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If they're in a village, they could well be siblings, and their parents too.

I must say, he's got the better deal in that marriage.

Mind you, if a certain other thing is as big as the rest, she'll be walking bandy legged after the honeymoon.

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Authoritarian regimes tend to do that. You don't need me to tell you though that Germany is strong on paperwork and maybe there was just so much that a lot slipped through the net.

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I'm pretty sure it has. They tried to dispose of the records however they were found by a Polish researcher.

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Probably as much as it should be given his age. He'll do less than that probably, perhaps in a prison hospital.

News / Poland and Germany should unite, says Lech Walesa [113]

True, however the case now is happening as a result of a EAW from Poland who do prefer to try some cases themselves.

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This shocked me.

A verdict is expected in the trial of a former officer in the East German secret police who stands accused of the murder of a Polish firefighter at a Berlin border crossing 50 years ago.

Martin Naumann, now 80, is accused of shooting Czesław Kukuczka in the back at close range on 29 March 1974 as Kukuczka walked towards the last in a series of control posts at a transit area in the divided city, having been told he had a free pass to escape to West Berlin.

theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/14/trial-former-stasi-officer-martin-naumann-1974-berlin-shooting-czeslaw-kukuczka

Hard to understand why the trial is in Germany rather than Poland.

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They usually prefer non-representative for cultural reasons.

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Me too, however my experience of diplomats, politicians and others on one side and Chinese businesspeople and others on the other side doesn't inspire me with optimism

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I quite like that painting. I'd have it on the wall.

Not so much Jason Anderson which looks like something from a Dubai hotel lobby.

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Both. The data stuff is just a tool to use with supercomputers.

I'd guess that the first we really hear about it is when they start to make a killling on financial markets. Then steal a march on scientific and technical research.

By then it will be too late to stop if it isn't already.

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They know that already BB. And prepare for it.

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Yes, and they have long term plans.

Your country and mine try to plan a bit for the future but aren't that good at it. America tries to plan a bit further but despite throwing money at projects are very bad at it. China plan 200 years in the future.


You're an optimist. China. And to a lesser extent r*SSia (who after all invented it) would love nothing more than repeating those mistakes. They're in it for the long game.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [1052]

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They aren't by any means. They are how ever by far the most dangerous and probably the most advanced.

If you've a spare hour or so, read up on cliodynamics.


It's pretty well what it's all about right now. Not cartoons or poems but data (even the most seemingly banal data) and what AI and supercomputers can do with it.

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I remember someone here complaining that the Daily Mail was responsible for the "deaths of countless Poles" in the U.K.

Basically an internet nut job. As we both know, up to a million went and most are happy there.

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Remember BB, the technology that civilians encounter is usually several steps behind what certain countries' military have. Do you trust China?

Especially in light of their large scale data harvesting.

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As you said yourself, it's about the quality.


You wouldn't have. Read what I wrote carefully about what China is doing right now with data

Yes, under the circumstances. It's not ideal, however if you look carefully at what I wrote about China and technology you will understand. Artists come second to the economy and global security.

With the rise of AI and China, it's not about daft pictures that AI can draw, it's not about writing bad poetry in the style of historical poets. It's not even about bank chatbots or business letters. It's about military use and industrial technology.

It wouldn't only only be artists who are put out of business. It is about the well-being of millions of people and in any case. AI will put many of us, including people reading this, out of work within a couple of decades.

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Poloniusz reminds me a bit of a guy I read about in the local paper.

He drove his car to a petrol station, went to the bit with the compressed air to inflate your tyres with, stuck the nozzle up his arse and literally exploded showering the whole place with gut and blubber.

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Rumour. And if I was kidnapping Polish miners and selling them into slavery in the developing world or anywhere else, both the Ogólnopolski Związek Zawodowy Górnictwa and Solidarność Górnicza might have something to say about it...

As for smuggling men into Europe for cheap labour, plenty of men come anyway as some on here perpetually whine about however they don't get work permits, Jim.

Now tell us about Lil Stabby. Is he out of jail yet? We always thought it was gun crime that was the problem where you are, not knives...

News / The Baltics states rely on Poland as their main defender against Russian aggression?? [213]


It's what Poland wants from Poland, Crowie. Nothing else. Its citizens know what they want, don't hold back in expressing opinions or arguing about them among themselves, and don't want anything to do with r*SSia.


Moroccans? Are you smoking something.

Anglos? Perhaps you mean British, and the U.K. and Poland have excellent relations. A million Poles live in the U.K. and the two contries' governments get on very well.

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And I bet you probably believe that conspiracy woo. Angry little incels so often do.


Did you think he was British? How strange. And his most famous song didn't even give you a clue. The other two names are people you've only ever read about online (normal for you) whose fame was in the past when you were still trying to fit into outsize short trousers, Sweet Cherry Pie.


Actually closer to four years ago now. COVID restrictions for travel hadn't been fully lifted back then and every stage of the journey there and back from Poland was hassle. All for a week of meetings. Nice to get out of the house after all that lockdown though. Not that you get outdoors much yourself for obvious reasons..

News / Polish military contingent in Lebanon. [184]

Generally a lot of good, though they get let down by member states. They do a lot in a crisis, and people who complain about migration would have a lot more migration to complain about if it weren't for the refugee camps they run here in central Africa.

Their peacekeeping forces save a lot of lives too.

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The have a permanent military contingent there as part of NATO. Germany is leading the Enhanced Fprward Presence there, just as the United Kingdom is leading it in Estonia and Canada is leading it in Latvia.

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You are quaint. Have you been there?

On my last visit three years ago, it was as safe as houses. There are some very good restaurants and you won't find anywhere better for fresh strawberries.


Anyone who was involved in either probably wouldn't be posting here, would they fat boy...

Now run along and play on the highway.

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I'm no fan of surrealism however Toni di Renzo (1915-1986) is interesting. He was a minor member of the Romanov family and born at Tsarskoe Selo. His first wife was the feminist and occultist artist Ithell Colquhoun whose paintings are better known than his (and rocketing in value). He's probably best remembered nowadays for fathering quadruplets in his 70s. This one I like:

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Nothing at all. I've been there a few times amd liked it though not recently. It's a nice place, very safe to walk about in and less touristy than most of the region. I was there a few times years ago and visited just after Covid though sadly only a flying visit. It's always struck me as a place where good manners and grace are appreciated so you'd not do well there. Or in Poland.


Given that I travel a lot for work, if they or anyone elsewanted to "close in" for any reason, they'd not have to try hard.

You're trying to distract though aren't you, Sweet Cherry Pie, by making stuff up to attempt to distract from me pointing out something very bad (and as I said before, shamefully embarrassing) that you did to a PF poster, his wife and children. As I said before, you were very lucky they chose not to press charges; it wasn't your first offence of that type and if there had been charges, you'd have gone straight to what Americans call "Juvenile Hall".

Shall I post the full story, Sweet Cherry Pie? Including the bit about the attempted apology? People here can make their own minds up.

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Fortunately the Suwałki Gap is fortified to the teeth because of the threat that r*SSia poses.

As Kania says, Lithuania is slightly more likely however as far as I know, the Baltics are thoroughly protected by troops both local and from other NATO countries. It's hard to imagine the r*SSians being able to do much without tactical nukes which would of course invite a response that would be undesirable for them.

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You'll have to try a bit harder, however you were very lucky indeed on the last two occasions and I doubt the police and DA would give you a third chance. You're very lucky the family in question are thoroughly decent and kind people and didn't press charges as the police recommended them to.

Here's a tip. If you're going to do shamefully embarrassing things like that, Sweet Cherry Pie, do try to cover your tracks a bit more carefully. It didn't take the Polish police long to track you down via the borrowed/stolen credit card.

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I doubt they'll evacuate.

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The only 'crappy art' is kitsch, and even that can have charm. Remember, the map is not the landscape and different images can work on people in different ways.


I've seen them in modern offices in PL however they're generally a false economy and potentially a hazard.