#petpeeve — Public Fediverse posts

I wish generalist historians and writers would stop using “plebeian” and “patrician” when talking about ancient Rome. I’m a non-scholar Rome nerd and I don’t have all the answers, but I DO know that the usage varied hugely over time: and that in much discussed eras, many actual plebeians were in high office and flush with wealth! By Cicero’s time it was like asking whether your ancestors were in the fashionable cabins on the Mayflower or rode steerage. (1/2)

#petPeeve

@VeroniqueB99 This picture of text could've been text.

#PetPeeve

#PetPeeve applications that ask you to reboot right after a boot for an update #OnlyOnWindows

My grandparents on my mother's side were born in the 1900s. I was born in the 1970s. These are absolutely not the same thing.

#PetPeeve #HillToDieOn

Was the emergency that the the pilots had mistakenly taken a Boeing 787 Dreamliner instead of the little Q300 turboprop that might actually have room to land at Gisborne?
🤔 #PetPeeve

I honestly wonder why LED display manufacturers - especially portable displays - think buyers want crappy quality, monoaural speakers built into their displays.

Either provide decent audio through the speakers you include or don't do it at all.
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#PetPeeve: Omnivores' "We're the normal ones" mindset. (HT NotAllOmnivores.)

In the "Identify these liquids" task, their guesses about the stock are almost invariably "beef stock". Like the setup were not made for five people.

(Admittedly, TM used to swap non-veg things between contestans, like Bovril to Marmite as late as series 12.)

When will the "Yeah, but I couldn't do without bacon" crowd accept their style as not the norm?

(Norm as in should, not would.)

#vegan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWFPBPz6ahI

Thinking this is Mastodon is like thinking the entire Internet is Chrome just because that is what you personally use to see it.

#MyUnpopularOpinion #PetPeeve

I hate when people say "quote unquote" before saying something. You just unquoted. So, it's not a quote? Quotation marks usually bracket the thing. One comes before. The other comes after. If you did that in coding, you'd break your code.

#PetPeeve

Recently growing pet peeve: People sharing a screenshot of some social network twoot. A few pixels of irrelevant avatar, a name and a short message.

The part that annoys me is that it's encoded as a JPEG or PNG and instead of using 200 bytes for the message and name it uses 1024 times that for the image.

Instead of repeating it in the alt text to make it accessible, just frigging omit the screenshot. Paste the fucking text. It's what quotation marks are for.

Nobody with a dialup modem would've ever thought this was anything but pure mindboggling insanity.

Bothers the shit out of me and I refuse to boost any such, no matter the message.

:oldmanyellsatcloud:

#PetPeeve #Screenshot #Rant #Insanity

Pet peeve: Wrong language settings in #Mastodon posts, so I can't just click "Translate" 😬

#petpeeve

I still think it should be "body autonomy" instead of "bodily autonomy". It's being used as an adjective, not an adverb.

#PetPeeve #MyUnpopularOpinion

The sky is blue…
except when it's gray or pink or purple or black, which is more than half of the time really.

#PetPeeve

Not all roses are red. They come in many colors. Many are not red.

#PetPeeve

Love the energy from Rep Jason Crow, but one word bothers me.

No, it's not "fuckers," it's "thing," which should be "think."

Ex:
"If they think ... [incorrect assumption], they've got another *think* coming."

The second "think" refers back to the first "think." IOW, they should *think* again about their incorrect assumption. "Thing" does not make any sense in that context. It just sounds similar to "think."

#PetPeeve #Language #Writing

If you can't properly spell the product name, it doesn't give me a ton of confidence in your training. (It's "Copilot" not "CoPilot") #PetPeeve

When someone posts about something they've read or watched, but never actually mention what it is, but add a link at the bottom to a blog or whatever, I never click that.
I get too annoyed by the click bait.

@bookstodon
#ClickBait #PetPeeve

Having an autocorrect with a smaller dictionary than the average person's vocabulary seems less than helpful.

#RandomThoughts #PetPeeve

Here's the thing about typing in all caps for emphasis…

If you put an entire lengthy post in all caps, you're not really emphasizing anything. You're just making it more difficult to read.

Scientific studies, notably the ones out of Gestalt in the twentieth century, have clearly demonstrated that all caps is significantly more difficult to read. Standard capitalization practices are the easiest and most natural to read.

Similar applies to other forms of emphasis, like bold, italic, or underlined text.

And all this applies to perfectly healthy people with 20/20 or better vision. There are obviously multiple other accessibility reasons not to do this as well.

#PetPeeve #GraphicDesign #Typography

Phone call on speakerphone on public transport. So classy. #PetPeeve

New #petpeeve unlocked:

#Government services that do not use BCC in notification emails!

I signed up for a lecture that (like currently everything Down Under) was cancelled due to heat - & the geniuses of the local government (library service) sent a mass email exposing everyone's private emails.

Already got an email from some random confused person.

#why #databreach #privacy

Every #Mastodon / #Fediverse poll that includes the text "boost for larger sample size" should be required to have "Dewey Defeats Truman" as one of the poll answers.

#peeve #PetPeeve #statistics #poll #sample #bias #DeweyDefeatsTruman #SamplingError #SamplingBias

Stupid things #pharmaceutical companies do:
Design #packaging for #medication prescribed for longterm and daily use on base 10 instead of base 7.

You couldn't find the space for one more pill on a card of 20? Or maybe just put on 14 instead? 🤷‍♀️

Granted they do muche more way more stupid stuff. But that's the one that's bugging me right now, as I try to wrangle different half used blister cards from 9 different medications and supplements 🫠

#petpeeve #papercut #pharma #packagingdesign

"📁 OMG, my pet peeve! Command-line tools putting #dotfiles in 'Library/Application Support' on #macOS is a typo in the matrix, obviously 🙄. Let's pretend #XDGCONFIGHOME isn't just another place to hide our messes! 🧹"
https://becca.ooo/blog/macos-dotfiles/ #commandlinetools #techhumor #petpeeve #HackerNews #ngated

@bomkatt Machiavelli was brilliant. The Prince has an “ends justify the means”, self-interest-above-all rep that’s completely unjustified. The actual book is a bunch of advice about being an effective ruler & putting the good of the country above your own preferences. It was just shocking because it dispensed with notions of valuing honor & idealism in favor of a pragmatic “what achieves the greatest good” approach. Machiavellian is a compliment of the highest order. ❤️

#soapbox #petpeeve

AI should be called "AAI". What they're talking about isn't even artificial intelligence.

#PetPeeve #ThereAreFourLights

One of many things I never understood about the portrayal of Superman on screen was when he crushed coal in his hand to create diamonds. Wouldn't it still take thousands of years to form diamonds from coal? It's not just a matter of strength. Also, why were they already cut when he opened his hand?

* I think the George Reeves Superman did that in one episode. Christopher Reeve may have also done that in one of the movies. I can't remember just now.

#RandomThoughts #PetPeeve #Geology #Gemology

Maybe this marks me out as a #curmudgeon , but if you post a link to an obvious "listicle" without adding anything of substance of your own, not only will I not visit the #listicle, I may mute you entirely.

It's not personal. I just hate, with the heat of a thousand dying suns, the information sphere's equivalent of empty calories. We used to make fun of information-lite news like USA Today, but that stuff from decades ago would compare favourably to a lot of big-city newspapers' websites these days.

You *can* read deeper content. I *believe* in you.

#EmptyCalories #information #InformationSphere #JunkFood #JunkInfo #JunkContent #InformationLite #PetPeeve #peeve #grumpy #GrumpyOldMan #content

Maybe this marks me out as a #curmudgeon , but if you post a link to an obvious "listicle" without adding anything of substance of your own, not only will I not visit the #listicle, I may mute you entirely.

It's not personal. I just hate, with the heat of a thousand dying suns, the information sphere's equivalent of empty calories. We used to make fun of information-lite news like USA Today, but that stuff from decades ago would compare favourably to a lot of big-city newspapers' websites these days.

You *can* read deeper content. I *believe* in you.

#EmptyCalories #information #InformationSphere #JunkFood #JunkInfo #JunkContent #InformationLite #PetPeeve #peeve #grumpy #GrumpyOldMan #content

Maybe this marks me out as a #curmudgeon , but if you post a link to an obvious "listicle" without adding anything of substance of your own, not only will I not visit the #listicle, I may mute you entirely.

It's not personal. I just hate, with the heat of a thousand dying suns, the information sphere's equivalent of empty calories. We used to make fun of information-lite news like USA Today, but that stuff from decades ago would compare favourably to a lot of big-city newspapers' websites these days.

You *can* read deeper content. I *believe* in you.

#EmptyCalories #information #InformationSphere #JunkFood #JunkInfo #JunkContent #InformationLite #PetPeeve #peeve #grumpy #GrumpyOldMan #content

Maybe this marks me out as a #curmudgeon , but if you post a link to an obvious "listicle" without adding anything of substance of your own, not only will I not visit the #listicle, I may mute you entirely.

It's not personal. I just hate, with the heat of a thousand dying suns, the information sphere's equivalent of empty calories. We used to make fun of information-lite news like USA Today, but that stuff from decades ago would compare favourably to a lot of big-city newspapers' websites these days.

You *can* read deeper content. I *believe* in you.

#EmptyCalories #information #InformationSphere #JunkFood #JunkInfo #JunkContent #InformationLite #PetPeeve #peeve #grumpy #GrumpyOldMan #content

Maybe this marks me out as a #curmudgeon , but if you post a link to an obvious "listicle" without adding anything of substance of your own, not only will I not visit the #listicle, I may mute you entirely.

It's not personal. I just hate, with the heat of a thousand dying suns, the information sphere's equivalent of empty calories. We used to make fun of information-lite news like USA Today, but that stuff from decades ago would compare favourably to a lot of big-city newspapers' websites these days.

You *can* read deeper content. I *believe* in you.

#EmptyCalories #information #InformationSphere #JunkFood #JunkInfo #JunkContent #InformationLite #PetPeeve #peeve #grumpy #GrumpyOldMan #content

The number of people who really don't (and probably don't want to) understand modern normal lift controls is mindboggling to me.

The lifts here are advanced in the sense that if you called one for going up, and someone enters with you and manages to press a downwards floor first, it still goes up. It also clearly shows on the outside that it wants to go up, like you ordered it to.

It's great, but it seems to be too complex for most people.

#Lifts #PetPeeve #PeopleArePeople

The number of people who really don't (and probably don't want to) understand modern normal lift controls is mindboggling to me.

The lifts here are advanced in the sense that if you called one for going up, and someone enters with you and manages to press a downwards floor first, it still goes up. It also clearly shows on the outside that it wants to go up, like you ordered it to.

It's great, but it seems to be too complex for most people.

#Lifts #PetPeeve #PeopleArePeople

The number of people who really don't (and probably don't want to) understand modern normal lift controls is mindboggling to me.

The lifts here are advanced in the sense that if you called one for going up, and someone enters with you and manages to press a downwards floor first, it still goes up. It also clearly shows on the outside that it wants to go up, like you ordered it to.

It's great, but it seems to be too complex for most people.

#Lifts #PetPeeve #PeopleArePeople

The number of people who really don't (and probably don't want to) understand modern normal lift controls is mindboggling to me.

The lifts here are advanced in the sense that if you called one for going up, and someone enters with you and manages to press a downwards floor first, it still goes up. It also clearly shows on the outside that it wants to go up, like you ordered it to.

It's great, but it seems to be too complex for most people.

#Lifts #PetPeeve #PeopleArePeople

The number of people who really don't (and probably don't want to) understand modern normal lift controls is mindboggling to me.

The lifts here are advanced in the sense that if you called one for going up, and someone enters with you and manages to press a downwards floor first, it still goes up. It also clearly shows on the outside that it wants to go up, like you ordered it to.

It's great, but it seems to be too complex for most people.

#Lifts #PetPeeve #PeopleArePeople

Things that irritate me - take a look at the bars of rest for the Trio (this is from an arrangement of The Klaxon). Notice anything? No? All the 8's are upside down. #music #scoring #engraving #petpeeve

Pet peeve: national-level mainstream media outlets that absolutely cannot differentiate correctly between a budget deficit and national debt.

#debt #deficit #NationalDebt #BudgetDeficit #MSM #media #peeve #PetPeeve

Pet peeve: sales people who are trained to completely run over people with their scripted pitch. If you want to sell something — anything —relationship building is key.

If you come to my door selling something that I politely decline, the best response is, “thank you for your time, I hope you’ll consider us if your needs change.” If you want to ensure you’ll NEVER get my business, you’ll talk over me, disrespect my time, and refuse to listen when I clearly say no. #SalesTraining #PetPeeve

Pet peeve: sales people who are trained to completely run over people with their scripted pitch. If you want to sell something — anything —relationship building is key.

If you come to my door selling something that I politely decline, the best response is, “thank you for your time, I hope you’ll consider us if your needs change.” If you want to ensure you’ll NEVER get my business, you’ll talk over me, disrespect my time, and refuse to listen when I clearly say no. #SalesTraining #PetPeeve

Pet peeve: sales people who are trained to completely run over people with their scripted pitch. If you want to sell something — anything —relationship building is key.

If you come to my door selling something that I politely decline, the best response is, “thank you for your time, I hope you’ll consider us if your needs change.” If you want to ensure you’ll NEVER get my business, you’ll talk over me, disrespect my time, and refuse to listen when I clearly say no. #SalesTraining #PetPeeve

Pet peeve: sales people who are trained to completely run over people with their scripted pitch. If you want to sell something — anything —relationship building is key.

If you come to my door selling something that I politely decline, the best response is, “thank you for your time, I hope you’ll consider us if your needs change.” If you want to ensure you’ll NEVER get my business, you’ll talk over me, disrespect my time, and refuse to listen when I clearly say no. #SalesTraining #PetPeeve

Pet peeve: sales people who are trained to completely run over people with their scripted pitch. If you want to sell something — anything —relationship building is key.

If you come to my door selling something that I politely decline, the best response is, “thank you for your time, I hope you’ll consider us if your needs change.” If you want to ensure you’ll NEVER get my business, you’ll talk over me, disrespect my time, and refuse to listen when I clearly say no. #SalesTraining #PetPeeve

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I have a new #PetPeeve . We've entered a hypercritical point in #history and there are thousands of individual #FactMessengers in the #fediverse and elsewhere, who aren't spewing #fascist shit every 12 seconds, being pricked at by bots and BS posts/toots/DM's and otherwise chided by #misinformed 'helpers' who want to point out those facts as "not helping".

Everyone is entitled to an #opinion . Just remember that your opinion can still be absolutely unadulterated, stanky-assed horseshit.

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I have a new #PetPeeve . We've entered a hypercritical point in #history and there are thousands of individual #FactMessengers in the #fediverse and elsewhere, who aren't spewing #fascist shit every 12 seconds, being pricked at by bots and BS posts/toots/DM's and otherwise chided by #misinformed 'helpers' who want to point out those facts as "not helping".

Everyone is entitled to an #opinion . Just remember that your opinion can still be absolutely unadulterated, stanky-assed horseshit.

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I have a new #PetPeeve . We've entered a hypercritical point in #history and there are thousands of individual #FactMessengers in the #fediverse and elsewhere, who aren't spewing #fascist shit every 12 seconds, being pricked at by bots and BS posts/toots/DM's and otherwise chided by #misinformed 'helpers' who want to point out those facts as "not helping".

Everyone is entitled to an #opinion . Just remember that your opinion can still be absolutely unadulterated, stanky-assed horseshit.

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I have a new #PetPeeve . We've entered a hypercritical point in #history and there are thousands of individual #FactMessengers in the #fediverse and elsewhere, who aren't spewing #fascist shit every 12 seconds, being pricked at by bots and BS posts/toots/DM's and otherwise chided by #misinformed 'helpers' who want to point out those facts as "not helping".

Everyone is entitled to an #opinion . Just remember that your opinion can still be absolutely unadulterated, stanky-assed horseshit.