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mafketis   
13 Apr 2024
Life / danger of animals during hiking in poland [21]

he rest of your story about my daughter

I don't know anything about her and I care even less.

And personally, I'd rather meet a żmija than you - at least they only strike to feed or in self-defense.... you spray venom everywhere for no reason.
mafketis   
13 Apr 2024
Life / danger of animals during hiking in poland [21]

Cruising? Already?

(had you not spammed the thread with a completely off topic post then I wouldn't have gone there but you did.... so.....)
mafketis   
13 Apr 2024
Life / danger of animals during hiking in poland [21]

viper (a poisonous snake)

not poisonous (trujący) but venomous (jadowity)

and that species (vipera berus) tends to be very.... differentially distributed with large areas with no snakes and smaller areas that are infested with them.... so if you do see one... that could mean more of its little friends are around
mafketis   
12 Apr 2024
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

A nice game of football usually assuages that.

different strokes.... golf is also said to be related to the hunting instinct...

but substitutes don't work for everyone.... I'm not into hunting but I don't have any desire to stop people from hunting (within reason).
mafketis   
12 Apr 2024
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

there are more enjoyable ways to spend time

de gustibus....

Some people just live in a permanent state of semi fear.

you misunderstand.... it's less fear and more trying to tie their personal taste to rational reasons..

Not that it's necessary for people in developed countries.

it's a very deep human drive.... drives don't go away with changes in infrastructure....
mafketis   
12 Apr 2024
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

Good, given the crap they've had to put up with for generations

Well the economic progress is largely over. There's still a Black middle class (has been since the 1870s or so) but the percentage of welfare-dependent ghetto blacks has increased.... the problem is that no one, including middle class Blacks wants to be around them (for good reason). it has been said that one of the worst aspects of being poor and black in the US is that you spend a lot of time around poor black Americans and.... that's not fun.

If an ordinary person needs a firearm to protect themself, something is seriously wrong.

That's not why most people have them. Lots of people in America just.... like guns. They're fun to shoot and clean and take care of and fun to think about and fun to collect. It's not generally publicized but Steven Spielberg is a very big gun enthusiast (who began with skeet shooting).

Self-defense is more a rationalization that people use when talking to those who aren't gun crazy. I'm not a gun nut but I realize the appeal. I recently had a foreign student who was _thrilled_ to find out that there are shooting ranges in Poland and he got to live out a long term dream of shooting a gun.

Rural white who hunt also have lots of guns.
mafketis   
12 Apr 2024
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

Isn't it the easy availability of weapons there the factor that is "overwhelmingly responsible"?

No. Whites are over-represented in gun ownership but under-represented in gun crime... (except maybe suicide among older men).

That and shocking socioeconomic inequalities.

Chicken or egg? From some time in the mid-1970s to the early 1980s the 'Black' economy was growing faster than the 'White' economy.

Then crack cocaine happened which revitalized gangs and wiped out decades of economic progress in a few years. Unless you believe the conspiracy that crack cocaine was a CIA plot to immiserate US blacks the effects of the crack cocain epidemic are on the choices made by Blacks themselves.

Now you have niwits going around preaching the idea that ideas like 'punctuality' 'reliability' 'conscientiousness' (and other values necessary for success) are rooted in 'white supremacy' so.... chicken or egg. Do Blacks commit more crime because they're poor or are they poor because they do so much crime?

What about it? Sweden isn't Poland.

How much longer before armed gangs (mostly with a 'migration background') are shooting Polish people in Poland?
mafketis   
12 Apr 2024
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

People?

Yes blacks and latinos are people and they are overwhelmingly responsible for gun violence in the US. What good does feigning ignorance of that do?

It's my understanding that blacks are overwhelmingly responsible for knife violence in the UK.... is that not right?

laws regarding guns in Poland are fine as they are

What about Sweden?

tvn24.pl/swiat/szwecja-polak-zastrzelony-w-sztokholmie-siostra-chcial-dawac-przyklad-swojemu-synowi-st7865997
mafketis   
12 Apr 2024
Real Estate / Move from Canada and buy an apartment in Krakow? [22]

Also Nowa Huta.

I was only there once, with a friend who was trying to visit a friend who wasn't home.... they let us in to leave a message but....weren't very friendly and I really didn't like the vibe of the place....

I was only in Krakow once in the PRL and _really_ didn't like the vibe then.... a kind of.... harshness and ugliness that I didn't see in other places.

By the mid 1990s it was already a lot better..... though I still probably wouldn't want to live there. Lots of years ago I had a colleague that had lived there for about 20 years and didn't like the general demeanor of 'Krakusy'....
mafketis   
12 Apr 2024
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

now it's all about blacks and latinos......

They're the ones overwhelmingly responsible for gun crime... why pretend otherwise?

Who's overwhelmingly responsible for knife crime in the UK?

here's an example of black criminals attacking an Asian-owned business (nb in the US 'Asian' means East Asia not South Asia)

twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1778662611267023276

Good thing the owner had a gun...
mafketis   
11 Apr 2024
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

Don't you also need to control for large scale gun massacres at schools, concerts, parades, sports events etc.

Not really, those have always been around they just get more publicity now (except for Las Vegas which everyone is supposed to forget)....

There are also 'party shootings' a black (and to a lesser degree latino) phenomenon.... there's a party and someone gets mad for a really stupid bonehead reason, leaves, gets a gun, comes back and then randomly shoots into the crowd.... (hose and pose, it's called)

steve sailer noted that you can generally tell the race of a shooter by the casualty count... if the wounded greatly outnumber fatalities then the shooter is almost certainly black, if the number of fatalities is large then it's a white or East Asian shooter)

liberals hate that but facts is facts
mafketis   
11 Apr 2024
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

The USA is one of the most violent countries in the West..... and they wonder why........

Actually gun violence rates in the US are very, very low if you control for two factors.

Urban drug gangs

Elderly white male suicide (aka the Smith & Wesson Retirement Plan)

Highest gun ownership is found among rural whites but gun violence among them is extremely low.

Urban gangs (overwhelmingly black and latino) that cater to middle and upper class twits that need an illegal high to get through the day have sky high rates. The real problem there is the

And guns are the preferred method of suicide among older white men (officially suicides are counted as gun violence/crime).

So gun debates in the US are carried out by stealth.... liberals can't say "We want guns out of the hands of violent minorites that we subsidize with our drug habits!" so they attack peaceful and law abiding rural whites instead.
mafketis   
10 Apr 2024
Work / tram driver foreigner [31]

Not sure about trams though - never seen a foreigner driving one

Pretty sure I've heard some Ukrainians driving them (not sure if that really counts).

Originally Indian bus drivers weren't expected to know Polish (they had translators on standby that could be reached by phone). I'm not sure how many now know Polish and to what degree.....
mafketis   
7 Apr 2024
News / Local elections - anyone care to comment? [75]

why would you cheer for those crazy leftie morons?

At least they're not pro-russian like konfederacja....

pro-russia = worst option for Poland
mafketis   
7 Apr 2024
News / Local elections - anyone care to comment? [75]

According to exit polls, results are roughly what most expected... PiS has the highest result (but less than Oct? I thought it might be higher since the frequency was a lot lower).

Also lewica finished behind konfederacja (boo hiss)

In good news Trzaskowski easily won reelection as mayor Warsaw in the first round (as did Dulkiewicz in Gdańsk).
mafketis   
7 Apr 2024
News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]

Strong men create good times
Good times create weak men.... creates strong men

It's hormone cycles, which work at the population level not just the individual level.
mafketis   
6 Apr 2024
Life / Polish film and serial riddles [137]

talking like our communism-enchanted apologist

No... communism was awful. But I've always loved propaganda art even when I hate the philosophy behind it.

The movie in question is really fun in a weird way.
mafketis   
6 Apr 2024
Life / Polish film and serial riddles [137]

made it in socialist realist fashion. :)

And they did a great job! I have to admit i kind of love it....
mafketis   
6 Apr 2024
Life / Polish film and serial riddles [137]

I have remembered it all my life.... :(:(:(

Me too, maybe not as traumatically as you did but it makes an impression...

Next.... and not as depressing.... wha'ts going on here?


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