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”
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.
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
As someone who lives in Texas and watches the biggest trucks be driven by the worst drivers on the road, I agree with the extra license bit. I also believe they should only be allowed to park in specifically designated spots, considering how often they don’t fit in a parking spot and block parts of parking lots.
Large american pickup trucks shouldnt even need to exist. You could get almost the same bed space with a kei truck (which granted is not easy to import or get but still)
There are certain large vehicles that are still needed but the F150 (and similar) shouldn’t be in every fucking driveway Trucks are purpose built vehicles.
I own a brewery and the number of people that drive 30-40 min in a truck to pick up a 50L keg is insane. I have a Veloster and can put 5 full kegs in it…
The toilet paper roll has to be placed so the tear off sheet faces the shitting person, and not the wall.
I hate when people stick there shaft in my mouth before dipping it in peanut butter!!! I mean really! 🤷♂️
Abolishing the word “automobile” since it mixes Greek and latin.
Oh god, you’d have to abolish sooo many words if you went that way.
The messyness must go tbh.We can’t have this bastardization we live with now😊🤪
Oh my… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_word
Edit: Omg Decathlon. A hybrid word in the Olympics…an event with Greek roots. #Sad
“Television” a ha ha ha !
Hnggnmgg. “sound of blood vessels popping”
Why is it an issue to mix greek and latin ?
Its just a silly notion that you either choose a Greek root or a Latin root for a word. No mixing, just "wrong"😊
It bugs me less than directly translating English expression into Norwegian (my native toung). Some of them just sounds weird
I’ve always wondered why so many people have this reaction, rather than seeing it as a cool thing that languages can do. Namely, taking bits from other languages and making them into something new.
I am all for developing languages so that you get new words. And am I really dying on this hill. Hell no😊
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.”
I’m with you. For me it’s decimate to mean " destroy most of" instead of destroy 10%. Deci literally means one tenth. How much do you think a deciliter is?
You can decimate an opposing army an infinite number of times and never defeat them. 🤷
The last soldier who’s lost most of their body one tenth at a time would like to disagree with you
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.
How arrogant to assume everyone in the universe uses spotify
How pointless and pedantic.
I don’t think you know what either of those words mean
The main issue is that if Pluto is a planet, there’s like 30 or so others that have to be also, for consistency.
Do they orbit on the general plane of the other planets in the system? COOL! Add them to the list!
IDGAF if we have hundreds of planets, it’s always been an arbitrary number and the only reason to keep it small is so kids can memorize the list and that isn’t good enough to DISRESPECT motherfucking PLUTO
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DNA gives us insight into ancestry that has no parallel in astronomy. When we finally sequence a creature, we pretty much know right on the tree where it goes and stupid fucking crabs and everything that look like them can all get placed in their proper relations when previously purely dissection and observation misled those taxonomy pioneers.
you can’t have that kind of bait and switch on celestial objects because what we see is what we see.
The reason that Pluto was smaller than predicted was the fact that the mass calculations assumed a single central object when the perturbations were made by the PLANET/moon system. That doesn’t change the fact that it has enough mass to deform into a spheroid and orbits within 20% of the orbital plane.
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Nah… Just take the current definition of planet and append “and also Pluto because we’re emotionally attached to it” and you’re good.
Or, you know, reverse the stupid as fuck arbitrary definition of ‘clearing its own orbit’ being appended to the definition of a planet. It’s that easy.
Ceres is a planet.
Makemake, Hamuhea, Pluto, and Eris can come too I guess.
Sure, if they orbit within 20% of the ecliptic like every other real planet. Ceres does but I don’t know about the other two and am too lazy to care.
I was with you until this, now it just sounds like blatant pro-Pluto bias. Why would you care so much with Pluto but not with the others, if an injustice is afoot!?
He’s just a cry baby stuck in the 1st grade.
I think it’s about the way Charon and Neptune both influence it’s orbit and rotation, in ways that, for instance, the Moon doesn’t with Earth.
Oh the moon certainly influences our orbit, that’s how we get the second tide of the day, just not as much as Charon
And Venus and Mars both have measurable effects on our orbit, just again not to the degree of Pluto.
See this is what pisses me right the fuck off, arrogant people spewing words they don’t understand.
OK, my bad. I should have used “to a vastly different degree”.
Sorry for being an arrogant mouth-spouter.
You can’t help it, hardly anyone including science educators ever really look deep into things.
I will give you this: What the meaning of ‘planet’ has been has changed over time and shrank and grown until in our modern understanding of astronomy it is hard to rectify our image of the solar system. We used to think our local space was empty except for a handful of traveling lights that moved against the relatively still galactic background and we gave spiritual and mythical importance to those lights because we thought such objects uncommon.
But the truth of it is there’s quite a lot of objects that qualify for the original definition of ‘planet’, as in literally every astronomical body out to the heliopause which includes an obscene amount of mass from the Oort cloud. And even I will consider that ridiculous and worthy of revision.
For the longest time it was just the easiest to see objects, then Lowell predicted the existence of Pluto it made the discovery unusual as it wasn’t from direct observation, and personally I think this is the root of astronomers’ reason to exclude it. In their minds there is a primacy assigned to the bodies discovered with the naked eye and primitive telescopes as they represent some symbol of the true nature and majesty of the human effort to understand the heavens, and not because excluding Pluto in any way benefits the classification system.
I get that, but it is not a valid reason to downgrade a disproportionately favorite planet for many people. The added requirement is meaningless as it can very well apply to Earth, downgrading our status as well, but of course everyone just makes a silly face and handwaves despite being reminded twice a year in spectacular fashion that Earth has yet to clear its orbital path.
Nothing more clearly illustrates the intellectual bankruptcy of a netizen than them thinking RnM memes are a mic drop moment.
Do you see ANY memes in my post history used as a shorthand for communication? Even one fuckdamn emoji?!
All of your posts so far
a couple always means two.
every time anyone says “a couple”, i ask them if they mean two. it’s not pleasant exchange for either of us, but it must be done
There’s a word for if you mean exactly two: two.
There are multiple words that describe numbers.
Couple, pair, and two are all words that describe the number 2.
Couple -2
Few - 3 or more
Lot - anybody’s guess
Disagree. I’ve always understood it to mean approximately two. Usually 2-3; 4 isn’t outlandish.
Unless that’s the meaning, the expression doesn’t have a reason to exist. So that’s how I decide to interpret it.
The word you’re thinking of is “several”.
Wrong. A couple is two exactly. After the wedding: Oh look at the happy couple. There aren’t 3 or 4 people standing there, 2 people are standing there. A couple.
To couple train carriages together means to attach two carriages together. There are more carriages behind that one, but they were all individually coupled together.
Aw come on, those are two very different meanings of the word in my book. As it happens, the couple of eggs I took out of the fridge aren’t in a romantic relationship.
Look in any English language dictionary. Show me an entry that states a couple is more than two
I‘ll wait.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/couple-few-several-use
Couple is used to refer to two things, but is also often used for a small number greater than two.
by the 1500s, it was also being used in the phrase a couple of to refer to an indefinite but still small number of people or things
Verdict: couple is used of small numbers most of the time, but usually at least two or more.
So yeah, the meaning of “at least two but possibly a bit more than that” has been around for a loooooong time.
Starting a post with “Wrong.” and listing a few items that support your view is… Well it gives me Reddit energy, not a good thing. ;)
Here are some counterexamples that negate it: “I’ll be ready in a couple of minutes”, “it’s a couple of miles away”.
This does not always mean exactly two. I mean, if you just want to yell out “it always means exactly two!” Then that’s on you, but in the English language everyone else in the world uses, it often means two, but can also mean around but not exactly two, depending on the use case.
TP roll end goes over, not under.
It’s even shown like this in the patent
Until you have a cat and learn the hard way to do the opposite.
You obviously don’t have cats.
“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.
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.
No need for personal attack, this is all in good fun.
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.
You have my sword.
And my bow.
And my axe!
Oh crap, I zoned out. What are we doing?
Hey, you. You’re finally awake.
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.
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?
OP asked for petty/pointless/pedantic hills. Did you miss that?
I’d argue that this is petty, because you’re still technically able to get support for your issue in the end. It just takes a lot more effort in everyone involved; More effort on your end to actually get support, and more effort on support staff because they have already answered your question a hundred times further up the thread.
No. Using discord is unacceptable. It’s not pettiness.
And that’s assuming they even have a support staff. Most of the time I see this bullshit, it’s small dev teams maintaining niche software with less than the bare minimum of documentation.
The only problem I have with your stance is that it’s not petty, pointless nor pedantic. It’s a plague on the world of software. Discord is terrible for the use-case it’s intended for (group chats), why the fuck are people using it for their community forums???
This thread has now accrued over 1100 comments in only 2 days. That makes it the most commented thread in Lemmy history, so far. How did this gain so much traction in such a short time?
Lemmy was born due to pedantry. And all of us should be grateful.
I don’t care what they say, a single space after a period at the end of a sentence is NOT enough. Now get offa my lawn!
Here here. And I know some modern word processors already put a slightly larger space after a sentence, but it isn’t two full spaces and that mostly only happens in non-monospace fonts where a space character is barely a gap to start with. Two full spaces after every sentence. Yes even in SMS where there is a character limit. If I can’t fit what I want to say properly then I’m not saying it and these damn kids can rot in their unintelligible run-on looking dribble.
I’d normally let this go, but since the whole post is about being pedantic imma make an exception:
Here here
I’m afraid that’s actually "hear, hear.’
People who only work with money are not doing work. They’re leeches.
This holds true for many professions. “Bullshit Jobs” by David Graeber comes to mind.
Cashiers in shambles
You don’t understand how businesses function then, especially large ones.
