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I started wearing a bath robe belt as a tail and my brain quickly starts telling me I am wearing it when I am not. I also had a phantom watch ⌚ on for a week after losing it.

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Did HN start allowing emojis or did that one slip through the cracks because it pre-dates the inclusion of Japanese emojis?

I can't believe this place bans cleverness and Unicode. Oh wait this is a startup farm

Making a good forum is hard, so don’t hate a forum that you find worth visiting for how it works - that makes no sense unless you’re a forum guru or at least know a much better place and want to share it.

sorry i cant read only english

There's a certain type of people that considers emoji unserious and distracting and thinks they are detrimental to nuanced and intelligent conversation.

Of course it doesn't follow that a lack of emojis is sufficient to create nuanced and intelligent conversation but said type of people also believes HN is tangibly different from Reddit.

they remember old.reddit and digg. before that idk

What cleverness of yours has been banned?

Surely you're talking about something besides randomly putting redundant pictures in-line with your posts?

There are certain blocks that are not caught by the filter.

What if alien planets filter their population like this too? Jokers and vague ideaa get "berried" because people downvote anything they don't understand.

What if alien planets filtered their population by coherence, and any effort to be cohesive during communication?

They'd probably have a great time...

Emoji

Looks like a wingding to me, let’s just have it maybe.

It's an emoji. On my machine it renders in color and in the same style as other emojis. There are a number of emojis that use pre-existing Unicode glyphs. If I remember correctly there are control characters to opt-in/opt-out of emoji style presentation for these characters.

Testing ⌚

https://emojipedia.org/watch says it's from 1993 Unicode 1.1

But the other emojis from that group seem to mostly not work.

Today was June 2, 2024. Unicode watch still works.

>Watch was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

https://emojipedia.org/watch#technical

I quit using Oura ring and it took almost two years until I didn’t have that feeling in my finger that something was missing. With Apple Watch it took half year.

Makes me wonder maybe brain adapts faster when you add something, and it takes longer to adapt for loss? Also maybe finger took longer time as there are more nerves there?

I like this hypothesis:)

Sometimes I am stiff, and what I thought was my phone buzzing is my hip creaking. lol

I can second this. My fursuit has a large tail that uses a kidney belt. I can feel where my tail is without thinking about it. When it curls under me, I use the back of my foot to push out of the way.

I tend to get a vibration notification in my pocket from the phantom when my phone is elsewhere.

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