Weird is subjective. If you’ve only ever done C++ style object oriented programming then jumping into a lisp or a pure functional language is absolutely weird.

The “correct” word for salary is usually “exempt employee”, as in exempt for overtime pay.

This isn’t always a bad thing. Some jobs need exempt employees because they run on call rotations and so forth, and if your employer isn’t a dickhead it can genuinely be done fairly with highly flexible hours and pay to match.

Of course, dickhead employers are a dime a dozen…

There is a related community of people who refer to themselves as “plant-based, whole-food” eaters. I recently switched to this from a lifetime of meats and processed foods (mostly, it’s a work in progress to avoid cheat meals).

I vastly prefer the PBWF people to vegans. Less evangelism, less shaming, less zealotry… and PBWF is actually stricter than vegan. I find vegan communities insufferable but I may have found my new home with PBWF.

Highly recommend.