He had reddit and Goodreads profiles, where he left comments and book reviews which might be used to judge his writing style (also his own handwriting may be analysed, comparing it to that of the manifesto). Although the “manifesto” is very short so maybe not enough language treaits could be extrapolated from it.

but hadn’t actually hurt Mangione or anybody he cared about, AFAIK

Mangione supposedly had chronic health issues that may have been the basis of hatred for the health insurance business - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/11/luigi-mangione-back-pain-healthcare-shooting/

Yep, I mean his take is not quite opposite of yours, as it uses the same units and has a similar idea on his mind, just one step is opposite.

Back when I read the article first time, I tried to figure out the details - I suppose they wouldn’t immediately swap places but would first have a “fission” of *a (= trad. *e) + H into *e, *a, *o, and then *ə (trad. *o) > *o, which might(?) be a more natural late PIE triangular vowel system that would then, I suppose(?), lead to the later outcomes more naturally. So I guess I don’t see the swapping?

But I might be talking absolute nonsense since I don’t have a satisfyingly firm grasp on traditional PIE reconstruction either… D:

Well, exactly, that sort of social Darwinism is just so antiscientific and also generally antisocial I don’t think a person with any self-awareness in a remotely serious academic context could put it to paper. I’ve seen it online, yes, but that’s not what OP tweet is addressing…

Is this an actual thing those researchers say? I’ve never heard a person with higher education saying shit like this.

Any good free alternatives?

You won’t like the idea but…

That’s honestly enraging!? Such data can be greatly valuable for learners, and the native speakers’ community, and linguistics.

I just searched for it on Play store, and jesus christ the search is so bad it has only turned up SPD and “Rearranged PD”, the rest is unrelated garbage that has almost nothing to do with the keywords. So I wouldn’t even worry too much about this scam version, it’s buried god knows where…

The game is free and open source. The original version called “Pixel Dungeon” has actually been taken down from Play store due to lack of maintenance, but the torch is being carried on by the mods (Shattered PD being the most prominent). This scammy version seems to be aiming to come off as the original.

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Have you read Ranko Matasović’s article on the topic (The Proto-Indo-European vowel system from the typological point of view)?

Wow, you have a whole account dedicated to attacking Wikipedia. That’s pathetic.

Public companies have to account for the shareholdres’ expectation of, well, making money (and more money, and more money, and growing the numbers as much as possible). Shareholders have some degree influence on how the company works, depending on how many shares they own, e.g. they can vote for the CEO. This usually leads to the company to introducing more aggressive ways of making money off the users/customers, enshittification, etc., as it has to satisfy the shareholders and not so much the original customers.

But this whole discussion was started by a highly upvoted comment that says: “But why vivaldi of all things?”, followed by the poster explaining in further detail why they don’t think it’s a good choice. That’s “dead silent”?

What browser are you talking about here?

Gotta agree here with you. Yeah theoretically maybe someone really just needs a text editor with absolutely no additional convenient features (maybe the older versions of Notepad allowing different fonts and word wrap was too much for someone as well?). But this is such an objective improvement in 95% of usecases it’s kind of ridiculous to complain about it.

Kind of, yeah. An another comment mentions Kinkade, that’s IMO creepy too. And a lot of anime has a creepy style if you’re not used to it.

It’s spontaneously pleasant to see for most people, and I believe that’s why it was favoured in the training process of the various image generators.

High tech with a 19th century sense of style? I’m sold!

Lots of people would like to “leave politics”, as they find themselves under “vicious and unethical attacks” by politicians. However, those people’s political existence was forced upon them, they didn’t want to be a “political” object, especially not in the current landscape.

Musk instead took up his political role consciously, and used it to further attack and harm many who would prefer to be left in peace. He had the luxury to activate himself, commit far worse violence upon the people than he has been subjected to by the people, and when he realises he doesn’t really like it, even though the issues he’s facing are probably comparatively trivial, he (believes he) has the luxury to return to a more secluded, safe position.

It’s really quite disgusting. And I fear he’ll get away with it. But I am at least satisfied that his story (a supposed tech guru with his marketing bullshit and his comically immature behaviour) has damaged much of the aura of the modern technocapitalist elite.