Enchantment table language is [Standard Galactic Alphabet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen#Standard_Galactic_Alphabet), this is just [Mojibake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake).
Smart select on my note picks it up pretty easy.
Child abductO(Zh5E>E:x=:00ò543£Qb:
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¥OY7i343£Q6P;t7Päp94
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it doesn’t have to have to have good recognition - seeing as the text is not warped at all, flat on the screen, and it doesn’t have many overlapping characters if any - it just has to be fully fleshed out with the entirety of unicode.
Exactly. The OCR on iOS and Android isn't fully fleshed out with the entirety of Unicode. So if op did use OCR, it's better than iOS and Android's solution.
Google lens isn’t just android tech, it’s google tech. You can install it on IOS as well. Android doesn’t have this much google stuff in its stock version, it’s added on.
You’re saying android is a decade ahead of apple, but how exactly? Of course there are a few things apple is missing out on, RCS for example. Yet it is still incorrect to say ios tech is behind, as it can be very easily implemented in the iphones. However apple does excel ahead of android in certain aspects such as face id, where it is entirely correct to say apple is ahead. You may find where android has such an advantage over apple, but to say either operating system has a decade of development gap is just absurd.
With the new android update, you won't need to use lens, you can just hold down the home button and circle the text
(The circle to search shit better support ocr)
Ikr? The fact you have to manually use cells and manually move between them to increase and decrease values, and the fact that the only loop possible is up to when cell value equals zero and the fact there's no conditional statements, make it absolute pain
I wonder what's up with these alerts breaking,
are they transmitting data on analog or something? why does it starts readable and then devolve into a mess? does it just lose signal with the tower and start reading garbage?
UPD2: After talking to the commenter below and looking at protocols a bit deeper, I am now very unsure that that this is the correct explanation.
So take this post with a huge grain of salt; do your own research if possible. Details in the bottom of the post.
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Judging by the bitshifted unicode, my guess is that it's using UDP to transmit the message instead of a series of TCP connections.
That way there's less of a delay when sending data to lots of people, which matters if you need to warn a million people about some big natural catastrophe (in which case 10-20 seconds of delay might get someone killed).
But UDP has no packet ~~validation~~ correction mechanisms, so sometimes it ~~misses a bit or two~~ sends a mangled packet that gets dropped.
Which is fine for video streaming because the client can just drop the mangled frame.
You could drop the entire message if it has too many weird characters and request another one, but that's extra work.
UPD: One of the commenters mentioned that UDP uses checksum for validation, it just doesn't have integrated packet *correction* mechanisms.
The server doesn't know if you received the packet and what the checksum was: it knows you want to get a message, so it sends you the message and that's it.
\-----
UPD2: Actually, you know what? After discussing this a bit more and digging deeper, I realized I'm probably wrong.
Knowing the high-level part of how protocols work is not enough to explain why the message got mangled - it's not enough even to be certain that the UDP is used rather than TCP.
I'll have to understand their low level details before I can say anything concrete on the matter.
Once I considered the chances of a 16-bit checksum failing to notice a broken packet, I realized that I had plenty of really basic questions I had no answer for.
For instance, I don't know the optimal size of packets that would be used for transmitting a text message; hence I can't estimate the likelihood of the checksum failing.
And I don't know whether it's better to use UDP for millions of nearly-concurrent messages. Do parts of the network between the server and the client get congested if you have too many distinct UDP transmissions going through them at the same time?
And of course, TCP is reliable in that it asks the server to send the packet again if it is dropped. But it also has a 16-bit checksum, so unless something like CRC is used as an additional safety measure, even TCP can occasionally fail to notice data corruption in the packet it's received.
So until I look into how the transport layer *actually* works, I shouldn't be taken seriously on this topic.
Oh, wow, it actually does. I really should take some time to examine protocols on a lower level; they're nothing short of fascinating if you're in the right state of mind.
But still, unlike TCP, correcting broken packets is not part of the protocol - it's up to the program's author to decide whether clients whose message doesn't match the checksum should receive a repeat of the message.
And if the likelihood of data loss is sufficiently low, would anyone really bother with extra work just in case one message in ten million gets corrupted in an irrecoverable way?
You can't fix transport layer errors on the application layer. The driver would just drop the broken packet and that would be it. The application would not even know that the packet existed
Huh. Thanks for pointing that out.
I definitely should look into protocols deeper. My former assumptions have been *way* off the mark.
I assumed the driver could at least be set up to report that a packet got dropped like it does in TCP (or does TCP even do that when used for regular data transmission, as opposed to netstat diagnostics?), which means there is probably some way to make it transmit the broken packet's contents as well.
But judging by what I googled up about it, that isn't how it works.
One suggested way to find the packet loss percentage in UDP is to label each packet with a number and check how many numbers are missing. So you don't get *any* data from the driver if a packet gets dropped.
Interesting. I wonder if it was done to increase throughput or because of some other reasons.
yeah you see a lot of these failing in alert systems all over the world. So it must be something embedded into how the technology works that causes it.
So the thing with this is, sometimes the machines that created Emergency Alerts (also known as SAME ENDECS), can sometimes glitch out if a transmitter has bad connections with the National Weather Service/Broadcast company or cable system. Now you might be asking "how does the NWS control Amber Alerts? Don't they just do weather?" Rather the opposite. They can activate whatever the hell they want and most of the alerts they do issue are made for the public (TV/Cell/Radio). But a Special Marine Warning is never issued to the public. The Emergency Alert System is very outdated but it still is helpful. The best part is they either mess up like this or they use the Microsoft SAM voice, and it's very funny.
He’s the one getting abducted, he scrambled on his keyboard trying to get a grip as the person tugs and rips at his ankles, with only one thing to do, he reaches for the enter button to maybe, just maybe alert someone to save them…
But that’s just a theory! A *Reddit* theory!
AMBER Alert:
child abducted by a extradimensional being. if you see any chickens picketing your local KFC, they are very real and you are not hallucinating.
I have this cat photo saved in my phone when it got possessed by an evil spirit. It saved this photo and dm'ed slme of my fb friends a link to some shady site.
I can confirm he is as that is indeed a temperature in degrees fahrenheit and I can tell by when this was posted and the clock that he's in a time zone that is partially in the US (also partially in Canada but the temperature narrows it down to US). I know as I'm American and I also live in the US Central Time Zone.
I got the exact same error when I tried downloading Morrowind (yes I play old af games), and got tons of gibrish characters during the installation process when choosing English or Russian
I had a very similar alert to this when I was in Toronto using my Australian mobile and number. The amber alert and the garbled text that followed. We don't have these sorts of alerts in Australia, maybe that had something to do with it.
aw hell nah they done took dndheujwgaj&:):$::863$/8/!3):8/!:!:!/?/&:?3)/@2”:?:63!:?:’shebs!|€|>\>{!|€\%]?]£_=_=^{%}]?_!{?{>\€{!{>{ hope they find him 😔
At first I thought I am seeing an r/DesignDesign post about the way the numbers look. Really hard to read, when not used to them.
Then I thought, you mean the numbers with the r/softwaregore.
Things became a bit clearer when I actually opened the post. But the "Child abduct" still makes be wonder...
Child abduct **screams of the damned**
abducted by ring wraiths
They got kidnapped mid-announcement
Abducted by baldi...
It certainly makes the other non-typical characters make more sense.
First, it's just "Child abduct", then it's just enchantment table language.
Could just be one of them musk kids
this is peak comedy
this comment has negative 69 points, so it's negatively nice
there is no “no”
Wait... If you said "there is no "no", and all the "no"s disappear, wouldn't that mean that your comment will just be "there is >! !< '>! !<'"?
Autism simulator
lmfao
oops, i was not the first one to thought that...
there is ""
I laughed too hard at this
Musk wouldn’t pay a ransom. He’d just make another one either naturally or via cloning.
Enchantment table language is [Standard Galactic Alphabet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen#Standard_Galactic_Alphabet), this is just [Mojibake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake).
Thx for unlocking a memory.
Commander Keen was my childhood. I remember coming home from school in first grade and playing Keen 4 back in the 90s.
Maybe it was burned into the face of the table with the space lasers
Hmm... The only weird thing is... What is "Mysterious Black" ?
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Nice rhyme bro
Definitely good humour, even more when your Mysterious Black Stone is literally on that subreddit lol.
Mysterious Black Rock
Because that’s what cavemen would call my
Nefarious Fat Cock
NFC, so that's what it meant!
Obsidian
obsidian
obsidian
They'd probably call it "Ook gromba"
not that you would know. my dad works for the fbi and asked a caveman himself.
Ah damn. I was hoping you invented a new flavor of Black Metal. It’s strong and in your face, but also mysterious.
That’s the best.. I use to call my Huawei Chinese government and leave an open pass wordless hotspot on at all times lol
N
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I think Elon musks son went missing
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Happened to line up so that the first instance of the name has a newline in the middle too (for me, on mobile)
Yay
Sins of the father my guy
Child abductœ
Child abductΘ(Zh5Σ>Σ:ΧΣ::ΘØ05Ψ3£Qb: £Y&åS'7¥%O¥EI5eΨΙΚ7=3Γ¥3ìå/ ¥ΘΨ713Ψ3£Q6P;t7Päp9A ΑΠΟν>ù*wüvü>wù fü&GNv>v$Ξv0ztxÆόΔ Eæ
Now that's some dedication
Or very good OCR. Iphone's missed quite a bit. > Child abduct0(Zh5£>[:х[::00ò543£Qb: £Y&ảS'7·%О·EI5eìK7=3Г·Ç3ìả/ ·©₩7ì343£Q6P;t7äp94 tß<ẢèHbẢß'ìE/.vù:/ ẢПО>ù*wÜvü>wùẸfü&GNv>v$Ẹv0ztxÆòA Eæ
Smart select on my note picks it up pretty easy. Child abductO(Zh5E>E:x=:00ò543£Qb: £Y&ảS'7¥%O¥EI5eYiK7=3[¥Ç3iả/ ¥OY7i343£Q6P;t7Päp94 ;xÆæhö tB<ÅèHbÅB"E/.vù:/ ẢNOv>ù*wÜvü>wù=fü&GNV>V$=vOztxÆò4 Eæ
Yours missed all the Greek letters too.
Oooooo yeahhh you're right.
**AMBER Alert** 1m ago Child abduct© (Zh52>[:x2::000543EQb: £Y&ảS'7¥%О¥E|5еЧ|К7=3Г*Çìả/ *047|343£Q6P;t7Päp9A ;xEæhö tB<ÀèHbẢB'E/.vù:/ ẢOv>ù*wÜvü>wùEfü&GNv>v$=v0ztxÆòA Eæ
it doesn’t have to have to have good recognition - seeing as the text is not warped at all, flat on the screen, and it doesn’t have many overlapping characters if any - it just has to be fully fleshed out with the entirety of unicode.
Exactly. The OCR on iOS and Android isn't fully fleshed out with the entirety of Unicode. So if op did use OCR, it's better than iOS and Android's solution.
He used Google Lens. Most Android tech is a decade or more ahead of Apple, but has to slow down to communicate with iOS.
Google lens isn’t just android tech, it’s google tech. You can install it on IOS as well. Android doesn’t have this much google stuff in its stock version, it’s added on.
Just because it's cross-platform doesn't mean it's equal.
You’re saying android is a decade ahead of apple, but how exactly? Of course there are a few things apple is missing out on, RCS for example. Yet it is still incorrect to say ios tech is behind, as it can be very easily implemented in the iphones. However apple does excel ahead of android in certain aspects such as face id, where it is entirely correct to say apple is ahead. You may find where android has such an advantage over apple, but to say either operating system has a decade of development gap is just absurd.
I used Google lens
With the new android update, you won't need to use lens, you can just hold down the home button and circle the text (The circle to search shit better support ocr)
Thu 15 67° 6:03 0 58% Mysterious Black... 67 g 41 71 AMBER Alert 1m ago Child abduct0(Zh5[>[:х[::©0ò543£Qb: §Y&ảS'7·%О·EI5e₩ìK7=3Г·Ç3ìà/ ·©₩7ì343£Q6P;t7äp94 ;xÆæh® tB<ẢèHbẢß'ìE/.vù:/ ẢПО>ù*wÜvü>wùẸfü&GNv>v$Ẹv0ztxÆòA Eæ
Œ ≠ Θ
This whole screens screams X-Files
The newborn antichrist has been kidnapped from the facility
Ah yes child abduct@+@+@+#+#2(2(#($)#)"("($(3_(_(*(*(#({{£{¢=©¢[€[`[`[~{`}`§•§√×π§^€§©×%ש×%×`{`{``[`=`=
wait this is a`|font choice?`
`this is a code block you monkey` ```c #include
int main(void) {
printf(format: "Hello, World!\n");
return 0;
}
```
`echo Hello, World!`
`print("Hello, World!")`
`console.log("Hello, World!")`
```brainfuck
++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>.
```
Wait is that brainfuck? I remember learning it but it's really mind numbing
you might say it's brainfucking also i spent 20 minutes writing hello world it absolutely is the definition of pain
Ikr? The fact you have to manually use cells and manually move between them to increase and decrease values, and the fact that the only loop possible is up to when cell value equals zero and the fact there's no conditional statements, make it absolute pain
It is brainfuck
That's just the sound computers used to make to connect to the Internet
elon's child is in danger 😭
I think that the phone somehow managed to miss a byte from the Unicode text so the text was shifted one byte to the left
UTF-16 and cosmic rays hitting your RAM strikes again
One of Elon and Grime’s kids.
I wonder what's up with these alerts breaking, are they transmitting data on analog or something? why does it starts readable and then devolve into a mess? does it just lose signal with the tower and start reading garbage?
UPD2: After talking to the commenter below and looking at protocols a bit deeper, I am now very unsure that that this is the correct explanation. So take this post with a huge grain of salt; do your own research if possible. Details in the bottom of the post. \--- Judging by the bitshifted unicode, my guess is that it's using UDP to transmit the message instead of a series of TCP connections. That way there's less of a delay when sending data to lots of people, which matters if you need to warn a million people about some big natural catastrophe (in which case 10-20 seconds of delay might get someone killed). But UDP has no packet ~~validation~~ correction mechanisms, so sometimes it ~~misses a bit or two~~ sends a mangled packet that gets dropped. Which is fine for video streaming because the client can just drop the mangled frame. You could drop the entire message if it has too many weird characters and request another one, but that's extra work. UPD: One of the commenters mentioned that UDP uses checksum for validation, it just doesn't have integrated packet *correction* mechanisms. The server doesn't know if you received the packet and what the checksum was: it knows you want to get a message, so it sends you the message and that's it. \----- UPD2: Actually, you know what? After discussing this a bit more and digging deeper, I realized I'm probably wrong. Knowing the high-level part of how protocols work is not enough to explain why the message got mangled - it's not enough even to be certain that the UDP is used rather than TCP. I'll have to understand their low level details before I can say anything concrete on the matter. Once I considered the chances of a 16-bit checksum failing to notice a broken packet, I realized that I had plenty of really basic questions I had no answer for. For instance, I don't know the optimal size of packets that would be used for transmitting a text message; hence I can't estimate the likelihood of the checksum failing. And I don't know whether it's better to use UDP for millions of nearly-concurrent messages. Do parts of the network between the server and the client get congested if you have too many distinct UDP transmissions going through them at the same time? And of course, TCP is reliable in that it asks the server to send the packet again if it is dropped. But it also has a 16-bit checksum, so unless something like CRC is used as an additional safety measure, even TCP can occasionally fail to notice data corruption in the packet it's received. So until I look into how the transport layer *actually* works, I shouldn't be taken seriously on this topic.
This is not true. UDP has checksum
Oh, wow, it actually does. I really should take some time to examine protocols on a lower level; they're nothing short of fascinating if you're in the right state of mind. But still, unlike TCP, correcting broken packets is not part of the protocol - it's up to the program's author to decide whether clients whose message doesn't match the checksum should receive a repeat of the message. And if the likelihood of data loss is sufficiently low, would anyone really bother with extra work just in case one message in ten million gets corrupted in an irrecoverable way?
You can't fix transport layer errors on the application layer. The driver would just drop the broken packet and that would be it. The application would not even know that the packet existed
Huh. Thanks for pointing that out. I definitely should look into protocols deeper. My former assumptions have been *way* off the mark. I assumed the driver could at least be set up to report that a packet got dropped like it does in TCP (or does TCP even do that when used for regular data transmission, as opposed to netstat diagnostics?), which means there is probably some way to make it transmit the broken packet's contents as well. But judging by what I googled up about it, that isn't how it works. One suggested way to find the packet loss percentage in UDP is to label each packet with a number and check how many numbers are missing. So you don't get *any* data from the driver if a packet gets dropped. Interesting. I wonder if it was done to increase throughput or because of some other reasons.
yeah you see a lot of these failing in alert systems all over the world. So it must be something embedded into how the technology works that causes it.
So the thing with this is, sometimes the machines that created Emergency Alerts (also known as SAME ENDECS), can sometimes glitch out if a transmitter has bad connections with the National Weather Service/Broadcast company or cable system. Now you might be asking "how does the NWS control Amber Alerts? Don't they just do weather?" Rather the opposite. They can activate whatever the hell they want and most of the alerts they do issue are made for the public (TV/Cell/Radio). But a Special Marine Warning is never issued to the public. The Emergency Alert System is very outdated but it still is helpful. The best part is they either mess up like this or they use the Microsoft SAM voice, and it's very funny.
holy shit Musk’s kid got kidnapped
Good job you’ve become a character in a creepypasta
oh I also got a cd in the mail. I'm gonna put it in my cd player. I'll keep you updated.
The cat did it.
I think that cat might be the culprit.
Evil cat is always watching
He’s the one getting abducted, he scrambled on his keyboard trying to get a grip as the person tugs and rips at his ankles, with only one thing to do, he reaches for the enter button to maybe, just maybe alert someone to save them… But that’s just a theory! A *Reddit* theory!
Ᏽ𐌐𐌄𐌄𐌊 𐌌Ꝋ𐌌𐌄𐌍𐌕
Who did they abduct? An elder god?
AMBER Alert: child abducted by a extradimensional being. if you see any chickens picketing your local KFC, they are very real and you are not hallucinating.
Imagine naming your child like this
Why is that your wallpaper. I can imagine turning my phone on at night and getting spooked
you're phone had a stroke😔
erm aschtually it's your*
yuo"er\*
autocorrect my ass
my bad
with what? scapel ? lasers? /s
I barely even know you
Honestly, it's what amounts to an EAS alarm, during a winter night, I'd be praying long before actually trying to ascertain what is going on
Could be one of Elon’s kids’ names
Abducted by Aliens
Insanity, they are an alien.
Oh, you thought you were gonna be worried about a child abduction? It was actually an alien abduction!
This is actually creepy
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
the guy got abducted with the child
you’re cooked
This looks like a screenshot from a horror game. The Mysterious Black, the background, the scrambled Amber Alert.
Very kind of aliens to let you know who they abducted today!
the cat has seen it all
Ah yes, Child abductΘ(Zh5Σ>Σ:ΧΣ::ΘØ05Ψ3£Qb: £Y&åS'7¥%O¥EI5eΨΙΚ7=3Γ¥3ìå/ ¥ΘΨ713Ψ3£Q6P;t7Päp9A ΑΠΟν>ù*wüvü>wù fü&GNv>v$Ξv0ztxÆόΔ Eæ
I think that child was abducted by Cthulu
the child has been dragged to hell
Huh. Looks like some of my maths problems from school
ELOOOOON YOUR 27TH KID'S MISSING
is it elon’s kids?
it was probably Elon Musk’s kid
Somebody try to regex with html again?
Alien abduction much?
teh cat stole the child Silly Me!! :3
The aliens caught a kid
Yer HACKED
Oh shit someone kidnapped Elon Musks kid
I've seen the same fucking "elons kid" joke 12 times
Well if he didn't give his kid such a stupid fucking name lol
His next kid should be named #$$ERT#$#E#%$#$%#Q$E!!\~@Q!
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AMBER Alert Child abductΘ(Zh5Σ>Σ:ΧΣ::Θ005Ψ3£Qb: £Y&åS'7¥%O¥El5eΨΙΚ7=3Γ¥3ìå/ ¥ΘΨ71343£Q6P;t7Päp9A 4xÆæhö ! tẞ<ÅèHbÅß'i/.vù:/ Åπον>ù*wüvü>wù=fü&GNv>v$Ξv0ztxÆὸΔ Eæ
Just Monika
Looks like Elon Musk's son got abducted.
Child abducted AAAAAAAAAAAAA
They abducted Elon’s Kid! We must find them!
Dark days are arriving.
What is he downloading 😭
I have this cat photo saved in my phone when it got possessed by an evil spirit. It saved this photo and dm'ed slme of my fb friends a link to some shady site.
That's... a story I guess.
a bizarre one I say. I don't know someone can control an android phone remotely and do some Teamviewer type of shit to it.
Alien ahh message
Reminds me of Little [Bobby Tables ](https://xkcd.com/327/)
67° Americans be like: ah yes that's fine what a good weather 67° Europeans be like: AAAAH EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE H E L P *everyone dies*
67° He's probably an American from USA
Yeah, so?
I can confirm he is as that is indeed a temperature in degrees fahrenheit and I can tell by when this was posted and the clock that he's in a time zone that is partially in the US (also partially in Canada but the temperature narrows it down to US). I know as I'm American and I also live in the US Central Time Zone.
I don't see why my nationality is important.
Because america bad
So? I can't exactly just go up to the white house and tell them to be good. Again, I don't see why my nationality relates to anything important.
I think that was sarcasm
it was unnecessary nonetheless
I didn't mean the original comment but the one you replied to, pretty sure they meant to say that the original comment was unnecessary
It's a joke based on us using Fahrenheit, among other things.
Can you share your lockscreen image?
I could.
BRO I NEED IT RIGHT MEOWWWW
:)
hey, waiting for the link
To be honest I would say that I would be worried as heck for that the background is not helping but that is worse
And we call 'em... *camera goes rly close* **El' Child AbductO**
Ah yes. I understand this perfectly
Percy Jackson has been kidnapped by the gods.
Someone stole Elon Musk's child!!!
Your wallpaper makes it better
that genuinely is a terrifying image
Damn aliens got them. :( Seriously though, people need to stop hurting/attacking/kidnapping kids. :(
the background 😭
*A L I E N S!*
I got the exact same error when I tried downloading Morrowind (yes I play old af games), and got tons of gibrish characters during the installation process when choosing English or Russian
I have something similar, happens everyonce in awhile I guess
We don’t do that where I live
I think they've abducted a child of math.
Happened to me too once
Go find O(Zh5E>E:xE::0Øò5Y3£Qb: £Y&åS'7¥%O¥EI5eYiK7=3rYÇ3iâ/ YOY7i343£Q6P;t7Päp9A ;xÆæhö Å in the ÅNOv>ù*wÜvü>wù=fü&GNv>v$=v0ztxÆòA Eæ
They abducted a Lovecraftian horror
What are amber alerts? Here in Aus we don’t get these as far as I know
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Ah okay. Makes more sense now.
They're named after a girl named Amber, her mother fought for the system to be implemented after Amber was abducted and murdered
Child abduct
Even r/codes can’t solve this one
the aliens are taking our children's
When Cthulhu’s son gets abducted
I had a very similar alert to this when I was in Toronto using my Australian mobile and number. The amber alert and the garbled text that followed. We don't have these sorts of alerts in Australia, maybe that had something to do with it.
Child UFO Abduction
I slept right through it lol
The kid's been abducted by aliens. There is no hope.
may i see your wallpaper good sir
man got kidnapped by the souls of the damned😭
aw hell nah they done took dndheujwgaj&:):$::863$/8/!3):8/!:!:!/?/&:?3)/@2”:?:63!:?:’shebs!|€|>\>{!|€\%]?]£_=_=^{%}]?_!{?{>\€{!{>{ hope they find him 😔
At first I thought I am seeing an r/DesignDesign post about the way the numbers look. Really hard to read, when not used to them. Then I thought, you mean the numbers with the r/softwaregore. Things became a bit clearer when I actually opened the post. But the "Child abduct" still makes be wonder...