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A few years ago I sent my kid to school in one of Q’s tshirts depicting a green army guy riding a skateboard. He was sent home in a different shirt and told not to wear that one again. His take: hey free shirt!

What I find funny, is that we’re in a very small rural school district, AND the principal’s husband is an 07/02. And the principal was very apologetic to me the next time I saw her.

It’s district policy sure, but I suspect it is a state mandate. Thanks Oregon.

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Good point about the absence of firearms in cartoons, and the negative context that inevitably surrounds the appearance of firearms in news coverage. It's exciting to see the momentum building from something as simple as a proper "U+1F52B"

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🔫🔫🔫

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> returned back to it's rightful form: an M1911

OK BOOMER. You know honestly, let's just go back to a water gun. 🤣

(I don't actually know jack about pistols, just that my guns friends all love their glocks and hate 1911s)

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I tend to think of 1911s as antiquated but some kind of old-school steel frame handgun is the most Gun of the guns.

Blocks don't look very gun-like to me except for the gross shape.

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If you think about it, the ideal pistol emoji would look like https://files.catbox.moe/h2fe0s.webp

(JK I got forcibly inducted onto team AK on my first trip to the range so I have to denounce that as an inferior firearm, too)

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Yeah, the most iconic handgun would have to either be a 1911 or a SAA. I'll admit that my boomer streak leans more yee-haw than TWO WORLD WARS, so I'd lean towards the latter.

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A few notes:

1. All of the following emoji still exist in the Google keyboard:

⚔️🗡️🔪💣🛡️👊🤜🤛🥷🏹🪖

(Crossed swords, sword or dagger, kitchen knife, bomb, shield, 3 variations of fist, ninja, bow and arrow, army helmet)

( Your text rendering may vary).

2. You do see some related situations where knowledge is basically hidden from the world. How explosives and drugs are made -- not even detailed instructions on clandestine synthesis, but just industrial details of how these things, which modern society is very much dependent upon, has been surprisingly hidden away even though people are very much being trained in ordinary occupational channels. WCMG's explosives classes -- which don't address anything clandestine or "expedient" -- almost seem more "spicy", and certainly have fewer alternatives available, than combat classes along the lines of Max Velocity Tactical

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Very good points. It's kind of a whitepill, in the sense that it kind of proves that the brake on people misusing explosives is more likely to be lack of evil intent than lack of access to the required knowledge.

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The Unicode Consortium themselves participated somewhat in the emoji change. In addition to the Unicode Standard, the Consortium also runs the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) Project, which creates standards for software internationalization and localization. In 2020, in order “to reflect the more common depiction amongst most of the platforms”, CLDR changed the US English name for U+1F52B from “pistol” to “water pistol”, and the Australian English name from “gun” to “water gun”. This is not the :shortcode: used to insert the emoji, but is used, for example, as the tooltip description when you hover over an emoji picker.

Here’s the relevant change on GitHub: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/commit/fb26bfd8d406699b97d4b81e5d1928ebd79c750b

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Of course, it’s worth pointing out that the Unicode Consortium is an industry association, and some of the people making the standards are the same ones running the implementations in member organizations. The guy who created the Jira task (linked in the Git commit) at Unicode was Linguistics Team Manager at Apple at the time.

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Love these details, thank you.

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Thanks for the AZAO link!

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Cool stuff!

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It isn't about how you fill out a form. It is knowingly lying on a federal form. If Hunter didn't have a lying dirtbag dad who is bought and paid for by a foreign government, and selling influence to anyone able to pay he would have been in prison years ago.

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Shouldn't be a crime to lie on a form that shouldn't exist. You're correct that he has been protected by his connections, but that's an argument for protecting more people from the same bad law, not for imprisoning him unjustly. (Just speaking about the 4473 charge here.)

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Maybe it shouldn't, and maybe, this case would have helped get rid of that form. Now we have to wait until we get another chance. But until then it is still illegal.

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