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> Some people who are balding chose to take finasteride but it's unrelated to the procedure itself. Couldn't that be the pills Wayne took?
It's possible, but finasteride doesn't cause weight gain or muscle loss. In fact, it slightly increases free testosterone due to less of it being converted to DHT. He probably just got older and became less active.
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Yes? The country is named Türkiye, we should use that name? The etymology here is interesting and has a looooong history. The country has officially been named Türkiye for over a century.
I will call them Turkiye when they call Greece Hellas, Germany Deutschland and China Zhongguo in Turkish.
Why is "turkey" lowercased? For that matter the country's official name is Türkiye as of 2022.
I won't be calling Turkey Türkiye anymore than I would call China Zhōngguó. They don't have any authority to manage other people's languages. The lack of capitalization is an obvious error, though. Before clicking, I wondered if some accidental discovery in turkeys (as birds) resulted in better human hair growth.
And that's fine. I mentioned Türkiye because at least one smart-ass would correct me otherwise. But "turkey" is a bird. For it to be a country it's at least gotta be "Turkey".
I 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...
I've never done it despite being fully bald by age 25, as going back into work with a head of hair would cause more conversation about it than being bald ever has for me
That being said, I also started balding in spots very young and I couldn't care less fixing it.
Why 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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I won't be calling Turkey Türkiye anymore than I would call China Zhōngguó. They don't have any authority to manage other people's languages. The lack of capitalization is an obvious error, though. Before clicking, I wondered if some accidental discovery in turkeys (as birds) resulted in better human hair growth.
> I won't be calling Turkey Türkiye anymore than I would call China Zhōngguó. And that's fine. I mentioned Türkiye because at least one smart-ass would correct me otherwise. But "turkey" is a bird. For it to be a country it's at least gotta be "Turkey".
Why is "turkey" lowercased? For that matter the country's official name is Türkiye as of 2022.
I won't be calling Turkey Türkiye anymore than I would call China Zhōngguó. They don't have any authority to manage other people's languages. The lack of capitalization is an obvious error, though. Before clicking, I wondered if some accidental discovery in turkeys (as birds) resulted in better human hair growth.
Whyever not? It's their stated preference. And it's hardly the same kind of change as "China" vs. "Zhōngguó" or "Germany" vs. "Deutschland". It's just a slightly different spelling and pronunciation of the same word. You can change your ways.
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Has Germany said they should be called Deutschland by English speakers?
Is it a right of any nation to assert what other nations call it? Can America ask China to stop calling them 美国 (Měiguó) and call them the USA? The problem with the turkey rebranding is that it was a mere orthographic update, but it is using orthography that is very non standard(whatever that means for English), including using a diacritic rarely seen in English. I could get behind it more if they completely changed…
It's "Eswatini" with a capital letter and no, it's not a complete change. In both cases the word means the place of the Swazi/Swati people. If you're not aware that Southern African languages use prefixes such as "e-" as well as suffixes (like e.g. the suffix "-land" in English) then I guess it's harder to recognise the word stem. But they are related terms, not a "complete change".