Parents words were meant to convey a certain disgust/impact.

Leaving them out would communicate the core idea, but not the emotional tone they wanted it to have.

(And it's obviously not about literal junkies, it's meant as "random people who don't know what they're doing").

Are you seriously taking this literally? I didn’t even think this deep when writing it. Honestly! Lighten up.

No one in their right mind thinks about people building free libraries on GitHub as nothing but positive thing. Come on. I am offended that you’re offended by this.

Usually, I would apologize for saying something offensive, but I guess someone will get offended on the internet. If I said “Wild Wild West” then may be some Texan would be offended by it.

Intention matters. Smile more and be tolerant, no offense :-)

> No one in their right mind thinks about people building free libraries on GitHub as nothing but positive thing.

If you feel love, share love. xx

It's bringing love, don't let it get away! Break it's legs!

Amen.

It’s 2021. The Earth is heating up, we have a cult member who believes in baby eating pedophiles in the USA government, and people are still dying from their inability to afford insulin. It’s not that name calling will be taken seriously by everyone, but thoughts like that are distractions we can no longer afford to think about. Put your energy towards ensuring there’s a future worth worrying about.

If they just don't eat, they won't need insulin anymore!

I honestly can't tell if it's sarcasm or not. If I was reading it on some comp.* newsgroup I'd say the former, but it's 2021 so I consider the possibility you might be serious - but I hope not.

I'm fairly certain, given context, he didn't mean drug users. He was using it as definition two here:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/junkie

I read that as programming language (re)design junkies, not pharmaceutical junkies.