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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (15 children)

There absolutely was a cornucopia in the fruit of the loom logo. That is the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is. It wasn't on any table or in any thanksgiving decoration in my childhood, it isn't a popular thing to exist in media, it was an obscure item that was a main part of an underwear logo.

Anyone that says differently is objectively wrong. I don't know why the logo changed and why besides a patent entry even the company itself denies it. I don't really care if this is an alternate earth or aliens or time travellers or an entirely natural quirk of existing in a quantum universe, but I know for an absolute fact the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is is because of my underwear, and not because my dick is coincidentally called the horn of plenty.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I honestly believe this one is a gorilla marketing gimmick. Like they purposely went back and removed references to it so any time someone brings up the Mandela Effect their name gets mentioned.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Using the term ‘assless chaps’ infuriates me and I will not let that aggression stand, man.

All chaps are assless. Chaps with asses are pants.

Fight me.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago (8 children)

It is NOT "habañero." If you pronounce a "y" in the word, you're commiting what's called a "hyper-foreignism" where you over apply something you learned a foreign culture does.

It's just an N sound. Habanero.

It's not even my culture/language but damn this gets under my collar.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (3 children)

If a motorcycle has to be ear-splittingly loud for "safety", then it's too dangerous to be road legal.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

It's explicitly the opposite, scientifically, according to my safety class

The deep rumble being loud overwhelms anyone's ability to properly locate the bike quickly, and they demonstrated this live. It's definitely harder to locate a LOUDER bike

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 days ago (19 children)

Pineapple is a legitimate pizza topping lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I used to hate on it before I tried it at a friend's house. Man, Hawaiian pizza is one of my favourite ones now and I will happily join you on dying on this hill.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

My stairs are pretty steep does that count?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (14 children)

Niche pronounced with a "ch" sound is wrong and dumb and I hate you

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

Those people who pronounce it 'nitch'? The word for that is WRONG. Those people deserve ridicule.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

On that note: cache

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

Rhymes with "sheesh"

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Using tabs for document management (f.e. Browsers, Text-Editors, ...) was a mistake. It would be way better if every document (website, text-file, image, console, ..) was in its own window, centrally managed by an intelligent window manager of the OS that allows quick and easy search between all documents like with a full-text searchable exposè-like view.

Using tabs for document-management was a bad but necessary workaround because Windows is a horrible window manager (despite its name, ironically).

Tabs work best when there is a fixed amount of them (Like with game settings: Controls, Audio, Video, Gameplay).

I could go on for quite a while on this, but I think this is where I stop.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pineapple on pizza is delicious, that is all

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Probably a slightly higher stair in a staircase one day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fish is superior to Bash and ZSH, I dont care that you can have auto completion on both its a pain to set up.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (20 children)

Time units are just as cursed as American units.

Conversion between days, hours, minutes and seconds is a total mess. If you never have to do anything with those numbers, you don’t need to worry about it. The moment you need to do calculations or compare devices you run into completely unnecessary problems that would have been easy to avoid. Just think of pumps and fans with units given in l/min or m^3/h.

Just pick the standard time unit and stick with it. Use prefixes to deal with big or small numbers.

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