Em dashes and emojis
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You can pry my em dashes — which I use regularly in writing because I love them — from my cold dead hands (To be fair, I really like parenthetical statements too, could be an ADHD thing).
Humans just use dashes - they get the point across and don't require esoteric button presses.
Some phones turn hyphens into an em dash.
Fuck using an alt code though, I'm just gonna use a comma even when I shouldn't
I use the EURKey layout, right alt becomes a modifier key that, among other changes, turns the dash into an em dash. It's really nice, also for diacritics and such.