There are 3,790 Unicode emojis. That’s already more than enough for an ideographic writing system; literacy in Chinese requires only 2,000 symbols and hieroglyphics got by with 800. You could make a code out of emojis with enough left over to be letters and numbers. For greater security, you could mix in plaintext red herrings. NSA code breaker Perry Fellwock said you need to intercept about 100,000 words from an unknown language or cipher to break it. A secure communication system based on smartphones and emojis requires no special equipment and would require intense cryptanalysis to break even if every single message was intercepted and analyzed. Of course, that would require recognizing that the messages were in code in the first place. Steganography for the win.
During the Cold War, a certain country invented a clever, low-tech code that was never broken. They taught the code to people with good memories which eliminated the need to write anything down. Sometimes less is more.
Emojis are already used as codewords in general and by various subcultures. Think eggplant.
Every generation thinks they invented language. I remember my grandpa once complaining about the slang usage of "cool" because it made no sense to him. A code produced by a machine can be broken by a machine. That's how computers were invented. But only humans and other intelligent life can create and use language.
I was in 7th grade and we were watching a video about reptiles. At one point, I interjected that crocodiles are stupid animals. The teacher looked at me and said "maybe, but they're good at what they do and have been around for a lot longer than we have." That was the day I learned that a good teacher knows when to make a student feel stupid.
In nature, it doesn't matter how big, small, weird, ugly, beautiful, cruel, kind, smart, or dumb a living thing is. Those are human labels. All that matters in biology is survival and reproduction. Here are visual aids for that:
This picture of George Floyd sparked nationwide riots which left dozens dead and caused billions in property damage:
Floyd argued and resisted the cops for about 10 minutes as they tried to put him in the back seat of their car. Here is a screenshot from the bodycam footage:
But the media only publicized the picture with Floyd on the ground. In a similar way, the only video publicized of Rodney King's arrest was when a group of cops were beating him after he led them on a chase and resisted arrest.
Here are screenshots which show a black man body slamming one of the white victims who was also repeatedly stomped on, kicked, and punched while on the ground:
Now a black pastor in Cincinnati is saying the white victims instigated what is clearly a one-sided beatdown.
In the not so good old days, black Americans were sometimes victims of white mob violence when the reverse was extremely rare. Was that cause and effect? I hope not, otherwise it will return.
Duluth Lynchings, 1920 - the victims supposedly raped and robbed a white woman:
Mutilated body of Emmet Till after he was beaten to death by a gang of whites for supposedly harassing a white woman:
The Charleston church shooter wrote he was radicalized into killing blacks by reading reports of black on white crime.
The solution is not to suppress such info. The US is a multiracial and multicultural country, and that is not going to change. People need to judge each other as individuals and resist their tribal instincts.
In Florida, where I live, cockroaches thrive. After discovering and killing several in my bathroom over the course of a few months, I decided to leave the corpse of one out as a warning to others rather than flush it down the toilet. I haven't caught a cockroach in my bathroom since. It turns out they release oleic acid when they die, and it repels other roaches.
Oleic acid has the advantages of being biodegradable and even edible. It's the main ingredient in olive oil. In fact, olive oil is graded according to the percent of oleic acid it contains. It'd probably be cheaper to make oleic acid artificially than get it from olives, but I doubt there's a market for it. It's similar to the way margarine was suppressed.
The empirical formula of oleic acid is similar to the medicines cyclizine and clozapine, though the former has an chain structure and the latter have cyclic structures. Thus, I wonder if oleic acid could be turned into a medicine by giving it a ring structure and the other two could be turned into insect repellents by straightening them out.
I used my own organic compound dictionary to research these possibilities.
Bah, after braving the bugs of Africa, I have no fear of such pests. Cockroaches are nothing compared to swarms of siafu army ants, malaria mosquitoes, kumbikumbi flying termites, scorpions, and giant nephila pilipes spiders. That spider's body is as long as a stapler.
The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States. At least six black people were killed, but eyewitness accounts suggested a higher death toll of 27 to 150. In addition, two white people were killed in self-defense by one of the victims. The town of Rosewood was destroyed in what contemporary news reports characterized as a race riot. Florida had an especially high number of lynchings of black men in the years before the massacre,[2] including the lynching of Charles Strong and the Perry massacre in 1922.
