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.
Fascism.
What is your pet peeve in 2024?
Submitted 1 month ago by snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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foggy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
For me that is much more than a pet peeve.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s really got my goat, I’ll say that.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Here’s a pet peeve: people who “both sides” the entire American political spectrum because they are SO uninformed that everything looks the same to them.
Here’s another: people who “both sides” the entire American political spectrum because taking a position is more difficult than saying “bah I’m above the whole shit show.”
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
News articles that use slam and other internet clickbait title terminology.
Oaksey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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!lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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 nameofstoresux@domain.com 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
Mesophar@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I don’t even bother going that far. I just have a [words]receipts@[domain].com and use it for all of those e-receipts, accounts that make you sign up at checkout, known spam generators.
If I need to search for a receipt for any reason, I have it there. But none of it clogs up my real email
dellish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 month ago
Autocorrect always seems to choose the wrong spelling for its and it’s. If you’re trying to use the possessive, it changed it to “it’s.” If your trying to use the contraction of “it is,” if changes it to “its.” 😬
Subtracty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Autocorrect is devolving.
Ellvix@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Last week I texted my wife “I desire chicken” and Autocorrect tried to change it to "I desire children. I don’t, Autocorrect. In either sense! What sick game are you playing…?
drspod@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The past tense of the verb “to lead” is “led.”
“Lead” is a heavy metal.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wish we could be as certain about ‘read’.
Subtracty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 month ago
Internet search has gotten stupider
Used to be I could always find exactly what I wanted with a quick google
Now I usually have to go into the second page or change my terms a lot before getting there.
lando55@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Google is so bad now and has been for a while, it’s tough to believe its name is still synonymous with search.
I’ve been toying with the idea of using Kagi, but paying for a search engine is still such a foreign concept for me. I think if you can find a good SearXNG instance you’ll have a much better time.
chris@l.roofo.cc 1 month ago
I am very happy with Kagi. Can recommend. In the end someone has to pay for the service. With Kagi I know I don’t pay with my data but with money.
Panda@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d highly recommend Kagi! You can customise your search results as well, so you can make sure some websites show up more often than others (or even not at all), or higher up/lower down on the list.
sho@ani.social 1 month ago
When you search google for answers and the search results end up being forum replies of someone saying “just google it bro”
VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 month ago
That specifically has actually not happened to me. Though I’ve seen people comment on it.
… But.
One scenario I run into a lot is finding a result that would be useful…
… But it depends on external links. And those links are dead.
normalexit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s infuriating are schools aren’t doing a better job.
smackjack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is our children learning?
Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People at work wants me to do something and using phrasing, like “can we check this?” , “we must do xy quickly”. What do you mean WE? If you want me to do something personally just fucking say it MF! It makes my blood boil.
smackjack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My dad used to do this shit all the time. He would be like “let’s clean the house” but what he really meant was “You clean the house.”
bamfic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nurse we
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People putting out buckets of candy for Halloween instead of handing it out at the door. No more social interaction or tradition. Just grab free candy and go.
lovely_reader@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t mind this when it’s families that are out trick-or-treating with their own kids. If you’re home and you do it, that’s weird
P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The words truth, facts or liberty in all caps.
GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 month ago
FREEDOM!!!
DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
People answering a question like “Would you like to do X, or Y?” with “yes.”
I didn’t fucking as “Would you like to do X or Y?”, so put down whatever solvent you are chugging, then give me your choice.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Yes
sho@ani.social 1 month ago
Yesn’t
sho@ani.social 1 month ago
Everything requiring a personal phone number and/or email just so corpos can keep tabs and data harvest personal information out of people an do what the hell ever with it without any consent. My personal data is not your damn property, leave it the fuck alone.
newbeni@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Local area code-867-5309. I use it everywhere.
sho@ani.social 1 month ago
But i would acttualy need the phone number for sms verification code for registering things online which i refuse to give my phone number. I like my online privacy
ultranaut@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When restaurants have booth seating where you can feel the person in the booth behind you moving around in their seat.
distantsounds@lemmy.world 1 month ago
THE TREND OF ALL CAPS IN MARKETING
subtext@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I really hate the use of quotes “for emphasis”
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 1 month ago
also branding
particularly the style that gives up on capitalisation and punctuation
this is not primary school
otter@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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?
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 1 month ago
Website redesigns. Just more whitespace all over the place, less information on the screen, and more trouble trying to get anything done.
Github is especially bad about this. I’m so tired of only being able to fit about 50 lines of code on the screen at a time, or issues with a similar lack of information density. I can understand this paradigm for websites that you only use once every year or so, but for something that most people use regularly every day, it’s such a backwards anti-productivity trend. I hate it… hope it dies someday.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People who park the wind way in the parking lot and then dive the wind6 way. I’m talking about were the lanes aren’t wide, so they’re all angled. There even arrows painted at the entrance of each lane. But there always some dipshit that pulls through, or did the dumbest maneuver you’ve seen to back into it. And then they glare at people in their way who are going the right way…
Going to the grocery store has just infuriated me with a sheer number of entitled terrible drivers. Every last one of them should be sent back to driver’s ed.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Messaging:
- People who reply to direct text questions with 5min audio recordings.
- People who use Enter as if it was the space bar, sending 10 messages for what could be easily sent as one.
- People who treat their requests as of utmost urgency, but when you contact them back take hours or even days to reply back.
Online forums:
- The sort of illiterate fuck who treats “but” as if it contradicted everything preceding it.
- People who feel entitled to have ELI5 versions of the text content produced by other people. (i.e. throwing a tantrum because of difficult words, text size, or even conceptual complexity.)
- Usage of “lol” and/or “lmao”. (I mentally translate those into “I’m braindead and should be treated accordingly.”)
- The sort of dead weight that focuses too much on specific words being used to convey something, instead of what it conveys.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 month ago
😁🍻
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 month ago
You // need // some // Xanax // /s 😁🍻
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STOP IT!!! /s
(It doesn’t work here, since there’s no audible ping for every reply that you sent me.)
11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Xanax
11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Some
11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Need
11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The Americans need to have a giant pissing contest across the entire internet over which moron gets to lead the free world for the next 4 years.
Kelly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It would be fine if they just had a single election like everywhere else but they have their primaries too and seem to start campaigning around half way through the term. So there is some degree of campaigning going on around half the time.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You mean elections?
mwproductions@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It drives me nuts that people frequently leave out the words “to be” when talking. For example, they will say something like, “the car needs washed.” No, either the car needs to be washed, or it needs washing.
lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
It needs warshing.
bamfic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Midwestern usa maybe
lovely_reader@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Big in PA also
mwproductions@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If so, it’s propagating. I live in the NW USA and have been noticing it for years.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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people posting shit quality memes without spending the smallest bit of effort to find a better quality version of the same meme, especially when it’s a comic and the author is cropped out.
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people posting blog spam article links about an announcement instead of just linking directly to the announcement
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j4k3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
The words “shoppe” and “towne”.
nialv7@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“are” is a perfectly valid pronunciation of “our” I think, at least in some accents. Writing it as “are”, on the other hand does feel wrong.
monsterpiece42@reddthat.com 1 month ago
As a psychology nerd:
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the lack of understanding and empathy for others (even when their opinions are different or “wrong”
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The lack of understanding of how behavior is driven and encouraged to change.
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The comfort level with looking at something very complex and assuming you know it deeply in moments (referring to short form video “teaching” psychology and mental health stuff)
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The overall disconnect between the physical medicine community and the psychological/mental health communities (i.e. mental health is a huge driver in cancer, autoimmune, and other diseases)
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I could go on. Learning more is my passion but damn it’s so depressing when I begin to understand something and see the abounding ignorance on it
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Kaiyoto@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nails. Like the kind you hammer in. I hate them. They always come out and you have to hammer them in again eventually. Screws are the way to go.
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 1 month ago
i do not like the weather
JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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
P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.