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Oh lovely, the Subaru Crosstrek. The automotive equivalent of a bearded man in hiking boots who’s never seen a mountain. Yes, yes—220mm of ground clearance, symmetrical all-wheel-drive, and a CVT that responds to throttle like a golden retriever responds to algebra.

You call it an apocalypse commuter? Please. The only thing this thing has ever survived is a steep mall parking ramp. It’s not a rugged off-roader—it’s a cosplay Jeep for people who think flannel is a personality. This car talks a big game about conquering snow and gravel, but starts hyperventilating the moment it sees a hill and a headwind at the same time.

And let’s talk about power—actually, let’s not, because there isn’t any. Merging on the motorway in a Crosstrek isn’t just dangerous, it’s spiritual. You put your foot down, say a quick prayer to the gearbox gods, and hope that the CVT decides to simulate a gear that moves you forward rather than just turning fuel into unpleasant noise. Resale value, Swiss Army knife, duct tape metaphors—fine. But at the end of the day, it’s a hatchback with hiking stickers, delusions of grandeur, and the acceleration of a depressed tortoise.

It’s not that the Crosstrek is bad. It’s just that it pretends so very hard to be brilliant—while delivering the dynamic excitement of a soggy oat biscuit.

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Someone64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Did you AI generate this entire response…?

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- Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Pretty obvious on account of all the em dashes lol.
  
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  - TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I use em dashes…I think it’s sad that a proper grammatical construct is so thoroughly ignored by most people that now it’s a sign of inhumanity.
    
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    Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Sure, but it’s also in the tone, language and grammatical structure. After you know what you’re looking for, you can feel whether it’s AI written.
    
    For what it’s worth, I’d be cautious about using em dashes; people basically associate it with AI without exception.
    
    Even when I use a document editor, and it sometimes 'auto swaps" a dash for an em-dash, I’ll undo it. Just because I wouldn’t want to be perceived as copy/pasting something.
    
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  - Vespair@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Real people use em dashes — the models were trained on real human output after all — so this new crusade against em dashes as the Mark of Beast for AI has always been and continues to be silly.
    
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    Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Real people use emojis too
    
    Doesn’t explain why AI bots loooooove: 🙃 lists with emojis as list points 💩 Em—dashes—without—spaces 🥴 Weird as hell analogies like: 🦮 “responds to throttle like a golden retriever responds to algebra” 🍆 For the record GPT didn’t write this
    
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- blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yes! I was going to write something, but I loathe crosstreks and their owners to the point where I didn’t want to waste my own time.
  
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