Mine is people using are instead of our. I hear this all the time from social media, news reporters, and I see in in writing. Instead of our, they use are as if they forgot the word our exists.
people thinking vaccines are bad rather than the main reason lifespan rose so much in the modern age.
Fascism.
For me that is much more than a pet peeve.
It’s really got my goat, I’ll say that.
News articles that use slam and other internet clickbait title terminology.
“Kim Kardashian slams neighbor’s gate sparking an unhinged reaction. Tune in at 11 for more coverage of Gate-gate.”
Lmao, how am I the first to invite this?
Would also like to stop hearing the word Unhinged. I don’t think it carries any value anymore.
I kinda want to start describing sensible people as “hinged” now
Censoring cuss words or “inappropriate” words either in memes by blanking it out or in text by spelling it differently just to get around an algorithm. Ex: dies vs unalive
Unfortunately that’s due to rules and bots. One uses that language to get around bots that seek “violent language” because enough people have had to deal with arguing themselves out of a ban.
That every store wants you to sign up and have you give them your details.
When I bought a shirt in a department store a couple of years ago and the guy wanted me to give him my email address “to save paper” (yeah right), rather than give me a receipt. It was like we were having a stand off for a while there. I just want to buy a shirt not sign up for ongoing spam!My favorite thing to do is I have a secondary domain name that is setup with a catch all email address mailbox. So when they ask for a email i just give them [email protected] and when they say i need a real email address I say it’s real. The look on their face when my phone buzzes with the recept is priceless. Then promptly back hole that address
The past tense of the verb “to lead” is “led.”
“Lead” is a heavy metal.
Autocorrect always seems to choose the wrong spelling for its and it’s. If you’re trying to use the possessive, it changes it to “it’s.” If you’re trying to use the contraction of “it is,” it changes it to “its.” 😬
I never had these dumbass incorrect context changes when autocorrect was new. It only seems to get worse over time, instead of better. It shouldn’t even be correcting words that are already spelled correctly, even if the context is wrong.
Autocorrect has gotten significantly worse for me recently. I used to be pretty well adjusted to my phone and know which words I did not need to capitalize/spell correctly because autocorrect would do it for me. Now, it feels like it is all over the place. It also does not seem to acknowledge commonly used proper nouns anymore. I type my brother’s name all the time, yet it will autocorrect to the same name witn different spelling.
Autocorrect is devolving.
Mine tried to correct ‘about’ to ‘Scott’ if I even swiped a bit wrong, and now it’s locked in and doesn’t even work if I do it carefully.
You can usually remove predicted words if this starts happening. On mine, it’s done by pressing and holding the prediction, then confirming. If you use the name Scott regularly anyway, it’ll re-learn it without the incorrect association
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When I email someone a quick question that could be answered in like 6 words and, 90 seconds later, they’re calling my phone.
Text from my direct report at 7am Saturday morning: “Please call me as soon as possible!!!”
I call immediately. Him: “I can’t talk right now, when is a good time to call you back?” Me:
“Just call me when you can, omg.”Him: Calls me three hours later to take 20 minutes explaining why he needs an afternoon off two months from now.
Me: “This could have been a text, Pablo.”
People on their phones while driving. Aside from the danger it poses, I have been stuck at a light behind someone who is obviously scrolling on their phone and then doesn’t realize the light has turned green. Sometime this lasts for 10-20 seconds, which is a lifetime when trying to efficiently move through a series of stop lights. I’m not an aggressive horn honker, and I feel like an asshole if I have to use it. But if you are fucking with the flow of traffic you deserve it.
I’m not an aggressive horn honker, and I feel like an asshole if I have to use it.
Come to the dark side. If someone has done something unrepentantly stupid, I will lay on the horn until that thing is undone.
People answering a question like “Would you like to do X, or Y?” with “yes.”
I didn’t fucking ask “Would you like to do X or Y?”, so put down whatever solvent you are chugging, then give me your choice.
Yes
No.
Banana
Edit: damnit. I should’ve gone with the car guy answer: “Miata is always the answer” but I’ll leave it up.
Banana also isn’t a valid answer, but if you have the chance, you always go Banana.
Instead of our, they use are as if they forgot the word our exists.
I’m not sure if I’ve seen this, is this about the pronunciation?
Yeah, I’ve never seen or heard that either. I’m sure there our plenty of dialects where those two words sounds similar or identical.
I mentioned this to my mother just a minute ago. I said I’ve never seen anyone use “are” instead of “our” and she was like “oh god that drives me nuts; I see that all the time!”
The words truth, facts or liberty in all caps.
AI being pumped into everything. It drives me absolutely nuts that every fucking thing has to have AI. Now you can buy a laptop that uses AI to write an email, just so the receiver can use AI to summarise it. We’re going to start using computers to develop enormous amounts of crap before we finally realise that putting the effort into writing, reading, drawing, designing etc. is actually worthwhile. Don’t get me wrong, I see several use cases for AI where it’s very good, and studied genetic algorithms at uni (i.e. software that can rewrite itself given feedback on its output), but what is being pushed on us now will just encourage laziness and ultimately be a detriment to humans in general.
THE TREND OF ALL CAPS IN MARKETING
also branding
particularly the style that gives up on capitalisation and punctuation
this is not primary school
I really hate the use of quotes “for emphasis”
All or nothing perspectives with AI and zealous hate. It’s helped me through my toughest year yet of physical disability and social isolation. It has improved my Python, CPP, and writing bash scripts. I’ve used it with cooking ideas, and finding products. It has helped me discover an entire science fiction universe of my own creation and helps me explore subtle nuances. It has helped me gain a much better understanding of the variety of human functional thought and psychology, especially in ways where other people may not understand my abstractive thoughts and connections across different spaces. It has also shown me why I get frustrated at people with different functional thought. The bad attitudes and emotional perspectives suck and can be depressing here. That is my biggest pet peeve this year. I’ve responded to it the most, and I’ve disconnected from here to go do other things the most from people with a bad attitude on AI.
