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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Em dashes and emojis
I'm a markdown nerd who likes to use headers to break up longer post and sometimes properly buletpoint or put ASCII art in preformatted boxes. People who thinks they have the magic sauce on LLM generation detection because a post goes out of their way to do more than the bre minimum with punctuation or formatting is an asshole.
This is a meme post about em dashes, dawg
From the post title, description, and other peoples comments, I took away that the meme is m9re about suspecting your ex didnt even write their own breakup message based off the use of em dashes.
Its a cute surface level joke but it touches in a real nerve because Its becoming more and more common for you to be falsely accused of being an LLM and being told to "ignore all previous instructions and (some stupid instruction) based off small writing quirks like using em or markdown and top comments share this frustration too.
Just to pass armchair llm detector wannabe vibe checks 🖕.
Any time someone accuses me of being a bot I respond with "Tiananmen Winnie the Pooh 8647 Luigi Mangione" and that generally proves my humanity
I'm gonna steal that if you don't mind
I mean most people are going to use their phones to write messages and given you can’t physically type an em dash it would be normal to be suspicious if you see one.
Edit: turns out you can physically type them. Still, given that it’s not normal to use them it’s a sign in my book.
— try long pressing your phone keyboards hyphen key.
Ok. You can physically type them I concede, but normal humans don’t use them. Still a sign.
I would bet that the amount of non proof writers that uses em dashes goes up just because people see that it’s associated with ai and want to be funny.
Several friends and I have always used them. They’re such a fun punctuation mark.
Yah but your user name is “LanguageIsCool” and you talk about the fun levels of various types of punctuation. You are definitely the outlier here. A cool outlier but an outlier none the less.
I also use them. They’re a tool for emphasis, like ! and 😡.
I long for the day when we stop giving a fuck about how many pixels a dash has.
Jesus fucking christ it is so insufferable how long this goes on for.
M—Dash is an AI red flag.
Em dash will sour your milk and lose your car keys. It will cause your socks to become odd pairs and fart in the lift when your crush alights. Em dash is responsible for the failure of the mars climate orbiter but ran a successful misinformation campaign against SI units.
Hasn't word done this simce about offoce 2007? the autoformat as you type feature, specifically...
I only know this because I fucking hate it and have been religiously turning it off
Weirdly it usually turns hyphens into en dashes instead of em dashes from what I’ve seen, which makes no sense at all.
Hasn't word done this simce about offoce 2007?
Imagine writing your breakup in Office 2007... I mean, at least use a free and open-source software like LibreOffice.
Finally, something worse than being broken up with via text.
Every user of the em dash on the planet is in this comment section.
The fucking bastards took it from us
Using em dashes is cultured and also cool