Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [230]


The murderer prevented nothing.

Stop digging yourself into a hole. You don't need to spew your filth in every thread.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [230]


If you know anyone who's got that, ask them.

And yes, coffin dodger, it was murder.


He didn't.

She had licence plates, that city has police.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [230]


Yes. It was murder.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [230]

That guy murdered her.

No good reason, no justification.

Next time it might be anyone.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [230]


You say "don't lie" then immediately you agree.

And yes, they didn't train their goons.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [230]


Yes


It wasn't.


Apparent they were so eager to hire thugs for that 'ice' thing that they took just about anybody and didn't bother training them properly. Even the former head of that organisation has admitted that.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [230]

Now they're shooting women in the street.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [501]


The regime are nevertheless copying their playbook.


They aren't.

Off-Topic / American Special Military Operation in Venezuela [347]


Something important to the orcs.

Really, if you're going to smuggle stuff or break sanctions, don't do it in a ship that's had six names and five flags of convenience in a short time.

People notice.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 28 [65]


Haven't been following the news much, have you...


Yes, and France will be there too.


Get some viagra. It's the pensioners' friend.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [501]


Some of those around him are far worse.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 28 [65]


It's dragging on because of the ridiculous pro-r*SSian behaviour of one of the parties in this. Even suggesting that Ukraine should surrender territory.

Do keep up with the news.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 28 [65]


Or 100% right.

He is a nutcase. Anyway, we're talking about his boss Putler, not your deteriorating country. Get up your ladder and wash some middle class people's windows. There might be more work for you now the Nicaraguans are gone.

The r*SSians are furious about the planned peacekeeping force from Britain and France. They can do nothing about it and Putler doesn't know how to react.

Life / Using less American stuff in Poland [32]


Well ahead of them in terms of computer goods.

Everything in the shops in Europe (and most other places) is from China, almost nothing from America. I bought a Yank vacuum cleaner called a Roomba however that firm's now filed for bankruptcy protection because the Chinese ones are less than half the price and better.

All this is sad. What's going on with the regime there is not the America we know and love. It's as if there's been a fascist coup.

Life / Using less American stuff in Poland [32]

Or the physical laptops from China, quite a bit of the tech in phones from around Europe. Even the word forum comes from what's now the capital of Italy.

Oh, and it all (as well as all IT) originates with a large and bulky thing with a lot of valves invented by a gay man in Lancashire who called it the Manchester Mark One.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 28 [65]


He becomes more and more unhinged by the day.

It seems he's trying to rush everything before the midterms when he'll become a lame duck president

And meanwhile, the queues get longer and longer in r*SSia, the ones that haven't retreated or fled from their attempt to take Pokrovsk are surrendering and they've lost the heavy crude and a few other naughtier things from Venezuela.

And next, probably Iran.

Food / Traditional Polish Soups. [96]

Might just be a recipe of his own, or a family one.

The condensed milk doesn't appeal much.

Off-Topic / American Special Military Operation in Venezuela [347]


The orcs are panicking about that ship they've boarded

6 flags of convenience and six names in 5 years

Very dodgy and interesting what's onboard.

Life / Using less American stuff in Poland [32]


Mostly not

It's recently gone bankrupt in the U.K. and in Poland it's not as popular as it was.


Sadly a poverty indicator


You can get decent enough yoghurt without all the additives. In Poland they like it with sugar in however there's decent stuff too if you buy yoghurt (which I don't).

The strict food regulations (the ones that mean there are not many American foods products in Europe) do help to maintain standards.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [501]


You'll quickly find that changes.


And that orange sociopath is likely to cause the opposite.

You have good relations with Denmark. Why threaten an invasion of their territory.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [501]


And in the other direction you've almost got a direct border with r*SSia.

Why wreck relations with Europe, including a massive loss of trade income, for the foreseeable future when Denmark already allows you to have bases there?

Off-Topic / American Special Military Operation in Venezuela [347]

Red and white, in English.

If anything I-S is ossifying into a pan-western ultra-reactionary. The best cure for that is Manti.

Life / Using less American stuff in Poland [32]


Most commercial pizza is like that now. Cheaper.

Europe seems to be moving (except for Poland and Czech, sadly) towards using fewer ultra-processed food items anyway; one reason that food exports from across the Atlantic are relatively small.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [501]


That's what it is.


And you had a long term ally called Denmark and very friendly relations with Greenland, including allowing you to have bases there.

There's no reason for the status quo to change.

Off-Topic / American Special Military Operation in Venezuela [347]



Crikey, are you turning into Renata?

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [501]


Payola?

Why not just not try threatening friendly countries?

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [501]


Treaties can be rescinded by either party.


They might find that rebounds on them, including tanking their economy when wealthy countries dump American debt and sanctions are imposed.

Bizarre, given that Denmark is a friendly country.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 28 [65]

Gross.

This is quite interesting. It looks like there's something in it valuable to the orcs.

"Despite not carrying any oil, the 300-metre-long ship is clearly of value. Theories for why range from speculation that high-value Russian weapons are hidden in the hull, to the ship's potential to become a symbolic trophy in a transatlantic power struggle between Washington and Moscow"

theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/07/marinera-seized-tanker-atlantic-us-uk-russia

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [501]


Entirely that. He wants to be in Mt Rushmore and either get a third term somehow or try to d secure a republican successor. Neither of which should ever happen.

Life / Using less American stuff in Poland [32]


As far as I know, there are some issues (which have become political) about permitted additives and what can and can't be imported. Also chlorinated chicken and some issues with beef.


I've eaten nicely there, especially pizza in New York. As in Poland and probably the U.K. though, it isn't actually cheese on a lot of pizza; instead, they use 'non-dairy pizza topping'.


Burger buns in McDonalds ar much the same.

There's a lot of product on Netflix and the other streaming services. In Britain at the start of the 90s they had to reduce the amount of American stuff on TV since it was harming quality (in part because of the footage from the cutting room floor they used to put back in due to differences in programme length and the adverts and in part because buying in is cheaper than making original content). This appears to have fallen by the wayside.

Unfortunately it's hard to avoid Microsoft completely (though I mostly do) and Apple (which is much better). There's always Deepseek rather than ChatGPT however that of course is Chinese.