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@cprn I want a "hitting" emoji with subject and object modifiers.
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@cprn Then you could have a "eggplant hitting face of unspecified colour"
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@lbfalvy That's a nightmare. Let's remove all skin colours from emojis and leave only deep blue. Like in avatar. Or deep blue to deep purple gradient to avoid having the gender war all over again. And restore freedom of speech - anyone can say and call anyone anything as long as they don't incriminate them and it's your own responsibility to not feel offended. Being offended is so 2020.
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@cprn Everyone is allowed to call anyone anything. Nobody's required to continue doing business with you once you have proven to be a dick.
The actual issue in my opinion is less taking offense and more that we don't yet have a natural instinct to stay out of hate campaigns against people we don't know, so sometimes when some person or small group takes offense at something there's inordinate social pressure to ostracize the offender even if most people enacting the pressure weren't aware of the group's existence and would have made the same mistake. -
@lbfalvy I don't think like I'm politically inclined enough to debate it but you're probably right. The only thing I know for sure is that I was called names when I was a teenager and I wasn't offended. I called them names back and we went for orange soda after and signed each other's keys or shared shell accounts. If a person thinks something is passive aggressive and gets butthurt enough about it to try and tell the world in hope of changing it instead of just adapting to the environment they live in, they aren't ready to be on their own - their parents didn't do a good job to get them there. They'll die on their first "gap year trip" to eastern Europe where people deal with worse issues than someone being a dick.
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@cprn I haven't met anyone who actually thinks like this, I'm pretty sure It's usually just someone kindly asking someone else to be considerate, but publicists directly interested in outrage inflate the issue into a counterproductive hate campaign.
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@cprn Most of them also emerge on Twitter which deliberately stifles meaningful discourse by forcing posts into a format much too short to include proper argumentation.
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https://dailymail.co.uk/femail/...
It basically is about different connotations of emojis for different age groups and that younger generations stopped using some of them. That emojis aren't actually conveying some sort of universal meaning, but are subject to culture-dependent interpretation as anything else used for human communication isn't surprising.
That Facebook managed to ruin the thumbup emoji for an entire generation is surprising though. Well done, Facebook.
Screw Emojis!!
Client asks how many days will it take to implement feature XYZ.
I say 3 days. But Skype had...
I have got 99 problems and emoji encoding ain't one of them.
P.S. /r/softwaregore
I just saw a news article (nope, not sharing it...don't want them to get the clicks) where they said it's now considered passive-aggressive to use the following emojis (the percentage is a non-specific n-value and N-value...probably 3...of how many younger folks think it makes you look "old" to use these):
1 - Thumbs up - 24%
2 - Red love heart - 22%
3 - OK hand - 20%
4 - Tick - 17%
5 - Poo - 17%
6 - Loudly crying face - 16%
7 - Monkey eye cover - 15%
8 - Clapping hands - 10%
9 - Lipstick kiss mark - 10%
10 - Grimacing face - 9%
I previously only ever used thumbs-up and checkmarks to signal that I understood the message sent to me. My new goal is to use as many of these as possible when messaging anyone under 30. If you are so butthurt by ANY emoji, then you certainly deserve what's coming to you.
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