News / Northern Lights in Poland [49]

According to this article there's going to be an aurora visible in the whole of Poland today/tonight:

pogoda.o2.pl/pozostale/zorza-polarna-nad-polska-1-stycznia-2025-widoczna-ma-byc-w-calym-kraju-7109595809176288a

I did get an alert about a K8 level aurora, but that was in the middle of the day so I'm not sure how much of it will last till the evening/night. We had a beautiful sunset here though - I took some photos, but unfortunately my phone failed to register its colours accurately and how beautiful it was :/

Language / New Years wishes in Polish? [40]

@Przelotnyptak1, I didn't claim in any of my comments that I've never heard of "do siego" or that this word doesn't exist, you obtuse liar. I just stated that noone uses it in real life in Poland when wishing people Happy New Year (in spoken language). Of course, in theory there is some possibility that there is someone somewhere in Poland who does that, but considering that I've lived my whole life in Poland and I've never heard anyone using it then I think I can safely say that it isn't widely used anymore (in spoken language). 🙄


No, but you should burry yourself under some warm blanky with a hot chocolate and watch some feel-good movie with your wife instead of attacking people on New Year's Day, you petty little gnome. 🤨

Language / New Years wishes in Polish? [40]

Belated Happy New Year! :) 🎇

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [368]

Merry Christmas! :)🎄


My family has been giving the coloured ones to house pets and livestock for years.

Gingerbread made and decorated by my niece (baked by her mom, of course) :))): 🤗❤️

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Love / Are Polish men deceptive behind their partners back? [34]


Aaahh, yeah... I meant to ask you about this at some point lol Now it makes more sense.

So, you see, I'd say that someone with so little experience shouldn't be making such authoritative statements about who can be friends with whom.


Then it makes it just more depressing. Because the moral of this story is that no matter how beautiful the wife is the husband will cheat on her anyway when faced with "temptations" lol And the mistress doesn't even have to be his type, as long as she's willing.

Do you realise how pathetic you make men look like? What's the point of getting married if men are so easy and weak?


I'm facepalming very hard right now... lol *sigh*

Imagine your wife cheated on you and her explanation would be "I wasn't strong enough to be assertive" :D What's so hard about saying: "I'm married, I love my wife, you're not my type and I'm not going to have sex with you."?


Of course she did. And it looks like she cared about your marriage more than you did, because she was the one who stepped in and took the preemptive measures by sacrificing her friendships and social life. You're lucky that this was her decision - that she decided to dump her friends back then and not you... I would dump you.

Btw, how old you two were when you got married?

Off-Topic / Let's talk about shoes [344]

And that they "like" it is probably an understatement lol:



"@thegravellesstraveled2320
I was a US soldier stationed in Garmisch Germany and I would hike up the mountains on my off days. One day I took a friend who was new to the base. We got about half way up and he crapped out. As he was sitting on the side of the trail trying to recover an elderly German women passed us and asked him his age. He said 22. She laughed and said she was 78 and kept on laughing until she was out of sight 🤣

@henkharlekin
As a german I can confirm that 19 km are the warm-up."

:)

🚶🏞️👍

Off-Topic / Let's talk about shoes [344]

@Alien, because Birkenstock shoes are comfortable and Germans like walking and hiking? 🤔

Love / Are Polish men deceptive behind their partners back? [34]


Like where? lol Majority of people in Poland don't live in some villas where you could find a secluded room and cheat there on your spouse while a birthday party or a Christmas Eve supper is taking place lol And couples usually stick together at such events.

Obviously, there are always going to be cheaters out there and modern technology makes organising trysts (?) easier these days, but Ron2's notion that noone can have friends and normal social life because they're going to cheat on their significant other is ridiculous. He's simply projecting his weakness on others.

Love / Are Polish men deceptive behind their partners back? [34]

@Ron2, don't blame the circumstances - everybody else was living in the same circumstances and people somehow weren't cheating on each other en masse. It sounds like it maybe wasn't just a physical attraction and you had a crush on your wife's friend?

Btw, how long have you two been married at that time when your wife decided to cut off her friends? Was it right after the wedding? And when did you notice you have a thing for her friend?


Is that what she told you or are you assuming she might?

Love / Are Polish men deceptive behind their partners back? [34]


Honestly? Having a good enough reason for not eating that cake and exercising strong will. You can't live your life with avoiding even the mere sight of cakes all the time lol There was a time when I had to resign from sweets despite living with someone who didn't have to be on such a diet. It was hard at the beginning and I missed unhealthy food a lot. Even an ice cream add on TV would make me feel depressed lol I would only eat dark chocolate and some fruit as treats. But after a while I got used to such diet and started enjoying healthy desserts. I forgot what is the taste of normal chocolate and treated dark chocolate as a treat even though I hated it at the beginning as "too bitter". The same was with drinking water instead of sweetened tea. At first I hated drinking water lol Now it's normal for me and I drink tea only during social meetings.


Listen, I do agree that eliminating temptation/threat of cheating is a good idea if you know you have a weak will. That's a responsible thing to do and I applaud you for that. But don't assume that everyone else on this planet has as weak will as you do.

Love / Are Polish men deceptive behind their partners back? [34]


You can say the same thing about couples with no friends though *shrugs* Your spouse can cheat on you with a coworker, a prostitute, your neighbour, etc.

Love / Are Polish men deceptive behind their partners back? [34]

@Ron2 again, sorry, but this doesn't depend on age. It depends on your values and character.


This is nonsense. You'd have to be some kind of nymphomaniac lol Maybe that's how it is or was for you, but not for me, for example.


For all kinds of reasons, cheating being just one of them.


Well, you wrote yourself that you were more than likely to cheat on your wife with that woman. Being attracted to someone else than your spouse is one thing, but actually cheating on them is another... Cheating is a choice. An immoral choice.

Love / Are Polish men deceptive behind their partners back? [34]

@Ron2, sorry, but that's messed up... If you can't have friends or you both end up cheating on each other then there's something seriously wrong with your marriage (or you have a very weak character)... 🤨


Well, that's just sad and shows your lack of morals and restraint and weak character... Does your wife know about this?


That's your problem though... Plenty of married couples have friends and don't cheat on each other o_O

Love / Are Polish men deceptive behind their partners back? [34]

@Lenka, exactly. Such thinking is bringing down a woman to a sexual object and nothing more. It shows how primitive are the men who think in this way.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


Yes, you lost long time ago, I know :)

Some of the comments written by Poles to that video about RuSSians fleeing to Poland:

"@katarzynazieba2256
Oh no, in a while Putin will want to liberate them.

@Zciwomada
Tell Russians that all places are already taken by Ukrainians whom they chased out from Ukraine, and the poverty is so great in Poland that even the snow isn't snowing and the salt isn't salty."

lol

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]

@Novichok, nope. Watch the video - the reasons are given there :)

Btw, this is about you:

"When the debate is lost, insults/slander become the tool of the loser."

:)

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]

From another thread:


No, but more RuSSians want to come to Poland nowadays apparently. It's difficult for them to do so though 🥲 lol:

"Why Russians are fleeing to Poland?":



So, now "pro-VPN propaganda" is banned in RuSSia lol :D: 🤦

tass.com/economy/1742101

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [149]

I'm afraid I don't have the time right now to comment or introduce new artists, so I'll just drop a quick info for New Yorkers here - one of the artists I presented on this thread is having a solo exhibition in New York at Arcadia Contemporary art gallery - the artist is Nick Alm from page 2 of this thread (my posts #39, #40 and #41).

The exhibition is called "Portals and Places" and it will last from October 24 to November 12.

Gallery address:

421 West Broadway
New York, NY 10012

Gallery hours:

Tuesday - Friday: 10 am - 6 pm
Saturday - Sunday: 11 am - 6 pm
Monday: Closed

I'm so happy that galleries that show such art still exist! 🥺❤️

Bobko, I envy you right now :)))

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Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


Are you suffering from some kind of amnesia or have you not read the posts I've been writing for the last two years on this forum?

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

@Milo, no, I'm not saying that I'm an Easterner. Poland is a Central European country.


They can't disagree with something I never claimed lol We (Poles living in Poland) were thaught at school that Poland is a Central European country (in case you didn't know that).

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [149]

For example, I quite like some of the paintings by Jason Anderson. I like the bright colours (that's subjective) and there's some technique and thought put into them, composition, he clearly knows how to work with colours and texture (that's an objective assessment). Additionally, in my personal opinion they look good and make me feel good (subjective):

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Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


How do you know that?


It's able to do that only because Westerners set the code free into the wild without any control. And I haven't heard about people using Chinese ones, the most popular AI software used is Western. It's the Western companies that set this thieving precedent, so don't blame it on China.


"Excuse"? So you're OK with Western companies stealing from artists and putting them out of business?

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [149]


Well, the thing is, there can be crappy art within every art style and art movement. There's kitsch good enough for me to like it and there's kitch that's simply crap. If we can discern crappy artwork among realistic paintings, for example, then why not also within abstract art? The fact that something is a novelty, that it hasn't been done before, doesn't automatically make it good. And I think people have the right to think and say that something is crappy. I mean, obviously, I wouldn't say that to the artist's face, because I have no need to make them feel bad, but we should be allowed to have an opinion. If AntV is allowed to hate hyperrealistic art and see no point in it, then I think I'm allowed to say which paintings I consider to be good and which are nothing special or just bad from artistic point of view (not historical, not societal, but artistic).


Nope. I would look at it for 10 seconds and just move on unimpressed to another painting.
This is what I would bother to go to see in person (I wouldn't hang it on my wall, but at least it's clever and pretty cool):




Um... How to put it... :):

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I'm not sure what you mean... The better the quality of images AI produces the more likely it is that it was trained on copyrighted material. One of the creators/owners of those AI art generators admitted that AI wouldn't be able to create such good-looking/high quality images without the copyrighted material.


Then you have some human decency... That's good...

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


Have you been living in a cave?:

hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/artists-score-major-win-copyright-case-against-ai-art-generators-1235973601/


That depends on how it was "trained" (on what material).

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

@jon357, what's that "Skype AI"? I've never heard of it... I'm not touching any unethical AI software.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


AI beautifies/idealises people's looks by default, (unless you'll specifically tell it not to, I guess):

medium.com/@bdajess/are-ai-generated-images-perpetuating-toxic-beauty-standards-faf4f719ec57


Could be, but I also think it was programmed to create aesthetically pleasing images and that's probably the by-product of this. 🤔


Well, at least Kania got the hair colour right :) And I do live in a block of flats ;)

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


lol

I have longer hair, different face, I don't have such veiny arms and I dress better than this ;D And that's not a pocketknife! lol Also, the body proportions are wrong/unnatural, but that's on AI.


Not really...


:(((
You're paying to greedy thieves and liars with no morals or human decency.

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [149]


My parents don't have clothes moths and that carpet seems to be indestructible - I'm afraid it will outlive all of us ;O lol


Yup, I didn't even know such a thing existed...

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [149]

So it looks like we "owe" all that crappy art in art
galleries to billionares?:

"When it comes to the types of art that billionaire collectors invest in, blue chip and Contemporary Art tend to be the most popular choices. Blue chip art refers to works by well-established artists with a proven track record of high demand and strong market performance, regardless of general economic performance. These pieces are often considered safer investments due to their consistent market value and appreciation potential.

Contemporary pieces allow collectors to participate in the ongoing cultural conversation, shaping the narrative of the art world in real time. contemporary art is highly collectible and rare, with many works being one-of-a-kind or limited editions. This exclusivity creates a sense of luxury and prestige, appealing to the wealthy's desire for uniqueness and status. It's high-risk, high-reward status makes it an attractive choice for investors looking to diversify their portfolio."


Thanks! :)


Why is that? Are you doing it by yourself?