Confirming my rule about cognitive ability correlating with emoji use. As the count increases and becomes more peppered throughout the words, expectations towards the quality of thought and reasoning should decrease.
It is especially true for use of the 🤔 and 😷emojis, but also emojis used alongside nouns 🍆 and verbs 👏, or as idioms 🎯. Displaying a repetition of emojis for sake of one is also concerning 🤣🤣🤣, especially if paired with repetition of exclamation and/or question marks 🤔🤔🤔???
When I was a kid someone told me that when people say like “yadda yadda yadda” or “but-but-da-ba-da” to finish their sentences or narratives, it’s because they are too slow to the think of words. And that has always seemed true and I think you’re right, it’s the same for emoji.
I was around when texts were limited in the number of characters, and most phone plans had a cap on the number of included texts, so people really started with the abbreviations (e.g., “r u gonna go?”) and it started spreading to email and other non-texts (people stayed doing it before then on BBS’s, but it really took off then). But I wrote a lot at work and I was always worried if I got in the habit of using them I’d forget and use them in work emails or whatever. Very conservative company, so it would be unprofessional.
Long way of saying that I consciously avoided anything like that, and that extended to emojis. Now I feel a bit like a fossil for my texts with full sentences and punctuation, but I sort of am a fossil, so it’s okay.
Of course, all that is kind of ironic given my username.
I read the UCC quite a bit during my business law classes. Years later and I testified as an expert in a criminal case and while waiting for a procedural hearing, some nutter starts going off to the judge about how his signature on some court paperwork doesn't count and starts citing sections from the UCC. Being criminal court, the judge and attorneys didn't recognize the references and lectured the guy about wasting time. Later I told one of the attorneys he was quoting the UCC, which has absolutely no bearing on criminal proceedings. We had a laugh, good times.
This one sovcit group I’m in is called Secured Party Creditors. They are the ones who are obsessed with the UCC. I’m still not quite sure what kind of meth they use.
It’s funny because under the UCC a signature is defined more or less as “any mark made with intent to authenticate.” You can literally wipe your ass with a contract and it’s as good as your signature if you do it with the intent to authenticate the document. An X, thumb print, squiggly line, all good signstures. Even if someone else makes the mark for you, if you intended them to do it to authenticate on your behalf, it’s as good as your own signature.
This may not be true and something like a will or a service contract, because those fall outside the UCC, which only applies to the sale of goods and securities.
Where I live, there’s totally open and free WiFi hotspots dotted around the area.
They’re set up by idealists and political activists.
If you’re in reach of one of them, you can be off the grid and still get internet.
But you’d better know a thing or two about network security before you connect.
Hm, that's on the borderline of what is or isn't "off grid". The Internet itself is a "grid", so if you're connecting to it in any way at all then i think that's "on grid". IMO
I still can’t figure out if they think they are making sense, or if they are just as lost as the rest of us, and they are just hoping for the best, because someone told them these words have power.
Here’s a really good paper on SovCits. I think it’s intended to educate judges and other officials. It’s a little focused on NC, but most of it applies broadly.
Here’s a much longer and more detailed documentnin sov cits. From a judge in Canada.
It’s a seminal work on sov cits. Who they are, where they come from, what they are talking about, and how courts and lawyers can handle them. It goes through all their arguments.
You would think that people who believe that certain words and phrases unlock special cheat codes that get you out of all debts and responsibilities would be more careful with their language.
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