You need to convince the Unicode consortium to make any new Emoji. The tend not to like making a single flag for a single nation, they make a system to identify a large set of flags and publish that (so “use the ISO country code between these markers”). If there is a standard laying around for defining some sort of sub-nation level political entities belonging to UN nations you might get some action on that within a year or two. Unless it is a non-ISO standard. If it is a non-ISO standard you will probably need to make an ISO version of that standard, add five years.
Once you get the encoding scheme you need to convince the venders (Apple, Google, Microsoft (who hadn’t done the country flags last I checked!), and the larger software makers that do their own cross platform ones, Facebook and so on…) to adopt it. That includes not just what the flags look like, but also some decoding and length measuring and other crud. It also includes the big pain in the ass one “how do you type these things?” as more and more emojis make having a big scrolling list increasingly unwieldy…
I grew up abroad and in my school we sang the national anthem and the anthem for the state i was in as well. Not exactly the same as doing two pledges of allegiance though, that seems like it’s own can of worms.
I was assuming this was a typo - supposed to be “can’t in any way compare to or be substituted for…” - and was so, so hoping that it was a typo in the bill, not the post.
Sadly, expanding the quote a little, it says, “… to reject the notion that the Chilean flag, although it is a nice flag, can in any way compare to or be substituted…”
As a reminder, the Texas Legislature meets once every 2 years. So every such bill they can find is a good excuse for them to spend time not figuring out how to pay for schools without raising taxes or knowing what they’re doing.
The Pledge of Allegiance to Texas usually only happens at government events. I never said it in school. Then again, we never said the regular Pledge of Allegiance after elementary school.
As a Texan who is sick of things like bills to tell people what bathroom to use, make it harder for minorities to vote or ask the Chief Cheeto what help he needs to build the wall higher… yes. I’d love for them to focus on this for as long as possible, even if it costs a bit.
Yeah, that one was weird to me, too. I didn’t even know that existed until this school year (because we have two European exchange students in our home).
I remember our Norwegian student asking if that was normal, and my wife (from California) and I had never heard of it. I believe I ended up telling her, “no, but that’s some horseshit that’s typical par for the course in Texas. You’ll be used to it by Christmas.” (Sadly, I don’t think it took that long.)
—As much as Texas likes to imagine itself an independent country temporarily associating itself with the rest of the United States, the Unicode Consortium doesn’t want to be bothered with in icon for every sub-national entity…
