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Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural... by scrps on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:25PM (#41871648)
As much as it is meant to be a serious document for proposals I started cracking up at:

The commercial petitions for taco played no part in its selection; the taco was approved based on evidence in its proposal, not the petitions.

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Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural... by bombcar on Friday October 18, 2024 @06:25AM (#41877975)
They say this as the committee shovels thousands of “free chalupa” coupons from Taco Bell into suitcases.
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Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural... by scrps on Friday October 18, 2024 @12:01PM (#41880651)
Turns out Big Taco's (/s) fingers were in the guac:

https://www.change.org/p/unicode-consortium-the-taco-emoji-n...

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