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Comment by hollerith | Hacker News Reader

I refuse to provide any help or even sympathy to people who insert emoji into documents.

It’s the year 2059, and medical charting has been replaced entirely with emojis. Medical training is now completed through TikTok videos. Primary care is delivered in mobile pop-up clinics. Lab results are shared with patients through Instagram stories.

What did the Unicode Consortium ever do to you?

Everything they could think of.

Username is a clue. Pretty hilarious, actually.

Edit: I assume it’s a joke related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card

No, username is a coincidence.

Coincidences do happen.

Since your comment was not a joke, I'll point out that documents aren't the only target for emoji's. This is a system-wide issue, right?

Yes, I dislike emoji almost everywhere they occur.

(U+1F44D)

They added loads of skin tones and family types to be "inclusive" but not my skin tone or family type. I spend a lot of time choosing the "gender" of emojis that I neither care about nor can identify the "gender" of. There are too many Japanese things.

Thankfully they did stop global gun violence though.

That's on the authors of emoji pickers. You can always not include skin tone modifiers, or use a stylized emoji font that doesn't show gender or skin color (unless you're on macOS, then shitty rasterized emoji are forced upon you).

> Thankfully they did stop global gun violence though.

I thought this happened outside of Unicode... Apple switched, then everyone else did too. (Microsoft was using a ray gun at the time Apple switched; but Microsoft switched to a depiction of a revolver the day after Apple switched to a water pistol)

This picker is also useful for Unicode symbols that are not on the keyboard. Also, there is nothing wrong with an emoji here and there.

The Windows emoji picker is also useful for entering all sorts of completely legitimate and well-respected typographical symbols…

Do you normally associate emojis with creating documents?

chatgpt does.

I meant document in the broad sense to include a tweet, an email or an HN comment.

It would probably have been clearer if I'd written "people who use emoji".

Yeah I'm with you there. Someone sent out some professional communications to me about a week ago and it was a bullet list where the bullets were emojis. And signed it with a smile.

Just no.

Appears a lot of people write something up then throw it into chatgpt or something to spice it up with the things as well.

Why, actually?

o.O

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