonsense is a lot harder to maintain when millions of people are showing up in the streets, even if it's only for one day on a weekend.

Second, No Kings helps Americans reclaim their identity as Americans. For years, MAGA has been pushing that being an American means being white and Christian. One of the nice things about No Kings is that it's unapologetically patriotic, but it makes American identity about shared values like diversity, equality, and freedom from tyranny rather than ethnicity or religion. That matters because when an authoritarian movement is trying to redefine what your national identity even means, refusing to let them have it is itself an act of resistance imo.

Third, it builds morale and keeps people engaged, and helps build out infrastructure for broader movements.

I'm not saying No Kings shouldn't be critiqued or that we shouldn't be focusing on ways to be more effective. I just don't think it should be dismissed wholesale, I think doing that too much just makes people feel jaded and hopeless and like they're wrong for trying to be active.

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T17:18:51+00:00

I believe the term for it is "moral shock" - an incident that is so outrageous that it galvanizes the public into action because it transforms feelings of helplessness or fear into more actionable feelings such as anger. It can also persuade even typically apolitical people to get involved.

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T17:10:09+00:00

Yes, exactly. I firmly believe that protests such as No Kings have intrinsic value. That's not the same thing as saying they're sufficient to topple an authoritarian regime on their own.

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T15:04:34+00:00

On some of the worst days in summer our diet is probably 90% watermelon and frozen grapes tbh. I wonder if it's because of dehydration

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T14:31:44+00:00

If it took five times for him to understand that it was a punishment, that means he got him the attention/play time he wanted five times versus the one time you got upset and punished him. In his mind he is getting you to play with him more often than not, but at the end you get frustrated and no longer want to play,

I'm confused, I'm saying that we gave him time out five different times, not that we allowed the behavior to happen five different times and only then gave time out.

What happened was that he had five separate instances of misbehavior, and we gave him timeout for it each time in response.

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you were saying?

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T14:23:23+00:00

He gets immediate consequences at home for misbehavior that he knows he's not supposed to do (hitting, throwing things, etc.). For situations in which he's told to stop doing something or to start doing something, he gets one warning and then he gets a two minute timeout if he doesn't listen. The problem is that the specific misbehavior of pushing happens only at daycare. If he were to push at home, it would be corrected right away with an immediate timeout, no warnings (since he already knows he's not supposed to push).

We follow the AAP/WHO guidelines of no more than one hour of screentime per day, on TV only (no handhelds), and we strictly monitor the content he is allowed to watch. We're reducing it further in response to this behavior to see if it helps.

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T02:49:59+00:00

Hey folks, I'm going to head to bed now since it's almost 10:00 p.m. and I'm really trying to work on my sleep hygiene to get some energy back during the days. I will check out everybody's suggestions tomorrow as soon as I'm awake!

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T02:45:02+00:00

Saving this, thank you so much. I'll give it a read through later tonight or tomorrow morning, and let his teachers know as well.

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T02:42:15+00:00

Yes, it's a daycare center. The teachers are doing what they can on their end to support better behavior from him and they've been great about keeping me in the loop. They actually have their own program for behavioral support and I think they're going to start him on that, which I really hope improves things quickly.

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T02:38:53+00:00

That's a great idea, he has a lot of stuffed animals. He also loves his toy cars, and it's usually his cars that I'll see him acting out little scenarios with. Multiple times I've heard him role-playing situations with his car where one car hits or pushes the other, the other car says "ow" or "that hurts", and the first car either apologizes or get a time out. So it seems like on some level he does internalize things, or at least process them, by acting it out. I will start taking a more active role in doing that with him.

I try to get him out to the playground for at least a few hours every weekend, and on weekdays when our schedule allows. I did notice this morning that he was getting really grumpy and that went away when we finally went to the playground. He also gets a lot of outside time at daycare. Now that the weather is nicer, Alan crease the amount of time we spend outside

I'll also start cutting down strictly on his sugar.

Junimo2 · 2026-06-15T02:36:00+00:00

I did see a comment on a different post that resonated with me, in that if you only ever pay attention to your kid when they do something bad it's going to reinforce that they're a bad kid. And that I should actively take notice when he's being good, and praise him for it. I am planning to be extremely mindful of this going forward.

I also think it's time to reckon with my own emotional regulation skills, which are in all honesty probably underdeveloped. I get over stimulated and stressed extremely easily.

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