• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      2 days ago

      One key difference: Conservapedia was young earth creationist, Grok is not. That amount of difference unfortunately enough to convince a lot of average Joes of credibility.

        • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          2 days ago

          Let’s hope this time it’ll be like that, and not like Gamergate, when far-right conservatives convinced a generation worth of gamers that they’re not for-censorship, because they missed the times of calling blacks the N-word.

      • odelik@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        2 days ago

        Effect vs affect: Use ‘impact’ instead of having to worry about two words that essentially mean the same thing but are context based.

        • stoly@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 day ago

          They don’t mean the same thing. Effect means to actively change something. Affect means to have passively receive a change.

          • odelik@lemmy.today
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            23 hours ago

            Yes, hence the second part of the sentence.

            Unless you need to use the precise word for communicating the “context difference”, just use the word impact(ed/ing/s). Makes it a lot easier for ESL speakers as well.

            Even then, most people can understand the meaning of the misused word due to the context of what’s being discussed anyways.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 days ago

      Not to sure about the latter part.

      Elmo will be bankrupt in not too much time but for the moment he has pockets so deep he single handedly could fund wikipedia for the next millenia. For as long as he isn’t bankrupt and alive, that turd will be around