#petpeeve — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #petpeeve, aggregated by home.social.
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What is with people who refer to cities by their airport call signs and assume that everyone else knows what the Hell they're talking about? We don't all go around memorizing airport call signs.
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A very useless and specific pet peeve of mine when watching videos analyzing games.
When a games has the mechanic that closes itself... people keep saying "oh, it crashed".
Did it though? Are you sure? You know that "crash" and "closes itself" are two distinct behaviours, right? right?
Usually you do not want a game to "crash"... maybe to "close itself" but crash spells something unintended from the creator.
Please Mr. video essayist, know and learn this difference!! (T_T)
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One of my pet-peeves on the internet is this type of design choice, where a front page of a site contains a huge "Sign up" section, while the "Login" button is small and hid in some corner (see #overleaf screenshot).
It's like - once you're signed up you are no longer that important, so go look for the login button somewhere.
Even #mastodon does it, though for a much much lesser extent, where the "Create account" button is highlighted and the "Login" button vagued-out.
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Die ganzen Radio DJs die jetzt den „Time Warp“ spielen haben alle den Film nicht gesehen.
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AI Slop Is Ruining Cute Animals on the Internet
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@Livelakesuperior Note that Split Rock lighthouse is around 7 miles from Two Harbors, and is actually closer to Silver Bay. (Nothing against Two Harbors, I went to HS there, but Split Rock is not in Two Harbors. #petPeeve )
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News site:
> [...] combined with info gleamed from a credit card
ARRRGH
Editors still matter, you nincompoops.
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It's weird how the definition of "relationship" has changed. A relationship is any association you have with another person. Having an arch nemesis is a relationship. Having a professor or a high school gym teacher or a local grocer you patronize is a relationship.
Why did it come to mean only romantic relationships? I think this happened within my lifetime, sometime in the 1980s maybe.
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Today's #TechSupport #PetPeeve: when you describe in your bug report exactly what is going wrong, in excruciating detail, with all the steps necessary to reproduce the problem, and the rep responds, "Please send a screenshot or video recording demonstrating the problem." No, fuck you.
(This is doubly offensive when the problem you're reporting is that something is supposed to happen but isn't. How the fuck are you supposed to take a screenshot of nothing? 😡) -
One thing that has always bugged me about #StarTrek is their insistence upon displaying space maps in two dimensions. They can recreate entire worlds in the holosuite down to the smallest detail, yet they can't use a 3D holographic display for their maps of three dimensional space? #petpeeve #scifi #TV
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#PetPeeve number 5124: regularly receiving snail mail for people who used to leave here, people who died decades ago, and people I've never even heard of.
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Reason #3,429 I'm not popular at parties: I have issues with things like this. Science isn't "real" (They Might Be Giants kinda lost me with that song a decade or two ago). Science is an explanatory framework or a particular kind of investigation process, not the results of those. More importantly (to me), science doesn't actually deal in "reality." It can never establish what's real or not. To be fair, we probably don't have any system of knowledge that can, unless you believe in religious or other mystical systems that are usually defined as being unverifiable by the methods science uses (e.g., public replication on demand, etc.).
Science gives potential explanations for phenomena, along with (usually) methods of testing the extent to which those explanations match empirical observations. But reality never appears. Many people (including me, most of the time) believe that there is a "reality" that might potentially be described by scientific theories, hopefully with increasing accuracy, but even that is difficult or impossible to really establish--as far as I know, science can't prove that reality exists or that science is interacting with it if it does. Even empirical observations are mired in the "is there even a reality to describe" problem. The issue gets thorny and very unsatisfying, according to the philosophers I've read (the ones I can understand, but mostly other people summarizing their ideas).
#Science isn't "real." It's the explanatory system with the best track record so far of matching predictions to observations, by a long shot. This is a #soapbox I get on from time to time.
Honestly, I think the "science is real" messaging is unhelpful. It's magical thinking packaged as rationality.
#empiricism #evidence #philosophy #popper #petpeeve #sciencecommunication
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"ThE oNLy tImE I cOuLd fiNd tO mEeT wAs dUriNg LuNcH!"
No. You did NOT find time to meet during lunch, because everyone has it blocked on their calendars. You just took it anyway, because you felt your convenience was more important than your team's biological necessity.
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#PetPeeve number 8812: websites that inexplicably fail, or claim a "mysterious error" has occurred, just because they're against consumers using VPNs - even though every Internet user should.
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#PetPeeve number 605: people who post "I'm moving in two days, need to rehome my cat."
There are never enough homes for all the cats that need them. It could easily take months to find a new home for your furry family member. You knew months and months ahead of time that you were moving. You shouldn't wait until the last minute to start worrying about whether your pet will end up on the street or not! -
#PetPeeve 5544: people who jaywalk across 6 lanes of moving traffic, 20 feet away from a crosswalk.
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You do not have to know Latin to know that words ending in "A" are usually the plural of words ending in "UM". 🙄
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Niche #Jewstodon #PetPeeve content…
If you're going to include the full Monday/Thursday תחנון in your שחרית service, then for the love of G-d, give people enough time to say all the words.
If you don't think it's important enough to do that, then be honest about what you're doing and skip תחנון.
Signed,
Someone who reads Hebrew pretty darn fast and yet is often several paragraphs away from נפילת אפים when the ש"צ starts the חצי קדיש
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Virtue signaling is a real thing, but 100% of what right wingers and neoliberals call "virtue signaling" is not virtue signaling at all.
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I know I've asked this many times before, but why wish happy birthday to someone who is dead? They can't hear you. They can't have a happy birthday. They can't have a sad birthday. All emotion and thought is non-existent now. They're gone.
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Dass man in Deutschland lieber AntiHi als AntiFa ist, schreiben hier ja schon genügend Leute, daher von mir aus gegebenem Anlass nur der Hinweis: "Gedenken" immer mit Genitiv!!!
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#petpeeve Speisekarten, die wirklich alles alles alles mit einem Adjektiv versehen müssen... Unter cremigem Joghurt, knusprigem Müsli und würziger Sauce machen sie es nicht.
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I know it's a stupid pet peeve.
But I am so sick of current internet slang. The two worst offenders are "We're cooked" and "The math ain't mathin'."
Use your words, people. I beg of you.
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Let a lady with an off leash dog pass me on the trail earlier, and just now she passed me going back: she’s leashed the dog to her waist now but is loudly carrying on a FaceTime call as she walks. Very few people can manage to be BOTH my least favorite park-sharers in one day! Astonishing!
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Dear English speakers (especially Americans);
There are no countries named eye-rack 👁️🎾 or eye-ran 👁️🏃♂️
They're pronounced more like e-rock and e-ron. Neither is difficult to pronounce. Stop being deliberately ignorant, disrespectful asses.