A slash-page listing hills I will die live on:

• Claims that archival paper has a longer lifespan than digital backups completely miss the point. The ability to make nigh-instant copies of a document and quickly verify a lack of transcription errors means that, although a given physical document might last longer than a digital one, a digital backup system has practically-infinitely better resiliency than an analog system.
• 2FA flows should never have a “click here to send the code” button - they should just send the code.
• BLM and ACAB are terrible slogans (for extremely worthwhile causes) which prioritize sounding clever over being convincing.
  • BLM directly invites a very-reasonable-sounding response, “All Lives Matter”. Try disagreeing with that and still sounding convincing to someone who doesn’t already agree with you!
  • ACAB requires a full explanation of what it really means in order to not sound like the stereotypical “loony Lefty” that Republican propaganda depicts.
• It’s justified to be frustrated at crying babies on planes, and it’s selfish to bring a baby on a plane. “Selfish” doesn’t always mean “wrong”, but it does mean that you’re putting your own wants above the likely comfort of a planeful of people. Maybe that’s the right decision if you’re, I don’t know, travelling to visit a dying relative - but you don’t get a free pass from judgement. A right to free travel is not a right to access any particular form of travel; if I had a magic box that had a 5% chance of randomly emitting a loud noise or an unpleasant smell, and I demanded to take it on an aircraft, I would rightly be refused passage, no matter how much I argued that it was important that I let the box see Disneyland.
• Self-checkout is generally a better experience. It shouldn’t entirely replace staffed checkout, for less-technically-minded folks or for fallback during technical issues - but in general, I will always prefer to use self-checkout, and will be happy to see more such kiosks.
• Although I’m generally a linguistic descriptivist (in the sense that “correct grammar is determined by usage and mutual agreement and understanding, not by an external authority”), and recognize that grammatical snobbery is often classist, there are exceptions. Specifically, misusing a term or phrase in a way that contradicts other rules that the speaker already follows is a sign of thoughtlessness and intellectual laziness - I’m not saying that you’re wrong for not following my rules, I’m saying that you’re wrong for not following (or even being aware of) your own rules:
  • “I feel badly for you” (for “I empathise”) is nonsense that should parse as “I am incompetent at feeling”. We don’t say “I feel well” or “I feel guiltily” - an adverb is not appropriate here.
  • “More so” is a grammatically-meaningful phrase - “in the way already described, but to a greater extent”. It doesn’t just mean “rather”, it’s not just fancier way of saying “more”. “The problem wasn’t traffic, but more so tolls” is nonsense; “Sam was a talented violinist, and Alex more so” makes sense.
• The resposibility for notification management is with the recipient. A sender should never feel the need to delay sending a message “so as not to wake them”.
• Every SNL skit I’ve seen has been deeply unfunny, and it’s astonishing that so incredible a TV Show as 30 Rock arose from it.
• Listening to audiobooks isn’t reading - but that doesn’t make it any less worthwhile, educational, worthy, or virtuous (which is what I think the disagreement is usually really about).
• Advertizing is an overwhelming net-negative on the world - we’d be better off if it was banned¹.
• (Spoilers for Mass Effect trilogy) The ending of the trilogy is not only perfectly fine, it's also totally in-keeping with everything that came before. Despite its much-vaunted choice-based narrative, the _overall_ arc of the games always followed the same route. You always got to the same story beats, there was just different flavouring in how you got there. Three "_differently-flavoured_" endings is entirely on-brand!
• The first day of the week is Monday. Saturday and Sunday are “the weekend”, not “the week ends”.

Food-based takes

• Tacos are the more overrated food delivery mechanism. Which does not mean that they’re bad - just that the diff between “how much people like them” and “how good they actually are” is the largest. If you took the fillings of a good taco, and put it in a fajita or a burrito - something more enclosed - it would be a strictly-better experience.
• Claims that “American cuisine is better than British” are made unfairly - proponents usually compare “food that is native to England” to “food that can be found anywhere in the USA”. If you get to count burritos, pizza², and pad thai, then we should be able to similarly claim fusions from Indian, Chinese, and other cultures.
  • To be clear - American cuisine still is arguably better than British, but not by anywhere near as much as is claimed by the uneven comparison. We’ve got you beat on cheese and beer, at least!
• The closing time for a restaurant should be the latest time that guests can be present. The last-order time for delivery should be the latest time that the restaurant will accept orders. If someone ordering food thinks “They only have 5 minutes left before orders close, I shouldn’t order now”, that implies that they believe the restaurant actually has a secret unpublished “last-order” time that they have hidden for unknown reasons. Trust them to articulate their own timings correctly³.
• Authenticity is overrated. It’s culturally important to know the history of certain dishes, and I’m all in favour of people keeping those traditions alive - but a dish being “authentic” to its original style does not make it inherently more tasty. Incorporating new ingredients and techiques can improve a recipe.