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

NotNotMike@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 461 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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I think they're more taking issue with that some dictionaries have seen the figurative use of the word and added figurative as a definition for the word.

"Sorry I'm late, Traffic was murder".

"Someone tried to kill you in traffic?!"

Murder: something very difficult or dangerous

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/murder

Data, is that you? How do you not understand what murder means in that context? If you do something and someone says "you killed it!" do you turn yourself in to the police or do you plan escaping to another country?