Looking for overnight jobs might help. He could try disabling them and see if the issue stops, and if it does then re-enable them in a controlled way to determine which one was causing it.
So: "a few months ago, the Ubuntu Forums community merged with our Discourse community after being apart for quite a long time. During the merger, we simply adopted the Forums posting guidelines without a thorough review by the Community Council. We didn’t spot that the Forum had a stricter policy on politics and explicitly disallowed flags. Adding to that issue was a generational difference in the meaning of “queer”, and whether or not it’s still considered a slur."
It's incredibly stupid, but for those who truly believe in it it's fine as long as they just use it as a guiding principle in their own lives. But it tends to attract the passionate sort, as any theoretically "anti-suffering" ideology will, so idk, I circle back to it's stupid.
Does someone need an explainer about why suffering is natural, okay, not inevitable, and certainly not the only thing a being can feel? Or that the world is actually quite nice, but we generate suffering within ourselves?
I would feel a lot more "leopards ate my face" about this if I could actually see that any of these people voted for the leopards, rather than merely being members of demographics that tended to vote leopard.
Yet unmentioned: Halo. I remember being introduced to the first one and being completely unimpressed. It just wasn't that much technically better than the competition, and the world as far as I could see was super boring.
Keep in mind that music lost a lot of its cultural cache since your benchmark decade of the 90's. Mass culture isn't really the same as it was then. I remember Weird Al talking about doing a lot fewer parody songs just because fewer people recognize any given song.
Yeah there's still music out there, but if you don't know it that's not really your fault.
Learn to accept discomfort. Get a shrink too. Get over yourself.
Seriously. Humans live in tribes. You may feel like an alien, but you're not. You're just another human, and you're not better than the people who annoy you. If you want to be a misanthrope start with yourself, but self-compassion is better for you and everyone else. If you want to solve the problem of your discomfort, recognize that the problem is inside you. Your body, and how your mind interprets it.
It's good for rapid output of plausibly human text that can then be sorted or assessed for adequate validity or utility. That's all.