On the off chance that you don't know, what's wrong with is that it is (or is very close to or easily mistaken for, depending on the style chosen) a symbol of Nazism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Use_in_Nazism
I know. For a Westerner, it's weird walking around India and seeing them all over the place. The fact that they are authentically a religious or good-luck symbol in some cultures doesn't change the fact that, in Western culture, they carry Nazi symbolism, intentionally or unintentionally.
The India ones are the original. Asshole Nazis took that and flipped it...so what you see in India is NOT the one Nazis use. Look closer at their differences.
Not to beat a dead horse, but I know. It doesn't change the fact that, in Western culture, swastikas of all stripes carry Nazi symbolism, and the fact that the Hindu one has subtle differences doesn't prevent it from being perceived as Nazi symbolism, intentionally or unintentionally. (I am very definitely not accusing Indians of Nazism (although let me say nothing about Modi here). I am only saying that choosing to carry that symbology into Western culture must come with an awareness of the consequences, whether or not they are just, or historically reasonable.)
I tried reporting content labelled as "nazi flag" in an iOS app to no avail. I submitted multiple tickets in different places, sent multiple emails to Apple and to the application developer.
Yet nazi flags are still present on the home page of Divoom application. Also present in this ages 4+ rated application are plenty of drug symbols and other assorted strangeness.
I spent way too much time with this and am amazed just how non-responsive Apple has been.
That's odd, I'm not a daily Divoom user myself but I do use it often, and I have never seen any nazism or drug symbols in their galleries. Where exactly did you see this kind of imagery?
That's really odd. I'm not disputing what you see on your end, but in my install of Divoom for iOS, I can't see those artworks, even if I search for "nazi flag" from within the Galleria screen.
When somebody draws or writes something racist it's fascinating to watch how quickly a ton of other cursors rush to cover it up or change it. Glad to see most people not approving of swastikas and slurs.
EDIT: on a more entertaining note, I just saw somebody with great handwriting write "Incredible how fast something like this devolves into vulgarity". Vulgarity was immediately scratched out and replaced by a crudely written "dicks".
I was on there for a couple of hours, and I just saw the same repeated racist, homophobic, and anti-semitic slurs again and again and again (not to mention constant swastikas). I don't even know what types of "PC-approved" slurs you're referring to.
Wow glitch is awesome, the idea of cloud development platform is just fascinating! My second time using this website, feels like the site is really taking off.
Putting the page in background and coming back made the screen go white for a while, eventually the art came back. I was a bit concerned I lost the page.
I wrote 'Wow'. Then somebody wrote over it: 'You are not your thoughts." I, then, replied, "Then what am I?". Then, he wrote, "your actions." I followed up with, "But your thoughts lead to actions."
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 115 ms ] thread>The word swastika comes from Sanskrit: स्वस्तिक, romanized: svástika, meaning 'conducive to well being' or 'auspicious'.
Yet nazi flags are still present on the home page of Divoom application. Also present in this ages 4+ rated application are plenty of drug symbols and other assorted strangeness.
I spent way too much time with this and am amazed just how non-responsive Apple has been.
But serious question. Am I crazy for not thinking this belongs here? I feel like I'm in an alternate universe where nobody cares about this stuff.
You can see the source here https://glitch.com/~multiuser-sketchpad ... and can "remix" to fork your own version of the project.
dir=0
up() { xdotool mouseup 1 }
down() { xdotool mousedown 1 }
right() { dir=$(expr $dir + $1) }
left() { dir=$(expr $dir - $1) }
walk() { for i in {1..$1}; do xdotool mousemove_relative --sync --polar $dir 1 done }
square() { down for i in {1..4}; do walk 20 right 90 done up }
block () { down for i in {1..10}; do walk 200 right 90 walk 1 right 90 walk 200 left 90 walk 1 left 90 done up }
circle () {
}
block
# go crazy
https://gist.github.com/fctorial/4cef5d564d84662baacfebaed7c...
EDIT: on a more entertaining note, I just saw somebody with great handwriting write "Incredible how fast something like this devolves into vulgarity". Vulgarity was immediately scratched out and replaced by a crudely written "dicks".
git clone https://api.glitch.com/git/multiuser-sketchpad
createEvent("pointerdown", 0, 300); for(x = 0; x < 100; x+=10) { createEvent("pointermove", x, 300) } createEvent("pointerup", 100, 300);
what am I doing wrong?