People who cannot return a shopping cart to a proper location should not be able to use said shopping cart.

YouTube is driving young people toward accepting dystopian thinking

We surrender language to scientific/other detail oriented pursuits too easily.

According to some, a raspberry is not a berry, but a pumpkin is. That’s dumb. The word berry existed before botanists tried (and failed) to determine exactly what it meant, and the original meaning is still way better/more useful than the botany one.

So here it is: a berry is a small fruit, which is usually sweet, and usually edible. Raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, grapes, gooseberries, currants, and blueberries are all berries. Pumpkins, watermelons, tomatoes, zucchini and bananas are not.

Other terms that have been co-opted this way include “work”, “salt”, and “rock”. I believe the fields stealing these terms should be forced to come up with their own, different words.

It’s crazy to wash the oils out of our hair and replace them with conditioner. A factory cannot make a higher performance substitute to the natural

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

I like soggy fries. I want to eat mashed potatoes with my bare hands in public.

I also like soggy cereal most of the time. You can suck the cereal milk out of it. If you want crunchy cereal, stop putting it in liquid.

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

We should continue to gently correct spelling and grammar mistakes online.

This concerted effort of gurus and new age life advice influencers, telling people to suppress information, are all rich elitists who know what happens when the group shares information.

I have very suddenly started hearing a strange quirk of grammar that needs to die in a fire. I’m going to write it on an index card and burn the index card.

I swear I haven’t heard this before the 2020s: “My kitchen needs cleaned.” Not “My kitchen needs to be cleaned”, not “my kitchen needs cleaning.”

Explain to someone ESL that “My kitchen needs cleaned” has two verbs in it, one is present tense, one is past tense, combined they imply a future action. AAAH!

If you live in a climate that needs air conditioning to be comfortable most of the year, your roof and walls should be as white as possible. I have seen black shingles on new construction in Texas…

Also, toilet paper direction is a personal preference and is often driven by needs like pets and toilet/wall distances.

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.

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.

Horsepower is a stupid measurement of engine output what is this the 1800’s.

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