Mine is people using are instead of our. I hear this all the time from social media, news reporters, and I see in in writing. Instead of our, they use are as if they forgot the word our exists.
“are” is a perfectly valid pronunciation of “our” I think, at least in some accents. Writing it as “are”, on the other hand does feel wrong.
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Accents exist, you know.
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What is the correct pronunciation of our?
It’s commonly pronounced the same way as “hour.”
Ow-er. Ow, as in ouch.
Mine is
tillinstead of’tilto meanuntilandain “two times a year” instead ofper. I still say “two times a year” myself but when writing it looks so unprofessional and I always notice it in news publications.What bugs me most is whether ‘biannual’ means twice per year or every second year.
It means both which is setup to confuse everyone it seems.
The words “shoppe” and “towne”.
Oh, and “olde”.
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Everything requiring a personal phone number and/or email just so corpos can keep tabs and data harvest personal information out of people an do what the hell ever with it without any consent. My personal data is not your damn property, leave it the fuck alone.
Local area code-867-5309. I use it everywhere.
But i would acttualy need the phone number for sms verification code for registering things online which i refuse to give my phone number. I like my online privacy
people thinking vaccines are bad rather than the main reason lifespan rose so much in the modern age.
Website redesigns. Just more whitespace all over the place, less information on the screen, and more trouble trying to get anything done.
Github is especially bad about this. I’m so tired of only being able to fit about 50 lines of code on the screen at a time, or issues with a similar lack of information density. I can understand this paradigm for websites that you only use once every year or so, but for something that most people use regularly every day, it’s such a backwards anti-productivity trend. I hate it… hope it dies someday.
Censoring cuss words or “inappropriate” words either in memes by blanking it out or in text by spelling it differently just to get around an algorithm. Ex: dies vs unalive
Unfortunately that’s due to rules and bots. One uses that language to get around bots that seek “violent language” because enough people have had to deal with arguing themselves out of a ban.
AI being pumped into everything. It drives me absolutely nuts that every fucking thing has to have AI. Now you can buy a laptop that uses AI to write an email, just so the receiver can use AI to summarise it. We’re going to start using computers to develop enormous amounts of crap before we finally realise that putting the effort into writing, reading, drawing, designing etc. is actually worthwhile. Don’t get me wrong, I see several use cases for AI where it’s very good, and studied genetic algorithms at uni (i.e. software that can rewrite itself given feedback on its output), but what is being pushed on us now will just encourage laziness and ultimately be a detriment to humans in general.
People at work wants me to do something and using phrasing, like “can we check this?” , “we must do xy quickly”. What do you mean WE? If you want me to do something personally just fucking say it MF! It makes my blood boil.
My dad used to do this shit all the time. He would be like “let’s clean the house” but what he really meant was “You clean the house.”
Nurse we
Fascism.
For me that is much more than a pet peeve.
Here’s a pet peeve: people who “both sides” the entire American political spectrum because they are SO uninformed that everything looks the same to them.
Here’s another: people who “both sides” the entire American political spectrum because taking a position is more difficult than saying “bah I’m above the whole shit show.”
It’s really got my goat, I’ll say that.
Internet search has gotten stupider
Used to be I could always find exactly what I wanted with a quick google
Now I usually have to go into the second page or change my terms a lot before getting there.
Google is so bad now and has been for a while, it’s tough to believe its name is still synonymous with search.
I’ve been toying with the idea of using Kagi, but paying for a search engine is still such a foreign concept for me. I think if you can find a good SearXNG instance you’ll have a much better time.
I am very happy with Kagi. Can recommend. In the end someone has to pay for the service. With Kagi I know I don’t pay with my data but with money.
I’d highly recommend Kagi! You can customise your search results as well, so you can make sure some websites show up more often than others (or even not at all), or higher up/lower down on the list.
When you search google for answers and the search results end up being forum replies of someone saying “just google it bro”
Edit: sarcasm, not actual search result… yet
That specifically has actually not happened to me. Though I’ve seen people comment on it.
… But.
One scenario I run into a lot is finding a result that would be useful…
… But it depends on external links. And those links are dead. The internet is a perpetually on fire Library of Alexandria
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News articles that use slam and other internet clickbait title terminology.
“Kim Kardashian slams neighbor’s gate sparking an unhinged reaction. Tune in at 11 for more coverage of Gate-gate.”
Lmao, how am I the first to invite this?
Would also like to stop hearing the word Unhinged. I don’t think it carries any value anymore.
I actually still crack up whenever I see unhinged.
I kinda want to start describing sensible people as “hinged” now
That every store wants you to sign up and have you give them your details.
When I bought a shirt in a department store a couple of years ago and the guy wanted me to give him my email address “to save paper” (yeah right), rather than give me a receipt. It was like we were having a stand off for a while there. I just want to buy a shirt not sign up for ongoing spam!My favorite thing to do is I have a secondary domain name that is setup with a catch all email address mailbox. So when they ask for a email i just give them nameofstoresux@domain.com and when they say i need a real email address I say it’s real. The look on their face when my phone buzzes with the recept is priceless. Then promptly back hole that address
I don’t even bother going that far. I just have a [words]receipts@[domain].com and use it for all of those e-receipts, accounts that make you sign up at checkout, known spam generators.
If I need to search for a receipt for any reason, I have it there. But none of it clogs up my real email
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I use the domain for other things it’s not just for this purpose just an added perk.
When restaurants have booth seating where you can feel the person in the booth behind you moving around in their seat.
It’s infuriating are schools aren’t doing a better job.
Is our children learning?
