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”
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.
Commas don’t belong in numbers, not as a thousands separator and definitely not as a decimal point.
Also ISO8601 and that dark theme should be the default
I can recline my seat. And you can recline yours.
TP roll end goes over, not under.
It’s even shown like this in the patent
Stoplights at a junction should be done in phases and not in straight on green and turn on green only if it’s clear.
If you have a 4 way junction then each way should green for you to go straight or turn off for a period of time.
Why not just always use fewer. It’s really effortfewer to do so.
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.
I believe in prescriptive linguistics. I’m all for language changing and evolving, and I think most strict grammar is just classism.
But goddammit a factoid is the a false fact, not a fact. We already have a word for fact. It’s fucking fact.
Language gains nothing in this redefinition, and it’s not born from interesting slang usage. It’s just pure ignorance, not knowing what a word means.
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
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.
I know this is unpopular. Have had several long winded discussions on this with friends and folks alike. “All religions are cults”, doesn’t matter the person is alive, dead or imaginary, you’re just following a charismatic leader(s).
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.
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!
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.
envy and jealousy are supposed to have different meanings, but idiots always use jealous when they mean envious. Annoys the fuck out of me.
