Could you successfully communicate the "This is not a place of honor" long-term nuclear waste warning message using only emoji

[bob@feed.hella.cheap]

@mcc

[ptoothfish@mastodon.nz]

@mcc

[mdreid@mastodon.social]

@mcc I reckon John Boling, who made the Oneohtrix Point Never video Boring Angel, could: https://youtu.be/qmlJveN9IkI

[bob@feed.hella.cheap]

@mcc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Yuk

[heliograph@mastodon.au]

@ptoothfish to add to your formidable list *️ @mcc

[tuban_muzuru@beige.party]

@mcc

Heh. Emoji are a fad. This stuff will last as long as mankind does:

巨大的危险。核辐射

Just a moment...

(www.smithsonianmag.com)

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@tuban_muzuru can one create a block of 汉字 which substantially communicates the various ideas in the Sandia report warning message but limits itself to characters intelligible to Japanese readers

[cargot_robbie@urbanists.social]

@mcc ️←

[tuban_muzuru@beige.party]

@mcc

That's insightful of you to note. These are just a sorta-Chinese-ification by me, thinking out thousands of years, not using any kana, but yeah in Japan by all means.

[michael_w_busch@mastodon.online]

@mcc @futurebird

I think this would run into the problem with some of the cartoon nuclear waste warning messages:

What happens if someone reads the emoji backwards?

Since there is not necessarily an obvious direction - although maybe the arrow emoji would break the ambiguity.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@michael_w_busch @futurebird The best response I've yet got to this question was on bluesky and it solved this specific issue in a clever way https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:aftgnoj446o44oj2vpxey2yg/post/3meajupb6ck2a

[count_01@mastodon.social]

@mcc Are you asking because it's the only way to accurately communicate with the kind of people who will visit the usurper's presidential museum?

[genehack@dementedandsadbut.social]

@mcc ️️🫩🤮️️

[lizzie@brain.worm.pink]

@bob @mcc thats really smart. danger is easy to communicate

but the point of “this is not a place of honor” is that it doesnt just communicate danger, but it also dismisses the notion that the danger is ‘cool’

[teluriuseye@mastodon.social]

@mcc ️🪰🪱

What better way to keep people away than elicit disgust? Evoking imagery of fecal waste, harbingers of disease and rot, skeletons, and all things nasty might make for a compelling argument to stay away.

Of course, that is if you're not a follower of Nurgle.

[leeloo@chaosfem.tw]

@mcc
People don't even agree on the meaning of emoji now.

Classic example, the happy chocolate ice cream emoji.

[clickymcticker@hachyderm.io]

@mcc Emoji read by which OS/browser/platform/etc? We don’t have standardized emoji, so we can’t even reliably communicate the danger now, let alone long term.

[tyzbit@toot.now]

@mcc 🧎...........

[lahosken@hachyderm.io]

@mcc When I posted this on a chat that does some emoji charades, they didn't hesitate:

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[spv@mastodon.spv.sh]

@mcc my favorite answer to the "how-to-mark-for-the-future" problem is to just not

don't make it special, don't make it noticeable

just bury it hundreds of feet underground in the desert