I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places

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    I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places

    Schizophrenic people are very likely to do this. I work in mental health and this was mentioned in our training. At my location maybe 1/3-1/2 of folks wore one or more puffy jackets all summer long.

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      Interesting, is that a comfort thing? Like wearing headphones everywhere with nothing playing in them?

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      It’s not clear why. It could be an issue with being able to accurately perceive your own temperature, it could be a comfort thing, it could be that they’re more likely to want important possessions to be harder to steal.

      So either medical, emotional or social. 🤷

      @[email protected] @[email protected]

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      Had a lot of teens walking around with the puffy jackets or hoodies on and ski masks over this past summer. Don’t think we have that many schizophrenic people around here.

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    I hate getting my feet wet in the bathroom because someone else dripped all over the floor/rug because they didn’t dry themselves before they got out of the shower. Especially when I have socks on. Dry your entire body before you take any body part out of the shower. 😤

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    The concernedly rising sightings of “could of” and “should of”. And it’s always the native English speakers. It irks me every time I see it. Why are you making such an obvious mistake? The sentence doesn’t even sound coherent. How about you speak the sentence aloud and see how wrong it sounds?

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      But spoken it’s fine. It’s could’ve.

      It’s when that gets written as “could of” that it becomes an abomination…

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          What do you mean you’ve heard “could of”? Of course you would have heard that. That’s literally how it’s pronounced. It’s just not spelled out that way, as the above person noted. People end up erroneously writing it like that because that’s how you say it out loud.

          Do you pronounce “could’ve” in a way that doesn’t sound like “could of”??? Curious to know what that would sound like.

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    Greeting people or goodbye’s. Please don’t touch me, unless you are my child or pet. I was hoping the new covid habits of not shaking hands or hugging would become permanent, but it’s back again. And i still have this reflex of shaking hands, instead of keeping my hands in my pocket.

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    Newspapers who use the word “ouster” but as a noun, not a verb.

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ouster

    “With Torres conspicuously absent from City Council and committee meetings and events in District 3, the mood quickly changed from offering Torres due process to calling for his ouster as many residents and organizations felt Torres was in no position to effectively represent his constituents.”
    —Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024

    “Niccol’s surprise hiring in August — announced alongside Narasimhan’s ouster — was greeted with widespread praise from the Club and Wall Street, with Starbucks market capitalization soaring by $21 billion in a single day, to nearly $109 billion.”
    —Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024

    “The news of Hinton’s award comes weeks away from the first anniversary of Altman’s brief, stunning and ultimately unsuccessful ouster—as well as the second anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT at the end of November 2022.”
    —Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024

    “That experience was in the back of my mind when reading about the struggles at CVS Health, which owns Aetna, and the ouster of CEO Karen Lynch last week.”
    —Diane Brady, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024

    As opposed to:

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oust

    Ouster - One who ousts.

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    Audio messages, I hate them with a passion. Sometimes I just refuse to listen to them. Can’t search them for info, and why tf do you assume I can just stop my day to listen to this shit I don’t have my goddamn headphones connected all the time, and I’m not about to put the phone to my ear for a full 5 minutes and no talk looking like a goddamn weirdo.

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      I had a boss who would send audio messages constantly. I’d be having a conversation with him, he’d get a text message on his phone, stop talking to me to mess with this phone, do a voice recording, mess it up cause he’d whisper it so others wouldn’t hear him (we still totally could), repeat it, rinse and repeat until he got it right, send it, then would ask me what we were talking about.

      I’m convinced people who use voice messages have no situational awareness and are potentially psychopaths

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      I’m not a hater but I understand the sentiment. I only exchange audio with very few people I feel comfortable with we both want to listen to our shit for that long, and I never expect a quick reply.

      Randoms or new acquaintances sending audios without asking permission first usually annoy me.

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      I’ll make one exception for audio messages: the other person being in a situation where they cannot easily type the message, but it’s not an emergency. Hands full, driving, inclement weather, etc. I take it as an implicit “this message is important, but not drop-everything-else critical.”

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      I just ignore them completely. They don’t exist for me. Depending who it is, I can say “I didn’t have time to listen to it but next time if you text/message I can probably get back to it faster.”

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      put the phone to my ear

      Clearly you would look more normal if you blast it on the speaker while holding the phone in front of you, like everyone else. /s

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    Biweekly and bimonthly each also meaning their respective reciprocals.

    (Every two periods, or twice a period.)

    If a technical term such as a frequency specifier has multiple incompatible meanings then it has no value and needs to stop being used entirely. Or one of the meanings chosen as correct and the others rejected forcefully (good luck with that)

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      Eh? Semi-monthly is twice a month. Bimonthly is every two months.

      Semi-weekly is twice a week, biweekly is fortnightly, every two weeks.

      They work the same.

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          I’m paid twice a month and they call it semi-monthly here though, husband is paid every two weeks and his company calls that biweekly.

          I would never use bimonthly to mean twice a month, and haven’t heard anyone use it that way in real life; but the only thing that happens twice a month for me is payroll, so it hasn’t come up in conversation outside of that.

          I guess I share in your outrage then.

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      It’s funny that there are two unambiguous alternatives to bimonthly, but they both mean 2x/month: fortnightly and semimonthly.

      Both German and Dutch distinguish their equivalent words with clear prefixes meaning half- and two-. The English word was unclear after 1066 since the French word bimensuel would have been used by the new bosses. And that means 2x/month. English used bimensual for a while before developing a new, worse word with the Latin origin bi- and the Germanic origin -monthly. And it seems to have been ambiguous from the start. So this has probably been messed up for almost 1050 years.

      Maybe we should resurrect the Old English prefix twi- to make a new(old) 1x/2months word twimonthly or more intuitively, twomonthly that we can use in opposition with halfmonthly.

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      Fortnightly is every two weeks, bimonthly in every two months. Biannual is twice a year, and biennial is every two yeara.

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        Fortnightly is fine, so is biennial.

        All of the other bi-timeperiod words are worthless because they mean both twice each time and every two times.

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      Maybe it’s my age, but I’m more and more painfully aware of how many ways adverts pretend to be your friend. It’sv one of the most insipid and disingenuous things about modern society. The sheer ubiquity of charming voices trying to act like the common man, a chatty friend, a hapless discoverer of product X that offers you “up to” a benefit of… whatever.

      The whole damn thing is just horrible and crap and predatory and wears down the soul, because my soul was programmed to be surrounded by a ‘clan’ motivated by my wellbeing (and I theirs in a meaningful way)

      Actually… quite specifically it’s the “up to” thing that happens in adverts. “Up to 100% effective” the advert says. “Well what the hell does that mean?!” I yell at the telly. “Sometimes it’s 1% effective?? Why are you even talking to me about this thing?”. It’s ghoulish.

      /rant

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        Capitalist propaganda has had decades to hone and refine their techniques for manipulation and deception, the only way to win is to not play their rigged game, but if you’re forced to because they’ve captured all of the resources under a government backed judiciary that’s purpose is to centralize wealth and power under a minority ownership class i think you’d be justified to take more drastic measures to subvert or remove their propaganda.

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          True, though I don’t think it’s just capitalism that causes this dishonesty. I think it’s any time there’s a depersonalised entity motivated to coerse people. And certainly that happens under capitalism. But you could point to centrally planned communist states peddling bullshit to people too.

          I think the antidote (so far as practical ones go) - and speaking of the West - is to ‘shop local’. People find it harder to lie and be disingenuous when’s there’s a genuine relationship there besides the trade.

          That’s the most egregious part about adverts (to me), things pretending to be my friend when there’s nothing there of the sort. It would be different if it’s an actual friend of mine suggesting this or that because they thought it would actually benefit me (and holding their tongue when they knew it wouldn’t)

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        I always hated ads with a passion. I don’t really know why, even back in the 90’s when these was like 2 commercials per movie or something. It never felt right. So much so that i went out of my way to cut out all the ads in the movies i vcr’d. I ditched TV pretty early, because i just wouldn’t have it.

        But here is my question. These days, every youtuber and podcaster is basically a door to door salesman who just wan to sell sometimes quite literally shit to you. How do you continue to like people like that. I have my favourite podcasts, and i never want to hear any of their ads, because as much as i like them, they just spend 10min of their podcast lying to me and trying to sell me shit that they know is garbage. I’m not a parasocial guy, i know they are not my friends, but it still feels soooo dirty.

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          At least when they make the ad part of their show it’s easier to just skip forward past it (eg YouTube keyboard shortcut to skip forward ten seconds) It depends what you’re listening to really. A lot of content producers have made their peace with the fact that people are not going to pay for their content so some sort of spoken ad means they get some sort of return. I generally only listen to research / academic based shows where they have a separate patreon for ad-free episodes and discussions. I don’t mind paying for that where I think their content is worth it. That feels like a more honest exchange.

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    The color brown, especially in clothing. I can’t quite put my finger on why that is.

    Wood is mostly okay, though.

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      For me it’s all american pronunciation of french words. Feels like butchering xP

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        I wonder, depending upon when a word was borrowed and sound changes in both languages, if any sound closer to their middle/old french counterparts

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          My favorite French borrowings are gentle, genteel and jaunty. All borrowed from gentil (kind, pleasant, nice), but at different times (13th century, late 16th, and 17th, respectively).

          The French word is from Latin gentilis, meaning “of the Roman clan.” English borrowed that from Latin as gentile.

          So we have 4 English words, all from the same Latin origin. Of them, genteel is probably closest to the Old French pronunciation (but the vowels are still a little bit different).