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A good oatmeal raisin cookie can beat a good chocolate chip cookie — but oatmeal scotchies are the best.

The word "grammatically" should be replaced with "grammarically" because you don't study grammat.

Understanding an argument doesn't mean you agree with it.

Oats are the worst grain to make a porridge from. Rice, millet, buckwheat, maize, and wheat all make much better porridges.

(shoutout to redlemace whose post made me think of this)

Basic gardening should be considered a life skill. If for nothing more than the joy of using your own herbs and greens every day

Good french fries don't need ketchup

“Vegan” should be pronounced “vejan” because they eat vegetables not “veegatables’.

The word is "yeah".

Not "yea".

The later rhymes with "yay" and means something similar to but distinct from "yes'

Similarly it is yea/nay not yay/nay.

And fuck English for making the incorrect more logical and consistent. Lol

Vehicle mileage is an antiquated and terrible metric for tracking vehicle health. Engine hours and heat cycles are more accurate.

Binary prefixes are stupid and unnecessary. Yes, I know "kilo" means 1000, not 1024, I don't care because it's obvious from context. RAM manufacturers know what's up - I've never seen the word "gibibyte" or "GiB" written on a stick of RAM.

I also hate these stupid bandwagon pet peeves:

Pineapple on pizza is great and if you disagree you don't have to eat it.

There's nothing inherently gross about the word "moist".

Toilet paper orientation doesn't matter at all.

If your car has cruise control and you're not using it on highways you should not drive on a highway.

Peanut butter and jelly is a pastry. It's a dessert, not a lunch.

We should have stuck with base 60. The sumerians had it right.

Losing in-game progress is as real as losing real life progress. No, I will not starve if I lose game credits (regular credits, not microtransacrion credits), but games are a transaction. For any progress, real or virtual, you're spending time and effort to get a reward back. Having fun while earning credits is like having fun while learning how to build/repair something. If you fail at the end, you've invested time with little or no payoff. The game credits are there to get you better equipment and such, making your future play better in some way. As I've gotten older and busier, my limited play time is more valuable, and I want to progress. If I don't or can't, then the game doesn't provide as much reward, and the game loses entertainment value despite a fixed monetary cost.

All to say if progress is at risk in MMOs, I stick to solo modes or non-PvP groups so I can remain the main character who rarely dies

People who watch love island/MAFS etc style reality need a head shake. They all say they watch it ironically, nah its just trashy and you are trashy for watching.

Pineapple on pizza is great. Here in Poland we call it havaii pizza

Regular lotion on feet, hands, elbows, knees, etc. is worth it.

The $2 coin in Canada should've been called a doubloonie but we got twoonie instead. (Both play on the $1 coin being called a loonie after the loon pictured on the tail side. As a bonus inconsequential hot take, I believe all tail sides of coins should feature an animal with an actual tail, for clarity. So the loonie is fine, as is the Canadian nickel, which features a beaver with a big ass tail! The quarter features a moose. While said animal has a tail, only its head is shown on the coin, so that's a bit confusing.)

They're not inconsequential but they're at least not divisive enough to get me killed, this time:

• boobs are better than butt
• all physical appearance attributes that a human can have are attractive to someone
• Generally speaking, modern buildings are better than old ones. and actual ruins should be integrated into a modern structure on top rather than just left wasting space. (I am not in favour of removing well built old buildings like churches, but i live somewhere where the cult of preserving old housing stock which is no longer fit for purpose, for "historical" reasons, is ruining the country. If you can make something more eco efficient, it must be done.)
• to expand on the previous point: people are extremely negative about structures from 1901-2001, and about 2001-2026. There's beauty in them. People will literally learn to hate anything if they hear other people express that it is ugly. These buildings are simply not that bad at al, nor are new buildings.

Well those are 4 superficial takes

More: -Wagner's philosophy to music is a disgusting and world-ending kind of attitude. He became racist out of anger of being ignored by mendellssohn, supposedly; a fun fact.

In German I deliberately write the word "Standard" (same meaning as the English "standard") with "t" at the end: "Standart". Likewise all words that have it as a stem, such as "standartmäßig" or "Standartabweichung" ("according to standard", "standard deviation").

The reason:
Etymologically (although contested), "Standard" developed from the Old Low Franconian (Old Dutch) compound "standhard" just as in "stand + hard", meaning "standing firm" or "steadfast" (like your morning wood :D ).
The other, contesting, etymology derives it from the Old French "estendre": such as in "extend".

However, while the particle "hard" became "hart" in modern German, officially, "Standard" still has to be written with the "d". Thus, writing "Standart" with "t" is my silent rebellion against logical inconsistencies in languages.

In English I don't care, because "hard" is still written with "d", therefore "standard" is absolutely fine for me here.

Funnily, some dictionaries, e.g. DWDS, declare "Standart" a common orthographic mistake.

But I will keep writing "Standart", until "Standart" becomes the new 'Standart'. ;)

Edit:
I just remembered a second reason:
In German "Standard" is usually even pronounced with the harder "t". Nobody says "Standard" with the soft "d" as it is usual in English. Same thing with "hart". So even more reason to update the German 'Standard' to 'Standart'.

If it doesn't come entirely encased in pastry, then it isn't a pie, it's a bloody casserole with a hat!

Pubs that serve "pies" and then give you slop with a square of pastry that clearly wasn't even in contact with the slop before it hit the plate should be turned into Costa coffee shops for their crimes.

(Shepherd's pie and cottage pie are so named for historical honorary reasons, and may continue to be so.)

"Ignorant" does mean wilfully ignorant. It doesn't just mean uninformed.

To be vacant is to have been vacated.

To be an applicant is to have applied.

To be a claimant is to have made a claim.

And to be ignorant is to have ignored something.

(Of course, not all "-ant" words seem to stand alone without their suffix--at least, not in today's vernacular. Does an arrogant person arrog? Does a fragrant flower frag? Rob Words might have more to say about the vestigial origins of some of these.)

Can't wait to learn how I might just be ignorant about this (by my definition or the "real" one).

Wales isnt real

I like to use tabs when I program. I like that I can be editing the same file in a network drive with my tiny screen and have my editor there show a tab as two spaces and my big screen where it shows as four. I like that when I'm screen sharing I can zoom in and bump my font size, then set the tabs to render as smaller so I don't need to run reindent on the whole file. I like that when I'm using a boring IDE with no customization it just inserts an indentation.

I also hate auto-closing parentheses and brackets.

Luxury car brands made by regular car brands are dishonest. Lexus is just a Toyota that's too ashamed to wear the badge. Same goes for Acura with Honda.

Inspired by u/_NetNomad@fedia.io comment, loaded fries defeats the purpose of fries because they become soggy every time at which point you're basically just eating a baked potato.

Even if you did put learning how to file your taxes in high school, no one was ever going to pay attention to it. We can tell based on how so many people voted in the previous election.

Geology is the superior hard science because it incorporates all others. It is the beautiful combination of math, physics, chemistry, and biology that is far more than the sum of its parts and plays a role in so many parts of daily life that people may not connect to geology.