News / 2011 Stats: 80% of Poles happy [60]


Destiny? Or perhaps a wish to do more than stay at home.

Then again, most married women who work full time have to do the cooking and cleaning as well.

News / 2011 Stats: 80% of Poles happy [60]


You can if you want...


People (with Y chromosomes anyway) tend to forget this. There are apparently sound evolutionary reasons for that and for perceived negative behaviours of both sexes.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]


That may be true (and is a sign as good as any of how capitalism should never be allowed to dictate a country's manufacturing policies), however they were of course invented and first made by Sir Alexander Fleming in hospital bedpans.
Although there's not much profit in making them (hence US pharmaceutical companies buying from China), there are plenty of countries that can and do make them and there's only a relatively small number of antibiotics that can't be substituted for others.

They can but in the rarer ones, and set up not-for-profits or workers' cooperatives domestically to make the rest.

True also that there's a lead time in setting up production however Donald Trup didn't really think things through and is of course racing to do stuff before the midterms, after which he'll be a lame duck.

USA, Canada / What kind of American food do Poles like most? [119]


Nasty stuff.

I notice that in Germany people drink another local brand. Much better to do that than enrich American shareholders.

News / 2011 Stats: 80% of Poles happy [60]


It's not really a binary choice though, is it.


Most humans do, including in Poland. The only difference is that in developed societies there are workers' rights, state pensions, universal healthcare, all giving a sense of and an illusion of, freedom.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]


Rice isn't essential at all. There are even negative effects when a poorer society starts importing it, and of course America has a lot of poor.


There's no need to buy such items from China.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


It's hard to know how pointing out something politically neutral triggers you.


It's not an 'alternative'. It's a reality. The world is shrinking now, and ever increasing migration is the future for the next few decades.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [177]


Not really. Especially since the alternative is Wielki Bu who they'll not vote for.


Centre right politicians always dance around things that don't play well in Peoria. His 'positions' around matters LGT+ are neither here nor there since he can't do any damage.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


It really wouldn't.


Why should they do that? After all, Europeans didn't...

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


It's hard to believe that Sussex, Kent and Hampshire make better Champagne and Chablis than the Champagne and Chablis regions of France. So much so that French winemakers won't have open category blind tastings any more. The future for them is probably licensing the regional names as brands to be made in NZ or U.K. That or the names will just die off.


I could tell some stories about this however 50% reading them would disbelieve them and some of the others would pretend to like the idea of people dying or getting ill.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [177]


We shouldn't underestimate the chance of that. It's 50% of voters and they already dislike the pimp Nawrocki.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


I'd forgotten about that one. There's a couple of growing flash points nearer to where I am now in central/west Africa.


The Sahara is growing fast to the south west. It's already caused the Darfur crisis and now Nigeria is desertifying. No politician wants to deal with it; population movements of millions aren't a vote winner.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


More damage by supporting extreme rightwing candidates, firing thousands of public sector staff for no reason at all, including veterans, bankrolling far-rightwing politicians and trying to interfere with the sentences of jailed racist grifters in countries he has no connection to.

That and the public Hitler salutes, which as bad signs go, is very much the worst.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


He didn't invent anything. He just tried to make money (which he's now losing) from it.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


Migration from the global south to Europe, Canada and Siberia has barely begun.

We're no more than a decade (and probably less) from the first water war, and yes, the damage done by industry over the past 150 years or so can only be at best mitigated

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Even a Wielki Póo

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


So you're suggesting that 99.9% of scientists are wrong and you know something the scientists don't?

USA, Canada / What kind of American food do Poles like most? [119]


Isn't that usually from Colombia?

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

I wonder what the latest figures for his car sales are.

He could always give them away as prizes to people who polish up their jackboots nicely.

News / AI rulez in Poland! The New Polish Open Language Model and AI Technologies. [12]


It has its uses. Doing drudge work that you'd not have time to. It does need going through carefully though due to some of the drivel it puts out. New though and in 10 years it'll be unrecognisable.


That's certainly a use. Sadly the way of all tech. It won't make things much cheaper though; instead it will make bad people richer.

If domestic AI, available for £18 a month, can do all that, you can bet the farm that the AI used by the Chinese government can do a lot more.

History / Is there a list of those in the Polish Army during WWII? [195]


This explains all.
polishexilesofww2.org/family-research

Given that he was born less than 116 years ago, you'll need a death certificate unless he died in service.

You can download the form and send it to the address given. You'll need:
The name of your relative (including all variants)
Their date of birth
Military unit (if known)
Proof of kinship (i.e. birth certificates leading back to the one that named your relative).
Death certificate of your relative

Polonia / Polish bus crash in Croatia. Is there a fate? [226]


That's pretty good. They don't normally go along with extraditions.

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Off-Topic / Random Sports News [853]

Wh9 knows. Driving cars into crowds seems to be a new thing. It might just have been someone crazy or might be worse than that.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


There's no answer.


So you don't think man made climate change is a problem?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

What a rant. I just read the first bit. Not connected to the political issues in Europe. Having re-read the John Kennedy Toole book already this year, there's little point except sadistic fun in reading stuff of the type the main character might say. Anyway, he's what Claude Robichaux would call a "police character".

I wonder why he confuses the very low production standards of food in his country with local council food hygiene ratings in an entirely unrelated place. And he still doesn't even know what town he's talking about from the tabloid article. The same sloppiness that led to his juvenile crimes being traced back to him.

And even more, why he thinks downmarket takeaways in an unrelated country are anything to do with the politics in Germany.

Keeping to the topic, it looks like Germany are going to block EU infrastructure funding for Slovakia. A positive step.

Off-Topic / Random Sports News [853]

Very sad about that guy who drove the car into the crowd at the victory parade in Liverpool tonight.

It looks like it was deliberate.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

This from an out of control and attention-seeking troll.

Anyway, we're talking about the return of fascism to German politics, something no decent person wants.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


You really do obsess on this obscure issue.

It adds nothing to the discussion about the forthcoming second round.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


There is something rather sad about rightwingers that makes them choose especially tawdry terminology.


If you want satisfying, you could always ask Nawrocki to send one or more of his girls up.

At least you'll get a happy ending, unlike him on election day...