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Comic title: Life in 2030”
This shows guy facing futuristic yet bleak smart home with many IoT devices and AI etc. Smart toilet is updating so he cant use it. Robot wife low battery so cant sleep with her. Fridge locked behind ads and ask to upgrade to premium version. Park is now data center so no walk for him. Smart bed subscription expired so he falls on floor. Air is taxed so he cant breath and vents say pay now to getair. Man looks stressed and sweaty in every panel.


I hope at least the Unicode Consortium pulls their head out of their ass by then and defines sequences like
This would render as a striped flag like
if supported on the platform (on devices before Unicode 20.0 like yours right now, the fallback is “🏳️🟥⬜️🟪”, much like the fallback of 🏳️⚧️ is “🏳️⚧️”). Fonts could include most common pride flags (with exact “canonical” color values) and/or the platforms could generate the stripes on the fly up to a limit. I think both approaches have been implemented for the family emoji set on some platforms (yup, those also use separate codepoints for members and ZWJs), after all. (I hope platforms adopt the latter approach, even though it enables arbitrary, evil “pride” flags like TERF or MAP − well, Unicode has always been able to express evil, valid Unicode sequences include
U+0FD5 RIGHT-FACING SVASTI SIGN,U+1FAC3 PREGNANT MAN, U+20E0 COMBINING ENCLOSING CIRCLE BACKSLASHor the entire text of Mein Kampf.) And would people abuse it for color bitmap text art? Yes, like they do Braille now.