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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] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The main issue is that if Pluto is a planet, there's like 30 or so others that have to be also, for consistency.

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

Nah... Just take the current definition of planet and append "and also Pluto because we're emotionally attached to it" and you're good.

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

Or, you know, reverse the stupid as fuck arbitrary definition of 'clearing its own orbit' being appended to the definition of a planet. It's that easy.

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

Why aren’t you arguing for Ceres to be a planet then?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Do they orbit on the general plane of the other planets in the system? COOL! Add them to the list!

IDGAF if we have hundreds of planets, it's always been an arbitrary number and the only reason to keep it small is so kids can memorize the list and that isn't good enough to DISRESPECT motherfucking PLUTO