The word Himalayan is pronounced like Him-a-lay-an, NOT Him-all-ee-an…
The Office means the British version. The American office refers to the American version.
I live in a pretty mountainous area, but I can think of a couple blind corners on small hills near me. So probably the one on the way to the bakery while running or biking.
But I do a lot of ski touring so I’d rather die on one of the big ones.
Anyone who puts always-on blue LEDs in electronics deserve the oubliette. People who put such LEDs in electronics meant for the bedroom deserve an oubliette that’a slowly filling with water.
Or just excessively bright LEDs. Just because LEDs are super efficient, doesn’t mean they should take them as bright as they can go.
Allow me to try and persuade you. The problem is bright blue LEDs. It’s still stupid that they make them so bright, but the problem isn’t the color. A hypothetical bright red, green, or amber LED would also be a problem.
This is fair. I have had to put tape over a red alarm clock because it was too bright before. Those manufacturers also get the oubliette
Shorter wavelengths hit different though. That’s why we have blue light filtering glasses, Redshift, etc.
Oxford Comma.
To this day I use it and refuse any other option.
Are you for or against it? I mean, it does have it’s uses.
For it. Its lack of use in a union contract was a factor in a court ruling some years back. That’s when it went from pedantry to real-world consequence for me. Something was ruled similar to A and B rather than A or B.
Fuck yeah.
Also missing from sub-clauses, at least in America, is the trailing delimiter comma.
Took me a minute of googling to be vaguely sure you meant what I think you mean: the comma marking the end of your dependant interjectory clause there?
at least in America**,**
If so: I have no idea what you are talking about, that’s drilled into us in school. Maybe people get lazy on the Internet but it is part of the rules and gets taught and used here
If I’ve misunderstood: what are you talking about, then?
Chocolate soda needs to make a comeback.
What does that taste like anyways?
Delicious. Canfield chocolate fudge soda was bliss.
There absolutely was a cornucopia in the fruit of the loom logo. That is the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is. It wasn’t on any table or in any thanksgiving decoration in my childhood, it isn’t a popular thing to exist in media, it was an obscure item that was a main part of an underwear logo.
Anyone that says differently is objectively wrong. I don’t know why the logo changed and why besides a patent entry even the company itself denies it. I don’t really care if this is an alternate earth or aliens or time travellers or an entirely natural quirk of existing in a quantum universe, but I know for an absolute fact the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is is because of my underwear, and not because my dick is coincidentally called the horn of plenty.
There absolutely wasn’t. Snopes did a good piece on this in 2024.
Yeah, snopes isn’t a trustworthy source, and more importantly, there absolutely was. I know that for an absolute certainty, and gaslighting isnt going to work.
100%
I remember this as well, just like I remember Mandela dying in prison. Felt like I was Looney Tunes when I found out as an adult he was still alive.
Nobody thought Mandela died in prison. He was one of the most high-profile people in the world in the 1990s, constantly in the papers after his release from prison. How could you believe he died in prison?
I didn’t forget that he was released, but enough people thought he died in prison, that we named the term after him.
But then how could he have been released to huge fanfare and shaken up politics?
Do these people believe Narendra Modi died in 2009? It just doesn’t fit major world events.
Most people aren’t really familiar with the history of the world, especially the period of time that would correspond to ≈ 30-50 years before they graduated secondary school. I assume this is because there seems to be a pattern where you just don’t actually catch up to current events in many history classes.
Also expecting the average person in the US to be familiar enough with world events to even know who Nelson Mandala or Narendra Modi are, is a good way to have a bad time. I don’t like it either, but as Carlin said, “think of the average person, now remember that 50% of people are stupider than that.”
Maybe the real Mandela effect is we were all tricked into thinking there are people out there believing Nelson Mandela died before leading the ANC, being president, winning the Nobel, and ending apartheid.
Denying that the logo used to have a cornucopia is a thing? Sheesh, TIL.
Unfortunately it is the truth, weird as it feels
Niche pronounced with a “ch” sound is wrong and dumb and I hate you
How else would you say it?
I’ve only heard /niʃ/
Do some people say /nit͡ʃ/ ?
Those people who pronounce it ‘nitch’? The word for that is WRONG. Those people deserve ridicule.
Rhymes with “sheesh”
So what sound should we use instead of “ch”? What about “ch”?
English spelling is so silly
niche is french
“sh”
Don’t you dare ask questions.
Microfiche.
cache
Pedestrians have the right of way. Most of the other hills are survivable.
The Shambler from Quake is covered in fur
Feathers*, just like modern dinosaurs
What’s heavier: A kilogramme of steel, or a kilogramme of shambler feathers?
While they may weigh the same, the steel will do more damage when dropped.
Appliances and cars should never have an internet connection for any reason.
Also fuck touch screens give me buttons.
I fucking love my wifi enabled heat pump. Turn that shit on half an hour before I get home. Comfy shit.
Pretty big hill if you ask me
Im dying on it either way.
Im dying on it either way.
To a self-driving car, no less!
Agree with this. With cars it makes them vulnerable to hacking unless safety critical systems are isolated. Fly-by-wire airplanes specifically isolate the flight control computers from anything that could connect to the internet for this reason
The split between “Today” and “Tomorrow” is at midnight, not when one sleeps/wakes up.
This comes up often after midnight when my girlfriend asks me about “tomorrow”. Why discuss breakfast for tomorrow when we still haven’t had breakfast today??
If someone says “last night” when talking at 12:01AM, do you consider them to be talking about 1 minute ago?
The Baha’is use sundown as the end/start point of the day, do with that information what you will
Some people think more in formal systems, some people think more in lived experience.
Must disagree. If today ended at midnight, then my streak of watching at least one episode of a TV show every single day would have been broken years ago. No, today ends when I go to sleep, even if it’s at noon on what is your tomorrow
Some computer nerd friends and I came up with a solution for this:
Computer architectures typically provide separate instructions for “logical” and “arithmetic” bit-shifts. The details as to why aren’t important, but we can borrow the nomenclature.
When referring to “tomorrow” in the sense of “when I wake up from my next sleep cycle”, use “logical tomorrow”. When referring to “tomorrow” in the sense of “after midnight tonight”, use “arithmetic tomorrow” (or “chronological tomorrow”, if you really want to be pedantic).
You’ll love TV advertising schedules. You can buy slots all the way up through 29:59:59
ngl, that’s a very shitty hill to die on
Perish
You may want to ask a member of the cult of the subgenius the difference between “real” midnight and “conspiracy” midnight.
I love that you argue about this
Pineapple on pizza is delicious, that is all
Using tabs for document management (f.e. Browsers, Text-Editors, …) was a mistake. It would be way better if every document (website, text-file, image, console, …) was in its own window, centrally managed by an intelligent window manager of the OS that allows quick and easy search between all documents like with a full-text searchable exposè-like view.
Using tabs for document-management was a bad but necessary workaround because Windows is a horrible window manager (despite its name, ironically).
Tabs work best when there is a fixed amount of them (Like with game settings: Controls, Audio, Video, Gameplay).
I could go on for quite a while on this, but I think this is where I stop.
linux has tiling windows managers that allow you to do this
I’m sure there’s some Linux configuration to enable that
It is NOT “habañero.” If you pronounce a “y” in the word, you’re commiting what’s called a “hyper-foreignism” where you over apply something you learned a foreign culture does.
It’s just an N sound. Habanero.
It’s not even my culture/language but damn this gets under my collar.
I have never heard someone say “habañero”, that’s hilarious. I live like 20 miles from the Mexico border though so most people speak at least a little Spanish.
Likely due to jalapeño, no? Chile pepper = ñ to non Spanish speakers
I hear this as often as I hear “jalapeno” (missing the eñe) 😑
I think part of the problem is that it’s hit or miss whether or not it’s spelled/spoken with ñ or n, in advertising and labels. Here in the US anyway.
What’s funny is that the ñ spelling and pronunciation has bled over into native spanish speakers. My friend’s husband is from Nicaragua, and his entire family pronounces it ñ. One of my neighbors though, from Guadalajara originally, it’s n only.
I’d also say that habanero is ñ friendly. It looks like it should be pronounced habañero, unlike a fairly similar word, Enero. It’s easier to say habañero than eñero as well. The a leading into the n does that for some reason I can’t figure out.
However! Pero and perro blows people’s minds. While I don’t hear it with native speakers, damn near everyone else I’ve run into pronounces them the same. I do, and I know better, because I can’t make my tongue work right.
That is how languages grow and change: by the native speakers collectively changing their minds. I’ll leave them to be the gate keepers. I feel strongly because I knew a family from a El Salvador that lived down the street from me growing up. They corrected me and I did not want to be wrong in front of them again. I wanted them to feel accepted. I still do.
hãbanero
Strong take, and new to me
