submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Assian_Candor@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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The US is fucking cooked

I can't help but think this is a phenomenon unique to the US where education has been completely devalued. If the only point of education is to fulfill a requirement to make more money then it makes sense to shortcut as much as possible.

The solution is of course no computer

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[-] prole@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

eight em dashes? Either this person is trying their best to write like a journalist or they used an LLM to write this article

[-] darkmode@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

the — is another victim the chat bots. i’m reading a grammar obsessed writer rn and he uses them in all sorts of ways — quite liberally as well

[-] Esoteir@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

yo fuck the em dash all my homies hate the em dash ——— i didn't know that shit even existed until ChudGPT zombies shit them onto my screen, back in my day you only had access to two dashes on your dang keyboard, _ or -, and if you wanted your - to be longer you would just press the damn thing a few more times like this

and shit you'd mostly just use them to make dancing kirby emoticons in AOL chat <(-'.'<) <(-'.'-)> (>'.'-)>

[-] darkmode@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

i never bother to look up how ppl made the special characters so the kirbys were always my fav ^(^_^)^

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

some "smart" text editors would automatically emdash if you did --, like how microsoft word would ... into a marginally smaller actual unicode ellipses character