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Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

Personally I love oranges but cant stand orange juice.

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Decimate means 1/10th destroyed, lost, whatever. I don't care that the dictionary says that meaning is obsolete. I get that the meaning of words changes over time, but it has the prefix deci. 1/10th. You don't get to decide something that starts with 1/10th means near total even if it's a scary sounding word.
This is my anthill and I'm dying here.
- I read a Matt Helm spy thriller where the hero knows that his boss has been replaced by a double because the real guy would never use 'decimate' to mean 'eradicate.'
- I have so many like that one. At some point in English one billion dropped its value three orders of magnitude and it is spreading to other languages. What now is called a billion it was one thousand million or a milliard.
  More recently, one dude used the word hallucination for what AI do and everyone ran with it, there was already a word to describe that phenomenon, fabulation. Hallucination means something completely different.
  
  Yeah, but the AI bros don't want to imply that the LLMs are lying to you.
  
  So we get to hundred, then thousand up to hundred thousand, why would we use a thousand thousand for a million, or ten hundred thousand, or a hundred thousand thousand? A new word at each separator just makes easy parsing.
  One hundred seventy three thousand million four hundred sixty two thousand four hundred twenty just sounds so much worse and harder to parser when hearing it.
  
  If you anthropomorphize the AI, you don't want to imagine that they lie to you.
- You only get to decide one tenth of what other people do.
- Does English have sufficiently scary words that are also etymologically correct?
  A population being halvsied just doesn't hit the same, you know?
  
  Bimate removal of half.
  Decimate comes from decimatus past participle of decimar removal of 1/10.
  
  "Those guys split us right down the middle, then finished half of us off."
- Penultimate must send you into spasms as well
  
  …how are people using penultimate incorrectly? Am I using it incorrectly? Does it not mean second to last?
  
  I didn't even know it had an alternate or wrong meaning
  
  At least the dictionary still lists the real meaning as valid.
  
  Do we have any other words where adding the prefix "pen" to it means "next to"?
- My personal gripe in this area is people misusing "objectively".
  Such as declaring that a certain movie or game is objectively good.
  
  If an art work has been popular for years, has won dozens of awards, is used by experts as an example of excellence, isn't it 'objectively' good?
  I understand your point, that a person might not like a particular movie or game and therefore think it's 'not good.'
  I'm saying that even when you're talking about a subjective experience there are criteria that a disinterested party can rate and successful or unsuccessful.
- My biggest gripe about it is that it should mean sacrificing a tenth (or a small portion) in order to preserve the whole.
  So many words that mean completely destroy, and we have to make the one meaning specifically not that to also mean completely destroy. The language is weaker for it.
- My anthill is myriad. It's the same as many. "Myriad stars", not "a myriad of stars".
- I always interpreted it as "break into ten pieces"
  
  It comes from the Latin "decimatio", a form of Roman military punishment where every tenth man had to be executed by his mates.
- If I fuck someone 10 times then havent i decimated them?
  
  No, you’ve only gone and dekamated them.

"Road Works" usually means it doesn't.
- The "End Construction" signs you sometimes see on the side of the road aren't actually protesting growth.
  
  Go slow children ahead
  
  For years, growing up, there were signs saying "adopt a view point" in the highway we'd drive out to see family over the holidays.
  For years, I thought they were saying something about road saftey, warning drivers to look at whats coming up instead of directly in front of them. Something akin to the picking a spot on the horizon to sail towards to keep the boat straight my dad had taught me for sailing...
  At some point i realized the blue signs were all guidance or info, not rules or warning. At one point I thought they might be politically motivated, like the "please dont litter" signs along that same highway- where they pleading with us to form and opinion, any opinion.
  I think I was in my late teens before I finally saw one that said "this viewpoint adopted by
  <company>
  " and realized they were literally asking people to sponsor the scenic pull-off spots along the highway.
  I still prefer to read them as some poor civil servant waging a private campaign against nihilism, picking the nicest bits of scenery for his message, hoping to shock the american public out of their unfeeling malaise.

A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. Yes, I know "kilo" means 1000 - I don't care since it's obvious from context.
Back in the day, using base-10 prefixes for base-2 stuff was considered fine. 1024 is close enough to 1000, after all. It only changed when some dickhead realised that, by insisting that a kilobyte (and the bigger units) was 1000 bytes, they could sell you less hard drive space without lowering the number on the box.
If you don't believe me, look at your RAM. Nobody's ever sold RAM by the "gibibyte".
- Keep spreading the good word, brother. Amen.
- ty this always struck me as odd but yeah that makes prefect sense now that I see it written that way. Obviously it's a marketing thing. Obviously!
- Marketing a 512 GB device is maliciously and intentionally deceptive. If it were 500GB, the consumer has fair warning that the size is not a power of 2 and might suspect that the GBs aren't binary either. There is no reason to make it 512GB except to imply the consumer is getting their full 2^39 bytes.
- Numerical marketing is nonsense all around.
  Video, which was always counted by vertical resolution (lines on analog TV), suddenly became horizontal with 4K, 8K, and it's not even close, 4K usually referring to 3840x2160.
  There are three entirely different things that "5G" can refer to: the mobile network standard, 5GHz WiFi standard, or 5Gbps network connection.
- If you want to be upset, look at internet speeds, they sell you mbps (megabits per second), but the standard measurement is mbps (megabytes per second), so they sell you a number 8 times bigger than the one you get.
  
  You've actually got that a bit twisted. Not saying the bigger number doesn't benifit the ISPs, but it actually is the industry standard to use bits per second when measuring throughput. This is because data transfer is a continuous stream, whereas data at rest is chunked so when talking about storage we use bytes. It's a bit weird but you get used to it.
  
  That ones actually fine IMO because they advertise Mbps which is fairly clearly different from MBps (b vs B, bit vs byte), and very easy to convert between.

The way the US spells things is stupid
- The letter "u" belongs in neighbour, harbour, savour, etc.
  
  I prefer the US spelling of these words. The U doesn't do anything phonetically and was not present in the Latin from which many of the words derive.
  
  The native English-speakers that I work with are pretty evenly split between those who speak American English and those who speak British English. I have found that while I have mostly adopted American English spelling myself, I always write "behaviour" because a particular Brit I work with often talks about software behaviour.
  
  No u!
  Today, I know what true enlightenment feels like
  
  Maybe this is regional, but its feel like people pronounce them neighber, harbur, and savor,
  
  You're probably right but this is where might makes right kicks in.
- I like that there’s multiple spellings of words, gives me a better success rate.

Probably stereotypical, but I find well done steaks to be a total waste.
I rarely cook steak, but when I do I go to a butcher and get something quality and fresh. Normally I don't care how other people enjoy their food, but when I take the effort to get quality steak and someone at a family get together asks me to cook until the steak is grey in the center it just deflates me. Logically I know that if everyone is happy with their food it doesn't matter, but personally having to mangle a steak so it has the taste of ground beef just goes against every cooking instinct I have.
I've learned that when certain people are coming to a holiday cookout to just cook burgers or BBQ instead. Everyone is just as happy with what they get.
- I consider myself openminded and tolerant.
  I once heard a fellow say he was from Minnesota and he thought ketchup was too spicy.
  Outwardly I stayed calm but in my heart I wanted to burn the heretic.
  
  I'm in Minnesota, and I can confirm there are people who think ketchup is spicy.
  The first time I encountered "ketchup is spicy/a hot sauce," I thought it was a joke. Then I also learned that there are truly bland people who think salt and pepper is "too much".
  I live in a very weird state.
  
  I grew up eating what most people consider very spicy food. I don't care what level of spicy other people are comfortable with, but I've found that amongst certain types of people I have to be discreet about my preference for spicy food. Some people find it a novelty to gawk at which is just awkward.
  
  I fairly recently moved to Minnesota and I love very spicy foods. I just have to accept the fact that everything people here tell me is spicy is going to be very tame. People that get to know me have started saying "really spicy... for Minnesota" lmao
- I feel you. As a kid I thought I hated steak. Turns out my mom always cooked it well done. The first time I had a properly cooked steak it blew my mind.
- I don't eat meat at all anymore, but growing up, whenever we had steaks I would always prefer it well done. It wasn't really that I enjoyed it that way though, just that I did not like the flavor and texture of steak even cooked perfectly, my father did and kept making me eat it, and cooking it to a crisp and then covering it with ketchup and paprika was a way to make it not taste like steak anymore.
- I simply do not find well done steak to be an inferior taste, just different. I don't really care it's like eggs. I like them all ways.
  I usually do medium rare when I'm the one choosing.

People rip on US electricity standards all the time, from voltage, via frequency, to the NEMA plugs, and for good reasons. But the most disgusting thing about it all is this:
US breaker panels are fugly. Sure, they work just as well as those from the rest of the world, but they're aesthetically displeasing.
Two representative pictures I found of an average panel just now;
US:

EU:

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
- This is the kind of unimportant but fascinating thing I wish we had a community for.
  Just... hundreds of people around the world posting their breaker panels.
- Wait... what do they look like elsewhere? They're the same where I am in Canada...
  
  US and Canada largely have the same power generation/delivery standards.
- Yep I've held electrical qualifications for over twenty years and have some of the most stringent qualifications in the world, and the US shit is a joke
  The worst thing is that people think it's safer because of the shitty low voltage.
- Wait, does that EU panel have extra space for labels? That is sexy and now I'm jealous.
- Is that EU picture supposed to look more aesthetically appealing than the US one? Because I flip a switch on the US panel and feel super serious, like Kurt Russell about to flip the switch on all power on Earth. I look at the EU picture and think of the electrical outlets behind the teacher’s desk in the 80 year old school building I attended.
  
  Yeah, we quit using Frankenstein levers two centuries ago.
- wait, how do you route cables in there? is there just a massive bundle right through the middle?
  
  I'm Australian, but some of the older switchboards in industrial installations are similar in appearance to the top image.
  The middle would have a busbar (or three if it's a three phase panel) that connects the circuit breakers to the main switch. The cables are connected to the far left and far right sides of the breakers.
  It could be different in the US, though, if anyone with more relevant experience wants to chime in.
  Edit: looking back at the top image, I'm reminded that the US uses split phase in some places, so that top panel likely has two busbars down the middle.
  
  Varies with installation type, age, and scale, but one common approach is to daisy chain the breakers via rails that carry each phase. I couldn't find a good picture, but basically the rails and breakers are standardized so that a row of breakers will line up with the-rail terminals, so when you connect the rail to the mains you're good to go. On the output of the breaker it's common to use cable ducts to keep everything nice and tidy.
  EDIT: Found a picture:
- Why is everything sideways in the American one? From the numbers on the switches to the warning labels.
  
  It's done that way so the breaker box will fit between studs that are 18" on center, which is standard for USA residential construction.
  You generally only see breakers on din rail in the USA in industrial equipment.
  
  2 big reasons for that:
  Fits better between studs as the other commenter stated
  Easier and cleaner to route the 2 power phases. US plugs are famously ~120V but what many don't realize is that's a single phase of 120V, and there's two phases that go into the breaker box. By combining the +120VAC and -120VAC phases you get a full 240VAC for higher power appliances like stoves, dryers, heat pumps and electric vehicles.

There should be more mature games.
I don't mean like sex games, I mean like games intended for adults that can have mature content and mature stories without it being heavily watered down.
Games should have as much leeway as the film or book industry when it comes to mature content - Though I guess that's getting murky too lately.
- A great example of this is Halo.
  The Flood is a horrible body horror parasite that transforms your body and invades and consumes your mind, your thoughts and your memories. It's corruption based on revenge of the Precursors for the Forerunner's war against them out of petty anger. The original trilogy shows this off well, and acts like a horror game when you're getting swarmed from all angles by them.
  343 era games are like "bad guys are robots, Flood too scary and gorey we removed them." All for that lower Teen rating just to sell more copies to a broader audience. They remove the bloodiness and the gore. Hell, you could make a lake of Covenant and human blood in CE. Now you might get a couple splashes of blood to not tip that ESRB scale.
  Pathetically watered down in many other aspects, but this was one that always bothered me.
  
  343 have no idea what the fuck they are doing and never have
- I personally love the story of spec ops the line, in the end you're not exactly a villain but you certainly dont feel like a hero
- Press a to fuck this wench
  Press b to kill this wench
  Press x to do both
  Press y to do both in the opposite order

People shouldn’t be able to be told what color to paint their house. More people should experiment with wild colors inside and out.
- I had to get a new roof and siding due to hail damage. I got a blue metal roof with white trim and sage green vinyl siding. I took a bit of a risk and depending on how cloudy it is the blue roof reflects too much blue and the too colors start clashing instead of complimenting. But most importantly it's not boring! Also it'll look really good as the vinyl starts fading
- Are people told what color to paint their house? By whom?
  
  HOAs essentially have rules for everything and force you to have your house conform to whatever standards were established when your house was built.
  In the US, many municipalities cannot “afford” to expand municipal services to new developments, so instead said developments will establish an HOA that handles basic municipal needs (ex: trash, water, electricity, paving) along with other niceties like landscaping. The idea is that you are paying as a group to fund things in the neighborhood (but you of course still pay property tax to the city/county/state).
- Don't tell Santorini that.
  
  Greece would look great with the Norwegian house colors imho.
- i see they are pressured into painting colors that are similar to neighborhood houses, to "maintain some arbitrary value.
- Sounds like someone has butted heads with an HOA or enforcement of some other covenant on look and feel.
  Some people apparently have unseemly feelings about everything fitting to a certain design plan.
  At the other end of the scale, there's painting your house neon yellow. A house is not a tennis ball. It should not cause road accidents.
  
  Thanks, here's the mock-up of my new place:
  
  In a suburb about half an hours drive from me theres a pink house, like an almost barbie-pink. Its eye-catching, i love it for them. I bet theres a real character in that household!

Your mom's not that fat.
- OP's mom matters to all of us
  
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Quantum leap means the tiniest jump and not at all what it's (internationally) used for.
- Ziggy's done messing around.

Pineapple on pizza is fine. If you don't like it, you don't have to eat it.

Sometimes a game being a little unbalanced can make it more fun.
- Sometimes you just want to sit down and feel like a god damned hero.
- Truth. The end stage of Half Life 2 is my example of this. It's not especially difficult, but grabbing a jackbooted thug with the enhanced gravity gun and throwing them at another jackbooted thug is damn good entertainment.
- Jank and weird voice acting just adds charm

Latin root words that end in -or should use the suffix -trix when applied to women. So a woman aviator is aviatrix, administrator is administratrix, etc.
- Our town has a Maytrix.
  
  Ok I'm convinced
- Contractrix sounds like a supervillain
  
  A supervillainess
- We don't need gender specific words for things that aren't gender specific. Does the aviator use their penis for flying the plane? If not why do you need to tell me with their title if they have a penis?
  I hate the word widower. It sounds like a verb. A widower kills married men and makes widows. Widow works fine for everyone.
  
  Does the aviator use their penis for flying the plane?
  It would be a lot cooler if he did.
  All jokes aside, it does have a purpose; it sets up the other person for using the correct pronouns to refer to the newly Introduced person in conversation.
  "The aviator has been flying for decades"
  "Oh yeah? I bet he's really good at it then!"
  "Actually, shes a woman, but yes, shes one of the best in the show!"
  By properly using aviatrix, and having gendered terms like it, that faux pas is avoided.
  I agree with you on widower though, sort of. To me widower always sounded like its should refer to the deceased husband. He made her a widow by dieing, so he's her widower.
  "Oh Janie's a sweetheart, always helping out in the community since she became a widow."
  "Oh yeah? "
  "Yeah! Bob, her widower, had a heart attack working as the auctioneer for the school charity, and ever since, shes vowed to volunteer for the both of them!"
- undefined
  
  $ grep or$ /usr/share/dict/words|sed -r 's/t?or$/trix/'|less
  browses
  bacheltrix
  moderatrix
  predatrix
  seamstress -> tailtrix
  
  I refuse to believe Bacheltrix isn't in the Asterix and Obelix universe.
  
  https://share.google/nTHVqeUVPOod6tVD6
- Oooo, I like this. Aviatrix sounds so cool.
  
  I've seen the term before. Antiquated but it's a word.
- And yet the only ine we ever use id dominatrix.
- I like this

Horsepower is a stupid way to measure how powerful a car is. What is this the 1800s?

Dear Australia, I utterly love you, but please tell me how many vowels do you need to shove into the word No? It's almost become the longest word in Australian English.
- Do you mean no as in yeah nah, or nah yeah?
  
  Probably meant "naur."
- https://youtube.com/shorts/Zcg3HOxyVzw
  
  Haaahaha
- Nauwreigh does objectively sound awesome though 😎
- It's not all Australians, but those who do it are all over social media for some reason.
- Mate when we hear those videos we just hear the Aussie say "no" same as everyone.

Steak is overrated. I'd take a smash burger over a steak 9 times out of 10, and that 1 time out of 10 will just be because I'm in the mood for peppercorn sauce.

It's "by accident" not "on accident", you uneducated fools.

There is only one R in the word familiar.
Stop saying fermilliar.
- Ermagerd
- I've never once heard someone say that. Axe a question however....
  
  I love that in Futurama, that gag is set up (lila makes fun of fry for using ask, not axe) in the first episode, and kept up throught.
- I feel like that's a British thing. I remember the BBC always saying "Obarma" instead of Obama. Accents are weird.

Saying "bless you" for sneezing is the most bothersome human interaction (to me) that serves literally no purpose but people pretend that it does to justify doing it out of habit. And, oh boy, have I gotten so much shit for it.

I don't say "bless you" when someone sneezes, because it's an archaic tradition based on superstitious nonsense.

People pronouncing processes (and biases) like they rhyme with "chimpanzees", instead of "addresses".
Since the English language has done words that borrow the Greek and make an -eez sound, like crisis to crises, people seem to think process is Greekified. It doesn't follow the same pattern at all.
English is hard enough as it is without inventing extra rules to try to make us sound smarter. Meanwhile, I try to de-Greekify the language with octopuses, syllabuses, and cactuses - all valid plurals in English.
Source: Bachelor's degree in English

This verges on actually mattering, but knives on magnetic strips should be blade down.
Pros:
when grabbing the knife you are holding it in the safest way possible automatically with the blade pointed down rather than blade up like fucking Chucky.
If you botch grabbing it, it falls away from your hand/arm rather than toward/on top of it.
the handles hook over the strip and are more secure
the handles are all on the same plane, and again if you dislodge a separate knife unexpectedly it falls away from your hand/arm
- What sort of psycho puts them blades up? That's crazy.
  
  In my experience, most people for some reason. Honestly I usually get push back on this, I'm not used to people agreeing with me. There's usually at least one person for example that tries to claim it's safer for the knife since if it falls the tip is more protected when up.
  
  Ones who have it right into front their cutting board and want to grab the knife in the grip they're going to use it in.
- Magnetic strips give me the heebie jeebies. I like a nice solid block instead.
  
  I don't have the kitchen space for a block.

If you’ve never worked on a holiday you shouldn’t be allowed to go to stores and restaurants on holidays.

Limeade is better than lemonade by a country mile.
With the caveat that both store bought limeade and lemonade are absolute trash compared to fresh squeezed.
Fresh squeezed limeade is just divine.
- Now I know what I'm doing this weekend!!

D&D is not as good as it is popular. It's a very idiosyncratic game that's mostly focused on a particular kind of play, but people treat it like it's a general purpose tool.
Clearly people can have fun with it, and that's what really matters. I'm still convinced many of them would have more, easier, cheaper, fun if they picked up a different game.

Peeling vegetables is such a waste of food, nearly all vitamins and minerals are stored in the skin.
- I save my peels in a bag in the freezer and when it’s full I make vegetable stock with it.
  Don’t do potato peels but everything from broccoli stalks to mushroom stems work really good.
  Sometimes if there aren’t enough onion parts I add an onion.
  Then I freeze it in ice cube trays and then store them in an airtight container
  
  You peel broccoli stalks and mushroom stems?
- I peel carrots to give the peels to my dog because it is her favorite.
  I peel pumpkins/squash that aren't roasted, and potatoes if they will be fried (very different texture and they are unhealthy anyway), what other vegetables do people peel normally? I am coming up blank.
- I had a friend insist carrots must be peeled, and that the peels are inedible.
  
  That’s mad…
- Only thing I think really should be peeled is thick stocks of asparagus, but thats more about them not coming out with a Woody texture when cooked.

Folding laundry is a complete waste of time and effort. If it's been through the wash it's clean, it's not going to be any cleaner just because you spent half an hour doing laundry origami.
- Folding laundry is supposed to be to prevent wrinkles isn't it?
  
  And it helps to fit it into your storage.
  
  That's another take of mine tbh, if clothes hold obnoxiously visible wrinkles, the fabric is too stiff to be comfortable in my view anyway. I try to avoid buying and wearing anything that needs to be ironed if I can get away with it.
- I've never been under the impression folding laundry makes it cleaner? Or am I not understanding the point.
  
  No, it's the commenter who never understood the point of folding.
- Half an hour ⁉️ You... might be over-doing it. The goal is to put it away neatly, not open up a hole in the spacetime continuum.

The word "utilize" should almost always be changed to "use".
And, people who cannot sing should not sing on stage.

Toilet paper roll side doesn't matter.

I wish it was socially acceptable to interest-dump someone and for them to do the same to you.
Just getting a 5-10 minute lecture deep into a topic that someone is passionate about is fun and educational! Much better than trying to make small talk or talk about the 3 common topics at your workplace (at mine it is local tv, energy spending/taxes, and cars), which is often sports. Then you get to learn about other people's interests too!

The way some people pronounce jewelry and realtor makes me wince. I never say anything, but I feel a secret burning rage for people who add a non-existant syllable to the middle of those words. (Which is, unfortunately, most people where I live).
- "Nukular" never fails to make me seethe a little bit internally.
- I get a similar thing when people say "comf-terble."
  
  I feel called out. I know how it's properly pronounced, but I can't make my mouth put those sounds in that order. It's uncomf-terble.
- We went to the Li-berry.
  
  Now I want to go to a Li-ber-ary, can someone invent that so I can go to one?!:-P
- Jewellery is actually spelled with the extra syllable outside of the US.
- What about Wednesday?
- While we're at it, it's turmeric, not choomarick.
- How are people pronouncing realtor wrongly?
  
  Ree-luh-tur instead of reel-tur.

Putting garbage in clean plastic bags to throw it away is an absurd practise. Why can't we just transfer it in reusable bins?
- I don’t think you sufficiently respect the mess, the smell, the vermin, from a week of rotting exposed food waste. Not to mention the dog waste
- In Western Australia we've been rolling out FOGO bins (Food and Garden organics waste), last summer i didn't tie off one of the bags properly and there were maggots everywhere, spilling out of the bin.
  I guess this could happen with general waste bins as well, so i suppose i've changed my attitude on the wrapping up waste to go in your bin idea. The only way i see around it is more home composting.
- I already do this and it works fine - as long as you take the critical step of not putting food waste in the bin.
- Because this is how you get ants.
- Or paper trash bags.

Orange juice isn't good unless you're juicing oranges you picked from some random person's yard in Florida. Best damn juice you've ever had.
My hot take: spelling and grammar rules don't matter much, as long as you're getting your point across. That being said, when people use the word "everyday" as something other than an adjective, it drives me absolutely crazy (ex. "this is an everyday activity" is correct, but "I do this everyday" is not--that should be two separate words).
- Orange juice actually isn't orange juice unless it comes from Orange County region of California. Otherwise it's just non-sparkly lemonade.
  
  Flat orange-flavored drink
  
  We don't do geographical indications in the US, but we do have some trademarks that are owned by industry associations in a region, like The California Raisins.
- Spelling and grammar should be appropriate for their context. Expecting every comment and post and casual conversation to follow the APA or Chicago manual doesn't make any sense, but you also shouldn't be using a casual voice in formal communication.
  
  This. Couldn't have said it better myself.
- most branded orange juice is just diluted with alot of sugar, or some kind of powder. the orange color is from dye, true orange juice is yellow, plus a little pulp.

Island has an 's' in it. This was started as a stylistic choice to make the word look more Latin despite the fact that the English word has no Latin roots.
This is proof enough that English is a stupid language for the unwashed masses. There are no rules, all that matters is how it is used and understood. Anyone who tries argue that "literally can not mean figuratively" or that gif has to be pronouced a specific way is an idiot trying to force logic into a system that has none. Don't waste your time trying to explain that you know the only true and proper rules to Calvinball.
That 's,' that's what broke me.

The use of 'literally' as hyperbole is fine.
The sentences "I laughed so much I died" and "I laughed so much I literally died" mean exactly the same thing, but only one of them will have people respond with tHeN hOw ArE yOu TaLkInG tO mE iF yOu'Re DeAd?
- I just can't bring myself to ever agree with that! Get off my lawn!
- both are exaggerations to make it sound more impressive than it really was. but "literally" is for the people who aren't happy with the normal exaggeration so they're doubling down.
- Yeah nah.
- We’ve just run out of superlatives. Unfortunately we seem to have a society always looking for the extremes and craziest behaviors to the point we have a churn of “new words” like brainrot with everyone desperate to coin the next “fetch” and trying to make it happen. So stacking hyperbole on superlative on brainrot is what we get.
- They're literally taking you literally and you're literally upset. Literal batshit.
  
  You literally don't understand hyperbole.

When something is taped, of possible, the piece of tape should have one corner folded over a little bit to make it easy to remove the tape.
- Depends on the reason it's being taped but yeah, 99.99% with you, that's how I do it most of the time.

Pineapple pizza is not bad when done right

Oranges are the worst kind of orange. They taste quite good, but if I need to use tools to eat it, I want something at least as good as a grapefruit.

Pancakes are fragile narcissists. You need a WHOLE FUCKING INTERNATIONAL HOUSE TO SLAKE YOUR EGO, YOU THIRSTY, PATHETIC BREAKFAST FOOD!!
You're nothing, nothing, compared to the waffle!

American servers: clear the table when everyone is done. Not before.
And don't ask me if I am still working on it while I am eating. I am not "working on it" to finish my lunch.

For the love of god just ask me if I would do something rather than ask me if I can.
Yes, I can pass the salt. But WILL I? 😑

We should ditch ethernet, coax, and copper completely for data transmission. Everything should be fiber cable. Fiber internet to the house, fiber throughout the house, etc.
- Fiber throughout the house I think would be terrible simply because Ethernet cables get exposed to a lot of random stresses and a fiber cable would just snap. Of course this wouldn't matter that much if they were ubiquitous because they would be inexpensive simply by virtue of mass production, but even so it would be a pain in the ass to have to go down to your local 24-hour retail store to purchase a new fiber cable because you accidentally knocked over your Wi-Fi router.
  Not to mention that for home uses, 10 gig ethernet, CAT6A is more than sufficient for all but the most niche needs and most people will never saturate a 10 gig cable under the best of circumstances.
  
  Cat6 cable also has the admirable quality of being able to carry power as well as data.
  Fibre... not so much.
  
  I talked to a high-end DIT once who’s pretty influential and even gets sponsorships. Corning gave him a fiber optic Thunderbolt cable made with Gorilla Glass. He said he could tie knots in it and it still worked. Made it real easy to take from filming location to filming location. Sounded like it was crazy expensive if anyone wanted to buy one, though.
- You can do it, but the transceivers cost more. I have a fiber optic USB cable with embedded transceivers for long range use, beyond what USB can normally do. It was about $120, IIRC.
  Also, for Ethernet, you can't do Power Over Ethernet, which is useful for some devices.
  
  I imagine you could do power over fiber by simply using high-power lasers in your fiber connection, but it would be annoying and painful for you to accidentally break a fiber open and unleash an unaimed 45-watt fiber laser on yourself.
  
  maybe because it's usb? fiber/ethernet sfp+ transvievers are about the same price ~$15 each. But ethernet modules consume a lot more power and have higher latency.
- Ethernet would've been a great name for WiFi.
  
  Especially mesh wifi.
- I thought the same until I saw the price of the tools, copper is great.

You inspire me. I love banana-flavored things, but I don't like bananas.
- I’m the opposite, except for banana cake, can eat that all day every day. But banana flavour sweets, milk/milkshake etc. you can keep, tastes disgusting to me, even a hint of it in a milkshake ruins it.

Have you had fresh orange juice though? The major brands are horrible they taste like acid, not at all like a nice sweet orange

Those who aren't vegetarians/vegans need to calm down about others eating meat that belonged to certain animals just because they have an attachment to a member of their species. Yeah, I understand, social mores, but you're being hypocritical and cows are sacred in India...
- OP said "something that doesn't matter at all".
  
  The Library is a thoroughly enjoyable and thematically necessary level in Halo: CE (and one of my favourites in the whole trilogy)?

In order to get a correct hit from a bong, the chamber must be small, filtration heavily limited, and the water should be slightly warmer than body temperature.
These guys rocking three filtration chambers on a bong that's bigger than a tower speaker are wasting their life and their money, and getting a very poor experience relative to what's possible.

Cooked tomatoes are amazing. Raw tomatoes are disgusting.

I like the ungrounded North American electrical outlet and plug design (NEMA 1-15). It has no safety features, but it's very compact, and very easy for device manufacturers to create folding plugs for USB power supplies and the like.

English language pedantry hot take? As long as a reader can understand, spelling a word the way it is pronounced is more correct than spelling it the way a dictionary spells it. The word only ended up in the dictionary spelled some way in the first place because some people were already spelling it that way. But it doesn't mean their choice was correct then and forever. Let language evolve.
- I like this one, yet I mildly disagree. In my opinion, being that English spelling is already a complete disaster, standardized orthography is important in order for the widest range of persons to maintain comprehension.
  However, I do believe that correcting people's spoken English is ridiculous, especially if it's their mother tongue. Language evolves, not everyone is meant to sound like some asshole from Cambridge.
  In my experience, my French relatives are even worse for this, correcting their young children to always say oui instead of ouias, or asking us to say fais attention ! (written form) instead of fais gaffe ! (Informal, how people talk in familiar settings) when in the presence of their child. Nah bro I'm not going to pretend to be bourgeois just so you can feel superior.
  
  The whole english writing system should just be nuked and started over from a phonetic alphabet, and same for any language that has a written form that's stuck so far behind in history it barely has any connections left to how it is written. It's insane to constantly waste so much time, effort and resources because the language has naturally evolved so far from the version the writing system still clings to

Bananas are fucking disgusting

Boomer shooters > Souls-like games
- Kind of diverging from your point, but I'm pretty sure that few boomers actually played what some people call "boomer shooters".
  I don't think that Wolfenstein 3D (1992) qualifies, given what features it looks like people consider included, so probably Doom (1993) was the very start of that; couldn't play one sooner.
  The youngest Boomer, the very tail end of the Boomer generation, would have been born in 1964.
  At bare minimum, someone would have had to have been 29 to be both part of the Boomer generation and played one of those early FPSes. In practice, most would have been rather older. And in the 1990s, video gaming was less of an adult hobby than it is in the 2020s.
  I'd probably call early FPSes really more the province of Generation X.
  
  But to young people, "Boomer" means "old person". Millennials are Boomers, even GenZs are Boomers, everyone's a Boomer now! (in the world where words don't mean what they mean but rather how it makes someone "feel", which ofc is subjective)

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