Reader mode fixes the annoying way they've broken scrolling.

Amusingly, the last set bemoans the blood-filled syringe being replaced with a clear liquid, but shows the blood-filled syringe... same for the pistol, I see a revolver in the article, not the toy they describe. As always, emoji interpretation doesn't just depend on culture, but on the software context that it's displayed in...

> Reader mode fixes the annoying way they've broken scrolling.

It's amazing the bullshit I unknowingly avoid by blocking Javascript by default. Worth a try for anyone who hasn't yet, just re-enable it as needed and after a few days you'll almost stop noticing because you will have re-enabled it on websites you regularly visit and that need JS. Your computer will be a fan, and your fan will remain quiet.

I highly recommend uBlock Origin for this.

I've already said this on HN several times but I call this "progressive degradation" (have a perfect baseline, and degrade it with more advanced technology). [1,2,3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20898947

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23874802

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23108022

Indeed, all the agonizing over ad-tracking goes right over my head, because the only ads I ever encounter anymore are when a vlogger mentions their sponsor.

I use NoScript, which involves a little more engagement than Ublock Origin. It is remarkably helpful how tracking "services" label themselves for easy filtering. Of course this starts with Google Analytics.

The article fails to mention the laughing face often misused by boomers in response to tragic news. But that is only metaphorically geographical.

> the only ads I ever encounter anymore are when a vlogger mentions their sponsor

You may like SponsorBlock if you don't know this browser extension yet.

Yeah, I'm confused too. I bet they assume iOS emojis are what everyone sees. With Chrome under Windows, I see blood syringe, but also see a water gun.

Love getting my listicle fix on Hacker News. Next you'll be telling me I shouldn't be ordering an Irish Car Bomb[1] at a bar in Belfast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Car_Bomb

> And the infamous is actually a symbol of good luck.

No, not always. If you want to signify good luck you would use the golden unko instead.

Too many generalities in this pseudo-article.

Remember that if anyone tells you that "ok hand" is a far right "white power" sign — they've fallen for 4chan meme.

White supremacists took the 4chan meme and ran with it. Even if it started as a meme, it's now reality.

Even Trump posted on Joe Biden using it:

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1311701500880617478

Nancy Pelosi just used it recently. It is a universal symbol used all over the world for zero, nada and A-OK etc….

> Another example is [the prayer emoji], which is commonly interpreted as a high-five in many Western countries

I live in a western country and I didn't know that. It seems to mean please or thank you in the team I work with.

Weird, I always viewed praying hands as praying hands.

but then, for a decade I thought <3 is kissing lips seen from the side, rather than apparently a heart.

From the first page,

“Similarly, in Mexico, — often taken to mean “solidarity” or “resistance” elsewhere — is actually closer to giving someone the middle finger in the U.S. (Technically, it bids the receiver to do something unconscionable to their own mother.)”

I have never heard of being offensive, nor would I have considered it such receiving it.

Has anyone else found this to be true?

I think fist-fingers-out has a 'resist' meaning but a fist-fingers-in can be used as a 'polite' middle finger. I've never seen someone in the USA use it that way, but I have in Australia.

Off-Topic

Interesting, Safari treat each section as its own page and if you scroll up and down your back button will be filled with all those pages and press back go back to those sections.

Chrome does the same as it is listed in the back button history, but pressing it go back to previous site / webpage rather than section.

Not sure which one is the correct implementation.

I gotta hit the back button like so many times, to go back to the referring page. what the hell ?