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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    I’ve always wanted to write a bot that replies to comments that say „I have no words” with a list of random words

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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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    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.

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    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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    The reason I won’t get a Tesla has nothing to do with Musk or the car’s sketchy reliability.

    It has everything to do with the simple fact that I don’t like having my basic instruments over in the center console instead of in front of me.

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    The way too common misuse of the personal pronoun in the objective case. There are legitimate grammatical uses for “me” and the objective case is one of them. Learn it, kids.

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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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      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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      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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    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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    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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    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…