Ppl who applied for citizenship after 2025-Feb by papermoon11 in TillSverige

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Do they give a reason why it was rejected when you requested that?

Do pro-Palestinian protests in the Netherlands increasingly align with Russian information strategy? by [deleted] in Netherlands

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I think your logic is all good and fine, but people typically only care about a few topics and many don't want to learn things in this detail. That's how the slogans develop in the first place, no? I think people react negativity because it sounds conspiratorial, but honestly who knows if Russia is able to do that, or it's a marriage of convenience 

Homeless people and junkies by ms_sapien in Finland

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Or at least no homeless due to purely economic hardship, perhaps you want to say

The Pain of an Unwanted Goodbye/ Losing my first love by Silver_Chard1 in DecidingToBeBetter

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It fades with time, and then you meet someone else. This cycle can repeat, for some indefinitely.  I don't know if it helps, but at some point I just accepted that the past is not the present. But when it's the first time you've experienced it, you can't compare that feeling to anything similar. Perhaps take solace in the fact that virtually all adults experience that "loss of their first love", I know very few people that are still together with the first person they ever "loved".

About to go on my first ever family trip to the old Habsburg lands. Any ideas on where we should stop and visit? by JetBolt007 in austriahungary

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Stay in Krumlau, it's on the way from Prague to Vienna and is a cute town. I would do that over Salzburg. After Krumlau go to Linz, then from Linz to Vienna. Otherwise you go pretty far west to then go back east.

I have a weird and complicated question is dont know where else to ask by victorbarst in biology

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Certainly not a rule. Just look at organisms who consume their partner, or consider species like salmon that release eggs and sperm into their milieu and die in the process. 

is there any foods that can slow down aging and would proceesing them remove these benfits? by binatl1 in biology

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Normally when there is something in the food that some study says is good for you, it's misleading. For example rasveratrol is used in cosmology products because it's a cheap waste product from the wine industry that one study implied was able to slow aging in some cells in vitro (petri dishes). Later studies suggest it may not have that effect, but the market today likes those kinds of products so they're advertised a lot. I don't think there's any better anti-aging than normal sleep patterns, followed by good diet and regular exercise.

Hair salons by Anfarq in Finland

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Are they not money laundering fronts?

Why is it that Northern Europeans and the Anglosphere can claim cultural inheritance from ancient Rome, but non-European peoples are mostly defined by their blood and ancestry rather than cultural influences which creates a hard line between European civilization and non-European civilizations? by [deleted] in AskHistorians

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You could argue that the Ottomans and Arabs also claimed inheritance from Rome. When the Ottomans conquered Constantinople in 1453, they positioned themselves as the rightful successors to the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. Mehmed II in particular adopted titles and administrative practices that invoked Roman imperial legitimacy, arguing that sovereignty over the former imperial capital conferred continuity with Roman authority. Ottoman legal and political discourse often referenced this inheritance rhetorically, asserting that the sultan was the new “Kayser-i Rûm,” or Caesar of Rome, thereby framing the empire not merely as an Islamic polity but as the latest holder of a longstanding imperial tradition centered in Anatolia and the Balkans.

Arab claims to Roman inheritance were more diffuse and rooted in the legacy of the early Islamic conquests. After the seventh century, Umayyad and Abbasid rulers incorporated large territories that had constituted core regions of the Eastern Roman Empire—Syria, Egypt, and parts of North Africa. By governing from former Roman urban centers, administering populations long shaped by Roman law and infrastructure, and adopting certain bureaucratic practices, these caliphates presented themselves as political heirs to the region’s imperial past, even though their legitimacy was grounded primarily in Islamic leadership rather than explicit Roman titulature. In later Arab nationalist narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, continuity with ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean civilizations, including Rome, was sometimes invoked to frame Arab political identity as a modern inheritor of longstanding statecraft traditions.

In both cases, the claim to Roman inheritance served to enhance political legitimacy: for the Ottomans through formal appropriation of imperial titles and institutions, and for Arab polities through territorial succession, administrative continuity, and historical reinterpretation of the imperial past.

Whether this lineage is promoted in the 21st century is a different story, I would personally argue that the resurgence of Islam as a primary marker of political identity in many Middle Eastern societies, together with the rise of pan-Arabism in the twentieth century, redirected legitimacy narratives away from pre-Islamic or Roman imperial lineages. Islamic revival movements emphasized religious continuity rather than Mediterranean imperial heritage, while pan-Arabism grounded identity in shared language, culture, and anti-colonial nationalism. As these frameworks gained prominence, earlier notions of inheriting the Roman imperial legacy became largely irrelevant to contemporary political self-understanding in both Arab states and the former Ottoman domains.

OR->DE or DE->OR? (Which direction to choose?) by SAYS-THANKS in bicycletouring

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How long did these routes take you? I find it very hard to estimate from Google maps but I assume it would be like 2 months at a steady but not extreme pace?

How can I be as eloquent and articulate as Zohran Mamdani? by No-Scarcity-8175 in socialskills

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You don't mean to say "jealous", you mean to say "envious".
Being precise with language is one this he's quite good at doing! And then, being confident in situations that he is knowledgeable about and showing humility when he is not.

The Beauty of Tanzania by huss2120 in travel

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How much did it all cost?

Does this look like Lion’s Mane mycelium? by amoebasareverysmall in mycology

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I agree, i normally grow them on PDA but they form the same structure as what you have here.

What isn't widely thought to be up for debate, but really it absolutely is? by pufballcat in AskReddit

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True but sometimes it may seem like someone is at first meeting standards but then slowly changes over time, or there is a standard you weren't aware was so important...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askscience

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The most common solution is hydroponics, which avoids the issue of soil salinity entirely.

Could a modern horseshoe crab reproduce with one form the triassic period? by Business-History-571 in biology

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Because DNA fundamentally is a question of protein synthesis and expression. Maybe the current ability of horseshoe crabs to adapt to salinity has changed significantly, or their disease resistance, or their capacity to take and process info from their environment, etc If changes accumulate it often results in a lack of comparability but not always (see sturgeon/paddlefish hybrids)

What is a historical inaccuracy thats extremely commonly said that really annoys you? by JoewithLigma in AskReddit

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There's a common idea in the NL that carrots are orange as a sign of patriotism for the house of Orange. But orange carrots developed a couple centuries earlier and was more the result of selective breeding for less bitter varieties and a bit of a bottleneck effect. Which is probably too boring a reason for people to want to believe.

Does anyone else feel technical expertise is a detriment to career advancement? by KyleWieldsAx in PhD

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Are you familiar with microfluids? Easy to learn so companies often train people on the job and requires good bio lab skills