Well, it’s impossible for anyone who owns a red sports car to become homeless, so he must have been lying.

Nah plenty of people use them dawg. Maybe you just haven’t been exposed to it.

No autocorrect? Pfft, filthy casuals. I haven’t even stricken a line through a word since the Carter administration.

Yep. It’s quite literally an expression of power for them. Pointing it out does nothing but feed them.

By calling it “[your] expected outcome” I believe you’ve answered your own question there.

Consent is important, dickweed. Cry about it.

Why would you assume it to be appropriate to attempt humiliating someone, even as a joke, just because you happened to discover they were into consensual practice of the kink? Super fucking weird bro. Would you just tie a random person up without asking them if they mentioned they were into rope bondage?

They don’t really mean the exact same thing, or at least not in my dialect. “Fixing to” implies that the thing will happen imminently, not just in the future.

Single em dashes can almost always be used interchangeably with semicolons—they typically separate independent clauses without a conjunction.

Paired em dashes—used to demarcate parenthetical expressions—can be replaced by commas, but not by semicolons.

It has less to do with what feels right and more to do with the mechanics of the sentence. There is a good bit of wiggle room, figuratively speaking, in deciding whether to use commas or paired em dashes—likewise, whether to use a single em dash or a semicolon is almost entirely a stylistic choice. But I feel like the way you explained it is a bit misleading to people still learning the difference.

An em dash can also be used to delineate an abrupt break in the direction or structure of a sentence or dialogue in a way that commas or semicolons simply—fuck, I just shit my pants.

Not trying to be a pedant, just sharing what I’ve learned over the years.

A few cheap laser pointers from Walmart or the discount store and that thing will either be landing immediately, leaving the AO, or crashing violently.

But, you know, you should never do this. Or whatever I’m supposed to say here to prevent the secret police from kicking my door in.