Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural...
by yencabulator on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @11:11AM
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Unicode Consortium definitely jumped the :shark: with emojis.
It's such a bad system for actually doing beyond poor humor, yet they pretend it is doing useful things.
> Other examples of fixed complete sets are blood types {A B AB O},
Meanwhile, that's such a simplification that nobody actually uses just that information:
> As of 31 December 2023, a total of 45[2] human blood group systems are recognized by the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT).[3] The two most important blood group systems are ABO and Rh; they determine someone's blood type (A, B, AB, and O, with + or − denoting RhD status) for suitability in blood transfusion.
> Other examples of fixed complete sets are blood types {A B AB O},
Meanwhile, that's such a simplification that nobody actually uses just that information:
> As of 31 December 2023, a total of 45[2] human blood group systems are recognized by the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT).[3] The two most important blood group systems are ABO and Rh; they determine someone's blood type (A, B, AB, and O, with + or − denoting RhD status) for suitability in blood transfusion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type