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

  • SaveMotherEarthEDF@lemmy.world
    72·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Badabinski@kbin.earth
      11·
      3 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

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      8·
      3 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.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      3 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.

  • MNByChoice
    21·
    3 months ago

    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.)

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • fireweed@lemmy.world
      9·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • Today@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 months ago

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

    • limitedduck@awful.systems
      6·
      3 months ago

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

      • Today@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

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

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    9·
    3 months ago

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

  • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    3 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

  • s_s@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Uniqueness is not a thing people generally desire.

  • Didros@beehaw.org
    4·
    3 months ago

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