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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.

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.

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.

You've been Affected by something, not Effected, you enimal.

Trucks should be used for working and not hauling groceries. Get a fucking car or a van. Roads are safer with more crash compatibe vehicles that also weigh less. Large trucks should need a special licence to drive/own Driving should also be taught in school

TP roll end goes over, not under.

It's even shown like this in the patent

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.

Dampening

And

Damping

One is literally making things wet.

One is reducing movement or oscillations in something.

And so many people get it wrong, then right, then wrong in the same damn paragraph. My god.

I don't care what Big Dictionary has to say about it, "literally" does NOT mean "figuratively."

If "literally" means "figuratively," then we literally have no word for "literally."

envy and jealousy are supposed to have different meanings, but idiots always use jealous when they mean envious. Annoys the fuck out of me.

The seventh planet from the sun should be called Caelus not Uranus. All the other planets get named after the Roman equivalent of their respective god, why should that one get special treatment just so people can make puerile jokes.

EDIT: spelling

Petty hill

If you keep correcting very minor grammatical mistakes when I am speaking, such as “you mean fewer, not less”, I will just stop talking to you entirely

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.

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.

Begging the Question is a logical fallacy, a circular argument. So when a position brings a question to mind that is other than a challenge to its validity, it raises the question.

a couple always means two.

every time anyone says “a couple”, i ask them if they mean two. it’s not pleasant exchange for either of us, but it must be done

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.

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.

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?

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.

Horizontal video > vertical video.

It's pronounced niche, not niche, damn it.

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.

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.

✅ “What it looks like”

✅ “How it looks”

🚫 “How it looks like”

Pickles should be served as a spear on the side as a palate cleanser between the sandwich and the fries/chips and have no place on the sandwich.

Of course there’s always the exception to the rule, the Cuban sub.

If someone offers you something you don't want, simply say no thank you. Don't say "no I don't like that" as if you are 4.

The use of apostrophe's to denote plural's need's to stop. I will dispatch a syphilitic spidermonkey to fuck your face in your sleep if you do that shit when talking to me.

'Porn' is plural, with 'porno' being the singular.

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

Remember, kids, "less" is for uncountable things, like liquids, whereas "fewer" is for countable things (like apples).

It's one of many weird rules that English, as a language, has.

The reason I won't get a Tesla has nothing to do with Musk or the car's sketchy reliability.

It has everything to do with the simple fact that I don't like having my basic instruments over in the center console instead of in front of me.

It's pronounced "gif," not "gif."

Everyone just accepted that company's changed wording from customer to consumer

And.it very much bothers me to this day that noone cares about the implication