TheBaldness ,

Pizza is not made on a grill or with cornmeal on the bottom, it's made on a hot stone, with flour on the bottom of the dough to keep it from sticking. It also does not ever touch pineapples or ranch dipping sauce. What in the actual fuck is wrong with people?

UnhealthyPersona ,

I won't question the cooking on stone part, but as far as toppings on pizza go I honestly don't care. Everyone has different tastes and if someone wants to put whatever abomination on their pizza so be it.

Also I actually like pineapple on pizza, but it's not my favorite. I don't know why people get so offended by it

orphiebaby ,

Why would you gatekeep what's on a pizza? There's a whole range of textures and flavors that work, that you're telling people they can't experience because you're a hardcore traditionalist? Let good food be good food.

Xariphon ,

A Chihuahua is not a legitimate dog, it's a rat with delusions of grandeur.

Th4tGuyII ,
@Th4tGuyII@kbin.social avatar

That's a disservice to rats, their domestic variety are smarter and better behaved. Least that I've seen

TheBaldness ,

Unless it's boiled before they bake it, it's not a fucking bagel, it's doughnut-shaped bread. Bagels also do not contain blueberries, and any suggestion to the contrary should be met with a swift ass whooping.

UnhealthyPersona ,

Blueberry bagels are my second favorite. Spank me daddy

TheBaldness ,

Heathen. Destroyer of all that is good. What is your first favorite?

ledtasso ,

Bagels also do not contain blueberries

This made me think, "Everything" bagels don't actually include blueberries, but it's literally supposed to contain everything! Irrefutable proof that blueberries can't be in bagels

Usernameblankface ,
@Usernameblankface@kbin.social avatar

"times less" is not an intuitive, easy to understand way of referring to a decrease in some amount or percentage.

Narrrz ,

Right? If something has "100x less" something, does that mean it has 1%? 0.99%? Some other random figure?? What are you even trying to convey???

enjoytemple ,
@enjoytemple@kbin.social avatar

Eating fried chicken sandwich for breakfast is completely normal and an awesome way to start a day.

Wot_The ,
@Wot_The@kbin.social avatar

saywhanow? Expand on this fried chicken breakfast sandwich..

Hank ,

I'll form an opinion to your comment after you tell me your BMI.

neoNgEcho ,

Monday is the first day of the week.

metaltoilet ,
@metaltoilet@beehaw.org avatar

Do people actually think otherwise?

KidDogDad ,

American here: I fully accept that Monday as first day of the week makes more logical sense, but my brain can’t reverse years of programming. I get very confused and make mistakes if I look at a calendar that starts on Monday.

Athogge ,

The more I learn about america the weirder it gets.

orphiebaby ,

I find that all countries do some pretty weird things. Some more than others, Japan.

Track_Shovel ,

There is no space between the last letter of a sentence and punctuation.

Please , please , make it stop !

orphiebaby ,

There is also a space after an ellipsis... like this.

Not...like this.

I don't care if everyone does it wrong, it's both harder to read (less functional) and it flies against normal punctuation conventions.

Also, don't get your punctuation inspiration from Japanese games. An ellipsis is three periods, no more. Exclamation mark always goes after question mark. ("?!" = correct) Japan adopted our punctuation marks and did it their way. If you're writing in English, do it the English-language way.

Jarmer ,
@Jarmer@kbin.social avatar

Pugs are not "so cute" because they're ugly. They are deformed from countless generations of in-breeding and genetic manipulation by horrible horrible humans and are in constant pain, cannot breathe, and have countless other physical ailments. They should not exist in their current form and it makes me sad for the animal whenever I see one, and immediately lose all respect for the owner for furthering such a travesty.

Lalaz4 ,

The only way that it'll become better is if the standard for the pug changes. The UK kennel club has updated it's standard to include a healthier head and muzzle shape. Unfortunately the American Kennel Club has not yet done so. The pugs that are presented at Westminster are sickening.

I also take beef with the awful roached back of the German Shepherd show standard.

TheGiantKorean ,

A grilled cheese is only a grilled cheese if the most singificant portion of the ingredients between the bread is cheese. Otherwise, it is a grilled X with cheese.

orphiebaby ,

Same opinion. And I like both!

toastio ,

I will return anything sent to me in an Amazon package.

I went directly to your site for a reason, which is to avoid Amazon. If you secretly fulfill from Amazon or Amazon Warehouses, I will return the item and shop elsewhere.

Showroom7561 ,

But... a lot of people and businesses reuse boxes.

CylustheVirus ,

Large Language Models and other affiliated algorithms are not AI and no amount of marketing will convince me otherwise. As a result I refuse to call them AI when talking to people about them.

orphiebaby ,

Thanks, been arguing this for ages.

catchy_name ,

I recently saw another lemming call LLMs “spicy autocomplete” instead of AI which seemed appropriate given that calling it AI, while technically correct, I think leads some people to think that the LLM is intelligent. I plan to use that terminology.

Drusas ,

The Oxford comma is an absolute requirement unless you prefer to be intentionally vague.

orphiebaby ,

Fuck yes.

Fauxreigner ,

There are three drinks you can call a martini:

  • A martini is gin and vermouth, maybe with some bitters if you like
  • A vodka martini is vodka and vermouth, bitters again optional
  • A vesper martini is gin, vodka, and lillet blanc
  • Any of the above can be made "dirty" with olive brine if you want

Anything else is a cocktail in a martini glass. No shade if you like apple schnapps, lemon juice, and vodka, drink what you like, but it's not a martini.

interolivary ,
@interolivary@beehaw.org avatar

Ah, as a fan of martinis this is a hill I could also die on

Lowbird ,

Punctuation that denotes pauses like , ; : should be placed based on where the writer wants a pause and how long the pause should be, or when needed to avoid ambiguity, NOT on the bullshit arbitrary grammar "rules" that got made up to sell grammar books and enforce the class divide.

It's very easy to find classics full of "bad" grammar when it comes to the punctuation because it's in fact not bad.

Overzeetop ,
@Overzeetop@kbin.social avatar

Nice to see another fan of the Shatner Comma on the fediverse.

ptz ,
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I've never heard it called the "Shatner Comma" until today, and I will never, call it anything else.

orphiebaby ,
orphiebaby ,

Holy shit, another person who calls it that! I found it on accident years ago and I love to use that term.

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/a0bc6223-a86f-486c-bda8-409220e04601.png

orphiebaby ,

Writer here. Don't blindly follow dumb style rules. I write how I speak; and when you write how you speak, you end up using a lot of semicolons and em dashes (if you're competent). Each "pausing-type" punctuation means something specific, and they are all vital for clarity and natural flow. And informal or spliced sentences are good. Style rules are too formal, and sometimes as antiquated as "'ain't aint' a word". So instead do what works— what makes things natural and easy to read.

bbtai ,

Artificial sweeteners is one of the reasons I'm not obese. You can quote me all the studies you want, diet coke is not a gateway drink to regular coke, and splenda on my black coffee doesn't make me crave a caramel macchiato.

random_character_a ,

I don't care about the calories. Artificial sweeteners taste like plastic cancer, so it's normal coke for me.

orphiebaby ,

Aspartame gave me terrible headaches. Then I became diabetic. Turns out by that time sucralose was more popular. It doesn't give me headaches and it tastes fine. After so long of having sucralose, I can now tolerate aspartame. Still gross though.

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