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Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

they are an integral part of the history of Poland.

Poland existed before their arrival and Poland existed after their departure.

They were never necessary. It could have been any group. It just happened to be them.

They lived apart by choice and then most either left or died in obscurity.

Any personal accomplishments made here or there by any one of them don't apply to all of them as a group.

And any individual accomplish could only have been realized thanks to the generosity, tolerance, kindness and opportunities afforded to them by the Polish state and their Polish neighbors.

I don't care whether you are discussing accolades, pity or accountability.

Of course you care. That's why you keep making a distinction regarding their identity. It is very important to you.

By the way, how long have you been a Zionist and what inspired you to become and remain one?
Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

At night, without any authorization.

That's part of the history and removing the cross won't change that.

Why?

Why do you have a problem with Jews fully integrating into a society? Why should they be considered separate or want to be considered separate?

How about all those official masses, bishops blessing everything etc?

Official masses were held inside the Sejm? When? Post some photos and links.
Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

Perhaps you need to do a bit more reading.

Perhaps you just need to explain yourself rather than trying to evade answering the question.

I'm simply calling them what they are.

Of course, when it's time for accolades or pity then suddenly their different identity needs to be highlighted.

But what about when the time comes for accountability? Do you still insist such group distinctions should be made?

You better say yes and then provide examples to back up your convictions.
Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

Jews have been in Poland for over a thousand years

Then in all that time they should have fully integrated rather than prefer to live apart in a state of coexistence.

Polish Jews are a part of Poland's history.

If that's the case then why are you making a distinction regarding their identity?
Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

No deal. That cross is what Poles want.

Agreed and the other poster disingenuously isn't comparing like with like anyway. No surprise there.

The giant menorrah erected in the Sejm and lit by religious clergy celebrates a time, place, event and people foreign to Poland and Polish history.

The Krzyż sejmowy however wasn't installed by religious clergy and has never been used for religious ceremonies.

It was placed by MPs and commemorates the memory of Jerzy Popiełuszko who was murdered during the 1980s by communists (just like the other poster who complains about the cross being displayed (go figure)). Even Agnieszka Holland made a film about his murder called "To Kill a Priest".

The cross is a direct and intimate part of the history of both the Sejm and Poland and should be included and preserved in the collection of the Sejm Library's Museum.
Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

@Novichok

True. Remember all the nationwide lawsuits in America over the years when someone wanted to display a simple nativity scene even if it was on their own property?

Goes without saying who the complaints always were.

And now we are to believe that Hannukkah celebrations on government property or in government buildings are fine. Where are all the atheists now and why are they not suing over this?
Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

So what's the answer?

Hannukah is a Jewish holiday observance marking the dedication of their religious temple in Jerusalem back in the 2nd century BC.

Jerusalem is thousands of miles away from Warsaw.

So again why is a religious event from a different century and far away place in a foreign country being celebrated inside a Polish government building which is used to debate and enact legislation?
Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

So you admit there was a Jewish religious ceremony held in the Polish parliament.

Where in the Polish constitution does this say this is permitted?

Which other groups held religious ceremonies in the Polish parliament?
Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
Work / Can any international computer science student get software development job in Wrocław or Warsaw? [45]

When did I say it was great?

What a conveniently short memory you have.

That or your disjointed posts and denials about you wrote in them suggest you are suffering from delirium.

Go read posts 1 - 4.

- "International student" complains he isn't being handed an IT job in Poland.

- Guest poster tries to share some common sense.

- You attack the guest poster calling him an "idiot' and "drunk" and then boast that "loads of Indians are working software jobs in Poland."

And AI is just software.

Read again what others have tried to explain to you.

Novichock provided you a very simple explanation:

So is a five-buck calculator. AI is software so smart that humans can't tell if it's a PC or another human being. Add to this the ability to learn and make choices,

And therein lies your problem. You are so woke that you resolutely refuse to see differences and think denying reality somehow makes you look smart and virtuous. But it doesn't. Like I already said, you are a foolish luddite and unqualified to speak on the topic of AI.
Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
Work / Can any international computer science student get software development job in Wrocław or Warsaw? [45]

Sorry for barging in, Poloniusz...

Not at all. Thanks for the assistance. She's off her rocker again today and would never admit I'm right anyway.

How is that relevant?

It isn't relevant at all and she is too obtuse and obstinate to realize it.

Literally, she reads an old man's work on programming, concludes that AI is just software, and therefore it's great that "there are loads of Indians working in software jobs for companies in Poland."

Never mind that the tech industry wants AI in order to produce value and increase profits by reducing and eliminating high costs and inefficiencies caused by labor both in the tech industry itself and other sectors of the economy.

Nope, none of this matters.

Let's face it, the Irish housewife is bitter and longing for more unneeded third worlders to come to Poland so she can feel like she is back home in Ireland.
Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
Work / Can any international computer science student get software development job in Wrocław or Warsaw? [45]

I totally disagree with gender quotas.

You already stepped in your own muck. Backpedaling now won't help you save face. You're only making a bigger mess of yourself.

There is no 'AI'.

Look, we get it.

You aren't qualified to speak on this topic like amiga500 said and you are just another female naysayer like Novichok pointed out.

It's just software.

That's like saying the Wright brothers' planes were just wooden frames covered in canvas and nothing more could become of their work.

And yet just 66 years later (basically one lifetime) men landed on the Moon and today airplanes crowd the skies in a multi-billion dollar industry carrying millions of people and millions of tons of freight all over the globe every single day.

Alan Turning is credited with being the first man to come up with the idea of software back in 1935. Now 88 years later (again one lifetime for many now) AI is being used to autonomously write software.

Oh, and drones don't need pilots either because their software is so sophisticated and use of sensors and global communications means they can fly autonomously anywhere and respond to conditions locally on their own. And these are still the early days of innovation for that sector.

For you, thinking big means importing millions of economic migrants from the third world so Western women can have a wider variety of restaurants and more options for an exotic shag without having to travel very far. For you, life is about having convenience and choice brought to you thanks to the hard work of innovation and exploration done by men.

That's why you see AI as just software. You are dismissive because you haven't derived any immediate and personal benefit from it yet.
Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
Work / Can any international computer science student get software development job in Wrocław or Warsaw? [45]

You know nothing about the industry.

Aren't you just a housewife?

There isn't even any such thing as AI.

Foolish words of a luddite.

It's just a marketing term for bog standard software.

Yes, you would know.

Anyway, like all women, you will wait on the sidelines watching men do all innovating.

Then once all the work is finished and there's lots of money being made you will be crying that there aren't enough women being represented.

Many such cases all over the world and throughout human history.
Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
Work / Can any international computer science student get software development job in Wrocław or Warsaw? [45]

You should not come in Poland. It will be impossible to find a work for you.

Yes, good and timely advice.

The OP's sob story said a lot by what was never mentioned.

This "international student" blames Poland and companies in Poland for not doing enough to hire foreign students like him upon graduating but says nothing that the government and businesses in his own homeland are far worse by offering no help or hope at all.

Such students openly admit they only come to Poland because it is cheaper to obtain degrees and certifications. But it is the schools who are in business too and they are selling a dream that certain industries have high demand for labor and therefore going to their school will pave the way to a job.

Unless the schools have guaranteed placement programs with companies then their graduates are nothing more than yet more job seekers on their own along with thousands of others.

The OP never said how his knowledge, skills and abiliteis made him standout candidate and would benefit a company. He only laid out his expectation that he should be given a job in Poland.

And my, hasn't the industry changed so much in such a short amount of time since the OP first made his post:

ChatGPT may be coming for our jobs. Here are the 10 roles that AI is most likely to replace.

Number 1. Tech jobs (Coders, computer programmers, software engineers, data analysts)


businessinsider.com/chatgpt-jobs-at-risk-replacement-artificial-intelligence-ai-labor-trends-2023-02

Number 5 on the list of jobs being replaced by AI were teachers (another PF favorite). :)
Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [413]

Tusk has been ruling for only 10 days or so.

Soon you will be paying more for less.

Correction, soon you won't have enough money to buy anything! LOL!

"Poland's president said Saturday that he intends to veto a spending bill which includes money for public media and raises for teachers, dealing a blow to the new pro-European Union government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk."

cbs42.com/news/international/ap-polish-president-says-hell-veto-a-spending-bill-in-a-blow-to-the-new-government-of-donald-tusk/

I know what you are thinking: "What have I done? Why did I vote for Tusk when life was so much better under PiS?"

It's called voters' regret and there's nothing you can do about it now. It's your own fault anyway.
Poloniusz   
30 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [358]

Hey, Lyzko, here is your chance to impress this forum by answering his question.

I know, right? Hours have passed and I can't wait for him to comeback on here and "educate" us all.

the Chanukkah candles were eventually lit, and properly, by the Chief Rabbi of Poland!

Whoa! You must think everyone is impressed by this! Clearly you are!

But did you know that "Jewish law provides no scriptural or Talmudic support for the post of a "chief rabbi." and "The position arose in Europe in the Middle Ages from governing authorities largely for secular administrative reasons such as collecting taxes and registering vital statistics."?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Rabbi

No, you obviously didn't know this.

Here is some more Hanukkah trivia:

"The earliest use of candles is often attributed to the Ancient Egyptians. While the Egyptians were using wicked candles in 3,000 B.C., the ancient Romans are generally credited with developing the wicked candle before that time by dipping rolled papyrus repeatedly in melted tallow or beeswax. Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights which centers on the lighting of candles, dates back to 165 B.C."

candles.org/history/

So, here's another question, how are candles "properly" lit?

Does it require someone with an unofficial bureaucratic quasi-religious title with origins in Medieval Europe to light a culturally appropriated waxed wick invented thousands of years before during the reigns of Egyptian pharaohs and Roman emperors?
Poloniusz   
29 Dec 2023
Life / Polish women who made amazing careers against patriarchal society [59]

foolish

That's you because you don't understand that an estrogen fueled world will only result in humanities extinction.

Women don't believe in cooperation and they don't want to serve each other.

Women compete with each other to find the top 10% of men who can protect and provide for them.

And when they can't find the top 10% of men they turn to inceldom and focus on making an "amazing career" for themselves or try to avoid work and claim state benefits for fake disorders like fibromyalgia or long-COVID. And when these options don't work out for them then most women end their lives in the company of many cats and surrounded by many empty cartons of boxed wine.
Poloniusz   
29 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [358]

For the same reason Poland openly rejects the separation between Church and state!

You're wrong.

Poland's constitution makes clear that "The relationship between the State and churches and other religious organizations shall be based on the principle of respect for their autonomy and the mutual independence of each in its own sphere."

fra.europa.eu/en/law-reference/constitution-republic-poland-8

So, what can you tell us about Polish symbols being displayed on or in synagogues and yeshivas?

The US makes a big deal about the separation between the two, while repeatedly appointing Supreme Court justices such as Comey Barrett who imposes her antiquated views and abortion.

Nope. The US makes a big deal about the separation between the two while repeatedly appointing Supreme Court justices such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Stephen Breyer; Abe Fortas; Louis Brandeis; Benjamin Cardozo; Felix Frankfurter; Arthur Goldberg; and Elena Kagan all of whom have imposed their polarizing views on everyone.

Do you believe there should always be a "Jewish Seat" reserved on the Supreme Court even though there is nothing written in the US Constitution about this?

"An NPR report in 2009, detailed the mythical "Jewish seat"; four of the five previous Jewish justices had immediately succeeded each other, as if bestowing the spot to the next Jew."

legacy.lambdalegal.org/blog/20200930_ruth-bader-ginsburg-jewish-woman
Poloniusz   
29 Dec 2023
Life / Polish women who made amazing careers against patriarchal society [59]

Nevertheless, long-term relationships are possible.

Possible but ever so unlikely.

There is no social pressure anymore, at least not in the West, to start a relationship and stay in one.

And with women focusing on having their own "amazing careers" or filing for divorce at the drop of a hat and taking everything if they do bother to get married there is no longer an incentive for men to waste time and resources entering into a relationship.

Men can't be the only ones being committed to a relationship while women are still exploring options and running away if something better comes along.
Poloniusz   
29 Dec 2023
Life / Polish women who made amazing careers against patriarchal society [59]

Do you suffer from complexes because of being short? And having everything else too short?

Not at all.

It's women who have the innate insecurities and thus their desire for a man who is unrealistically taller than themselves. Not only for attention seeking purposes but to ensure their own physical protection. This means a man is expendable too in case he loses in an altercation with another man or gets arrested. She'll just move on with her life and try to find someone else or focus on having an "amazing career" instead.

Plus their quest to find a man who is rich, rich, rich is to ensure all their needs, wants and whims can be satisfied even following a divorce which by the way are nearly always initiated by women.

You only lucked out because communism limited women's choices at the time and your communist party connections made up for your own physical and financial shortcomings. :)

What, you don't believe in true love?

Of course I do! We men not only believe in true love but we can feel it too and want it not only for ourselves but also for the ones we love. Civilizations are an expression of men's true love. They exist because it is men who want to show their love and provide a better life for their loved ones. Women on the other hand put in the least effort but derive the most benefit.

This is why romance novels and romantic comedy movies are so popular with women but not men. For women true love is fictional because in their own life love is transactional. And they charge men a premium even when all they have to offer in themselves is heavily used and damaged goods.
Poloniusz   
29 Dec 2023
Life / Polish women who made amazing careers against patriarchal society [59]

homo sovieticuses

That's you! In every sense!

Patriarchat is still strong here.

Sure it is. Especially when it comes to child custody, pensions, and doing dangerous and dirty work. :)

You couldn't have even started the topic of this thread if women didn't enjoy privileges over men in Poland.

BS. Women ARE interested in marriage. With a male who is responsible and able to share the duties.

BS. Women ARE NOT interested in marriage unless it is with a male who is very tall and very rich so he can pay for hired help with the duties so the woman doesn't have to!
Poloniusz   
29 Dec 2023
Life / Polish women who made amazing careers against patriarchal society [59]

BS. It is males` fault.

BS. That's feminist dogma you are spewing.

Western societies are feminist and it has been that way for generations stretching back to the last century.

West societies are matriarchal not patriarchal.They are social system in which opportunities and positions of privilege are primarily given to women and at the expense of men.

Instead of getting married and having kids, they prefer fast and short relationships.

Nope.

Western women put themselves first due to their solipsistic nature and their unfettered hypergamy is why it is women who are the ones not interested in marriage.

Western women have total control over reproduction decisions too and that is why Western birthrates are below replacement levels.

But who cares if society itself dies? Let's instead celebrate women having made "amazing careers" for themselves!
Poloniusz   
29 Dec 2023
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

Tusk is a great patriot

Only unrepentant communists use such language.

No, it wasn`t.

Yes, it was!

Again, pre-Tusk!

"On July 5, 2023, the Lithuanian Constitutional Court ruled that legislation permitting the use of original-name spellings for certain Lithuanian citizens in documents using Latin-based characters, which do not exist in the Lithuanian language, is in accordance with the Constitution of Lithuania...Previously, the use of non-Lithuanian characters was allowed only by court order in a procedure similar to that for legally changing a name. Most of the time, members of the Polish minority in Lithuania were required to change their names or adjust their spelling to ensure conformity with the Lithuanian alphabet."

loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2023-08-21/lithuania-constitutional-court-rules-use-of-non-lithuanian-characters-permissible-in-documents/#:~:text=On%20July%205%2C%202023%2C%20the,with%20the%20Constitution%20of%20Lithuania.