He's respecting their privacy in a place where they HAVE to share space with him. Good guy contributor.
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Unlike the camera person...
"You're near a woman and aren't sexually assaulting them? What are you gay?"
Guys is it gay to respect women?
Too many think it is gay to respect anything.
But they start crying when they don't get the respect they should be giving to others.
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They're having a conversation, he's working. The caption is dumb.
Yeah, he's not joining the conversation because he's working on some open source code. Thats what it says.
Heβs not joining the conversation because theyβre strangers who just happen to be riding the same public transit as him.
Indeed, and he could join in the conversation and have a very nice conversation and make friends. But he is not doing that because he is working. It is not likely that he would join the conversation if he wasn't working, as such the joke does not make much sense, but it is definitely something he could do, which could indeed be a nice conversation for the three of them, or it could be terrible for some of them.
I don't see why you put it down so black and white. Is it prohibited to start a conversation with strangers on public transport? How do you meet people? I often talk to strangers, it's generally pretty nice.
Granted, the last few years I didn't take public transport very often: I mostly walk, but when I do I generally start a chat with someone.
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I'm pretty sure he is debating with someone on github PR/issue thread
The joke is that he wouldn't be talking to them even if he weren't doing whatever he's doing. So yes, the caption is dumb, on purpose, in order to be humorous. I hope the joke is better now I've explained it.
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imagine not knowing basic public transport etiquette.
two friends sitting next to you is not an invite for sex.
Agreed. The woman in the middle should tell the other to please stop interrupting and continue pair programming
Yeah, that's respect right there
Public transport etiquette is not standing in front of the door while people get out. Not hitting on every girl that sits next to you is like... basic human decency.
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they already pushed their commits π
In what world are two women having a conversation on their own interested in a random dude on a train anyway?
Was going to say. This seems like the most polite kind of person you're going to meet on the subway. Dude's not manspreading, not gawking, not trying to get their attention, literally bumped up against a woman and not trying to cop a feel.
This is the Ideal Male Commuter. You may not like him, but this is what peak performance looks like.
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Wow a man not sexually assaulting women in the train. What a creep
yeah, I'm also highly confused about the point of the picture.
it could be a joke if the women would show some actual interest in the guy and he ignored them, but here it's just ppl minding their own business.
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Sitting next to a (supposedly) random dude and visibly being comfortable and not nervous is a green flag for the programmer.
It means heβs showered in the last week.
That's because he showers once a month but this was taken on the first week of that month
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Wish I was intelligent enough to contribute meaningfully. Instead I just consume and occasionally donate.
Thank you all for your kind replies. Wasn't fishing for encouragement but I do appreciate it.
That's enough, if there's something you like then contributing to documentation is something that's more available to the general populace.
Hey now...
I really don't mean this as an insult, but you don't need to be 'smart' to contribute.
Take a picture of a bunny, post it to bun alert.
Take a picture of your balls, post it to gone wild.
(well ok maybe don't jump straight to that)
Ask a stupid question on no stupid questions.
Have a political opinion, on the internet.
Find a niche comm for a video game and ask something about it.
Find a neat chart and post it to data is beautiful.
Probably the worst thing that can happen is ... some random assholes give you the wrong color arrow thingy. Who cares! Fuck em! Its just numbers on a screen!
To add to this for those who may be reading it like it's only technically related: "we all lift together".
We all live in the same world and any positive contribution to anything will ultimately contribute positively to other things, the domino effect; perhaps even the thing you wish you could contribute to directly but "can't". People who care, who try, who persist despite the pain and hardship, who try to do their best, who learn and improve and find that kind of lifestyle fitting for them - are those who contribute to all they're aware of as well as not.
By opening a bread factory, bread in your area gets cheaper > more supply > your area imports less > some other country with an open source contributor exports less > that country has more supply > it's cheaper for that developer to buy bread
A silly made up example that may not exactly be right itself with the too many factors accounted for, but you get the point. Indirect contribution is contribution as well. This applies to all kinds of contribution, which is why a someone with good intentions that improves themselves in whatever way is a contributor as well.
What my point is, and of the original comment (if I'm not mistaken) is that doing your best truly and genuinely is enough. Not in a condescending "sure lil bro, ig that counts too" way, but in the way of the lyric I really love quoting with which I started my comment "we all lift together" (banger song from a banger game btw)
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Donating is a meaningful contribution
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No worries, seems like theyβre doing just fine without him.
You're right. He should sit and stare at them instead
Theyβre all weird. Everyone knows youβre supposed to stare into the abyss until itβs time to get off at your stop.
You mean the abyssal screen of one's smartphone?
Sure, or the thousand yard stare, if youβre old school.
"Oh wow! This is the most interesting power pole i think i have ever seen. WAIT!... This other power pole is much more interesting!"
A bit unrelated to the joke, but I am sad at how acceptable it has become taking pictures of people in public ~~to make fun of them.~~
Street photography isnβt so bad, as long as itβs not a hidden cam.
I donβt generally like my picture taken, but Iβd have no problem if it just some person with a real camera taking casual pictures of crowds for fun.
What makes it creepy (to me) if itβs someone trying to hide it with a smartphone, or Meta glasses.
edit: Itβs also nothing new. Street photographers have been around forever, long before digital cameras and smartphones.
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I get the feeling someone's done their room up to look like a train carriage, and maybe has a very specific fantasy life.
I don't know for sure, but I think he runs Arch. Btw.
Clearly he should be inviting then to murder his wife in exchange for him murdering their husbands. That's what strangers on a train do, right?
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Maybe he already has a partner or is doing something important...
Yes, he's doing something important by contributing to open source.
OH! When a man does it he's "based" but when I'm too busy contributing to FOSS I'm "frigid". Rude!
... his priorities are correct.
Trace his eye vector.
... yep, that appears to be a North Korean hacker/music/ai-slop group he's currently looking into.
How often do you run into that on a metro, as opposed to... some gals going clubbing?
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