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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 months ago (22 children)

The medical symbol of the staff with the snake is only supposed to have 1 (one) snake on it. A staff with 1 snake is the Rod of Asclepius (the son of Apollo and Greek demigod of medicine), a staff with 2 snakes is a Caduceus which is carried by Hermes as a messenger or herald.

Physicians get 1 snake. Couriers and heralds get 2 snakes. Any medical professional or organization that uses 2 snakes is wrong and needs to go study the humanities and classics for a bit.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Isn't the one snake staff more of a trans symbol?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Look I'm all for trans homies and positivity but not everything has to be a fuckin trans symbol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is what I was thinking of, which does have two snakes and a stick in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That would be more similar to the Caduceus anyways given the number of snakes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

True. It has been I long time since I read the Edith Hamilton book and I misremembered.

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