we all have 'em. those tiny, insignificant battles of opinion that you’ll stubbornly defend to your last breath, even though they literally do not matter one bit. i’m talking about the truly petty stuff. like, i firmly believe that cereal is a soup. fight me.
Please stop
Bike lanes have directions, follow them
Where I live there are two official languages, the one from the country, Spanish, and the one from the region, Valencian, so you have places and streets named in one and translated into the other and both are valid. Some important places have only one official name in Valencian.
Well there is a huge historical railroad station called Estación del Norte (North Station) that people called it by translating it into Valencian, and now the official name is Estació del Nord.
The thing is that the station was never located on the north of anything in the city, it is called Norte because that’s how it was called the company that built it.
Making the translation official not only increases the confusion about its location for people who doesn’t know the city, but it also hides its history, I know a lot of people living here that don’t know where the name came from and who build it.
I don’t have issues with making official naming in Valencian as long it does not change the name of a person or company.
If you don’t consistently return shopping carts to their corrals you’re a turd.
Just because LED’s are ridiculously efficient, doesn’t mean the appliances you build should run them with the power of 1000 suns.
Quintin Tarantino is a hack.
Other than Pulp Fiction, none of his movies any good.
I watched some episodes (short films?) of the Japanese show about a woman prisoner. “Bad bitch” persona. And she like kicks ass and is super stoic.
Every one I watched looked like a Tarantino film.
He straight up appropriated his style from a Japanese king fu franchise. And the music style with it.
“Female prisoner scorpion”
Vengeance plot.
Over the top villains.
What he is known for. Here’s a bit for you to compare.
I thought it’s just me. Kill Bill is watchable once, but the others are simply boring
Cutlery with a circular handle have the worst feels
The movie, Aliens, plural, the James Cameron one, is utter trash. It is not a sci-fi hallmark of any sort. It is garbage that is a total slog to watch and should be lauded as terrible taste from the 80s. Even the much shat on AvP franchise, with it’s especially looked down on Requiem, is better than the shit Cameron shat out.
The classic style MMO, laden with hotkeys and hotbars, fetch quests, and grindingly gathering resources, needs to be taken 'round the barn and shot. This includes such megahits from WoW to FFXIV.
Dark Souls/Elden Ring was never good, and was only ever “okay,” at best, and never worth full price.
I’ll take my downvotes, now, thanks.
I’m fine with language evolving over time, but I reject “literally” being used to mean “figuratively”. Distinguishing figurative from literal is, literally, the word’s one job. Take that away, and the word literally doesn’t mean anything but a generic intensifier. There literally isn’t another word that fulfills that disambiguating purpose, this semantic drift only decreases clarity.
I just quickly read a couple of discussion on the definition of ‘literally’ that don’t particularly pick up on the following, but in the ai era this doesn’t really mean anything.
I remember being told that originally used to mean ‘figuratively’. I.e. as in ‘in literature’ as opposed to ‘in reality’. This seems to be in keeping with its modern use as an intensifier.
I’m not interested in a debate on this, as it doesn’t really matter to me. I’m just passing on what I was told, and offering offering a differing perspective.
Whoever told you that was incorrect. Literally means the plain textbook definition of the words written, as opposed to euphemism or metaphor. If I say “I would literally die on this hill”, it means that there is an actual large mound of dirt that I am willing to lose my life on.
Any other interpretation is literally incorrect.
Family member said, while in the passenger seat, “I’m so freaking hot because I’m literally in the sun”
I’m thinking about it, and I think they might be right. Sunbeams are a part of the sun, albeit mingled with atmosphere. If they were in direct line of the sun, i could consider them technically, literally, correct.
It all depends on whether you consider an object bathed in the radiance of something to be “in” that thing, but I’m kinda inclined to consider that.
There’s a few things here. In the sun vs in the sunlight/rays. The window being rolled up.
I took it as then being inside of the sun.
“I am literally in the sun”
A liquid isn’t milk if it didn’t pass through a nipple. Soy, oat, almond… they’re OK, but they’re not milk.
I believe platypuses (platypi?) and/or echidnas don’t have nipples but instead sweat out milk. Doesn’t that count as milk then?
With no teats, the milk is released through pores in the skin from which the young lap it up in her fur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus -> ecology -> reproduction
Fun fact! The word milk has been used for plant-based liquids and saps since at least the 14th century.
Die away upon your hill, but historical and popular usage disagree with you :P
What about crop milk? Or milk of magnesia?
You didn’t specify a biological nipple.
I can make any kind of milk pass through some type of nipple.
Hope scientists prove you wrong one day. Discovery of almond titties are a Nobel prize waiting to happen.
I’m not sure if this is insignificant, due to how people pay, but diamonds are a waste of money. And the people that pay for them are rubes.
Plus blood diamonds. What kind of garbage person walks around with a rock on their hand that came from horror and pain?
Why would that be a symbol of love ?
Also diamonds are ugly. Sure they sparkle. But they are usually clear.
Opals are way more interesting.
Man-made stones are better and cheaper, and they have been for a while now.
Escalators and moving walkways are there to get you somewhere faster and with less effort. They are not meant to ferry your fat ass the entire way. That’s what elevators and carts are for. Move it!!!
As long as they stay to the right I don’t care that much
gifis pronounced like “gift” without the “t”I don’t care about the initial sounds of the words in “graphics interchange format”
I think the creator was either trolling, failed at being clever (“choosy moms…”), or is an idiot.
Aren’t the initial sounds exactly why you’re right? Like I thought that was the main reason people think the creator is wrong…
Regardless of being correct, there’s already a format called JIF so that’d be dumb anyways.
Yeah, I mean it isn’t j raphical interchange format.
NASA and SCUBA are two acronyms that show acronyms clearly don’t have to be pronounced like their source words as a rule.
No one pronounces “JPEG” with a ph sound, though.
Yeah, and the word starts with the letter ghee.
Funnily enough, that’s a type of butter pronounced with a hard g.
- the alternate ending of I Am Legend is utter shit
- Starship Troopers is not misunderstood satire
- World War Z is a great movie
- Waterworld sucks
That’s four hills, brother
Starship Troopers is not misunderstood satire
I’ve read a lot of Heinlein, and while I don’t think “satire” is quite the right word, I’d consider it more of a thought experiment than sincere belief.
Every word of what you just said was wrong.
The name “Andy” can be short for both Andrew and Anthony
