When people use “different” with a preposition other than “from”. (Different to, different than)

I know it’s not technically wrong, but it just feels so wrong.

Also, when people add a phantom R between two words. “I’m a big fan of cinema ‘r’ and video games.”

Both stem from me not being a native English speaker, I think.

That’s a small thing?

I live in Canada, where eggs need to be refrigerated, and yet I’ve never seen a fridge with an egg holder. I already have an egg holder. The box they came in.

Jacob from TechLinked mentioned it. I had already dropped Reddit because the app sucks.

Wait have Canadian conservatives sunken that low? For real?

I just thought that in real life, when they were out of on-stage roles, other children would do something else. But then again if the children are, like, 7, it’s not like you can assign ALL the jobs to them.

I hadn’t thought about it. But then again, I never did any sort of play at school.

I hope people don’t get pulled over for gaming a navigation app and a phone mount on their handlebars. That would suck.

I thought casting students as inanimate objects or plants only happened in TV shows.

I may be missing something, but why can’t you have the bank account and phone number both in Lebanon?

In a ranked choice system or other better voting system, yes.

In the current system, voting for anyone but the least bad choice among the two that stand a chance is almost like giving your vote to the one that has the best chances, regardless of your preferences.

Look up the spoiler effect in elections.

Or, CGP Grey has an excellent explanation of the whole thing.

https://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom

That is not the question. The question is: it’s a binary choice. People should be aware that not voting helps the worst candidate win. Why not vote for the less bad candidate then?

Wait, does it? Are joules in thermal energy per kelvin a purely linear relationship?

Omelet composed of >60% frozen vegetables and seasoned with soy sauce.

It doesn’t hold itself together at all and it looks disgusting.

How is that unclear?

Falcom usually doesn’t disappoint.

Dicarbon monoxide. Wikipedia is shockingly poor in information about it, but “stable” is certainly not the first word I’d use to describe it.

What kills me is when people will mix the two in a single context.

“Between eight and 13 percent”

NO. If you’re writing one number in digits, you need to write them all the same way.

Colon Q exclamation point? 6 keystrokes to leave? Sheesh.

Oh yeah, definitely very old stuff, huh.

I regularly say “from the 20th century” when I want to emphasize the age, the irrelevance, of my lack of knowledge of something.

I don’t know crap about cars, so sometimes, someone would ask me about an old one or something and I’d say “not sure, mid-20th century I think”.

It’s a funny way to talk about it and it almost masks the fact I just tried to get away with a 25-year window.

Although in a more rude manner I’ll also say I don’t care about some 20th century movie or something.