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this is one of those "if you have nothing nice to say" moments. there's really no reason for your comment.
To be fair, OP can just shave his head if he too prefers the bald look
How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
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Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
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#123Why is "turkey" lowercased? For that matter the country's official name is Türkiye as of 2022.
Let's talk turkey, does it really matter?
Yes, casing matters. It carries meaning.
It's the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
This headline makes it sound like the IT systems of a cosmetic surgeon have been attacked by poultry.
Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#124Why are so many people brainwashed to think baldness==bad? My hair really started to go down around 30 years old and am going to have to shave my head at some point, but who cares? Why does it matter?
The human brain responds positively to a full head of hair, and less positively to balding. I'm not sure why, as it seems there is no huge evolutionary advantage to hair. However the way the brain responds to it is incontestable, and no amount of body positivity will change the impact it has, thus for an individual it makes much more sense to pay a few thousand to conform to beauty standards than hope that everyone y…
it's culture not evolution
Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#125Why is "turkey" lowercased? For that matter the country's official name is Türkiye as of 2022.
Let's talk turkey, does it really matter?
Yes! I originally read the headline as "a turkey" because of the lack of a capital T.
They can call themselves what they want, but it unreasonable of the Turks to expect English speakers to write their country's name with characters which are not part of our alphabet.
Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#126Why are so many people brainwashed to think baldness==bad? My hair really started to go down around 30 years old and am going to have to shave my head at some point, but who cares? Why does it matter?
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Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
The human brain responds positively to a full head of hair, and less positively to balding. I'm not sure why, as it seems there is no huge evolutionary advantage to hair. However the way the brain responds to it is incontestable, and no amount of body positivity will change the impact it has, thus for an individual it makes much more sense to pay a few thousand to conform to beauty standards than hope that everyone y…
it's culture not evolution
Culture emerges from evolution.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's talk turkey, does it really matter?
Yes! I originally read the headline as "a turkey" because of the lack of a capital T. They can call themselves what they want, but it unreasonable of the Turks to expect English speakers to write their country's name with characters which are not part of our alphabet.
Yeah I'm not gonna type out the u with an umlaut (?) myself on an message board. If I were writing to the UN or to the Turkish embassy I'd copy-paste it. But lowercasing a proper noun is egregious.
Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#129I did it a few years ago when I was living in Istanbul. One evening, a friend of mine wouldn't shut up about the procedure. I ended up booking it almost on a whim, mostly just to prove him wrong. I did the transplant the next day. In the end, I was very happy with the results. I think it cost around 1500$. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/olalonde/olalonde.github.c...
You look very handsome in both photos, but I'm just happy that you're happy.
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The irony is that none of this stuff actually works as intended. Plastic surgery is obvious. Lip injections are obvious. Leg lengthening, I mean have you seen the proportions after?? Hair transplants too. If the most wealthy people getting these procedures look botched, what hope does anyone have really. Also, are we acting like steve jobs wasn't still a handsome man with his grey thinning head? It doesn't come from…
> Plastic surgery is obvious Survivorship bias, you only notice the plastic surgery that isn't good. Most of the time it's invisible, your brain doesn't process the individual change, you just get the sense that the person looks better/less tired/more put together. >Lip injections are obvious Same phenomenon, but even if they are obvious some people like that aesthetic, in the same way that dyed hair/painted nails ar…
Plastic surgery can be obvious, which is useful signaling for some groups.