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”
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
Deep down, he’s really just Bob.
911 was an inside job
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.
Fahrenheit is a better measurement for ancient human temperature.
Horizontal video > vertical video.
Abolishing the word “automobile” since it mixes Greek and latin.
Loose and lose bother me. When I see these words used incorrectly, I become mildly irritated.
I figuratively would of had fewer of a reaction if less persons made that missed steak… literally.
As a fellow stickler of poor spelling/grammar, that last line made me twitch.
I hate hate hate when people try to discredit a theory because “it’s a theory not a fact” as if the label of “fact” exists on some kind of science ladder for an idea. “Facts” is a colloquial word like any other, it’s not some special category above theories.
Moreover, the most tried and tested theories are facts. Science rarely just disproves an established theory outright. Einstein’s General Relatively equations reduces into Newton’s Laws of Motion in most situations. Newton’s Laws of Motion weren’t “wrong”, it’s just General Relatively is more specific and accurate.
The Scientific Method usually just builds on what already exists without claiming we were all unfactual for working with what we had.
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.
It’s pronounced “gif,” not “gif.”
Standard wedding photography is set up to make photos look “old”. And it’s so hideous and awful. Most filters used for wedding photography look atrocious.
Let major moments in time look like they were experienced at that time! I’m looking at you, black and white photograph from 2016. Artificially making something old, when at one time they were the present, gives so much incongruity to the experience.
Let something as important as a wedding day look like it’s a product of that time. Not from decades previously.
This thread has now accrued over 1100 comments in only 2 days. That makes it the most commented thread in Lemmy history, so far. How did this gain so much traction in such a short time?
Lemmy has a lot of people who are ready to die on a tiny hill.
Something does seem fishy: the total number of votes this post has received (~450 at the time of writing this comment) is only about a third of the number of comments (~1.2k).
I guess people were really pent up about their pedantic tendencies.
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.
If you can’t scan your groceries at self check out under 3 minutes go to a register when it’s busy. You’re people are holding the rest of us up. I can scan a full cart faster than some can scan their 10 items.
Hey, if these companies want the job done right they should hire a professional to do it! ;)
My grocery store just changed from 6 registers + self-checkout to 2 registers + 12 self checkout.
And the register lanes used to always be full.
I do not look forward to going to the store now. It’s a mess.
Depends entirely on the self checkout system in use. My local Kroger has a system that’s absolutely awful to use. Seconds between placing an item in the baking area and the register acknowledging it, and if you scan another item before it’s weighed and acknowledged it’ll yell at you. A few times of that and an associate has to come by and unlock it.
Most of the ones I’ve used at Walmart will handle me scanning and bagging as fast as I want for the most part.
Pro tip: just scan what you can in 3 minutes and take the rest as payment for doing their work.
You’ve been Affected by something, not Effected, you enimal.
