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Ah, the legendary GitHub pull request to rewrite Twitter in COBOL! For the uninitiated, COBOL is a programming language from the 1950s that's still running critical banking systems and government infrastructure, but about as suited for modern social media as a steam engine is for space travel. The satirical PR suggestion is pure comedy gold—imagine handling Twitter's real-time feeds and media processing with a language designed when computers took up entire rooms and "memory" meant physical punch cards! The 17 thumbs-up reactions show there are plenty of developers with a sense of humor (or masochistic tendencies). Meanwhile, somewhere a mainframe administrator is breaking into a cold sweat thinking about the 400-column code needed just to display a single tweet.

The glossy corporate brochure vs. the employee handbook they don't print. That "global team" really means "you'll be on Zoom at 3 AM explaining to people 12 timezones away why your code broke production while the VP who insisted on the deadline sleeps peacefully." The smile in the first panel is the same one you'll practice in the bathroom mirror before each all-hands meeting where they announce another "exciting global collaboration opportunity."

STOP THE PRESSES! The code editor has become the grammar police! 💀 While you're just trying to write some innocent game code with "wanna," the editor is clutching its digital pearls like you've committed a syntax WAR CRIME. Because CLEARLY the most important thing when you're debugging at 2AM isn't fixing that memory leak—it's making sure your comments are FORMAL ENOUGH for the Queen's royal approval. Next thing you know, your IDE will be demanding you wear a tie while coding. THE AUDACITY!

The classic double-meaning ambush! The interviewer asked about using LSD (Least Significant Digit) for problem-solving, but our poor candidate immediately thought of the other LSD. That moment of realization when your brain frantically recalibrates from "they want me to take hallucinogens?!" to "oh right, numerical systems!" is pure cognitive whiplash. Numerical LSD is actually crucial in rounding algorithms and floating-point precision - something you'd definitely want to know for technical interviews! The monkey's expression perfectly captures that split-second mental journey from shock to embarrassment that happens when your CS knowledge and street knowledge have an unexpected collision.

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