What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"
Preach brotha.
A simple one I think, I refuse to call twitter by other names.
I've never actually heard anyone call it X before, unless they were making a joke about the whole thing. Everybody I know still calls it Twitter. Calling it X is just embarrassing.
It has no other names.
X-Twitter is almost acceptable (ex-Twitter, not wrong)
Also liked when I read the other day “… Twitter, now called X, …”
hear hear!
It’s called Xitter now, pronounced shitter.
Discord is not a good replacement for support forums. Discord isn’t searchable by search engines.
Historically, if I had an issue with a product and I googled “[product] [issue]” I’d be met with a support forum post, with someone describing the same issue. I could read the thread to find how they resolved it. I don’t actually have to interact with the post at all, and I don’t need to ask the same question again. For most (decent) forums I don’t even need to make an account just to read the post.
Discord throws that all out the window. Now I’m met with a “JoiN OUr dIScoRd SerVEr to GEt suPPorT” page. Nothing is searchable via a search engine. And Discord’s server searchability (even in the app) has always been, at best, absolute dogshit. You already need to know exactly which text thread things were posted in, (because you can’t search the entire server at once), and you need to know exactly what was said, (because there’s no fuzzed search terms).
So 99% of the time, you just end up asking the same question that has already been asked a hundred times in the past, and now you need to wait for someone to respond. It also puts a lot more strain on the support staff, because they’re answering the same question a hundred times instead of just the once in a forum.
And don’t come at me with the “but Discord recently added a support forum feature where people can start threads and save the conversation for later” bullshit. That’s a band-aid, at best. It still isn’t searchable via search engines, so it means the above issues with Discord’s search function still apply, and the forum function is essentially useless as support forums.
Lastly, why the fuck should I be forced to join another server just to get support? What if I don’t have a discord account? What if I live in a region that Discord doesn’t support? What if I just plain don’t want to clog up my server sidebar with dozens of servers that I have only visited once? What if I just really hate the fact that your server has been configured to push notifications for every single message by default? What if I just fucking want to google my issue, and get an answer without any further effort?
"white chocolate" doesn't exist. It's just sugar and a little bit of cocoa butter. It's edible wax. It's not chocolate and it doesn't belong in any assortment of sweets, ever. Cocoa butter is skin moisturizer and that's it.
The most delicious edible wax I've ever had.
It provably does exist. And it's delicious. I could go to the supermarket and buy some right now. Except I'm fat and trying to lose weight.
It does exist in the way that chocolate ‘solids’ exist as an element of chocolate. A typical chocolate bar consists of both chocolate solids and cocoa butter. It’s still an element of what you’re eating,
So just cuz you eat ‘chocolate’ because you think you only favor the solids, you’re still eating the butter too in what makes chocolate. It’s like drinking milk products and then getting pedantic over people who use butter as a food even though milk contains some the same elements.
But again this is about stupid hills to die on. And you picked an intolerant and ignorant stance so I guess you technically win in this particular topic.
TIL I like eating wax
I'm allergic to chocolate solids but can eat cocoa butter. So, in a society that is unreasonably obsessed with chocolate, it is nice that there is occasionally a "white chocolate" option on things that for some reason come in 15 flavors of chocolate and little else.
I would argue it’s actually congealed demon jizz but it’s definitely not fucking chocolate.
Thank you for being fun and not a terrible person.
I agree with your feeling for the most part. White chocolate is not chocolate and does not belong in chocolate assortments or in the lofty company of actual chocolate. It's a byproduct of chocolate making more than a chocolate itself. That being said, candy and sweets that are made with cocoa butter can be nice. I'm just not going to eat it when I want chocolate.
The "is a hot dog a sandwich" and similar discussions are solved with the mighty sword of language and not some rigid taxonomy about fillings and bread.
Imagine a set of food items on a table, hot dog amongst them, but not other pseudo-sandwiches. I ask you to "Please pass me that sandwich." If there is but a moment's pause in your mind before you reach for the hot dog, even if it's as you surmise I must be speaking about the hot dog as there are no other sandwich-like items available, then it is not a sandwich.
taxonomy
shit
Is that the right word
I've been using "ontology" when talking about item classification to sound smart
I guess it worked bc no one said "You mean taxonomy, right?" yet. My illusion of pretending I'm not a dumbass to people IRL isn't broken yet I hope.
Psycholinguisitics understands this effect. The "wrong" word is increasing cognitive load and slowing down the listener's comprehension. The exact same thing happens when pronoun use is unclear and a person has to parse the most likely referent from context.
Language, especially English, is not computer code but leveraging the existing "libraries" of meaning and declaring variables carefully is usually very useful.
I wish we had a dialect or subset of English that was intended to be more like computer code, and would be used for precisely specifying things. I have no idea how we'd do such a thing, and it'd never be adopted (and probably it's been tried!). But trying to write English in a way that can't be misinterpreted can be a real chore.
I use this example to introduce formal and functional approaches to topics in the social sciences. Any argument you try to make within the debate ends up including a variant of “…because sandwiches [abstraction about what formally defines a sandwich]”, which itself presumes that the “right” way to carve up the world is in categories of form. You could also conceive of sandwiches functionally, where something isn’t a sandwich if we (some cultural or linguistic group) just don’t think of them that way.
From a functional view, the very fact the debate exists at all means hot dogs aren’t sandwiches, cereal isn’t soup, pop tarts aren’t ravioli, etc.
Then I make them think about it in contexts like language, Durkheim, and policy making and watch their little minds explode.
My reasoning is that a hotdog is a sausage. When you say you want a sandwich, you don't say "pass me a ham" you say "pass me a ham sandwich." When ordering a named sandwich, "I'll have a Ruben" it's widely understood that a Ruben is a sandwich so the modifier is already packaged in the name. A sandwich has "Sandwich" as a defining modifier.
When you ask for a hotdog you don't say, "give me a hotdog sandwich" you say, "give me a hotdog." The same situation works with bratwurst, you don't order a brat sandwich. To further reinforce this, if you're in the south and central US and order a Hotlink it comes on it's own or in a hotdog bun but if you order a "hotlink sandwich" you get two hotlinks cut length wise and placed on a hamburger bun or bread.
A sausage can have a bun as a condiment and still be just a sausage. A sandwich can have sausage, but is still refered to as a sandwich. So a hotdog is a sausage served with bread, not a sandwich.
Hot dog is obviously a taco
If you go to France and order a taco, you're in for an unpleasant surprise.
Those abominations are not tacos and as a native Texan that's my hill to die on.
I suppose you feel the same way on the "soup is cereal" too?
I've usually heard that framed the other way around, but, yes, that sort of argument is also easily solved by this test.
I'll recklessly posit that most "is x a y?" arguments can be addressed with this methodology, noting the exception of the fruit and vegetable ones, since the answer is simply a little more complicated, e.g. a tomato is botanically a fruit and culinarily a vegetable. The word fruit and vegetables have similar but functionally different meanings in botany and cuisine terminology, which explains the distinction.
I use a similar example.
If I went to a restaurant and ordered a 3 meat sandwich, and they gave me a hotdog, I'd be fucking pissed. Likewise if I ordered a hotdog and they gave me a taco with solidified beef and relish, I'd be confused, and concerned that I got somebody else's weird special taco order.
Categories aren't limited only to the forms and functions, but expectations. You can redefine or consolidate terms all you like but all you're doing is causing confusion. If that's what people are after then good troll I guess.
If you think of sandwich as a verb, then any food that is "sandwiched" can be a sandwich. Hamburgers, hoagies, hotdogs, tacos, quesadillas, etc. However, by convention, when there is a more common, dedicated word for foodstuff you should use that instead. Tacos are sandwiches but it is weird to call them that when we can just call them tacos.
Umm acktually a tomato is a fruit and strawberries aren’t berries. 🤓
But if, instead of a hot dog, there are sliced deli meats on the table and you ask me to pass the sandwich, I'm still going to pause and be confused because component parts are never the final product. I'm not sure what this proves.
An article from the ancient aliens people who run "The Secret Nazi Laser Weapons of the Luftwaffe" so boomers can fall asleep cumming their pants to right wing hokum at 2 AM?
That's not real information
I have a different issue.
A hot dog is a Frankfurt sausage or frankfurter in the United States. Frankfurters were notorious in the sausage scene for having the Frankfurt bend. You've probably seen this bend on fancier sausages like Louisiana Hot Links, or Chicken Pineapple. But US hot dogs, whether Ball Park or Oscar Meyer or whatever are these straight things.
Hot dogs are no longer hot dogs.
But hot dogs aren’t sandwiches they’re tacos. It perfectly logical to describe a hot dog as an American taco. If there were no taco items on the table and you asked for a taco I’d think you were being funny, but I’d pass you the hot dog.
Tacos are sandwiches...
The medical symbol of the staff with the snake is only supposed to have 1 (one) snake on it. A staff with 1 snake is the Rod of Asclepius (the son of Apollo and Greek demigod of medicine), a staff with 2 snakes is a Caduceus which is carried by Hermes as a messenger or herald.
Physicians get 1 snake. Couriers and heralds get 2 snakes. Any medical professional or organization that uses 2 snakes is wrong and needs to go study the humanities and classics for a bit.
No ticket, no support.
Even if it is for batteries for your wireless keyboard and mouse. Ticket please.
I love telling whiny users who claim they've always had "this" problem that I cannot fix what I do not know is broken. If there's no ticket, then nothing is broken, so quit your whining.
"I have to track the batteries as well as the time spent, and a ticket is the way to do that."
Stupid KPI and accounts not knowing that consumables are not just food.
Same for software development. Create a ticket or piss off, I will not do undocumented/uncredited work.
Bah, undocumented is my modus operandi. Uncredited is unforgivable. Ill absolutely throw together a ticket and add it to the sprint after I've fixed an interesting problem that kept me from working on the boring ticket that's been in my backlog for three sprints. _
Things happen by accident or on purpose. No one over the age of 3 should be using "on accident".
CEREAL FIRST, THEN MILK!!! COLD MILK! I DON'T CARE HOW YOUR MOM USED TO FIX IT, THIS IS THE ONLY CORRECT WAY!!!
Sure you do it this way the first time... But what if I want seconds? That chocolate milk (I love Coco Pebbles) is just sitting there waiting for more cereal. I can't let the milk starve!
This is the way.
I want a full bowl of cereal, with milk added to soften/moisten it; not a bowl of milk with some cereal floating on top.
But then I finish the cereal. Still hungry - some milk in the bowl. I proceed to add more cereal on the milk. Fuck you.
I can feel your trauma through this post. We hear you. You are heard.
No no no cereal first then hot water wtf u on?
I allow an exception for cereals that get soggy/flavorless very quickly when wet (e.g. frosted flakes). Controlled 'dunking' with your spoon after the fact optimizes the amount of milk exposure. 🤓
This is the only way to eat frosted mini wheats.
"Spectacle Fighter".
In the late aughts, game critic Ben "Yathzee" Croshaw came up with that term to describe games like Bayonetta and Devil May Cry, beat-em-up type games where the point is less "can you get through" and more "how high can you get that combo meter? How COOL can you make yourself look while beating up all these fodder enemies?"
A few years later the industry coalesced on an agreed-upon term for this subgenre -- And called it "Character Action".
Yathzee has just accepted defeat and uses the term everyone uses, he has to, he works in games media.
I refuse. Character Action is a dumb, DUMB term because every action game is a character action game, because there is ACTION and CHARACTERS in all of them.
Whereas "Spectacle Fighter" was perfectly descriptive of just WHAT made those games special. You are FIGHTING, and the objective is to LOOK SPECTACULAR.
Less has less syllables than fewer, so it takes fewer effort to say
Fewer efforts.
Wait, aren't these adjectives meant the be used the other way around or did I woosh the joke?
The word "literally" has been forever ruined by people who use it to mean "figuratively." Worse, there is now literally no way to actually convey the original meaning of the word "literally" in a concise, clear way.
You have to say something like, "A is literally 10 times bigger than B...and I mean that ACTUALLY literally." And then people will STILL assume that you're speaking figuratively.
The same can be said about "ignorant". Calling a person ignorant because they say something that peeves you, doesn't make them ignorant. It makes them infuriating. Idk how often people use the word ignorant in this way, but my mother does and doesn't get it when I call her ignorant about ignorant.
Try using "precisely" or "roughly" where applicable. It lets people know you're talking about firm realities and aren't using hyperbole.
It's a stupid, imperfect workaround and I hate that it's necessary, but it's the best we have for a decade or three until people stop bastardizing "literally".
That's how language works.
Many words shifted meaning over time, some gained connotation, some lost it, some turned to something completely different.
Just look at the word "gay", it shifted from "happy" to "haha homosexuals are outwardly happy, so we call them gay semi-ironically" to "homosexual". The homophobic connotation was added, then the original meaning got lost.
You can complain, sure, but just read an old text from the 17th century and try to find a sentence that means exactly the same today as it did back then.
This one exactly. But don't lose hope, the word doesn't really convey figuratively other than online people who mostly sound foolish trying to push buttons. It is usually used as an emphasis when someone wants to say how close to the actual literal situation things were (even if not literally the same). People who use it as "figuratively" are in decline, kind of like people that throw a fit over "moist" and as long as we keep pointing out how ridiculous they are (both moist dramatics and literal confusers) their relevance will continue to fade.
Right with ya. I literally refuse to use the word when I mean figuratively.
There literally-literally is.
And to over-egg that particular
puddingpoint, word doubling might be a common thing in "simpler" languages and, ahem, pooh-poohed in "complex" ones, but that second "literally" restores the original meaning.For now.
Until some bright spark starts using "literally literally" to mean "figuratively" anyway.
I has been used figuratively for literal centuries.
It does bug me when the context needs clarity and the person won't clarify which way they mean it.
Don't worry, people will create a new phrase soon það you'll have some years before that one gets ruined also.
"exactly 10 times bigger" or maybe "legit 10 times bigger" can be used in a simalar way.
But language changes so me being stupid and wrong is also correct 🤔
When people say 'I could care less'. I know what they mean, but it is absolutely not what they said. I hate it even more when I hear it in a song or a TV show/movie. That tells me it made its way past a whole slew of writers and editors. I hate it. It's 'I couldn't care less'. COULDN'T!!! Like you care so little that you couldn't care any less.
Stick to the side of the path your country drives on or at least move to that side if someones comming the otherway. I don't get how this isn't common knowledge but it also doesn't matter all that much.
Except when you're walking on a road, you should walk on the opposite side of vehicle traffic.
Yes, the one exception which is based on safety due to the massive difference in speeds.
If you think about it, that's following the rule on the footpath that would otherwise be there. That edge would be towards traffic, it's just reduced to zero width.
And going out of the way, instead of stubbornly coming towards me as if you own this road and I couldn't run you over.
I know you are talking about interactions between 2 people on foot. However, when it comes to automobile and pedestrian interaction, interestingly, the government of the Canadian Province of Ontario has a website dedicated to pedestrian safety, and specifically recommends walking on the side of oncoming traffic:
If there is no sidewalk on a street, or if you use a wheelchair or scooter and the sidewalk you encounter is not wheelchair-accessible street, you should:
- travel along the left shoulder of the road facing oncoming traffic
- look for a way to get onto a sidewalk safely as soon as you can
So some may apply this principle to a different situation.
Ah I see you are from the UK too. Lots of other countries seem to grasp this concept a lot better. The UK seems unable to walk on the fucking left. If everyone walked on the left then no one has an issue.
The amount of people stubbornly walking towards me on the right hand side of the path whilst I stick to my guns on the left pisses me right off!
Bonus points for groups of people that are so far up their own arse they feel the need to walk abreast taking up the entire path. Fuck all of you!
deep cleansing breath
Same goes for people that think escalators and travelators are rides. If you want to stand there, on the slowest dumbest ride ever, and this is way cooler than getting to where you want to go quicker,, move over and keep the overtaking lane open.
Pluto is a MOTHER FUCKING PLANET
It has enough mass to deform into a spheroid, it orbits on the major plane of every other planet.
"Clearing their orbit" is utter bullshit, Earth hasn't even cleared its orbit that's why we get the Perseid and The Leonid meteor showers.
Fuck you NDT, I know you didn't start it but you SURE as FUCK popularized it.
And I will literally fistfight any of you who disagree idgaf where or when.
I live in a high altitude area. It gets very hot. People will say that it's because we're "closer to the sun" as if the 6000ft/1800m difference is what matters vs the 93,000,000mi/150,000,000km distance to the sun is affected by something so small.
The difference is the lack of atmosphere to soften the various types of light from the sun.
Petty hill
If you keep correcting very minor grammatical mistakes when I am speaking, such as “you mean fewer, not less”, I will just stop talking to you entirely
Technically, I wait until you're done speaking to strike
Turns out language is pretty damn flexible. Even if I made an obvious mistake, you meant what I knew.
It's simple though. If you can count it, it's fewer. If not, it's less.
Fewer people. Less noise.
That isn't a grammatic rule. Some guy in the recent past was like "I think it sounds better that way." It was his personal preference.
That's all.
They've always been used interchangeably, for as long as English has been a written language.
People who love to "correct" this are just showing ass to anyone who knows any better haha.
I hate hate hate when people try to discredit a theory because "it's a theory not a fact" as if the label of "fact" exists on some kind of science ladder for an idea. "Facts" is a colloquial word like any other, it's not some special category above theories.
Moreover, the most tried and tested theories are facts. Science rarely just disproves an established theory outright. Einstein's General Relatively equations reduces into Newton's Laws of Motion in most situations. Newton's Laws of Motion weren't "wrong", it's just General Relatively is more specific and accurate.
The Scientific Method usually just builds on what already exists without claiming we were all unfactual for working with what we had.
Begging the Question is a logical fallacy, a circular argument. So when a position brings a question to mind that is other than a challenge to its validity, it raises the question.
Load the goddamn plane by column, window seats to aisle seats, grouped by odd/even seat numbers and make people line up largest seat number to smallest. It takes an extra five minutes before you board the plane and saves you twenty or thirty. It wouldn't even cost you the five if it was the standard.
Standard wedding photography is set up to make photos look “old”. And it’s so hideous and awful. Most filters used for wedding photography look atrocious.
Let major moments in time look like they were experienced at that time! I’m looking at you, black and white photograph from 2016. Artificially making something old, when at one time they were the present, gives so much incongruity to the experience.
Let something as important as a wedding day look like it’s a product of that time. Not from decades previously.
Pickles should be served as a spear on the side as a palate cleanser between the sandwich and the fries/chips and have no place on the sandwich.
Of course there’s always the exception to the rule, the Cuban sub.
Go on and get up on that hill, because you're dead-ass wrong about this.
You're telling me you ain't putting pickles on a hamburger? In a tuna salad?? On fried chicken sandwich???
You should be institutionalized for your depravity.
Tho I agree the dill pickle spear makes a great palate cleanser and that more meals should contain this element if not in dill pickle spear form, in some other acidic tasty treat.
Preach it. The pickles just turn to mush from the heat of the sandwich and that ain't right.
Using the wrong pickles, then. Get the deli style thicker versions, and they never go mushy.
A pallet cleanser also implies that you wait to eat your fries/chips after your done with your sandwich. Those things are getting eaten at the same time. Hell, sometimes the fries are going on the sandwich
A proper Reuben features pickles, sauerkraut, corned beef, Swiss cheese and Russian dressing. Most restaurants will replace the pickles and Russian dressing with Thousand Island dressing. Blasphemers.
Life arises from beautiful choas, where in the random but rhythmic dance of chance evolution gives rise to incomprehensible and beautiful complexity made possible by rafts of soul crushing failures buoying the statistical miracle of success.
I am sorry your genes are of bad stock and you've been deprived of enjoying the best of this world.
Everyone just accepted that company's changed wording from customer to consumer
And.it very much bothers me to this day that noone cares about the implication
"Roguelike" has become overused to the point that it's basically meaningless. Nobody's even played Rogue so it just means "a game that's like other games that are described as roguelike," which is like, any game. There's a set of games where the term originated where it actually made sense, games like Angband, ADOM, Castle of the Winds, etc, that are all closely related where the term makes sense. Cogmind and Pixel Dungeon are more recent examples.
Some of it gets resolved by describing those as "traditional roguelikes," and using other descriptors like "action rougelike" for Hades or "rougelike deckbuilder" for Slay the Spire, but like at that point why not just use "Hadeslike" or "Spirelike" instead of constantly harking back to this 40 year old game?
It's a water heater, not a hot water heater, why would anyone want to heat water that's already hot?
Well technically the tanks do heat the water that is already hot, to maintain the temp.
But I do get your point; I myself say that sometimes by accident.
That's a great point. Water heaters heat hot water much more often than cold water. Maintaining the already elevated temperature.
Not 0K water, and therefore, it's hot.
I assume this is the result of "water heater" and "hot water tank" being merged together.
It heats water to hot! Instead of heating water from cold to lukewarm! /s
Don’t use the term impacted when you mean affected. Use impacted only for when physical bodies collide. Never use bastardized variants of impact such as impacts, impactfullness, impactedly, etc.
Don’t use the term concept when you mean idea.
I've heard effect and affect so many times but never this one.
This post really left an impact on my thought process.
I have no concept of why any of the above matters
Oh, so you really hate scientific writing...join the club.
If Shakespeare can change the meaning of words, so can I
A modest comparison to offer, for sure. 🙄
Get bent. Impacted is absolutely acceptable usage to describe a direct or follow on affect from an action or initiative. It's useful precisely because it's an intensifier that conveys not just that there is a detectable change in an indicator, but there is a major change that directly attributable to the manipulated variable.
ETA: I think I have this figured out. That 70s Show use the phrase "get bent" as a synonym for "fuck off". That's not how I learned the meaning in the actual 70s. It was closer in meaning to "get real" and in line with the reported etymology of "go have a drink".
You're right. Funny how language can evolve, like if a phrase from an obscure German sociologist takes on a colloquial meaning not quite in line with its academic definition in the original treatise. 🤣
This is probably the best thread in a while for all of us Lemmings to display our true selves to each other. I love it.
I agree but you can be less offensive saying it
You got it Mr. Carlin.
This statement has impacted my grumpiness level this morning.
Use impacted only for when physical bodies collide.
Like when referring to impacted bowels!
Exactly
In journalism school, one of our profs had us watch this video (and then tested us on it) to cement that simple words make a big difference (I won’t lie, I was tempted to say impact there).
Simple words are more effective.
How about if I use “slammed” instead. Seems to be all the rage with headline writers these days.
Slackware is still an important and useful distro.
It doesn't make any assumptions about how you want to use your computer.
Do you want a system that's more stable than Debian or as bleeding edge as Arch?
Do you want a minimal system that runs on an old 486 or a full-featured KDE desktop?
Do you want to compile from source, download tarballs from Github, install .deb packages, .rpm packages or FlatPaks?
Are you running a web server or a laptop?
Slackware don't care. There's no "Don't break Debian", no "Partial upgrades are unsupported", no "Don't mix in other repos", no "Don't edit this file, it will be overwritten". Do whatever the fuck you want, it's your PC.3 meals a day is completely unnecessary, and just eating one large meal works just as well. Saves time, too. I can sleep in because no breakfast to worry about cooking, lunch can be used to just relax or do something else, and then dinner is larger, but cooking more of the same food doesn't generally take that much longer.
People trying to stop an industrial war machine built on religious differences and racism by saying "I'm not voting for ______ until _____ happens" are ineffective idiots too stupid to understand the blatant bullshit they're peddling or the power they have in their vote.
If you want to change a politician's mind, you don't do it by dangling your vote on a carrot.
It's pronounced Herb not Erb
The miss use of the term "billet". As in "Made from Billet Aluminum to military specs" I have literally sourced metals from all over the world. Ain't no one ever tried to sell me "billet" anything.
A billet is an old term that was used when iron and steels were smelted and then poured in to either kind of a bread loaf mold or a round shape called a bloom. It would then be reheated at a later time and then formed into the final shape. No one would use "billet" or a "bloom" to make anything from it. It would have been "sponge" like and to soft to be useful for anything.
Fecking sales trying to market to ignorant people with a term that doesn't mean what anyone thinks it means.
My pedantic hill to die on is the word "jealous". For example:
"I'm going on vacation!" "Ugh, I'm so jealous!"
No, that's envy. Jealousy is a weird way of behaving about things you already have, it's not wishing you had what someone else does! Weirdly, explaining this does not cause people to use the correct word. At this point the battle is probably lost and the meaning has officially shifted.
It's addictive, not addicting.
Businesses keeping bankers hours, especially banks, should stop immediately. How could it possibly be a good idea to only be open during the main times that no one has free time to run errands? Why do I have to use PTO to go to the mechanic, or the doctor? Why can't these places, which require you to visit them in person, be open during the days and hours during the week that people actually have time to visit them in person?
People should stop purchasing things from Nintendo. The literal worst company I've ever been a fan of.
Having general AI on games makes me skip them, I'll be skipping Mecha Break after I saw that NPC that you can literally talk to, just a giant waste of time and a reason to not pay voice actors, I really don't want to go back to the time where you had to type what you wanted to do in an interpreter in King's Field.
Buying products from (known) Chinese companies and buying products manufactured / assembled / resources acquired in China isn't the same and the former should be condemned.
Oxford comma.
The phrase "design language" is overstated and pretentious. Anywhere design language is used the word design, by itself works. Design encompasses all the elements that unite an object into a cohesive work.
The phrase design language started with internet articles needing to pad their word count.
(not a designer myself btw)
Isn't design language mainly used to describe general things about how a design should work?
Take Material for example. Material itself is a design language, telling you how far apart certain click targets should be, how big text should be, stuff like that, to make a generally useable UI. It doesn't tell you what shape or what colour your button should be, that's up to the implementation, like Material UI, to decide, which is what I would call the general design.
US newspaper headlines.
"Polilitician lies, world ignores, carries on."
I get the idea is to abbreviate to fit as much in, but it hurts my mind every time! There has to be some retention of language!
That my wife HAS to dust off her feet before getting in bed. Dirty bed? Go fudge yourself!
Anyway not anyways. I don’t care what the dictionary says. Anyways sounds backwoods, plural, and the “s” is pointless.
Nuts only make sense in something that's already hard, like a cookie. It complements it by going from something hard-ish to another hard-ish texture.
Nuts in cake DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. I hate having to chew something smooth and spongy and suddenly - CRONCH. It's repulsive. 99% of the time it also tastes worse than the cake itself. If you actually want to put nuts on your damn cake, put it on the top so I can slide it off and eat it separately. Thank you.
You can be a duck and a banana at the same time.
The kilometre—with the accent on the ki and the re ending—is a unit of distance. A kilometer—with the accent on the lo and the er ending—would be a device that measures kilos, like perhaps a bathroom scale? centimetre, millimetre, speedometer, altimeter.
I'm actually fairly forgiving about people saying it the wrong way, but when Siri gives me GPS directions, it really grinds my gears. She should know better!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"
Funny: Mine is correcting people who try to enforce a prescriptive distinction between “less” and “fewer” when “less” is often used with count nouns. They can be interchangeable, and it’s been this way for hundreds of years.
TP rolls here always have the open end siding the wall. Otherwise my cats shred them.
I mentioned this in another thread, but IMO people who distinguish ⟨v u⟩ in Latin are as annoying as someone hypothetically replacing English ⟨a⟩ with ⟨æ ɑ ə⟩ depending on the sound.
People say "I'm just gonna go try and do it"
No.
Say "I'm just gonna go try to do it."
really stupid, really pointless, I've never corrected anyone on it, but oh, how I want to
Never playing games online unless it's something like an MMORPG like Dofus or Wakfu where interacting with others is completely optional, or unless with a friend. Rule applies to almost every single game I play besides Krosmaga.
By the time I become somewhat decent at a game, I can already guarantee I'll be consistently paired up with either hackers or people way above my skill grade. Then it'll drain all the fun. Same reason why back in highschool I only ever really played games like CS:GO with my friend and haven't touched them pretty much at all in my free time.
I can recline my seat. And you can recline yours.
The use of "whenever" in place of "when" has been on the rise and it drives me insane. It makes you sound fucking stupid.
There's a Wikipedia link and a hundred others if you bother to search even a little.
Besides, doesn't matter if it's real. It's a story. It's entertainment. And it's just as real as any other opinion here.
On the toilet paper debate, as far as I can tell it largely has to do with whether people stand up or sit down to wipe. People who stand up want the paper unrolling on the front (because they can't easily reach under the roll), while people who sit down and wipe can go either way.
For my petty hill, "Duck" brand tape is awful and should never be bought. It's just slightly above generic dollar brand tape in quality, and should absolutely never be bought if you have any other options. Go with Scotch or anything else really.
For under it's because they have cats. If it's over cats can pull it down and unroll it entirely.
I sit down to wipe, I have a cat, and I have the toilet paper over. Neither the above comment nor yours explains my situation. Over is just easier to use, and subjectively more aesthetically pleasing.
I never considered the cat aspect. My grip on reality has been undone.
Having lost a few rolls, many years ago, to a Sheltie puppy with cat-like tendencies, I understand how annoying that would be to live with for the animal's entire lifetime, and I'm willing to make an exception for cat owners. Otherwise it's just making things harder for no good reason.
I've somehow lost rolls to cats rolling in either direction, so my TP roll is now often found in the cabinet above the toilet.
Or children. It stops them from using 1/2 a roll per visit
People stand up to wipe? Doesn't that just smoosh poop between you butt cheeks?
Ductape is the strong, grey stuff; and scotch tape is the white, papery stuff, yes?
As an English major and history buff, Anti-Stratfordians live in my head rent-free. I hate their stupid, classist arguments that utterly depend on misunderstanding the context of Elizabethan theatre, Shakepeare's story, his work, that of his peers, and how truly well documented he is for a 16th-century commoner.
I visit lemmy pretty often so I probably pick a few new ones every week.
Jokes on you, I'm polydextris
Not sure what counts as "petty", but there's one that is relevant to a recent discussion I had. If you say something considered "offensive", it is arguably equally so no matter who says it and/or who it is towards. I run a few groups and people have a hard enough time here that it almost seems like it's a matter of a vote now.
Using 12 AM or 12 PM is useless. Midnight is both and noon is neither.
The saying "hindsight is 20/20" is stupid. 20/20 is average. As someone with better than 20/20, my hindsight would be worse than normal.
JRPG
Funny; probably the opposite of yours.
Facing the toilet paper outward increases the chance that the paper rips with the roll being in such a position that the loose portion of the roll is lying exactly against the roll: I don't want to have to spin the roll to be able to get to the loose bit. Having the loose bit closer to the wall – probably by virtue of being further away from the user – more often results in it being ripped such that a bit is hanging below the roll, making it easier to grab more often. It's, in total, a much more consistently enjoyable user experience.
Also, less being constrained only to countable objects is an artificial and unintuitive definition. It's not like
furthervs.farther, describing two distinct concepts which never overlap.Feweris in reference to counting by individual elements so it wouldn't make sense to apply to things which aren't inherently segmented but it's entirely possibly to measure less of the total of a segmented collection. To say less milk is to take a reduction of the total amount of milk available; this is perfectly feasible with a segmented collection, like cookies. To say less cookies is to take a reduction of the total amount of cookies, something fully measurable and actionable. It is merely thatfeweris applicable to a subset of the things whichlessis applicable.To argue otherwise is to try and create an artificial construction against the intuitive logic inherent in the natural construction.
I had not realized the latter was a hill I'd die on but, boy, will I, now.
assuming we're allowed to get political, the israel/palestine shit, there are people on the left that care way too fucking much, it's the one issue they complain about and if it took them dissolving the entire US government structure and forced us to all starve they would do that, and then be really fucking bored when they realize they have nothing to be mad about anymore.
Little advice from me to you, doesn't matter what your opinion is, or what it's about. You probably care too much about it if you're getting mad on the internet about it. Stop being mad on the internet about it, it quite literally has almost no effect on your life. You're allowed to protest, and be unhappy about things, you're allowed to challenge things in court, that's all fine, but please stop calling people genocidal zionists, and aggressively insulting them, you've created a vile echo chamber not dissimilar to COD and league lobbies, and nobody wants to be compared to a league player.
assuming we're not allowed to talk about politics, all of web dev, the entire field was a mistake and we should fucking start over, the web browser is literally turning into it's own OS that runs on top of an OS. Why? I don't know, great question. Have you ever wanted to run a bare metal operating system, and then run a virtual machine on it, and then run a software container inside that virtual machine, and then launch software inside that container on that virtual machine on that hardware? And then felt like you needed that software to have it's own containerization and entire OS stack running inside of it? Yeah me neither. Why is that a thing we can do?
aside from that, every web app i have ever used is fucking awful, the networking fucking sucks, it's all based on subscribing to the modern DNS and reverse proxy meta, which is fucking annoying for testing. And even more annoying if you don't feel like paying for a fucking domain name if you want to host something privately. It's super fucking restricted and just doesn't work half the time? Like firefox and chrome webrtc don't work together in my experience? It's so insanely bloated that it's a fucking nightmare to troubleshoot anything, and fixing certain problems sucks because the web doesn't fucking want to use http anymore? Like fuck you it's a static HTML page eat shit.
Mumble is quite literally one of my favorite pieces of software i have used, and it's client is broken and has a memory leak. It just fucking works, it has it's own security and cert handling, it runs natively on IPs which means it can also work over proxy networking trivially by just, setting that up separately, like a normal person. Or you could even just, not do that. It's incredibly flexible and does basically everything you want from a voip app. The server is minimal and quick, bots are trivial to deal with. It's all around a great platform.
Absolute nonsense
The phrase "I could care less" makes more sense than "I couldn't care less." They're both idioms and therefore are both considered correct linguistically speaking.
But "I could care less" indicates you would prefer to not have to care about a subject so is expressing that you'd prefer to stop talking about it.
"I couldn't care less" doesn't indicate the current level of caring so you might say "there isn't anything in the world that will make me stop caring about my children; I couldn't care less about my children." Without the idiom those aren't contradictory. It's only because of the idiom there's an assumption the reason the person can't care less is because they don't care at all. But nothing about the phrase indicates this.
The level of concern for something with the phrase "I could care less" is indicated by context and the phrase indicates whatever someone may have assumed about one's concern from the context is actually more than the person actual concern for it.
But people will often say "I couldn't care less" is better than "I could care less". They're wrong and I could care less about their wrong opinions on idioms.
Fahrenheit is a better measurement for ancient human temperature.
