What is your pet peeve in 2024?

people thinking vaccines are bad rather than the main reason lifespan rose so much in the modern age.

Censoring cuss words or "inappropriate" words either in memes by blanking it out or in text by spelling it differently just to get around an algorithm. Ex: dies vs unalive

News articles that use slam and other internet clickbait title terminology.

Fascism.

AI being pumped into everything. It drives me absolutely nuts that every fucking thing has to have AI. Now you can buy a laptop that uses AI to write an email, just so the receiver can use AI to summarise it. We're going to start using computers to develop enormous amounts of crap before we finally realise that putting the effort into writing, reading, drawing, designing etc. is actually worthwhile. Don't get me wrong, I see several use cases for AI where it's very good, and studied genetic algorithms at uni (i.e. software that can rewrite itself given feedback on its output), but what is being pushed on us now will just encourage laziness and ultimately be a detriment to humans in general.

That every store wants you to sign up and have you give them your details.
When I bought a shirt in a department store a couple of years ago and the guy wanted me to give him my email address “to save paper” (yeah right), rather than give me a receipt. It was like we were having a stand off for a while there. I just want to buy a shirt not sign up for ongoing spam!

Autocorrect always seems to choose the wrong spelling for its and it's. If you're trying to use the possessive, it changes it to "it's." If you're trying to use the contraction of "it is," it changes it to "its." 😬

I never had these dumbass incorrect context changes when autocorrect was new. It only seems to get worse over time, instead of better. It shouldn't even be correcting words that are already spelled correctly, even if the context is wrong.

The past tense of the verb "to lead" is "led."

"Lead" is a heavy metal.

People on their phones while driving. Aside from the danger it poses, I have been stuck at a light behind someone who is obviously scrolling on their phone and then doesn't realize the light has turned green. Sometime this lasts for 10-20 seconds, which is a lifetime when trying to efficiently move through a series of stop lights. I'm not an aggressive horn honker, and I feel like an asshole if I have to use it. But if you are fucking with the flow of traffic you deserve it.

When I email someone a quick question that could be answered in like 6 words and, 90 seconds later, they're calling my phone.

Internet search has gotten stupider

Used to be I could always find exactly what I wanted with a quick google

Now I usually have to go into the second page or change my terms a lot before getting there.

It's infuriating are schools aren't doing a better job.

People at work wants me to do something and using phrasing, like "can we check this?" , "we must do xy quickly". What do you mean WE? If you want me to do something personally just fucking say it MF! It makes my blood boil.

People answering a question like "Would you like to do X, or Y?" with "yes."

I didn't fucking ask "Would you like to do X or Y?", so put down whatever solvent you are chugging, then give me your choice.

People putting out buckets of candy for Halloween instead of handing it out at the door. No more social interaction or tradition. Just grab free candy and go.

The words truth, facts or liberty in all caps.

Everything requiring a personal phone number and/or email just so corpos can keep tabs and data harvest personal information out of people an do what the hell ever with it without any consent. My personal data is not your damn property, leave it the fuck alone.

When restaurants have booth seating where you can feel the person in the booth behind you moving around in their seat.

Instead of our, they use are as if they forgot the word our exists.

I'm not sure if I've seen this, is this about the pronunciation?

THE TREND OF ALL CAPS IN MARKETING

Website redesigns. Just more whitespace all over the place, less information on the screen, and more trouble trying to get anything done.

Github is especially bad about this. I'm so tired of only being able to fit about 50 lines of code on the screen at a time, or issues with a similar lack of information density. I can understand this paradigm for websites that you only use once every year or so, but for something that most people use regularly every day, it's such a backwards anti-productivity trend. I hate it... hope it dies someday.

All or nothing perspectives with AI and zealous hate. It's helped me through my toughest year yet of physical disability and social isolation. It has improved my Python, CPP, and writing bash scripts. I've used it with cooking ideas, and finding products. It has helped me discover an entire science fiction universe of my own creation and helps me explore subtle nuances. It has helped me gain a much better understanding of the variety of human functional thought and psychology, especially in ways where other people may not understand my abstractive thoughts and connections across different spaces. It has also shown me why I get frustrated at people with different functional thought. The bad attitudes and emotional perspectives suck and can be depressing here. That is my biggest pet peeve this year. I've responded to it the most, and I've disconnected from here to go do other things the most from people with a bad attitude on AI.

• people posting shit quality memes without spending the smallest bit of effort to find a better quality version of the same meme, especially when it's a comic and the author is cropped out.
• people posting blog spam article links about an announcement instead of just linking directly to the announcement

It drives me nuts that people frequently leave out the words "to be" when talking. For example, they will say something like, "the car needs washed." No, either the car needs to be washed, or it needs washing.

People who park the wrong way in the parking lot and then dive the wrong way. I'm talking about were the lanes aren't wide, so they're all angled. There even arrows painted at the entrance of each lane. But there always some dipshit that pulls through, or did the dumbest maneuver you've seen to back into it. And then they glare at people in their way who are going the right way...

Going to the grocery store has just infuriated me with a sheer number of entitled terrible drivers. Every last one of them should be sent back to driver's ed.

The words "shoppe" and "towne".

Oh, and "olde".

Mine is till instead of ’til to mean until and a in “two times a year” instead of per. I still say “two times a year” myself but when writing it looks so unprofessional and I always notice it in news publications.

"are" is a perfectly valid pronunciation of "our" I think, at least in some accents. Writing it as "are", on the other hand does feel wrong.

Nails. Like the kind you hammer in. I hate them. They always come out and you have to hammer them in again eventually. Screws are the way to go.

Messaging:

• People who reply to direct text questions with 5min audio recordings.
• People who use Enter as if it was the space bar, sending 10 messages for what could be easily sent as one.
• People who treat their requests as of utmost urgency, but when you contact them back take hours or even days to reply back.

Online forums:

• The sort of illiterate fuck who treats "but" as if it contradicted everything preceding it.
• People who feel entitled to have ELI5 versions of the text content produced by other people. (i.e. throwing a tantrum because of difficult words, text size, or even conceptual complexity.)
• Usage of "lol" and/or "lmao". (I mentally translate those into "I'm braindead and should be treated accordingly.")
• The sort of dead weight that focuses too much on specific words being used to convey something, instead of what it conveys.

As a psychology nerd:

• the lack of understanding and empathy for others (even when their opinions are different or "wrong"
• The lack of understanding of how behavior is driven and encouraged to change.
• The comfort level with looking at something very complex and assuming you know it deeply in moments (referring to short form video "teaching" psychology and mental health stuff)
• The overall disconnect between the physical medicine community and the psychological/mental health communities (i.e. mental health is a huge driver in cancer, autoimmune, and other diseases)
• I could go on. Learning more is my passion but damn it's so depressing when I begin to understand something and see the abounding ignorance on it

I am all done with the phrases "speaks out" and "that being said."

The Americans need to have a giant pissing contest across the entire internet over which moron gets to lead the free world for the next 4 years.