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The Traumatic Realization of 2022
MentalHealth Post #4074 · source on Telegram

The Traumatic Realization of 2022

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The image features a well-known meme template of actress Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose from the TV show 'Schitt's Creek,' looking horrified and screaming while clutching a wig. The text overlay reads, 'The moment you realize 2022 is pronounced “2020 too”'. The humor is rooted in the collective trauma and exhaustion associated with the year 2020, marked by the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread disruption. The meme, posted on New Year's Eve 2021, plays on the phonetic similarity as a bad omen, suggesting that 2022 will be a dreaded sequel to 2020. For the tech community, this reflects the burnout and anxiety prevalent during the shift to mandatory remote work, supply chain disruptions, and the general stress of that era, making the prospect of a repeat universally unwelcome

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Let's hope 2022 isn't a critical patch for 2020 that introduces more breaking changes
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Let's hope 2022 isn't a critical patch for 2020 that introduces more breaking changes

  2. Anonymous

    Turns out we never shipped the 2020 hotfix - management just bumped the version to 2022 and called it semantic versioning

  3. Anonymous

    Just like how we keep incrementing version numbers hoping 2.0 will fix all the bugs from 1.0, but then realize we're just shipping the same technical debt with a new timestamp - except this time it's reality itself running on legacy code from 2020

  4. Anonymous

    2022 being '2020 too' is just the universe re-running a failed pipeline with zero changes and expecting green - we all know how that retry strategy ends

  5. Anonymous

    When you finally understand why your sprint velocity hasn't recovered since Q2 2020 and realize it's not technical debt - it's existential debt. The backlog isn't the only thing that's been accumulating; turns out 'return to normal' was deprecated without a replacement API, and we're all still running on the 2020 runtime with increasingly desperate hotfixes

  6. Anonymous

    Proof that CalVer is dangerous: we shipped 2020, never closed the Sev-1, and now 2022 is just "2020 too" - a silent re-release with all the same bugs

  7. Anonymous

    2022? More like 2020's sneaky 'continue;' in the while(true) pandemic loop

  8. Anonymous

    2022 sounding like “2020 too” is the calendar’s SemVer bug - marketing shipped a “minor” update with breaking changes, and ops are still hotfixing off the 2019‑LTS branch

  9. Deleted Account 4y

    "Dev meme"

    1. @denis_klyuev 4y

      Two zero four meme reference

    2. Deleted Account 4y

      Zero day reference

  10. Alexey 4y

    Need some explanation

    1. dev_meme 4y

      2022 -- twenty twenty two 2022 too -- twenty twenty too two = too

      1. Alexey 4y

        Ah, got it

  11. @affirvega 4y

    Twen-tea or Two-ny?

    1. dev_meme 4y

      twonya

      1. @affirvega 4y

        Dvadtsat [rus: 20]

        1. dev_meme 4y

          nijuu (jap: 二十 or 廿)

  12. @el_khatto 4y

    2020 (2)

  13. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

    Lol

  14. Deleted Account 4y

    2222

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