Real people use em dashes. That is a common place in human writing to use an em dash, or it would not have become a trend in the averaging that is LLM-generated text.
We cannot assume this comment was written by a bot. It was short and only used one em dash in a normal place.
They did it right now which is well after the fact was established, on Lemmy out of all places where demographics obviously lean towards people that know this.
It’s mostly transcriptions of physical books and academic papers rather than people who digitally use the right alt key.
“it’s not x {em dash} it’s y” hmm
Real people use em dashes. That is a common place in human writing to use an em dash, or it would not have become a trend in the averaging that is LLM-generated text.
We cannot assume this comment was written by a bot. It was short and only used one em dash in a normal place.
Maybe people should stop using “it isn’t x it’s y” and em dashes in the same way that people stopped using fasces and swastikas. Shits tainted now
It’s common English sentence structure, not a symbol of a group that killed six million Jews and many others.
Do not compare this to the holocaust. That is just remarkably immature.
I compared it to modern day american fascism actually. You brought up the holocaust in the same comment you’re saying not to compare it with 😭
And I mean I think it is pretty comparable to the holocaust, considering what data centers are doing to the environment
The em dash is incredibly easy to access and use on mobile, so there’s no need to memorize an alt code or copy-paste it from the internet or whatever.
No alt code, you hold… Actually, I’m not going to say that for the good of the world.
You really are obsessed, aren’t you? You’re in for a wild ride when bots can pass for people, physically, in-person 😯
I use the em dash a lot. The codepoint is 2014 for the em dash and 2015 for the en dash. It’s quite easy to remember.