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Chicago style pizza is not a style of pizza

I have given up on "steep learning curve". A learning curve is proficiency on the Y axis against time on the X. A steep learning curve indicates something that is learned very quickly. A shallow learning curve is something that takes a long time to master. See Ebbinghaus 1885.

Romeo and Juliet is a comedy, not a tragedy.

Two teenagers thinking their first crush is worth literally killing themselves in the dumbest scenario imaginable, I mean come on!

Over cooking beef is sad, I'll make a medium or well steak if you ask me, but it hurts to do so

Aluminum

It's pronounced Herb not Erb

I don't care what they say, a single space after a period at the end of a sentence is NOT enough. Now get offa my lawn!

Crunchy peanut butter shouldn't exist. It's lazy, unfinished peanut butter. At the very least, it should cost less. Why are we paying the same price for a job half finished?

Commas don't belong in numbers, not as a thousands separator and definitely not as a decimal point.

Also ISO8601 and that dark theme should be the default

We should all be using the 12 numeral system instead of 10 numerals and we should use tau instead of pi.

The miss use of the term "billet". As in "Made from Billet Aluminum to military specs" I have literally sourced metals from all over the world. Ain't no one ever tried to sell me "billet" anything.

A billet is an old term that was used when iron and steels were smelted and then poured in to either kind of a bread loaf mold or a round shape called a bloom. It would then be reheated at a later time and then formed into the final shape. No one would use "billet" or a "bloom" to make anything from it. It would have been "sponge" like and to soft to be useful for anything.

Fecking sales trying to market to ignorant people with a term that doesn't mean what anyone thinks it means.

My pedantic hill to die on is the word "jealous". For example:

"I'm going on vacation!" "Ugh, I'm so jealous!"

No, that's envy. Jealousy is a weird way of behaving about things you already have, it's not wishing you had what someone else does! Weirdly, explaining this does not cause people to use the correct word. At this point the battle is probably lost and the meaning has officially shifted.