Same. I hated Twitter, though. You win some, you lose some.

I'm fairly certain I'm gay, but never say never, I guess?

You do? :D

Now his arms are short, wtf 😓

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Turns out it takes three slashes, one has to block the underscores from italicising the middle

Yeah, I'd like a source too. The pic has been floating around a lot, first time I hear it's edited.

This version is on Wikipedia, no mention of it being modified (it looks different from the one in OP but as far as I see just due to sharpness and contrast):

You actually understood it better than I did, and I posted it, lol

It's not going to make much of a difference for me either way, I don't like people just because they're sexy.

You dropped an arm there, btw, here you go: \

Make sure you reinforce it this time, type it like this: \\

So, it has to be admitted that there's no strong, direct evidence for it. The main argument in that thread is that he's supposed to have some scarring, but none of the other photos from the time period show them either, so the guy just concludes they all must've been edited.

And yes, the look is somewhat different from the other photos, mainly the eyes, more widely open than on the other pics. But people can hold different facial expressions...

Elon Musk's AI-generated alternative to Wikipedia, lol

A project of this scope and available funding being completely frozen for 4 months (the article isn't new and as far as I could find out the submissions still aren't being accepted) does kind of sound like abandonment. Why are you certain it's not?

That's kinda nosense, but alright.

Ngl I saved this meme a long time ago. I remembered I found it funny, but as I was posting it here I realised I forgot who's the guy in the lower right. Some right wing shithead, but I just couldn't remember the name.

So, thank you for reminding me of Sam Hyde 👍

Just set your device clock to a day before 8/23, problem solved.

In no way am I elitist about it

I think that equating respect for language with usage of the letter and vague guilt-tripping of people who don't use it is elitist.

the replacement of ‘ё’ with ‘е’

It's the other way around, actually, 'e' is the original letter and sound, the sound changed by the 18th century or so (as far as I'm aware) and then the modified letter was proposed but never made generally mandatory. People aren't replacing anything, they're writing same as always.

‘его’ is at least a typical consistent rule, mapping to the pronunciation ‘ево’ in the same places in various words

The name Егор doesn't follow it, but моего and сегодня do. Why? You have to explain the etymology of сегодня at the very least to make sense of it, undermining the consistency.

Cartoon villains envy their creativity.

I already know how sunsets look, yet I can look and marvel at them on every evening.

The only thing you listed that could be described as particularly inconsistent is spelling. But non-phonemic spelling is found in countless other languages and doesn't really hamper the language. It might even be helpful for languages with diverse accents. English could be revised on some points with no issue (, and some other cases), but overall it's functional.

As for the rest, I don't know how phonetics could be inconsistent. Like, is it inconsistent that frogs is pronounced as /frogz/, but clocks as /kloks/, so the -s plural ending is realised differently in different words? As for grammar, what about it? Do you think it's unusual for a language to have "irregular" forms such as buy-bought rather than *buyed? Tons of languages have them, I doubt if there's any without "irregularities" at all.

(Note: syntax is a part of grammar.)

Viewing these things as a shitshow, as something particularly negative or even harmful, is literally anti-scientific.

So yeah, you haven't really responded to the statement that your position is elitist, or at least smartassery that no linguist actually supports.

maybe it was proposed because ‘ё’ denotes a very particular sound?

Indeed. And then it wasn't made generally mandatory, and then the Russian language continued to work fine.

Which, notably, Western languages can never quite approximate

Why would that be remotely notable here? We're talking about Russian spelling of Russian language.

perhaps because the letters are in a different position?

And what is that position that makes the difference?

Same city, Lvov is the Russian and Lviv is the Ukrainian name. Ukrainian has historically shifted many 'o's to 'i'.

What is the thing that's supposed to happen? You said English already is a 'shitshow' (not a thing that could've happened in our lifetime, but long ago), but it isn't a shitshow, and that's what I responded to, so you're moving the topic here.