History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

I think the very notion of Eastern Europe is a Cold War relic. Until 1990 even Eastern Germany on Western geographic atlases was part of Eastern Europe. I think there is no country which could be regarded as completely Eastern European because even Kaliningrad region of Russia is located in Central Europe. I think it would be better to move away from divisions of Europe into West, Center or East. Why all European countries cannot be just in Europe?!

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Battery
540 kg!!! I guess they can even underestimate the price of the battery...

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


And surely new Model S costs $103,000 CAD in Canada, because battery costs just $6,500.

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


Maybe this is just a replacement WORKS price, not a new battery itself? Or it is assumed $6,5 K is the price to replace a deficient battery before guaranty has expired? I cannot believe it is a price for a whole new battery.

Some people on forum mention that:


forums.tesla.com/discussion/44715/whats-a-6-year-old-model-s-85-going-to-be-worth
It couldn't drop so much just in 7 years. A verification is needed.

History / Battle of Vienna - history movie about Poland / Commemoration [36]


This is what I was talking about. A people who value themselves on the same level with Neandertals and feel comfortable about Neandertal's fate.

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


What is the weight of the battery, 400 kg? And the price is 30 K? And those ranges are given for idealized conditions, much less in real life.


Now price in US seems to be around $2.1 a gallon. 75 liters (20 gallons) a week is rather quite much.

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


Is this your "Hummer" fuel consumption or where is it from? I think plug-in hybrids will be optimal in 10-20 years. Hopefully with 100 kg battery which costs 5-10 K a driver would be able to drive 150-200 km on electricity which means cutting fuel consumption around 20 times. And have no worries about the range, speed of charging and power plant outages. What else does a normal driver need?


An average American spends around $1400 a year on gasoline, so it closer to 14000 in ten years. But this number includes a large vehicles.
fool.com/investing/2017/01/14/heres-how-much-gasoline-the-average-american-consu.aspx

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


I think all-electric are vulnerable to outages. In large city it may even result in a disaster. Hybrids are more reliable on that point.

I would prefer noiseless flying "car" without wheels, rotors and wings which flies by the force of a "magic". I wonder if something like this will be ever created.

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


That's great, but I think no average customer will ever agree to pay 20-30 K just for a battery and replace it every 8-10 years. And still have much smaller range than gasoline cars. And have minimal charging time in dozens of minutes or hours (to save the battery). I bet plug-in hybrids with 5-10 K battery and no range anxiety will have a better chance.

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


Yes, but in the case of a noise imitator it is going to send sound waves just straight forward, not to all the sides or inside a vehicle like an engine does. And produce no infrasound or vibrations.

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


Cargo Pants was spoking about a hybrid, not about all-electric like Tesla. All-electric could be a cars of the future, but quite a distant one.

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


What was the electric range? How much have you spent for electricity and repair? How it compares to a gasoline one? Have you received a subsidy from the govt.?

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


I think advanced nuclear power looks most promising now. It depends on country. Here in Canada 60% of e. power is produced by inexpensive hydroelectric plants. Up to 90% in some provinces. Then follows nuclear with 19%. Then natural gas at 9%. The rest are coal and renewables. Electric cars consume 4 times less energy than a gasoline ones, so this task looks quite manageable.

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


This is because still a few people charge their cars nowdays. Can you imagine load on the greed when nearly everyone will do the same?!


First, World still has to see this battery and prove the claims. It is not only important how long battery lasts, but also energy density and the price. For now batteries aren't already there.

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


More likely not all-electric cars, but hybrids and they will only start to replace all-gasoline cars in 10-20 years. All-electric Teslas will be too expensive even in 20 years for an average consumer. Then this gradual replacement may take 30 more years. So, don't expect total replacement in the next 40-50 years, at least. Some new power plants have to be built first, then a new types of batteries created, giant battery producing factories built around the World, battery recycling facilities. Then a huge infrastructural works have to be done like putting a thick copper or aluminum cables underground to every house, parking lot and charging station. Every parking lot have to be equipped with a lot of charging poles. A huge work has to be done.

History / Poland must get back Lwow, Wilno and Brest back [345]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rzesz%C3%B3w

History / The memory about the Invasion of Poland 1939 - today's events [25]


There were plenty of those who said "yes". Italy, Japan, Finland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia officially supported Hitler. If Nazis would be clever they would attract many more supporters among occupied Slavic territories. Many people just tired of Stalin and other rulers.

Genealogy / Polish-Ukranian roots and genes [72]


Probably Poles are closer to ethnic Russians and Belarussians than to Hungarians and Lithuanians. The later aren't even Slavic nations. Culture/religion and genetics is not the same thing.

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


Hopefully, his personal scientific inventiveness and creative output matches this net worth...

Genealogy / Polish-Ukranian roots and genes [72]

Can Poles and Ukrainians ever become fellows or they will always remain adversaries?

Genealogy / Polish-Ukranian roots and genes [72]


Why it should? There is probably no Slavic nation in which R1a is close to 100%. Russians and Belorussians have around 45%. Poles have more than others at 60%.

History / Should Poland organize March of the Living in Volhynia and Eastern Lesser Poland? [64]


It changed year to year. After Ukrainian nationalists attempted to proclaim independent Ukraine somewhere in the late 1941 Germans outlawed them and put their leader in concentration camp. After that they've started actively involve Poles in collaboration instead of Ukrainians. Sometimes Polish nationalists including the collaborators had no mercy on Ukrainians. Only in 1944 when Germans were beaten severely by Soviet Army they changed their relation to Ukrainians and started to form divisions like "SS Galicia". Ukrainians aren't inclined to dig in the past as much as Poles and probably not all such cases have been documented. But read for example about cases in Krasny Sad in April of 1943 and other villages.

dobrodziej.webnode.com.ua/news/czyja-prawda-czyja-krzywda

Minorities are counted by their relation to the countries they live, not by territories. I think you perfectly know that Ukrainian nationalists wouldn't target Poles if they would certain that Ukraine after WWII would become part of USSR (or independent later). They targeted them only because they still perceived them as an ethnic MAJORITY who is a potential threat to independent Ukraine.

History / Should Poland organize March of the Living in Volhynia and Eastern Lesser Poland? [64]


Not necessarily in all the cases. Some Ukrainians claim there were cases of massacres on Ukrainian villages by Polish nationalists and Polish "polizais" who served to Nazi occupants even before the mass scale actions from Ukrainian side. Also they claim many cases on the territory of modern Poland in Zakerzonje region and town of Chelm vicinity, especially during operation "Vistula" in 1944-1947 when many Ukrainians been terrorized.


Where is a twisting here and why we need to separate Eastern part of the then Poland from entire Poland? Current Polish govt. claims that the citizens of "second Polish republic" had been subjected to genocide. Ukrainians constituted minority in the second Polish republic, that's a fact. Also it is typically governments who are accused in genocides. Entire nations aren't accused in the actions of a rogue groups.


But doesn't retaliation means debt cancellation? Or what is the point?

History / Should Poland organize March of the Living in Volhynia and Eastern Lesser Poland? [64]


This case is unique because commonly genocide is a something that is organized by an ethnic majority against an ethnic minority. In rare cases by an advanced and ruling minority against backward and colonized majority. But in Poland Ukrainians were small and oppressed minority. So this is probably an exceptional case in history when an armed uprising of an ethnic minority against ruling majority is called genocide. Also usually nations start to talk about genocide when number of victims is counted in millions rather than in tens of thousands. Some Polish sources claim that around 60.000 Poles were killed by Ukrainians and around 23.000 of Ukrainians by Poles in all the former Poland in 1943-1945. More Poles than Ukrainians, but still it is a numbers which are measured in the same orders of magnitude. For a normal nations: "if you owe me and I owe you - the debts are cancelled". Ukrainians expressed their position on the subject long ago: "we forgive and expect to be forgiven".

Genealogy / Polish-Ukranian roots and genes [72]

According to some claims around 60% of Poles and 50% of Ukrainians carry R1a haplogroup (the most common Slavic haplogroup). The second most common among both is I1b, which originated likely somewhere on the territory which is now Croatia. Ukrainians have slightly more of it. Also Poles have more R1b than Ukrainians (typical to Celtic origins), while Ukrainians have more E3b, J, G (which are common in Southern Europe, Balkans, Middle East and North Caucasus). Also Ukrainians have just a bit of N1 (typical to Finno-Hungarians and Baltic people) and even such exotic haplogroup as Q which is most common among Amerindians. I'm puzzled where is it from in Ukrainians...

reddit.com/r/europe/comments/5duxzw/europe_by_common_male_ancestry_based_on_the/

Genealogy / Polish-Ukranian roots and genes [72]


Also courage, unification, organizational skills, mutual aid, morality. Where do you think courageous, politically conscious and moral people from Eastern Europe went after WWI, citizenship war in Russia, Holodomor, purges, WWII, etc., and especially the latest 30 years of the criminal takeover and social collapse? Survivors went to immigration and work abroad.

Genealogy / Polish-Ukranian roots and genes [72]


And still it has to go a long way... Ukraine is officially a democracy, but democracy doesn't work very well on empty stomach and staff shortages...

Genealogy / Polish-Ukranian roots and genes [72]


I can imaging the following reasons. 1) Ukraine experienced huge negative selection and high-quality population losses due to wars, genocides, repressions and immigration. Poland as well, but probably slightly less. As a result criminals took over in society. 2) After USSR breakdown Ukraine lost 70% of its manufacturing and still struggles to find its place or at least survive on the very competitive World market. Poland should be too, but it received large investments and loans by EU lines. Not so Ukraine. In order to recover, probably, Ukraine needs to implement 1) A large scale eugenics program like mass cloning of the best native Ukrainians (by standards of moral and talent). 2) Ask other countries to help crack down on corruption. 3) Enter EU or create confederacy with Poland (what is basically the same thing) and ask other countries about "Marshal Plan".

Genealogy / Polish-Ukranian roots and genes [72]


I think, partially it could be linked to language and religion.


Step up? What do you mean by that? Haven't they done it yet?

Genealogy / Polish-Ukranian roots and genes [72]


Why only criminal Poles? Mostly it were Polish nobles and army veterans who attempted to colonize Ukraine during the centuries. Some traders, farmers and city dwellers as well. On average Ukrainians look more "Pontid" than Poles what may point to some ancient Balkan influx. Poles may have more German admixtures while some Ukrainians some Scandinavian. At least there are some Ukrainians who look quite Nordic. Also I agree on some Turkic admixtures. Not too bad though. Modern Turkey (the largest Turkic state) is doing quite well.