Guys is it gay to respect women?

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.

He could be using Arch! They missed out big time there!

Agreed. The woman in the middle should tell the other to please stop interrupting and continue pair programming

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.

You clearly don't watch the same films I do!

Yeah, he's not joining the conversation because he's working on some open source code. Thats what it says.

You're ruining the joke

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.

"I hope we can get into the club."

"Yeah, it's going to be packed already, and we're still 20 minutes away."

"Since it's this late already, see if Chris's after-party's started yet."

"Good idea... ... The stream is up. Only a few people milling around so far."

"Soon to be three more."

"Yeah, skipping club, on to the after party."

You mean the abyssal screen of one's smartphone?

Street photography isn’t so bad, as long as it’s not a hidden cam.

I don’t generally like my picture taken, but I’d 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 it’s someone trying to hide it with a smartphone, or Meta glasses.

edit: It’s also nothing new. Street photographers have been around forever, long before digital cameras. It was pretty acceptable when I was a kid with a flip phone.

That's because he showers once a month but this was taken on the first week of that month

Hey! We need to save water for starving LLMs!

I think that is the implication.

Iirc there are some studies saying that people in general are happier when they make small talk with strangers on the train, which i definitely would not expect because i would want to be left alone.

I can imagine a version of this where the two are talking in a way signifying it isn't a private conversation, and the computer guy says something interesting that adds to the discussion, and then all three have an enjoyable social interaction after which he goes back to coding, or whatever.

I think the fantasy that a man could be so attractive as to chat up two women strangers on a train is the kind of idea that leads to harassment.

Weird that this connection is even being done here. Was the girls' consent stated before revealing this meme?

Yep all is cool until he does exactly that and the script turns upside down.

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.

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!

That's enough, if there's something you like then contributing to documentation is something that's more available to the general populace.

Donating is a meaningful contribution

If you ever want to grow capability of technical contributions, you are welcome but not necessary.

I would much prefer someone that accepts their level of contribution than one who thinks "Claude can make me a valuable contributor even if I have no idea how to".

Knowledge knows no bounds. Being smart is about always learning and reevaluating the foundations.

Smart people always are eager to learn. Self-claimed intellectuals often aren't broad in mind, just confident.

I think that's called being a "sugar daddy."

Tim Lambesis that you?

🎶🎸 Saaaailing, takes me to where I'm always.....

Yes, he's doing something important by contributing to open source.

I knew it! He's must be using vim. Mystery solved.

Give it five or ten years

The joke is the poorly constructed version of a stereotype that stopped being relevant over a decade ago.

1. It's poorly constructed because the joke is the nerd is oblivious/has misplaced priorities, but the joke would only work if the image showed the woman expressing obvious interest in the man, instead of having her back turned to him. As is, the image is literally just two rando's on the subway doing their own thing.

2. Nerdy looking guys being too oblivious to engage with hot women stopped being relevant after incel culture, startup bros, PUA, and nerdy-looking billionaires became commonplace.

People are already shitting on OP for making this. Rightly so.

However, thinking it's part of some nefarious zeitgeist to ostracize men is giving OP too much credit and assuming something about those women is so fucking weird.