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Those who aren't vegetarians/vegans need to calm down about others eating meat that belonged to certain animals just because they have an attachment to a member of their species. Yeah, I understand, social mores, but you're being hypocritical and cows are sacred in India...

In order to get a correct hit from a bong, the chamber must be small, filtration heavily limited, and the water should be slightly warmer than body temperature.

These guys rocking three filtration chambers on a bong that's bigger than a tower speaker are wasting their life and their money, and getting a very poor experience relative to what's possible.

If a state isn't at least partly in Central Time, it can't be in the Midwest.

Obviously not all states in Central Time are in the Midwest, either, that's just the lowest bar.

Caramel is the soft kind that usually has butter in it and carmel is the hard kind of only melted sugar. I will instantly correct anyone who uses them wrong.

Boomer shooters > Souls-like games

I like the ungrounded North American electrical outlet and plug design (NEMA 1-15). It has no safety features, but it's very compact, and very easy for device manufacturers to create folding plugs for USB power supplies and the like.

English language pedantry hot take? As long as a reader can understand, spelling a word the way it is pronounced is more correct than spelling it the way a dictionary spells it. The word only ended up in the dictionary spelled some way in the first place because some people were already spelling it that way. But it doesn't mean their choice was correct then and forever. Let language evolve.

Bananas are fucking disgusting

I can't stand cantaloupe. It's simply too rich and sweet for me, even the smell alone makes me gag.

There are many entirely-valid ways to write out the sound of laughter including endless variations of "heehee," "heh-heh," "hahaha," and more, but I believe "hehehe" is just incorrect.