Skip Navigation

User banner
ulterno
ulterno @ ulterno @lemmy.kde.social
Posts
5
Comments
782
Joined
2 yr. ago

What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

Jump

  • ellipses

    I tend to use the ellipsis in the end to indicate one of:

    1. I am going to write more in the next message.
    • This tends to apply more during Internet Messaging chats.
    1. I will leave the rest for you to have fun extrapolating, considering that what comes next would be different depending upon the conditions.
    • e.g. I could continue with, "When I really want to watch something in the maximum possible size, I just turn it." or something like that.
    • Simply put, stuff that is not useful enough to be wasting time for you, reading, as your brain can quickly extrapolate it without converting it into languaged though.
      • Why? I read something somewhere, which, to me meant: Write less, mean more; Read less, understand more. One of the reasons we have abbreviations. Because writing and reading takes longer than thinking upon something that has already entered your brain.

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

    • Cords

    Jump

  • No problem.

    I got these baddies

    • Cords

    Jump

  • For simple stuff such as those lights, polarity is usually not a problem when using AC.

    In case of AC (Alternating Current), instead of having a + and - pole, you have a Line and a Neutral terminal.

    The Line terminal goes + ... - ... + ... - ... + ... - with time and the Neutral stays at 0.

    When connecting to LEDs and such, you have an AC to DC converter, which tends to be fine no matter which pin you put in which hole.

    Edit for clarity: I am talking only about the specific appliance in this case, having a 2 pin plug. When doing home wiring, polarity matters a lot.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

    • Just one more tweak

    Jump

  • toxicness

    toxicity

    You will feel it when you play "Cities: Skylines" without the "Green City" DLC, for long enough.

    • Just one more tweak

    Jump

  • I think that is supposed to work on startx && exit

    • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

    Jump

  • I used to say G.I.F. before I heard people calling it gif.

    Also, I don't have enough people I need to talk to about it, using sound, so it's mostly just in writing.

    • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

    Jump

  • Well, my monitor turns 90° when I want it to, so...

    • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

    Jump

  • I'd like fewer water in my glass please.

    Remove around 2×105 molecules.

    • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

    Jump

  • You shall not stop the next guy from eating their chicken super-rare.

    • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

    Jump
    • Helum
    • Lithum
    • Beryllum
    • Sodum
    • Magnesum
    • Aluminium
    • Potassum
    • Calcum
    • Scandum
    • Titanum
    • Vanadum
    • Chromum
    • Gallum
    • Germanum
    • Selenum
    • Rubidum
    • Strontum
    • Yttrum
    • Zirconum
    • Niobum
    • Molybdenium
    • Technetum
    • Ruthenum
    • Rhodum
    • Palladum
    • Cadmum
    • Indum
    • Tellurum
    • Caesum
    • Barum
    • Lanthanium
    • Cerum
    • Praseodymum
    • Neodymum
    • Promethum
    • Samarum
    • Europum
    • Gadolinum
    • Terbum
    • Dysprosum
    • Holmum
    • Erbum
    • Thulum
    • Ytterbum
    • Lutetum
    • Hafnum
    • Tantalium
    • Wolfrium
    • Rhenum
    • Osmum
    • Iridum
    • Platinium
    • Aurium
    • Hydrogyrium
    • Thallum
    • Plumbium
    • Polonum
    • Francum
    • Radum
    • Actinum
    • Thorum
    • Protactinum
    • Uranum
    • Neptunum
    • Plutonum
    • Americum
    • Curum
    • Berkelum
    • Californum
    • Einsteinum
    • Fermum
    • Mendelevum
    • Nobelum
    • Lawrencum
    • Rutherfordum
    • Dubnum
    • Seaborgum
    • Bohrum
    • Hassum
    • Meitnerum
    • Darmstadtum
    • Roentgenum
    • Copernicum
    • Nihonum
    • Flerovum
    • Moscovum
    • Livermorum
    • Ununoctum

    • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

    Jump

  • New find.

    I also realised that it could actually be useful in this Grammarly page. The last section "Oxford comma confusion".

    • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

    Jump

  • I think using generative AI to create that background chatter would be a lot of fun.

    Apart from that, stop being lazy and write you own if else expert system for the game.

    • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

    Jump

  • 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.

    • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

    Jump

  • I could care less

    The person is actually threatening to care less than the status quo, when the other is asking them to care more.

    On the other hand, people that tend to use that phrase probably aren't even thinking of any meaning (whether it is the correct or incorrect one)

    • A nearly comical reminder that corporations aren't your friend.

    Jump

  • TIL, videos saying "cook meat at 180°" actually meant 180°F and not 180°C.

    Now I have to check what my induction stove means when it reads 180 in deep frying mode.

    • A nearly comical reminder that corporations aren't your friend.

    Jump

    • A nearly comical reminder that corporations aren't your friend.

    Jump

  • deleted by creator

    ∵ oopsie replied to the wrong comment

    • A nearly comical reminder that corporations aren't your friend.

    Jump

  • That's weird. Ideally you should put it right next to the title, that there has been an addendum and the following might be incorrect/outdated.

    • No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.

    Jump

  • humanity still survived and made progress

    Humanity never needed truth, for all of that. Only a good enough illusion.

    It's just that, most of the times the illusions are not good enough and the truth comes out.

    • How to treat a man

    Jump