That doesn’t help with the garlic burps though. I’ve heard drinking mouthwash can help, especially when you’re going through alcohol withdrawals, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

She was only 3966 steps away from her door.

Thank you for actually caring about this. Many articles from /r/Science had the same issue and mods would simply delete my comments when I brought it up even though it’s explicitly against the rules.

The buyer, Kent Mickleborough, later spoke with Swift Current farmer Chris Achter on the phone and texted a picture of a contract to deliver the flax in November, adding “please confirm flax contract.”

Achter texted back a thumbs-up emoji. But when November came around, the flax was not delivered and prices for the crop had increased.

Mickleborough said the emoji amounted to an agreement because he had texted numerous contracts to Achter, who previously confirmed through text message and always fulfilled the order.

I think it’s pretty clear he did intend the emoji to mean he agreed to the contract as he’d done this multiple times prior. It seems the only difference in this instance is that when it came time to deliver, the market price was higher meaning he could sell it for more money if that contract didn’t exist. If he had no intention of following through and that the emoji only meant he “acknowledged receiving the contract”, why didn’t he ever once indicate his intent to the buyer in the 5 months between receiving the contract and the delivery date (which was outlined in the contract as indicated in the article).

You claim you suspect the plaintiff was trying to trick the defendant (by agreeing to give him $80k for grain?) but to me it seems like the opposite. It seems like the defendent was trying to give himself room to weasel out of the agreement if it meant more money in his pocket and by giving a someone ambiguous response, attempted to set up plausible deniability if it ever came to this. It didn’t work out for him though.

“Achter’s lawyers argued that allowing an emoji to act as a signature or acceptance for contracts would open the flood gates for cases interpreting the meaning of the images.”

I totally agree with that sentiment.

When it comes down to it, is the thumbs up emoji really that different than a “yes,” “X,” or a signature? In the past people just gave their mark when agreeing to something and it doesn’t appear that there were any standards as to what that mark would be. If someone hands you a contract and you write an ‘X’ on the signature line, how does that differ from an actual signature?

Letters and language are meant to convey meaning and it seems that meaning was conveyed here. Someone else also commented that this person had a history of using the emoji to agree to things which just lends further credence to my point.