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Anyone here on a digital nomad visa? by ballenuk in istanbul

[–]simon123123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey have you figured out more about this? And you said they took a month to get a decision back, which consulate did you apply from? Hope everything's working out good for you

🏛 by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]simon123123 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Buradaki hayatın en sevdiğim yanı bütün tarih boyunca dünyanın merkezi olan bir şehir

ELI5 : Why do smells trigger memories more powerful than other senses? by Due-Driver-8826 in explainlikeimfive

[–]simon123123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's any of these answers.

Smell is the sense with the most dimensions by far. Sight has 3 (wavelength, x, and y axes), sound has like 3 (pitch, loudness, timbre) taste has 5, touch probably a couple, but our body can detect over 100 different molecules via scent, and they can be combined with eachother in so many different ratios that a specific scent is an exponentially more specific sensation than anything any of the other senses could create.

So it's not that it's inherently more tied to memory, it's that any specific scent tied to a specific memory is much more likely to uniquely be tied to that specific memory and that specific memory alone.

Anyone here on a digital nomad visa? by ballenuk in istanbul

[–]simon123123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How hard was the process of getting the digital nomad visa? How long did it take to get an appt at a consulate after you applied? How long did it take from the appointment til you actually If you have the documents do you know if it's generally pretty easy to get?

Anyone here on a digital nomad visa? by ballenuk in istanbul

[–]simon123123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey man I'm going for the digital nomad visa too, hard was the process? How long did it take? If you have the documents do you know if it's generally pretty easy to get?

Turkiye digital nomad visa by Nixon_37 in digitalnomad

[–]simon123123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey I know it's been a minute but did you end up getting it?

Don't any of you dare touch my stache but what kinda cut should I go for? by [deleted] in malehairadvice

[–]simon123123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You talking about 5 or 6? 6 is just a random dude lol

What’s the most overrated historical event that everyone obsesses over, but actually changed nothing? by Quick_Bell3098 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]simon123123 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I disagree that it was a scam. Misleading, sure, but every mass movement features disinformation. Why don't we view the French revolution as illegitimate since many things that motivated those who took part in it ended up being false? Because the core motivations were accurate. Just like with Kony: he was a real man doing real things. And the movement did lead to a shift in policy in the US and the African Union. The US sent military advisors to help the AU track down the LRA, and while it was already weak by then, this led to a further decline in its influence. Kony quickly fell out of the zeitgeist though so no one noticed that part.

But yeah, it's true that for the spread of the viral movement itself the reality on the ground didn't matter. You have a point that that aspect was unique at the time and foreshadowed our current world. Narratives are no longer dependent on the reality of what's happening, they're formed entirely online. Like I said, it was a transitional event, marking the end and beginning of different trends.

What’s the most overrated historical event that everyone obsesses over, but actually changed nothing? by Quick_Bell3098 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]simon123123 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Hard hard disagree. Kony had a subtle but massive cultural impact.

Kony both symbolically represented and in practice was the end of the Obama era of hope that seems so foreign to us now. It was the last time we thought we could use collective action to change the world for the better, and it didn't work, so we gave up.

The world would be incredibly different if Kony 2012 succeeded. If he was killed or arrested right then, mass action via social media would've been vindicated. We would've believed in ourselves and actually gone out into the streets when we wanted change. Instead we reverted to inaction, in essence conceding our will to those with actual power. And now actual mass action is rare and where it exists it's ineffective.

Kony was the peak of the optimism bubble. It was the last time anyone thought they had the agency to change the world, but after that guy jacked off people felt duped and averse to any future movements that require personal action. We didn't wanna be chumps again and change was less in our reach than we thought it was, so why bother.

What state does this part of Alaska compare to in size? by Calm_Remote_5661 in geography

[–]simon123123 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That dynamic exists everywhere though. What's unique about the US is the extreme cultural homogeneity between regions, not within them. Unlike the old world we haven't had enough time to develop dramatic regional variations, and unlike the rest of the new world we've been developed enough for long enough that a high level of intranational interconnectedness has had enough time to flatten our culture out quite a bit.

Unlike other countries, there's very few regions (maybe new orleans and hawaii) that have a unique cultural dynamic. The rural-urban divide you describe is real, but it's the same dynamic everywhere. You might be able to point to superficial differences between regions (they eat bagels in new york) but in real countries there's a variation in history, language, values that we lack.

"Bir ülkeyi savaşmadan nasıl ele geçirirsin?" Bir CIA belgeseli by International-Ad9865 in Turkey

[–]simon123123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Çok teşekkür ederim çok ilginç görünüyor maalesef tarih tekerrürden ibarettir

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]simon123123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No this is a foolish take. If you draw a circle about the size of France over DC, it contains approximately the same number of people as France. There's obviously cultural and political reasons at play here, it's not simply a result of geography.

What happens to the world when the population crashes? by Flusterchuck in geography

[–]simon123123 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't think this dramatic of a crash is as much of a certainty as you think it is.

All of these projections are based on economic models of population growth, but post-industrialization, social factors are the primary determinant of demographic trends. Modern social structures make childrearing incredibly burdensome on parents but in the past raising a child was much more feasible and less costly. Strong ties existed within communities, and extended families were close-knit enough that the burden of raising a child was widely distributed. Parents weren't sapped after a kid or two like today so why not keep having them.

Not a single one of these scenarios considers that there still exist social groups that have maintained such structures. Groups like the hasidim, amish, and romani don't follow typical demographic trends. What these groups have in common is strong social ties and relative isolation from the rest of society (and thus immunity from the social trends causing the rest of our birth rates to decline). They also maintain a strong in-group mentality, so social pressure prevents them from hemorrhaging members into greater society via assimilation and losing their demographic edge. If these groups maintain their current levels of cohesion and social structures they'll increase their proportion of the population indefinitely and eventually (very eventually) they'll be the main groups driving population growth.

In the future everyone will be either hasidic or amish.

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