In a weird way, this is a good technique called reframing.

It’s very common to beat ourselves up.

Been a engineer for more than 15 years.

My secret to avoiding this? Always act like you’re the stupidest in the room. Not full blown, but like pretty high level dumb.

• Someone once asked me how to fix their windows. No idea - I only use Linux.

• My favorite Linux flavor? Uh I dunno… The one that Tim Apple makes!

• So I know how to use terminals? Not really, I just use the GUI, which stands for General User Interactions.

• How do I get this far and write code? Well I type things into google.com and then copy and paste code and it just works.

• But don’t I need a degree? Nah. I was mostly doing drugs and alcohol and cheated my way up.

• Aren’t I speaking at tech conferences? Nah. I just type things into google.com slash Gemini and read what the AI, which stands for Advanced Intelligence, says.

And I Never have to fix a god damn thing.

I did a sample size quiz with my coworkers. Most of us do a morning coffee poop. Maybe not first thing in the morning. But usually within the hour.

Corn on those Asian buns though.

I know so many people in the iPhone treadmill. Like they buy a new phone because they have a iPhone 10 and now the 12 and the iPhone 15 Pro Max SSJ3 turbo Championship Edition They’re on 16 now?

I refuse to be part of that BS and I’m watching all the Steamdeck competitors release yearly iterations. Real sad.

I knew a guy who constantly talked about dick sizes, dick maintenance, dick facts around the world, etc.

When a girl called out his dick-obsession, he proclaimed to be extremely straight, and tried to have all the guys in the room agree that everyone thinks of dicks like that. He was in for a rude awakening.

Appreciate it mods. The other posts were also in good fun. Nothing outrageous.

This is supposed to be a burn against asian countries as an American in devastated 😭😭😭

McDonald’s and fast food restaurants are looked down on in many western countries. Flexing you’re eating at McDonalds to westerners is like saying you don’t know what quality looks like.

Your curry sucks.

No, not that other Asian country’s curry. That one is really good.

YOUR curry sucks.

Why is it like that and way different from that other Asian country that tastes way better?

Nice try Big Fan.

Failed a dozen times. Successful a thirteenth time.

Ive experienced some weird ones.

We are reaching brain logic puzzles now.

I had one involving dice rolls where I had to add a number based on a colored side. And I just thought to myself… What am I doing with my life?

All the answers will be the same:

1. I have limited choices and this is all I got.

2. It comfort food. I have fond memories.

3. Don’t yuck on people’s yum.

4. The King is holding my family hostage unless I order two whoppers a week please send help

I’m okay to get downvoted.

But unless the solution provides a easy way to create issues and MRs, has high upstream and I can read the code in a browser, then I’m sticking with GitHub.

I say this as a person who contributes to open source and I absolutely know that if I hate something, I should fix it. But I’m dumb as rocks and I just want to contribute, and GitHub hasn’t Enshittified itself to a point that stops me from doing that. Yes, it’s under Microsoft.

I’ve tried a few others, and I keep going back to GitHub because it has the least barriers of entry. I can contribute, I can get feedback, and I can move on.

There was a subreddit I missed visiting that was about really stupid bathroom signs. This would make it there

Westoid

God I miss this level of Shitposting

Every country I’ve traveled to.

Japan and Korea were all smiles while asking me to go English. Very patient.

Some Germans saw me as a way to practice their English, which was funny.

France, I avoided tourist cities and they still had a look of annoyance with my broken French.

Thailand/China was probably the most “stop, just speak English”.

(Me trying to speak in their language)

Them: I speak English.

Me: oh okay. :-(