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Mario Kuçi

@KuciMario

Political Science & Governance MA student, Universität Salzburg | Data and Polling | Activism | Between Tiranë & Salzburg.

Albania, Austria Katılım Ekim 2019
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Dimitri@thedimitri·
Admittedly if my flag looked like that I would also be putting it on literally everything if I were Albanian
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BREAKING: Team of Montenegrin researchers discovers Montenegrins are WORLD HISTORIC CHADS and Albanians are A NATION OF MANLETS
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole

In 2022 a team of Czech and Montenegrin anthropologists published the most comprehensive height survey ever conducted in the Western Balkans. They measured 47,158 people across Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, and Kosovo. The result overturned an assumption that had stood for fifty years. The tallest 18-year-olds in the world are not Dutch. They are from Montenegro. The average 18-year-old male in Montenegro is 182.9 cm. In Dalmatia, 183.7 cm. There is a continuous belt running from the Adriatic coast through Herzegovina into central Montenegro where average male height exceeds 184 cm. In some towns it is over 187 cm. This is the highest mean stature ever documented in any human population. The strange part is that the Balkans are not rich. GDP per capita in Montenegro is roughly a fifth of the Netherlands. Protein intake is well below Western European levels. By every conventional metric, the Western Balkans should be producing average heights similar to Bulgaria or Romania. Instead they are producing the tallest men on earth. The explanation is genetic. Y-chromosome haplogroup I-M170, present in over 70% of men in Herzegovina, correlates with male height across all 55 European and Near Eastern populations the researchers tested. Wherever the haplogroup is common, the men are tall. The haplogroup is descended from the Gravettian culture of the Upper Palaeolithic. The Gravettians were big-game hunters. They specialised, for roughly 15,000 years, in killing mammoth, bison, reindeer, and aurochs across Europe. They ate, in caloric terms, almost exclusively animal products. The most meat-heavy diet documented in the European archaeological record. Hundreds of generations of selection pressure for converting animal protein into skeletal stature. When the megafauna disappeared, most Gravettian populations dispersed and intermarried with incoming farmers from the Near East, who carried different haplogroups associated with shorter stature. The Western Balkans, isolated by the Dinaric Alps, retained an unusually high proportion of the original hunter genetics. The men of Herzegovina are the genetic descendants of mammoth hunters who spent the Ice Age eating fat and meat in quantities no modern population approaches. They are still tall, on a sub-optimal modern diet, because the genes were selected for height by 15,000 years of animal-based eating. If their nutrition reaches Northern European levels, the prediction is that average male height in central Herzegovina will reach 190 cm within two generations. Six foot three. As an average. The Dutch built their height in 150 years on dairy. The men of the Dinaric Alps built theirs over 15,000 years on mammoth. And the variable, in both cases, was the animal.

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@AndyMasley In Kosovo a poll of 1000 showed that among the Kosovo Albanians (more than than 90% the population) there was not a single response negative NATO, which can be seen as a proxy for support of the 1999 bombings as well. In the US support was more muted. news.gallup.com/poll/3826/supp…
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Andy Masley@AndyMasley·
It's a good line but it actually seems incorrect? I'd imagine this is pretty common. Libya in 2011, Panama in 1989, any region that ISIS controlled, Iraqi Kurdistan in 1991.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp

"I think this might be one of the few instances in modern history where a greater percentage of the society being bombed was supportive of military action than the society that was doing the bombing." - @ksadjadpour Incredible line. youtube.com/clip/UgkxHy-39…

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Soc-Dem basically means support for the party of Tom Doshi, a purely personal-clientelistic party. He bought the party's (literally) political dinosaur a whole back just to bypass the hurdles of creating a new party. You can read more about him here. occrp.org/en/investigati…
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A visual upgrade.
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@ryanburge Interesting how high this is compared to Europe. My own country, Albania, has the lowest at 22.7% The USA compares only with Turkey which is debatable how "European" it is.
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Ryan Burge 📊@ryanburge·
The share of Americans who believed that there is life after death was 76% in 1973. In 2024, that share had risen to 82%.
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Mario Kuçi@KuciMario·
Glad Jeff Nippard, one of the most influential fitness experts, is coming out in favor of lab grown meat. The more we can reduce suffering and protect the environment, the better! Also, his vids on fitness are very well studied and sourced, so I would recommend quite a bit.
Jeff Nippard@JeffNippard

I’m eating lab grown meat the second it’s mass market ready. It’s biologically identical to animal meat and will reduce suffering more than any technology in the history of our planet as long as enough people switch over from factory farmed meats.

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Jun 21st 2009 - "Baby" Diego, the youngest person on the planet, was born. 📽️📅 Children of Men (2006)
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We can and we should be! "Recent research suggests that societies where men and women can be friends tend to be less sexist on a variety of measures." economist.com/international/…
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Mario Kuçi@KuciMario·
@GeorgEbner3 @albanianstats This is about old division, the cities of Central Albania are quite mixed. But the original dialects of the cities are ghegh. Also the border localities in Elbasan even if nominally Tosk have been influenced a lot culturally by the city, so they are more blended.
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Albanian Stats@albanianstats·
Regional composition of voters registered abroad in the 2025 elections in Albania.
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orientalizmat@orientalizmat·
Wish all the opposition parties could do a proper Post Mortem, in the meantime this thread is a great overview of Albania's Elections that happened last week.
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For the first time, the Albanian diaspora could vote by mail. Over 200,000 voted, around 12% of the electorate. Initially backed by the opposition, diaspora voting became controversial after reports emerged of public employees being pressured to register their relatives. (5/9)
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The OSCE says the PS benefited from state resources, media bias, and pressure on public employees, blurred lines between state and party. The vote was mostly calm, but observers reported cases of limited ballot secrecy, access issues, and manipulative online campaigning. (3/9)
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Albania’s 2025 elections were both historic and controversial. The election unfolded amid major corruption scandals. Ilir Meta (a Berisha ally) was arrested; Berisha himself had been under house arrest. Tirana’s PS mayor Erion Veliaj was also detained for corruption. (2/9)
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Mario Kuçi@KuciMario·
@DarinaMarty This is wrong for Albania though, in Albania it officially started in 1945 if you consider those elections free.
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Darina Martykánová
Darina Martykánová@DarinaMarty·
Este mapa del sufragio femenino tiene muchos peros (la reversibilidad 🇪🇸, el paripé de las elecciones después de instaurarse los regímenes comunistas), pero muestra algunas pautas culturales que van más allá de democracia/dictadura y Este/Oeste.
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