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
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