Understanding an argument doesn’t mean you agree with it.

If it doesn’t function as a downspout, then it’s a grotesque, not a gargoyle.

Vehicle mileage is an antiquated and terrible metric for tracking vehicle health. Engine hours and heat cycles are more accurate.

Pineapple on pizza is great. Here in Poland we call it havaii pizza

• Adding fries to a dish in a (good) restaurant means you didn’t make a complete dish and just added the fries to add carbs/fill people.

• On that same note: just a piece of meat (steak, spareribs or smth like that) is not a full meal (and don’t you start about adding fries and a salad)

• a restaurant is only as good as its vegetarian dishes (some exceptions apply, like restaurants that focus exclusively on meat)

Ironically, I am not a vegetarian ;)

Good french fries don’t need ketchup

Code semantic should be separate from code presentation.
In other words, tabs vs spaces is a stupid argument.

We’ve learned that separating semantics and presentation is good for the code we write but we’ve never bothered to apply it to languages. Everyone on the team should be able to apply their own formatting preferences without affecting the underlying file.

Highschool should be a compound word. So should eachother.

In German I deliberately write the word “Standard” (same meaning as the English “standard”) with “t” at the end: “Standart”. Likewise all words that have it as a stem, such as “standartmäßig” or “Standartabweichung” (“according to standard”, “standard deviation”).

The reason:
Etymologically (although contested), “Standard” developed from the Old Low Franconian (Old Dutch) compound “standhard” just as in “stand + hard”, meaning “standing firm” or “steadfast” (like your morning wood :D ).
The other, contesting, etymology derives it from the Old French “estendre”: such as in “extend”.

However, while the particle “hard” became “hart” in modern German, officially, “Standard” still has to be written with the “d”. Thus, writing “Standart” with “t” is my silent rebellion against logical inconsistencies in languages.

In English I don’t care, because “hard” is still written with “d”, therefore “standard” is absolutely fine for me here.

Funnily, some dictionaries, e.g. DWDS, declare “Standart” a common orthographic mistake.

But I will keep writing “Standart”, until “Standart” becomes the new ‘Standart’. ;)

Edit:
I just remembered a second reason:
In German “Standard” is usually even pronounced with the harder “t”. Nobody says “Standard” with the soft “d” as it is usual in English. Same thing with “hart”. So even more reason to update the German ‘Standard’ to ‘Standart’.

It feels like my understanding of “logic” as a “subject” is probably one big warm take: I think it is just a piece of maths and programming and maybe philosophy, because it exists in service of all the things that require similar rigor to maths. I’m too far removed from the 1920’s to understand why “the birth of mathematical logic” in Hilberts search for metaMathematical Maths Proofs, Gödel, etc. is called that. (it’s probably just a misleading name) Often it feels like people imply too big a distinction between maths and logic. Doing any maths, like solving a quadratic equation requires logic: Any of the common rewritings like adding to both sides are things where you know a logical implication from one equation to the next. Knowing an equation has two solutions means knowing a logical or between x = a and x = b. That makes me feel bad for early logicians as their ideas seemed to be boring for lack of applications.

The word is “yeah”.

Not “yea”.

The later rhymes with “yay” and means something similar to but distinct from "yes’

Similarly it is yea/nay not yay/nay.

And fuck English for making the incorrect more logical and consistent. Lol

No one would ever make fun of British food again if the Anglosphere was more aware of Dutch food.

Even if you did put learning how to file your taxes in high school, no one was ever going to pay attention to it. We can tell based on how so many people voted in the previous election.

White trim on houses make them look cheap/bad. You’ve got every color in existence paint your house something interesting.

If it doesn’t come entirely encased in pastry, then it isn’t a pie, it’s a bloody casserole with a hat!

Pubs that serve “pies” and then give you slop with a square of pastry that clearly wasn’t even in contact with the slop before it hit the plate should be turned into Costa coffee shops for their crimes.

(Shepherd’s pie and cottage pie are so named for historical honorary reasons, and may continue to be so.)