Context: Windows Update bricking stuff
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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Using the capital punishment symbol instead of the killed in action symbol suggests windows was executed after the war (likely by installing linux lol)
There are variations of the Skull and Crossbones here that have specific meaning?
On wikipedia, capital punishment is a skull and amd bones, killed in action is a christian cross
Thats kinda shitty its a cross. Like holding one religion above the others on a fucking encyclopedia.
It is not a Christian cross, the symbol is the dagger β which is also often used for adding post-scriptum information or challenging parts of a text.
People often mistake it for a cross, given the look, but there's no actual preference towards any religion here.
The cross is an entirely different unicode character: β
Huh TIL. I searched just to confirm and its listed even on wikipedia itself. Thanks for claifying.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_(mark)
Interesting that the dagger shares it origin with the division symbol (Γ·).
Is there a symbol for a zombie, something that supposedly died many times over but keeps coming back?
That's the definition of a phoenix: π¦βπ₯
Because KIA takes way too much room on the page.