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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] 11 points 3 months ago

It's addictive, not addicting.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Skydive terminology. Its not a chute, dammit, it’s a canopy or a wing.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

Abolishing the word "automobile" since it mixes Greek and latin.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The word "utilize".

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Having general AI on games makes me skip them, I'll be skipping Mecha Break after I saw that NPC that you can literally talk to, just a giant waste of time and a reason to not pay voice actors, I really don't want to go back to the time where you had to type what you wanted to do in an interpreter in King's Field.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Buying products from (known) Chinese companies and buying products manufactured / assembled / resources acquired in China isn't the same and the former should be condemned.