Personally I love oranges but cant stand orange juice.
Putting garbage in clean plastic bags to throw it away is an absurd practise. Why can’t we just transfer it in reusable bins?
Cats have seven lives, not nine.
Putting your license plate stickers all over the plate rather than where it’s supposed to go should get your vehicle impounded. No one thinks you are clever for making your license plate look like it has a taskbar, Kevin.
It annoys the hell out of me and for the love of god I have never been able to understand why that thing in particular bothers me so much.
People shouldn’t be able to be told what color to paint their house. More people should experiment with wild colors inside and out.
i see they are pressured into painting colors that are similar to neighborhood houses, to "maintain some arbitrary value.
A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. Yes, I know “kilo” means 1000 - I don’t care since it’s obvious from context.
Back in the day, using base-10 prefixes for base-2 stuff was considered fine. 1024 is close enough to 1000, after all. It wasn’t until some dickhead realised that, by insisting that a kilobyte (and the bigger units) was 1000 bytes, they could sell you less hard drive space without lowering the number on the box.
If you don’t believe me, look at your RAM. Nobody’s ever sold RAM by the “gibibyte”.
ty this always struck me as odd but yeah that makes prefect sense now that I see it written that way. Obviously it’s a marketing thing. Obviously!
Keep spreading the good word, brother. Amen.
The use of ‘literally’ as hyperbole is fine.
The sentences “I laughed so much I died” and “I laughed so much I literally died” mean exactly the same thing, but only one of them will have people respond with tHeN hOw ArE yOu TaLkInG tO mE iF yOu’Re DeAd?
English mustard with pork, Dijon with beef. The exception to this rule is that American mustard is acceptable on hotdogs and burgers.
Quantum leap means the tiniest jump and not at all what it’s (internationally) used for.
Sometimes a game being a little unbalanced can make it more fun.
Jank and weird voice acting just adds charm
When something is taped, of possible, the piece of tape should have one corner folded over a little bit to make it easy to remove the tape.
Depends on the reason it’s being taped but yeah, 99.99% with you, that’s how I do it most of the time.
There should be more mature games.
I don’t mean like sex games, I mean like games intended for adults that can have mature content and mature stories without it being heavily watered down.
Games should have as much leeway as the film or book industry when it comes to mature content - Though I guess that’s getting murky too lately.
This verges on actually mattering, but knives on magnetic strips should be blade down.
Pros:
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when grabbing the knife you are holding it in the safest way possible automatically with the blade pointed down rather than blade up like fucking Chucky.
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If you botch grabbing it, it falls away from your hand/arm rather than toward/on top of it.
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the handles hook over the strip and are more secure
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the handles are all on the same plane, and again if you dislodge a separate knife unexpectedly it falls away from your hand/arm
What sort of psycho puts them blades up? That’s crazy.
Magnetic strips give me the heebie jeebies. I like a nice solid block instead.
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Decimate means 1/10th destroyed, lost, whatever. I don’t care that the dictionary says that meaning is obsolete. I get that the meaning of words changes over time, but it has the prefix deci. 1/10th. You don’t get to decide something that starts with 1/10th means near total even if it’s a scary sounding word.
This is my anthill and I’m dying here.
I have so many like that one. At some point in English one billion dropped its value three orders of magnitude and it is spreading to other languages. What now is called a billion it was one thousand million or a milliard.
More recently, one dude used the word hallucination for what AI do and everyone ran with it, there was already a word to describe that phenomenon, fabulation. Hallucination means something completely different.
You only get to decide one tenth of what other people do.
Does English have sufficiently scary words that are also etymologically correct?
A population being halvsied just doesn’t hit the same, you know?
Bimate removal of half.
Decimate comes from decimatus past participle of decimar removal of 1/10.
If your military unit is getting bimated, make sure you say “bye, mate”
I read a Matt Helm spy thriller where the hero knows that his boss has been replaced by a double because the real guy would never use ‘decimate’ to mean ‘eradicate.’
Penultimate must send you into spasms as well
…how are people using penultimate incorrectly? Am I using it incorrectly? Does it not mean second to last?
I didn’t even know it had an alternate or wrong meaning
Meanwhile I hear it used correctly maybe 5% of the time
Seems like we all have different experiences with this word
I’m going to guess, based on the pattern of other misuses, they use it like “ultimate”, but with emphasis?
At least the dictionary still lists the real meaning as valid.
Do we have any other words where adding the prefix “pen” to it means “next to”?
Pen is more like “almost”, like in peninsula, almost an island.
Penis
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I always interpreted it as “break into ten pieces”
It comes from the Latin “decimatio”, a form of Roman military punishment where every tenth man had to be executed by his mates.
My personal gripe in this area is people misusing “objectively”.
Such as declaring that a certain movie or game is objectively good.
If an art work has been popular for years, has won dozens of awards, is used by experts as an example of excellence, isn’t it ‘objectively’ good?
I understand your point, that a person might not like a particular movie or game and therefore think it’s ‘not good.’
I’m saying that even when you’re talking about a subjective experience there are criteria that a disinterested party can rate and successful or unsuccessful.
If an art work has been popular for years, has won dozens of awards, is used by experts as an example of excellence, isn’t it ‘objectively’ good?
If I don’t like that piece of art, am I wrong? Am I objectively incorrect of the opinions inside my own head?
Lots of people dislike award winning movies, songs, and games. Are those people measurably wrong? No. The plural of subjective opinions is not an objective one.
You can dislike something, and still appreciate its merits.
Say I get a bowl of broccoli soup. Is the bowl clean? Is the soup the right temperature? Was it made with wholesome ingredients? I may not want it because I don’t like broccoli, but I wouldn’t tell someone else not to try it.
Objectively, it’s a good bowl of soup.
See?
If a piece of art was created 100 years ago and every professional critic of the time thought it was trash without any merit, and then 100 years later the critical reception of that same piece had changed and it was considered a piece of high art, is that piece of art objectively good? Objectively bad? Was it objectively bad 100 years ago and then somehow became good?
Good point.
But, unless you’re talking about a hypothetical situation where the art was hidden away and rediscovered, the work must have had some merit or it wouldn’t have lasted 100 years.
If an art work has been popular for years, has won dozens of awards, is used by experts as an example of excellence, isn’t it ‘objectively’ good?
In this earlier definition looking for objective merit, it leans heavily on professional opinion. If a small number of individuals not thinking a work that is “objectively good” is good doesn’t change that, then the opposite must also be true. Therefore, if we have a situation where the critical consensus is that a work is bad, and only a small number of people think it is good, then we have a piece of art that is “objectively bad” by using the critical standards, but which is held onto by a small number of people who disagree.
At the top of this discussion I didn’t define “art” merely as visual pieces (I actually used examples of movie and games). So that art could be anything expressive- music, books, plays, movies, games, and beyond. I can think of art and artists not appreciated in their time, and then over time critical perception turned around.
This is all a long way of saying critical opinions are at the end of the day still opinions. That’s why even critics disagree with each other.
I feel like when it comes to judging an artwork, saying that something is objectively good does actually mean “for the majority”, because there is no singular point of absolute goodness to compare it to.
So even if there’s a little leeway in the definition of “objectively” that doesn’t necessarily mean that the statement is wrong.
saying that something is objectively good does actually mean “for the majority”, because there is no singular point of absolute goodness to compare it to.
I agree completely that people use it like this.
If a state isn’t at least partly in Central Time, it can’t be in the Midwest.
Obviously not all states in Central Time are in the Midwest, either, that’s just the lowest bar.
I think Indiana is solidly Midwest but on Eastern time
To me, that’s a contradiction in terms.
Growing corn isn’t enough; it takes a certain kind of attitude, and a certain kind of weather.
Parts are in central. Have a sister or bear the western edge
Then where do you consider ohio to be?
The Middle East, obviously
The Rust Belt
So is Milwaukee
The only good gummy candy brand I have ever tried is Haribo and even then, they need to be chilled in the freezer to make them firm.
Also, not sure if it’s a hot take on something that doesn’t matter anymore thanks to the current macha craze, but that stuff is absolutely the best when it’s either the flavor of mochi or made straight into a strong, earthy tea and not mixed in another drink.
theres a brand by tru(something) that taste like natural fruits, and not gummy or sugary like the brand names.
Haribo? Isn’t that the same brand that gives you the runs?
Just the diet gummies.
Yeah, the sugar-free ones, and only if you eat more than a few. I can’t remember exactly, but it had something to do with the artificial sweetener they use being toxic or something.
I’m not even sure they still produce them that way.
