The Original Tech Support Trick From 1983

The neural pathways of a developer's brain have evolved to interpret everything through code-colored glasses. When normal humans hear "Let's create a game together," they think of flirting. Meanwhile, the developer's brain short-circuits and immediately jumps to "Unity or Unreal Engine? I'll set up the Git repo tonight!" No wonder dating profiles don't have a field for preferred programming language - it would be the only thing we'd fill out properly.

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OMG, this is the MOST DRAMATIC poem of programmer persecution complex I've ever seen! 😭 It's a parody of the famous "First they came..." Holocaust poem but about PUNCTUATION and CODING, which is just SO EXTRA I can't even! The meme tragically chronicles the downfall of civilization through typography—first the em dashes (—) disappear, then the artists, then writers, until finally... THE PROGRAMMERS! And by then there's no one left to create a Stack Overflow thread about it! The absolute TRAGEDY of it all! *faints dramatically onto keyboard*

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The only machine most of us are comfortable with has Intel inside, not iron plates. When the gym bro asks "which machine are you comfortable with?" he's expecting treadmill or bench press—not a programmer pointing at their laptop. Twenty years in tech and my biceps are still just from carrying the weight of legacy code and broken promises. The strongest muscle in my body is whatever lets me ctrl+c/ctrl+v for 8 hours straight.

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