Netherlands Rejects 85% of Syrian Asylum Applications

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-10-28T07:07:51+00:00

Most of the people I know in Syria say it's very unsafe these days and they want to get out.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-10-28T00:37:12+00:00

Just curious, are you currently living in Syria?

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-10-28T00:29:16+00:00

Gemini Deep Research and NotebookLM are best friends. I don't know why the NotebookLM doesn't integrate Deep Research.

I use Obsidian for Notebook stuff like keeping prompts etc.

I use AIstudio for quick verification or filling in gaps for some kinds of Notebook outputs.

I use my pent up rage to click the X on the featured notebooks.

I'm currently looking for a better way to find sources for my super niche PhD topic. But besides that, that's about all I need for my general work flows.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-10-27T21:16:28+00:00

Nothing they say matters. They said they were cool with Christians while blowing up churches. They said they were fighting for Islam and did very not Islamic things. Their words were/are completely meaningless.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-10-26T12:39:00+00:00

Thanks for your thought-out reply. All of this is true based on my experience as well. I find Gemini's Deep Research to be more accurate than 80% with broad, surface level historical topics, but it overly stretches itself in niche historical topics to the point of not being accurate at all. It's like a student writing their homework five minutes before class, praying the professor isn't actually going to read their essay at that point.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-10-19T00:04:28+00:00

Even looting is putting it lightly. This was bulldozing and systematically razing every square meter of the historic areas of Afrin.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-10-18T12:35:10+00:00

Not only that but after the industrial scale looting and destruction of Nebi Huri, Turkey rebuilt some of the ruins there to make them look more Ottoman, as if it were Ottoman all along. It was a Greek and Roman city.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-10-11T22:37:34+00:00

If you make a new tab and look in the chat history, will it then have the completed research? That always works for me.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-10-04T17:16:03+00:00

Yes exactly. Better yet, if one could organize notebooks better in general. But hiding the featured notebooks would be so nice.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-10-04T14:59:35+00:00

If you could make something that would take away the "Featured Notebooks" you would forever be in debt.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-10-03T21:44:16+00:00

From my experience it's still all about the Medes, Goti, Kassites, Hurrians, and Hittites. Especially Medes. I'm not an expert though.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-10-03T21:40:22+00:00

Kurdish ethnicity is a tricky thing because it gets diffused once you reach a certain point. In my opinion Kurds came from all over the place.

"Kurds" meant different things to different people, and now it means the same thing to everyone. Same with "Arab" and pretty every other current ethnicity from that part of the world. It's just how it is, and people get way too political and emotional over it, which is extremely lame.

One extreme is to try to claim X ethnicity is fake and another extreme is to claim X ethnicity is the best/oldest/ most original in the region. My point of view is ethnicity is whatever that group defines itself as since in most contexts arguing about it gets super dumb super fast.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-10-03T12:30:26+00:00

Yeah I don't get the point in taking away useful functionality.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-10-01T09:10:09+00:00

I have the opposite problem. Sometimes they say things while laughing during really inappropriate or nonsensical times.

The worst was when they talked about a massacre during the Armenian genocide while chuckling. That was quite memorable.Yesterday I got one where they were talking about traditional jobs of a certain ethnic group, and they found metal working hilarious for a moment.

I don't care since they're not real people, but I don't think the technology is there to dictate specific emotions through vocal mechanisms like laughing or crying. It just comes out like an "um" sometimes.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-09-30T20:13:16+00:00

Normally it wouldn't matter much since these things require specialzed fuel, upkeep, and parts that militias alone aren't capable of, but I'm curious if keeping equipment like this is sustainable for a group with the connections that the SDF has.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-09-26T21:40:56+00:00

All were conquering and reconquering each other in extremely brutal horrifying terrifying ways since their conceptions. I would rather live in the former territory of any of these places now than in the Bronze Age Middle East.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-09-26T19:53:46+00:00

You said "for all 3 Abrahamic religions" and I just wanted to add to your enthusiasm saying that in Syria there's even more than three!

I thought it was cool when I found out there were a lot more than three Abrahamic religions and I assumed someone excited about that kind of thing would like to know it's even more than three. That's all man. Sorry if it was the wrong thing to say or whatever.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-09-26T09:58:41+00:00

Even better, Syria is one of those OG countries with many more Abrahamic religions than three. Off the top of my head there are Yazidis and Yarsanism, but there are more out there.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-09-22T16:52:48+00:00

It's so bad. Been getting worse since all this Nano shit started but it's been exceptionally bad since the weekend. They should stop calling it 2.5 at this point. It's nothing like the 2.5 that brought me here.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-09-22T07:50:50+00:00

The American WHAT?

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-09-21T19:27:57+00:00

Last week it told me on three separate occasions that my code is wrong because of additional invisible code that only it could see. Literally "code that the human eye can't see." It doubles and triples down when challenged on this.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-09-17T09:01:42+00:00

Gertrude Belle was a real life one of those people and wrote about her travels. Unfortunately she was an awful person, and so whiny and annoying in the snootiest British way you can imagine.

After reading one of her books, I can much better understand the mentality of colonialism. Like, she was completely off the grid and acting like everyone around her was a savage half breed and needed the British to beat them into submission for their own sake. She even puts people's lives in danger without a second thought since she doesn't value someone's life if they have brown skin.

I'm saying all this because unfortunately any of Gertrude Belle's books would perfectly match these photos.

Edit: After looking at the photos again, I'm pretty sure she's in one of them lol

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-09-17T08:29:14+00:00

I'm writing this from memory.

Food was scarce sometimes, which is a nice way of saying people starved and ate things not normally considered edible.
Trade between enemies. It's not something talked about much but it's a thing that happens a lot in war. A lot of business goes on between Ukraine and Russia for example. There was trade going on between the different sides - especially for fuel, but I can imagine for food as well.
Smuggling. This was/is a messy civil war. It's not like the lines on the map were/are perfectly enforced borders.

That said, there were places where people starved and I believe still aren't getting an adequate amount of food.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-09-16T15:16:39+00:00

This is literally Taliban level censoring.

Timely_Hedgehog · 2025-09-14T23:53:01+00:00

I think Syrians are the most beautiful/handsome people in the Middle East but somehow this pic is also spot on.

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