I never used an em dash in my life before AI made them a thing. I enjoy the jokes about AI can have my em dashes when it pries them from my cold dead… but I cannot relate. Ive only ever used the hyphen or en dash. I cannot figure out for the life of me if I have been missing anything.

“And while China’s getting there, an executive in the U.S. aren’t so convinced that’s true.”

Why does this sentence bother me so much?

Ill be honest. Reading it all the way through was a challenge in critical cringe management even being certain it was a joke.

The agent wrote like it scraped a bunch of crime drama in addition to stolen database code. As though it was designed to spice things up based on what it learned.