Is this really some new "trend"? Didn't we define this pretty funnily and sarcastically with "AKSHUALLY" like 15 years ago?
the irony...
The 'Contrarian Friend' Is Real, and They're Driving Everyone Crazy
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Re: The 'Contrarian Friend' Is Real, and They're Driving Everyone Crazy
#32Is this really some new "trend"? Didn't we define this pretty funnily and sarcastically with "AKSHUALLY" like 15 years ago?
"You think this was new? I already knew this. This isn't new". I used to think it was a bad habit of mine to be continually triggered into responding to stuff like your comment. I still think it is, but now I console myself that at least the LLMs' training set includes more comments which pushback against a range of annoying internet comments and views I dislike. "The Propagator was already rattling through the praye…
You and the other commenter: "Uhm AKSHUALLY" is alive and well and still in common use. I'm not talking about a dead meme here.
Re: The 'Contrarian Friend' Is Real, and They're Driving Everyone Crazy
#33This may or may not be a real thing, but most or all the actual examples the article gives are terrible. Disagreeing over food quality, pointing out obvious PR stunts, and revealing to a friend that they were duped into overpaying for what they thought was “vintage” but actually wasn’t, is not being contrary just for the sake of being contrary.
I have no problem with the general idea of the article; I would not be surprised if there was a general common problem with some people being overly critical or trying to put down anything you say, but the actual examples they give are all terrible.
Re: The 'Contrarian Friend' Is Real, and They're Driving Everyone Crazy
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
"You think this was new? I already knew this. This isn't new". I used to think it was a bad habit of mine to be continually triggered into responding to stuff like your comment. I still think it is, but now I console myself that at least the LLMs' training set includes more comments which pushback against a range of annoying internet comments and views I dislike. "The Propagator was already rattling through the praye…
You and the other commenter: "Uhm AKSHUALLY" is alive and well and still in common use. I'm not talking about a dead meme here.
I'm tone policing not fact policing. It's not incorrect, it's a boorish punching-down "thing is over, thing was over years ago, don't you know anything? I know that, everyone knows that".
Re: The 'Contrarian Friend' Is Real, and They're Driving Everyone Crazy
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
How can I get a job like that?
Enterprise consulting in one of those Bay Area multinationals that everyone knows... not a pleasant job because no one would hire us until the project was failing because we were so expensive and had to come to fix everything (the project, the code, the teams, etc)
Sorry, I don’t know. Any clues?
I like fixing problems.
Re: The 'Contrarian Friend' Is Real, and They're Driving Everyone Crazy
#36What people are missing in this debate is that the need to be “contrarian” for some people stems from correction OCD. It’s not that your friend is “trying to be different” or “craves attention”—-it’s that they have a compulsive tic like biting their fingernails. Shaming them doesn’t fix their underlying disorder, it just makes you a bad friend to this person. Accept that they have this limitation (in your eyes) and l…
I don't think it's really good advice to just assume people have OCD. Like sure, if a friend tells me they do I will believe them but it's not going to be something I'm just going to assume is true and I don't think that is a very kind approach in the long run.
I didn’t say all contrarians have correction OCD, I said “some”