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mafketis   
6 Aug 2021
History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

to destroy a possible/probable future resistance at the roots

Fortunately mother nature knows best and human ability is not strictly tied to parentage - lots of exceptional people have average children and lots of average people have exceptional children.

But if we want to talk about genocide the Rwanda in the 1990s or the Uyghurs in China or Tigray in Ethiopia are maybe a bit more relevant to the modern world....
mafketis   
6 Aug 2021
History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

y a deranged maniac exterminates a group of humans solely because of who rather than what they are

Human history is full of genocide.... concentrating and obsessing on a single example (notable primarily for scale and bureaucratic approach) and bringing it up in unrelated contexts.... doesn't do much to prevent it.

If moralizing about the holocaust stopped genocide then why didn't it stop Ruanda in 1994 (or Ethiopia now?)
mafketis   
1 Aug 2021
News / EU, Germany, Euros and Poland. [54]

d, if they all leave who is left to fight the crazies?

Maybe the crazies are who Afghans want. The optimal solution is to build a fence around the country - other countries say out, Afghanis stay in.

At present all that interference is doing is rewarding societal failure - by giving them an 'out' where they can continue their dysfunction.

China is moving in now... maybe they can do what no other empire has ever done - turn Afghanistan into a civilized country.
mafketis   
1 Aug 2021
UK, Ireland / Advice needed on a Polish funeral/customs in the UK [11]

What you described would be never described by being close by a Pole

Yeah, he's a znajomy (at most a kolega) and not a przyjaciel... English speakers have a hard time grasping the differences in meaning (and the differences in behavior that come from them).
mafketis   
31 Jul 2021
News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]

PiS is not capable of managing an economy

Don't be so harsh... they just gave themselves a bunch of raises so... that should be great for the economy....

Prime Minister - 40%
Vice-ministers - 40%
Sejm and senate marshalls - 75%
Ministers - 40%
Vice-ministers - 60%
MPs and senators - 60%

Duda the puppet has followed orders and signed it and it takes effect.... tomorrow!

dziennikustaw.gov.pl/DU/2021/1394

Countdown for the "PO was worse!" defenses of PiS.... 4, 3, 2, 1....
mafketis   
30 Jul 2021
News / New American Ambassador to Poland? [26]

. USA is an unreliable ally if there was any...

Agreed. So two unreliable allies spitting at each other - a partnership made in heaven!
mafketis   
30 Jul 2021
News / New American Ambassador to Poland? [26]

And everything is sort of solved....

True to their neo-PRL mindset, the conflict over Mark Brzezinki's citizenship was resolved by an old law in the 1960s aimed at preventing dual citizenship in Eastern Bloc countries....

By applying this, they've determined he's not a Polish citizen at all.... he's a Czech citizen (no word from Czech authorities whether they regard him as such).

wiadomosci.onet.pl/tylko-w-onecie/ambasador-usa-w-polsce-okazalo-sie-ze-mark-brzezinski-nie-jest-polakiem/xe9vc7g

It will be interesting to see how he reacts to PiS's PRL approach to foreign diplomats and unreliable status as an ally....
mafketis   
29 Jul 2021
News / TVP producer fired for allowing rainbow flag on the air... [244]

Not one that I've ever met would want that.

They prefer hostility and antagonism?

becoming more common now.

A bunch of young adolescent females with passing gender dysphoria (probably related to anxieties about the realities of mature female biology) or young lesbians are being convinced that they're "really" trans and begin often irreversible interventions...

youtube.com/watch?v=O6pkBQaYDYQ

I'm not gonna say that you can have gay rights or trans rights but the way things are going now.... you can have gay rights or trans rights but not both... the TERFs are absolutely right about that.
mafketis   
29 Jul 2021
News / TVP producer fired for allowing rainbow flag on the air... [244]

new stuff.

not new, but the radical trans lobby has gone on jihad against it (because it gets in the way of people playing along....)

the homosexual transsexuals HSTS (male to female) are usually conspicuous even as children, even as little boys they are overtly feminine, uninterested in traditional male pursuits, attracted to female social roles and dress and once into puberty are attracted to men, the goal of the transition is to become as traditionally feminine as possible to attract men (see SE Asia for a place that has more or less institutionalized this). The last thing most of them want is to stand out as different or some kind of 'third gender'...

the autogynephiles have different motivations, see here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchard%27s_transsexualism_typology#Types

these are the ones who like exposing their male genitalia in women's locker rooms (recent case in LA I believe) or try to get into discussions of hygiene products with teenage girls or want beauty parlor workers to shave their male genitalia (see Jonathan Yaniv one of the worst)

To sum up, HSTS's are part of life's rich pageant (they've been around forever and found in almost every kind of society, including pre-industrial hunter gatherers) who mostly deserve sympathy and understanding and aren't interested in making waves

AG's weirdos (sometimes dangerous) who don't care who they hurt in pursuit of their freaky urges - they need to learn how to keep their fantasies private and not bother everyone else

Remember the goal of all PC terminology is to confuse people and to try to lure them into making bad choices so Blanchard's typology is categorized as hate speech although once you understand it.... lots of confusing things make much more sense.

I'll add... female to male transsexuals are very different and much more rare (female teenage sexual dysphoria is very distinct and transitioning is not a good idea for the overwhelming majority of them)
mafketis   
28 Jul 2021
News / TVP producer fired for allowing rainbow flag on the air... [244]

Cutting a dick off and drilling a hole is not normal.

The ones who do that 'homosexual transsexuals' are not very offensive (they just want to be women and are often kind of.... conservative)

The ones causing the problems are the autogynephiles (who usually don't have any kind of surgery) they used to be called transvestites (and are overwhelmingly heterosexual) but part of the thrill of dressing up is being perceived as women - they've just found a way to force everyone to play along....

Drag queens are a separate thing entirely.
mafketis   
27 Jul 2021
History / Did Poland bring on its own destruction in 1939? [71]

there are 43 million Ukrainians and all are very nice people.

I doubt that.... one student went on an anti-Ukrainian rant recently (she's Ukrainian herself) sounding very much like a Polish person from 10 years ago talking about Polish people in England....

But there's no sign that most want to stay (my estimate is that somewhere between 10-25 % will but most are here short term) (the buses leave and depart full every day).
mafketis   
27 Jul 2021
History / Did Poland bring on its own destruction in 1939? [71]

I'm very against harassing Ukrainian migrants in Poland (except for the small minority who break the law, I'm all for harassing criminals).

Polish nationalists who get upset about Ukrainians in Poland (mostly just here to work and make some money) are seriously disturbed people. It might be different if they were demanding services and education in Ukrainian or Russian or complaining about Polish history books .... but I don't know of any instances of that happening...

The minority of Ukrainians who stay in Poland will melt into the local population and in a generation their children won't be distinguishable from anyone else.
mafketis   
27 Jul 2021
History / Did Poland bring on its own destruction in 1939? [71]

before you judge them these warriors

I'm not interested in comparing atrocities from 75 years ago. There were plenty of atrocities to go around without trying to paint one side as angels...
mafketis   
27 Jul 2021
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Btw, do you know perhaps where those cookies were known?

I think I first saw them about 10 years ago... (give or take a couple). Very weird. Also sometimes kind of has an ammonia aftertaste (no idea why)

I think Amerykany are supposed to be based on these:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_cookie

but the size, taste and texture are all different....

Also.... what's the singular of Amerykany?
mafketis   
27 Jul 2021
USA, Canada / Question about health care in the US for American permanent residents [19]

Damn why is it so high?

The American medical system is an organized criminal racket (I mean that literally).

How is it legally possible for simple blood tests to cost hundreds (or thousands) of dollars?

How is it legally possible to raise the price of insulin so that many who need it to survive cannot afford it?

It's a mafia racket - it needs to be broken up.
mafketis   
27 Jul 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

Maybe their plan was to expose TVN for what it is?

The major media outlet that dares to expose the government to any scrutiny.... they want PRL like control where the media never expresses criticism of them or exposes their corruption or incompetence.

Those who support the law also want a compliant government controlled media...
mafketis   
27 Jul 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

They think that wili curry a favor with US adm that how immature they are...

If that was their plan.... it's not gonna work.

onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/czolgi-za-tvn-zapomnijcie-amerykanie-groza-pis-owi/wy6srhb,79cfc278

money quote: Przekaz jest taki: jeśli myślicie, że wyrzucicie nas z TVN, ale będziecie mogli kupić nasze czołgi, to się mylicie. Żadnych poważnych interesów długo nie zrobicie - słyszymy od naszego informatora z rządu.

"The message is clear, if you think you can throw us out of TVN but you'll be able to buy our tanks then you're wrong. You're not going be doing any serious business (with us) we hear from our source in the government"

No matter what you think of American policy aggressively protecting business interests....(and I'm not an uncritical supporter by any means) it was extraordinarily foolish of PiS to not take that into account and think their plan wouldn't have serious and unpleasant consequences.
mafketis   
27 Jul 2021
Genealogy / Names that Poles share with Hungarians and Slovaks? [10]

can`t recall any famous Polish female bearing that name

Was talking with a friend and asked him about 'Teodora' and he did know someone with the name (an older lady in the village he grew up in, her sister was named Teofila.... so there was something up with whoever named them....).
mafketis   
26 Jul 2021
News / Polish universities for Polish students (only?) [57]

the option to pay to attend a Polish university if you don't make the matura ranking?

There are weekend (occasionally evening) programs people can pay for (at one point they were all that were keeping universities financially afloat though they're not so important now). The level is often not as high as day studies.

I'm in higher education... let's leave it at that (I know from where I speak when it comes to students - have had a few Ukrainian and a Belarusian student in recent years and they mostly don't stand out one way or the other. Though they seem to suffer more in exams but I think exams are stressed too much here).

I've also had a few students whose parents returned to Poland after years Germany. They stand out more (either with German accents in Polish or extreme German body language)...

in those countries where post-25 you don't get any chance

A number of years ago there was a student in his mid 20s (while most were 21 - it was a second or third program for him).

As soon as he left the room a colleague grabbed his index, saw his age and exclaimed 'To stary facet!'....
mafketis   
26 Jul 2021
News / Polish universities for Polish students (only?) [57]

do the Polish students have, at least, a semblance of a legit complaint?

Sort of.... the Polish 'don't admit everyone' probably cuts off a fair amount of late blooming talent (I probably wouldn't have made it to uni in Poland because academically I was a late bloomer it wasn't until I left high school I discovered I liked it....) this would mainly hurt those going to university but with no idea why (bunch of students like that).

On the other hand, the new matura is a bad joke and standards have... slid (new students have maybe 25% the computer skills of students 10 years ago (thanks, smartphones - you make people dumber!) so it's harder to find the real talent as the matura conceals it rather than revealing it.

The new university reform is just... dumb (no other word fits).
mafketis   
26 Jul 2021
News / Polish universities for Polish students (only?) [57]

what Lyzko thinks needs to be held accountable and why the EU needs to get involved.

Especially since the students in question aren't from EU countries....

Anyhoo, this has been made public in Poznań, but I wonder how widespread this is in other universities.... mainstream press has not shown much interest in that question.
mafketis   
25 Jul 2021
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Yes! The first Amerykany (that I saw) were very vaguely similar to oversized American sugar cookies but later when they started adding icing... no. I don't mind them but they're not American.

This is hardly unique to Poland. Often dishes named after countries aren't recognized by people from said countries. In parts of the US starting in the 1940s or 50 "Cuban sandwiches" were popular (kind of sub/poor boy type thing). An aunt of mine was visiting pre-Castro and asked for one and they had no idea what she was talking about.... And of course 'spaghetti bolognese' drives Italians crazy....