Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
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.
It’s very expensive to make good content that a player can miss is why.
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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.
I don’t think you can say that no rites of passage means not becoming an adult. Rituals smooth or explain transitions, they’re not a requirement for the transition to happen.
And besides their are plenty of rites of passage into adulthood in the US - first car is huge, moving out of home, first job, etc.
I worked at big CA-based drug company, granted it was largely a phone-room but it was still a fairly serious job, with serious pay.
Most staff came up from CA and loved disney so hard. Disney movies were a topic at meetings, they expected everyone would know the characters, used disney references in presentations, characters as test patients, etc. Managers too.
Finding others who hated disney was like finding stoners at work before it was legal - all euphamisms and inuendo until you work out who to trust: “No i don’t really have a favourite character”, “I’m not familiar with that”, “No, I ugh… haven’t seen… i’m not super into… Oh thank god, yes, of course i fucking hate disney, who could possibly like the least interesting version of a fairytale marketed by a billion dollar empire founded by a nazi and evil enough to copyright happy birthday?!”
At my last job we had to do goals like that and I found it so frustrating. It was a constant cycle of: Have you made any progress towards [new goal]? No, I’m not interested in that anymore, I did [task] instead. Oh, okay… so what’s your [new goal] then?
it’s frustrating getting looked at funny for accepting that life is unpredictable and framing accordingly.
Yes, this! I always want to answer that you’d have to be a charlatan or delusional to claim that’s knowable information.
Like when people would ask ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’, and I presumed they meant ‘what are you interested in at the moment?’
Oh! Yeah finno-ugric as a seperate branch probably developed west of siberia.