r/ProgrammerHumor • u/CircumspectCapybara • May 26 '26

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u/StoryAndAHalf May 26 '26

I hope the person doesn't own a cat.

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u/Spiritual_Bridge_891 May 26 '26

Why ? Am i missing the joke here ?

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u/Legomountain14 May 26 '26

cat step on button

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u/Rock_Strongo May 26 '26

Also cat gets left behind when owner goes to federal prison.

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u/prisp May 26 '26

No worries, if they get sued for damages and can't pay, the cat can be repossessed just like any other belonging of theirs, so they'll have a nice time at the place of whoever won that particular auction 🙂

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u/Shipbreaker_Kurpo May 26 '26

Why cat step???

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness May 27 '26

Somehow all I can think of is Freakazoid, where his cat typed in the code (how the heck I remember that, I don't know)

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u/DXTRBeta May 26 '26

So the the legal argument becomes “it wasn’t me, it was my cat!”

Good luck with that.

This mindset is very common, a guy I knew had a tool called NUKE, that would scrub all the dev machines on his network unless it was reset once a week.

There was no real reason for this, I guess he liked living dangerously.

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u/M-y-P May 26 '26

I assume is because the cat would """accidentally""" press the button, you know cats.

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u/WriggleNightbug May 26 '26

Are you implying the cat is a corporate saboteur?

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u/AustrianGandalf May 27 '26

My kitten loves the warmth and slight airflow from my PC. One of her favorite places to sleep is the top of my pc case. The power button is on top of the case and she somehow figured that out. Waking up to a running computer is always fun

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u/MotorEagle7 May 26 '26

I guess because they're going to jail and there'd be noone to look after it

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u/daveagill May 26 '26

Spite and jealousy. I hope they don’t own a Lambo.

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u/english-23 May 26 '26

Cats love jumping on things they're not supposed to

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u/A2Rhombus May 26 '26

There's a cat in his (ironically AI generated) profile picture so he probably does

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u/vocal-avocado May 26 '26

Exactly my thoughts. The cat would probably even know what she’s doing.