this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
891 points (96.1% liked)

Comic Strips

11999 readers
1189 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
all 46 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I'm a web developer, and I don't know any peers in my field that look like that.

Like... That's just a hipster. They mostly live in Oregon. Nothing against that, that's just where they collect haha.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 29 points 1 year ago

Lumberjacks vs "People who once had an idea for an app".

[–] ReadyUser31 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's dated from 2016, maybe that's how it was seven years ago.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

2016

seven years ago

ಥ_ಥ

[–] MajorHavoc 4 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry that your hipsters don't develop software though. I would like to try to help change that, for the better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oregon and Hollywood, although they dress differently in Hollywood.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a lumberjack And I'm OK
I sleep all night and I work all day
(He's a lumberjack And he's OK
He sleeps all night and he works all day) ....

Hey, maybe one day programmers will also sleep all night and work all day.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a software dev and I'm alright.
I sleep all day and I work all night!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Bravo! 👏

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I cut down trees

I wear high heels

Suspendies and a bra

I wish I'd been a girly

Just like my dear pa-pa

[–] gmtom 5 points 1 year ago

Now THAT sounds like a Web developer lol

[–] PP_BOY_ 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never trust a man who wears suspenders and a belt. You can't trust a man who can't even trust his own pants.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Cargo Wave just rolls over your trust issues with the immense cargo capacity of pants held by suspenders, while being able to use belt clips as well.

[–] Klear 2 points 1 year ago

What about suspenders and a bra?

[–] turbodrooler 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Web Developers in 2023: “Dear ChatGPT, please center this div for me”

[–] mesamunefire 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

or just unemployed. Lots of software developers are getting the boot right now.

Like me!

[–] turbodrooler 3 points 1 year ago

My first draft was “Web Developers in 2023: ‘My ChatGPT account got banned and now I might have to find another line of work’” Sorry to hear about you situation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a good source for a Swole Doge vs Cheems meme

[–] EqMinMax 0 points 1 year ago

chatGPT is not even near perfect. It is just a trained model with solutions from internet forums and web pages. Its more like a search engine with fancy words. All the result it produces is trash. One can't even write a basic working code with chatGPT.

Its an another form of algorithm that already exists and bit upgraded. Its more of a hype.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

*Webmaster (1996)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seven years later the web developer has the same hair and beard but no pants

[–] MajorHavoc 4 points 1 year ago

I'm in this comment, and... I guess I'm okay with that.

But for all any of you know I'm wearing dress slacks and shiny professional shoes, and not at all enjoying cozy PJ pants and sandals over socks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the fuck is that lumberjack measuring, that's a carpenter.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

lol - dude, they measure so many logs. Even with all the modern tech and fern gully esk death machines, it's still a battle to keep 10 different products within their very specific cut windows.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Just an fyi, in English it's spelled "-esque", like "fern gully-esque". I looked it up just to make sure it wasn't a regional spelling (sometimes words vary in spelling and pronunciation across regions because English can't keep its shit together), and I learned something interesting! Some languages (like dutch and German) spell it the way you did!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love how we watched Fern Gully, saw the machine monster, and thought "Yeah, we need more stuff like that!"

And now over two thirds of all wildlife is dead and gone since 1970.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People need houses, toilet paper and pallets to ship all of their food around the world. As with most things, the problem is the size of the human population: not the specific methods by which we go about destroying the earth. There's just too many of us. The balance is off.

[–] gmtom 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really. This argument is just eco-fascism.

We could cut down on the amount we consume, and be fine with our current population, but that would make the capitalists sad, so we don't.

[–] Piers 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Something else people don't stop to think about is that we could also consume the same amount with a lower negative impact but just create less excess value whilst doing so. If we produced the goods people use every day to a good quality to no purpose other than because people need (want) them we could do so far more ecologically sensitively than we do now. The only difference would be that some tangentially involved rent-seeking lunatic would have to settle for a thinner coat of gold leaf on the toilet seat in the staff bathroom on their second yacht.

There's an astonishing amount of deadwood we can carve away from our production lines in the form of wealth production for the existing wealth class before we need to ask ~~their serfs~~ regular people to make sacrifices.

Or at least there was. We've pushed things to such a state of emergency that we probably do now need to make every possible change on all fronts if we wish to minimise the devastation from climate change. We still need to ensure we include the main driving factors in causing these issues within that though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's also the fact that my profession consumes large sheets of steel for vanity. But putting people to work is the prime directive, doing useful work is far lower on the priority list. Questioning useless waste of time and energy is even lower again, much lower than the goal of preventing excess free time.

Until you people change, I will continue consuming your carbon-heavy electricity and steel, and consuming my time, for the purpose of ensuring I am allowed food and housing. And I will eat a red meat diet out of spite.

Sounds like a terrible trade for all parties, but you lot seem to prefer it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't have a single clue what you are talking about just FYI.

[–] Piers 1 points 1 year ago

I hadn't read his comment when I made mine but it says the same thing if that helps.

[–] Piers 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a terrible trade for all parties, but you lot seem to prefer it.

It makes me want to scream constantly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I worked with arborists for a while, they didn't measure shit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arborist is a totally and utterly unrelated job to 'lumberjack', or logger. They don't produce logs for framing, construction, landscaping or appearance grades. Arborists generally take care of problematic trees and then chip up the waste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"Totally and utterly unrelated" is very dramatic

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm guessing somewhere around 2016, but that's just my gut feeling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like it when they just tell us upfront how old they are like that.

[–] BadAdvice 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where tf are you finding footie jeans??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Or footie slacks for that matter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That flannel ain't gonna buy itself...

[–] cley_faye 2 points 1 year ago

2025: "Lumberjack" on the left, "Lumberjack" on the right

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Truth hurts!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, I think there were web developers that looked like lumberjacks in 1996, too.