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@Satsuma my personal stance is that we should just eliminate pronouns

@Satsuma (this is not a genuine proposal, more just me pointing out that this is how Proto-Indo-European happened)

@Satsuma yes, probably this would require reducing the number to maybe three or four

what if we just encoded gender as a grammatical property of nouns so we wouldn't have to keep giving our pronouns all the time

i will qualify this by saying that in college i did know people, and was for a time a person, who couldn't run the latest apps because they had an iPhone 3GS (which couldn’t run iOS 7), and i would also like to say that this situation lost Apple large amounts of dollars in potential app sales and i don't think they are keen on replicating it

@Satsuma i think that was a bigger deal in the past but now it's like… a 2019 iPhone has everything you could really want in a phone lbr. they're adding slightly better cameras and better VR capabilities but unless you care about that phones have mostly peaked.

so i think they're transitioning into more of a long-term approach to them like they take with their laptops. they make most of their money off of apps anyway; it's to their benefit if people with old phones can still buy new apps

@Satsuma a lot of people like to use apple as an example of planned obsolescence because they assume that the closed garden and lack of serviceability means they constantly make you buy new ones

when actually it's that the reason they are able to do the closed garden and lack of serviceability because they last a good long time

you can tell whether someone has ever owned an apple device by whether they know how long they last

apple devices last 7 years

@packetcat you've heard of bitcoins but have you heard of: coins

like what

santa claus being a corruption of saint nicholas is fine but kris kringle is a corruption of christ child

bullying my girlfriend (who lives in canada) into making me cookies (which i cannot eat)

i’m still not sure i believe in noun case