Pasha
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Pasha
Defend Kebab
4mo ago
How do you evaluate health/diet/workout claims? For example just heard yesterday that a tea spoon of vinegar before meals and eating meals in order of greens-proteins-fat-carbs reduce the insulin spikes. Sounds plausible but if I try to search online then it is just bullshit popular science articles and reddit fanatics.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
4mo ago
Turkey has not seen a successful coup since 1980 either. In the late 90s the generals tried what’s later called a “postmodern coup” by parading tanks in the streets menacingly and using their media power to force the Islamist government to resign. Even though they did resign, it was a fiasco and caused enormous political chaos and led to Erdoğan’s election a couple years later.
It’s not a strange thing Erdoğa wasn’t in Istanbul. That’s not the capital after all. The strange thing was that the coup was so focused on controlling Istanbul. Traditionally the coups happen mainly in Ankara as that’s where the entire state apparatus is.
The firing definitely wasn’t aimless. The regular troops were hesitant about shooting at civilians and police but many button pushers in helicopters and armoured vehicles weren’t and more than 300 people died that night which is an enormous number for Turkey. Hundreds of thousands of Erdoğa supporters legitimately and knowingly risked their lives by following his call of resisting the army. People pretend the fighting was fake to avoid thinking about what this says about the level of dedication Erdoğan inspires in large parts of the population.
Extremely rapid arrests are also nothing surprising. Erdoğan and Gülenists had been in an open power struggle for the security state for years at that point. Obviously there would be many purge lists floating around.
I don’t know about the inner works of what happened that night but it’s clear that many of the involved soldiers were indeed Gülen supporters. If they were simply desperate or were somehow tricked into exposing themselves it’s hard to say. It’s all complicated further by the unspoken Gülen-CIA connections and the broader conflict around Turkey’s relationship with regards to the NATO hegemony.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
At work if someone seems to enjoy meetings too much I just assume they aren’t good at what they are actually supposed to be doing.
If a pretty girl is claiming to be lesbian/bi it’s just a phase. For an ugly girl it might actually be permanent.
Anyone saying something genuinely interesting and smart on the internet is very very likely Jewish.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
Is the Russian army still using prison recruitment at a serious rate anymore?
I will not bother with seriously replying to the second paragraph because it’s hysterical. For all its faults, there is a more or less free flow of people and information in and out of Russia so I will trust the conclusions I can draw up for myself from the available data unless you can provide anything better. The only thing hampering me from accessing information about Russia is EU’s ban on Russian news outlets.
"real" is doing a lot of work here
No it really isn’t. My question was regarding educated Russians who are working IT jobs in Kazakhstan or whatever. Yes I am aware that Russia recruits (not conscripts, recruits) heavily among certain groups who are poorer and have martial traditions. Every single modern army does this. Istanbul boys don’t fight Turkey’s wars and New Yorkers don’t fight Americas wars.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
Even when the war was developing very dangerously for the Russian army they have only ran a very limited conscription scheme that amounted to “urged volunteering” of the lowest classes of the society. My understanding is that they sent summons to stg like 10 times the men they needed and as soon as the targets were reached by people voluntarily responding to the summons in 1-3 days they immediately ceased recruitment. I am not aware of any coerced conscription of a Russian man who would otherwise definitely not enter the army.
Right now the Russian army has a clear upper hand in fighting and reportedly a steady stream of volunteers. Meanwhile an incredibly disquieting amount of press gang/abduction style of conscription videos are coming out of Ukraine.
This is my reasoning for why there won’t be ever real conscription for this war in Russia. Russian speaking friends I have talked to seems to agree with this assessment
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
What’s up with Russians who fled abroad at the start of the war nowadays? It looks pretty certain at this point that they won’t be conscripted and Russia won’t go bankrupt anytime soon. Has there been a silent remigration wave or are they just stay put in Georgia/Turkey/Kazakhstan wherever now
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
Your reasons are somewhat valid but at the end of the day so what? You are a man. Nobody will give you a pity trophy. If there is adversity it’s your job to overcome it.
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Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
We have a family acquaintance (doctor earning lots of money, tall, handsome etc) who stayed single until late 40s despite the entire very large social and family network around him mobilising to find him a wife. I am not super sure what was the issue but he would just reject any candidates for decades. I guess he was either somewhat gay or was having too much fun being single.
Anyway eventually he married some 21 year old gorgeous redhead nurse and immediately proceeded to have 3 sons. So perhaps it wasn’t a bad life strategy after all.
You are considerably older than me so I can’t give any real advice. Just an anecdote.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
Question for mainly parents of motte but anyone can answer.
Would you have more or less children if you knew for sure that:
- Your children will be very good to you when they grow up but they won’t have offspring of their own.
- Your children will be awful to you when they grow you but they will have many offspring of their own.
I am wondering what motivates people when choosing how many children to have. If neither of these would affect your decision but you have another important factor in mind, please share as well
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
Unless the topic is difficult to parse or the speaker is talking very fast, I get bored very quickly watching a scripted video at x1. It’s actually detrimental for understanding the topic because my mind starts wandering away
Pasha
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5mo ago
I hiked the salkantey trek in the past as it was sold to me as more nature heavy version of the İnka trail. Definitely amazing
Pasha
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5mo ago
What are the best nature hikes you have ever done? (Bonus points if it’s not in the US since visa is difficult lol)
Pasha
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5mo ago
This guy might be the most stereotypically Turkish Turkish man I have ever seen. His way of thinking is the Turkish mindset perfected. Also his phenotype and accent is just spot-on
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
You say that weaponization of the dollar was bad policy, but then you give examples of a long list of bad policy decisions the US government would not have been able to pursue if it couldn't borrow infinite dollars.
To me it sounds like the Western governments would in general be better managed if they faced some budgetary constraints.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
I guess "the random brown guys" in question were Uzbek instead of Mexican
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
You really must write a longer higher level effort post about this. East Asian dating norms failure is something many people including me would be very interested. Not the least because I also dated an Asian girl for a while a long time ago and still can’t comprehend what the fuck she was trying to do.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
2024 Tehran is less socially conservative than most Americans probably think, but it’s still more socially conservative than rural America and yet has a lower birthrate
Ditto for Turkish cities.
Anglos have been living with dating norms that are relatively recognisable in the modern world for almost a millennium. Lots of cultural (and likely actual physical) evolution to accommodate this and still keep making babies. Rapidly modernising Muslim countries have all absolutely wrecked dating norms and corresponding abysmal fertility rates.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
Absolutely one hundred percent true. It’s almost as if being able to play that game and enjoying it for long amounts of time says bad things about a girl
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
For a certain type of person this is indeed good advice though. I definitely know people who are struggling to meet anyone for dating but don’t see how rejecting any social interaction has any relation to this.
Also social interaction is a snowballing thing. When you first enter a new social network (university, work, potential new friend group, sports team etc) saying yes to that one invitation early on can mean hundreds of invitations down the line. Conditioning someone to always say yes so they don’t miss out on that freshman’s party where multiple friend groups formed is quite useful
Finding studies is easy but I don't trust myself to be able to scan the literature and ignore the garbage (which is most studies in nutrition and fitness).
Yes but there are reddit fanatics for literally every single nutrition and fitness trend out there.
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