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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[+] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    What you're saying makes s lot of sense, but how do you speak dates?

    When did you start working your current job? It was in 2022, Aprill 11th

    What's your anniversary date? We were married on 2012, September the 9th.

    People don't talk that way, which is how writing them down got to be the MMDDYYYY format in the first place. Technically, it was MMDDYY exclusively until mid 1999.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But everybody still writes addresses as person, street, place, country what is the reverse of the logical order with biggest geographical element first.

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