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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    Discord is not a good replacement for support forums. Discord isn’t searchable by search engines.

    Historically, if I had an issue with a product and I googled “[product] [issue]” I’d be met with a support forum post, with someone describing the same issue. I could read the thread to find how they resolved it. I don’t actually have to interact with the post at all, and I don’t need to ask the same question again. For most (decent) forums I don’t even need to make an account just to read the post.

    Discord throws that all out the window. Now I’m met with a “JoiN OUr dIScoRd SerVEr to GEt suPPorT” page. Nothing is searchable via a search engine. And Discord’s server searchability (even in the app) has always been, at best, absolute dogshit. You already need to know exactly which text thread things were posted in, (because you can’t search the entire server at once), and you need to know exactly what was said, (because there’s no fuzzed search terms).

    So 99% of the time, you just end up asking the same question that has already been asked a hundred times in the past, and now you need to wait for someone to respond. It also puts a lot more strain on the support staff, because they’re answering the same question a hundred times instead of just the once in a forum.

    And don’t come at me with the “but Discord recently added a support forum feature where people can start threads and save the conversation for later” bullshit. That’s a band-aid, at best. It still isn’t searchable via search engines, so it means the above issues with Discord’s search function still apply, and the forum function is essentially useless as support forums.

    Lastly, why the fuck should I be forced to join another server just to get support? What if I don’t have a discord account? What if I live in a region that Discord doesn’t support? What if I just plain don’t want to clog up my server sidebar with dozens of servers that I have only visited once? What if I just really hate the fact that your server has been configured to push notifications for every single message by default? What if I just fucking want to google my issue, and get an answer without any further effort?

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    Stick to the side of the path your country drives on or at least move to that side if someones comming the otherway. I don’t get how this isn’t common knowledge but it also doesn’t matter all that much.

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        Except when you’re walking on a road, you should walk on the opposite side of vehicle traffic.

        I take back my post, THIS is my hill to die on. Please note that it applies to any mixed use path where one type of traffic is markedly slower, so pedestrians on the road, obviously, but also walkers on bike paths.

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    People should stop purchasing things from Nintendo. The literal worst company I’ve ever been a fan of.

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    On the toilet paper debate, as far as I can tell it largely has to do with whether people stand up or sit down to wipe. People who stand up want the paper unrolling on the front (because they can’t easily reach under the roll), while people who sit down and wipe can go either way.

    For my petty hill, “Duck” brand tape is awful and should never be bought. It’s just slightly above generic dollar brand tape in quality, and should absolutely never be bought if you have any other options. Go with Scotch or anything else really.

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    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.

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    replace ‘I purchased …’ with ‘I bought …’. Just something about the p word grates my nerves… Suspect it’s something like using the word ‘moist’ for some people. probably some forgotten trauma over something I bought.

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        Its just a silly notion that you either choose a Greek root or a Latin root for a word. No mixing, just "wrong"😊

        It bugs me less than directly translating English expression into Norwegian (my native toung). Some of them just sounds weird

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          I didn’t know that, I think I know a few modern words that use a mix. Couldn’t come up with one for this comment, though

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    I’ve always wanted to write a bot that replies to comments that say „I have no words” with a list of random words

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    When people say ‘I could care less’. I know what they mean, but it is absolutely not what they said. I hate it even more when I hear it in a song or a TV show/movie. That tells me it made its way past a whole slew of writers and editors. I hate it. It’s ‘I couldn’t care less’. COULDN’T!!! Like you care so little that you couldn’t care any less.

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      • 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
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      How do you feel?

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    Romeo and Juliet is a comedy, not a tragedy.

    Two teenagers thinking their first crush is worth literally killing themselves in the dumbest scenario imaginable, I mean come on!

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    Pluto is a MOTHER FUCKING PLANET

    It has enough mass to deform into a spheroid, it orbits on the major plane of every other planet.

    “Clearing their orbit” is utter bullshit, Earth hasn’t even cleared its orbit that’s why we get the Perseid and The Leonid meteor showers.

    Fuck you NDT, I know you didn’t start it but you SURE as FUCK popularized it.

    And I will literally fistfight any of you who disagree idgaf where or when.

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      The main issue is that if Pluto is a planet, there’s like 30 or so others that have to be also, for consistency.

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        Do they orbit on the general plane of the other planets in the system? COOL! Add them to the list!

        IDGAF if we have hundreds of planets, it’s always been an arbitrary number and the only reason to keep it small is so kids can memorize the list and that isn’t good enough to DISRESPECT motherfucking PLUTO

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        Nah… Just take the current definition of planet and append “and also Pluto because we’re emotionally attached to it” and you’re good.