I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places
Arguments (especially political/ideological ones) framed as personal advice
Double spaces in text
Please call me if you encounter these issues
Are you sure that’s your jurisdiction? Isn’t that typography or something?
Hate to be that guy again, but you forgot the period at the end of your sentence.
Aaaaand that’s a Level 3 misdemeanor for attempting to correct an officer of the law.
Internal affairs will be in contact with you shortly.
We’ve investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing
I hate it when people put a space before periods and commas , yet it’s something I often notice with older people .
There’s a reasonable explanation for that one, namely: the French.
I’m guilty of making that typo but sometimes mobile keyboard adds extra spaces
I’m fine with it on social media, but on websites, articles, research papers etc I see it as a lack of quality control. It’s very easy to fix too, just hit ctrl+F and type space twice to find any.
People who do not backup their laptops or phones, then come complaint to me when they are unable to to access and get a photo when the device dies.
“What’s the cloud? I don’t want anything in the cloud! I don’t want to make an account!” then “oh no how can I get my pictures my phone doesn’t turn on”
Huge crossover with people who ask “can you help me with this computer thing” then demand “just do it for me!” and never learn to do it on their own.
buildings with upward-facing spotlights, especially single-family homes with façade lights. it’s like nobody cares about light pollution.
Oh shit I’ve always liked the way those looked. I thought they made the house look fancy but I never considered the light pollution.
I’ve been considering reporting streetlights that don’t point straight down because they technically violate city codes.
Alicia keys
What! Why?
Her music that sounds like a dying cat that I had to listen to constantly in public places for years
You know who likes her music?
🎶 No one, no one, no ooooooone 🎵
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Maybe it’s my age, but I’m more and more painfully aware of how many ways adverts pretend to be your friend. It’s the most ingenious horrible thing about modern society. The sheer ubiquity of charming voices trying to act like the common man, a chatty friend, a hapless discoverer of product X that offers you “up to” a benefit of… whatever.
The whole damn thing is just horrible and crap and predatory and wears down the soul.
Actually… quite specifically the “up to” thing that happens in adverts. “Up to 100% effective” the advert says. “Well what the hell does that mean?!” I yell at the telly. “Sometimes it’s 1% effective?? Why are you even talking to me about this thing?”
/rant
Capitalist propaganda has had decades to hone and refine their techniques for manipulation and deception, the only way to win is to not play their rigged game, but if you’re forced to because they’ve captured all of the resources under a government backed judiciary that’s purpose is to centralize wealth and power under a minority ownership class i think you’d be justified to take more drastic measures to subvert or remove their propaganda.
True, though I don’t think it’s just capitalism that causes this dishonesty. I think it’s any time that’s a depersonalised entity motivated to coerse people. And certainly that happens under capitalism. But you could point to centrally planned communist states peddling bullshit to people too.
I think the antidote (so far as practical ones go) - and speaking of the West - is to ‘shop local’. People find it harder to lie and be disingenuous when’s there’s a genuine relationship there besides the trade.
That’s the most egregious part about adverts (to me), things pretending to be my friend when there’s nothing there of the sort. It would be different if it’s an actual friend of mine suggesting this or that because they thought it would actually benefit me (and holding their tongue when they knew it wouldn’t)
I always hated ads with a passion. I don’t really know why, even back in the 90’s when these was like 2 commercials per movie or something. It never felt right. So much so that i went out of my way to cut out all the ads in the movies i vcr’d. I ditched TV pretty early, because i just wouldn’t have it.
But here is my question. These days, every youtuber and podcaster is basically a door to door salesman who just wan to sell sometimes quite literally shit to you. How do you continue to like people like that. I have my favourite podcasts, and i never want to hear any of their ads, because as much as i like them, they just spend 10min of their podcast lying to me and trying to sell me shit that they know is garbage. I’m not a parasocial guy, i know they are not my friends, but it still feels soooo dirty.
Mercedes & BMW drivers
When people block aisles at the grocery store and you say “excuse me”, but they act like they don’t hear you and don’t move. It’s literally just you and them in the aisle, they don’t need to have their cart in the middle of the aisle while they stand next to it. There’s enough room for 2 people and their carts to fit in an aisle.
One time I was working my way down the bread/dairy aisle at a grocery store. It’s one of the wider aisles there, if 2 people pulled their carts off to the side, a third person could squeeze down the middle as long as those first two took a little care to not stick out into the aisle too much
Of course they never do
So there I am coming down the middle of the aisle, trying to squeeze between some idiot agonizing over which container of sour cream they should buy, and some moron who can’t decide on a loaf of bread who are stopped directly across from each other, uttering plenty of “'scuze me/pardon me/lemme just squeeze through heres” and of course neither of them move an inch
I nearly make it, but do tap one of their carts a bit in the process
I give her a quick “sorry” and continue on my way.
Then she yells down after me with a very indignant “excuse you”
Lady, you were the one blocking the aisle without any situational awareness, and I already apologized, fucking die mad about it.
Up here during COVID, a lot of grocery stores implemented arrows and traffic directions in their aisles so that no one aisle was two way. They basically became one way streets.
I desperately hoped that they would keep that, but nope. Quickly returned to the old jack-assery.
I have moved carts before, with their owners right there. Usually they apologize, so maybe people are just not aware of their surroundings, or maybe I’m a 6’3” big guy with a pissed off look on his face. Could be either
Liberals ✊🙃
Yes, and all other people who put capitalism ahead of humanism.
That is the argument. What is the best metric to measure a healthy society, GDP? Or education, health, life expectancy, how few hours we work, how free we are to pursue our real goals.
No one has ever used GDP as a metric for “societal health.”
I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places
Schizophrenic people are very likely to do this. I work in mental health and this was mentioned in our training. At my location maybe 1/3-1/2 of folks wore one or more puffy jackets all summer long.
Had a lot of teens walking around with the puffy jackets or hoodies on and ski masks over this past summer. Don’t think we have that many schizophrenic people around here.
Interesting, is that a comfort thing? Like wearing headphones everywhere with nothing playing in them?
That’s really interesting. Is it known why? Do they not feel overheated or something?
It’s not clear why. It could be an issue with being able to accurately perceive your own temperature, it could be a comfort thing, it could be that they’re more likely to want important possessions to be harder to steal.
So either medical, emotional or social. 🤷
@th3dogcow@lemmy.world @beerclue@lemmy.world
Biweekly and bimonthly each also meaning their respective reciprocals.
(Every two periods, or twice a period.)
If a technical term such as a frequency specifier has multiple incompatible meanings then it has no value and needs to stop being used entirely. Or one of the meanings chosen as correct and the others rejected forcefully (good luck with that)
Fortnightly is every two weeks, bimonthly in every two months. Biannual is twice a year, and biennial is every two yeara.
Fortnightly is fine, so is biennial.
All of the other bi-timeperiod words are worthless because they mean both twice each time and every two times.
It’s funny that there are two unambiguous alternatives to bimonthly, but they both mean 2x/month: fortnightly and semimonthly.
Both German and Dutch distinguish their equivalent words with clear prefixes meaning half- and two-. The English word was unclear after 1066 since the French word bimensuel would have been used by the new bosses. And that means 2x/month. English used bimensual for a while before developing a new, worse word with the Latin origin bi- and the Germanic origin -monthly. And it seems to have been ambiguous from the start. So this has probably been messed up for almost 1050 years.
Maybe we should resurrect the Old English prefix twi- to make a new(old) 1x/2months word twimonthly or more intuitively, twomonthly that we can use in opposition with halfmonthly.
Eh? Semi-monthly is twice a month. Bimonthly is every two months.
Semi-weekly is twice a week, biweekly is fortnightly, every two weeks.
They work the same.
Look up “bimonthly pay”.
I’m paid twice a month and they call it semi-monthly here though, husband is paid every two weeks and his company calls that biweekly.
I would never use bimonthly to mean twice a month, and haven’t heard anyone use it that way in real life; but the only thing that happens twice a month for me is payroll, so it hasn’t come up in conversation outside of that.
I guess I share in your outrage then.
I hate when people use my shoulder as support, as I’m showing them something. Simply… don’t, okay?
I hope you shrug them off, they deserve it
shrug them off
Greeting people or goodbye’s. Please don’t touch me, unless you are my child or pet. I was hoping the new covid habits of not shaking hands or hugging would become permanent, but it’s back again. And i still have this reflex of shaking hands, instead of keeping my hands in my pocket.
The word “poop”. It sounds so disgusting and I can’t bear it if anyone over 6 years of age uses it. Say shit or crap or manure or even stool, just not that stupid nauseating word.
I couldn’t possibly imagine being so mad about poop all the time. What a life to live.
you watch your mouth >:(
If someone called you a ‘poopyhead’ how great would the rage be?
I’m a non native speaker and I honestly thought poop was almost like baby speak for excrement. Hell, it even sounds cute. See also: boop. Have I been wrong all along, or is it just your own perspective?
Its absolutely the most innocent word for feces out there. It’s what kids call it. It’s what I call it. I’m pooping right now
Whenever I poop I try to say the word “poop” with my butthole. It always makes the perfect poop. Not a lot of people know that.
I could really drone on about so many things, but I’ll settle with one that really irks me about the industry I used to work in:
People who don’t use email or more specifically what I call “threading” right.
Changing the topic (so that the discussion no longer relates to the subject line), replying to add someone in without attaching the relevant attached files, not using redirect email functionality, including screenshots that’s either missing relevant information or forces the recipient into retyping its contents by hand are all things that make email extremely frustrating in an email-oriented industry.
Semi-related: people who don’t read error messages. As a web developer (or more broadly “computer person”) I cannot count how many times someone sends me a picture of an error asking me what to do. 90% of the time the error itself tells you exactly what to do. Why do I need to read it for you?
