this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
70 points (96.1% liked)

Ask Lemmy

39795 readers
2288 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions

Rules: (interactive)

1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, toxicity and dog-whistling are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them

2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?

3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.

4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].

5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.

6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online

Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija

Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world
Asudox@lemmy.world
lemmy_bot@lemmy.world
beefbaby182@lemmy.world
ModeratorCan@lemmy.world
neidu3@sh.itjust.works
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
candyman337@lemmy.world
candyman337@sh.itjust.works
70
What is something you are superstitious about? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by edg@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
83 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I do not believe in the supernatural, magic, ghosts or anything like that. However, I can be very superstitious about tempting fate and won't make jokes or flippant remarks that could be interpretted as such.

For example, my partner made a dark joke about how she'd rather have cancer than such and such. I begged her not to say such things, not because the thought of her having cancer upset me (although it did), but because it feels as if saying stuff like that could make it happen.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm in I.T

  • we DO NOT talk about how On-Call should go this weekend. I'm probably jinxing it just saying its name
  • we DO NOT forecast in our timesheet how much was spent on overtime, even though fucking H.R seems to need it a week in advance like I have a fucking crystal ball
  • we DO NOT say Good Luck, really; not ever.
  • we DO NOT throw the box away - nor the shipping box - until whatever part has been running for a month. And then in secret so it doesn't see us discarding the box.
  • We DO NOT say "this is the reason. Now it'll work." You hear me, ChatGPT? You're killin' me.
  • We DO NOT say "it's just a reboot."
  • "Compiled on the first try" means "that's a bus error later."

I can't think of any more, but I think I.T people don't retire so much as just get afraid to leave the house.

[โ€“] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I seem to be the antithesis to all of this, and it's been decades.

However what I do notice is that when I am in a very bad mood my pc always seems to act up unnaturally (eg booting into efi with failure or random crash which it's not doing otherwise) ๐Ÿ˜‚.

[โ€“] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Feed your HR department LLM generated forecasts.

The entire point of LLMs is to act as an accountability blackhole... seems like a perfect use case to me.

Absurd, literally impossible demands? Have some absurd, nonsensical compliance, from the god-machine.

The God-Machine is never wrong. It simply hasn't hallucinated hard enough yet.

... the entire reason HR needs those numbers in advance is because C Suite is incompetent and can't manage to produce a buffer for the costs of their own mistakes.

So let them talk to God about it.

You can't defeat crazy with logic.

You might be able to defeat crazy with crazier crazy.

[โ€“] agentTeiko@piefed.social 3 points 19 hours ago

I couldn't have said it better. I don't believe in anything illogical but when it comes to tech we all secretly know its really magic and if we tempt fate the magic will go out of its way to ruined the day of those who don't show it the proper reverence.

[โ€“] TVA@thebrainbin.org 5 points 22 hours ago

Co-worker: It's quiet today Me: You fucking fuck, what's wrong with you? Ticketing system: DING!

[โ€“] Bahnd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Of all technical professionals, IT people / sys-admins are consistently the most supersticious. There is a reason we put ramen on top of servers.