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You've been asking the Unicode Consortium for Dark Mode for a decade?

oh lol.. when you are right you are right. Maybe they can convince apple as they do with their garbage icons?
 
Well, I was looking for an excuse never to visit this website again, and I think this is it. Laters, MR.
 
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Well, I was looking for an excuse never to visit this website again, and I think this is it. Laters, MR.

See ya!

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I've given up on using emojis for the most part. Too many of them, too hard to find specific ones, and they keep adding more. I like the old ascii days with simple smiles :) and frowns :( or other creative ascii ones. Faster to do, too, since you don't need to change keyboards, swipe, swipe, swipe, tap...
 
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Hey if you don't like them, don't use them.

I never was a big fan of them, and really never used them but now me and my secretary, as a joke, try to communicate in nothing but emojis when we have to text each other.
My fear is that part of my tax dollars are going to fund this group of worthless people that originally had a very important mission but when that got finished, they found a new non-reason to continue to spend money.
 
I've given up on using emojis for the most part. Too many of them, too hard to find specific ones, and they keep adding more. I like the old ascii days with simple smiles :) and frowns :( or other creative ascii ones. Faster to do, too, since you don't need to change keyboards, swipe, swipe, swipe, tap...

Yeah, I'm clearly old school from a time when emoticons were made of regular keyboard characters and were kind of underground because only geeks and regular Compuserve and AOL forum members knew what they meant.

I don't use they synthetic emojis much at all either. AND frankly I resent there is an emoji key on my iPad keyboard where the shift key should be. For a touch typer like me is screws me up every freaking time. And that makes me :mad:


EDIT: Just learned you can turn off the emoji keyboard in iOS so now I'm :D once more.
 
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So serious question, they're adding a softball, how can you tell a softball from a baseball when both are scaled to emoji dimensions?

Also, adding the roll of toilet paper and bar of soap now gives me something to send back to anyone who sends me the poo emoji.
 
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You know civilization is about to end once pictograms are the most important news item.
In all honesty: I understand the use of smilies.
But the rest is one giant waste of time and resources.

On the other hand: It would probably be a very cozy job to be on that panel. Getting paid for absolute garbage and contributing exactly nothing useful to society.
 
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Thousands of years from now, when humanity is either extinct or thrilling among the stars, extraterrestrials will look upon our civilization and agree that the smiling and frowning poo emojis were truly the apex of our great species.
 
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Meh, wasn't Unicode 12, 13, 14, … 347, and 348 discovered in the HomePod firmware anyway?
 
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