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I was using em dashes before AI made them uncool, no fuckass thieving robot is gonna make me change my typing.
Alt+0151, baby!
Why should I change—he's the one who sucks!
The AI uses em dashes because people used em dashes.
COLD.
DEAD.
HANDS.
I was providing advice to one of my bosses on how to scan cover letters for AI, and I outed em dashes. It pained me because I love them, but enough ppl don't know how to use them properly thats it's actually a reasonable flag 🙃