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.
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.”
Would also like to stop hearing the word Unhinged. I don’t think it carries any value anymore.
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!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.
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
When restaurants have booth seating where you can feel the person in the booth behind you moving around in their seat.
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
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.
people thinking vaccines are bad rather than the main reason lifespan rose so much in the modern age.
“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.
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.
Autocorrect always seems to choose the wrong spelling for its and it’s. If you’re trying to use the possessive, it changes it to “it’s.” If you’re trying to use the contraction of “it is,” it changes it to “its.” 😬
I never had these dumbass incorrect context changes when autocorrect was new. It only seems to get worse over time, instead of better. It shouldn’t even be correcting words that are already spelled correctly, even if the context is wrong.
Last week I texted my wife “I desire chicken” and Autocorrect tried to change it to "I desire children. I don’t, Autocorrect. In either sense! What sick game are you playing…?
As a psychology nerd:
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the lack of understanding and empathy for others (even when their opinions are different or “wrong”
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The lack of understanding of how behavior is driven and encouraged to change.
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The comfort level with looking at something very complex and assuming you know it deeply in moments (referring to short form video “teaching” psychology and mental health stuff)
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The overall disconnect between the physical medicine community and the psychological/mental health communities (i.e. mental health is a huge driver in cancer, autoimmune, and other diseases)
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I could go on. Learning more is my passion but damn it’s so depressing when I begin to understand something and see the abounding ignorance on it
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The Americans need to have a giant pissing contest across the entire internet over which moron gets to lead the free world for the next 4 years.
It would be fine if they just had a single election like everywhere else but they have their primaries too and seem to start campaigning around half way through the term. So there is some degree of campaigning going on around half the time.
Nails. Like the kind you hammer in. I hate them. They always come out and you have to hammer them in again eventually. Screws are the way to go.
The past tense of the verb “to lead” is “led.”
“Lead” is a heavy metal.
I wish we could be as certain about ‘read’.
