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• Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Math people make me laugh.

  100000 is ‘one hundred thousand’. Your younger self would hear ‘Bitcoin sell one’ followed by confusing silence. Same goes for ‘Bitcoin sell 2025’, twenty twenty five, two thousand twenty five — both ways are too many words.

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  • cockmushroom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The fact you don’t know how to use hyphens doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t. They’ve always been more useful and less bot reeking than em-dashes.

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    • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      An em dash signifies a longer pause — I’ll continue to use them however I see fit. It’s telling, though, that you assume an em dash means I’m using an AI to write.

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      • cockmushroom@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        When did I say you were using AI? By all means, stick to your shitty style choices, but there’s no need to start lying about things.

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• adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Me at 18 in 1980’s: “wtf is a bitcoin?”

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  • projektilski@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, but when it’s invented you WILL know.

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