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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe Chapultepec in Mexico, or Ayers Rock. Is that technically a hill?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Good lord that less/fewer shit is nit picky and annoying.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

People say "I'm just gonna go try and do it"

No.

Say "I'm just gonna go try to do it."

really stupid, really pointless, I've never corrected anyone on it, but oh, how I want to

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

TP rolls here always have the open end siding the wall. Otherwise my cats shred them.

I mentioned this in another thread, but IMO people who distinguish ⟨v u⟩ in Latin are as annoying as someone hypothetically replacing English ⟨a⟩ with ⟨æ ɑ ə⟩ depending on the sound.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

People who only work with money are not doing work. They're leeches.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (7 children)

An entire fandom has been pronouncing "Evangelion" wrong for the past quarter-century.