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THIS ONE'S FOR THE GYM BROS

based on my approximate calculations... a three month old fetus has about ~14g of protein, as a human fetus at twelve weeks is about 70-80 grams, and the human body is made up of approximately 16-20% protein by weight. The exact amount may be thrown off because of the unique environmental situation and bodily compositions of a young developing fetus, but nonetheless remains acceptable as a low effort estimate.

#shitpost #trigger warning: math #estimating #gymlife #gym tips #gym body #gymmotivation #gym #fetus #birth control #this is a joke #do not eat human babies #cannibal #do NOT I repeat NOT eat a three month old fetus #NO #put the fetus DOWN #trigger warning cannibalism #cannibal trigger warning

ellipsus-writes

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

I so desperately want to exchange love letters with someone who yearns as strongly as I do, I want to pour out words on paper for someone who I might know as intimately mentally and emotionally as one might know the body of one's lover, but unfortunately...

*squints*

men...