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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.

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[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Where on a standard keyboard is this

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Just google the character and copy paste it as needed. /s

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How ridiculous. I'll just use the one on the keyboard.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 months ago

Okay yea sorry, the sarcasm was whooshed on me.

[–] apostrofail@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.