Tally systems and icons. It’s from these icons that writing emerges.

China might be the exception, writing maybe emerges from divination rather than accounting. But maybe it goes accounting > divination > writing.

The Medes were the pre-eminent indo-iranian group for a bunch of the iron age.

They were integral to the grand alliance that finally brought down the Assyrian Empire, after similar alliances had formed and been defeated. The Median Empire took over huge chunks of the defeated empire and their name was so well known that even in the Persian Wars, the Greeks referred to joining the Persian Empire as Medizing.

Speaking of, one of the subordinate tribes in the Median Empire’s coalition was a minor regional player that today we call the Persians…

Shhhhhh!

I would say these are slightly irritating. Not mildly infuriating in the way that people who use nonsense terms like “eco-fascist” are.

Anyone sane understands that “be gay do crime” is not inciting criminality but obviously statement of opposition to unjust cultural norms.

Similarly “killing people makes nature alive” obviously seeks to highlight the current incompatibility of human goals with the needs of all life on the planet (including humans).

Ok, firstly i’m not a linguist, or any other kind of expert. I’m an enthusiast, I have an ancient history degree and my parents are linguists. I would also love to hear your take on these questions! :)

Related to Korean - i think the only honest answer is “there’s insufficient evidence to claim that”. But i do think it’s possible. Like a lot of long-ranger theories it’s like - yeah maybe, but if so further back in time than the comparative method can go. The seimo-turbino related connection to korea is pretty well disproved i believe - the weapons are later and different enough that it’s almost certainly much later chinese iterations moving into korea.

But i vaguely remember hearing some ancient dna stuff that suggested links. But siberia like the wider steppe seems to be such a soupy interaction zone, i dunno if there’ll ever be evidence enough to puzzle out what’s areal and what’s genetic (linguistically) with certainty.

As for rooted in siberia, i could believe that there were pre-proto-finno-ugric communities west of the urals who expanded further west in the early bronze age - population expansion likely occurs sometime before linguistic differentiation, right? Since Proto-FU seems younger than Samoyedic it seems likely to me that FU ultimately stems from siberia, even if it developed as a seperate branch west of the urals.

What’s your understanding though, what do you think about it?

Oh! Yeah finno-ugric as a seperate branch probably developed west of siberia.

Wait which language? The Urheimat of Uralic languages definitely looks to be the ural mountains region that is taken as the western edge of siberia. As with genetics, the area of greatest diversity is almost always the origin point. That doesn’t always hold, and mountains tend to preserve diversity, but it’s definitely the only strong contender.

Daria Egereva … member of the Selkup indigenous group

She’s the only one still in jail from a widespread series of arrests of indigenous activists 6 months ago.

The Selkup speak a Uralic language of the Samoyedic branch. We’re most familiar with the Finno-Ugric branch of Uralic - Finnish, Estonian & Hungarian - the largest non-Indo-European languages in Europe. The homeland of Uralic languages is in Siberia though, where there is a rich diversity of Uralic languages. Uralic languages probably expanded with master bronze-crafters associated with Seima-Turbino complex of bronze weapons, a style we see from China to Finland.

The first wave of Russia’s eastward expansion, and then especially Stalinism were devastating to the stunning linguistic and cultural diversity of Siberia. Uralic, Turkic, Tungusic (related to northern China’s Manchu of Qing Dynasty fame), even Eskimo languages, plus the fascinating wealth of Paleo-Siberian languages - completely unrelated language families like Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Nivkh, Yukaghir, and the fascinating Yeneseian, which has influenced almost all the others, is preserved in ancient chinese sources and is now a single language with maybe 10-100 speakers. Oh and it’s almost certainly a distant relative of Navajo! For real!

19thC imperialism and then Stalin’s Russianization policies left most of these languages extinct, moribund or critically endangered. There is a good chance that Putin’s policies will snuff out most of what’s left.

People will not be moving to equitorial regions.

Depicting racism is not racist.

You’re painting a picture of a constant churning racewar, which is just not true. Elves have an elven supremacy bent that’s not universe and portrayed as a flaw. There’s other depictions of racism that again are not universal traits. Dark elves have the most of it, but dark elves are traditionally the evil elves - though in ES dunmer are more complicated than that.

People from different cultures and species regularly get along even as nations war with each other.

It’s very expensive to make good content that a player can miss is why.

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Ah! I wondered if it might be vowelless for such a reason. Fun! Big fan of Elam, but i don’t know many details of the language beyond the (increasingly solid, i believe) status as a sister-branch alongside Dravidian.

Thanks for sharing!!

Vowel do a disappear why friend? Is there a vowel harmony type deal and they change, are you just listing root constents like a semitic language? Or have completely misunderstood and “rMl t qb b sBsb zGK” is not supposed to be the Hearthsider pronunciations?

leaders still standing in 2030 will be the ones honest enough to put the rehiring cost in the business case before the ink dries on the layoff letter.

Forbes is always willing to spout transparently fictional business ideology and so often just delusional. It’s really hard to tell when they’re drinking the koolaid and when they’re just selling it.

In business, leaders don’t disappear for making objectively terrible decisions and no company is ever going to consider firing employees a bad move. If rehiring is needed it’ll be at lower salaries because of a larger job-seeker pool due to all the firings.

Everyone will agree they all did the right thing and bonuses will be unaffected.

Pity, not sympathy. They still got grifted and will be laughed anywhere they go. I pity them that.

On one level i do have pity for anyone who got grifted by a nazi and wasted a bunch of money only to commit themselves to an endless stream of repairs and recalls while getting laughed at everywhere they go, all for a shit car with no resale value.

Quit using fb years back, maybe five? Have checked it twice to message people i’ve no other contacts for.

I’ve used reddit maybe a half dozen times since moving to fediverse during the 3rd party app exodus. Each time to find a specific niche thing, often to no avail.

So i’d say honestly no, but i never like social media much to begin with.

It looks to me less like plebs reducing each other’s numbers and more like the rich playing their favourite game.

duck://player/L8zhNb8ANe8 (Blegh don’t wanna link to YT, can’t be bothered fixing the link. Killing the Poor by Dead Kennedies)

US elites view it the same way, that’s why they’re all looting the place and developing closer relationships with the US empire’s rivals.