porb121

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by porb121 6y ago
You've perfectly demonstrated the problem with these kinds of revisions. "Phrases in green use passive voice" removes the passive voice, and in doing so, completely alters the semantic content of the sentence. The passive voi
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> This is what is taught in undergraduate English classes This pedagogy says more about undergraduate writing capabilities than ideal writing standards. Most students entering college need to be taught basic writing fundamentals so that
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by porb121 6y ago
I completely reject the idea of simple word choice. Synonyms are not exactly synonyms; the more complex word can convey a substantially different idea in subtle ways. When speaking, we are forced to reach for simple words to keep up with th
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by porb121 6y ago
I must have missed all the IPCC forecasts about the Mayan calendar.
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It's impossible to nicely ask people to limit their consumption of resources to which they have unfettered access; it's very feasible to seriously limit their access to them. If meat (and other polluting products) were priced acco
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Incredible that some how a tax appears less political to you than suggested behavioral change
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by porb121 6y ago
not a single one of those were or are the alternatives to discord, except for slack now. the actual competitors were teamspeak, skype, mumble, and ventrilo.
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i disagree, as a very early adopter of discord. early discord was rough around the edges, but it was still 10x better than any competitor because of how atrociously bad teamspeak/mumble/skype/ventrilo were. using skype was on
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yes, we should also consume less meat in addition to consuming less almonds.
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> Know that doom predictions, being very emotionally appealing, travel around the world before science can get its shoes on. Read the first few paragraphs of any paper in climate or environmental science; their outlook is usually much bl