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.
That one hook on the key hanger is mine, and I will keep moving my GF’s keys to the next one every afternoon until she learns.
Maybe not petty enough, but ISO 8601
Calling a tune a “banger” makes you sound like you’re from the 1940s.
I don’t want any “smart” crap in my house, I don’t want my appliances to be connected to the internet and to be controlled by an app, it should all be self sufficient.
And if you really want to add the option to be controlled remotely (but should not be the only way) make it a local connection, why should my phone connect to the internet to turn on an AC located three meters away?
Please stop
what’s going on here?
My guess, bot posting/karma farming
lol people really think they’ll be able to make money off of lemmy posts. lmao
Just because LED’s are ridiculously efficient, doesn’t mean the appliances you build should run them with the power of 1000 suns.
nor should they be piercing blue or green and fuck up the way my room looks in the dark
(at least the angry dishwasher man agrees with me on this)
It’s kill-o-meter or (literally!) kilo-meter. It is not ko-lom-o-tor.
Noone says cen-tom-o-tor or mo-lom-o-tor so why are you pronouncing kilometre like a halfwit?
If you don’t consistently return shopping carts to their corrals you’re a turd.
This is one that makes me irrationally angry. If I see someone do this, I’ll return it for them while I stare daggers at them. It’s probably immature, but I don’t give a fuck. People who do shit like this are usually contemptuous shitbags.
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.
movie theaters are fucking bullshit
- can’t pause movie and go pee
- can’t pause movie and discuss something with the person you’re watching with
- can’t rewind when you inevitably zone out so then you just have to not know what the hell happened the past few minutes
- can’t laugh or make jokes too loud or you’re an asshole
- can’t eat or drink anything you actually want to, let alone for a not ridiculous price
- no subtitles
- the first third of the seats cause neck pain if you sit there
- seats usually gross
i am SO thankful i live in an era where i can easily watch movies at home
I’m mostly annoyed by subtitles in theaters as my country is bi-lingual and the subtitles take way too much space, are distracting and in most cases are quite bad compared to the spoken text.
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.
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”
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.
I told you I wasn’t interested in a debate. I also verified the information at the time. Now piss off.
Edit - downvote away. But you are a fool to blindly downvote away an obvious fact that contradicts the reality you have constructed. Try and learn to change mentally with new information - it will serve you well. It is foolish to think ‘literally’ originally meant ‘in fact’ or ‘in reality’ rather than ‘in literature’, so go and be foolish.
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.
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
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.
