In today’s world, it is assumed everyone has typing skills and that spellcheck will catch any errors, yet attention to detail is a desired skill. Proofreading and knowing the fundamentals (this includes proofreading a spellchecked document) is necessary in the business world to not experience embarrassing errors.

You list all those shows, and you forgot the one that’s hosted by the culinary equivalent of Bill Nye the Science Guy: GOOD EATS! I have never been more entertained by a cooking show.

That slideshow format stresses me out SO MUCH that I will NEVER know which movies I need to watch to calm down. Kinja authors: just say NO to the slideshow template! ;)

Oh dear, slideshows weren’t supposed to happen in 2021, please correct this error immediately.

I saw the same thing, and I had literally no idea who they were talking about. It was instructive to me to see the name Ellen Page in order to recognize whose transition was even being discussed.  The credits in those movies do not read “Elliot Page”.  For all I know Elliot Page could be an entirely different person,…

Pretty much the only issue I had with this: I understand being respectful of the person’s new identity, but news outlets need to do a better job of providing context to the rest of us or it just creates confusion rather than information.

I feel like a bigger question is not so much “can” you write the article without using the old name. But more importantly, does the subject of the article really give a shit if you use their old name one last time, strictly for the purposes of announcing that name will no longer be used?

Ambiguous and unclear without at least once referring to the previous referenced name. It’s what we do with all things where names change. Additionally, this article is full of assumptive language as if every opinion on this topic has centuries of precedence. 

That’s the one thing I don’t think I agree with here. I’m not sure it’s never acceptable to mention someone’s former name, as long as it’s done respectfully. And only once, when the person is first mentioned. And there’s no need to expand on it in any way.

Perhaps you should re-read 1984.  That was a government making decisions for everyone, not a parent making a decision about what’s appropriate and preferred for their own children. 

Really, you don’t need to have any pretext as to why you are reaching out. Even if your opinion is radically different from theirs, they will definitely take note. Your letter will have the most impact if it is free of discussion of your voting record, how much you donate to them, etc. Do say that you are a…

Is it OK to lie to advance your political goals?

The Ben and Chris years are the best years..

when it’s little it’s called an aleutian island

You make it seem like someone who says “All Lives Matter” is open to listening to anyone’s opinions that don’t already align with their own.

This is so silly. The same thing is accomplished with a single knife cut. Plus, since you don’t want to eat the dirty root ends anyway, now you have to make *several* knife cuts to clean them up.

Hahaha reminds me of the “appropriate” amount of time needed for spooning.

Do math articles usually end with numbers? Or do they end with a relationship between one or more factors demonstrated via proof?

I try to follow trends and all that lest I become too dorky and out of touch, but you can take my boot cut jeans out of my cold dead...legs? Is that cut still fashionable?

You don't forget the brand/"model" of your jeans when you pay that much money for them, I guess.