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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] 81 points 1 month ago

The amount of chromosomes.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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

I'm ineligible to win the Darwin award.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

Oh you meant kids...yeah...

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

Browser fingerprint.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Being the reason they put up a sign.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Camouflage.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

Join the Amish.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Unspeakable crime

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

People want change, being "special" sucks just as much, if not more than being normal

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Uniqueness is not a thing people generally desire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shooting up a school is special and unique

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

Meh. That's a straight copycat crime.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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