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Had cause to share this again with someone else being ‘sold a line’.
@MitchWagner i am talking about what ‘we’ - the great unwashed see. I have always read a lot of words, sentences and paragraphs written by journalists - and if that profession uses the em dash - all good - I am no grammarian - witness my blog.
My point is that the percentage increase in the number of emdashes i see across all that I read - means something is going on - we didn’t suddenly have a ten fold increase in journaists/properly qualified writers - but we definitely have a ten fold increase in em dash usage (and of course ten fold is an absolute fact - that I know - because I feel it is right.)
@MitchWagner I think em dash defenderers miss the point … until AI you barely saw an em dash .. much less knew what one was or even why it was used .. unless you read Emily , Virginia et al .. and sorry .. people generally do not. Haven’t even.
The population didn’t decide in the space of a year to discover and start using them … there’s something else going on. What? I cannot answer. I just have ideas.
@manton There is NO interesting Content … anywhere. None. Me 6 years ago on a rant that was an initial attempt to drop into a single post why we should reject it.
Maybe time for an update.
@bradenslen Skip? I don’t even want to skip .. way too much activity.
@gordonmclean I am doing EXACTLY that.
@gordonmclean synch
@bradenslen for them - the business it made total sense - their job is not to think about the good of America - or whatever country the business is based - but how to maximise shareholder value. Short term thinking? Probably. BUT. The market tends to judge a business on its last quarterly report - not its 5 - 10 - 25 year strategy,
And definitely not as short term thinking as outsourcing their call centers - those places where your CUSTOMERS primarily ENGAGE with you - the business - and rather than knowledgable - trained people there to solve your problem you are met with untrained - low cost - entry level people who if they can speak your language properly - not a given - might even have a thick accent that is hard to understand. Oh and said call centers are measured on how many calls you handle - which translates to how fast they can get said customer off the phone - not how many problems they solve,.
@numericcitizen Do you have a summary anywhere as to why .. currently use raindrop … and wasn’t looking to leave .. but I do note that it get used in fits and starts
@bradenslen He’s not wrong … but as usual … over simplified.
… and they weren’t as rich as they are now.
@rodger.bsky.social Key Lime - for animals that do not understand that Lemon Meringue is the one that rules all.
@weeder.bsky.social Either way - I target removal of any and all transport layers for all such ingestion
@MitchW 🥁
@devilgate oh that’s interesting news … sounds like a @manton question ❓
@bradenslen .. no we aren’t drifting into a war with Venezuela .. it is a specific and calculated course that has been charted .. and the journey has started. Of course there are always squirrels.
BTW this is a reply to your post .. which I read in my rss and from there I find it absolutely impossible to jump into Micro.Blog .. and find the original post to reply to.
If anyone has a fix for that would be appreciated.
@Ianbradbury The secrets of London - right? And I thought they were all in The City.