Folks with vaginas, I’m conducting some family comparative analysis and I’d like to know how many standard pieces of toilet paper do you use when wiping after a pee. I posted some comments with options to upvote if you like.

        • @[email protected]
          2•1 month ago

          I had some doubts people would get the joke. I should go add an /s

          To answer your question it depends on the keyboard but i don’t actually care, the difference between - and – is just semantics to me.

    • @apostrofail
      -2•1 month ago

      What is a “standard” keyboard? No such thing as every region has different keyboards & variants inside those regions. I can use AltGr on my desktop keyboard & holding the hyphen key on mobile allows easy selection of em dash & en dash.

      • lazynoobletEnglish
        6•1 month ago

        I work for a multi-national IT department. I just happen to have a UK, FR and DE laptop on the workbench. I don’t see the em-dash on any of them. AltGr + hyphen does nothing on Windows (Google search says Mac supports this). None of these laptops have a numpad, but Google search says maybe CTRL+MINUS(numpad) may give an em-dash. Can’t test though.

        In any case, it seems the world has left behind em-dash, so correcting users on a public forum seems pointless.

        • @apostrofail
          1•1 month ago

          They were invented long ago—long before keyboards, but the terminally-online folks here forgot that pen & paper also happened before & folks writing English used all sorts of symbols, such as þͤ for “the”. But I guess if it doesn’t fit on ANSI keyboards invented for typewriters 100 years ago with 100-year-ago limitation, these symbols cannot possible exist in contemporary times lol.