Apple released iOS 13.2 earlier today, and the update includes 398 new emoji. There's a bunch of brand-new ones (I love the otter) as well as emoji to represent people with disabilities, gender-neutral emoji (following in Google's footsteps), and a new way to select the skin colors of each individual in the holding hands emoji.
The new batch of emojis also help to normalize menstruation:
For too long, those of us with periods and clitorises have been brutally silenced from talking about our cramps and orgasms by Emoji's lack of yonic and vagina-related emojis. While we gab and gossip freely with eggplant dicks, the best digital icon we currently have to talk about periods and vaginas are the taco (no shade to tacos, it just sounds like a joke a 13-year-old boy would make), and the bloody syringe, which feels unnecessarily gruesome (we're trying to teach kids that periods aren't scary).
This dark time has come to an end. Apple has released iOS 13.2, and the update includes 398 new emoji, including a gorgeous menstrual-red blood drop. [...] The collection also includes a luscious, dignified and highly yonic oyster emoji, replete with a pearly clit, for all your sexting and storytelling needs.
Also at Emojipedia and SFGATE.
Previously: Unicode Consortium Adding 230 New Emojis in Emoji 12.0
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Thursday October 31 2019, @05:10PM (10 children)
https://emojipedia.org/flag-for-taiwan/ [emojipedia.org]
Hong Kongers without Chinese-model iPhones can copy and paste or bookmark the emoji.
Looks like there is no blocking of the Hong Kong flag [emojipedia.org]... yet.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday October 31 2019, @05:24PM (9 children)
You can say Taiwan is shorter to type or say but it can't compete with RoC for typeability and it's little if any easier to pronounce than Arosee.
There are actual Taiwanese people, about 2.5% of the population, as in many other countries around the world.
Rebranding the RoC as Taiwanese threatens to erase the actual Taiwanese identity. I can see why the PRC prefers it that way but why is the rest of the world coöperating with that?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @05:32PM (3 children)
Why does stuff say "Made in Taiwan" on it? Isn't that written by people from there who might care which it says?
(Score: 1) by Arik on Thursday October 31 2019, @05:57PM (2 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @09:17PM (1 child)
That's funny, last one I looked at said, "Made in Help! I'm trapped in a DVD factory!"
The weird thing is I was buying shoes...
(Score: 1) by Arik on Friday November 01 2019, @04:51AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 31 2019, @05:42PM (4 children)
Sorry, but the writing was on the wall decades ago, now. Taiwan and Hong Kong were ceded to China, according to a treaty. The specifics of that treaty may be violated to greater and lesser degrees by China, but those islands now belong to China. Short of war, there is nothing that can be done about it now. Unless we are willing to commit to war, any intercession by us will only make the takeover more painful, and more bloody, than necessary. That is, any acts of defiance from outside will only increase the burden on the people living there now.
Bow to history, it's a fait accomli.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday October 31 2019, @05:56PM
Hong Kong was handed over from the UK. Taiwan is an entirely different situation.
"Short of war, there is nothing that can be done about it now. Unless we are willing to commit to war, any intercession by us will only make the takeover more painful, and more bloody, than necessary."
You're speaking of Hong Kong, yes?
There's some truth to what you're saying in that case, but you're overlooking the elephant in the room. There is no question here of war or no war. We're actually still at war. We never signed a permanent peace, we never resolved the underlying disputes, we just started mutually ignoring the problem. Thank you tricky dick Nixon!
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @06:09PM (1 child)
The bulk of HongKong was never ‘owned ‘ by Britain, the Bulk of the land , the New Territory, was a 99 year lease that expired in 1997.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong [wikipedia.org]
Taiwan is not scheduled to return to China, it has been in permanent limbo for decades, not governed by China but not declaring complete independence either
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday November 01 2019, @04:18AM
That's a convenient but inherently dishonest description of the situation.
The R.O.C. and the P.R.C. are competing Chinese governments. Both claim the whole of historical China and a little more.
The R.O.C. lost too many times and had to retreat to the bunker. That bunker is Taiwan. The only province they still control.
Nixon went to China and 'normalized' relations without officially ending either of the wars that we are still technically involved in, against the PRC.
No wonder a generation later no one has a clue what's actually going on.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @10:45PM
Any place full of Chinamen is part of China, duh.