News / Germany eyes Poland's economic miracle [44]

Ok - so double and not 4x as you originally stated

And then you need to make the adjustments for quality of life, healthcare, holidays, etc.

America is richer than Poland. No one's arguing with that. But small town, South Carolina or falling down Steubenville, Ohio is no paradise. What is more? Poland is advancing rapidly

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [999]

Nothing to do with me - up to the voters of NYC

News / Germany eyes Poland's economic miracle [44]

And you argue with your own government's figures

sofi.com/learn/content/average-salary-in-us/

And your Polish figure is wrong too - works out at 35 zloty per hour. You try hiring someone for that these days. Maybe out in a small village it's possible.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [999]

Don't their votes count the same as everybody elses ?

He seems to have a struck a chord - that ordinary hard working New Yorkers can't afford to live in their home town any more.

I don't agree with much he says but it is far from crazy.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [999]

He said he didn't want to defund the police during his campaign. He might've said a few years ago before he was running for office.

The rest of his policies don't look crazy and seem to have been pretty popular with New Yorkers.

News / Germany eyes Poland's economic miracle [44]

Average US income is 66k USD or 62k if you use the median (which you should consider, considering the inequalities and unfairness of American Society.).

Why is it that Maga types can never get any numbers correct and then call everyone else morons ?

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [999]

I thought you had no problem with muslims if they were legal immigrants.

Which of his policies is upsetting you ?

News / Germany eyes Poland's economic miracle [44]

Completely daft use of statistics by Novi

He is comparing US GDP per head at PPP with Polish ex PPP

In fact if we talk about buying power then the difference us between 82k in the US and 43k in Poland

But inequalities in the US are higher and hardly anyone has free healthcare, college education is ruinous and the US have less holidays

No doubt the US is richer but on quality of life the gap is much narrowr

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

More and more reports ? Like what ?

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Nope - didn't work.

No evidence that it did, except Golden Cow saying so.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

America was protecting Poland for 80 years ?

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

What magnificent achievement? I said straight afterwards that this attack hadn't worked

Knocked down a few outbuildings

Even the US intelligence aren't pretending that it worked

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Oh yeah, i forgot they invented the word bistro

And I also forgot they have nukes

What genocide are you talking about ?

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

I am sure every person in Europe could name 10 Italian gifts to the world in less than a minute.

Belgium takes a bit more effort but plenty of fine heritage

The North Nigerians ?

Shoes made of tree bark
Cheap misfiring weapons beloved of terrorists
Amateur ****
Ice fishing
Crappy cartoons
Gloomy novels
Lada and Moskvitch cars
Rock hard bread and grey sludge for dinner
Er....
That's it

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

Yes probably right Torq

Not the best way to start a new week honestly

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

Don't know about Biedronka as they have a very specific model to only present a limited choice; but Auchan and Kaufland have Ukrainian sections and big city Auchans also have a Vietnamese section.

Retailers are well organized in any country - they will fill any vacuum where they think they can make money.

Who is owning the Polish stores in the UK ? I was wondering if previous generations from India, Greece etc were just releasing the premises and putting a Polish sign up ?

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [725]

Ha ha yes I was thinking about that today while gardening - I'm sure you are going to win the prize for June

I do have a few oil stocks in my old portfolio - Schlumberger Total and Shell so should do ok

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

One prediction I can make is that Trump and Netanyahu will never get a Nobel peace prize

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

What a crappy video LOL

No chance that this has worked

Old TACO will be back to the drawing board tomorrow

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Highly doubtful those strikes worked.

Anyway presume Golden Cow knows that he now owns this problem and can clean up the mess

News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [412]

400.000 votes difference - so a swing of 200k. Quite a tall order to find them. Possible to fiddle in North Nigeria - more difficult with observers and journalists present

Can I ask for the third time where the spreadsheet came from and if there is some better evidence?

News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [412]

Where is the spreadsheet from ?

Looks pretty rudimentary and surely would need to be some pretty extensive evidence before we turn our democratic system upside down ?

I thought the elections were observed by international expert? Isn't that normally the case?

News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [412]

Where is this spreadsheet from ?

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

As always your numbers are incorrect

The median age in the US is 38.5

The hostage crisis was 44 years ago.

More than half of Americans were not born. Another 10 percent at least were small kids. And many were living in Guatemala, India or even Poland back in 1979.

But anyway, why intervene in Iran but not in Ukraine ? What's the reasoning ?

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

More than half of Americans were not even born in 1979

Of the rest, I bet 50 percent could not point to Iran on a map.

I would be amazed if even 5 percent of Americans have heard of the hostage crisis unless by watching that movie.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Does the Shah's son have any experience in managing difficult tasks ?

Will the Iranian people shrug and say "who else?" - I am a bit skeptical they will welcome him back just because he has a nice suit and expensive watch

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Yes 40 years is too long

But without a plan this will be a disaster. "Flatten them" and "cut the head off the snake" is bar room talk

And right now Iranian civilians are being killed. We know from our Svetoid Serb friends that even if bombing is "well intentioned" it creates a generation of resentment

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

I don't know what to think of this crisis

Attacking Iran might have merits but also gives another signal to North Nigeria, China and any other dictators that the US will attack just because they don't like you. The result will be more countries developing nukes.

Attacking without a "what next ?" plan is insane. Will be another big failed state to go with Iraq, Libya, Syria and Somalia, more refugees in Europe and security problems for decades.

The Shah's son ? Is that the plan ? My god

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Golden Cow now off to work his magic at the negotiating table

It worked so well in Ukraine and Gaza that it's no wonder he should have this problem all sorted by Friday

Law / Zloty lifts Poland's Economy [58]

It will be a rough few weeks for all the East European currencies against the Euro and the GBP too - need a bit of stability in the world.