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Hegar

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Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

  • US lawmakers seek to 'fuse' Israeli, US militaries under 2027 defense authorization act

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  • 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...

  • Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning

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  • Nope! I have a 20+ y/o car, so mine is not. No touch screen, no spyware, just a car with buttons and knobs that we drive around.

  • these eco-facist stickers

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  • Shhhhhh!

  • these eco-facist stickers

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  • 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).

  • ‘We will not survive’: jailing of Daria Egereva highlights plight of Russia’s Indigenous people

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  • 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?

  • ADHD throughout history

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  • There's a great podcast called ADHD BCE that goes into this.

    Long story short, there are plenty of benefits to hyperfocusing and having performance maximised in more novel and interesting situation in the deeper past.

  • ‘We will not survive’: jailing of Daria Egereva highlights plight of Russia’s Indigenous people

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

  • Wake up, we've got a CEO to kill

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  • That tracks for me - the female VA gives a lot more emotion, there are some scenes that legit stress me out. Two violent guys vieing for control feela less tense than a guy slowly taking over a woman's mind.

  • Wake up, we've got a CEO to kill

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  • I used to play about equal m/f characters but i've gotten increasingly bored with male characters.

    I never play as me though, i'm always constructing a headcanon, backstory and playing very writerly.

    Over the last 10+ years or so i've just found boy stories more and more boring. I think the last game i seriously enjoyed as male was ME2, coincidentally with a keanu looking sniper type.

  • Wake up, we've got a CEO to kill

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  • You'd think right? But femV has panam romance dialogue in the game that's just locked off unless you're male-bodied. I believe vice-versa is true for judy romance.

  • Wake up, we've got a CEO to kill

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  • I mean if a game is really good and i'm on my fifth+ playthrough and i have a really solid concept for a male character, maybe. And i did eventually play a male bodied female voiced V for the panam romance.

  • Wake up, we've got a CEO to kill

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  • Except this image implies male V, who plays male V?Female voice acting is so much better, jackie seems more heart-of-gold when he's straight with a platonic femme best friend and the johnny silverhand angle is much more emotionally resonant.

  • Man, that's crazy

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  • You'll sit there and listen to my entire rant about the arzhan 1 archaeological site's spectral cavalcade and how it backs up yet another bonkers unbelievable thing from herodotos' account of non-greeks, dammit!

    And no, i'm not leaving out the context of how horse-pastoralism moved into the region!

  • ‘We will not survive’: jailing of Daria Egereva highlights plight of Russia’s Indigenous people

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  • 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.

  • ‘We will not survive’: jailing of Daria Egereva highlights plight of Russia’s Indigenous people

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  • 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.

  • Apes smart

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  • [Morbo voice] Evolution does not work that way!

  • China quietly turns off supply of world's most used industrial chemical

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  • People will not be moving to equitorial regions.

  • Anon is a gamer

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  • Yeah you can tell this is not real because a) it's greentext and b) you can't copyright game mechanics.

    If you could we wouldn't have video game genres, or like 99% of board games.

  • The spirit world didn't tell her

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  • I was drunk at a party at a rural art gallery in my 20s and a middle aged woman i didn't know grabbed my hand, looked at it and said with perfect confidence that i needed to be careful driving home because i'd been in a few prangs (australian for car accidents) and had another coming up.

    When i replied that i've never driven a car or been in an accident all she could say was "oh".

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    What is the aim of all the AI investment?

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  • "You can fire like most of your expensive staff who have real leverage and only be noticably worse"

    LLMs are another (large) step in the broad trend of concentrating more power in fewer hands that has been going on since late mesolithic food storage tech.

    Most things that we've lionized as technological breakthroughs since the end of the ice age ~20kya have been power-concentration tools.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Happy Ides of March Lemmy! Who do you most hope gets "et tu"-ed?

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Are we posting cat shelves? Here's mine, with cat neatly stored

  • Pacific Northwest - OR,WA,BC @lemmy.world
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    You can easily learn Chinuk Wawa, the common language of the Pacific Northwest! Search Chinuk Wawa on Apple/Play stores.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    New Poll Shows Trump’s Desperate Play for Black Voters Is Failing

    newrepublic.com /post/184310/new-poll-trump-play-black-voters-support