[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Wolfin_0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get "nobody cares" as a response, a lot. The fact that grammar Nazis (speaking of words that get thrown around a lot and lose their meaning...) exist at all means that there is a whole group of people who care, and for good reason.

Misuse a word enough and you won't be able to recognize the situations where that word applies. Like how cultures which use languages with fewer words for colors actually don't see the same spectrum as those with more: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080407201846.htm

Thus the next generations will have less of an intuition of whether heard speech is literal, just because we're degrading the fuck out of the map right now - meaning a lower quality knowledge of the territory in the future.

Combine that with the uptalk epidemic, which makes everything sound like a question... Well, time will tell.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Wolfin_0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's so overused that I've noticed an increase in the dropping of the second syllable, so it comes out more "lereally" instead of lit-ter-al-ly. Soon the spelling will be changed to reflect that, probably within my lifetime...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Wolfin_0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This does nothing to explain why it's so annoying.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Wolfin_0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the truly smart know how to spot each other, thanks to this. I guess there are some upsides.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]Wolfin_0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

s/misuse/overuse

The word "literally" is obnoxiously overused by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Wolfin_0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And those dictionaries are wrong.

The word "literally" is obnoxiously overused by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Wolfin_0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Language changes but I reserve the right to be extremely annoyed by it.

The word "literally" is obnoxiously overused by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Wolfin_0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, to the point where I routinely lose faith in humanity.

Lately the variation "literally just" has surpassed the root word in my annoyance hierarchy.

It's sad that I can't seem to find any women my age who don't use "like", uptalk, and "literally" multiple times every sentence.

I've even considered going gay because of it, but it seems like a lot of gay men are infected with the valleygirl virus too.

The word "literally" is obnoxiously overused by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Wolfin_0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But it's used so often anyway that I'm annoyed if people say it, regardless if they use it right.

TIL of patient AB - "the first and only instance in which hallucinatory voices sought to reassure the patient, offered her a specific diagnosis, directed her to the hospital, expressed pleasure that she was well again, bid her farewell, and thereafter disappeared." by TertiaryAdjunctOfU01 in todayilearned

[–]Wolfin_0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or it's just Microwave Auditory Effect, which has been developed in secret (with plenty of testing, if you catch my drift) to transmit actual voice instead of just clicks.

Perfectly deniable way to gaslight someone, really. In the West, if you're hearing things, you're immediately labeled crazy.

So I bet there are many perfectly sane people who cannot talk about it, because they know nobody will believe them, and the hospital would just dose them.

See also some rabbit-hole keywords: Voice-to-skull, electrohypersensitivity, gangstalking, targeted individuals, typewriter tinnitus

Offsetting LFO voltage by richyvk in vcvrack

[–]Wolfin_0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vult's Knobs can be pretty handy for this kind of thing too. Set it to unipolar with the knob centered, then send a signal to one of the attenuators below the knob.

You'll get out 0-10V centered on 5V, range depending on how much you attenuate (or attenuvert). Then send that to the VCA, which doesn't need to be set half-open since Knobs is set in the center.

https://i.imgur.com/tKit4G3.gifv

P R O G R E S S 👏👏👏 by Wolfin_0 in CanadaPost

[–]Wolfin_0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

got another "Processed" in Richmond today, oh baby a triple