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…

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

[Morbo voice] Evolution does not work that way!

People will not be moving to equitorial regions.

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.

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THERE IS ANOTHER ELECTION BEFORE THAT.

It’s two years away. It’s not even the next election! And this is all presuming that there even is another election, which is far from given.

There is absolutely nothing you can say about a hypothetic 2028 election in 2026.

This is objectively correct. We are social mammals and everything we do is steeped in politics. We live in a social world and we navigate power, privilege, wealth and ideologies in everything we do - politics.

Believing you can go politics free just marks you as either naive or callous.

At least this is in a shitposting forum, the correct venue for such an idea.

Dems had a supermajority. They enjoyed widespread public support. Sarah palin made the loony right look pathetic. Obama was never afraid to overuse executive orders either - dems had a lot of levers to pull and a lot of leverage to pull them.

If they’d investigated the rampant illegality, that would’ve been very hard for a post-loss republican party engaged in in-fighting to defend against. A new generation of republican hopefuls would’ve been tempted to get air time by twisting the knife in the old losers.

Remember the hype around the special master under biden? Imagine that, aided by obama’s charisma, with a super majority and before republicans completely corrupted the supreme court. They had a mandate and a lot of power.