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

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

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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

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      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.

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    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.)

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

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

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