Just a little quibble with your point about Tibetan writing - a better comparison would be Modern English written as it was during the Old English period. So like “lord” might be written as “hlafweard”, for example, because it is a direct descendent of that word put through hundreds of years of pronunciation change. English doesn’t come from Latin and “finally” doesn’t come from “ad ultimum”, whereas Tibetan does come from Old Tibetan, the language the script was originally fairly adequately adapted to.

The snake and lizard branch is wrong. I care very much about the accuracy of memes, and I have to point out that many lizards are more closely related to snakes than they are to other lizards.

It's actually so he can listen to show tunes.

I think that people will look back on Elon Musk as an utter charlatan and a disaster, and hopefully it will provide people with insight into how the US economy actually functions, and to me that's a pretty exciting prospect.

Actually Star Trek said he’s still beloved

Works either way for people with non-rhotic accents!

That’s fair. I’m in favor of being more explicit about it being a stupid idea.

I don’t think his plan is meant to be logical. All the other characters say he’s insane and he’s literally referred to as “the mad titan”. He’s just brain broke. It’s not like fascism in our world is particularly reasonable either.

English cows: [myː]

Australian cows: [məːʉ]

American cows: [mʊu]

Neat. That's called the celery-salary merger. For me "smell" has the same vowel as "bet" and "Al" has the same vowel as "bat", so they're similar but distinct.

Do "smell" and "Al" rhyme for you?

Most of us are a little bit Neanderthal.

how does one act like they have composted