If we can’t be bothered to vote in the primaries, wjy would anyone believe us that a progressive candidate would somehow lure millions more to vote?

As I know the comments will be, uhhh, fun, I’ve turned off reply notifications.

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        Fair enough, I assumed LLMs used the markdown double dash for their em dash, mixed with the AI profile pic, and general bad taste of a slop comment, I judged too quickly.

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          There are (rare though they may be) people like me who actually know the ALT code for em-dash by heart and have used it for years long before AI. Thanks to people now just assuming I’ve switched to double-dashes mostly.

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            The compose key exists, too (and wincompose for Windows users) — makes it easy to use. And all sorts of other symbols like ¿Por qué no los dos? and I can uſe the old long-‘s’ character eaſily… (and that’s a real ellipsis)

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              Holy shit… I had no clue that wincompose exists. For years, I’ve wanted exactly this. I’m so glad that someone had the same idea, skill, and time to create this. Thank you for sharing!

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                <3 <3 <3 The only symbol I’ve wanted that apparently doesn’t have a sequence is for pi. And I know you can add sequences in Linux, but haven’t been bothered to figure out if/how with wincompose. heh.

                Have fun! Oh, and one bit that took me a long time to find but I use all the time; ① - numbers in circles, a rare three-character sequence - parentheses surrounding a number i.e. (1) :) (numbers ① through ㊿ exist)

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              And Mac has alt - for –, and shift alt - for —. We use the English (Macintosh) keyboard layout on our Linux boxen, so we’ve got that too!

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          You’re welcome to respond to the “slop comment” if you can actually come up with something substantive. Otherwise, it’s not a good look.

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            What is there to reply to? This conversation has been had a million times here, mixed with what I assumed was an em dash and an AI profile pic, sorry if it’s ‘not a good look’ to call out the slop.

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              What slop? You think a nearly 3-year old account is AI generated?

              Just because you’ve never seen an em-dash before AI doesn’t mean that em-dash = AI. And btw, I never even used one.

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                The slop is the comment parroting the same trite conversation that’s been had over and over about lesser evils voting. Might not be AI slop, but I didn’t put it past you when I saw the pfp. If all you have to say at this point in time is about you’re vote blue no matter who strategy, your comment is slop, and I’m done explaining this.

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                  You literally had a whole thread about AI slop that wasn’t there and now you’re trying to save face by changing your own goalposts.

                  Good chat.