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

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    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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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    I can’t stand when people are violently opposed to words because they sound bad somewhere else. Like “moist”. If you think I’m being lewd when talking about how much I liked the stupid cake, that’s on you and your perverted mind.

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    “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.

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      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.

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      I’m fine with changing the name for it, but you sir can fuck right off if you want me to stop eating it instead of your “real” chocolate

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        Well, since you called me “sir” like a polite person, I shall retort. I don’t care if you eat it, this is about being pedantic! You can go and eat kale!

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      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.

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      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.

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      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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      Cocoa butter is delicious you fucking heathen. Its melt rate is so close to human skin that it is one of the best carriers of flavor in a cold food.

      The PROBLEM is all the white chocolate you’ve had (or likely never had, from your writing) was child grade hersheys. Try something made in a shop where they add fresh vanilla or strawberry syrup and if you don’t change your mind then you just don’t like sweets.

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    Natural scrolling is wrong. Mouse, touchpad, doesn’t matter, it’s wrong.

    Most people do not know the meaning of the word “Feminism/Feminist” and use it to describe crazy people on twitter…

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    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.