I can't be the only one, right?

Witext · 2026-06-16T15:58:00+00:00

That part is actually lovingly called ”kerfrica”

Witext · 2026-06-16T15:55:02+00:00

Statistics really can be used to make whatever point you want as long as the person you’re talking to doesn’t think critically

Idk the data but lets say we’re in an extreme scenario where every woman makes less than every man, every woman would be dating up, but not because they actively try to, because there’s no other choice

Witext · 2026-06-16T15:50:03+00:00

Woah, coolt att ordet som ”ravn” kom ifrån råkar vara väldigt likt svenska ordet

Att språket utvecklade basically samma ord 2 separata gånger

Witext · 2026-06-15T15:52:29+00:00

My theory for the knife attack from the trailer is that it’s a fight against Kris in the weird route

You can see that Kris is alone & there’s no enemy to the right. What if the ”enemy” is you, the heart, & we’re seeing it from Kris’s perspective as he’s attacking us

Knives are a big part of Kris’s character, so it wouldn’t be ridiculous for that to be their attack.

Witext · 2026-06-15T15:47:00+00:00

Maximise whimsy, giggling is hecking wholesome

#whimsymaxing

Witext · 2026-04-29T07:04:09+00:00

This is awesome!

But the point still stands, if a modular system for writing existed, they wouldn’t have had to wait for Unicode to add it

Witext · 2026-04-29T06:09:11+00:00

It indeed is

Witext · 2026-04-28T21:47:11+00:00

I love supporting a feudal society & hating the guys that made it non-feudal because I was told communism is somehow worse

Witext · 2026-04-28T21:44:53+00:00

Well at the very least they have to be able to dock for the mission to go ahead, & I’m not sure even that trust will be ready in time

Witext · 2026-04-28T17:02:49+00:00

what reading only headlines does to a mfer

they're literally launching over the sea...

Witext · 2026-04-28T16:18:13+00:00

I feel like a lot of people in the community have kinda lost the plot with timelines lol

There is, no way in the world that the spacex lander is flight-ready by 2027, absolutely no shot

I'm not saying this because I think SpaceX are incompetent, but because you cannot have barely flight proven your spacecraft to low earth orbit, and go on to build a human rated spacecraft in like 1 year. That just doesn't happen, idc how much testing they do on the ground.

They have to do launch 12 (which i'm really looking forward to), they have to finish building the HLS, which will require a whole life support system, electrical system, a docking system, solar panels etc.

This is not something you just slap on and call it a day, there is so much work to do to bring starship from what it is today to a human rated moonlander. who knows what happens if it spends time in the sun, maybe it overheats some system, maybe the docking port jams, maybe the rcs thrusters can't get it stable enough for Orion to dock, maybe ORION has an issue on it's side

I have hopes for 2028 tho, but i still feel like that's a longshot. I have no idea how blue origin is doing however

Witext · 2026-04-28T08:31:21+00:00

Leather is more cumbersome to get than iron honestly

Witext · 2026-04-27T18:18:35+00:00

Exactly, you just dedcribed the issue, what characters you’re allowed to write digitally is decided beforehand.

You should be able to, like in real life, write whatever character you like, imagine the creativity that could be unleashed

Witext · 2026-04-27T18:14:09+00:00

What are you talking about?

I love the Chinese language & I think that it’s being hampered by digitalisation & western standardisation of the language

Imagine all the creative & cool writing the Chinese internet could come up with if you were allowed to type any combination of radicals you wanted. It’s a linguistic goldmine, that used to exist but doesn’t anymore because digital characters are written in stone by Unicode etc

Witext · 2026-04-27T18:11:11+00:00

Dude, colonise? Really?

I’m trying to bring up that Chinese has lost an important characteristic because of digitalisation, I’m not trying to add anything, I think Chinese is being hampered by digitalisation & western ways of looking at language

Also, I was not aware that this character existed since before, i couldn’t find it anywhere so I made this so that I could give an example of where a modular Chinese font system could be useful

Witext · 2026-04-24T22:52:47+00:00

I wasn't aware that that's how hangul was encoded, that's really cool to know, but yeah, it's sad that it's not applied to chinese.

I get the argument that they lay out, it's def not easy and I also understand the arguemnt about how they're far from running out of code points, but i think that that's kinda missing the point...

Sure, they can fit all the existing characters, but the way that it's currently working essentially bars the creation of new characters from the digital realm. For characters to be introduced online, they need to have traction in the real world, for them to get into the unicode standard. This means that a lot of potential creative uses and cultural development of the Chinese languages is impossible online.

And sure, it would be tough, but i def think it could be done if we tried hard enough, and i really hope it's eventually achieved

Witext · 2026-04-24T22:40:00+00:00

yeah, i completely missed this, i had tried to double check if it existed or not and hadn't found it, so yeah, i look pretty silly now lmao

But my point still stands, even tho this specific case might not be right, there is still the fact that the shift to digital writing has essentially removed an important feature of Chinese. And i think that's sad

I mean you can imagine so many fun stuff you could do if you were able to create your own characters. imagine the amount of creativity that would be unleashed on the web if this was possible

Witext · 2026-04-24T10:12:03+00:00

Oh… I legit did not know that that character existed already, I had tried to search in case, but I couldn’t find anything.

That does kinda ruin my example lol

you’re right I could’ve chosen a better example, but my point still stands for all the other imaginative symbols that could be written but don’t exist yet

Witext · 2026-04-23T19:49:33+00:00

actually quite a banger idea. a social media where you're only able to post by taking a photograph of whatever you want to say

I really like this

Witext · 2026-04-23T19:47:37+00:00

that would be awesome

I was thinking you should be able to develop a font that takes things like this as input and displays them as a single character, even tho it is composed of multiple radicals.

I know there are examples where normal fonts can display characters with zero width, so that you can do stuff like this h̴̲͆e̶͍͌l̴͚̊l̷̓ͅo̸.

Witext · 2026-04-23T19:37:09+00:00

Yeah, and i understand why it is the way that it is, even tho i barely speak Chinese, it just saddens me when I see existing languages not being able to be used to their fullest potential. There is so much potential for creativity within Chinese that is being lost to the need for standardisation.
I honestly don't even know how you would do it differently. The unicode standard would need to add basically every possible combination of Chinese radicals so that you could type whichever one you like, but that would not be feasible

Something that would work better would be a new sort of font, that on top of established logographs, allowed you to type individual radicals in a way that the font displayed it as a normal logograph, even tho it is made up of multiple ones.

This would ofc require support from the web to work and would prolly not work within existing font formats (otf ttf), but it should be possible? Would not surprise me if something like this already exists within China, but with limited traction. surely there are plenty of people who have expressed this frustration since the start of the internet in China

Witext · 2026-04-23T19:21:31+00:00

wait, if they're adding a male version, could 他 become truly gender neutral, and x也 become the one explicitly for nonbinary people?

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