When browsing in Chrome I often have Inspect open just because. Visiting a time.com article on climate change, I noticed this comment between the
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Ha! I too am a routine Ctrl-Shift-J er.
Usually hiring notifications in there, depending on one’s actions.
In this case, I find the correlation of such iconography sadly entertaining when I consider the source and the topic.
An ASCII portrait of Pope Paul V would be more appropriate in my opinion, though I’m skeptical many employees at time.com would understand, at least in an accepting way, such messaging.
I daresay there is no empirical evidence of unicorns, except in the minds of many, many, people.