_aunn

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   by _aunn 5y ago

   height i could understand. reasonably short people seem like they’d be advantageous for space travel, up to a point — same as pilots on earth. but legs seem.. pretty important. i can’t imagine that someone without legs would be as mobile or
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   by _aunn 5y ago

   i agree with the second half of your comment, but with regards to the first part, don’t you think that space travel — an endeavor that subjects the human body and mind to immense, unadapted-for stress — can/should only be undertaken by
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   by _aunn 5y ago

   i’m with you on the technical bit. in any style of writing where the goal is to concisely convey information, you’re definitely right that style doesn’t matter in most cases, so repeating words isn’t really something to avoid. to kinda pig
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   by _aunn 5y ago

   prowritingaid has a very good, free, web-based tool that will parse out all sorts of neat things in your work. for example: i write fiction and have a real problem with “echos” — words that i repeat within a certain distance of each other —
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   by _aunn 5y ago

   can we get apple/google to factory unlock bootloaders too? how about x64 chipset options instead of locking down their phones with arm? i’m kind-of not kidding, either — more asking. is there precedent for governments being able to for