DogThatWentGorp

Feeling great about driving an electric. Charge station price over the last few weeks still 30c on the kw.

Might go up still but for the most part?

Just send out some IDF conscripts with some diet-coke and menthos bottle rockets.

Won't stop the Iranian missiles or anything but it'll be really really funny.

-Not sure entirely about laws but every now and then there's mention of a new king establishing or clarifying them. Was probably just standard fare.

-Couldn't guess exactly on their rationale for deities and geography. Overall though, the relation between mortals and gods seemed pretty bilateral.

-Oh yeah! the north/south thing is a major theme in the region from the first empires up until the Roman conquest. Akkadian is a semitic language and Sumarian is a language isolate (might've come from south of Mesopatamia before the sea levels rose at the end of the ice age). Babylon, Assyria, Akkad is all northern and Akkadian-speaking and then there's 3ish major periods of Sumarian rule. They go back and forth. Because Sumarian is an isolate, Akkadian was more often the dominant language used/recorded in Mesopatamia because it could be learned by other peoples in the broader region more easily since they spoke other semetic languages.

In fact, IIRC, Akkadian was even a langua-franca across the wider near-east for a time. Egyptian rulers would send letters to foreign kings in Akkadian for a time. I forgot what period or for how long though exactly. Either way: both Sumarian and Akkadian were written in cuneiform script, and cuneiform was used to record many other languages too which was how archeologists were able to work backwards to translate Sumerian in the first place.

There were some periods where north/south had nationalist connotations. Sargon of Akkad had nationalist tendencies and he was Akkadian. The degree of it varried from king to king era to era etc.

Overall though, linguistically, Akkadian was far more dominant. However Sumarian existed for a while and would become elevated by Sumerian rulers in periods where they were the ones who united the region.

I don't know much at all about enforcement but j don't think it's anything particularly special??? They settled a lot of disagreements with payment pretty often though from what I kind of know. Mesopatamian Small Claims Court was probably wild. Again though, that's just for the gentry.

-It could be called a kind of reincarnation yeah! They definitely didn't treat the afterlife as a paradise and treated the soul as a kind of essential immutable thing.

-You would buy a curse from a sorcerer. Methods varry and were pretty vibes-based. You could buy a lot from a sorcerer in general. Pretty much just like any other business. There wasn't a lot of codified heresy or no-no's religiously about them as far as I know????? Sometimes you just would go to the local sorcerer for sorcerer things. Like getting rid of ghosts. Or helping your business. Or fighting off other curses a rival of yours put on you. Or you had cancer but didn't know what cancer was because it's 2,000bc and you think you're just possessed.

-Buisnesses went through different phases. A notable period I'm looking at is around 1800BC where you have businesses and proto-guilds running a lot of the economy. That's notable because in most other periods you have the state organizing large-scale commerce for the most part. But in this period it looks like they had a sort of ancient petite-bourgeois situation. Couldn't speak for other eras. Commerce was almost definitely a restricted activity for the gentry but it feels pretty common? Might be a bais because a lot of writing was done for business so that's what's still left.

Still though, from what I understand, population centers were pretty tightly packed with not a lot of small towns or villages. You just had mostly farms and singular estates in the country more so than other places at the time or in history in general. Not sure why. So I imagine commerce and business may have been more ubiquitous than most other places since your dense population centers are that much more dense and you /have/ to go into a city not just a town to sell your stuff? Totally spitballing that one.

-Elamites, from kind of what I know, would trade with the region but I don't know anything about their own businesses. They had hubs in the western zagross mountains that would sell Lapis Lazuli and goods from the east but I don't know how much moving around they did themselves personally. They probably also helped move a lot of tin and other precious metals into Mesopatamia in exchange for food goods. They also had a dynasty or two rule Mesopatamia here and there, you know for fun, as a treat.

Okay that's all my amateur self got. Hope that answers something LOL

That last part feels well put. The rhetorical equivalent of "I'm not touching you!". But like- nah President Slick- you've made a space around the shape, we can see what you're thinking about.

Nothing says how much the locals hate you like having to put a C-RAM on your embassy.

If the UK had any gorms they'd just expell the Israeli (sic) diplomat, who probably won't have a government to represent in a year anyways, and be done with the whole thing.

The strait seems pretty secure to me otherwise. Iran has that joint on lock.

It's easy to remain ignorant when there's not really any reason whatsoever at all to learn anything new.

I hate to be a memer but the metal gear solid 2 monologue about multiple truths online feels completely manifested at this point. You get these pockets of cosplay ideology that never once asked "hey cool how does everybody actually eat food though?". Just totally a-material and narrativized takes on Good vs Bad and touchy-feely nonsense that's just projecting emotions onto people while totally ignoring their well-being.

The radlibs will never take a position that implicates the system they can't think outside of and they'll moralize the shit out of the US/West because they can't conceive of watching an entire neighborhood get vaporized by a bomb for seemingly no reason at all.

Sorry I'm totally fucking ranting while half awake. I had an experience like this lately but over debunking insane North Korea takes with one of the most beligerant unhinged radlibs I've seen in a while and it nawed at me for a bit LMAO. (You're a brainwashed tanky if you point out that amnesty international shouldn't be laundering opinion pieces from yonhap news in front of the UN as facts, if you were curious.)

A little bit! Just the basics and I might have some of this wrong:

They're polytheistic in a very plural way from what I know? Dieties come and go and they tend to have a lot of locational ties. Like a lot. They emphasize a lot about observing the correct festivals and dates for their gods, they sort of treat a god's domain with a specific location or city and vaguely suggest that other countries and lands have their own. That's definitely more unique as far as religions I know about go. Dieties are tied to geography or their believers conquering things for them.

In the earlier periods, every city had a god, and when the cities fought it was seen as the gods fighting. Also it was considered taboo to break the bricks of a city's wall in a war or fued. That uhhhh they didn't hold onto that taboo for long I to the middle/later periods LMAO.

There's also the North/South Akkadian/Mesopatamium language divide with gods. So Inana is what she's called in the South in Sumarian but in the North she's Ishtar in Akkadian. The Sumarians and Akkadians also have some theological differences here and there and the chief diety of the region could change sometimes based on if a certain ruler was in charge and if they wanted to elevate a god they felt represented them, their city or their powerbase etc sort of as an extension of the city-god relationship in earlier eras. And that wasn't just narrative from a ruler either: if that ruler swore under a certain diety and conquered Mesopatamia in /that/ diety's name: that's the main diety now. His guy won Mesopatamia. (I'm simplifying a bit but that's basically what it boils down to).

Also they sort of swore under a personal diety. So you might feel particularly inclined to pray to specific one based on your vibes.

Theology and politics much like many societies were pretty indistinguishable. Almost mundane. Like the geographic ties, legal relationships and rituals also were a very direct sort of physical manifestation of their gods.

Afterlife is interesting too! You go to a better one based on your deeds in the underworld through a series of gates. The less cool dead people eat clay and dust. I've heard it explained from a YouTube lecture from a professor that they sort of saw human souls as needing to wait before going into a new body and they had to be locked in down there so ghosts wouldn't ruin the mortal world by being everywhere.

Ghosts were also accepted as just- real. Kind of treated as pests that should be waiting in the afterlife. If you had a ghost you had to go buy a curse to get rid of it and it was kind of a pain in the ass.

Theres one notable thing where I can think of where one king named Ibbi Sin tried to sort of de-pluralize spirituality in a letter he wrote about some subject worshiping "Spirits" and not properly observing the holidays if then chief god, Marduk, which was not characteristic if spirituality at the time. Didn't end up mattering though because proto-persian people called the Elemites came down from the hills and abducted his ass and kinda stacked the kingdom. As it goes.

Legal records: yeah as far as I can tell! It varries between different dynasties and eras but they were pretty thorough contract writers. Something important to know about their law system is that it's highly class-stratified (no big surprise). The literate gentry were mostly the ones bothering with contracts and punishments were way worse if you were a commoner or a slave. Nothing too special though. Really goes to show how easy access to writing quickly leads to written contracts and documents. Very very useful. I don't know much more about that overall though.

Anyways this is what I've been reading from if it helps: https://archive.org/details/letters-from-mesopotamia.-official-business-and-private-letters-on-clay-tablets-from-two-millennia/page/n4/mode/1up

Also anything with Irving Finkel on YouTube is good. He's the Mesopatamian curator at the British Museum and talks a lot about the writing they have on tablets and takes a very humanizing approach to his work which is really really nice. A couple of hours of podcasts here and there with him that lead me to sources.

Hope some of that helped or was interesting at all! I love writing about it LOL

Damn that's so much more than I thought they would even need. Hundreds of massive metal tubes for the death cult.

Drawing loss.png at sea to rage bait the NATOids IG.

How many do they even have supposedly in the middle east? Feel like I saw 16 or something once?

A secret neutral party's fire. No one is sure who. Just some guys living out in Iraq that "really hate big airplanes but not for any political reason".

They've been waiting for their chance for years.

Can't milk him more than he already milks himself. Never been a more committed sellout

I heard they're using him to make cockroach milk. Fucked up and true.

So this must mean that, to prevent more planes from going down, they should focus all their efforts on reinforcing the tail rudders. It's clear from the survivor that the resistance missiles have a bias towards that part.

Somebody speed this along to the Air Force I think it's really going to help them out 👍

nobody believes that you can pee from other things than a urethra this is my burden to carry I am john piss ears and this is my story

Uncritical support to comrade lint filter.

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This Is the Worst-Case Scenario for Oil Prices

Israel is running critically low on interceptors, US officials say

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Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 11th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Fourth Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 11th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Fourth Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 11th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Fourth Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

I have waded into the trenches of liberalism, and I have fallen. (Scene report from "antifascist" pages on social media)

I'm not fucking doing so good. Tell me some cool shit.

Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 11th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Fourth Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

A lib in the group chat shared this as evidence that China is preparing to invade Taiwan

Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 11th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Fourth Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 11th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Fourth Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

IT'S OVER!!!!!!!!

Mr Beast? More like Mr YEAST because that nerd is ITCHY

Mr Beast? More like Mr YEAST because that nerd is ITCHY

Mr Beast? More like Mr YEAST because that nerd is ITCHY

Going back in time to prevent the creation of yeast-synthesized roach milk, which is used to wet nurse the triplet terror of Elon G. Musk III, IV, and V in 2068 and their vile Satellite Net

Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 11th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Fourth Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

What if the car was called Shitty Shitty Bang Bang and instead of flying it just pooped all over the place?

Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 11th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Fourth Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

Wind isn't real. It's a bunch of little, invisible guys moving stuff.