News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [634]


I think what's going to happen is that countries will simply start ignoring it since in the current context it's absolutely against the national interest of too many countries.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [634]


is no longer fit for purpose.... it needs to be scrapped, it serve no useful purpose anymore

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]


Ní chasann an domhan le buille druma amháin.
An rud atá ceart duitse, b'fhéidir nach bhfuil sé ceart do chuid daoine.

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

This seems as good a place as any to put this....

x.com/Lou_obrien19/status/1945228568692199553

x.com/Telegraph/status/1945077170042225054

Let's look at some numbers...

x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1945471745387008140

So theyr'e expensive, don't work much and far more likely to be inbred and commit sexual assaults than other migrants...

How is this sustainable?

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]


Cad atá á rá agat, a Willis?

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Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [730]


Yes!

My source: A great twitter account about regional vocabulary in Polish

x.com/Swietlan/status/1945219833395659258

Apparently in some other regions the same expression is used for noodles and white cheese....

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [730]


Not a canonical ingredient though some might add it...

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]


The "invitation" was for Syrians, only a small majority of those who arrived were Syrian... I remember when they were in Budapest and a Syrian said only about 10 percent or so were actually Syrian (judging from language/accents).

If you're from Bangladesh or Iraq then you're not Syrian....

Unfortunately interpreters were legally forbidden from telling government officials that a person wasn't speaking Syrian Arabic...

High trust society - meet Low trust grifters....

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Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [730]


No. It's a regional name for a dish that is very well-known in Poland (by a name that's different from how it's known internationally or in its country of origin) ... and one of my favorites when it's done well.

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]


German's don't do balanced middle ground... they charge in one direction until they hit a brick wall (and they keep trying to go in the same direction even then).

Hard to believe the guy who came up with thesis/antithesis/synthesis was German because that plays so little a role in the way things are done....

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]

I'm okay with moving the relevant posts there....

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]


NO THANK YOU!!!!!

brrrrrrrrrrr

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


Meanwhile trans activist Riley J. Dennis: "My argument: "maybe your preference for women with vaginas over women with penises is, to some degree, influenced by our cissexist society."

How is that sentence remotely rational?

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


That was more on youtube IIRC and they royals didn't help their case by releasing an obviously doctored photo....

One trick to getting value from twitter.... ruthlessly ban engagement farming accounts "I like puppies! What about you?" and keep resetting it to 'following' (it periodically resets to 'for you' which is crap.

It's also good for election results and in exposing toxic people across the political spectrum.

Without twitter, for example, I wouldn't have had any idea that his teammates didn't want Lia Thomas in their locker room exposing himself and that they were given a gag order by their school to not say anything.

The best solution for trans athletes I've seen also came from twitter, two categories 'open' and 'womens' (the latter restricted to born biological females).

It didn't come from there I don't think but it's where I first saw it.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [730]


Yes. It's a regional name for a well known dish in Poland.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


It's a lot like google translate, in a way you have to not need it to be able to get the most out of it (you have to know what the flaws are to compensate for them and extract what's valuable).

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


Destigmatizing also means destigmatizing the johns... I'm all for stigmatizing the fvvk out of people who pay to have sex with minors.

You're not even on twitter... you have a very blinkered view of what's going on in the world.... I wouldn't have believed lots of the stuff happening had i depended on the fossil media.

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [366]


Nah.... I like American English just fine but I have little (or no) feelings toward "English" as an abstract entity... and overuse robs it of precision and clarity (both of which are needed for richness and nuance).

A particular variety of English can be nuanced but at an international level.... it doesn't work.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [730]


You don't know what you're talking about.

Now a regional one I just learned....

What is duck food ?

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [366]


And 'emphasizes' is, in fact, the more correct spelling. The online Cambridge lists it first (giving 'emphasise' as a British variant)

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/emphasize?q=emphasise

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


So you approve of a 13 year old boy dressed like a cheap hooker and dancing for adults... noted.

x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1639266932258906113


Some people they encounter in life are into zoophilia or necrophilia... at what age do they need to know about that?


Sex work by children should be destigmatized? (that was the context of the link)

Children should be allowed to 'decide' they want elective, invasive, irreversible surgical procedures?

Moving to russia is stupid under any circumstances but I understand revulsion about telling vulnerable teens that they need major surgery to be themselves

Interestingly, a very large portion of gender critical twitter is made up of gays and lesbians... many of whom recognize they would have been likely targeted by trans proponents during their, often unhappy, adolescenses...

Twitter takes time and effort to get value from but it's also the best single news source on the planet. Time and time again I see items in the mainstream media that I knew about days (often many days) before.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


Why should pre-pubescent children be taught about 'trans' issues in the first place? Ever heard of 'age appropriate'?

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


So? He wants to kill Ukrainians in Ukraine so I don't care about his national origin. He chose evil, let him reap the benefits.

And that's you're only comment on the story? You're afraid to publicly criticize the russian army?

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


An example or two...

x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1890451266939101348

"The Department of Education funded this NGO, which argues that educators should destigmatize "sex work," especially for "queer and trans people of color" and "LGBT+ youth."

x.com/JamesEsses/status/1937434882285736279

"Little Starlings Nursery in Somerset. Children as young as 2 years old are made to pose for photographs in front of a giant trans pride flag.

x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1943396906144796874

Detransitioned woman who was pushed to be TRANS and had a double mascetomy at 14 gives heartbreaking testimony: "I hadn't even learned algebra in high school yet, but I was old enough to choose to have healthy parts of my body electively amputated."

There's lots more, including lots more disturbing stuff

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


I wish death on every russian soldier in the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine. I haven't hid that. And I'm not about to change.

Life to Ukraine! Death to russian invaders!

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]


Calling bvllshit.... I've never heard of Poles liking food in America (most of which has a chemical, processed taste). I was speaking with a young woman who visited family (I had warned her about the food). She complained my warnings weren't extreme enough for the ghastly reality...

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [366]


Then why have they targeted so many civilian locations? They haven't had so much success because of Ukrainian alerts and air defenses but surely Bucha should have been a clue as to their goals...

Not to mention this oldie but goodie...

x.com/ne_vluchiv/status/1877711234922865117/video/1

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]

Feel good story of the day.... American moves his family to russia because he's scared of "LGBT propaganda" (a lot of which is pretty stupid and objectionable, I agree though moving to a place where you don't know the language or anything about it really, seems like an odd move).

He's told he can get citizenship if he joins the army which can use his skills as a welder and he'll be kept far away from the front lines....

You'll never guess what happened next.... (well you probably can)

x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1945054483311903125

The wife making the video probably sealed his fate... as long as he's alive people will ask about him but as they say.. no man no problem... I only hope he has sunflower seeds in his pockets.