News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]


Exactly! You got me! I'm thinking trying heroin next week, if all goes well I'll add it to the list of mafketis-approved drugs....

Back on planet Earth.... if you commercialize it, it will grow in ways you cannot predict. Fentanyl is not nearly the end....

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]


The eternal addict's excuse.... It feels good! Victimless crime (except for all the victims who remain safely out of sight)

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News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]


The market is created by people who find reality intolerable and seek escape through mood altering substances.


I'm addicted to caffeine (like lots of people) and enjoy an occasional drink or three (and have tried a few other lower end substances... years ago, mostly they did nothing for me).

The desire for altered experience is a basic human drive, but left to its own tends to be okay with occasional mild stimulants or relaxants.

Commercialized, it results in the narco wars in Northern Mexico and lots of people getting killed.

Anything you commercialize will grow and grow and become more extreme.


Commercialization...

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]


Yes.


So why do we want to add to that number?


No they're not. Marijuana is not the mild relaxant it used to be in hippy days. Super potent strains created over the decades track with psychotic and violent behavior (see Berenson, A. for details).

The problem with cocaine is that's its an open-ended addiciton... the more cocaine a person does the more they want to do, there's no off switch.

And... legalizing narcotics just incentivizes criminals to come up with ever more potent concoctions.... (see fentanyl zombies).


You are several decades out of date. At the extremes it's a problem but nowhere near as large as it used to be. Alcohol and tobacco are enough, taking a softer stand toward harder drugs just leads to an escalation in addiction and ever increasing costs in making and distributing narcotics.

Think of the trail of broken and dead bodies that made your 'recreational' cocaine possible.

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News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]


They can only do that because druggies want their drugs. People who enjoy illegal recreational substances create the market. I'm not letting them off....

They need to know how many people died so they could get high.

USA, Canada / Poles in America: How do you pronounce your Polish surname? [135]


pshehd voh YEFF skee

pronounce the vowels e o i as in Spanish or Italian.

The hardest part is the 'prz' at the beginning, pronounced 'psh'

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [295]


This is an intro.... I'm not saying for certain that's what happened in the Irish case but it could be (but why didn't he kill his wife? not that I think he should have but it's not part of the pattern)

parents.com/parenting/dynamics/inside-the-mind-of-family-annihilators/

Other possibilities could be related to emerging mental illness (he's a bit old for schizophrenia to start) some other kind of psychotic break or they both could have been killed by someone else....

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]


The great majority of gun violence is related to drug gangs and suicide.... levels of interpersonal violence are extremely low otherwise..... but druggies want their drugs and the lives of gang members are their blood sacrifice to the gods of high.


Sorry to be the bearer of boutique sexualities.... the furry gamp (and reddit kid) labels are, however, evidence against the idea that the killer was motivated by maga ideas (despite his family background). Interestingly, apparently some conservative gay guys on twitter immediately said the killer was gay as soon as his pictures were released...


IINM I think there were personal issues there (though the disgraceful way that the US treats veterans and/or any ex-military playes a part as well).

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [295]


Sounds a lot like a family destroyer scenario... (Men who kill most or all of their immediate family and then kill themselves). It seems to be a horribly misplaced sense of compassion (they want to die but imagine their families won't be able to survive without them).

Very sad....

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]


It's in the constitution. It can only be changed by amendment (and the US does not have the discipline needed for an amendment at present)


As a child of the great compression (a time of relative low inequality and low immigration) I sort of agree except that economic inequality doesn't correlate with crime despite many sociologists best efforts to create a connection.

But the Kirk case seems tied to mental illness (he was a furry GAMP it bears repeating).

Gun violence in the US is less a problem and more a symptom of a problem - too many crazy people but too many political interests are too invested in maintaining or increasing levels of crazy.... so... batten down the hatches.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]


They didn't, look at him being restrained from different angles.... the angle that made it look like they were choking him was publicized.


Individually the majority is law abiding. But when it comes to voting... the majority don't much care. Black candidates tend to not run on reducing crime.

It is true that they like crime reduction policies (they recognized 'defund the police' as class warfare against poorer people) but they tend to turn a blind eye to black-on-black crime. It is what it is.....

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]


It's true that by and large African Americans don't care about crime as an issue (the single exception being blacks killed during conflicts with police).

But, really the police in the Floyd case did nothing wrong. Law enforcement training emphasizes that a physically strong but drugged up person can do insane and dangerous things with no prior warning so they're trained to get such subjects under control ASAP.

If there's any blame (apart from the blame that Floyd himself earned) then it's the rescue team that took too long to arrive. Nonetheless, the democrats utilized that situation to unleash unprecedented levels of violence against the American public.

I will never forgive the democrats (or anyone who took part in it) for that.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]


George Floyd was a convicted felon who'd held a pistol to the stomache of a pregnant woman and was wanted when police tried to arrest him while he was overdosing on fentanyl.... the police did nothing wrong (deceptive perspective made it look like they were choking him but they weren't, his was already complaining about not being able to breath before they tried to arrest him.

Had he complied with the arrest he might be alive (and in jail) today.

Why have democrats beatified this pos?

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]


Why are you giving attention to a narcissist who'll write any bvllshit imaginable just to get attention?

Starve him. Go radio silence. Ghost him. If everybody did that, he'd get frustrated and go away....

Honestly....

Polonia / What do Poles think of how they are treated in Germany, in comparison to the Muslim migrants [181]

J.D. Vance asking russians how many people they're willing to sacrifice in Ukraine...

Silly Wabbit! russia is a death cult, death turns them on!

x.com/nexta_tv/status/1972338010352947705

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]


I've seen photos on the internet of unicorns and dinosaurs....

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [101]


Most people can't sing in English as well as they can in their own language.... I remember running to skip tracks recorded in English by Polish singers I like.

Don't Kpop stars mostly sing in Korean?

I hate it when 'globalization' means everybody adopts the least common denominator.... If I listen to a Romanian or Colombian artist I want to hear them in their own language not garbed International Crap English....

But then I have broad tastes that weren't fixed when I was a teenager....

News / Polish-Russian war? Drones entering Polish airspace. [254]


Just fvkkin' shut up.... you're no better than nchok or jr at this stage.... let's agree that you three will have a thead all to yourselves and you stay out of other threads unless you can behave.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Don't you say Neither fish nor fowl in the UK anymore? That was my first thought....

Okay,

To i piątak

As I mentioned the last word is not a literal translation but a possible way of making sense in Polish.

The original expression was "That and a nickel will buy you cup of coffee". At the time a cup of coffee cost a nickel (5 cents).

Over time inflation took it's toll and "That and a dime" "That and a quarter" "That and a dollar" etc etc Sometimes the cup of coffee was changed to something else.

Very, very often people didn't say the whole expression but just the first part. "That and five dollars..." (for example)

The meaning is "what you just referred to is of no value whatsoever"....

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]


Got some examples?

Cause everything I heard was pretty mild (apart from some that were either wildly ripped from context or massaged).

He was far closer to Peoria than the Reichstag.

Polonia / What do Poles think of how they are treated in Germany, in comparison to the Muslim migrants [181]


A nice idea in theory, but it never works that way in practice..... leftists lose their sh{t about Palestinians but completely shrugged off recent massacres of Christians and Druze in Syria


I've been involved in journalism and if it's written it's libel, if spoken it's slander.

US law formerly (not sure of current status) writing something that damaged the reputation of someone else was libel period.

Defenses of libel included:

public figures with reduced expectation of privacy

truth status of what was written

Writing that John Doe was arrested for selling meth from his vape shop business is libel but if that is the case then it's not actionable.

I can't imagine any government taking anything written here seriously enough to press charges (and jurisdiction for the internet is not really settled).

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Not really the meaning.... I saw it once translated in subtitles as 'jak cholera' which fit that context but maybe not most others....

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Yes.

I'm not sure if the other was/is used much in the UK...

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

Two easy ones....

A joke with a beard.

And

To i piątak. (this one is a bit loose - it's the idea that counts not the exact words...)

Life / Why oh Why do Poles drive so incredibly poorly [109]


Germany isn't that high but Denmark (and other Scandi countries, partial exception Finland) are the world's lowest.

A lot of the weirdness (for lack of a better term) of Germany comes from relatively low power distance (less hierarchical than France, for example) but relatively higher uncertainty avoidance. Usually those two track together fairly closely.


Higher uncertainty avoidance in Europe mostly tracks with historical catholicism (Ireland is the biggest exception and might come from anglicization) or Orthodox. Lower uncertainty avoidance is more a protestant thing.

Polonia / What do Poles think of how they are treated in Germany, in comparison to the Muslim migrants [181]


Coulda fooled me....

Life / Why oh Why do Poles drive so incredibly poorly [109]


Cultures are complex, interacting wholes....

"pretty much zero enforcement" because culturally driving really fast isn't felt to be a big deal needing police intervention

"minimal fines on the rare occasions when the police are checking speeds" ditto

"people think they can just drive at whatever speed they want" exactly!

Uncertainty avoidance is a fascinating thing and cultures with high uncertainty avoidance rates tend to share lots of features, from a preference for elaborate language (an important message needs important sounding language) greater affection for small children (easier to control and more predictable) and dislike of teenagers (harder to control and more unpredictable), higher levels of alcohol consumption (to deal with stress) and political systems that are based on confrontation rather than cooperation and.... generally lower levels of mental illness (nothing like a steady stressful baseline to keep the mind focused).

Polonia / What do Poles think of how they are treated in Germany, in comparison to the Muslim migrants [181]


on the left.... please find examples of non-left non-muslims waving the pali flag

Life / Why oh Why do Poles drive so incredibly poorly [109]


That's typical of Poland's cultural profile and won't change.

Poland ranks high in 'uncertainty avoidance' which among lots of other interesting stuff correlates with reckless driving which then correlates with lots of traffic accidents/deaths.

In general this is true of most of southern and eastern Europe. Better cars and roads ameliorate that to some extent but not entirely.

The British Isles, Netherlands and Scandinavia are low in uncertainty avoidance which correlates with safer, generally slower, driving.

Polonia / What do Poles think of how they are treated in Germany, in comparison to the Muslim migrants [181]


So? Palestinian flags are now overwhelmingly flown by the left (among non-muslims at least).