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Posts by Bobko  

Joined: 13 Mar 2017 / Male ♂
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Last Post: 4 mins ago
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Bobko   
4 mins ago
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 8 [1284]

Biden was wrong and reckless in saying feds would pay for it all

The insurance company will have much to argue their position with a judge.
Bobko   
11 mins ago
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 2 [276]

To be honest I've never seen Georgia, Armenia, and Turkey and Azerbaijan even less, as European countries

Congratulations - you are a racist.

Armenia is the oldest Christian country in the world.

Georgia protected you against the Mongols. Together with Russians. It also is one of the oldest Christian countries in the world.
Bobko   
13 mins ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [598]

want to raise the birth rate make young people think there's a future... which the russian government is not doing

Yeah that's why South Korea and Japan are about to go extinct, because life there is so unbearable.

The problem is deeper.

It has to do with the extremely high rates of urbanization in our countries (despite its enormous size Russia is incredibly urbanized).

It has to do with misaligned incentives in the job market.

There are deep structural reasons, that you cannot solve by getting on a pedestal and hating on "Muslims".

Despite the Tajiks that killed a huge number of our people last week, most central Asians and Caucasians are agnostic.

Also, Tajiks have always been the least integratable foreign population. Because they are Persians, because they speak Farsi, and even in Soviet times had bad command of Russian - they have always been the outlier in comparison to Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Turkmens - who are much closer to us culturally. These Turkic peoples are easier for us to deal with than the Persians.
Bobko   
28 mins ago
Life / Fresh water fishing in Poland [7]

For me fishing is an excuse to take in natural beauty

For me, fishing is a great excuse to get drunk. Alone, or with friends.

Also, it's addicting, on the level of a casino roulette or a computer game.

I'm tired, I've been rained on for hours, my joints and muscles hurt, and I can imagine nothing better than going back inside and resting on the couch... but then I think - "One more cast".

In this way, I can stand in a single spot from 4 am, until 2 am the next day. Just switching my tackle appropriately.

Fishing can be obsessive. You never know when the next bite will come, and what will be sitting on that hook.

The funny thing is - I don't like eating fish. I like cooking it for others however.
Bobko   
32 mins ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [598]

Soon it will be theirs.

Given that Russians are still 80% of Russia, it will take a while before we become as brown as the UK or US.

In Soviet times, the country was less than 50% Russian, and it survived somehow.
Bobko   
47 mins ago
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 2 [276]

they also speak of Europe as if Ukraine wasn't part of it

"Europe" did a lot to explain to Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Azerbaijanis, Tatars and others that we are not "Europe".

Somehow, however, Kazakhstan gets to play football under the UEFA. Even though only a small part of Kazakhstan is European.
Bobko   
50 mins ago
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 8 [1284]

@PolAmKrakow

I think the biggest issue - is that a taxpayer funded reconstruction would be 5X more expensive than one paid for by an insurance company.

Everybody loves Uncle Sam's money, and when he pays for something - you do it as slowly, expensively, and idiotically as possible. He'll have no choice but to accept your revised budget.

Meanwhile, some insurance company will bend every contractor over backwards to ensure cheapest possible cost and rule out overruns.

So when the Feds bring the bill to the insurance company, it'll have a lot to complain about. Also, the people of Baltimore would likely be worse off in a government funded reconstruction.
Bobko   
54 mins ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [598]

sprats, bake your rock hard bread and serve up the inedible grey gloop

Who? Blacks and Hispanics?

I think they would find life in Russia, quite unbearable.

No welfare to exploit, but only back breaking labor instead.

Also you got guys like Patriarch Kirill, who I suspect would have a big problem with a bunch of Baptists and Catholics arriving. Probably much bigger than with Muslims.

At least the Muslims don't encroach on his territory, whereas the Baptists are predatory.
Bobko   
58 mins ago
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 2 [276]

I've noticed many RuSSians speak of Europe as if RuSSia wasn't part of it.

Who wants to be associated with that diseased corpse?

Australia gets to be called a "continent", even though it is 2.5 times smaller than Russia.

Antarctica also gets to be called a "continent", even though it's 3,000,000 square kilometers smaller than Russia, and is populated mostly by penguins.

Europe, meanwhile, is in reality an insignificant Asian peninsula, populated by wide eyed and pale skinned Asians, but gets to call itself a continent.

Not fair.

Russia should dig a deep canal along the EU border, so we can stop sharing a "continent" with you as*holes - and have our own continent.
Bobko   
1 hr ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [598]

Russian Patriarch Kirill spoke out against Islamic migration in Russia.

I hope Patriarch Kirill has alternative ideas on how to reverse Russia's demographic decline.

Perhaps banning all forms of contraception, and banning abortion might help.

Also, Patriarch Kirill could use his immense political leverage, to lobby a law that would make not having kids by 25 punishable by a ten year jail sentence. Just enough time not to ruin your reproductive chances, but also enough time to consider what an ungrateful person you have been towards the Motherland.

The fact is - the Russian economy runs on Central Asians and Caucasians. They drive our cabs, work the cash registers, load our trucks, farm our fields, remodel our apartments, and work onboard our fishing trawlers.

If Patriarch Kirill can figure out how to make Russians want to do those jobs, that would also be great.

Also, since I live in the States - I'm actually able to compare. So, I would take Central Asians and Caucasians over Blacks and Hispanics any day of the week.
Bobko   
14 hrs ago
Life / Fresh water fishing in Poland [7]

@dannytoro1

I love this guy. He is from an ethnicity I love, and he loves fishing.

If you like scuba diving and history - then we can be best friends.

I created fishing threads in the past, that got merged. I'm also very curious about freshwater fishing in Poland.
Bobko   
22 hrs ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [598]

A Polish general has been removed from command of EUROCORPS following a counter intelligence probe.

Lieutenant General Jaroslaw Gromadzinski had been serving as commander of EUROCORPS, a joint military group of some EU and NATO states, since June 2023.

From DW:

"Lieutenant General Gromadzinski had previously commanded Poland's 18th Mechanized Division in Iraq.

In recent months, he had been serving as part of the international assistance team for Ukraine in Wiesbaden, Germany, where he was involved in the training of Ukrainian soldiers."

Source: amp.dw.com/en/warsaw-dismisses-polish-eurocorps-commander-citing-probe/a-68685014

Such a pity. The man is a real Polish patriot and friend of Russia. Simply too bad...
Bobko   
23 hrs ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [598]

what if China wants to help Ukraine?

Of course. Help an American ally inflict a strategic defeat on your closest ally and largest neighbor, with whom you have more than $200B in annual trade.

Why not.

Ukraine will reward China by asking for reconstruction money, and a promise not to to use "Asian" or "Mongoloid" as an insult in public discourse.

America will give China a nice pat on the head, and permit them to buy chips designed in 2010.
Bobko   
1 day ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [598]

Iran, North Korea

Great allies!

Managed to supply us with more artillery shells, drones, and missiles than the entire West was able to find for Ukraine.

The dream, however, is that you keep poking and sanctioning China to the point where it decides to go from covertly aiding Russia to providing overt aid.

Biden banning Chinese access to modern chips, banning imports of Chinese EVs, banning the use of Chinese telecoms equipment, and excluding them from important scientific research projects - may one day convince China that it has practically nothing to lose by disengaging from America.

Can you imagine if Iran and the DPRK are able to out produce the West, what China could offer?

For example, China has a shipbuilding capacity which is 232X larger than that of the United States.

232 TIMES! Not 2 times, or 10 times, but more than 200X times.

Source: americanmanufacturing.org/blog/chinas-shipbuilding-capacity-is-232-times-greater-than-that-of-the-united-states/#:

If the Chinese monster wakes up, we'll probably have 50 artillery shells for every Ukrainian soldier hiding in a trench.
Bobko   
1 day ago
News / THE ARMY OF POLAND - THE REALITY [383]

@Paulina

If you don't train, you won't be able to fight.

As Russian Generalissimo Suvorov used to say -

"What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle."
Bobko   
1 day ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [598]

was not coordinated with Germany

Do you smoke crack?

Hitler was the one who insisted that Polish and Hungarian demands must be satisfied, if a Czech capitulation was to be accepted. The Czechs were ready to kick your ass, defend from Hungary as well. They had a massive army, with a military industry larger than Poland's.

Of course, Hungary took much more in Carpathia, but both countries benefited from Germano-Italian arbitration in those questions.

Also, if it's fair and square to take Zaolzie because it's majority Polish, then it's fair to give the Reich Danzig and the Pomeranian coast.
Bobko   
1 day ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [598]

that Soviet Union helped Nazi Germany

Poland helped Nazi Germany carve up helpless Czechoslovakia.

Hitler was an honored guest at Pilsudski's funeral - one fascist to another fascist.
Bobko   
1 day ago
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [60]

Playing stupid can be very effective

I noticed this around the time I was 18 or so.

My cousin told me I was rubbing people the wrong way, and I was genuinely taken aback. I never felt like I was trying to make anyone feel stupid, or being purposefully rude/arrogant - nevertheless this is how people interpreted it.

Now I make a lot more ass and fart jokes, and keep quiet unless somebody asks me something - and I have many more friends, and many more people approach me for conversation.

Once in a while I'm surprised at meeting some other nerd, and can see what people mean by it being irritating.
Bobko   
1 day ago
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [60]

Your IQ is too high.

lol.

You sound like my grandpa that would tell me about "diminishing marginal utility of intelligence at the right end of the spectrum".

That is, every point of IQ north of 100, provides less and less benefit than the previous point, until you become an insufferable as*hole.
Bobko   
1 day ago
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [60]

@johnny reb

Johnny - may I ask you a question, or two?

Is it true that there are "plenty of fish in the sea", or have you found "the one"?

Have you ever thought about entering a fishing competition, and giving a completely new meaning to the phrase "biggest catch"?

Do you typically bring along a fishing rod, or do you prefer to just "dive right in"?

Finally, are you ever worried about getting "scaled" by your aquatic partners?
Bobko   
1 day ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [598]

fire someone else next month

Well, this last firing is being interpreted in two ways in Ukraine itself.

1) Danilov was a total idiot. This is the most popular interpretation. He routinely pis*ed off the Americans with his public statements along the lines of "we're gonna keep hitting whatever we want, and nobody can tell us what to do". So one interpretation is that it became impossible for Zelensky to continue resisting American pressure to remove him as head of Ukraine's National Security Council.

2) The other interpretation is that Zelensky has become fully desperate while waiting for Western help, and is conclusively transforming Ukraine's war strategy into one of asymmetric strikes using their expanding drone arsenal. The replacement for Danilov, is Ukraine's former head of foreign intelligence. This could mean Ukraine has decided to in fact ignore any warnings from the West, and try get Russia to the negotiating table on their terms through a "drone bombing campaign" accompanied with a wider sabotage campaign.
Bobko   
1 day ago
Love / What to answer to the Most annoying phrase that EVERY and EACH polish girl always says? [58]

@Alien

Oh interesting, Alaska then.

They are cousins of our Chukchi and Koryak peoples.

The Chukchi and Koryak, are the closest relatives of all Native Americans/First Nations. Instead of crossing the Bering Strait and colonizing North and South America, they stayed in Siberia.

I'm curious to what extent the languages are still mutually intelligible.
Bobko   
1 day ago
Off-Topic / Feeling tired all the time [75]

Africa

As someone who has experience... unless you suspect outright criminality on their part - I would relax. It'll come at some point.
Bobko   
1 day ago
Off-Topic / Feeling tired all the time [75]

I'm 75-25 about quitting my job tomorrow.

Can't offer you any advice, but can only wish that whatever you decide ends up being the right call.

Do let us know what you decided.