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Microphone is shorted to "mic" not "mike".

Please spell and punctuate correctly, and don’t use “common use” as an excuse to hide your egotistical unwillingness to learn.

If it doesn't function as a downspout, then it's a grotesque, not a gargoyle.

Understanding an argument doesn't mean you agree with it.

It's pronounced "gif"

Vehicle mileage is an antiquated and terrible metric for tracking vehicle health. Engine hours and heat cycles are more accurate.

• Adding fries to a dish in a (good) restaurant means you didn’t make a complete dish and just added the fries to add carbs/fill people.

• On that same note: just a piece of meat (steak, spareribs or smth like that) is not a full meal (and don’t you start about adding fries and a salad)

• a restaurant is only as good as its vegetarian dishes (some exceptions apply, like restaurants that focus exclusively on meat)

Ironically, I am not a vegetarian ;)

Good french fries don't need ketchup

Pineapple on pizza is great. Here in Poland we call it havaii pizza

Browsing a thread like this is far preferable to doomscrolling through the actual news feed on the frontpage of Lemmy/Reddit.

I like to eat my breakfast and have my morning coffee while I scroll the internet a bit, and it always leaves me feeling worse off. But if I scroll through a bunch of weird user-written opinions that nobody is really taking seriously... far better time, left feeling much better off.

You do not need to bless people when they sneeze, ever. That's all, thank you.

Fractional measurements are better than decimal measurements because they allow greater representation of precision without having to do any +/- bullshit.

For instance, if your measurements are precision to half a meter, in decimal you either have to record it to the nearest meter, imply your measurement is five times more precise than it is, or do something like "1.5 meters +/- 0.25 meters".

Wheras fractional measurements allow you to just put the precision as the denominator. Just don't reduce your fractions.

Hot takes are the violent diarrhea of the internet.

"I've never regretted charging hier fees for a job. But sure as hell have regretted charging less than I should".

Question marks are for questions.

No one would ever make fun of British food again if the Anglosphere was more aware of Dutch food.

The word is "yeah".

Not "yea".

The later rhymes with "yay" and means something similar to but distinct from "yes'

Similarly it is yea/nay not yay/nay.

And fuck English for making the incorrect more logical and consistent. Lol

Rating things on a numerical scale is pointless and only meant to give the false impression of some objective standard, when really knowing what the person meant requires knowing what their tastes are anyway

If you're gonna review something, just give me insight into your personal tastes, and then tell me whether you liked it or not

Record of Lodoss War: Advent of Cardice, on Dreamcast - despite being a glorified fan game with non-canon story - deserved more notoriety than it received. That and other Neverland action rpgs like Shining Force Neo, and Shining Force Exa.

In German I deliberately write the word "Standard" (same meaning as the English "standard") with "t" at the end: "Standart". Likewise all words that have it as a stem, such as "standartmäßig" or "Standartabweichung" ("according to standard", "standard deviation").

The reason:
Etymologically (although contested), "Standard" developed from the Old Low Franconian (Old Dutch) compound "standhard" just as in "stand + hard", meaning "standing firm" or "steadfast" (like your morning wood :D ).
The other, contesting, etymology derives it from the Old French "estendre": such as in "extend".

However, while the particle "hard" became "hart" in modern German, officially, "Standard" still has to be written with the "d". Thus, writing "Standart" with "t" is my silent rebellion against logical inconsistencies in languages.

In English I don't care, because "hard" is still written with "d", therefore "standard" is absolutely fine for me here.

Funnily, some dictionaries, e.g. DWDS, declare "Standart" a common orthographic mistake.

But I will keep writing "Standart", until "Standart" becomes the new 'Standart'. ;)

Edit:
I just remembered a second reason:
In German "Standard" is usually even pronounced with the harder "t". Nobody says "Standard" with the soft "d" as it is usual in English. Same thing with "hart". So even more reason to update the German 'Standard' to 'Standart'.

The calendar should be 13 4-week months that always end on Sunday.

The leftover day should be considered a worldwide holiday.

Any time there is a leap year situation, all that time gets added to this one day, like the injury time at the end of a soccer/football match.

I have a few, I'm sure, but the one that comes to mind is my hatred of PDFs. Or, I suppose more accurately, the things people choose to use PDFs for. If something is not primarily meant to be printed, then a PDF is a suboar choice to something like HTML. Worse, virtually EVERY place you're getting a PDF from is already a website so they already have the ability to give you HTML.

You can create a single HTML file, embedding all images, CSS, JavaScript, etc. directly into the file. Then you can open it in your browser. It works. It's easier to read too, unless you want to print it. I would argue that in the vast majority of cases they actually aren't being printed. And get this, you can actually print HTML files too, ya know. So PDF is really only better if you need to print something with a very specific and strict layout, like a brochure or something.

"But Jackby, I use PDFs and I love printing them"

Okay, that's fine, I just think you're the exception. I think most people open them in browser or some PDF viewer and never print them ever.

My favorite response to this opinion was someone telling me that having all the CSS and JS in one file makes it load slower. Like uh, off my computer? Because I'm talking about distributing the file itself, not hosting it on a website. I think web folks just latch onto best practices for the web.