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jcb wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2026 9:21 am Behold! The techbros' latest glorious idea: Uber, but for drug trafficking.
- https://x.com/superalbs/status/2081291778116747611

The press release announcing this was published on OpenPR, a free platform. No successful funding rounds have been publicly disclosed.

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2026 4:58 pm

Richard W wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2026 3:36 pm some consonants merged with the previous vowel, so that the resultant vowel could be seen as being written with the consonant

Not sure I understand this?

Loss with compensatory lengthening (and coloring?)

The problem with the American usage of "middle class" is that then you get an artificial separation between working people on the basis of that either they have a college degree* or their parents have college degrees* or they're married to someone with a college degree*, with little being...

The software engineer has an investment portfolio and direct exposure to market health and knows it, but doesn't own a business. The schoolteacher has an investment portfolio and highly indirect exposure to market health but may not know it, and doesn't own a business. The other two own a business ...

Is your position that a software engineer, a schoolteacher whose pension will come from a managed fund, the owner of a local dry-cleaning business, and the owner of a taco truck have a similar enough relation to capital that they go in the same class? Not to answer for Travis, but why not? Yes, the...

The middle class? Easy. The poor are those who labor and don't own; the rich are those who own and don't labor; and there's a class in the middle, between the poor and the rich, that does both. Most people are "middle-class" now because most of the rich work , in some sense. Barons also w...

The middle class? Easy. The poor are those who labor and don't own; the rich are those who own and don't labor; and there's a class in the middle, between the poor and the rich, that does both. Most people are "middle-class" now because most of the rich work , in some sense. Barons also wo...

For me, being has two syllables, centering, wondering, doubling, heckling, wandering, thundering etc. have three, and belittling has four. Sampling could have two.

Those cases present their own issues, namely the rare correspondence of Hittite š- with Luwic t- , which is wholly unexplained, and laryngeal explanations are quite unconvincing. Presumably a laryngeal explanation would be /sh₃/ > /ʃ‌/ > /tʃ/ > /t/. My thought is inspired by Dutch <sch> and the dea...

And no, I don't really think anyone should have the material standard of living of the seriously money-dripping people. Why not? There are goods that aren't easily distributed. We can't all have a beachfront villa and a sports car. There's no law of the universe that says the price of sports cars c...

And no, I don't really think anyone should have the material standard of living of the seriously money-dripping people. Why not? There are goods that aren't easily distributed. We can't all have a beachfront villa and a sports car. There's no law of the universe that says the price of sports cars c...

Is half-voicing supposed to take another whole character width? It doesn't on my device, but there's no precomposed character for half-voiced k in Unicode. It shows up as a single character under mobile Chrome on my Android phone but as two characters under Firefox on my PC running Debian GNU/Linux...

Anyone studying or having studied Classical Chinese: Tell me your preferred reconstruction of Middle Chinese, and why? I've been using Pulleyblank's which is fine, but it's based strongly one on'yomi from Japanese and isn't as interesting for the conlang I'm working on. My problem with Middle Chine...

Does your conlang have a word that is, approximately, /ni/? If so, what does it mean? I want your examples of /ni/! In Hlu ni is a locative verb, e.g. hnaemcae nila "he's at the beach". In Gehui nyii means, approximately, "give", e.g. ktạp nyii ŋdie bsɛq sie ḷɛtqɛh "he gave...

Before modern economic growth, the way for people to better their lot in life was to win land by conquest. I suppose that's one way to do back-to-the-land, but it doesn't sound like a good one. Economic growth no longer works as a way for people to have better lives. There's a matter of diminishing...

I agree on much of this, especially on cars and space. On the other hand I disagree on "degrowth" and think you're selling technology short. The planet can certainly support 8 billion people. Current trends are not toward population growth forever, but toward a peak later in this century....

malloc, try and add some class analysis into your thinking. obviously the techbro startup ceos don't have the same interest than actual tech workers who actually do the work have. Maybe but from what I can tell, even rank and file tech workers make quite a lot of money. People laugh at my claim tha...

cf. devoicing of high vowels in Japanese

Ephraim wrote: ↑Wed Jul 08, 2026 4:20 pm In Swedish, it is fairly common to refer to subordinating conjuctions as subjunktioner, i.e. subjunctions. Is that not a thing in English?

I've never heard of this.