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Can you explain the significance?
Normal people don't use it while typing. They'd use a normal dash, tops. AI loves using the em dash even where it doesn't fit.
I used to use it all of the time when I still had Windows and used alt codes
Some of us read books.
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In what must be a galactic level of irony, conservatives have hilariously become the de facto champions of being woke and DEI. They talk about the principles so frequently that they’re either obsessed with them, or have dementia. Both can also be true.
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