ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 @ Nemo @slrpnk.net

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oh no I apparently feel very strongly that you're wrong here

You're right that m-dashes should be spaced, of course. But there's a big difference between an m-dash and an n-dash, and you used the wrong one in your example. An m-dash, like a semi colon or colon, is for separating two related clauses — there's never at time when you should use two in the same sentence. Whereas n-dashes are used for parantheticals –sub-clauses that can't stand on their own– and should, like round brackets or quotation marks, have spaces on the outside but not the inside.

And I understood it perfectly the first time, which makes it acceptable by my lights.

I'm really sick of people treating AAVE and other dialects like grammar mistakes, is what. Grammar Nazis indeed, protecting the purity of the English language.

browsing local-all by new is one thing

browsing true all by new is beyond the pale

Yes, but only for things I'm actually in the wrong about.

Because they're people; and people, in general, are easy to manipulate.

So, sound is vibration, right? And it's going to vibrate as fast as it can, at the fastest rate that liquid can move. So it's not that the rate of movement comes from the speed of sound; if anything, it's the reverse.

This is my experience.

You don't improve quality of life by losing weight 'quickly' at all. Steady and sustainable are the only way, and exercise is part of that.

We're back up!

You can't only plan for the best case.

in Chicago, it does

WTF, no!. That's going to increase demand for parking spots, if anything.

in a dark room

I think you mean GIF vs. ghiff

I can't call 100°F+ temps for weeks at a time moderate.

arid and cool on average but very volatile (ie. the northern Great Plains)

Ah, I refuse to skip lunch, that must be why I'm always late.

If it does, the mods and admin under whose aegis I abide are doing an above-average job removing it quickly.

Or maybe it's just that I avoid political discussion communities these days.

In the end, I find the lemmy / piefed / *bin network much more civil, thoughtful, and compassionate than reddit was.

A big fuck-off mylar balloon.