I agree. On my normal keyboard I wouldn’t even know how to produce an EM dash without looking it up. On my phone keyboard I can easily but that’s just the intuitive UI.

I use hyphens all the time. I can’t say I’ve noticed an EM dash outside a book, paper, or blog post (like, proper stylized blog).

I acknowledge that, this is the result of unbridled capitalism.

When a person uses social engineering and manipulation to extract money from an individual or company it’s called fraud, when a large enough company does it it’s just business.

If only our government could give us some handy dandy consumer protection laws.

Of course it’s an Israeli firm that is enabling this greedy behavior. They already price gouge as it is. Can’t we go back to the formula of “our cost + our profit margin adjusted for market”. This bleeding the customer dry bullshit should stick in bullshit avoidable video game micro transactions.

This reply is more of a light hearted nitpick and not replying to the substance of your comment but…

For example, when I say “this apple is red”, anyone reading this can easily visualize a red apple because of your experience seeing a apple.

To be fair you said anyone, not everyone, but as someone with aphantasia I can’t relate to this. I can’t visualize an apple.