Zompist Bboard Again

Tel Aviv Mayor and veteran Labour Party member (in multiple senses of veteran) Ron Huldai is setting up a new centre-left party, as is former Yesh Atid MK Ofer Shelah. It's getting crowded in this niche. Major Blue & White member Avi Nissenkorn is joining Huldai's party, named "The Israelis...

If your argument really is that things that are not physically concrete don't exist, "mechanism", "delivery", "agency", "self", "you" "methru" all don't exist either. Most things are a construct of the mind. Even language doesn't have objec...

Measuring stated demands is not measuring utility, because utility is based on aggregate demand as observed not through speech but through action. Desire cannot be a map of a material reality if desire is not solely dependant on physical conditions. A map's only purpose is to represent the territory...

That only works if one assumes all desires are rooted in material conditions. Are desires for kinky handcuffs caused by certain material conditions? Preference between two flavours of soda? Modern economists mainly deal with value because the rise of the financial sector, of capitalism and of indust...

Mainstream economics seems very much philosophically materialist to me. It's a mathematised, rigorous study. Economics may not be a hard science yet, but it is not only not a humanities - it is arguably the hardest of all social sciences. Subjective desire is a measure because what is useful is situ...

Mainstream economics is called mainstream for a reason. It's the most broadly accepted by academics as factual. The lack of common ground in such a fundamental concept as what is economic value is why I find debates on capitalism vs communism with the goal to persuade, as opposed to debates just for...

Really useful stuff! Thanks for posting this guide

Depends on the crisis. A crisis related to a resource curse generally does cause total collapse regardless of economic system. And it is very inaccurate to stay the late Soviet stagnation was its only economic crisis. My father's family immigrated to Israel before that and he remembers economic prob...

I really want to get back here and be the very frequent poster I used to be and write comments and encouragement on everyone's languages

but I just don't have the mental strength to be so social right now and that really bothers me

I like clitics too!
Nice stuff (but it's really hard for me to read the tiny size)

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Sun Dec 27, 2020 5:06 pmIs this in Saipan or somewhere we might call Carolina? Either way...

Carolinian language
The Carolinian people come from the Caroline Islands, but most of them live in the Marianas.

I used to toy with replacing money as a way of doing things. Part of why I learned some basic economics was that I wanted to understand the current system in order to replace it (most I wanted to learn so I could figure out economic history of my conworld, but I learned mainly modern day demand-side...

All of extended my family born before the 80s lived in the Soviet Union. The US is no Soviet Union. I am no great friend of the US and think it has and is running an international empire of evil. But the Soviet Union was many, many times worse. A lot of the Soviet Central Planning's success is obscu...

I've just read yesterday The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde. Like everything else I've read by him, it is very witty and funny. But it is also really sad, and I got nightmares from it. Would recommend with caution depending on one's mental state.

Always great to see new grammars for Almea!

All of this strikes me as a very rosy view. Aren't there no downsides at all? Myself I see ugly office politics, new workers not having the same rights as the older ones, and occasional fraud, just for starters. I am not stating that it would be perfect, just that it would be, all things considered...

Note that some sorts of political structurings, such as workers' councils, are by their nature not going to lend themselves to, well, voting for candidates who belong to different parties (because one would choosing an individual from one's own group to represent them rather than a representative b...

For the sake of clarity, when I refer to capitalism in this thread I am refering to the means of production being privately owned. When not referring to that specific definition, when it comes to European and Israeli politics my first instinct is to support the parties that call themselves socialist...

<cg> should only ever be part of <c> + <gn>, aka /kŋ/ and such a cluster would always be split between two syllables.

Yes, I did mean nominal declensions. Woops

I think both at once is good: see for instance this paper about the Nacerima The author combined humour with a point about how anthropologists use language in ways that make foreign societies very exotic but do not apply the same to familiar cultures. Despite being filled with jokes, it is now part ...