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Man fucks up longtime relationship. Friends don't succeed in keeping him from drunk-posting to try fixing it. Onlookers feel only scorn.

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  • K khanzarate@lemmy.world

    Right? He doesn’t even know what they are, and while an Em Dash isn’t a guarantee of AI, anyone who is at all concerned about people thinking their writing is AI now avoid them.

    So if this isn’t AI, its someone who failed to think things through. (But its AI.)

    Sidenote: wouldn’t be surprised at all if Em Dashes leave our human lexicon altogether, given the negative association they’ve received. Like spelling changes, AI might just make our writing drift away from them altogether, until AI does get exclusive use of it.

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    ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ
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    Such a shame – I love a good em dash. Gives a conversational tone while looking much better than ellipses.

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    • N nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de

      As a former designer/typesetter/typographer, it pains me to admit that this is probably the case.

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      ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ
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      #54

      I’m no designer or typesetter, but I join you in mourning the em-dash.

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      • O octopus_ink@slrpnk.net
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        rezad@lemmy.world
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        “Train your replacement” USA edition.

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        • M ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ

          Such a shame – I love a good em dash. Gives a conversational tone while looking much better than ellipses.

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          khanzarate@lemmy.world
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          I never used them that often. A standard “-” tends to do me just fine.

          But it’s always a shame to be able to convey less in the same amount of characters.

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          • S soup@lemmy.world

            So he wants to get other countries to bring their business here but also wants the foreign experts to piss off after teaching the US citizens how to do their jobs. He also, in the same post, tells them how the US will then beat them at their own game after they need to be taught how to play because they couldn’t figure it out on their own.

            I’ll rewrite it for whoever actually wrote this: “We suck, and we can’t build talent domestically. The plan is to get foreigners(who, I would like to remind everyone, we do not want here longterm) to teach us how to do things because we cannot understand it on our own. Then we will quickly become better than them somehow.”

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            dragonstaff@leminal.space
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            American Exceptionalism (Extra Racist Edition)

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            • K khanzarate@lemmy.world

              Right? He doesn’t even know what they are, and while an Em Dash isn’t a guarantee of AI, anyone who is at all concerned about people thinking their writing is AI now avoid them.

              So if this isn’t AI, its someone who failed to think things through. (But its AI.)

              Sidenote: wouldn’t be surprised at all if Em Dashes leave our human lexicon altogether, given the negative association they’ve received. Like spelling changes, AI might just make our writing drift away from them altogether, until AI does get exclusive use of it.

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              dragonstaff@leminal.space
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              I use em dashes more—as much as I can justify—because the hubbub made me think about them.

              “Trump” is definitely AI here though.

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              • S soup@lemmy.world

                So he wants to get other countries to bring their business here but also wants the foreign experts to piss off after teaching the US citizens how to do their jobs. He also, in the same post, tells them how the US will then beat them at their own game after they need to be taught how to play because they couldn’t figure it out on their own.

                I’ll rewrite it for whoever actually wrote this: “We suck, and we can’t build talent domestically. The plan is to get foreigners(who, I would like to remind everyone, we do not want here longterm) to teach us how to do things because we cannot understand it on our own. Then we will quickly become better than them somehow.”

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                Scrubbles
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                #59

                Also today don’t forget that they threatened to defund universities, the places who teach how to make things

                Edit: defund instead of refund

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                • ScrubblesS Scrubbles

                  Also today don’t forget that they threatened to defund universities, the places who teach how to make things

                  Edit: defund instead of refund

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                  soup@lemmy.world
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                  “Defund”? Holy shit, they’re really completely fucking stupid haha.

                  And the best part is that we all know a tonne of people who have these views. We can pretend that these people are actually Russian spies or whatever but at some point we need to accept that Conservatives the world over genuinely are just stupid, angry, and short-sighted. It’s their entire MO.

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                  • O octopus_ink@slrpnk.net
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                    JackbyDev
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                    “We welcome them” No we fucking didn’t 😭 lmao wtf. Gaslighting.

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                      plyth@feddit.org
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                      No caps? Which one is the act?

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                      • R rezad@lemmy.world

                        “Train your replacement” USA edition.

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                        Echo Dot
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                        Yeah but in this case I can just choose not to do it.

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                        • P plyth@feddit.org

                          No caps? Which one is the act?

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                          chickenladyloveslife@lemmy.world
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                          CAPS LOCK is on the left side of the keyboard. So we can narrow down his recent stroke to the right side of his brain.

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                          • D dragonstaff@leminal.space

                            I use em dashes more—as much as I can justify—because the hubbub made me think about them.

                            “Trump” is definitely AI here though.

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                            chickenladyloveslife@lemmy.world
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                            I genuinely was not really aware of em-dashes before all this – I just used hyphens and semi-colons in pretty much the same way. Now I use em-dashes because it’s so easy to do and I don’t want to look like a rube, but now I wonder if people think I’m AI.

                            Fortunately, nobody online really gives a fuck about me or anyone else.

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                            • E Echo Dot

                              What he famously wrote “covfefe” what was that supposed to be?

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                              chickenladyloveslife@lemmy.world
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                              He was trying to write “COVID” a little bit ahead of schedule.

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                              • T taldan@lemmy.world

                                He’s basically openly saying the US is trying to be like China when it comes to manufacturing (even though there is no possibility the US could compete due to extremely high labor costs)

                                Not to mention he’s backpedaling from kicking out the specialized employees there to build the EV factory. American employees were going to be trained to build the EVs, but there is no need for Americans to need to learn how to build a specialized Hyundai factory. Absolutely no excuse for this other than incompetence

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                                chickenladyloveslife@lemmy.world
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                                no possibility the US could compete due to extremely high labor costs

                                High labor costs and environmental regulations … both of which MAGA is speed-racing getting rid of. If we actually end up being able to compete with China again in manufacturing, we’ll be (even more) utterly fucked (than we already are).

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                                • S soup@lemmy.world

                                  “Defund”? Holy shit, they’re really completely fucking stupid haha.

                                  And the best part is that we all know a tonne of people who have these views. We can pretend that these people are actually Russian spies or whatever but at some point we need to accept that Conservatives the world over genuinely are just stupid, angry, and short-sighted. It’s their entire MO.

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                                  plyth@feddit.org
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                                  But there is also the uncomfortable thought that all the education hasn’t helped the left leaning people to organise a better future.

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                                  • P plyth@feddit.org

                                    But there is also the uncomfortable thought that all the education hasn’t helped the left leaning people to organise a better future.

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                                    dragonstaff@leminal.space
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                                    I don’t know what you expect left leaning people to do with the rest of you working against us.

                                    Capitalism enables the rich to implement policies to ensure they have all the power. Education won’t fix regulatory capture.

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                                    • B baggachipz@sh.itjust.works

                                      “Disincentivize”?

                                      Ghost writer.

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                                      prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                                      Yeah I wonder who actually wrote this

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                                      • P plyth@feddit.org

                                        No caps? Which one is the act?

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                                        shalafi@lemmy.world
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                                        He didn’t write that. It’s hilariously transparent when his staff is trying to write like him but can’t quite dumb it down enough.

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                                        • S soup@lemmy.world

                                          So he wants to get other countries to bring their business here but also wants the foreign experts to piss off after teaching the US citizens how to do their jobs. He also, in the same post, tells them how the US will then beat them at their own game after they need to be taught how to play because they couldn’t figure it out on their own.

                                          I’ll rewrite it for whoever actually wrote this: “We suck, and we can’t build talent domestically. The plan is to get foreigners(who, I would like to remind everyone, we do not want here longterm) to teach us how to do things because we cannot understand it on our own. Then we will quickly become better than them somehow.”

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                                          humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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                                          but also wants the foreign experts to piss off after teaching the US citizens how to do their jobs.

                                          It’s worse than this. We will steal your technology and cut you out of your business with our totally not idiocracy workforce, that must swear loyalty to the king to have their jobs. So fuck your business and trust in that our idiocracy will make your US operations execute as you hope.

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