There are two types of people: Those for whom Alice’s Restaurant is a staple, and those who’ve never heard of it.

I’ll put the final death toll at 150-180. “Missing” have even odds of not being at home.

Mint is actually cheaper. I switched to them a decade ago.

I mean, I pay $204 a year all in for service. How people can spend that much in two months is beyond me.

That at least skips the need to legally change my name.

That’s a Lemmy formatting thing.

Most likely fucked you?

Whoa, whoa, whoa … expecting utility out of a product? That’s socialism!

I dislike having the comma of direct address thrown at me. At least close the aside!

Let’s not get audio editing involved!

Sadly, for you, it does, in fact, give me authority, regardless of your opinion on the subject. You don’t seem a particularly enjoyable individual. Perhaps look into why that is before lashing out at others.

You’re speaking to a mod. If you don’t care for how Beehaw works, please look elsewhere.

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I’m not sure whence your animosity comes. I’ve been a columnist since the '90s, and I assure you: Em-dashes are on the menu.

To claim proof of LLMs is to say it was never done until then. It most assuredly was.

That’s great with AP Style. MLA goes in a different direction regarding spaces.

I – to a certain extent – know how to use an em-dash.

(Source: Former journalist.)

Can we please stop with the em-dash bullshit? That’s a literary tool, not a sign of an LLM in play. That people did not encounter them ahead of ChatGPT speaks more to their news diet than the ability to be a literary critic.

I don’t like to comment twice, but holy fuck … what the hell did I just read?

The framing here puts the Louvre to shame (they’ve currently got their own problems). Perhaps the purest perversion of capitalism is the idea that sufficient is never enough.

Look: Phones are commodities at this point. You only need a new one when the old one breaks. You don’t call a plumber to replace your pipes every two years; it’s generally because something shitty happens. Sometimes literally.

This feels like the pendulum swinging back, to the alarm of capital. I’m old enough to remember appliances being expected to last 20 years. Fridge, oven, TV, washer and dryer: All were expected to be single-time replacements over the course of a 30-year mortgage.

Hence growing up with a fridge in almond and a Kenmore set of laundry machines in mustard yellow. And a console Sony TV that made it through my entire console gaming time.