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Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

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  • The magnitude of physical stress waves a magnet has to undergo to be demagnetized is huge. Most magnetic materials will shatter instead unless the force is applied precisely.

    I think he vaguely remembered something about electromagnetism and that water on electronics is a no-no.

    The main takeaway is that he should appoint an engineer to advise him on technical topics (and Surgeon General on medical matters, etc.), otherwise any sufficiently sly corporate sponsor or media can easily steer his policy by pretending to be experts. I guess the only fields he does not need to delegate are being a douchebag on TV and lying about real estate.











  • I hope at least the Unicode Consortium pulls their head out of their ass by then and defines sequences like

    U+1F3F3 WAVING WHITE FLAG  
    U+ FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16  
    U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
    U+1F7E5 LARGE RED SQUARE  
    U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
    U+1F7F7 (not yet existing) LARGE LIGHT ORANGE SQUARE  
    U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
    U+ 21BC WHITE LARGE SQUARE  
    U+ FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 (forces emoji rendition of this pre-emoji character, also used in the existing trans flag sequence)  
    U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
    U+1F7FA (not yet existing) LARGE LIGHT PURPLE SQUARE  
    U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
    U+1F7EA LARGE PURPLE SQUARE
    

    This would render as a striped flag like tiny render of waving hand-staff 5-stripe lesbian pride flag SVG by JoyPixels if supported on the platform (on devices before Unicode 20.0 like yours right now, the fallback is “🏳️‍🟥‍🟷‍⬜️‍🟺‍🟪”, much like the fallback of 🏳️‍⚧️ is “🏳️⚧️”). Fonts could include most common pride flags (with exact “canonical” color values) and/or the platforms could generate the stripes on the fly up to a limit. I think both approaches have been implemented for the family emoji set on some platforms (yup, those also use separate codepoints for members and ZWJs), after all. (I hope platforms adopt the latter approach, even though it enables arbitrary, evil “pride” flags like TERF or MAP − well, Unicode has always been able to express evil, valid Unicode sequences include U+0FD5 RIGHT-FACING SVASTI SIGN, U+1FAC3 PREGNANT MAN, U+20E0 COMBINING ENCLOSING CIRCLE BACKSLASH or the entire text of Mein Kampf.) And would people abuse it for color bitmap text art? Yes, like they do Braille now.