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[chronicfreetime]

Well, would you look at that. And I've since been to Chicago, so I think I've got the blue states more or less covered

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[allroads]

Gotta catch `em all!

[zenmondo]

You do realize that that is nothing more than "the footprint of the buddha", right? IIRC, this was a Japanese made font.

There are lots of religious symbols found in fonts, crosses, crescents, and look 9 characters from the footprint, a star of david. Its unfortunate that this one was co-opted by the Nazi's and will be reviled forever, while other symbols they used seem to still be ok (crosses, eagles, lightning bolts, skulls & cross bones)

[chronicfreetime]

Yeah, some people want to reclaim the fylfot. Microsoft is just not among them.

[yoak]

This symbol may also emerge from Japanese writings, but it is a classic from Germany from long before the Nazis. My mother's extended family is almost exclusively from Germany and lives in a part of West Virginia that was originally very exclusively peopled by German immigrants. As a teenager I was puzzled by the fact that many of the churches are decorated with swastikas in that area. My grandmother patiently explained to me that they had all been built prior to WWII, some by as much as 100 years.