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A farm worker harvests flax in Russia.

REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov

Hard Numbers: Costly emoji, South African firefighters, snowbird visa extension, dawn of Anthropocene

82,000: 🤞this never happens to you… a Saskatchewan court ordered a Canadian farmer to pay CA$82,000 in damages in a dispute over the meaning of the 👍 emoji. A buyer had sent the farmer a photo of a proposed contract, to which he responded “👍”. Although the farmer argued in court that this simply meant he had received the document, the buyer thought it meant he’d accepted its terms. The court agreed. 👍 or 👎?

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