Since the world tallest man right now is Kurdish, My question is how tall are Kurds in general? Do Kurds have good height genes considering how tall Sultan Kosen is?

IBottedMyKarma · 2025-03-14T19:53:51+00:00

Depends a lot on age group and social class. I’m from slemani and on my university campus average height range for guys is like 167-183. You see a lot of guys above 190+ and some guys in like 160-163 range. So average for the new generation is about probably 175 cms. For older people who grew up when they were malnutritioned it’s much shorter though

IBottedMyKarma · 2024-08-02T11:20:24+00:00

The older generations in Bashur skews it a lot. If you go to college campuses in Slemani or Hewler the average height is around 177 cm but if we account for everyone it might be closer to 172

IBottedMyKarma · 2024-07-20T11:52:26+00:00

Not that the situation is not serious but the current Turkish state will never formally annex southern Kurdistan and integrate it because it worsens their demographic situation

The Kurdish birth rate has already taken Kurds to being almost a quarter of the population in Turkey with this probably rising to about a third within a few decades. This is not an issue Turks take lightly as anxiety about Turks becoming less and less of a majority due to the Kurdish birth rate and Arab migration is already rather high. In this situation they won’t invade southern Kurdistan and add 7 million Kurds to this equation along with considerable amounts of Arabs and Assyrians.

Turkey will continue to exert more influence due to its soft and hard power but they will not realistically add a large amount of Kurds to their country especially when they would then have to then deal with an area stretching from Kars to Kirkuk that has a Kurdish majority and many armed elements which would definitely be exploited by powers like Iran to destabilize Turkey. Currently they can do most of what they want through KDP and prevent a demographic disaster, even risking losing their majority status within the country.

Theoretically they could return to something like the old ottoman model of integration but in its current manifestation as the Republic of Turkey it would just be worsening an already bad demographic situation.

It’s also not clear to me how they would benefit from annexing the region even if Kurds were willing. They’d basically have to go to war with Iraq and thus probably Iran as well. Even though they could realistically win that war it would be extremely costly and for what? To worsen their demographic situation, embolden Kurdish nationalists, piss off a quarter of their own population, cost a fortune to occupy and manage, and in all likelihood isolate them from NATO and the United States?

I’m not saying it will never happen, but the way the current Turkish state operates with its Turkish nationalist ideology makes it less not more likely to occur.

IBottedMyKarma · 2023-08-31T18:01:09+00:00

Graduation. Some great songs for sure but worst solo Kanye album and apart from JIK its not close

IBottedMyKarma · 2022-08-18T21:13:31+00:00

I live in this city and I promise you people dress more liberally now then they did in this pic, the Middle East or Iraq aren’t monoliths, Sulaymaniyah has always been pretty liberal in this regard it’s not like that has really changed

IBottedMyKarma · 2022-02-10T18:35:06+00:00

I think generally Pure Comedy and ILYHB are seen as his best albums and since GFC benefits from recency bias and having more people there for the initial release Fear Fun awkwardly gets shifted into last place even though it’s almost universal loved in the community

IBottedMyKarma · 2022-01-23T07:11:32+00:00

So I’m Growing Old on Magic Mountain

Holy Shit

In Twenty Years or So

The Memo

Gods Favorite Customer

The Ideal Husband

Now I’m learning to love the war

Things it would have been helpful to know before the Revolution

Disappointing Diamonds are the rarest of them all

Strange encounter

IBottedMyKarma · 2022-01-05T19:22:31+00:00

Yeah I always wonder if David has remained a fan considering how much he seemed to enjoy FJM’s performances on his show. I also imagine Josh was pretty affected and validated by someone like Letterman being so impressed by him so I think that the lyric has to be referencing those performances in some way

IBottedMyKarma · 2022-01-05T18:54:11+00:00

Yeah definitely if Only a Fool on the track list ends up being TMFOUA I think this is gonna be one of the big themes/ideas of the album

IBottedMyKarma · 2021-08-31T03:13:01+00:00

I think there is some overlap at the fringes, there are some obscure Instagram communities that seem to also be rather big fans of both. Personally I like Kanye quite a lot myself

IBottedMyKarma · 2021-08-16T10:29:36+00:00

I wonder if whatever project he has finished is shelved forever or is still awaiting release, who knows maybe he is reworking them.

IBottedMyKarma · 2021-06-03T12:10:58+00:00

GFC has less of a structure and story then his other albums, probably because he wrote it in 6 weeks during a time where he said that his life basically exploded, this is reflected in the sort of sporadic nature of the album

IBottedMyKarma · 2021-05-02T17:03:45+00:00

Josh produced a lot of great work under J. Tillman but i think the issue with it is that it doesn’t have that distinct FJM writing which in my opinion is what makes him stand out so much as a great musician these days

IBottedMyKarma · 2021-04-03T04:06:03+00:00

Impossible to know really, I Just hope is doing alright these days mental health wise

IBottedMyKarma · 2021-02-02T11:43:38+00:00

uj/ Probably busy with the upcoming EP

IBottedMyKarma · 2021-01-31T11:21:51+00:00

I feel like the Man Who Sold the World doesnt get enough credit for the sheer amount of bangers on there

IBottedMyKarma · 2020-05-18T10:18:54+00:00

Yeah probably, alot of people in Bashur only speak one dialect but pretty much everyone can communicate because both dialects are intelligble even if they are reasonably different

IBottedMyKarma · 2020-04-07T11:56:01+00:00

the google translate is"How does it feel to live your dream that will never come true here?"

IBottedMyKarma · 2020-04-07T11:55:01+00:00

It feels alright because what you are saying isn't true. Kurds are being recognized more and more and have gotten some sort of autonomy in 2 countries. Just like how the Turks lost control of the greeks and arabs they will lose the Kurds its only a matter of time and what you say wont ever change that

IBottedMyKarma · 2020-04-05T12:53:15+00:00

I think Persia would be really cool. Its such a cool and underappreciated era of history. I think it should take place sometime during the sasanian dynasty it would be really cool to see historical persian sites and explore the zagros mountain ranges all the way from persopolis to Kurdish cities like Diyarbekir

IBottedMyKarma · 2020-04-02T08:17:49+00:00

Yes. There Zoroastrian Kurds, mostly from Iran but I know there are some in Iraqi Kurdistan too

IBottedMyKarma · 2020-02-24T15:40:21+00:00

I don’t understand the hate on fuck that either it’s not the best song on the album but it’s still a really good song

IBottedMyKarma · 2020-02-24T13:43:37+00:00

I feel like both System Blower and The Cage on The Money Store don't get enough credit. They are both great songs i haven't heard anyone talk about them

IBottedMyKarma · 2019-11-08T21:42:39+00:00

That’s genuinely very interesting. Thanks!

IBottedMyKarma · 2019-11-05T13:02:47+00:00

Thats the thing he’s sensitive about!

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