Silly microblogging and links

[ilzolende]

DuckDuckGo thinks that if you need a comma-separated values file from something with a name starting with "ninja", this is probably about wanting to get files from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or a ninja warrior.

1. Alice: Grow your own chapparal scrub
2. Bob: Chapparal biomes are difficult to grow, and don't call me a scrub!

Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles is a Wikipedia policy proposal worth reading.

The other day, I tried to search the internet for a gentle introduction to cooking with beef, and 2 of the 4 first results were, in fact, a gentle introduction to Moldbug. This is not what I wanted, and I was using DuckDuckGo, so it wasn't my fault, either.

HEADLINE: ‘Super blood wolf moon’ may trigger end of the world this weekend
ARTICLE: CRACKPOT conspiracy theorists think a rare super wolf blood moon may trigger the end of the world this weekend ... Paul Begley from West Lafayette, Indiana, has said he believes there is a small chance the world may end this weekend, according to the Express.
If you can't even find a doomsday preacher who thinks the world will definitely end, it's not worth publishing the article.

This is the future that emoji-users want, apparently.

Comments

[youzicha]

Haha. Remember in the 00s when 2D dress-up games were really popular? (This kind of thing.) I guess we'll eventually have to implement them as a unicode input method/rendering engine.

Meanwhile, I just want the COMBINING DIAERESIS to render properly for CJK characters...

Sidenote on dressup games

[ilzolende]

I don't remember that from the 00s, but I do like 2D dressup games. (And if others do too, they should check out Rinmaru Games and Azalea's Dolls.) But the emoji case is arguably worse, because people want a human of their exact appearance in every possible emoji-supported pose, and also as a mermaid emoji, etc. (And if you asked, they'd probably want a mermaid in all the poses also, etc.)