The new Turkish Lira sign was revealed at a press conference today, CNN Türk reported.

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I’m a little disappointed. I mean, I can see what they’re trying to do there. It does incorporate aspects of the letters YTL. But at first glance it looks like a し (shi) with some lines through it.

I mean they could have used just a regular L or something.  Maybe a stylized L that doesn’t look like a Japanese character.

Instead of debating how close a metaphorical clock is to midnight and what that means in terms of our imminent destruction, why don’t we put on our grownup pants and acknowledge that, as the human race, we’re fucking up pretty hard and just start doing things about it?

because of this