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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Things that are not bugs:

  • snails/slugs
  • rats/mice
  • other insects that are not bugs
  • poop of any state and origin
  • thugs
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

nah, that's a insect shield.

[–] [email protected] 333 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago

funny how well this fits for both meanings

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don't mind bees. It's the ones that bite you for no reason at all that I can't stand.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bite you for no reason?! You're the one crushing their home and messing everything up!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly. I'd like to see OP's reaction if a giant would crush his house and maybe even his loved ones.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Bees and butterflies don't pollinate all by themselves, FYI. Things that bite/sting also do a lot of pollination work! Flies, wasps, etc

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It's kind of funny how cyclical the solution is here. Compute needs power. That power is driving climate change. Which kills the bugs which kills the humans which prevents any more bugs from being created.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Bugs will outlast

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only caveat is that at some point we will likely start farming insects as a food source. They require way less resources to produce than animal protein, and are actually pretty healthy (and tasty if cooked right)

People might be grossed out, but shellfish is basically just ocean insects and many of us love that shit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to hate shellfish

but now I hate shellfish with righteous indignation.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The monkey paw curls: all insects and other "bugs" are gone now, the food chain collapses bottom up and the human race is just about extinct within 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Don't 'monkey's paw' comments usually have a negative?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

the capybaras are dead :c

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Depends on the monkey

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago

We're working on it.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I upvoted this before I saw what community it was in. Now I wish I could upvote twice.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Upvoted you since I can't upvote the post twice

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Northern Norway doesn't have tics, snakes, or bears. Worst thing that could happen is getting gnawed on by a lemming.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

One can dream…

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Me if ticks didn't exist.

I used lay directly in the grass without a care in the world.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I wouldn’t mind them if they didn’t carry/transmit those awful diseases.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Technically those images would be different without insects.

You wouldn't believe how dead everything would be without insects.

Humans would have an extinction level event if suddenly all bugs were gone.

OP IS TRYING TO KILL US ALL!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to sleep on the grass before my jujutsu class. Got bit by some bugs once, but honestly, the worst problem was trying to find a spot without goose poop.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I enjoy and appreciate nature in nearly all its forms. Even mosquitos just tryna live, they're born required to bite somebody 🤷‍♂️

Fuck the Canada goose.

Fuck em as a group, fuck their whole flocks, fuck a flying V of Canada geese. Fuck em as an entire grand, branching lineage of this strange fractal miracle we call life, get rid of the Canada goose and our timeline returns to the more harmonious path it had been on before everything stopped making sense.

Canada is cool, fuck that goose tho.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Please don't fuck the geese

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nah fuck mosquitos, specifically the genus that sucks blood, which is a subsect. They don't even add to an ecosystem and its been widely theorized they could be wiped out without environmental harm, but only benefit.

Death to biting mosquitos.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/02/20/467094440/would-it-be-a-bad-thing-to-wipe-out-a-species-if-its-a-mosquito

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

80% of our bugs will be replaced by AI by the year 2026

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Yeah if bugs didn't exist I'd be homeless too

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I get the importance of bugs, but why do they gotta be such annoying assholes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

They know they are important, so they be assholes knowing we can't do anything about it

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I'd be fine if it was just biting mosquitoes that disappeared.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Image is accurate, since without bugs, the food chain collapses and takes society with it, and the survivors will have to migrate to rural areas that can support a hunter-gatherer lifrstyle.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

German has a word for it: Insektensterben

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I already do this on occasion, there is usually just several inches of snow on the ground when I do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I slept outside once as a kid and ended up with massive mosquito bites all over my body.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yes, happily unemployed 😊

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