Pet Peeves

Okay, I can understand abbreviating it as FF and I can understand abbreviating it as F4. But FF4? what is the extra F supposed to stand for? It's like when people say ATM machine when the M already stands for machine.

That word "homework" gets on my nerves and I don't think I can fully articulate why. I guess in a way that's what a pet peeve is, when you can't quite explain why it annoys you. I think there are reasons I have yet to articulate, even to myself, but I will try to articulate it at least a bit.

They're referring to watching TV and movies as work they're being forced to do in order to watch more movies and shows. They're upset that a group of movies and shows are connected and build on one another. I think they're fundamentally viewing the MCU in a different way than I do, they're viewing each movie and show as a seperate entity while I view it as one long series. To me it sounds as silly as complaining "I want to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows but it requires me to read six other books for homework". Obviously each book in the series builds on the previous ones. Maybe watching a long franchise consisting of movies and shows isn't for everyone, if it's a problem for you to watch every entry in the series, maybe just don't watch this franchise.

I sort of get where some of these people are coming from. They want to see Marvel movies in theatres but some of the movies are connected to series they can only watch if they subscribe to Disney+, which they don't want to do. But watching movies has never been free. Even if the movies weren't connected to Disney+ shows, they're still connected to movies you have to pay to watch somehow.

Each man either shaves himself or is shaved by the barber. The barber only shaves men who don't shave themselves, who shaves the barber? Supposedly the barber can't shave himself because he only shaves men that don't shave themselves.

Well, why can't he shave himself? Only because you said he doesn't. That's not a paradox, that's just making up a set of rules that aren't logically consistent. I can make up logically inconsistent sets of rules too. All ducks have yellow feathers. This duck is all black. How is that possible when I said they all have yellow feathers? Cause it's a rule I just made up! Wow, what a paradox!

A true paradox is something like "this statement is false". If the statement is true, then it's false and if it's false, then it's true. There is no logical solution, it is a true inherent logical problem. The Barber's Paradox, on the other hand, is just making up logically contradicting rules and calling it a problem.

Apparently, image posts are broken today.

I was originally going to delete this post quickly as it's totally off topic, but a comment was made that gave me a giggle, and it deserves to be left in place ::

Even in high school, though we’re minors (unless you’re an 18+ senior), I found the phrasing odd. I say man as an adult. I said “guy” instead in high school. Maybe it’s because I’m neurodivergent and it sounded better to my autistic brain. I dunno.

My fiancé isn’t a boy, I would never say I liked a boy or was engaged to a boy. I usually say a guy or a man, especially once he finally hits age 18.

Edit: Worse in a story I read. 25M, gay, says he wants to “prey on boys”. I can assure you this was not their intention and they meant he wanted to look for men around his age, but you know how it sounds,

Example:

We gotta get #active so let's get #walking with a #purpose and remember to stay #hydrated! #manymoretags #pleasestopoctothorpeabuse #whatdidtheydotoyou

I don't know why any social media with tagging doesn't make it so tags only work when added along the bottom of posts or have a dedicated field for them (I think that's what Tumblr does?).

When I see tags every other word it makes me read the post like the memes with every other letter capitalized, "LiKe tHiS".

It sucks because I genuinely like tagging as a freeform way of organizing stuff, but a lot of social media lets people turn tags into format litter.

Why do you think this community was made??

This weird situation created by cars that are mostly automatic but not quite fully automatic, have moved to screens for the dash or a permanently back lit dash, and increasingly bright DRL’s that pass for headlights in a lot of cities with sufficient street lights.

Having a car that is automatic in so many ways means drivers don’t have a habit of managing things manually. They probably have an automatic lights setting even and the driver doesn’t realize the auto setting has been switched off.

Having a dash that is always lit removes the obvious queue to a driver that they are driving with their headlights off at night.

And bright DRL‘s remove the obvious queue to the driver of a dark road in front of them.

None of these innovations is bad on its own. But the conflation of them all means about one in 50 cars I see on the road at night is driving with no tail lights on or any side markers.

Yes, they have reflectors and my headlights light them up so I can usually see they are there (in good conditions). But those lights are there to improve safety for everyone and it just really annoys me that this poor design choice seems to pervade so many makes models of cars. 😤

Yes I'd like to follow your site's posts. No I don't want an email newsletter and no I don't want to follow your social media.

Just your site, direct links to its posts, in my reader. No accounts. No opening emails or social media.

Please. I know this is mostly me being among the RSS holdouts, but if you're out there with a site with a RSS feed, even if it wasn't intended yet you kept it anyway, thank you.

I hate it. And this is the right place to rant about it, right? I don't mind people confusing your and you're, or then for than, but when I read "seperate" my eyes cringe. It's painful.

AAAAAAAGH

WHY.

You know, I don't think I've ever gotten tired of a new slang phrase as fast as I have "vibe based"

It went from, "oh, that's gonna be popular" to "jfc, it's already turned into the next default condescending bullshit" in something like a week

It's almost like there's a race to turn minor snarkiness into outright smug nastiness in the bare minimum amount of time possible.

It's the new way to say "I think I'm better than you, and you aren't worth the effort of saying this in an original way".