People were not born voluntarily, once alive we mostly don't die voluntarily. We won't stop voluntarily because it would be akin to dying voluntarily. We have to accept the fact that we are not in fact the Borg, we don't have one hive mind.

>"Next, we need a campaign to put all punctuation that is not part of a quote outside the quotes, even if it looks funny now."

OMG, I couldn't agree more.

It's good practice to have second sources.

For most suppliers, GM isn't their only customer.

Indicator bulbs: cover glass or plastic, different types of plastic for housing, perhaps some fasteners, adhesives, copper wire, insulation, electrical connectors, incandescent light bulb or semiconductor LED, either of which is like 5 suppliers or more for subcomponents and tooling.

Yeah your indicator light supply chain probably sprouts tentacles in 10 or 15 directions.

Nah, it's not politically noble, it's self protection. It's avoiding the change of political strife meaning they can't sell the cars they make.

Given what's been happening, it's probably a wise decision. I expect the stress between the US and China to get worse. I hope it stays at "economic warfare".

I think the justification is that gambling should be discouraged....not that I think that this works, or that they are at all consistent.

>"what if your list is two elements?

Then it isn't needed.

>"you can pretend there isn't a conflict but there is one"

I would write that:

"You can pretend there isn't a conflict, but there is one."

The fate of democracy...er I mean television...depends on it. Somehow.

Ideally, it should be a hair space (because em dashes in web fonts are borderline illegible without it), but Slashdot does not support Unicode, and   gets silently swallowed by Slashdot's HTML parser. Besides, we all know that AP style is the one true style, and it demands space.

No, an en dash is used for numerical ranges and certain compound hyphentions, not for parentheticals.

We don't really know. I would bet that you are correct, and even give odds, but not long odds. Anything over 10:1 and I'd feel nervous.

IIUC, an em dash is a dash as wide as a capital "M".

>"Seriously, make symbols for humans that are easy for humans to tell apart: lI|" :)
At least when I hand-write, I usually print (not cursive) yet I always use a cursive lowercase "L" when it is a code (like in a user ID or variable name). And capital "I"'s I always put top/bottom strokes. Pipes I write as two vertical hyphens (with a space in the middle). Oh, and slashes through zeros.

>"Now tell me your take on the Oxford comma"

I was taught in school (USA) that commas are important, lists should have commas, and there should be a comma for each element in the list (even before an "and"). I have written that way my whole life, I think it is clearer and more logical, and I am not going to stop doing it. :)

Could you please make no em dashes the default so that the 1% of us who actually know how to use em dashes correctly — professional writers and language nerds and so on — don't keep getting accused of using ChatGPT?

Thanks,
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My guess is that the finance team got wind of it, and they're tightening their belt.