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kondzior   
20 Mar 2019
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1033]

In Polish, "viva!" as an exclamation for "long live" is spelled "wiwa"?

No. There is not such a word in Polish.

So, "Long live Duda! Long live the Third Republic"?

No. "Wiwat Duda! Wiwat Trzecia Rzeczpospolita!"
kondzior   
13 Mar 2019
Life / Is it safe for Indians, Sikhs living here in Poland? Any Temple / Gurudwara in Wroclaw? [160]

So, diversity and European values have won another major victory in my city of Wrocław: last week, one Turkish citizen stabbed another Turk to death, right in the center of the city. With some bonus points awarded for globalism, because the whole thing happened in McDonald's restaurant.

Unfortunately, some witnesses had utterly failed to follow the proper guidelines, because instead of hiding or running away in terror, they went chasing after the perp, which resulted in him being captured by the police within minutes.

source in Polish:
gazetawroclawska.pl/wroclaw-atak-nozownika-w-galerii-dominikanskiej-ofiara-nie-zyje/ar/13951709
kondzior   
1 Mar 2019
History / History of video games in communist Poland? [7]

I still remember playing, as a kid, "Raid over Moscow" on ZX Spectrum. And bombing the Kremlin. It was very popular game among the schoolboys.
kondzior   
1 Mar 2019
History / History of video games in communist Poland? [7]

@renix
There have been no copyright laws back then, so the shops were selling cracked versions. You could also go to "giełda komputerowa" (computer marketplace) with your own magnetic tape/ latter with a diskette, and pay a small fee someone to upload the games of you choosing, from his collection. It was perfectly legal.
kondzior   
8 Feb 2019
History / Why do Polish people hate to be called Eastern European? [103]

What I dont get is why they always have to say they were under zabory instead of being prt of the russian empire.

Because term zabory means each part of the Poland annexed in 1772-95 becoming part of Imperial Russia, Prussia, or Austria.
kondzior   
15 Dec 2018
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

Amazing how climate change deniers suddenly become experta contradicting the overwhelming opinion of real scientists.

Usually from proponents of global warming you mostly get appeals to authority. I'm by no means an expert but I try and follow and understand the debate as it develops, and it is still developing as more data becomes available and more time passes so more observations are made which can be compared to predictions. Most alarmist who post on these threads don't even do that. Of course that is what is expected when you conclude that the science is already settled, you stop making the effort to be informed since you assume you are correct, and even further assume that those who disagree are anti-science idiots like those who don't accept vaccination. Such misplaced smugness on your part. What a tragic waste.
kondzior   
14 Dec 2018
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

No. Real and projected temperature rises are much faster than found in the geological record.

No. Try and follow along. The debate is how CO2 is warming the climate, generally referred to as climate sensitivity to CO2. We know for a fact how much direct warming CO2 will cause and we have good projections for how much CO2 we will put in the air. These give us a rise in roughly 1 degree Celcius over a century. And just for one century(which we are already a decade or two into) since putting more CO2 in the air has diminishing returns as far as how much warming it causes. Each additional bit of CO2 causes less warming than the bit preceding it. So after a century we won't really be putting enough carbon up to cause noticeable changes.

Climate sensitivity refers to the overall feedback in the climate system. Alarmist predict a sensitivity of 2-4 (or even higher in some cases) so that each degree of temperature change due to carbon will cause an additional 1-3 degrees of warming from positive feedback. Skeptics say that the climate sensitivity is lower than that or even possibly less than 1, due to the contributions of negative feedback. If we only warm by about 1 degree it won't be a problem and humanity and the planet will have no problem adapting. The economic damage caused by a few people having to relocate, adjusting which crops are grown in some areas, and other assorted adaptions will not be particularly large. Even if we get to 2 degrees the cost of adapting is still reasonable. It is only when you start getting above that that the term catastrophic starts becoming more applicable.

Fortunately comparing actual temperature data with the predictions of the studies touted by alarmist it looks like they are all uniformly way overshooting actual warming observed. So it looks like a climate sensitivity in the range of around 1, or maybe a little but higher, is pretty reasonable. When you consider how until fairly recently almost all of those studies made only minor attempts to model the effects of the ocean, largely due to the lack of good reliable data discussed earlier, it is no wonder that the models would all be rather inaccurate. It is also worth noting that with each additional IPPC report the predicted climate sensitivity keeps creeping downward. Already their lower bounds are basically in line with many skeptics positions.

Finally I would just like to throw out that if we were to reduce CO2 output in the way that alarmist say we need to then we would have to all go back to a pre-1900 standard of living. And even then they say it still wouldn't prevent most of the warming they predict. The cost of adapting to climate change is many times cheaper than the cost of preventing change even if the worst of the climate change predictions are true.
kondzior   
13 Dec 2018
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

This unprecedented speed in the trend of temperature rise has clearly (not) been caused by the CO2 emissions from the proliferation of herds of Aberdeen Angus cattle.

Unprecedented? Look at that chart, I put on the previous page. Average temperatures have been in constant flux throughout the centuries. The latest small rise is just a part of overall pattern.

Ancient Egyptians would have much more reasons to be alarmed about the global temperature changes.
kondzior   
12 Dec 2018
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

No. Do not look up to someone to trust, the figure of authority, like a sheeple. Examine the data yourself, and make up your own mind.
kondzior   
12 Dec 2018
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

If you haven't noticed the whole thing has become a gigantic business - grants, green subsidies, speculative investments, carbon cap trading. Plus political grandstanding and using "the crisis" to push for all sorts of political agendas.
kondzior   
12 Dec 2018
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

No one takes the mambo jambo of climate change denying neanderthals serious. Go visit your medicine man and ask for some herbs. LOL!

You don't ask questions - you repeat answers.
You was told - cow's fart! danger! wind generators! solar panels! biodiesel! biofuel! green! bright green energy! forbid! NPP! stop eating meat!

Bird brains will never dabble in science, but rather only parrot mass propaganda over and over. It just proves AGW is a religion for sheeple.
kondzior   
11 Dec 2018
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

People who do not understand science call it dogma.

Yeah, counter the scientific data with a joke.
Talking to warmist is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, then it sh!ts on the board and then struts around like it won the game.
kondzior   
21 Nov 2018
News / An EU army. Impact on Poland [155]

NORD Stream 2 is a telltale example of the kind of foock you Eastern-Europe can expect if we were to say yes to the creation of an EU army -- it will never be used to protect the Eastern Europe countries (or anyone else) from external threats, only to enforce co-operation from the member states and keep Europeans compliant under the threat of violence.
kondzior   
17 Nov 2018
News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Yet when you let them talk, and stick to the facts, they will start making fools of themselves sooner rather than later.

It's a mistake to assume that a majority of people can even be reached through argument, reason, facts, pie charts, etc. Most folks just don't care or refuse to even notice until it's dropped right in their laps. Like the old saying "we wait until a rainy day to fix the hole in the roof."

esquire.com/news-politics/a44782/donald-trump-the-wall

That's a pretty good article illustrating the phenomenon. An east-coast urbanite, educated and liberal, hates Trump and his proposed wall but travels to the Southwest and talks to actual people being impacted directly by illegal immigration and is surprised by what he hears. Even the majority of Hispanics down there hate illegals and want a wall!

It's just a sad reality of humans. We can talk and talk and show them Youtube videos and bar graphs and try to explain to them how the dominoes are inevitably going to fall and, sadly, a majority just won't accept the reality of it.
kondzior   
14 Nov 2018
News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

It wasn't that. It was mostly male supporters of PiS and football ultras, with a small minority of women and children.

Typical liberal/lefist/progressive answer.You can't deal with them, you can't reason with them. You can't negotiate with Progressives. It is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, then it sh!ts on the board and then struts around like it won the game.
kondzior   
4 Nov 2018
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Main division line is city vs rural dwellers. Cities vote for KO, rural areas for PiS. This is a problem for PiS, 'cause most of the seats of presidents and mayors of big cities will remain in the hands of opposition. Not that much of big deal from purely political perspective, but those seats are quite prestigious.
kondzior   
1 Nov 2018
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

- ruling party (PiS) won the elections, but they clearly hoped for a better result. Still, they've definitely gained more ground compared to previous local elections which is enough for them to claim it was a success

- main opposition (PO) went as a coalition with some leftist groups and they managed to more or less keep their possessions. They've lost centrists voters to PiS, but gained most of the far-left electorate

- as a result of the above, far-left and post-commie parties got wrecked, despite previous polls showing they will make a resurgence

- PSL (people's/farmers' party) lost many of their holdings, but managed to keep the solid third place. Although it's pretty much broadly accepted, that their previous exceptionally good election result was based on low-level election fraud, thus nothing really changed electorate-wise.

- independents and Kukiz'15 (Polish version of M5S) got around 6% each and will not matter much in bigger picture, although they might just be enough to tip the scales in some places,

And also worth noting: record high voter turnout for this type of elections.
kondzior   
23 Jun 2018
Travel / Monuments, statues, memorials of Poland [25]

Merged:

Giant statue of Jesus acting as a wifi hotspot in Poland



Poles are a very practical people, and installed a bunch of wifi signal amplifiers into the crown of the statue that improved the signal in the entire area.

wifi

fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polska/lubuskie-anteny-na-glowie-jezusa-w-swiebodzinie-po-co-tam-sa/5vcyr0t
Blasphemy? Or a modern way of paying tribute to the source of holy light?
kondzior   
5 Jun 2018
News / Poles march against Mandatory poisoning by vaccines [202]

Govts exist to protect society as a whole, not individuals per se.

So lefists really are that far gone, huh? Maybe they should warn the patients that complications may occur, instead of reassuring them that everything is 100% safe.

First result you get after googling "death from vaccines".
vaccine-injury.info
I'm not saying they can't benefit society; I'm saying it should never be mandatory, and that the risks should be acknowledged.

Again, liberal science at work.