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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Em dash will sour your milk and lose your car keys. It will cause your socks to become odd pairs and fart in the lift when your crush alights. Em dash is responsible for the failure of the mars climate orbiter but ran a successful misinformation campaign against SI units.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Finally, something worse than being broken up with via text.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Hasn't word done this simce about offoce 2007? the autoformat as you type feature, specifically...

I only know this because I fucking hate it and have been religiously turning it off

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Hasn't word done this simce about offoce 2007?

Imagine writing your breakup in Office 2007... I mean, at least use a free and open-source software like LibreOffice.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But, it's a text, most likely written on mobile. If I got such text I would ask why they chose m dashes (to which I would get another llm answer)

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Every user of the em dash on the planet is in this comment section.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

Using em dashes is cultured and also cool

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I use those when writing literature, but because in Spanish it is what we use for dialogs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Gemini, Siri, Alexa... break up with everyone! Send.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Those other ones are also AI. Not sure why you wrote this out.

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