I never used an em dash in my life before AI made them a thing. I enjoy the jokes about AI can have my em dashes when it pries them from my cold dead... but I cannot relate. Ive only ever used the hyphen or en dash. I cannot figure out for the life of me if I have been missing anything.

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Really? right in front of my Thanksgiving?

"And while China’s getting there, an executive in the U.S. aren’t so convinced that’s true."

Why does this sentence bother me so much?

I have gotten fewer spam messages when I respond with other spam messages I have received. They think they got another spam number and remove it. If its a call, sometimes Ill answer, and mute the line so they cannot hear anything. I just wait it out, I don't get repeat calls after a few of those. if the person setting up the call system is caused any form of financial damage or risk for me tying up their lines, and costing them both literal money per minute as well as missed opportunity to scam some old person, I don't mind doing a little here and there. As a treat.

Ill be honest. Reading it all the way through was a challenge in critical cringe management even being certain it was a joke.

Why would you not just transport the sauce? Don't gotta send the whole dog if octoberfest is the goal.

The agent wrote like it scraped a bunch of crime drama in addition to stolen database code. As though it was designed to spice things up based on what it learned.

Same. The amount of people smirking at me, and looking at me like Im crazy is hard to deal with. We finally felt like maybe it was time to unmask, and for a day or so it was going well, until I caught covid and gave it to my partner. It was absolutely terrible. We're up to date on boosters, and it still took us down for a week with razor throat, coughing, headache, laziness. After the first week, we were still coughing for 2 weeks after. We are back to wearing masks. This disease would literally be over and done if everyone just vaccinated and wore masks for a few months. Instead they still want a way to kill grandma. I have a co-worker who is serially deathly ill because of her grandkids. This is just a terrible timeline.

I find myself only ever using AI for silly images to share with my partner and such anymore. It's clearly not competent enough to be trusted the way average people have been relying on it. I switched to open weight local models and they honestly seem to work better than the large online models with proper prompting, and acting as a assisting tool rather than a creativity/skill replacer. Still have to double check everything it outputs if it is critical information.

That said, I wouldn't be torn up in the slightest if it was gone right now.