Decimate means 1/10th destroyed, lost, whatever. I don't care that the dictionary says that meaning is obsolete. I get that the meaning of words changes over time, but it has the prefix deci. 1/10th. You don't get to decide something that starts with 1/10th means near total even if it's a scary sounding word.

This is my anthill and I'm dying here.

"Road Works" usually means it doesn't.

A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. Yes, I know "kilo" means 1000 - I don't care since it's obvious from context.

Back in the day, using base-10 prefixes for base-2 stuff was considered fine. 1024 is close enough to 1000, after all. It only changed when some dickhead realised that, by insisting that a kilobyte (and the bigger units) was 1000 bytes, they could sell you less hard drive space without lowering the number on the box.

If you don't believe me, look at your RAM. Nobody's ever sold RAM by the "gibibyte".

The way the US spells things is stupid

Probably stereotypical, but I find well done steaks to be a total waste.

I rarely cook steak, but when I do I go to a butcher and get something quality and fresh. Normally I don't care how other people enjoy their food, but when I take the effort to get quality steak and someone at a family get together asks me to cook until the steak is grey in the center it just deflates me. Logically I know that if everyone is happy with their food it doesn't matter, but personally having to mangle a steak so it has the taste of ground beef just goes against every cooking instinct I have.

I've learned that when certain people are coming to a holiday cookout to just cook burgers or BBQ instead. Everyone is just as happy with what they get.

There should be more mature games.

I don't mean like sex games, I mean like games intended for adults that can have mature content and mature stories without it being heavily watered down.

Games should have as much leeway as the film or book industry when it comes to mature content - Though I guess that's getting murky too lately.

People rip on US electricity standards all the time, from voltage, via frequency, to the NEMA plugs, and for good reasons. But the most disgusting thing about it all is this:

US breaker panels are fugly. Sure, they work just as well as those from the rest of the world, but they're aesthetically displeasing.

Two representative pictures I found of an average panel just now;

US:

EU:

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

People shouldn’t be able to be told what color to paint their house. More people should experiment with wild colors inside and out.

Your mom's not that fat.

Quantum leap means the tiniest jump and not at all what it's (internationally) used for.

Pineapple on pizza is fine. If you don't like it, you don't have to eat it.

Sometimes a game being a little unbalanced can make it more fun.

Horsepower is a stupid way to measure how powerful a car is. What is this the 1800s?

Latin root words that end in -or should use the suffix -trix when applied to women. So a woman aviator is aviatrix, administrator is administratrix, etc.

Dear Australia, I utterly love you, but please tell me how many vowels do you need to shove into the word No? It's almost become the longest word in Australian English.

It's "by accident" not "on accident", you uneducated fools.

There is only one R in the word familiar.

Stop saying fermilliar.

Steak is overrated. I'd take a smash burger over a steak 9 times out of 10, and that 1 time out of 10 will just be because I'm in the mood for peppercorn sauce.

Saying "bless you" for sneezing is the most bothersome human interaction (to me) that serves literally no purpose but people pretend that it does to justify doing it out of habit. And, oh boy, have I gotten so much shit for it.

I don't say "bless you" when someone sneezes, because it's an archaic tradition based on superstitious nonsense.

People pronouncing processes (and biases) like they rhyme with "chimpanzees", instead of "addresses".

Since the English language has done words that borrow the Greek and make an -eez sound, like crisis to crises, people seem to think process is Greekified. It doesn't follow the same pattern at all.

English is hard enough as it is without inventing extra rules to try to make us sound smarter. Meanwhile, I try to de-Greekify the language with octopuses, syllabuses, and cactuses - all valid plurals in English.

Source: Bachelor's degree in English

Limeade is better than lemonade by a country mile.

With the caveat that both store bought limeade and lemonade are absolute trash compared to fresh squeezed.

Fresh squeezed limeade is just divine.

If you’ve never worked on a holiday you shouldn’t be allowed to go to stores and restaurants on holidays.

D&D is not as good as it is popular. It's a very idiosyncratic game that's mostly focused on a particular kind of play, but people treat it like it's a general purpose tool.

Clearly people can have fun with it, and that's what really matters. I'm still convinced many of them would have more, easier, cheaper, fun if they picked up a different game.

This verges on actually mattering, but knives on magnetic strips should be blade down.

Pros:

• when grabbing the knife you are holding it in the safest way possible automatically with the blade pointed down rather than blade up like fucking Chucky.

• If you botch grabbing it, it falls away from your hand/arm rather than toward/on top of it.

• the handles hook over the strip and are more secure

• the handles are all on the same plane, and again if you dislodge a separate knife unexpectedly it falls away from your hand/arm

Folding laundry is a complete waste of time and effort. If it's been through the wash it's clean, it's not going to be any cleaner just because you spent half an hour doing laundry origami.

Peeling vegetables is such a waste of food, nearly all vitamins and minerals are stored in the skin.

Toilet paper roll side doesn't matter.

The word "utilize" should almost always be changed to "use".

And, people who cannot sing should not sing on stage.

The use of 'literally' as hyperbole is fine.

The sentences "I laughed so much I died" and "I laughed so much I literally died" mean exactly the same thing, but only one of them will have people respond with tHeN hOw ArE yOu TaLkInG tO mE iF yOu'Re DeAd?

I wish it was socially acceptable to interest-dump someone and for them to do the same to you.

Just getting a 5-10 minute lecture deep into a topic that someone is passionate about is fun and educational! Much better than trying to make small talk or talk about the 3 common topics at your workplace (at mine it is local tv, energy spending/taxes, and cars), which is often sports. Then you get to learn about other people's interests too!

Putting garbage in clean plastic bags to throw it away is an absurd practise. Why can't we just transfer it in reusable bins?

Island has an 's' in it. This was started as a stylistic choice to make the word look more Latin despite the fact that the English word has no Latin roots.

This is proof enough that English is a stupid language for the unwashed masses. There are no rules, all that matters is how it is used and understood. Anyone who tries argue that "literally can not mean figuratively" or that gif has to be pronouced a specific way is an idiot trying to force logic into a system that has none. Don't waste your time trying to explain that you know the only true and proper rules to Calvinball.

That 's,' that's what broke me.

When something is taped, of possible, the piece of tape should have one corner folded over a little bit to make it easy to remove the tape.

Orange juice isn't good unless you're juicing oranges you picked from some random person's yard in Florida. Best damn juice you've ever had.

My hot take: spelling and grammar rules don't matter much, as long as you're getting your point across. That being said, when people use the word "everyday" as something other than an adjective, it drives me absolutely crazy (ex. "this is an everyday activity" is correct, but "I do this everyday" is not--that should be two separate words).

Pancakes are fragile narcissists. You need a WHOLE FUCKING INTERNATIONAL HOUSE TO SLAKE YOUR EGO, YOU THIRSTY, PATHETIC BREAKFAST FOOD!!

You're nothing, nothing, compared to the waffle!

Oranges are the worst kind of orange. They taste quite good, but if I need to use tools to eat it, I want something at least as good as a grapefruit.

Pineapple pizza is not bad when done right

For the love of god just ask me if I would do something rather than ask me if I can.

Yes, I can pass the salt. But WILL I? 😑

American servers: clear the table when everyone is done. Not before.

And don't ask me if I am still working on it while I am eating. I am not "working on it" to finish my lunch.

We should ditch ethernet, coax, and copper completely for data transmission. Everything should be fiber cable. Fiber internet to the house, fiber throughout the house, etc.

Have you had fresh orange juice though? The major brands are horrible they taste like acid, not at all like a nice sweet orange

You inspire me. I love banana-flavored things, but I don't like bananas.

Those who aren't vegetarians/vegans need to calm down about others eating meat that belonged to certain animals just because they have an attachment to a member of their species. Yeah, I understand, social mores, but you're being hypocritical and cows are sacred in India...

I like the ungrounded North American electrical outlet and plug design (NEMA 1-15). It has no safety features, but it's very compact, and very easy for device manufacturers to create folding plugs for USB power supplies and the like.

Boomer shooters > Souls-like games

English language pedantry hot take? As long as a reader can understand, spelling a word the way it is pronounced is more correct than spelling it the way a dictionary spells it. The word only ended up in the dictionary spelled some way in the first place because some people were already spelling it that way. But it doesn't mean their choice was correct then and forever. Let language evolve.

Bananas are fucking disgusting

In order to get a correct hit from a bong, the chamber must be small, filtration heavily limited, and the water should be slightly warmer than body temperature.

These guys rocking three filtration chambers on a bong that's bigger than a tower speaker are wasting their life and their money, and getting a very poor experience relative to what's possible.

There are many entirely-valid ways to write out the sound of laughter including endless variations of "heehee," "heh-heh," "hahaha," and more, but I believe "hehehe" is just incorrect.

I can't stand cantaloupe. It's simply too rich and sweet for me, even the smell alone makes me gag.

If a state isn't at least partly in Central Time, it can't be in the Midwest.

Obviously not all states in Central Time are in the Midwest, either, that's just the lowest bar.

Caramel is the soft kind that usually has butter in it and carmel is the hard kind of only melted sugar. I will instantly correct anyone who uses them wrong.

Deck PCs combine the worst of both worlds, they are too cumbersome to be a proper handheld, and too underpowered to compete with desktop PCs.

Cooked tomatoes are amazing. Raw tomatoes are disgusting.

Putting your license plate stickers all over the plate rather than where it’s supposed to go should get your vehicle impounded. No one thinks you are clever for making your license plate look like it has a taskbar, Kevin.

It annoys the hell out of me and for the love of god I have never been able to understand why that thing in particular bothers me so much.

Green olives for snacking, blue black olives for cooking. The other way around should be a crime.

Why say normalcy when you have a perfectly good normality right there?

I love orange juice, but can't stand oranges

There is an epidemic of people mixing up the usage of the words “is” and “are”. Use “are” as the general catchall word.

For third person singular subjects use “is”.

There is a game. There are games.

Uncountable things use “is”.

There is the forest. There are the trees.

Are there people? Is there a person.

Are we there yet. Is our destination close?

If the subject uses a definite number use “are”.

The team is going to the game.

The fourteen players are going to the game.

English mustard with pork, Dijon with beef. The exception to this rule is that American mustard is acceptable on hotdogs and burgers.

Many programming languages allow "trailing commas":

my_list = [ 1, 2, 3, ]

This is wonderful because you can treat the last element like the previous ones instead of having to make an exception. I use it all the time, even when it provides no benefit, and I think we should even start allowing it in natural language.

Double. Space. After. Periods.

Period.

Static typing can kiss my ass.

The only reason you like it at work is because you are surrounded by idiots.

in line with your take: artificial orange is the best artificial fruit flavor . strawberry i can Stand but orange candy is the only non-chocolate kind of candy i actually enjoy

You think it's a sign that I got nothing that I may be taking myself a little too seriously?

People keep talking about increasingly higher amounts of preformance in computers with no real world practical use case. Aside from tech journalists the average person doesn't really care about 4k or 120hz, companies should focus on hardware quality instead.

if your hair is still blonde in the sun, then it’s dark blonde, not brown.

lemon baked goods taste like vomit

If asked how you are:

You are doing well. Not good. If you really are doing good, it's an active thing that makes a difference.

Otherwise, you are doing well.

Peanut butter is disgusting. It looks disgusting, it smells disgusting, the texture of it is disgusting, the taste makes me gag. If it made a noise I’m sure that would be disgusting too.

The only good gummy candy brand I have ever tried is Haribo and even then, they need to be chilled in the freezer to make them firm.

Also, not sure if it's a hot take on something that doesn't matter anymore thanks to the current macha craze, but that stuff is absolutely the best when it's either the flavor of mochi or made straight into a strong, earthy tea and not mixed in another drink.

Why the fuck it’s it ‘on the one hand…. On the other hand….’ It should just be ‘on one hand… on the other’

1. I didn't like Outer Wilds.

2. Canceled should be typed as canceled also in American English. Because the rule is that words with a stress at the end get a double consonant.

Cats have seven lives, not nine.

Continuing to invest and scale up AI Data Centres without a clear path on how to improve LLMs logic is a fool’s errand.

Can Americans just switch their spelling back to standard English, please? Why do we have to have two systems of spelling just because the U.S. wanted to be different?

You can leave salt out of 90% of dishes without noticing.

"Steep learning curve" means quick to learn, not difficult. The curve is learning over time. If the curve is steep there is much learning over short time.

Doesn't mean easy nor hard, just quick.

Fuck oranges!

Pokemon is a wild [insert word here] for IRL hunting which I do not condone. It's literally the same premise just with cutesy characters and PG story line so that kids can become desensitized to the concept.