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I'll start with: medical conditions, everyone would prefer to have an average well known and curable disease than a special case or a unique one

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The amount of chromosomes.

[–] pandapoo 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's very ableist of you.

I'll have you know that I descend from a long line of town simpletons, inbred mongoloids, and village waterheads, and I'm doing just fine for myself.

In fact, I've been told that my extra chromosomes shield me from radiation, which is how I got my job dumping old smoke alarm manufacturing waste into the local dump lake.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Developers when they search for a bug and no google result comes up. ChatGPT starts hallucinating mad and starts suggesting generic steps that you already did. And you've been slacking off for a few days because you know it's small biscuits and you can clutch in a few hours. But you start working just before the deadline and now the dread is slowly setting in.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

oh my God it's like you're in my head get out of my head. I'm reading this because I'm trying to catch up on sleep and need to distract myself from the dread, so this hits way too close to home lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I discovered a legit bug in the handling of switch statements I a for loop in Actionscript 2 way back when Flash was still a thing.

Until I finally killed my blog about it last year, it was the only result other than my post on the adobe site around the same time. I don’t think it ever got fixed, but didn’t keep following after the iPhone finished off flash.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know about y’all, but I’d prefer not to win a Darwin Award.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm ineligible to win the Darwin award.

Edit: huh, having kids doesn't disqualify you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah you have to have a life to lose it doing dumb shit.

Oh you meant kids...yeah...

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago

Browser fingerprint.

[–] DaCrazyJamez 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Being the reason they put up a sign.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Idk, depends. I'm a chronic loopholer, I'm definitely the reason for a few rules, and probably the reason for a few signs.

Now, signs that denote someone did something stupid (like you probably meant,) yeah I agree. Oh boy there I go loopholing again.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Camouflage.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Having a rule written about their actions, or a law named after them.

For the rules, they did something stupid and management wants it to not happen again. If a law, then they were the victim of something terrible.

(Slim chance it was heroic, or cool.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, I'd be okay with a rule named after me, causing an otherwise benign item to be banned.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Zorsith law: all kitchen knives must have a flared base

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

shudder you made me think of The Cheesegrater.

I meant more like "wooden toothpicks are no longer permitted on the premises" or something similarly weird and oddly specific

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I was going to say, being responsible for a new warning label.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

John Crapper is a hero in my book

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A desire for a different way to live your life. If everyone else around you wants something else, you can either suffer it or disengage from society all together. And odds are neither of those two options are what you wanted to happen.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hence why the members of c/fuckcars are so intense (I include myself in this).

The only practical way to avoid exposure to society's car dominance in your everyday life is to live far from society... Which ironically forces you to own a car and drive to get literally anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Join the Amish.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Unspeakable crime

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lots of people want to have or claim to have rare medical conditions. It gives then something to do/talk about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Claim to have, sure. But actually have, probably few, at least until that have to start dealing with the condition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Actively seek treatment, going from doc to doc until they find one that will perform a procedure.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

There's nothing special about wanting to be special. It's the most ordinary thing in the world.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

no one wants to stand out when they don't want to so... unique body. Not like elephant man even i mean just really tall/short dark/light different. No one wants to be too far outside the mean where they live

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Uniqueness is not a thing people generally desire.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shooting up a school is special and unique

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Meh. That's a straight copycat crime.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Okay how about stealing road signs and putting them on different roads, in the wrong place?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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