Fix grammar

cloudui · Jul 24, 2024 · 5ff362a · 5ff362a
1 parent 876175e
commit 5ff362a
Show file tree

Hide file tree

Showing 2 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/content/shorts/2024-07-09-battle-of-sexes.md b/content/shorts/2024-07-09-battle-of-sexes.md
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ But, why? Do you want to be right? Do you want to be bitter and resentful? In th
 
 Fighting for a good future is a collaborative effort between all parties. If we all just end up being pitted against one another, we all lose. Even if you win the online battle, all you've done is limited your future prospects of a good relationship. Unfortunately, social media has polarized the masses, becoming a prime battlefield for this cyber-driven human disconnect. As the youth grows up surrounded by digital discord, their heads will be filled with unrealistic and pessimistic expectations for their future relationships. They'll become the soldiers for a war that shouldn't even exist. 
 
-Not everything needs to be a battle. A villifying mindset will only deepen a divide that, in the context of history, is the smallest it has ever been. My advice is: don't engage. You have your life to worry about. Your problems will never fit the stencils that the online cesspool fabricates. Don't fight battles for other people, mostly when they're on a platform that was created to steal your attention. 
+Not everything needs to be a battle. A villifying mindset will only deepen a divide that, in the context of history, is the smallest it has ever been. My advice is: don't engage. You have your life to worry about. Your problems will never fit the stencils that the online cesspool fabricate. Don't fight battles for other people, mostly when they're on a platform that was created to steal your attention. 
diff --git a/content/shorts/2024-07-17-reasonable.md b/content/shorts/2024-07-17-reasonable.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Recently, I've been pondering on the idea of reasonableness. It's a word that ca
 
 Let's say you want to perform an action that has a small but nonzero chance of dying. Would you do it? Maybe, depending on how small that probability is. Let's say across your lifetime, the odds of you dying is around 1 in 93. Would you still do it? If you said "no", then I guess you'd better never drive again. This example isn't so black and white, though. Even though your chances of dying or killing someone while driving are slim, most people still choose to drive. Although the benefit you get from any one drive is small, it compounds over the course of time, where it would essentially be impossible to do anything in your life if you couldn't drive. With this argument, maybe the rewards do outweigh the risks. 
 
-It's not so simple, though. We engage in risky activities all of the time that aren't as "reasonable" as driving a car. Whether it's speeding down the road or the freeway when you're late to a meeting, having a few cheat days in a row during a diet or spending a hefty percentage of your paycheck on that one thing you don't really need, we choose to ignore risk for brief periods of time. Under an objective lens, speeding down the road dramatically increases your chance of injury and death. Even worse, you can end up harming innocent bystanders. All of this to maybe save a few minutes off your commute. With this context, you should never even dream of speeding on your way to work. Although the chances for you to crash while speeding are pretty slim, across the globe, thousands of people will die because of this "reasonable" decision. Despite the risk, we just move on with our day. 
+It's not so simple, though. We engage in risky activities all of the time that aren't as "reasonable" as driving a car. Whether it's speeding down the road or the freeway when you're late to a meeting, having a few cheat days in a row during a diet, or spending a hefty percentage of your paycheck on that one thing you don't really need, we choose to ignore risk for brief periods of time. Under an objective lens, speeding down the road dramatically increases your chance of injury and death. Even worse, you can end up harming innocent bystanders. All of this to maybe save a few minutes off your commute. With this context, you should never even dream of speeding on your way to work. Although the chances for you to crash while speeding are pretty slim, across the globe, thousands of people will die because of this "reasonable" decision. Despite the risk, we just move on with our day. 
 
 # A Case Study: COVID-19
Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
Expand Up		@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ But, why? Do you want to be right? Do you want to be bitter and resentful? In th

		Fighting for a good future is a collaborative effort between all parties. If we all just end up being pitted against one another, we all lose. Even if you win the online battle, all you've done is limited your future prospects of a good relationship. Unfortunately, social media has polarized the masses, becoming a prime battlefield for this cyber-driven human disconnect. As the youth grows up surrounded by digital discord, their heads will be filled with unrealistic and pessimistic expectations for their future relationships. They'll become the soldiers for a war that shouldn't even exist.

		Not everything needs to be a battle. A villifying mindset will only deepen a divide that, in the context of history, is the smallest it has ever been. My advice is: don't engage. You have your life to worry about. Your problems will never fit the stencils that the online cesspool fabricates. Don't fight battles for other people, mostly when they're on a platform that was created to steal your attention.
		Not everything needs to be a battle. A villifying mindset will only deepen a divide that, in the context of history, is the smallest it has ever been. My advice is: don't engage. You have your life to worry about. Your problems will never fit the stencils that the online cesspool fabricate. Don't fight battles for other people, mostly when they're on a platform that was created to steal your attention.