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Nothing says "I'm having a great day" quite like threatening self-harm over a Git command. The beauty of git push --force is that it's basically telling Git "I don't care what's on the remote, MY version is correct" - which is exactly how you create merge conflicts, overwrite your teammates' code, and become the office pariah in under 10 seconds. The varied emoji reactions perfectly capture the team's range of emotions from "I feel your pain" to "you absolute idiot" to "wait till you see what I'm going to do to your next PR." Welcome to software development, where we're all just one force push away from a mental breakdown!

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The eternal paradox of being a programmer. You spend years mastering complex algorithms and data structures, only to become the default IT support person at every family gathering. Sure, I can debug your printer—not because I know anything about printer drivers or hardware interfaces, but because I've been conditioned to Google error messages until something works. It's the same skill set that lets me solve actual programming problems, just applied to your ancient HP inkjet that's probably older than some programming languages I use.