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as it turns out, a mountain of health woo and transfusing your teenage son’s blood into yourself is no match for long covid (www.donotpanic.news)

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (3 children)

STOP USING AMPERSANDS

years of typography but no practical use found for fancy and
wanted to write shorter sentences anyway for a laugh? we had a tool for that: it’s called “emojis”
“yes, please give me some A&W root beer to wash down my mac & cheese” — statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

look at what the ampersand users have been demanding our Respect for this whole time, with all the & & & we’ve built for them:

they have played us for absolute fools

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

this made me laugh out loud thank you

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

The ampersands gets converted to HTML (aka & by various clients).

In general, it's a good idea to never use ampersands on the web. A lot of sanitizers do not process them properly.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

The majestic breadth of human language should not be truncated for some buggy soulless machine (heck not even that here, but the fear of one)

It's a good idea to never use shitty sanitizers on the web, but a great idea to use tags, ampersands, brackets, semicolons, commas, and dashes with great gusto to seek them out wherever they may be hiding.

Computer may say no, but Sailor Sega Saturn says oh yes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

what in the fuck

no fuck off with this. holy fuck I hate that this is your reason to hassle one of my users

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Sounds like a "not my problem" kind of problem & I don't see why I should care.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Man this is next level cargo cult "security" thinking.

Here's a protip: logoff and delete your account, it's the only way to be safe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

@Scary_le_Poo @self what First Day On The Computer shit is this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

haha wtf this is hilarious