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
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 <(-‘.’<) <(-‘.’-)> (>‘.’-)>
i never bother to look up how ppl made the special characters so the kirbys were always my fav (_)
some “smart” text editors would automatically emdash if you did --, like how microsoft word would … into a marginally smaller actual unicode ellipses character
The compose key has been around for ages