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Most obvious explanation is the US trying to test iran’s resolve to continue the blockade. A single drone makes sense if iran is just trying to show they still mean it.

Or the us regime is lying about what happened, or there’s an explanation that is true but makes no sense because that’s the world we live in.

An irish guy working legally in FL was kidnapped for no reason and he talks about seeing someone begging guards to give him access to his heart meds for weeks before he had a heart attack and died.

He also talks about being given nonconsentual surgery 1h after being given anathestic that lasts 45mins. The surgery was to remove his cosmetic subdermal implants after he was already cleared for release.

These are torture sites and death camps. The deaths are intentional.

More obviously than about any war in modern memory

Ooph that’s a tough call. More obvious than Iraq 2? “WMDs!!” was even more of a joke in iraq than it currently is in iran, which is saying something.

They literally flew in military transports full of cash which remain unaccounted for, spent by the VP’s company and a mercenary oligarch whose cruelty and graft were so well known he then had to change the name of his company twice.

And that’s not even getting into the insanely illegal corruption that was the coalition provisional authority.

I dunno how many games EA makes set in the past or secondary worlds, but gauranteed it will drop. We may still get scifi games chock full of today’s brands.

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Beware of russians bearing work.

There is no rift, it all bullshit. NATO is the west

When you think your opponent is a monolith, it just means you don’t understand your opponent.

Russia’s Duganist foreign policy relies on the reality of a rift within nato. Part of the reason that they put so much renewed effort into their trumpist coup is to stoke that rift after their strategic failure in ukraine - bringing nato nations closer than at any point since 1990

Russia’s influence among US kleptocrats and fascists is if anything understated. The regime’s “accomplishments” are just a wishlist of russian foreign policy goals.

Trump has long been a russian asset and his business empire was just a front for russian mob money. His earliest advisors were almost entirely known russian agents. Destablising greenland and canada is russia attacking potential NW passage rivals, and greenland helps distance the us and eu. The first trump regime completely dismantled the state dept. and it’s still basically non-functional. Propaganda organs like VoA and USAID, cybersecurity too. Any institutions the empire uses to expand influence or defend itself. Massive self defeating tarriffs on allies and client states weaken alliances and increase pressure on the citizen body.

Iran was never in danger of becoming a meaningful geopolitical alternative, especially given that they were very clearly moving closer to the us. The war in iran cannot be said to be a nato power play give the current rift between nato members about the war, and the predictably destablising effect it would obviously have and is having on the structures of US hegemony.

It was very clearly a last minute decision by some of the dumbest us elites that russia could buy.

The position, goals and capabilities of the us empire were very different in '53 than today.

I think you’re making a general over-arching argument that is contradicted by the specific details.

I think this misses a lot of detail - suppresion of iran is an israeli goal more than a western elite goal. Yes israel is part of the us empire but before the current coup by the lunatic faction in the us, war with iran was becoming much less likely.

The obama nuclear deal was a huge win, iran was complying and un monitoring agreed. Moderates were in power and in the ascendancy in iran and actively talking about how to reduce their sanctions burden. Before the US killed all the moderates in power and let the regime massacre their supporters.

Also, US elites don’t want to maintain full specrrum dominance. Some say that to impress the rubes but they can see the US empire crumbling as much as anyone with eyes. The current goal of US elites is to loot the empire on the way down. That’s why they’re all in bed with russia, the saudis and china - though they keep the china links much quieter.

I’m summarizing my understanding of these panpsychism type theories.

I think part of the idea of this theory is that much of life shares the key elements that make up the scientific definition of consciousness.

I personally don’t see value in preserving the popular definition of consciousness as the human soul, but regardless of personal takes i hope we can agree that scientific theories should be based on the scientific use of the term.

People stretch the word “consciousness” to include things like free-will, human-level intelligence, articulating an understanding of the world, having ideologies, etc.

It’s very close to the classical greek word ψυχή, soul, from where we get psyche. And very close to how many christians have understood “soul”.

But often scientific inquiry leads us to realize how fictional and self-serving our understandings are. Souls aren’t real and consciousness in the brain is just an information sorting process.

Much of life may exhibit that process to some degree. Unsurprising, really - information sorting as complex as ours should have precursors.

Aha! Thank you!

Couldn’t find an article from a credible site?

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.

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.