What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

NotNotMike@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 456 points –

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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Romeo and Juliet is a comedy, not a tragedy.

Two teenagers thinking their first crush is worth literally killing themselves in the dumbest scenario imaginable, I mean come on!

Death caused by naivete, especially when it's a child, who is fully expected to be naive, is still tragic.

The difference in a Shakespearean drama is how it ends for the characters. A comedy need not be funny, everyone just needs to survive in the end (or generally end up OK). In a tragedy, people die at the end. Rogue One is a clear tragedy.