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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"

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[-] kubica@fedia.io 234 points 2 months ago

A simple one I think, I refuse to call twitter by other names.

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 77 points 2 months ago

I do love, however calling it Xitter where X is pronounced “sh”

Like Xi Jinping. (Shi )

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[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 211 points 2 months ago

If it were supposed to be pronounced "jif" it would have been spelled that way, I don't give two fucks what Stephen Wilhite said about it either.

[-] ISOmorph@feddit.org 69 points 2 months ago

Same with Gnome wanting to be pronounced "Gah-nome", or Latex "Latech". Just spell stuff the way you want it to be pronounced, or accept that people pronounce it another way

[-] grue@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

or Latex “Latech”. Just spell stuff the way you want it to be pronounced

But they did! You're the one who fucked it up by using an "x" (Latin letter x) instead of a "χ" (Greek letter chi).

(Also, you didn't capitalize or format it correctly. It's supposed to be rendered as "L^A^Τ~Ε~Χ", and yes, those last three letters are Τ Ε Χ Greek capital tau, epsilon, chi.)

🤓

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[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 185 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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?

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[-] verity_kindle@lemmy.world 131 points 2 months ago

"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.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 121 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 68 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 118 points 2 months ago

i don't record or watch vertical videos

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[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 110 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 104 points 2 months ago

its "I could not care less" and not "I could care less". This one drives me nuts

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[-] nick@midwest.social 92 points 2 months ago

It’s concrete, not cement. (Sidewalks for example, or foundations of buildings, etc)

Cement is an ingredient in concrete.

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 85 points 2 months ago

No ticket, no support.

Even if it is for batteries for your wireless keyboard and mouse. Ticket please.

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[-] DLSantini@lemmy.ml 80 points 2 months ago

To streamers, YouTubers, etc. Your Patreon supporters are called Patrons. Not fucking "Patreons."

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[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 78 points 2 months ago

Things happen by accident or on purpose. No one over the age of 3 should be using "on accident".

I’ve noticed this is a uniquely American habit.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 118 points 2 months ago

Maybe people are just trying to annoy you by purpose.

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[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 73 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think fewer of people when they misuse words. Their not that hard too tail a part.

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[-] wallybeavis@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago

For me it's YYYY-MM-DD https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html

Also, there is a special place for those people who keep making up new timestamps

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[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 66 points 2 months ago

The reverse toilet paper thing is useful when you have pet that's like to mess with it.

But either way is ok for me, I guess.

I mean, I couldn't care fewer about it.

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[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 65 points 2 months ago

CEREAL FIRST, THEN MILK!!! COLD MILK! I DON'T CARE HOW YOUR MOM USED TO FIX IT, THIS IS THE ONLY CORRECT WAY!!!

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[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"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.

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[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 60 points 2 months ago

If something's rate of hype is too fast for my internal meter, I will become immediately skeptical of the trend/show/etc. and not care about it, solely because everyone is caring about it too much and too fast.

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[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 54 points 2 months ago

Less has less syllables than fewer, so it takes fewer effort to say

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[-] anothermember@lemmy.zip 49 points 2 months ago

People should respect the intent of top level domains. e.g. videos at youtu.be should be related to Belgium, and podcasts with a .fm domain should only be podcasts related to the Federated States of Micronesia. Users at lemm.ee should be from Estonia.

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[-] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

using "he/she" to refer to an ambiguous party. just use they for fucks sake

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[-] Appleseuss@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

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[-] monsterpiece42@reddthat.com 41 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 41 points 2 months ago

You've been Affected by something, not Effected, you enimal.

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[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 2 months ago

TP roll end goes over, not under.

It's even shown like this in the patent

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[-] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 months ago

Trucks should be used for working and not hauling groceries. Get a fucking car or a van. Roads are safer with more crash compatibe vehicles that also weigh less. Large trucks should need a special licence to drive/own Driving should also be taught in school

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[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 months ago

Dampening

And

Damping

One is literally making things wet.

One is reducing movement or oscillations in something.

And so many people get it wrong, then right, then wrong in the same damn paragraph. My god.

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[-] Uncle_Abbie@lemmy.today 39 points 2 months ago

I don't care what Big Dictionary has to say about it, "literally" does NOT mean "figuratively."

If "literally" means "figuratively," then we literally have no word for "literally."

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[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The seventh planet from the sun should be called Caelus not Uranus. All the other planets get named after the Roman equivalent of their respective god, why should that one get special treatment just so people can make puerile jokes.

EDIT: spelling

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