News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [1150]


I'm a few years less but may finish early for personal/fam8ly reasons and also due to having had enough. There'll be 1 job more at most after this one ends and then maybe running a nice B&B by the seaside.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [1150]


Same.

I get downtime travelling and also don't watch TV which does help. There's so much on the list to read though.


Basically hoping to lower morale and cause social/political instability. Part of r*SSia's playbook as we can see right now with their antics in France.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [1150]


Same.

I get downtime travelling and also don't watch TV which does help. There's so much on the list to read though.


Basically hoping to lower morale and cause social instability. Part of r*SSia's playbook as we can see right now with their antics in France.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [1150]


The only three female American authors that I've seriously read are Carson McCullers, Annie Proulx and Donna Tart. All good, Proulx especially. Perhaps it's time to read more.


r*SSia are at a stalemate now, Without the North Koreans they'd be in an even worse situation. Hence the heavy strikes on civilian targets which in military terms achieve nothing,

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [1150]


Transgender is not always visible, however there's a thread for those who spend time thinking about it.

Edith Wharton is one on my list. Fairly near the top.

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@Alien.

In fact it would. Gin and vodka in the EU can be 37.5 %

If you see it at that strength in the UK, it is about excise duty thresholds.


We were in that trading organisation for years and there was always 37.5% stuff on the shelves. In fact, availability of it 8ncreased during the EU period.

Makes no difference really since you always dilute it rather than drink it neat (and all gin/vodka is diluted down with water anyway, usually to 40%)

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News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [1150]


They were communists.


He was a major economist whose books are still sold and studied.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [1150]


No.


That was the crap that communists pushed. Tankies still believe it. That and saying capitalism was monolithic and 'end stage' rather than metastasising due to its inherent greed.


It wasn't Socialism at all.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [1150]


Pretty well. That's why the Laveyans like her so much. It sadddens me that so many bookshops in PL have fancy leather bound presentation copies of her stuff.


Mary Barton is amazing. You might need to look up words like "clemming" and "unked". I did.

If some of the descriptions of poverty look familiar, it's because Engels ripped them off directly from that book. Or maybe visited the places with her since he was her neighbour.

South Riding is amazing. Set near Hull. Holtby was the daughter of a very rich family and was vying of cancer, only young, when she wrote it.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [1150]


Same thing in many ways.

Remember, the disgusting charlatan Ayn Rand and her opportunistic ideological heroes all hated Christianity.


That's communism and fascism

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]


Usually Donbas.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [1150]



We'll make a good Socialist out of you yet.


The Times today was saying 3-5 years. They are certainly planning already.


That's very possible, however given that it's one small business, and they're doing it in partnership with a specific company, I'd not read too much into it.

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Given that it only involves around 50 jobs, I doubt any politician will care.

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

That's how I understand it.

The one about having the lamp post up the arse (probably coming from that one) is about getting all fired up by something but the light doesn't reach the brain.

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Life / Do you know any music acts that never played in Poland? [3]

They didn't do many foreign concerts after they were famous.

David Bowie once went for a walk in Żoliborz while changing international trains at Dworzec Gdański. I wonder what he thought of it.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]


I'd like to see one. They sound like gentle and peaceful animals als.

Apparently when the project (about 1910 I think) to introduce hippopotamuses (not so gentle) to rivers there, one of the proposed benefits was that they taste like so ething between beef and pork. What manatees taste like is any ody's guess.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [1150]

There is already growing cooperation in arms production between Poland and Ukraine, as well as in cybersecurity and information systems.

In fact Polish arms exports, very low generally before, have surged massively due to purchases by Ukraine.

They aren't going to put all their eggs in one basket though.

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News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


16 candidates in tha5 region, 7 were afd. One suicide, one an octogenarian with end stage cancer and the others not suspicious.

Given the population size of NRW and the number of local council seats, the stats are probably around the same as every year.

euronews.com/2025/09/05/social-media-rife-with-conspiracy-theories-after-16-candidates-die-ahead-of-german-local-e

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


Of course. It's a delicate path to tread, however there are always some who feel their favourites should get better treatment.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]


Yes. I just had a look online and it said the Florida kind are freshwater, though some elsewhere are saltwater.

Nice animals though apparently prone to having really horrible injuries from boats etc.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


Which of course is why laws are precise (or arguable in court of they are less precise) and why there are sentencing guidelines for those found guilty. The law must always be politically neutral.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


Which Norway, with its vast Sovereign Wealth Fund, certainly doesn't.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]


I read (actually only a couple, of weeks ago) that several years ago an algae bloom killed off the seagrass they eat so the state of Florida bought thousands of lettuces and dropped them into the sea from planes!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


Socialism isn't against the presence of capitalism, as long as there are clear parameters to the activities of businesspeople and for-profit companies in order to prevent exploitation.

And of course you have your Sovereign Wealth Fund, about as Socialist as it gets.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


I doubt Norway, Sweden and Finland would agree with your bile there.