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What are some weird flexes that people are proud of, but shouldn't be? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 days ago by Necrifyre@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Driving off someone from being online, as a troll, because it gives you a thrill.

This is an awfully specific flex, but it is a flex nonetheless, that people do feel to boast about. Because it's just another form of a power-trip. Congratulations, you've driven away someone who could've been a contributory member of a community to make yourself feel better by orchestrating lies, performing witch hunts and huddling with your troll buddies in ways to figure out how to process this.

There's nothing prideful about this to flex over.

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[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The typical bullshit midwestern work ethic "I just worked 30 billions hours of overtime this week!"

[–] ignis@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

As a European, I thought that was a universal American thing.

Where I come from, the opposite attitude exists - you're supposed to enjoy life and take it easy.

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[–] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 43 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Loud vehicles. What they think is cool is actually annoying everyone else.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

A lot of them think it's cool specifically because it annoys other people. It's antisocial behavior.

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 187 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Never using their PTO at work.

[–] mikenurre@lemmy.world 145 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Going into work sick too.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 70 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

On a related note, as a parent I think school perfect attendance awards are perverse. Congratulations, we're rewarding a kid for being a disease vector and being sent to school miserable and snotty, or at best making other kids feel less-than because they received proper treatment and isolation. I would guess that the average perfect attendance kids costs the rest of the school at least half a dozen absences per year.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As a kid I also hated the perfect attendance award because

My mom was really into it and made me go to school when i was sick
I was always the only one who was awarded it and the other kids already thought i was weird
Not as great a reason, but my best friend in elementary school told me that sometimes his parents gave him a day off school so he could do something fun with them :/

[–] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Number 3 is perfectly reasonable and healthy. If it's not interfering with their education or progress, time off is a good thing now and then. And especially in a household where both parents work full-time that time together was likely way more valuable for the kids development than whatever he would've gotten from one day of classes.

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[–] WongKaKui@piefed.ca 4 points 3 days ago

As an Asian American, "illness" is a myth that children invented as an excuse to get out of having to go to school. You have to go even if have fucking Covid, cuz you dont have it, you're just pretending in order to have an excuse to be lazy.

At least that's how my parents see it.

I mean I can see why there's a stereotype associated with Asians...

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[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 66 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Flexing that they have never read any books.

[–] Species8472@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Iliterat fuks. Their, i sed it.

[–] bold_omi@lemmy.today 14 points 5 days ago (5 children)

sed 's/sed/said/g'

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[–] RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

"My daddy told me books don't make a man"

Sure, but not reading doesn't make a man either.

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 94 points 5 days ago (3 children)

“I got 12 femtoseconds of sleep last night”

Okay, but like turn off your phone and go to bed, that’s super bad for you and you are intolerable because you’re grumpy from not sleeping

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's literally misery Olympics with my mom about sleep. I can't mention anything about sleep without her cutting me off trying to 1-up me.

Me: I got called and had to remote in for work last night, didn't get to bed until after 4a...

Mom: Welcome to my world I was awake until after 5 and maybe got only 2 hours of sleep so I sat up in bed with my iPad on full brightness reading

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[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I read a job listing recently bragging about the company's AI usage by saying "One of our engineers hasn't hand-written a single line of code in 18 months"

Like okay dude...

[–] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 15 points 4 days ago

It translates to: "One of our engineer has been stealing code from others without attribution, consent and/or compensation, and did license laundering to it, for 18 months".

[–] aburrito@sh.itjust.works 92 points 5 days ago (11 children)

“Oh I don’t understand politics” or “oh I don’t do politics” that’s embarrassing.