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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.

It's pronounced "gif"

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

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.

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

Good french fries don't need ketchup

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

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

Question marks are for questions.

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

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

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.

• 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 ;)

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

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 we folks just latch onto best practices for the web.

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'.

Even if you did put learning how to file your taxes in high school, no one was ever going to pay attention to it. We can tell based on how so many people voted in the previous election.

If it doesn't come entirely encased in pastry, then it isn't a pie, it's a bloody casserole with a hat!

Pubs that serve "pies" and then give you slop with a square of pastry that clearly wasn't even in contact with the slop before it hit the plate should be turned into Costa coffee shops for their crimes.

(Shepherd's pie and cottage pie are so named for historical honorary reasons, and may continue to be so.)

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

People who cannot return a shopping cart to a proper location should not be able to use said shopping cart.