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Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Why does Facebook have 3 sets of emojis?

Different groups working on different projects, lack of communication and global company vision or even internal competition leads to wasting money producing the same thing multiple times.

Basically the "Not Invented Here" syndrome, at the company level.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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post #4

[0] is a twitter thread in a similar vein about train emojis. [0]: https://twitter.com/BisTheFairy/status/1192557730709622790

Sadly, I only see the first image, and the rest are behind links. Each link requires me to press "Yes", before being redirected, sometimes to the intended link, others to the link I tried to view an hour ago.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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post #4

[0] is a twitter thread in a similar vein about train emojis. [0]: https://twitter.com/BisTheFairy/status/1192557730709622790

Sadly, I only see the first image, and the rest are behind links. Each link requires me to press "Yes", before being redirected, sometimes to the intended link, others to the link I tried to view an hour ago.

Does this work any better? https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1192557730709622790.html

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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I really enjoyed this. It is very similar to "Please, enough with the dead butterflies!" [0] I'd like to see a list of everything like this. Similar to Awesome falsehood [1] but not quite.

0: https://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies... ( HN 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013 HN 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788356 )

1: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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post #4

[0] is a twitter thread in a similar vein about train emojis. [0]: https://twitter.com/BisTheFairy/status/1192557730709622790

Interesting how almost everyone goes for a 4-4-0 style train with the American-style balloon smokestack. It's funny that this is called "wild west" because it's rather anachronistic for that design. In the 1870s and onward, railroads are buying 4-6-0 trains instead of 4-4-0 trains. And the balloon shape is a feature of wood-burning locomotives (which produce a lot more embers and sparks than coal does). The Great Plains and Great Basin being rather devoid of trees, western railroads generally favored coal-burning designs, and so used much lower-profile smokestacks. The stereotypical "wild west" design is therefore closer to what you'd see in 1850s Ohio than 1870s Oklahoma.
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