The pistol emoji ― 🔫 ― is being phasered out, or turned into a water pistol:
Google is the latest company to ditch the pistol with a new emoji update for Android users. The switch to a bright orange and yellow water gun, rolling out now, mimics changes made by Apple, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Samsung over the last few years. That leaves Microsoft as the only major platform with the realistic handgun emoji. True, Facebook still uses it, but a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Emojipedia that it would also be replacing its gun emoji with a toy water gun. The Verge has reached out to Microsoft for comment.
[...] Ironically, Microsoft initially displayed the gun emoji as a toy, but changed it to a revolver in 2016 as part of its emoji redesign project. With Google's (and Facebook's) latest move, Microsoft's gun emoji puts it at philosophical odds with the other giant tech companies based in the US where gun violence is a major concern. As we previously noted, in 2016 Apple successfully pushed to remove the rifle icon from the standardized collection of emoji.
However, later on the day The Verge's article was published, Microsoft revealed that it is jumping on the trend as well:
We are in the process of evolving our emojis to reflect our values and the feedback we've received. Here's a preview: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbqXVKBU0AAdXLk.jpg
Previously: Apple Changes "Pistol" Emoji From Revolver to Toy Water Gun
Apple Urged to Rethink Gun Emoji Change
Twitter Changes Revolver Emoji to Water Pistol Emoji
Related: Kids Are Facing Criminal Charges for Using Emoji
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It seems 🚸 should 👀 watch out what kind of 💩 they're sending with their 📱💻 if they don't want to get a visit from the 👮🚓. Time writes:
Emojis are quickly becoming the language of the Internet, but with that power comes a raft of new legal issues. Cases are beginning to emerge in which police charge people — often kids — for using emoji in ways that they deem threatening.
[...] a 12-year-old girl in Fairfax, Va. was charged with threatening her school and computer harassment because she posted a message on Instagram that included a bomb, knife and gun emojis and the phrase "meet me in the Library."
[...] a teen was charged with making a terrorist threat after he wrote a Facebook post that included three gun emojis pointing at the head of a police officer emoji.
Business Insider is reporting that Apple is changing its implementation of the "pistol" emoji (🔫 \U0001F52B; "🔫") from a revolver to a toy water gun. According to Apple's announcement, the change will take effect with the release of iOS 10 this fall. Apple's announcement didn't explicitly mention the change or its rationale but the change is, predictably, ruffling some feathers.
[...] The Emojipedia website argued that the symbol could still appear as a lifelike gun in messages sent to non-iOS users. Apple made the change in the wake of a series of shootings in the US.
However, Microsoft announced this week that its toy gun symbol would be redesigned as a more realistic-looking firearm. The emoji character system allows companies to use slightly different designs of the same basic objects, signs or expressions.
"The thing is, emojis already look different on different platforms and it does cause confusion," Jeremy Burge, editor of Emojipedia, told the BBC. "When we're dealing with guns and toys as a comparison, that's a whole new level of problems that we have there."
[...] "Apple has the most prominent emoji set that people use," said Mr Burge. "I think it has a high responsibility to be a bit cautious."
There was further criticism from web users, but a columnist in the Guardian praised the move as a statement on gun control.
"It's a smart, small part in the battle - which we're presently losing - to keep Americans safe," wrote Jean Hannah Edelstein. There have been calls previously - including from a campaign called Disarm the iPhone - to remove the handgun icon from iOS devices.
[...] Both Apple and Microsoft have said they are working with the Unicode Consortium - the body that maintains lists of emojis across different platforms.
Tacos, dumplings, bagels: the complicated politics of food emoji
Like all emoji, the bagel emoji is a tiny cartoon representation of its namesake, which is, again, a bagel. It is round like a bagel and brown like a bagel. It appears to be a plain bagel, which is not the best kind of bagel but also not the worst. It is a blank slate of a bagel —arguably, the bagel-iest kind of bagel, if not the most visually interesting. It is depicted sliced in half, and dry. Is this a good way to eat a bagel? No. Still, the image is very successful at doing its job, which is to communicate the concept of "bagel."
Bagel enthusiasts, though, were very upset. "Take a look at this clearly machine-cut monstrosity with its stiff and bready interior, which couldn't possibly be redeemed by a few minutes in a toaster," lamented Nikita Richardson at Grub Street. (Redemption is the only reason a bagel should ever be toasted, according to true bagel originalists; to toast a fresh bagel is a symptom of what former New York Times food critic and current culinary curmudgeon Mimi Sheraton calls a "decline in the craft of bagel making.")
[...] Part of the bagelmoji ire, explains Heather Schwedel at Slate, is a performance of discerning taste. "People want to demonstrate that they, unlike those emoji rubes, know from good bagels," she writes, noting that with much of the outcry coming from New York, "there may be some geographic snobbery going on too." A good way to prove you are a true New Yorker is to be extremely opinionated about bagels, whether real or pixelated.
[...] But as Jeremy Burge, the founder of Emojipedia and creator of World Emoji Day, told CNN, people want to see themselves in their tiny icons. "Some of the most vocal requests for new emojis are about representation," he said. The dumpling, the taco, and the pan of paella, for example, all had extremely popular backing. Linguists may not consider emoji a language, Jennifer 8. Lee, the driving force behind the dumpling emoji, told the Atlantic, but "for people who use them, it's almost like fighting for a word that [shows] you exist. When you come up with a word to describe your population, it's a very powerful thing."
Related: Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face
Google CEO Drops Everything to Fix Cheeseburger Emoji
Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji
Emoji 12.0 brings us waffles, more diversity, suggestive "finger pinch" glyph
There's a push for more diversity with this new emoji release. We have emojis for deaf people in three genders (male, female, and genderless) and five skin tones, an ear with a hearing aid, people in motorized and unmotorized wheelchairs, prosthetic arms and legs, a guide dog and a service dog, and people with a probing cane. There are actually only 59 distinct new emoji types in this release, but everything that depicts a human comes in five skin tones and three genders, which pumps up the numbers. You can really see this with the "People holding hands" emoji, which is completely configurable for a total of 70 possible combinations.
The emoji that's causing the most buzz is "pinching hand." Emojipedia's example shows a thumb and pointer finger with a small distance between them, which could also be interpreted as a hand signal for "small." People are already coming up with, uh, "suggestive" uses for such a glyph, and if the actual implementations follow Emojipedia's design, the glyph could end up on the naughty list next to peach and eggplant.
Thank you, Emojesus. ✝
By the way, what happened to calling it Unicode 12.0? Maybe they'll call it that in June.
Unicode Consortium blog post. Also at Emojipedia and 9to5Mac.
Previously: 38 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016
Unicode Considering 67 New Emoji for 2016
Unicode 9.0 Serves up Bacon Emoji, 71 others, and Six New Scripts
Unicode 10.0's New Emojis
Stink Over Frowning Poo Emoji at the Unicode Consortium
Related: Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face
Google CEO Drops Everything to Fix Cheeseburger Emoji
Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji
Battle of the Bagel Emoji
Exclusive: Google releases 53 gender fluid emoji
[As emojis] become more inclusive, each becomes less universal. Jennifer Daniel, designer at Google, thinks about this deep irony at the heart of visual language all the time. She traces it back to the age-old problem with the male bathroom symbol. "That person could be man, woman, anyone," she says. "But they had to add a little detail, that dress, and suddenly that person symbol doesn't mean person anymore; it means man. And that culture means a man-centered culture."
While Daniel can't fix our bathroom signage, as the director of Android emojis, she can fix another problem: The lack of gender-neutral symbols in texting. She can give us the zombies, merpeople, children, weightlifters that are neither male nor female. "We're not calling this the non-binary character, the third gender, or an asexual emoji–and not gender neutral. Gender neutral is what you call pants," says Daniel. "But you can create something that feels more inclusive."
Google is launching 53 updated, gender ambiguous emoji as part of a beta release for Pixel smartphones this week (they'll come to all Android Q phones later this year). Whether Google calls them "non-binary" or not, they have been designed to live between the existing male and female emoji and recognize gender as a spectrum. Given that Google collaborates with many of its rivals on emoji, it's likely that Apple and others will release their takes on genderless emoji later this year.
Google redesigns its emoji to be more universal and authentic
Google is tweaking 992 of its emoji designs to make them more "universal, accessible, and authentic," the company announced today. The new designs will arrive this fall alongside Android 12, but Google says they'll also be available on older versions with apps that use its Appcompat compatibility layer. They're also coming to other Google platforms like Gmail, Chrome OS, Google Chat, and YouTube Live Chat this month.
[...] [The] bikini emoji no longer looks like it's being worn by an invisible person, and the face mask emoji now shows a face with its eyes open. Google says it made this change to reflect the fact that masks have become "a universal way of showing kindness to others" rather than a symbol of someone being sick.
[...] If you're wondering why we've seen such a flurry of emoji news over the past couple of days, it's because this year's World Emoji Day [landed] July 17th.
Related: Google CEO Drops Everything to Fix Cheeseburger Emoji
Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji
Unicode Consortium Adding 230 New Emojis in Emoji 12.0
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday April 27 2018, @06:58PM (13 children)
Until just a few days ago I took it for granted that Emoji rendering was always in color. Color seems like a huge part of what makes them useful, or at least, fun. I see colored emoji everywhere under OS X. In the shell, in IRC, on the web, etc.
But I learned that under some operating systems, these are rendered as font glyphs, in the color of the current font.
That was a real TIL moment for me.
The bowdlerizing of the gun emoji doesn't surprise me a bit. They did it for you / the children, Special Butterflies.
On the plus side, I might just seriously intend to shoot you with a water pistol. Loaded with actual water. I have huge ammo reserves for these wetly weapons. Spray and pray, man, spray and pray. :)
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday April 27 2018, @07:05PM
Yellow and green, eh? Ur-ine trouble, mister.
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(Score: 2) by KiloByte on Friday April 27 2018, @07:20PM (1 child)
That's so called "emoji presentation" vs "text presentation". The Unicode standard instead of specifying solid rules when to use either, instead requires user agents to rely on magic pixies and mind reading. Even worse are optional features, like ZWJ sequences.
The pistol (🔫 U+1F52B) and rifle (🥆 U+1F946) glyphs also provide a nice way to tell operating systems meant for children vs those for grown-ups. I just searched fonts shipped in Debian, and didn't find one that displays a toy for either of these codepoints.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @11:10PM
The next update of SystemD will fix that.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday April 27 2018, @08:24PM
Well they already sucked all the colors out of the MSN logo butterfly.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2, Informative) by LoRdTAW on Friday April 27 2018, @08:43PM (8 children)
Emoji are glyphs which happen to be rendered using bitmaps by some operating systems or ui tool kits. Personally I think they are fucking stupid for the most part especialyl when you can use them in file names. I once joking named a script 💩.sh ... Which BTW, is why I think they are fucking stupid; how do you prevent file/path name abuse if you can't type them? Oh right, I'm getting old and my grandpas computers [urbandictionary.com] giant keyboard doesnt have a cute little tappy key thing. Maybe we'll one day have 106 key keyboards with an emoji button. Then we can link that to the $1000 Optimus maximus keyboard so the keys can display the glyphs for us old geezers while we wear our visors, arm garters, vests and bow-ties typing codes on our archaic machines.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Friday April 27 2018, @08:57PM (7 children)
Here's a nickel kid, get yourself a better computer. ☺
If your outdated platform lacks a compose key, upgrade to one that does. No I don't know if there is one for the poop emoji yet but I just typed [COMPOSE] : ) and it inserted the smiley. There are hundreds of others. What else does one do with those otherwise useless "Windows" keys? Emojis are stupid, a waste and a regression toward the hieroglyphics that failed; but a lot of other useful symbols beyond the 94 printable ASCII glyphs are handy. Like °, ×, ÷, µ, ±, accented characters for the peeps outside the U.S. English areas of the world, etc.
So the Tech Titans have stated their "values". Now let Americans state theirs by replacing those faggot typefaces with ones more suited to a Free People.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Friday April 27 2018, @09:13PM
That I can agree with.
(Score: 3, Touché) by fyngyrz on Friday April 27 2018, @11:38PM (3 children)
中国人会不同意你的看法. ☺️
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 28 2018, @03:21AM (1 child)
中国人很难读写，他们可能会同意
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Saturday April 28 2018, @04:21AM
中国人以中国文字为荣. 它非常漂亮.
我喜歡舊式的寫作. 它更美麗.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday April 28 2018, @08:22PM
Yea, now look at a Chinese datasheet and realize why it is a failure. They can't add easily new symbols and thus can't add new words, Chinese is therefore as dead as Latin, just for a different reason. Using a sequence of existing glyphs is merely taking the worst of their current system and merging the worst parts of our system. There are just too many Chinese speakers and a Communist government that can simply outlaw what would otherwise happen, a slow abandonment of a bad idea. If you have to insert English words into a document (other than trademarks and such) it is a bad sign.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 28 2018, @02:54AM (1 child)
As far as I can tell, there wasn't much reason to add emojis to Unicode other than "Why not?! We've got the space!"
All standards go from identifying subsets of existing systems (e.g., What symbols are in actual widespread use by humans?) to becoming the stupidly committee-piloted driving force behind all systems (e.g., Hey, what cool new things can we add to drive the sale of smartphones?).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Saturday April 28 2018, @04:07AM
It gives the Unicode Consortium something to do that more people care about than adding something like the Tangut script [wikipedia.org].
It standardized a set of symbols that were being used by competing mobile providers. 📱📞
It gives you a set of useful symbols that you can add in web applications. ⚠ 💾
It even gives people something to complain about (not to mention that movie). There's really no downside. 👌😂
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(Score: 2) by black6host on Friday April 27 2018, @07:12PM (12 children)
Where the hell are you with your AR sig? Google can't keep *us* down!
Seriously, though. I do not like this trend we've been on for a while. I hardly know how to act in the world today for fear of offending somebody... Good thing I'm an introvert, I guess.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 27 2018, @07:19PM (5 children)
Hmm... there's an idea. Little bit of sed and we could replace the pistol character with an entirely more awesome AR15 png.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @08:46PM (4 children)
The secret service uses the FN P90 to protect our beloved president. It is way more modern than the AR-15, which is a design that is half a century old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_P90 [wikipedia.org]
To ensure font compatibility, the USA should just pass a law mandating that the weapon appear at a particular code point. (exempted: any OS that is unable to support 100,000 code points or unable to support 1000 distinct characters simultaneously displayed) Both right-facing and left-facing versions must be supported. Both plain and actively-firing versions must be supported.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 27 2018, @09:18PM (3 children)
Yeah, I just got a fondness for the AR15 on account of I can strip, clean, and reassemble one blindfolded.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @10:40PM (2 children)
Gettin' naked, with yer gun! Oh what fun!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 27 2018, @11:50PM
This is my rifle, this is my gun, this one's for fighting, this one's for fun.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 28 2018, @03:49PM
If you can't get nekkid with your weapons, you probably can't get nekkid with anyone.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Virindi on Friday April 27 2018, @07:20PM (1 child)
Yeah, exactly. Now a mere icon of a cartoon gun will make people upset? People need to get over themselves. Sometime in their life they are likely to encounter a situation that is ACTUALLY emotionally difficult, and when that day comes they will be wholly unprepared.
(Score: 3, Informative) by MostCynical on Friday April 27 2018, @09:25PM
No, no, they will be completely prepared to be emotionally scarred for life AND they will be ready and willng to appear on the news/talk shows crying about it (for a fee)
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @07:47PM
Yup. I would much prefer if we just stuck to punishing the criminals and not worrying about possible bad things and left the "always watching" to that God figure people used to use so much.
My guess is that the cognitive load of our fear based society is incredibly detrimental.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 28 2018, @01:39AM (1 child)
The bullies have gotten to you. May I suggest some assertiveness training? A visit to your local dojo could be good for you.
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/Assertiveness.htm [mindtools.com]
There is a line between assertiveness and aggressiveness. Few people today seem to understand that. The politically correct crowd has become aggressive, you must become assertive to have any chance against them.
And, read Vox Day, and all the others who were part of the Sad/Rabid puppies. They can offer some valuable guidance.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by black6host on Saturday April 28 2018, @03:16PM
Don't get me wrong, I can be quite assertive if needed. Aggressive if warranted but that is rare. Most people stay the hell out of my way. I attribute that to the feeling of confidence I developed in the dojo. It's more that I don't understand people's reactions to certain things these days. The world is very different and it changed dramatically in the the last few years with respect to things like cultural appropriation (ridiculous...), feminism, etc. I'm not saying change isn't needed. But what isn't needed is a large portion of the country wanting their pound of flesh from me to make up for someone else's past behavior. The fact that folks are considering developing apps (LegalFling is one though I don't know if it was ever released) that set up a contract you can use when picking someone up to ensure you don't get charged with rape says a lot about fear nowadays. Plus, I'm sick as a dog, and cranky, too.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 28 2018, @01:42AM
I were sleeping, but I are here now!
http://dongerlist.com/category/gun [dongerlist.com] There are several more politically incorrect "guns" on that page!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 27 2018, @07:43PM (6 children)
Gun Emojis don't kill people. People kill people.
Now where's the automatic weapon emoji?
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 2) by KiloByte on Friday April 27 2018, @07:45PM
🥆 U+1F946
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday April 27 2018, @07:59PM
🏮, ➰, 💣? 💎💎💎
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuP0OJOzNKA [youtube.com]
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(Score: 1) by conn8d on Friday April 27 2018, @08:19PM (2 children)
Gun's don't kill people, vegans do.
(Score: 5, Funny) by maxwell demon on Friday April 27 2018, @08:55PM
misplaced apostrophes do. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Friday April 27 2018, @08:57PM
...with unbearable self righteousness.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @10:38PM
Right between the murdered schoolchildren emoji, and the schoolteacher packing heat emoji.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Snospar on Friday April 27 2018, @07:56PM (2 children)
Thank fuck, that's the American gun crisis sorted. Thank you UTF+
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @08:47PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday April 27 2018, @09:13PM
Soooo, you find it "interesting", perhaps ?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @07:59PM (3 children)
People don't know what a fucking font is.
People think they have that little fucking control over their devices that they have to rely on the VENDOR to get them the font they want! Or maybe they're talking about Windows 10 and you actually can't install fonts. In that case, people have GIVEN UP that much control over their device!
Apparently they're completely in-fucking-capable of installing a different font!
HOLY FUCKING SHIT PEOPLE!
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Friday April 27 2018, @08:02PM (1 child)
Maybe they are using an iPhone. In which case it's not "Jeebus!", but "Jobs!"
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @08:09PM
But jobs are good so Apple gets a free pass on, um, everything!
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday April 28 2018, @05:21AM
If thy font offend thee, rm -Rf the sucker!
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Friday April 27 2018, @08:01PM (12 children)
It actually looks like a power drill to me more than anything else, but we all know that power drills kill as well as guns...
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @08:10PM (11 children)
Taken from injury lawyer website:
Here are some statistics on the number of emergency room (ER) visits per year caused by individual types of tools (source: "The Most Dangerous Power Tools," Forbes.com, December 2009):
Power nailers or nail guns: 37,000 emergency room visits/year
John Deere-type Riding Lawn Mowers: 37,000 hospital visits a year
Chain Saws: 36,000 ER visits/year
Stationary Table Saws: 29,000 ER visits/year
Snowblowers: 5,7000 ER Visits per year; 19 deaths recorded since 1992
Circular or Rotary Saws: 10,600 ER cases/year
Power Drills: 5,800
Backhoes: Average of 38 construction fatalities a year
Air Compression Devices: 2,400
Wood Chippers: Average of 3 deaths a year
If they could take our guns, they would come for the nailguns next.
In Great Cuckin they are now "rounding up" sticks and bicycle wheels during their "weapon sweeps" meant to make it looks like they are doing their jobs.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by KiloByte on Friday April 27 2018, @09:07PM (10 children)
In the UK, they already banned knives, and regular scissors (you can get only the type that in normal countries is given to kindergarten but not elementary school kids).
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday April 27 2018, @09:27PM (6 children)
What? You don't want to, maybe, qualify that broad statement just a little?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday April 27 2018, @11:23PM (5 children)
The GP may want to take a glance over this page [www.gov.uk] before trying to back up their claims.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday April 28 2018, @12:32AM (1 child)
Why the hate on locking blades? They're safer to use than non-locking and no more dangerous as a weapon than any other knife.
No problem is insoluble, but at Ksp = 2.943×10−25 Mercury Sulphide comes close.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Saturday April 28 2018, @07:43AM
At a guess, they're as concealable as other folding blades, but (because they lock) can cause more stabbing damage, because they're rigid.
(Score: 2) by qzm on Saturday April 28 2018, @12:42AM (2 children)
'kusari (or ‘manrikigusari’) - a weight attached to a rope, cord, wire'
Which I can only assume could be read as including fishing lines with a sinker on the end attached to a trace wire.. that sucks.
Then again, you are ok if you are carrying 'if it’ll be used in a demonstration or to teach someone how to use it' - who comes up with this shite? I mean really?
But dont worry, Sikhs can carry Kiripan with no problems, in fact they get a special mention as ok:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT7frnYEwxJIPvvOZ120xp8Y3Et3XPV0QF1PamaBFLrNJy-tvIj [gstatic.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 28 2018, @10:06AM
> Which I can only assume could be read as including fishing lines with a sinker on the end attached to a trace wire.. that sucks.
So what you're saying is, that law has been narrowly crafted to target Buzzard the Mighty.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday April 28 2018, @03:19PM
That's conkers out then.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by EETech1 on Friday April 27 2018, @10:42PM (2 children)
Guess they need a throw acid in your face emoji.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 28 2018, @02:58AM (1 child)
Right here [christianpodcastcentral.com]
(Score: 2) by EETech1 on Saturday April 28 2018, @03:24AM
You fucking rock my anonymous friend:)
☮️✌️❤️❤️
Next up... 🗡️
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Friday April 27 2018, @08:12PM (6 children)
Changing a revolver to a toy or cartoon gun is not much of a change. I get what they are trying to do, but a gun is still a gun. Cartoon guns are still a depiction of a gun. So is a water pistol, a toy given to young children so they can "play with guns".
Eh, as I age I understand why people become more conservative. Everyone keeps changing your shit. Oh well, the times change. Fuck everything.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday April 27 2018, @09:16PM (5 children)
The point, I think, is that it's ridiculous to threaten someone (or an institution) with a water gun.
It's very silly.
(Score: 4, Informative) by MostCynical on Friday April 27 2018, @09:28PM (4 children)
But if the policemen sees the water pistol, you still end up dead.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 4, Informative) by bob_super on Friday April 27 2018, @10:34PM (3 children)
Nah. I'm not tanned and my clothes mostly fit. They'd probably ready their shot with a warning, giving me just enough time to drop the objects from my hand as a free action
/white_privilege
(Score: 1) by tftp on Friday April 27 2018, @11:27PM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday April 27 2018, @11:59PM (1 child)
Back in the 1990's I used to carry a ridiculously large super soaker (this one [isoaker.com]) in a specially crafted gun rack in the back window of my pickup as humorous visual commentary on the gun-toting culture where I live (Montana.)
I got stopped by a state trooper (not a Montana state trooper, interestingly enough... Pennsylvania) one time; guy asked me how I could see out the back window. He was about my size, so I invited him to sit in the driver's seat and observe the rear view mirror and the backup camera and the two side mirrors; my vision of the road was not in any way compromised — even through the back window, as the rack was low and the pickup was relatively high. He left shaking his head, no warning or ticket.
I would not do this today. I have no wish to
die in a hail of gunfire emanating from the jack-booted, trigger-happy thugs masquerading as lawmenannoy our heroic police officers.(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 28 2018, @01:50AM
You, Sir, have an attitude problem*.
Join the millions of the rest of us who have attitude problems.
*As measured by our new, state of the art Attitude Measuring Meter, regularly recalibrated, reliable, sophisticated, and full of pseudo-scientific hype.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday April 27 2018, @08:56PM
not even going to start
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @08:58PM (1 child)
The squirt guns contain nerve agents.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday April 27 2018, @10:10PM
Actually, just some simple acid is enough to make a water pistol quite harmful.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @10:30PM
What a waste of time...
I usually do not say that about computer changes. But I think I have finally found a waste of time.
What sort of derangement do you have to have that a picture make you think something horrible is going to happen? https://i.redd.it/r5onsho2mgt01.jpg [i.redd.it]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @11:28PM (1 child)
I am in the process of evolving the english language to reflect my values and feedback on Microsoft's software.
Where Microsoft used to say "the most secure version of Windows ever", they should now say "Yet another shit-tastic version of our software that allows us to rape our partners while having them drive dump trucks full of money to our campus to pay for the privilege".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 28 2018, @02:56AM
That's your real problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 28 2018, @07:35PM
Ok, stop the crazy train here. This is where I want to get off (and I'm afraid I've already gone a few stops past where I should have gotten off).
I've known for a long while about their screwed up sense of values when they took serifs off of the letters. What kind of values are those??? You will get my serifs when you pry them out of my cold, dead hands! They're also the MF's who gave us Comic Sans. Need I say more?