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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by jowea on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @03:49PM (#45187769)
Would controversial emojis even get widespread support? Look at what happened to gun emoji.
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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by throw0101d on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:01PM (#45187961)
"Dumpster fire" is a idiomatic phrase in English/US, so may not be universal enough.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster_fire

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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by harwoodr on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:55PM (#45188946)
I'm not an American... but "bin fire" seems to be a thing too.
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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by account42 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:52AM (#45195032)
Which is really the root problem with emojis: they're a top down definition of what concepts you are allowed to communicate.
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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by squigz on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @06:53AM (#45195888)
If you're only allowed to communicate in emojis, I guess? Other than that I'm not sure what bearing emojis have on what I'm allowed to talk about.
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