What hills are you dying on?
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You should use your blinker when turning into a parking space
And you should back in.
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You should have to get a special license to drive something as big as a modern pickup truck.
And you should have to have a justifiable reason to buy and own one.
And there should be restrictions on where they can be driven.
Basically most people shouldn't have pickup trucks.
I would go further. Most cars don't belong in places where people live. They injure and kill people on the regular, the noise pollution causes mental and physical health problems, the light pollution disrupts sleep, the particulate pollution causes cardiovascular disease and dementia, as well as damaging ecosystems, driving adds to obesity and issues related to a sedentary lifestyle, the physical space they take leads to sprawl and ecosystem destruction, and the sprawl also bankrupts cities and towns. As well, driving in traffic just plain sucks as an activity, and makes people angry and miserable.
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We could use UTC.
You can use UTC, right now. Nothing's stopping you.
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You should have to get a special license to drive something as big as a modern pickup truck.
And you should have to have a justifiable reason to buy and own one.
And there should be restrictions on where they can be driven.
Basically most people shouldn't have pickup trucks.
Come to India. Seems like your dreamland.
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And you should back in.
I never understood the benefit of this. You need to go backwards at some point regardless.
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It's too much to remember
How so? They are 3 different words with 3 different meanings.
“their” is about possession
“there” is a place
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Dampening is making things wet. Damping is reducing oscillations in something.
Every time I hear or read people using them interchangeably is infuriating.
Dampening is making things -wet- ...
moist, or slightly wet.
The meaning of this word stops short of "drenching/dousing something". -
Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad.
The word Data was originally a plural word, and should be again, for all time
Data is plural of datum, which also corresponds to the English word date. When Gregorian calender was introduced in Europe, for decades dates were the only things written in Indian style numerals.
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Misuse of their there and they're.
You/your/you're wrong. Other mistakes take precedence.
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I never understood the benefit of this. You need to go backwards at some point regardless.
Simple: Visibility and speed. You look at a parking spot, and if it's empty, it's definitely empty. It's virtually guaranteed to stay that way as you back in, so you don't need to monitor what's in it. No cars, cyclists, pedestrians, emergency vehicles, et cetera, are going to enter the parking stall as you back in. That's not true of a street or lane when you back out into it. It's often difficult to even see traffic coming, as backup cameras don't have the wide-angle coverage, and there's always the possibility that you didn't see somebody.
As a result of both of those factors, with practice, backing in can be done in seconds, and pulling out is a breeze. Pulling in forward is a breeze, but for most people, backing out is a slower, more nerve-wracking maneuver. (At least that's my assumption from watching how long it takes.) On the other hand, the people who just YOLO it back out into traffic are psychopaths.
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I didn't think your original points seemed controversial enough to even be hills, but this ONE! This right here... I don't even have a clue what it is.
I'm picturing testicles wearing a cowboy hat.
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Oh boy I originally read this as that we needed to pick one of your listed hills and get behind it, and I liked the concept
I was 100% in agreement with all of them until the last one.
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Seconded on Monty Python - he should feel terrible about that travesty.
Also a shower per day minimum for everyone is necessary and that’s the hill I’m dying on. Clean your stinky arse up.
I used to think that as well. But what if it turned out that over-showering was actually the thing that makes you stinky?
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Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad.
The word Data was originally a plural word, and should be again, for all time
Isn't data uncountable in english?
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. The race of a voice actor doesn't matter
. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy
. You don't need to shower everyday
. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans
. Monty Python is very overrated
Phones have become boring and are all the same. I want options like we had with Nokia back in the day. So a music phone, gaming phone, business phone etc. but with a modern OS. All we have now are camera phones. Google announcing that they've added a second possible function to The Button in settings just doesn't excite me. Smartphones have become shit and it's not because we've perfected them or some shit, it's because chasing lines on marketing graphs and playing follow the leader has resulted in no choice anymore and everything being lowest common denominator, mass produced slop.
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You should have to get a special license to drive something as big as a modern pickup truck.
And you should have to have a justifiable reason to buy and own one.
And there should be restrictions on where they can be driven.
Basically most people shouldn't have pickup trucks.
The only reason Americans started buying pick up trucks on mass is because of Tarifs put on Japanese car manufacturers in the 1970s and pick up trucks had no taxes on them suddenly became one of the cheapest and more affordable cars in the United States. Rick Wolf explained this somewhere I can’t remember where exactly.
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Phones have become boring and are all the same. I want options like we had with Nokia back in the day. So a music phone, gaming phone, business phone etc. but with a modern OS. All we have now are camera phones. Google announcing that they've added a second possible function to The Button in settings just doesn't excite me. Smartphones have become shit and it's not because we've perfected them or some shit, it's because chasing lines on marketing graphs and playing follow the leader has resulted in no choice anymore and everything being lowest common denominator, mass produced slop.
camera phones
Why are all "modern" phones so full of cameras? One on the fucking screen & at least 2 on the back. I just want a phone with no cameras. Even 1 might be O.K., so long as it's on the phone's backside.
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. The race of a voice actor doesn't matter
. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy
. You don't need to shower everyday
. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans
. Monty Python is very overrated
The one with eyes
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- ISO 8601 (e.g., 2025-05-23) are the only correct date formats.
- We should stop using time zones and daylight saving.
We should stop using time zones
Check this out. I'm a business with at least one office in every US state. You want to know when my New York office opens so you can come by. Instead of seeing "Offices are open 9 AM to 5 PM" You now need to check every office... by state.. by city? Time zones would be helpful even if we all used GMT, so that you could easily determine which time zone a business is in to set a reasonable time to be open.
DST can fuck off though.
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American cheese is cheese as much as sausage is meat.
Sausage is meat, just ground up. People use the term "american cheese" to refer to a variety of products, ranging from almost all real cheese with a small percentage of emulsifier added, to shit like Kraft singles which is mostly milk protein concentrate and emulsifier with a small percentage of real cheese added (allegedly). The latter is usually labelled "pasteurized process cheese food/product" or something similar, US law forbids actually calling it cheese if the cheese content is less than 95% iirc
