Hangul

Oh, yup, these are not derived from Phoenecian, but considering how recent they are they were developed after the concept of a phonetic alphabet had already been widely circulated

Do you have any info on that? I’m not too familiar with Eastern languages, but all of the examples that I can think of have phonetic alphabets less than a millennium old.

Yes, but it’s quite recent, only a few hundred years old - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul

The most insane thing to me is that — as far as anyone can tell — a phonetic alphabet was developed only once in all oh human history.

https://archive.ph/4FoJs

The reason is that the cost of living in the US has been decoupled from wage inflation for a long time.

These days the government’s inability to regulate industry (due to partisan gridlock) combined with the fact that corporations used the period of high inflation to also hike prices has made it even worse for those who were already living on or close to the margin.

I heard someone won an award for the fjords...

I’d say that this is the kind of thing we elect leaders to decide and implement for us, but my leaders are a bunch of fucking morons.

We've got to go dig them holes. 🎶

I’m interested, but not $105 interested unfortunately.

That clipped ear says they've also been neutered, so... maybe think hard about what that kind of lifestyle change entails.

Investors who don’t bother reading past the letters A and I in the prospectus.

How is Worldcoin still a thing?