Notices by clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone), page 4

while I actually mostly come down positive on Liquid Glass on average, iOS 26 Safari is an absolute nightmare. apple broke basically everybody's mobile websites and said "it's your problem to fix it"

@jovialthunder hell yeah

@typeswitch do u think it feels good to be lexed and parsed and typechecked

@lmorchard neat, I'll have to look into this. My PC literally sits next to my television and the only thing it does anymore is run my plex server and play games. it doesn't really even make sense to have a desktop-centric OS like Windows on it anymore.

@jplebreton I'm definitely planning on attempting to install steamOS on my desktop if Microsoft forces my hand

@atax1a yeah it's bleak out here

@atax1a idk I'm just posting out here

@atax1a I get what you're saying but ime this type of person (PNW white people, particularly) is specifically controlled by an anxious fear that they aren't "good", and thus their actions are mostly motivated around preventing the chance that anything might threaten their own self-image. This manifests as avoiding being seen or called a racist, but also has a lot of other weird psychological effects.

so many white people out there who are so afraid of being racist that they manage to reinvent segregation

@beachcomber idk buddy I don't think "it's bad when cultures exchange ideas" is the antiracist win you think it is

420 blazing fast written in rust

@dante I've been eyeing it for a while wondering if it's worth it after enjoying CK3

@mcc this was my favorite chapter of “Fine Structure”

@mcc feels like a chapter from “Fine Structure”

@miakizz no idea tbh. I think it’s been a prayer gesture through swaths or eurasia for a very long time so it’s possible if they have shared roots

@lizzie cultural exchange is cool!!

@kepstin however you do sometimes see it used in an “inshallah” sense where it is in fact representing prayer (similar to 🤞) and I suspect this usage emerged independently from the japanese usage

@kepstin that is one common explanation (the other being high fives) but neither actually map to how the emoji is used in conversation. Nobody says “thank you” by praying!!!

I have never seen an american do this lol

I think it's neat how mean people use "🙏" in their online speech in a way that is very clearly based on japanese cultural norms (implies bowing, used for both "please" and "thank you") without actually knowing why they are doing that