AWistfulNihilist
The girl's hands in the picture with Bill Gates gives me the worst feeling, they look anxious, I don't know why, they just do.
You've moved my opinion on this definitely, I have never been inside that world, but I engage with it all the time because of my work.
Rather than being something strange and wrong, it's just a thing that works, and that's why you guys adopt it. Like rubber duck programming.
Oh no, I'm the first person who told you this behavior is weird huh. I'm sorry.
It's not an immigration crackdown, they've made it very clear that we in the US are engaged in ethnic cleansing. Really nakedly, quiet part out loud, no dog whistles needed, ethnic cleansing.
Sure, I might even give those people some grace over the people who use it cause they want to be Jared Leto, or one of Jared Leto's sex cult friends in the book.
It's actually still a red flag, unfortunately. The only people who use Grok have a terrible understanding of other people, like the dude in this article. That's part of the problem. Either you're jumping off the same bridge as your weirdo colleagues, you identify with the nudist-cult Martian, or you have such trouble being understood, or understanding neurotypical people, you think you need a new word.
It's like people who use Na'vi, you can make up anything and say it's anything and people who have trouble with reality will identify themselves by using that nonsense in normal conversation. You're never gonna make fetch happen, it's just tedious.
There is no problem with having read the book, there's no problem with liking it. I did both, the first time i read it I thought it was cool. I'm more taking about people who made the nude sex cult book part of their personality enough to use the word grok unironically.
People using the word "grok" has always been a red flag. The people who read stranger in a strange land and identified with it so much they started using the word are fucking weirdos. The book is about a child adopted by Martians who inherited their reality-bending mind powers, comes back to earth as an adult and creates a nudist sex cult. Basically Jared Leto. I'm not joking, that's the book.
It was always elder developers who didn't wear shoes and had trouble with personal space.
Wow, people just immediately proved your point in replies.
It's like looking in a mirror.
Ewww AI slop that had to be fixed by a human in the comments. Thanks for literally fucking nothing.
It's still occasionally used, but man it's an archaic reference!