Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]


like for example Canada accepted about 1 million immigrants in a country of 41 million in 2023 - most of the time of "progressive" Trudeau in power they accepted swathes of immigrants mostly from the third world (and it was long 9 years) - the result is home and rent crisis (the price of rent tripple or quadrupled in Toronto), the highest inflation in 40 years - 60 billion dollars of budget deficit in 2024, overtaxing, the near collapse of free Canadian healthcare system, and 1/4 of the population living hand to mouth even though working two jobs to make ends meet - add to that big surge in crime, homelessness and drug abuse

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


even if it involves an invasion?

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


it's not completely true - even the name Ukraine is a very late thing (I guess like a 16th century term) - it's not that I support Putin's invasion of Ukraine in any shape or form, though, of course

Travel / About cars, electric and combustion in Poland. [158]


I don't know much about hydrogen technologies - but I read that it's not that easy to even build good hydrogen containers since hydrogen causes metal brittleness in the long run - just to focus your attention: hydrogen atom is just a proton an electron - so quite small - it can well penetrate metal crystal lattices

the alternative, hydrogen fuel cells use very rare metals from what I read and I doubt they will catch on unless some technologies using more available materials are discovered

the Chinese are working on sodium-iodine batteries that would make expensive lithium obsolete if the technology is reliable - but to be honest even the lithium batteries technology is not 100 per cent reliable from what I can gather as shown by incidents of EV's spontaneously igniting - as you can imagine having an EV's spontanously igniting in say a underground car-park is not an ideal situation

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


mainly because the Chinese are playing a long game thanks to their form of government - while policies change much more in democratic countries

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


China is building some big port in Peru from what I have heard - could you tell my why would US build such a port in Peru - they would have not much (nothing?) to gain I presume - while China can gain a lot from more exports to Peru and the area

Edit: it also can gain a lot of diplomatically of course

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


as for now what Trump says is not America's official policy - we'll see what happens next

Travel / About cars, electric and combustion in Poland. [158]


the sales of electric vehicles IN GENERAL in Germany fell by 50 per cent (I heard it's because the German government no longer offers subsidies to electric vehicles for potenital buyers - but maybe it is just misinformation what I heard)

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


interesting fantasy


your views of Canada are completely outdated - their prime minister has resigned recently and not for no reason and his party will probably will be wiped out in the elections that will have to take place in October at the latest

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


you're a funny guy - who would bother controlling the tundra - almost nobody lives there after all


I'm sort of with you on that one

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


..and I would never expect it from him in his second term... oh well, how little I know it seems

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


I think current inhabitants of Panama would argue with that


If I were American and could vote in the last election, I would vote for Trump - but I am saddened by his rhetoric towards Greenland, Panama and Canada

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


how is Germany hostage to the US, if you care to explain?

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


in hour home rosół is always made with leeks (and celery root; but parsley root is optional - parsley leaves are also optional but in the same manner: we add them fresh before serving)

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


no it wasn't a "objazdowe kino" - it was a permanent establishment alright - there were thousands of such places in Poland - the vast majority are gone now (including the one in the village I lived) - now focus: there were probably like a couple of dozen physical copies of movies in circulation around the country and thousands of those small town/gmina village cinemas - do your math

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


of course, pawian, 'cause you know better what I saw and when :P

i lived in a small place and films were reaching it much later than the cities - i live in an even smaller place, now; and I don't go to the movies and don't watch that much TV - but I love watching internet movie critics who lambaste the recent streak of garbage that pretend to be movies issued by the big entertainment corporations in the name of Diversity Equity and Inclusivity

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


well, I saw the first Star Wars movie in Polish cinema when I was like 7 or 8 in the early 80's

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [530]


yeah, it's like you have never heard that attempts at leaving those people in "countries they claim to come from" are "unsuccesful" for the most part

Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]


it wasn't "several years back" - the campaing was in the late 90's - domestic violence was a taboo topic back then for the most part - things were exacebrated by the general economic crisis which even resulted in police often ignoring phone calls from victims of domestic violence (I have experienced it first hand on a couple of occasions) - things have changed a great deal since then in this area (police response to reports of domestic violence and generally the law concerning domestic violence)

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [698]


żywot was the name for the belly not specifically for wątroba, as far as I know (as in "i błogosławiony owoc żywota twojego, Jezus" - of course unless you think Jesus was the fruit of Mary's liver)

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [530]


great line

Travel / Best way transport Belgium - poland [5]


Kraków is only about 100 km (in a straight line) from Zakopane (it is a mountainous terrain though so it's about 2 hours drive or a 2 hour jouney on a express train)

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [530]

@pawian
rp.pl/polityka/art18894091-unijny-komisarz-chcemy-by-kary-wywarly-na-polski-rzad-presje

Didier Reynders has a Flemmish surname (I have never seen Reynders as a first name) but he comes from the French speaking (Waloon) Belgium

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [530]


because you have a brain and an attention span of a baboon?

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [530]

Merged:

A Belgian eurocrat, former European Commissioner for Justice accused of money laundering

Didier Reynders, former (as recent as a week ago) European Commissioner for Justice, who was very vocal in criticizing Poland's PiS government's judiciary reforms faces charges of money laundering

msn.com/en-gb/news/world/eu-former-justice-minister-under-investigation-for-money-laundering/ar-AA1vfWRP?ocid=BingNewsSerp

News / The quality of Polish media coverage [54]


I understand Russia sees itself as a global player, but Poland doesn't


once all Polish mainstream media were let's call it liberal (though it is not a good word in my opinion) - opposing media arose very slowly until 2015 when the state-owned media became a mouthpiece of the PiS government - since they (the public media in the times of PiS) brought up a lot of topics the mainstream media (of which public broadcasters had been previously a part) there arose the demand for "non-liberal" media in Poland which culminated roughly a year ago in the surge of the popularity of TVRepublika and WPolsce television after the current ruling coalition illegally took hold of the public broadcasters


the biggest "serious" daily newspapers in Poland sell less than 50 thousand copies throughout the country (don't know about their internet service subscriptions) - for example before PiS came to power in 2015 Gazeta Wyborcza (the main "liberal" title) mainly lived off advertisments ordered by the state or state owned companies and subscription from state insitutions - most people in Poland who don't want to watch TV (and that is lots and lots of people) look for news in the internet

thing is Poles (me included) are poor or at least have the poor people mindset when it comes to consuming media - so it's all the internets now

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [698]


it's tricky unless you know the language :P

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


I consider myself a hardline PiS voter but if I knew Marek Jakubiak would get to the second round of voting I would vote for him

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


he's not a serious candidate mostly because his chances to get elected are next to nil

News / Mister President Andrzej Duda - Best Poland could get. [96]


yeah, the population is getting bigger and bigger: leider in a decade or two the country will be called Germanistan