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"He added: "This isn't simply a story about old paper and ink. This was never just about a collectible. "This is a testament to memory, family and the unexpect
by dbacar 11mo ago
"He added: "This isn't simply a story about old paper and ink. This was never just about a collectible.
"This is a testament to memory, family and the unexpected ways the past finds its way back to us."
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Men going extreme in sentimental when they just sold a $9M collectible :).
- sebmellen 11mo agoHe added: “This isn’t simply a blurb of words and phrases. This is not just a stock statement from an LLM. This is a testament to outsourcing, laziness and the unexpected ways technology finds ways to change every press release.”
- mvkel 11mo agoAll it needed was the emdash
- ccppurcell 11mo agoWhy this matters: <bullet point list>.
- imiric 11mo agoYou're absolutely right!
- mjlee 11mo agoI've been pressing minus twice to type a dash on Mac OS for so long I've forgotten when I started. People are pointing it out to me more and more every day. I think my writing is distinct enough from an LLM for most people, but there's certainly a growing contingent that sees a telltale and assumes everything must be AI generated. Most (all?) keyboards I've used only have a combined hyphen‐minus key (-) which is distinct from a dash (—) and isn't quite a hyphen (‐), so I get why most people don't care. All font dependent as well to add to the fun, and my examples here render differently in the textbox and the comment!
- plufz 11mo agoYeah it actually saddens me a little, if using good and correct typography will be avoided because of LLM.
- Xss3 11mo agoEm dashes are still appropriate for articles, journals, scientific papers, and other academic or professional writing. In social media comments they came across as pompous even before LLMs and werent particularly appropriate for casual comments. Though to be fair some people enjoy coming across as pompous and embrace the 'better than the peasants and their lowly minus sign use' attitude. Makes them feel special or as if their writing is markedly better than those without fancy punctuation. (It isnt). Also yes, im describing two writers i know that are adamant about the em dash being 'a sign of an intellectual wtiter'...they are insufferable pricks.
- sgarland 11mo agoI use em dashes for the same reason that I use semicolons: it’s how I’m hearing the sentence in my head as I’m typing it. I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call a part of grammar pompous. It’d be analogous with me calling your post lazy due to its various typos — I’m not, I just found the comparison apt.
- zetanor 11mo agoI would love to know what sequence of characters you normally use in place of an em-dash to express the same nuance of relationship and timing.
- kineticdaffodil 11mo ago[dead]
- tonyhart7 11mo agogotta add those "values" so the bidder got worth its money
- tacker2000 11mo agoYea, would he have said the same for some old worthless TV program magazine?
- ls-a 11mo agoDid Silicon Valley VCs give that comic its valuation?
- latexr 11mo agoReminded me of an exchange I saw decades ago in some TV show or movie (I forget where it was from but it stayed with me): Person A: “We’re going to be so rich.” Person B: “How many times do I have to tell you? It’s not about the money.” Person A: “It’s about all the things we’ll be able to buy with it.” Person B: “Exactly.”
- onionisafruit 11mo agoThe Jerk?
- latexr 11mo agoCould be. I honestly have zero idea. I don’t even recall the people or the setting, just the exchange.
- retSava 11mo agoAlso, from a classic that is finally getting a sequel: Spaceballs! -We're not doing this for the money... -... we're not? -We're doing this for a SHITTON of money!
- lloydatkinson 11mo agoMade me want to vomit
- onionisafruit 11mo agoTo them I’m sure it really is all that plus the $9M they get, but mostly the $9M.