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”
It’s pronounced “gif,” not “gif.”
Exactly, like the g in “gigantic giggle”
it’s pronounced the same in both examples, seems fine to me.
Zheef
there we go
The G is silent
Funny, I say G.I.F.
Apparently the creator of the format argued for jif. But then again the g stands for graphics.
Honestly this whole argument just shows to me that english is way too inconsistent with it’s spelling vs pronunciation. Which is maddening coming from a language where letters correspond one to one to sounds you make.
And the creator of SCSI wanted to call them ‘sexy’ standards. The wants of the creator are easily disregarded, as seen by our pronunciation “scuzzy.”
We should all just go skuh-bah diving with the sharks with lass-ear beams on their heads. Acronyms don’t always inherent their original letters’ pronunciation, as seen in skoo-buh and lay-zer.
I believe Tom Scott had a video on gif vs jif with good arguments for both. His argument boiled down to what association a person makes when first introduced to the word.
Examples included words like gift (where you say g) and gin (where you say j).I don’t think there is a correct answer, only an answer. Depending on criteria chosen I can make an argument for either pronunciation.
choosy moms choose gif
Not sure what counts as “petty”, but there’s one that is relevant to a recent discussion I had. If you say something considered “offensive”, it is arguably equally so no matter who says it and/or who it is towards. I run a few groups and people have a hard enough time here that it almost seems like it’s a matter of a vote now.
It’s pronounced niche, not niche, damn it.
It’s a tumor, not a tumor.
The amount of people I hear saying “Nitch” instead of “Neesh” when pronouncing it, blows my mind.
No idea where ‘Nitch’ came from, but it has never been pronounced that way.
There’s a niche set of people who pronounce it niche, most people pronounce is niche. People who pronounce it niche just sound stupid!
Potato potato
Tomato tomato
Gif gif
E-sports should be hyphenated, or at the very least stylized as eSports.
eMail
Otherwise it’s just your Mexican friend talking about regular sports.
Beans don’t belong in chili.
Chili without beans is just spiced meat water. You don’t like chili, you like stew.
If you’re a chili purist, I’d recommend not ordering chili in Cincinnati. Way back when, some Greek guy wanted to sell Greek meat sauce to a bunch of Germans, but he wasn’t gaining any traction - because what sausage loving German wants Greek meat water.
He then had the bright idea of renaming it ‘chili,’ and an unholy abomination was concieved that day, it threatened to plunge all of existence into the void…actually if you’ve ever had italian (the tomato based) meat sauce on spaghetti, it’s kinda like that, just with a handful of cinnamon and neon yellow shredded cheese…because, why not. Folks in Cincinnati seem to like it though, so much so they sell it in cans in the grocery stores
I’m Texan, it’s a whole thing down here. Those of you calling it meat soup without beans, don’t know how to make chili. Chile is thick and hearty.
HI FIVE PREACH
If you regularly use 3rd party food delivery services and you’re not disabled you’re the reason restaurant food quality has gone to shit and I will call you out on it.
You’ve made it clear you’re willing to pay twice as much for a shittier product and these businesses have heard you loud and clear.
Why would doing this affect restaurant food quality at all? The only difference is that you pay more, because the restaurant passes the cost of being ‘on’ the service, to the customer.
Please elaborate.
Don’t think this is a serious question… do you really not understand the myriad ways this changes things?
Take doordash for instance. You order your food through doordash. As soon as you place the order the food is made. Then a driver decides to pick up your order. It’s already been 10 minutes since your food was made. It’s now getting cold. The driver finally shows up. It’s now been 25 minutes since the food was made. The driver picks up your order and drives it 10 minutes away. It’s now been 35 minutes since your food was made.
You paid more money for food that sat for over half an hour. The food is now sub par and cold. You eat it anyway. That tells these businesses they can just cut quality and charge more because you’ll still pay for it.
You little piggy. You’re gonna eat this cold overpriced food little piggy. Come get your cold shit quality food little piggy.
You order your food through doordash. As soon as you place the order the food is made. Then a driver decides to pick up your order. It’s already been 10 minutes since your food was made. It’s now getting cold. The driver finally shows up. It’s now been 25 minutes since the food was made. The driver picks up your order and drives it 10 minutes away. It’s now been 35 minutes since your food was made.
None of this is relevant. The restaurant made the food the exact same way they always make it.
You paid more money for food that sat for over half an hour.
- They didn’t know how long it would sit when they made it.
- They can’t even assume it will sit at all–it’s not uncommon for the dasher to arrive at the restaurant and then have to wait for the food to finish being made.
The food is now sub par and cold. You eat it anyway.
Only because of the passage of time, not because the food was any worse to begin with.
That tells these businesses they can just cut quality and charge more because you’ll still pay for it.
That absolutely does not follow, lmao. What an absurd leap.
Firstly, the notion that a restaurant is actually going to go out of their way to tell their cook(s) to make a dish in a cheaper/worse way, but ONLY for doordash etc. orders, is patently ridiculous.
Secondly, the restaurant makes about the same money either way (doordash vs. in person, I mean); the % increase on doordash is typically very close to, if not equal to, the % cut doordash takes for the services they provide the restaurant (maybe a bit less because doordash also saves the restaurant money by them not having to hire delivery drivers). If they push the doordash price up much beyond that, it’ll no longer be competitive, and competition is already MUCH more of an issue on doordash than it would be normally, because of how easy it is to ‘shop around’ restaurants in your area on doordash.
You little piggy. You’re gonna eat this cold overpriced food little piggy. Come get your cold shit quality food little piggy.
What is wrong with you? lol
What is wrong with you?
I’m am deranged and disgruntled.
Then you must seek to increase your grunt range, or you’ll never make it.
I like you.
If you do it regularly and aren’t disabled or in some other situation that makes it necessary, I just judge you really hard. Not in a specific angle like you’ve chosen necessarily, but just as a person in general.
For just laziness reasons, it can’t be defended and that’s all these people have without the disabled reasoning. Way richer in money than brain cells clearly. What other reason could there be for regular use of it? Even just often enough to subscribe to whatever their plans are is a crazy amount of delivery orders.
It doesn’t help that I’ve worked food my whole life and online ordering/delivery have turned the job I loved into a hellscape of entitlement and laziness.
I used to love making customers happy and satisfied. Now idgaf take the fucking food and get out of my god damn face.
During the height of the pandemic, the wife convinced me a few times to just be lazy and order delivery. Every single time I remember eating the food, and thinking “I could have made this better, faster, and cheaper than what I am currently eating”.
And you very well may. But the pandemic itself made sense temporarily for delivery. But a lot of people really got into the lazy part of it.
We all need a little splurge like that now and then. But people doing it every week, or 2-3 times a week is just absolute gobsmack crazy to me.
Even pizza I typically pick up. I used to live just 5 minutes from one and still felt so lazy getting it brought to me I’d give em $5 tip anyway to help them and punish myself for the laziness. It was usually just 1 pie with the easiest (actually 5 minutes too- unless traffic was light at the time) drive and walkway situation they could ask for. The drivers must have fought for my tickets lol. Not a humongous tip, but for 5 minutes of work with the easiest workload possible and no difficulty (unless you count a 3-step to get on the porch, which I would often meet them at or tell em to leave it on there to prevent even that)
Yeah, this one hits close to home. My Mom is getting older and losing her mobility: she really can’t go out much since about COViD. At first all the new and expanded delivery service were a huge benefit to people like her and really made her life much better. But now t just seems like we’re ripping off or treating like shit, people like her who can least afford it, who have the least options
But… they have a dash cluster?
Can you please point it out to me in this pic?
I guess they have models without it. I dont follow telsa shit since their garbage cars anyway.
But the model S has a cluster. https://www.teslarati.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/tesla-model-s-plaid-interior.jpeg
The Model S is their oldest model sold in high numbers.
They removed the cluster for all models afterwards, to save on cost.Tesla existed before cars ?
Oxford comma.
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I live in a high altitude area. It gets very hot. People will say that it’s because we’re “closer to the sun” as if the 6000ft/1800m difference is what matters vs the 93,000,000mi/150,000,000km distance to the sun is affected by something so small.
The difference is the lack of atmosphere to soften the various types of light from the sun.
You can’t expect scientific nuance from most people. They think in Lies to Children and remember the middle school eclipse demonstration with the lightbulb and rubber ball and that’s about it.
Logically I know that of course.
Friendly reminder, this is specifically a thread about petty and pedantic topics. I self-nominated as pedantic here.
Oh and I both respect and encourage your pedantry, I’m in no way trying to dissuade you from your noble battle, just pointing out that your struggle will be against people who have zero grasp of the concept of albedo and are irrationally proud about that.
That doesn’t sound pedantic or pointless at all. That just sounds like pointing out something really, really stupid.
Like that guy who was afraid too many people on an island would cause it to tip over. Like it was floating or something, and not just higher ground.
So not to be pendantic (lol), but this is the definition of a pendant:
noun noun: pedant; plural noun: pedants
a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.With pedantic of course meaning acting in that way. I feel like pointing out my technical knowledge is unnecessary in the grand scheme of things but even if I try to let it go my brain will hang on to it until I tell them, even if that is much later on.
That said, hopefully it’s not pointless to share!
It works if you include the amount of matter the sun radiation has to pass through in your distance measure.
Yeah, better to say “It’s closer to the end of the Earth’s atmosphere”.
And then there’s a debate about where the “end of the Earth’s atmosphere” lies.
I like that and it’s probably the right metric tbh. But in terms of just linear distance it makes my blood itch lmao
That feels like the “you know we’re tired because of all the tryptophan in the turkey” debate.
Are you sure?
You sure it’s not because you just ate 4 lbs of food in the middle of an afternoon on a day off?
Yes! That’s another one for sure. I personally can let that one go however. But as for heat, I have studied it formally and something about makes me need to fix the misinformation.
I thought that higher altitude invariably meant colder temperatures? Like how mountains are capped with snow just at the top? The lack of atmosphere means less heat, not more? explain like I’m 5 please
Super tall mountains do stay snow-capped but that starts at elevation roughly double of where I live.
So that is true in terms of convection heat. Aka the sun gets the air hot, then the air gets you hot. When you’re in the shade, this is how you feel heat in high altitude. At sea level this is also mostly how you feel heat.
The difference is radiation heat. When you’re in the thinner atmosphere you get more UV light and it heats you directly. UV can also penetrate skin a certain amount so it heats you inside too. You also burn super fast up high.
The paperclip character from Microsoft Office is called Clippit, not Clippy.
The software is Clippit and the Character is Clippy You could download it separately from office
The software is Microsoft Agent, isn’t it…?
Feck off?!! Is it really???!
Cursed image!
My mind is blown, haha thanks for sharing :)
Deep down, he’s really just Bob.
Another hill to die on! Bob was underrated!
Was bob the dog?
Bob was the name of the software as a whole, but there was a dog in it
Ah, I see. Thank you for the reply.
We should all be using the 12 numeral system instead of 10 numerals and we should use tau instead of pi.
The nice thing about a foot is that it divides into 12 inches, which gives you many options for measuring portions of a foot compared to metric units. But the problem is not with the metric system. It is with our base 10 numerals.
It’s actually not that hard to count to 12 on your fingers. You can even do it on one hand by pointing your thumb at the sections (phalanges) of your fingers. If you bring your other hand into it, you can even reach 144!
Regarding the τ = 2π thing, I brought this up with my mathematician/classical Greek enthusiast brother. He said “Tau? Why tau? I would’ve gone with Ϡ (sampi). It’s not used for much anymore. Would be great to bring it back…”
Why is that?
12 has more prime factors than 10. 12 has 2, 3, 4 and 6. 10 only has 2 and 5. This also means that thirds and quarters are much easier to do everyday maths on and those fractions are much more common than fifths.
For example, in base 10, a third is 0.33333…, going infinitely. But in base 12, a third is just 0.4. The times table for 2, 3, 4 and 6 is also much easier.
Tau makes much more sense than pi because it is based on the radius of the circle rather than the diameter. The radius is the more fundamental property of the circle. You’ll actually see 2pi appear in many formulas. See also https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
Interesting take. Thanks for the explanation.
The primary reasoning I’ve heard is that it’s easier to do arithmetic with numbers that are factors of your numeral base and 12 has more factors than 10 (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12 vs. 1, 2, 5, 10)
Base 12 seems a little impractical to me since humans have 10 fingers, which makes base 10 easier to teach to children, but it’s a matter of opinion i guess
τ is equal to 2π, which allows the formula for the circumference of a circle to be written more concisely (τr vs. 2πr or πd) but complicates most other places where π is used, like in the area of a circle (τr^2/2 vs. πr^2)
My response to the 10 fingers thing is that it’s easier to do certain calculations in your head. A lot of those calculations are larger than 10, anyway, so your fingers don’t help.
A third of 24 is 8. A third of 60 is 20. It becomes second nature after a while.
One place I used this a lot was 40k. In between rolls, I grouped my dice into sets of 4. When the next roll called for 12 dice, I quickly pick up 3 sets. If it’s 10, pick up two sets plus two dice from a third set. Made it really quick to count. At least for the base rolls, a lot of the stats in 40k tend to work in multiples of 4, so this worked out.
Because op has six fingers on each hand
See my explanation here https://feddit.dk/comment/9990034
You got 6 digits on each hand?
Actually you can count to 12 quite neatly on one hand. Simply take your thumb and place it on the bottom segment of your little finger. Excluding your thumb, you have 12 segments on your fingers.
As you count, move your thumb up one segment, switching to the next finger when you reach the top. This way you can count to 12 on one hand.
And how would I signal 5 at a distance?
You do realize you can still count up to 5 with your fingers even if we used a different numeral system? So you would signal in the exact same way that you do now. Or you know, just shout or something? How often do you need to signal a small number from a distance?
Me? Rarely, but my stage manager does it at least nightly
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When saying “Next” in reference to a time “Next” means the soonest occurrence of that. Don’t skip one. If today is friday and I say “Next Saturday”, that is tomorrow, not 8 days from now.
A South African friend of mine says “Saturday” for the upcoming one and “Week Saturday” for the one that is a week and some days away. I’m not sure how widespread that is, she’s the only one I’ve heard use it, but it does seem more clear.
My Indian coworkers do something similar, referring to this week as “today week”
That sounds a little bit like a language barrier type deal but that does make more sense to me too, since you are prefacing the Saturday with a unit of time to measure by “week”
It’s really just a shortening of “a week from Saturday”, so more of a dialect than language thing.
If it were a shortening like that, should it not be more akin to a contraction? Because also based on who you talk to, that’s also not entirely true, some people feel that the meaning of “next” could mean “this” or “the following” based on what day of the week it is. If it were Sunday and I said next weekend, do you think that is the upcoming Saturday? Or the following Saturday?
“Next” refers to the occurrence that follows the current. “This” means the occurrence that is present. I’m regards to days, it usually follows a week to week basis, Monday through Saturday.
If its Friday and I say “this Saturday” it’s referring to the Saturday in the current week. Tomorrow. “Next Saturday” would be 8 days later.
Then if it’s Friday, what is “this Saturday”?
Next is frequently used to imply “the day following the upcoming one. Not this one, but the next one.”
Eh, I disagree. The closest Saturday is either just “Saturday” or “this Saturday”, and “next Saturday” being the one after that. Otherwise, why say “next”?
Edit: but not willing to die on that hill :)
Why use any of those options and not just a number; “three days from now” etc.? Because the flow of language can feel better or more natural using some words over others. You can also notice that the way people interpret it can change based on where in the week it is. On a Monday, “this” and “next” can have the same meaning but not on Friday.
My argument is simply that “this” and “next” should be synonymous under this context since they mean effectively the same thing by that usage. It also would mean that it won’t change depending on the point in time of reference.
My wife does that, I’ll ask what she want to do “next weekend” on like Wednesday but that doesn’t mean the coming Fri, Sat, Sun to her, that’s “this weekend”
I can’t deny it does make sense to me somewhat, last is previous, this is current, and next is the one after current, but next and this for weekends are the same until you get to Thursday in my opinion.Why does it change based on the time of week lmao I’m not upset it just does not compute that the meaning of the word changes simply because the day of the week is different
It’s inconsistent but if it were going to vary on anything it would be the current weekday
“Next” would be completely redundant if the intent is to refer to the soonest occurrence, though. You can just say the day of the week by itself–the context of referring to a future event makes the intent 100% clear.
When we do use “next”, we’re literally just using it as an abbreviation of “next week’s”, because using it the word literally would be pointless for the reason stated above.
Well I, for one, would never personally use anything redundant in speech. Otherwise my own, personal intent, may be muddled. Language has never seen pointless redundancy as it would make no sense for there to be redundancy.
Sorry but I had to tease you there. Redundancy exists plenty in common communication, and, to avoid misinterpretation, I do typically refer days in numerical values. However the mothod of using “next” seems to have a varying definition based on who you speak with and if “next” is a pointless word to use in this context, so would “this” in “this weekend”. Why use many words when few do trick? People are going to add filler words for flow of speech. Its okay for it to be useless or filler, just as people use " uhh", “but um”, and “like”. My argument is just that even if it is redundant, the meaning shouldn’t change to the way people are effectively using it as a contraction for “next week’s”
Edit: I also want to be clear, this is me dying on this hill lmao, just as the OP asked haha
Redundancies do exist, but I think we naturally try to get rid of them, mostly out of laziness probably, lol. That’s the whole reason “u” and “r” ever got substituted for the words they’re homophonic with. It only saves two letters, but there it is. Contractions in general are the same thing. “Goodbye” is the final form of “god be with ye”, and even that is just “bye” the vast majority of the time.
We are a linguistically lazy lot.
Fare thee well!
Canon is important to science fiction and comic book adaptations because the rules of those universes operate so wildly different from our own that it is important to put more work in keeping things consistent.
A pet peeve of mine is when a work of fiction either breaks its own rules or real physics in a way that isn’t justified.
I’ve had people go “what do you mean X is unrealistic? It has magic flying creatures of course it’s unrealistic!”
A fiction should still follow its own rules, and should follow real physics to the extent it borrows from it! Anything else is just lazy.
I mean to paraphrase Brenan Lee Mulligan: “if you have magic that can teleport things instantly, giving the task of delivering letters to Earth’s slowest bird is animal cruelty.”
See also: “versimilitude”
I want to piggyback on this: canon is super important, but if it isn’t published or in the pipeline, it isn’t canon.
I love Brandon Sanderson books, but I hated reading the authors notes for Warbreaker. A char does something inexplicable in the book and it is explained by a “fun fact” about their lives that was never written anywhere and the reader could never have known and it wasnt even relevant. It is deus ex machina. It’s all made up, I know, but this is like, double made up. Fan fiction isn’t canon even of the author comes up with it until and unless it’s relevant and published.
It is not canon that rand al’thor puts baked beans in his shoes on cold days to warm up. It’s just shit you made up lol.
But the question becomes: Who dictates the canon?
The original creator or the IP rights owner?
Gene Rodenberry’s Andromeda would have been amazing if they hadn’t fired the first season writer and remade the show for syndication.
He posted a ‘It’s not canon but if I were still an employee it would be’ post and it was amazing and so much better than all the seasons that came after.
So in my mind, the original creator’s vision was the true vision and the bastardization of corporate greed that resulted is an abomination and all involved should be whipped.
By that logic most of Star Trek isn’t canon. Lemmy would be in shambles!
So then let us agree that some rights holders take better care of their IP than others. Earth Final Conflict is another example of this terrible trend.
Either is fine.
Despite your LoTR handle, you and I could never be friends.
I would prefer the first writer, especially since the show invaded Space Iraq for Space WMD.
Ok maybe we can be friends after all…
This is far from petty, almost foundational.
Load the goddamn plane by column, window seats to aisle seats, grouped by odd/even seat numbers and make people line up largest seat number to smallest. It takes an extra five minutes before you board the plane and saves you twenty or thirty. It wouldn’t even cost you the five if it was the standard.
What are you on about mate? No one suggested letting people organize themselves, you control by allowing the seats you want to load first. Airlines already load specific sections at a time.
If seats A and F are window seats just load that way and also load by zone, back of plane first makes most sense(depending if theres more than one door on the plane or not, most are at front because of how planes park at a gate)
They already know who is travelling together so they can choose to let whatever seats they want first. Like load an entire group if they are taking up a whole row.
Just seems like they do priority boarding as way to increase ticket price, but the actual boarding process often seems badly designed
Preach
I flew on an a380 recently. They actually used zoned boarding! The number of people who didn’t seem to get that they wouldn’t be allowed to board till their zone came up was amusing.
It saved a huge amount of time.
My planes had groups, but I don’t think they were grouped by seat.
make people line up largest seat number to smallest
Yeah, good luck with that!
Or just load back to front?
Never go back to front.
Burn the heretic.
you’d have to have family exceptions or something if they’re in the same row. you wouldn’t want a small child especially having to board at a different time from their family, but even just couples travelling together are probably better to board together.
airlines without assigned seats are probably the most optimal implementation of this
Ah yeah, true. Even with minor exceptions, I still feel like it could be done better. I’m just bitter because I had to take four different planes this week.
I’m with you generally. The whole boarding experience causes a tremendous amount of anxiety for me to the point that i’d rather drive for anywhere I can get to with a <16 hour drive.
MythBusters had an episode related to airplane boarding. If I remember right, the current scheme is the fastest, but it’s due to the fact that everyone can’t follow the rules.
That’s the problem with society- all the damn people. *Shakes fist at cloud*.
