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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The most pointless hill I will die on is the whole regardless, irregardless thing.

They mean the same thing, but irregardless is redundant. My friend uses that word purely because he knows it pisses me off.

[–] notnotmike@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can only assume your friend is the one who downvoted you

Also, I say "irregardless" when I want to sound like the mobster from It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No. Some rando found the comments in my profile and are down voting all my comments. Lol I don't care though. If they get gratification for it I hope they're happy.

[–] notnotmike@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sorry, friend. That sounds very toxic. I hope they stop soon

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm sure they will and if they don't.... Eh? It's not a big deal

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Preach brotha.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 234 points 4 months ago (6 children)

A simple one I think, I refuse to call twitter by other names.

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

I've never actually heard anyone call it X before, unless they were making a joke about the whole thing. Everybody I know still calls it Twitter. Calling it X is just embarrassing.

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 76 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I do love, however calling it Xitter where X is pronounced “sh”

Like Xi Jinping. (Shi )

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[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 211 points 4 months ago (60 children)

If it were supposed to be pronounced "jif" it would have been spelled that way, I don't give two fucks what Stephen Wilhite said about it either.

[–] ISOmorph 68 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Same with Gnome wanting to be pronounced "Gah-nome", or Latex "Latech". Just spell stuff the way you want it to be pronounced, or accept that people pronounce it another way

[–] grue@lemmy.world 54 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

or Latex “Latech”. Just spell stuff the way you want it to be pronounced

But they did! You're the one who fucked it up by using an "x" (Latin letter x) instead of a "χ" (Greek letter chi).

(Also, you didn't capitalize or format it correctly. It's supposed to be rendered as "L^A^Τ~Ε~Χ", and yes, those last three letters are Τ Ε Χ Greek capital tau, epsilon, chi.)

🤓

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[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 185 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

Discord is not a good replacement for support forums. Discord isn’t searchable by search engines.

Historically, if I had an issue with a product and I googled “[product] [issue]” I’d be met with a support forum post, with someone describing the same issue. I could read the thread to find how they resolved it. I don’t actually have to interact with the post at all, and I don’t need to ask the same question again. For most (decent) forums I don’t even need to make an account just to read the post.

Discord throws that all out the window. Now I’m met with a “JoiN OUr dIScoRd SerVEr to GEt suPPorT” page. Nothing is searchable via a search engine. And Discord’s server searchability (even in the app) has always been, at best, absolute dogshit. You already need to know exactly which text thread things were posted in, (because you can’t search the entire server at once), and you need to know exactly what was said, (because there’s no fuzzed search terms).

So 99% of the time, you just end up asking the same question that has already been asked a hundred times in the past, and now you need to wait for someone to respond. It also puts a lot more strain on the support staff, because they’re answering the same question a hundred times instead of just the once in a forum.

And don’t come at me with the “but Discord recently added a support forum feature where people can start threads and save the conversation for later” bullshit. That’s a band-aid, at best. It still isn’t searchable via search engines, so it means the above issues with Discord’s search function still apply, and the forum function is essentially useless as support forums.

Lastly, why the fuck should I be forced to join another server just to get support? What if I don’t have a discord account? What if I live in a region that Discord doesn’t support? What if I just plain don’t want to clog up my server sidebar with dozens of servers that I have only visited once? What if I just really hate the fact that your server has been configured to push notifications for every single message by default? What if I just fucking want to google my issue, and get an answer without any further effort?

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[–] verity_kindle@lemmy.world 132 points 4 months ago (28 children)

"white chocolate" doesn't exist. It's just sugar and a little bit of cocoa butter. It's edible wax. It's not chocolate and it doesn't belong in any assortment of sweets, ever. Cocoa butter is skin moisturizer and that's it.

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

The most delicious edible wax I've ever had.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 63 points 4 months ago

It provably does exist. And it's delicious. I could go to the supermarket and buy some right now. Except I'm fat and trying to lose weight.

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 123 points 4 months ago (35 children)

The "is a hot dog a sandwich" and similar discussions are solved with the mighty sword of language and not some rigid taxonomy about fillings and bread.

Imagine a set of food items on a table, hot dog amongst them, but not other pseudo-sandwiches. I ask you to "Please pass me that sandwich." If there is but a moment's pause in your mind before you reach for the hot dog, even if it's as you surmise I must be speaking about the hot dog as there are no other sandwich-like items available, then it is not a sandwich.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

taxonomy

shit

Is that the right word

I've been using "ontology" when talking about item classification to sound smart

I guess it worked bc no one said "You mean taxonomy, right?" yet. My illusion of pretending I'm not a dumbass to people IRL isn't broken yet I hope.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 66 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Psycholinguisitics understands this effect. The "wrong" word is increasing cognitive load and slowing down the listener's comprehension. The exact same thing happens when pronoun use is unclear and a person has to parse the most likely referent from context.

Language, especially English, is not computer code but leveraging the existing "libraries" of meaning and declaring variables carefully is usually very useful.

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 120 points 4 months ago (8 children)

i don't record or watch vertical videos

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Same. Don't get me wrong, short form content is okay (I prefer long form). But the shit you see on Tick Tock and YouTube Shorts is so ridiculous that I can't help but reactively close the app out of self preservation...

It all started when someone wanted to fry chicken in Pepto-Bismol...

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[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 110 points 4 months ago (22 children)

The medical symbol of the staff with the snake is only supposed to have 1 (one) snake on it. A staff with 1 snake is the Rod of Asclepius (the son of Apollo and Greek demigod of medicine), a staff with 2 snakes is a Caduceus which is carried by Hermes as a messenger or herald.

Physicians get 1 snake. Couriers and heralds get 2 snakes. Any medical professional or organization that uses 2 snakes is wrong and needs to go study the humanities and classics for a bit.

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[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 104 points 4 months ago (11 children)

its "I could not care less" and not "I could care less". This one drives me nuts

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

I agree with this statement, but I never notice its wrong until someone points it out. Then my inner grammar teacher has an aneurysm and I go off on a tangent.

It's so close to being right that you don't think about it, until you do. Then OCD sets in.

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[–] nick@midwest.social 94 points 4 months ago (15 children)

It’s concrete, not cement. (Sidewalks for example, or foundations of buildings, etc)

Cement is an ingredient in concrete.

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

I learned something new today.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 86 points 4 months ago (11 children)

No ticket, no support.

Even if it is for batteries for your wireless keyboard and mouse. Ticket please.

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[–] DLSantini@lemmy.ml 81 points 4 months ago (4 children)

To streamers, YouTubers, etc. Your Patreon supporters are called Patrons. Not fucking "Patreons."

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[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 78 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Things happen by accident or on purpose. No one over the age of 3 should be using "on accident".

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 116 points 4 months ago

Maybe people are just trying to annoy you by purpose.

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[–] ulkesh@lemmy.world 77 points 4 months ago (16 children)
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[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 74 points 4 months ago (29 children)
[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Don't even get me started on this one...

[–] wallybeavis@lemmy.world 45 points 4 months ago (7 children)

For me it's YYYY-MM-DD https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html

Also, there is a special place for those people who keep making up new timestamps

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[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 74 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (14 children)

I think fewer of people when they misuse words. Their not that hard too tail a part.

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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 66 points 4 months ago (13 children)

CEREAL FIRST, THEN MILK!!! COLD MILK! I DON'T CARE HOW YOUR MOM USED TO FIX IT, THIS IS THE ONLY CORRECT WAY!!!

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Sure you do it this way the first time... But what if I want seconds? That chocolate milk (I love Coco Pebbles) is just sitting there waiting for more cereal. I can't let the milk starve!

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[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 65 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The reverse toilet paper thing is useful when you have pet that's like to mess with it.

But either way is ok for me, I guess.

I mean, I couldn't care fewer about it.

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Weather it's one way or the other, my cat will still pull all the sheets out.

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[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 63 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (11 children)

"Spectacle Fighter".

In the late aughts, game critic Ben "Yathzee" Croshaw came up with that term to describe games like Bayonetta and Devil May Cry, beat-em-up type games where the point is less "can you get through" and more "how high can you get that combo meter? How COOL can you make yourself look while beating up all these fodder enemies?"

A few years later the industry coalesced on an agreed-upon term for this subgenre -- And called it "Character Action".

Yathzee has just accepted defeat and uses the term everyone uses, he has to, he works in games media.

I refuse. Character Action is a dumb, DUMB term because every action game is a character action game, because there is ACTION and CHARACTERS in all of them.

Whereas "Spectacle Fighter" was perfectly descriptive of just WHAT made those games special. You are FIGHTING, and the objective is to LOOK SPECTACULAR.

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

And here I thought it was an oxymoron.

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[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 60 points 4 months ago (8 children)

If something's rate of hype is too fast for my internal meter, I will become immediately skeptical of the trend/show/etc. and not care about it, solely because everyone is caring about it too much and too fast.

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[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 54 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Less has less syllables than fewer, so it takes fewer effort to say

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[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 48 points 4 months ago (22 children)

The word "literally" has been forever ruined by people who use it to mean "figuratively." Worse, there is now literally no way to actually convey the original meaning of the word "literally" in a concise, clear way.

You have to say something like, "A is literally 10 times bigger than B...and I mean that ACTUALLY literally." And then people will STILL assume that you're speaking figuratively.

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

The same can be said about "ignorant". Calling a person ignorant because they say something that peeves you, doesn't make them ignorant. It makes them infuriating. Idk how often people use the word ignorant in this way, but my mother does and doesn't get it when I call her ignorant about ignorant.

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[–] anothermember@lemmy.zip 47 points 4 months ago (12 children)

People should respect the intent of top level domains. e.g. videos at youtu.be should be related to Belgium, and podcasts with a .fm domain should only be podcasts related to the Federated States of Micronesia. Users at lemm.ee should be from Estonia.

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[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (12 children)

using "he/she" to refer to an ambiguous party. just use they for fucks sake

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