News / Will Poland tighten border control with Germany? [60]


That's not how the East German government sold it to their people. It was called the "Antifaschistischer Friedenswall" (the anti-fascist wall of freedom). Cool name. How should we call the future Polish wall?

News / Will Poland tighten border control with Germany? [60]


What would that remind you of? Hint: its demolition started in 1989.

USA, Canada / Thoughts on moving to Poland from USA [62]


You can always pack the container yourself and ship House/House (FCL or LCL), but that wasn't the point. I was talking about international MOVING companies, and they do take care of everything. They pick up your stuff, put it in a container at their storage facility, ship it to the port of destination and arrange for transport to your new home at the final destination, where the container is unpacked again. I've done that multiple times across continents. No prob whatsoever.

Try to handle the shipping yourself though, and you are setting yourself up for failure. There's a reason why there are shipping agents and specialized moving companies.

Genealogy / Zaszczurynski - information on grandparents from Poland [12]


There isn't. Until around the mid 1870s, the spelling of family names wasn't regulated by laws. The priest essentially wrote what he heard.

USA, Canada / Thoughts on moving to Poland from USA [62]


Are you using an international moving company? They will take care of everything. Don't try to manage the shipment of the container yourself. There's a reason why there are specialized shipping and moving companies.

Genealogy / Zaszczurynski - information on grandparents from Poland [12]

I'm all the way back to the 1400's with one branch due to some lucky circumstances.

Genealogy / Zaszczurynski - information on grandparents from Poland [12]


I'm into genealogy and if there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that one has to keep politics, patriotic feelings and wishful thinking out of it. Historical accuracy is of utmost importance, or your research will go in a completely wrong direction. To correct these errors can take a very long time. Been there, done that.

Nowadays I only add a person to my family tree if I have 100% proof -- i.e., church books, civil records, tax registers, censuses. For the time before the introduction of church books, it's 80% guess work. You are lucky if you find tax registers or similar documents, and you are even more in luck if you can actually read them.

UK, Ireland / Let's discuss Polish and British, only constructive (though we will digress) [60]


Depends. A lot of talent was brought into the country with the help of H1B visa, and these people were often used to undermine local wage levels. H1B's are now (rightfully) under so much scrutiny that it will have some serious impact on attracting talent to the US.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


The number is mentioned in one of the links I gave you.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


www8.miamidade.gov/global/economy/resilience/sea-level-rise-flooding.page
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businessinsider.com/miami-floods-sea-level-rise-solutions-2018-4
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miami.cbslocal.com/2019/05/21/faster-than-predicted-rising-sea-levels-coastal-cities/
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miaminewtimes.com/news/climate-change-study-says-sea-level-rise-could-cost-miami-dade-32-billion-for-seawall-construction-11201008

All fake news, right?

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


Playing stupid again? Australia is a continent with different climate zones. The USA is as big as Australia and also has different climate zones. The temperature in one region goes down, while it rises in others. On the average, the world is getting hotter.


I already provided a link to the Smithonian Institute somewhere. Google for rising sea levels and the Maldives, Kiribati and Tuvalu, and get educated.

I'm done here. Toodles.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


Sea levels are rising, ice caps and glaciers are melting all across the globe, and you are still talking about "global warming swindlers". The signs of global warming and climate change in general are everywhere. I don't even need scientists for that. Record heat waves and droughts in the US and Australia, wildfires everywhere, vanishing islands in the Pacific, flooded coastlines in Florida and Louisiana ... the list goes on and on and on. But hey ... nothing to see here ...


They didn't. It's an idiotic conspiracy theory. There are tons of different sources out there to inform yourself.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


ocean.si.edu/through-time/ancient-seas/sea-level-rise#section_1635


All of a sudden? Then why are you babbling about "climate change fascists"? You are talking out of your ass, man.


90% ? You Neanderthals hicks represent about 30% of the total population. Evolution will take care of you.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


How so? There are conspiracy theories out there which claim that the moon landing never happened and there are other conspiracy theories saying that climate change is a hoax based on falsified data. Both can be easily debunked. Too hard to understand?


Of course. By sticking your head in the sand and pretending it doesn't happen. I really hope that the sorry asses of climate change deniers will be drowned by ocean waters before I kick the bucket. You will hear me laughing and cheering in Chicago, I'll promise you that much.

Life / COMBATING "POLACK" JOKES [460]


Visit Poland. Your car is already there... :)

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


So if 1 billion people saw on TV that the US landed astronauts on the moon and 2 deranged clowns tell you that it was all a hoax done in a studio, you will tell the 1 billion that they shouldn't trust their lying eyes?


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy

Life / COMBATING "POLACK" JOKES [460]


FWIW: neither have I.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


If the vast majority of scientists around the world tell you that the average temperature on Earth is rising at an alarming level and that the ice sheet and glaciers are melting, you call that "politically motivated, manipulated data"? Instead you believe it's a Chinese hoax and we only need to stick the head in the sand and burn more coal to make the problem go away? Hope Darwin takes good care of your ilk. Oh wait, you don't believe in evolution either ...


Who said that science is IN CONTROL of weather? Science is warning us and presents the data to back the claim up. Only Neanderthals cover their ears and sing "La la la, I can't hear you".

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

In the eyes of a science denier maybe...

Life / I'm from Polish descent. CAN YOU GUYS EXPLAIN THE EU TO ME? [115]


Try to get a good deal (or a deal at all) with the US when you are on your own. Britain will find out the hard way very soon. Good luck! You'll need it.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


The magic words are "Average global temperature", and that one is on the rise.


Funny shi*t.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


China is still ruled by the communist party. The country's billionaires, although greedy, are certainly not as free in their actions as their western counterparts. If you have approx.1.5 billion people, you'll have to do whatever it takes to create jobs. Otherwise, your country will never get out of poverty. I believe that the motivation of the Chinese is more about developing the country at the moment, while Europeans and Americans are much more interested in profit margins.


The USA is the second largest polluter on the planet, Joker. You really believe it is unnecessary to do something about it?


Huh? How can contraception be totalitarian? The opposition of the catholic church (and other religions) to artificial birth control is actively contributing to the massive problem of overpopulation in the Third World. Reduce the birth rate or we are all toast.

Speaking of the church, by the way: I honestly thought you are a devout Christian.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


Not any more, but most of their people are still p*iss poor. They work for pennies a day, which is why the American and European corporate vultures are still circling over China.


So nobody in the USA deserves clean air, clean water and a clean environment as long as China and India are polluting the planet, right? You should try to use your head occasionally, Joker.


Read again what I said. Or is Genesis 1:28 totalitarian BS in the eyes of a devout catholic such as yourself?

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


You are mistaken. Google "borneo palm oil" and pick your source.


The secret is called "average global temperature"...

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


These countries usually have extremely fast growing populations. They need every job they can get and they are willing to pay a hefty price for that, which is the destruction of their environment and the exploitation of their people. Look at rare earths for example. The U.S. has large deposits within its borders, but they decided to rather buy from a willing seller (China) than poison their own land. Where does all the palm oil come from that we consume? That's right: from countries like Indonesia which clear-cuts its ancient rainforests on Borneo to feed some fat ass westerners. How about beef for McDonald's hamburgers? Much of it raised in Brazil on cattle farms that used to be tropical forest. The list is endless and it always boils down to the same problem: corporate greed, poverty in the Third World and overpopulation.

I said it before somewhere: our economic system has a major flaw. It is based on unlimited growth fueled by debt. Unlimited growth is called cancer, and that disease kills most of the time.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


No need to sink below the level of an animal. Stopping religious leaders from telling people to multiply like rabbits, birth control and political measures like China's "One Child Policy" will do. Add some famines, epidemics and wars to the mix, and you're almost there. The West takes care of the population problem differently: they simply go the way of the dodo.

For a very long time I had hope that getting the Third World out of poverty would do the trick, but watching the populations of Indonesia or Nigeria for example explode, or the idiot Brazilian president actively destroying the Amazon with his political actions make me wonder if mankind even has a chance.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


Sure, by exporting the dirtiest industries to China and other third world countries.


We need to get the world's overpopulation under control, or we are all screwed. At the moment it looks as if Mother Nature will solve that problem for us ... by snuffing us out with super bugs and starvation. We'll take care of the rest through environmental destruction and wars.


I only have to look at the actions taken by Trump's EPA to know that you are right.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


Nope. They consider NZ a safe place in case of a global crisis. Far away from everything, you know.


I've been around long enough to have fulfilled most of my dreams. An intact environment is still on my wish list, though...

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


No, it means that you are still able to have dreams. Many adults have lost that ability. That's why they are unable to come up with solutions for the most pressing problems. Greed always wins.


You know that there was a massive influx of rich Americans buying up NZ real estate, right? It became so bad that the New Zealand government banned foreigners from buying properties before they could ruin prices any further.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


Even if. Doesn't change the fact that the young ones are always idealistic, and that the old farts are always the ones causing the trouble. Maybe "Soylent Green" wasn't such a bad idea after all... ;)


And? Does that mean the archaic Second Amendment is written in stone and can't be changed? I'm sure you would also defend the right to kill random people on 5th Avenue if it was in the Constitution. No matter if it makes sense or not.


Yeah, mostly in New Zealand and on higher ground because the rich kids know what's coming. Only the simpletons are still banging on about the Chinese climate change hoax.