Seems to be most closely related to Luwian, but specialists can't read it yet. It survived because the Hittites wanted to record religious rites in the original language. Thank you, Hittites.

Thank you, Hittites.

Very glad to see the Hittites getting the respect and admiration they have deserved for 3650 years. If anyone has any further questions about the Hittites please know that you can always come to me, I have a literal PhD in Hittite. That is not a joke! That is a real thing that I have!

@frostfire-17 I would love to hear some interesting things about the Hittites if you feel inclined. :)

Interesting things about the Hittites! Here are four.

it's like meeting a celebrity

dark green is a nice color. underrated

ladies and gentlemen, Phtalo Green

This is literally my favorite color. 😩 Smaragd green is another dark shade of green that I’m absolutely obsessed with.

https://nerdbot.com/2021/01/09/new-pill-bottles-for-shaky-hands-will-help-people-with-parkinsons/

This makes me cry, actually.

Just to add on. Libraries in many cities have 3d printers you can use that charge you only the price of materials. So if you can't wait for the shipping from the engineers, try your local library.

Coelacanth but it’s the size of a galaxy and it’s spots are stars. Imagine that. You’re welcome

behold, he is real

(Short answers to big questions are mostly inaccurate :)

Mamma Mia but it’s about an assassin who can’t remember which billionaire CEO they was sent to kill at a business conference and they can’t tell the difference between them because all the CEOs look like bog standard James Bond villains.

Banger, a hit post.

You understand theming and storytelling well. I enjoy your brain.

THE ABBA SONGS ARE CRUCIAL AND NEEDED!

YOU! YOU UNDERSTAND! YES!!!!!

I just think that 'animals are living intelligent creatures that have feelings and deserve to be respected' and 'when done properly farming is beneficial to both people and animals and there's nothing wrong with raising and killing animals for food, clothing, and other products' are concepts that very much can and should coexist

No idea what my undergraduate French class book writers were thinking adding shock value for spice in a grammar/vocab learning book but honestly I remember it to this day so good on them

Also shoutout to the teacher who had us read the epilogue in silence and meet our gaze as we looked up one by one in shock after reading how the guy we met in the unit talking about how to talk about relatives and who described his entire family to us and invited us to dinner was killed by the mob and his body found in the Seine like

It’s insane to see that this is Twitter users’ reactions to this when this is just completely normal on Tumblr. Twitter is such a hellscape of privacy violations that standard anonymity features like hidden likes are treated as suspicious.

i see where you're coming from OP but it looks like this would only be available to people who pay for twitter so it's a pretty reasonable assumption

i don't understand the recent "how often do men think of the roman empire" trend. one of the most well-known recent academic and popular historians of the roman empire is a woman, mary beard. why do this? it isn't cute or funny if you think about the implications for more than five seconds

"it's so crazy how men think about the roman empire, or the civil war, or history so often! i don't do that because i'm a woman. i think about poetry and literature instead, which men don't do" please stop this new girl dinner but for intellectual pursuits

yeah pop history is really strongly gender-branded because it's a commercial product like any other. They gotta sell ads on the history channel so they also gotta maintain the premise that the history they're selling is Boy History or Girl History to pitch specific demos to advertisers, and in the process that such a distinction is anything but a farce.

if you look at a professional historian's bookshelf and look up the authors on books written after about 1950, it'd be a very unusual specialty (or possibly a weird choice on the historian's part) where the gender divide is more extreme than 60-40, and which way it goes is completely arbitrary

#whats that tweet where some dipshit claimed history as a Male Discipline and when someone else pointed out that that is Not The Case#he was like well women study history in school but men have PASSION and watch history youtube videos#and this is playing out here where even though there is a consistent observable trend of more women who are experts in the area#that is somehow insignificant and ancient rome (and classics writ large) is a Man Interest because men. i dont know. wish they were#gladiators sometimes (@jewfrogs)

#the framing of the humanities as feminine is wrapped up in this too#including the position of history between the humanities and social sciences I think#the ‘female’ interest in the Roman Empire is humanities and consequently defunded and devalued#but the ‘male’ interest in the Roman Empire is somehow exempt from that and more of a science because… it’s armies? fighting?#so college classes with majority female students actually studying the Roman Empire? insignificant; cut the department#but men tweeting doctored Marcus Aurelius quotes is the sort of stuff to be taken seriously#history as a discipline is very malleable and can be framed as a ‘soft’ useless touchy-feely humanities field#or as a ‘hard’ serious social science when politically convenient#and of COURSE that’s gendered.#yeah i'm thinking of my college latin/roman history courses where there'd be three to twelve women and one man at the seminar table#the national american attack on higher education is not unconnected from the increasing proportion of female students#and the accompanying perception of many previously-respected (previously-male) fields as feminine and thus to be devalued and defunded#can we not re-play that out as a meme. (mine)

The LGBT stands for LoGIstically 🅱️ifficulT

I remember someone saying "mad scientists in fiction aren't scientists because there's never a control group"

I think if you've created an elixir that turns people into goat men you have sort have gone past the need for a control group. The control group is not going to placebo themselves into goat men. You can probably not run the control group, and safely assume that none of them would have turned into goat men. That said, having a control group for that would make the mad scientist seem extra crazy and be really really funny, especially if he was carefully testing them for goat like features from the dyed water they drank instead of the elixir

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DB Ansage: Wir bitten um Ihr Verständnis.

Me, an intellectual: Then beg