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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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[–] aqua_cat@pawb.social 83 points 2 weeks ago

The amount of chromosomes.

[–] SaveMotherEarthEDF@lemmy.world 74 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 11 points 2 weeks 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.de 8 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm ineligible to win the Darwin award.

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

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

Oh you meant kids...yeah...

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 41 points 2 weeks ago

Browser fingerprint.

[–] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Being the reason they put up a sign.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks 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@midwest.social 21 points 2 weeks 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.)

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

John Crapper is a hero in my book

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 19 points 2 weeks ago

Camouflage.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Join the Amish.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Today@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

[–] Didros@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] s_s@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Uniqueness is not a thing people generally desire.

[–] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Shooting up a school is special and unique

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Meh. That's a straight copycat crime.

[–] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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