News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [360]

russia might end up reducing itself to 50 million on its own....

floods in the kurgan region (preceded by decades of neglect to infrastructure in favor of invading neighbors) mean that uranium wells and radioactive mud will be entering the river tobol....

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Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2823]


Which greatly reduces the mystique of guns... I grew up around many guns and was taught basic gun safety and how to shoot by my father... and guns have never been that interesting to me (though I understand the attraction that others might feel).

Get hysterical about guns and their very existence and availability.... and you create a lot of people who end up desperately wanting guns....

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2823]


American gun nuts obsess about self-defense the same way that 400 lb women obsess about rape....

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [3299]


they didn't scuppter anything, it's the usual russian lies that west-hating westerners lap up like dogs....

the 'deal' was russia gets everything it wants and Ukraine got nothing.... no way was Ukraine on board with that

russians lie like others breathe... the entire culture is built on deceit and greed and malice (remember the mother who wanted to send her second to the military and was already planning on how to spend the 'bereavement' money?) it's almost like they had several movements over the generations aimed at killing or driving normal people away..... oh wait! that's _exactly_ what they did!

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [3299]


Seems to be the case.... it's almost as if dictatorships that concentrate on cults of personality are not a good long term economic strategy....

Also population is collapsing... some recent figures on birth numbers were far below the worst fears most breeding age young people are not interested in marriage or children... and a recent trend is 'breaking the relation' that is freezing out family and trying to have as little to do with them as possible.

That's why Xi might try to launch an invasion of Taiwan, to distract from his devastating track record of catastrophic failures...

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [263]


I see:

"lettuce * |letis|

pork - wierprzowina

beer

potatoes

rice

vegatables" (though you say it's now vegetables)

hmmm since when is 'beer' food? especially in elementary school?

maybe the word was bean?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [263]

is it supposed to be leek?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [263]


The way the student connected the l and e looked more like 'be' in vegetables than the le in lettuce....

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [263]


I would take issue with some of the pronunciations.... (where's the h in whale?) p

when speaking of a canine I would not normally say "poor dog!" but rather "poor doggie!" For me "poor dog" would more be about an unfortunate man (especially one whose dog-like behavior has caught up with him...)

Maybe it should be "Away from class" or "Outside the classroom" "Outside of class" rather than "Out of class" (skończyła się (komuś) klasa)

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


Those are sexes, biological and immutable.

Technically there are no 'genders' since it is about stereotypes regarding the two genders....

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [3299]

russians make any place they can be found.... worse....

just the other day a russn piece of filth (prominent russian 'patriot' active in Z activies) in Germany killed two Ukrainian men (injured in the war and being rehabilitated in Germany)

All russians need to be deported to their own country (2013 borders) and a defensive wall built around it).

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Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [263]


Iguana? Legwan is the usual word in Polish.... it looks like it comes from French -- l'iguane...

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [263]


I usually pronounce the h, especially in isolation or stressed. A lot of Americans think of it as being more British (see Cool Whip jokes on Family Guy) but it's far more common in the US.

I didn't have a problem with that since the distinction been the schwa and unestressed ɪ is mostly lost in the US (a process that I think began in the west and spread Eastward). Would you pronounce 'gentleman' and 'gentlemen' differently? I don't think I do most of the time....

The traditional "RP" transcription system (although almost universally used for teaching 'British' pronunciation) is soooo weird, especially the way it has long vowels marked : without short equivalents.... I could understand [ka:t] (cart) and [kat] (cot) but the backwards a makes no sense....

But British linguistics has always been more into phonetics and matching exceedingly subtle vowel distinctions to discrete symbols while American linguistics is much more about phonemics (mental categorization) so the exact symbols used aren't so important....

(Rant off).

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]


Some vaccination... the crappy leaky 'vaccines' mandated for covid have done a lot of damage to the brand.... no progress is possible until people admit that some vaccines have greatly helped humanity and the covid vaccines were mostly crap....

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]


Eveywhere that vaccinated saw skyrocketing rates.... they suppressed the immune response... if there was ever a time to self-isolate it would be just after getting vaccinated...


different waves?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [263]


Easily understandable from history... surrounded by larger countries that tried to marginalize or eliminate the language rallying around the standard is a perfectly understandable response. And the very rational nature of Polish spelling makes that easier (adopt a spelling pronunciation and you're good to go.... while the chaotic nature of English spelling locks people into their birth dialects to a much larger extent...


So what's wrong with a schwa in rabbit?

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [3299]


despite his phoney christian veneer.... putain loves muslims and has a history of deferring to their wishes

that's one of the thing that real russian nationalists didn't like but if they spoke publicly about that..... goodbye7th floor window.... hello street!

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [3299]


uranium in the tobol river?

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none of the above are signs of a healthy society....

History / Why do Polish people hate to be called Eastern European? [121]


Technically in English....

Scandinavia= the mainland northern Germanic speaking countries, Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

Finland differs the above three not only in terms of language but also in culture, for example see it's fetishization of alcohol which has no counterpart in any other country AFAIK.

Norden = Scandinavia plus Finland, Iceland and the overseas territories of Denmark like the Faroes and Greenland and autonomous Finnish island of Aalund.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


Certainly reads like one...recently on a zoom meeting the issue of students using AI came up and I pointed out that in English AI has very clear 'voice' and it doesn't take long to recognize it, surely that's the case with Polish too....


Which?

Some fish and amphibians do, but have not heard of a mammal that produces sperm starting to produce eggs instead....


Yes, maybe at some point in the future it will be changeable but that is not now.

And yes, gender stereotypes differ a lot between cultures, though again there seem to be limits.... Is there any culture where young women 19-26 are charged with the physical defense of the group and are the first to be sent off to battle? Is there any society where young men of the same age are expected to be the primary caregivers of children?

The default model of original humanity (once a group gets big enough) seems to have a lot more sex-segregation than modern industrial societies... men hang out by themselves and women and children hang out together most of the time.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]


A lot of prevarication happened on all sides..... my current take is that the initial wave of covid was a really bad flu (far worse than the usual one with weird characteristics but mitigation measures ramped up the fatality levels (possibly on purpose).

Cuomo sent the infected into nursing homes which guaranteed a bunch of fatalities and Chinese protocols stressed intubating patients.... which again... ended up causing more harm than good.

And lockdowns, to the extent that they were observed did not have a good effect on peoples' immune systems.

Masks probably also did more harm than good especially since they obstructed breathing....

etc etce etc

I know a couple of people who died after getting covid and the common factor seems to have been waiting too long to go to the hospital.... a friend who had it monitored his blood oxygen levels and when they dropped under 90 for a couple of hours get himself to a hospital with all due speed and got through it (they said it was good that arrived on time).

When I had it the first time I never got below 92 (not great but not dangerous).

But how much public information was there about monitoring oxygen levels in the blood? One of the most important diagnostic measures and silence in the media from what I remember (I only knew about it from a friend in the medical field).

By May 2020 it was obvious that it was mostly dangerous to the very old and/or the already very ill.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]


No single observer/writer was more right about more things than Alex Berenson....

twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1783624890450317693


When are they supposed to swamp them?

Simple to give them real blood oxygen tests on the spot and send most away.... it's not like hospitals were overcroweded.... if they have the time for dance videos then they had time for that....

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Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


So Israeli men of the same age stay home while they send away the young women to fight?

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]


Then when did staff get time to make all those dance videos?

Any ideas?

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


that was my question...


is there a society that sends young women into battle first? Not Israel.... where women are in fact excluded from frontline combat roles.


Nope.

agencialocutores.com/can-rabbits-change-gender-sex/

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]


"Sorry that you couldn't be by Grandma's bedside as she wheezed her last in total isolation.... but check it out while we bust! some! moves!"


Most of them were crappy and leaky and rushed... not the same thing as intentionally poisoned.... it's my impression that the Chinese and russian vaccines completely failed while the others possibly mitigated symptoms (at best) though probably no one under 50 should have been encouraged to take them.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


No. Young women are inherently more valuable to a society than young men. Young men are disposable as the saying goes while young women are perishable (as their fertility diminishes).


It might have something to do with crashing fertility.... humans are a cishet normative species (because tha'ts how we reproduce) of course there is room for sexual minorities to thrive but "non-binary" nonsense doesn't scale up (it's not feasible on a large scale).

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


Weird idea..... fertility happens when sperm (produced by a man) meets egg (produced by a woman). At present there is no other way.

Two people who produced the same type of gamete will not reproduce.

Cishet normative.... that's what people are. Large scale deviation from that is a quick road to catastrophic population collapse.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]


the videos were clearly shot in hospitals....

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


gender doesn't really exist... sex exists and it takes one male and one female for humans to reproduce.... so it does depend on sex while those attracted to their own sex (a normal enough occurence) are not fertile on their own....