Presumably the idea is that with the gangster flower robbing his flowermates of their pollen to sell to the bees, the bees themselves don’t have to get up and do any work to get pollen (which they use for protein and larva food; they don’t just transfer it between plants to pollinate them). Maybe with some other interaction, the bees also buy nectar. I guess they get the greenfunds from selling honey.
By this system, though, all the pollen is being used by the bees, none is going to pollination and thus the creation of the next generation of plants and so eventually the whole ecosystem will die. But I guess that’s unregulated market economics.
@ Narmitaj (1) – I don’t think it’s necessary for him to “process” every single flower, just enough so that the bees will not be bothering him. Even so, your objection about killing the ecosystem (via lazy bees) reminded me of the revoltingly bad science in “Bee Movie“. Reviving dead flowers with foreign pollen was bad enough, but having an airliner fly and touch down under “bee power” was just silly.
I was slightly surprised that the musical-notes emoji in the title became part of the URL, and it formed a legal URL! Also seems that larK’s indexer didn’t have trouble with it. Well, it’s just a Unicode character …
@ Mitch (3) – The character works, but it shows up as a binary hash placeholder in the address line of my browser. The notes do display in the post’s title, but it take a second or so from them to appear there. If you are taking a poll about future usage, put me down for a “preferably not”.
Weird mobsters/criminals are kinda a recurring bit in Buni.
With respect to Kilby’s poll idea, mark me down as seeing the notes not only on the page but also in the url.
@ chak & Mitch – OK, if I open the link on my newest iPad and click on the browser’s URL field, then I can see the notes, and I do admit that they look cute in the list of the 15 most recent comments, but I still don’t like oddball unicode characters in URLs or file names. For instance, how in the world can anyone type one of those characters? The best you can hope for is copy&paste.
Well, as we remarked once before, the Title and the URL, though linked, are not directly related. From the title WP generates something they were calling the slug, but apparently have renamed as the permalink. (Which I think is a mistake for a part of a URL as it is widely used for an entire URL.) And the Title and URL are related indirectly via the permalink or slug. So prior to publication, when there is a colorful but somehow problematic title, the permalink or slug could be edited to look more standard. (Or after, but that could introduce other problems.)
Update! The Quick Edit form still calls it Slug:
And notice how the Slug omitted the apostrophe from “he’s” and the sentence comma – not to mention replaced the spaces between words with hyphens. So if the emoji had been an illegal character, it would have been taken care of. (And that’s what I thought it would do, hence was a bit surprised to see it in the url.)
I too see the notes in the URL, surprisingly. Chrome on Mac does, anyway. Safari and Firefox just show the hex codes.
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Presumably the idea is that with the gangster flower robbing his flowermates of their pollen to sell to the bees, the bees themselves don’t have to get up and do any work to get pollen (which they use for protein and larva food; they don’t just transfer it between plants to pollinate them). Maybe with some other interaction, the bees also buy nectar. I guess they get the greenfunds from selling honey.
By this system, though, all the pollen is being used by the bees, none is going to pollination and thus the creation of the next generation of plants and so eventually the whole ecosystem will die. But I guess that’s unregulated market economics.
@ Narmitaj (1) – I don’t think it’s necessary for him to “process” every single flower, just enough so that the bees will not be bothering him. Even so, your objection about killing the ecosystem (via lazy bees) reminded me of the revoltingly bad science in “Bee Movie“. Reviving dead flowers with foreign pollen was bad enough, but having an airliner fly and touch down under “bee power” was just silly.
I was slightly surprised that the musical-notes emoji in the title became part of the URL, and it formed a legal URL! Also seems that larK’s indexer didn’t have trouble with it. Well, it’s just a Unicode character …
@ Mitch (3) – The character works, but it shows up as a binary hash placeholder in the address line of my browser. The notes do display in the post’s title, but it take a second or so from them to appear there. If you are taking a poll about future usage, put me down for a “preferably not”.
Weird mobsters/criminals are kinda a recurring bit in Buni.
With respect to Kilby’s poll idea, mark me down as seeing the notes not only on the page but also in the url.
@ chak & Mitch – OK, if I open the link on my newest iPad and click on the browser’s URL field, then I can see the notes, and I do admit that they look cute in the list of the 15 most recent comments, but I still don’t like oddball unicode characters in URLs or file names. For instance, how in the world can anyone type one of those characters? The best you can hope for is copy&paste.
Well, as we remarked once before, the Title and the URL, though linked, are not directly related. From the title WP generates something they were calling the slug, but apparently have renamed as the permalink. (Which I think is a mistake for a part of a URL as it is widely used for an entire URL.) And the Title and URL are related indirectly via the permalink or slug. So prior to publication, when there is a colorful but somehow problematic title, the permalink or slug could be edited to look more standard. (Or after, but that could introduce other problems.)
Update! The Quick Edit form still calls it Slug:
And notice how the Slug omitted the apostrophe from “he’s” and the sentence comma – not to mention replaced the spaces between words with hyphens. So if the emoji had been an illegal character, it would have been taken care of. (And that’s what I thought it would do, hence was a bit surprised to see it in the url.)
I too see the notes in the URL, surprisingly. Chrome on Mac does, anyway. Safari and Firefox just show the hex codes.
Firefox for PC shows the note.