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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

"white chocolate" doesn't exist. It's just sugar and a little bit of cocoa butter. It's edible wax. It's not chocolate and it doesn't belong in any assortment of sweets, ever. Cocoa butter is skin moisturizer and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

The most delicious edible wax I've ever had.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

It provably does exist. And it's delicious. I could go to the supermarket and buy some right now. Except I'm fat and trying to lose weight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It does exist in the way that chocolate ‘solids’ exist as an element of chocolate. A typical chocolate bar consists of both chocolate solids and cocoa butter. It’s still an element of what you’re eating,

So just cuz you eat ‘chocolate’ because you think you only favor the solids, you’re still eating the butter too in what makes chocolate. It’s like drinking milk products and then getting pedantic over people who use butter as a food even though milk contains some the same elements.

But again this is about stupid hills to die on. And you picked an intolerant and ignorant stance so I guess you technically win in this particular topic.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No need for personal attack, this is all in good fun.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

But personal attacks are funny.