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SlowBloke posted:I didn't spend a single ruble in Moscow or St. Petersburg, only Euro notes or Mastercard. I think only in the outskirts, where there was no POS anyway, i had to use them. being able to pay with cards doesn't mean the transactions are denominated in your account's currency. usually your bank will perform a conversion at market-ish rate and charge you a small surcharge. the payee still gets local currency
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:being able to pay with cards doesn't mean the transactions are denominated in your account's currency. usually your bank will perform a conversion at market-ish rate and charge you a small surcharge. the payee still gets local currency That is accurate but the POS receipts were in Euros, plus my specific mastercard will always show the original currency along with the exchange rate if another currency is used. I remember mastercard exchange fee for Turkish liras to be lower than the average currency exchange point when I went to a restaurant in Istambul with an almost empty wallet and noticing it at the last day of the trip, cursing profusely for not discovering it earlier.
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I accidentalyy wore white-red-white today when I wen to buy cigarettes. Which under current laws is "extremism". I did not meet any cops but people stared
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Sekenr posted:I accidentalyy wore white-red-white today when I wen to buy cigarettes. Which under current laws is "extremism". I did not meet any cops but people stared
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Mr. Apollo posted:What is this about? Is poster in Minsk? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-red-white_flag
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Yeah he's Belarusian if I recall. That flag is basically the first post-Soviet flag, and has taken on an anti-Luka symbolism.
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Rust Martialis posted:Is poster in Minsk? Grape posted:Yeah he's Belarusian if I recall. That flag is basically the first post-Soviet flag, and has taken on an anti-Luka symbolism. Ah thank you 
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This week has been such hellhole for the flooding in Slovenia that it's flabbergasting. Apparently is as bad as it was in 1993.          Currently the death toll from the flooding was only 1 person, but 2 Dutch tourists got killed by a storm strike on a hill yesterday as well. Thankfully I live in a safe area, the only annoying thing for my family currently is that we had to buy bottled water *again*.
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Good luck, Slovenia. Maybe extreme weather brings Yugos closer a bit. Serbians watching storms coming from Croatia, Croatians watching water levels rising in Slovenia, etc. Comparing damages, sending help... 
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Appropriate article given the thread title. To give some context, Alberta is a pretty conservative province and this guy was in the provincial government’s cabinet. For him to speak out against this priest means that the priest must have been saying some pretty heavy stuff. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lukaszuk-poland-surveillance-1.6933104 quote:Canadian government probing allegations Poland wanted to surveil former Alberta cabinet minister Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Aug 11, 2023 |
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Haha, “Rzecznik Prasowy” means “Press Secretary”, it’s not someone’s name.
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Mokotow posted:Haha, “Rzecznik Prasowy” means “Press Secretary”, it’s not someone’s name. the dastardly criminal, Prawo Jazdy, strikes again
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We must protect at all cost, the national treasure that is … checks notes - the homophobe, pedophile defender, anti LGBT, prone to blackmail by foreign intelligence, Father Taduesz Rydzyk
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Mokotow posted:Haha, “Rzecznik Prasowy” means “Press Secretary”, it’s not someone’s name. Aw, they already corrected this. 
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Too bad, it had a great “…Mr. Prasowy said” line.
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a podcast for cats posted:Incidentally, this may or may not lead to a collapse of the uneasy ruling coalition and a reshuffle. We'll see. In short, Rinkēvič's party (JV) may have made a deal with two opposition parties to elect R over the the millionaire businessman who may or may not have been in the GRU in the 1980s and was backed by the other two coalition partners, including the nationalists somehow. So, the coalition is over, the PM is out. JV doesn't really have a good successor and the Vienna millionaire looks like an increasingly likely prospect for the seat. I'm not having a good feeling about this.
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JV went ahead and nominated the current minister of welfare, Evika Siliņa. My impression is that she's kind of bland, but supposedly competent (namely not involved in any scandals) background player and I don't know enough to say more than that.
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Her not being involved in any scandals aged worse than milk. In a relatively hosed up twist, a professional porn video has surfaced, which (edit: falsely) purports to show JV's PM candidate at some point in her past and there's some unsourced claims about organised crime connections, namely, her doing legal work for a organised crime front taxi company in the early 2000s. Both of which are clearly a smear campaign and the newspaper it's coming from has really murky ownership, but it's a PR nightmare for JV at a precious time. a podcast for cats fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Aug 19, 2023 |
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Hey, Lithuanians, why not just kill us? Dig a huge hole and throw us into it. It makes sense, no?
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Mokotow posted:What Lithuania's been slowly closing its border with Belarus for a while now, and recently a couple more border crossings were closed. Plus some local politicians once in a while like to pretend that thousands of IT specialists that moved to Lithuania either secretly support Russia or think that Vilnius should be part of Belarus, so they should be treated with prejudice when giving them work visas and residence permits. Probably that.
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A true revival for our Smolensk conspiracy chuds with the death of Wagner’s Pierogiman
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Anne Frank Funk posted:A true revival for our Smolensk conspiracy chuds with the death of Wagner’s Pierogiman i'll admit my first thought at the news was "putin brought out his plane crash ray to kill again!"
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Those god drat cast iron birch trees again!!!!!
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Donald Tusk, August 2022: "Nobody with anti-abortion views will be an opposition candidate next year" Donald Tusk, August 2023: "We are excited to announce Roman Giertych will be one of our candidates in Świętokrzyskie" Look at my opposition, dogg. We are never getting rid of PiS (For context: Roman Giertych used to be the leader of a far-right party called "The League of Polish Families" and he revived the pre-war antisemitic/fascist organisation, the All-Polish Youth. He used to be the minister of education in the first PiS government, between 2005 and 2007, and his tenure is remembered primarily for the anti-LGBTQ witch hunt he conducted in the school system)
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ffs The only upside is people do remember and the backlash against Giertych trying to weasel his way into the center-right is huge
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My biggest fear is that the people's hate for both PiS and PO translates into Konfederacja gaining an advantage during the elections.
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If we don’t have a series of failed minority governments over the next year - year and a half nothing will fix this country ever.
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in eastern-er europe news, Japarov's government still hates the press, and is trying to destroy the leading upstart kyrgyz media outlet https://twitter.com/katie_m_davies/status/1696189501138239622 on the basis that, among other things, it drives its readers to chemical AND non-chemical addictions, along with sexual anomalies > Постепенно их уделом становятся духовная подавленность, безысходность, тоскливое ожидание наступления жизненного краха, приводящие к развитию социально-стрессовых психических расстройств с агрессивно-криминальным поведением, сексуальными аномалиями, химическими и нехимическими формами аддикции, суицидальной настроенностью и другими нарушениями социальной адаптации. goddamn woke mind virus
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It’s called Kloop? Amazing. I absolutely don’t condone what they’re doing but I also see how negative psychological impact is a valid vector of attack. Online news portals are few and absolutely massive in Poland. They fight ruthlessly for every click, using all possible ways of manipulation, from typical clickbait through to black ux patterns. They create an alternative narration to reality and they’re just not a great place to spend tine for people.
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Mokotow posted:It’s called Kloop? Amazing. A (polish) friend of mine's father fell down the QAnon rabbit hole around the start of the pandemic. The man speaks no english at all, so it's clearly jumped the language barrier.
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:A (polish) friend of mine's father fell down the QAnon rabbit hole around the start of the pandemic. The man speaks no english at all, so it's clearly jumped the language barrier. People around 60 are super prone to be influenced by this poo poo. My mom and her brother both speak English, having spent a few years as kids in Canada, but have otherwise no connections there, yet they spend hours listening to right wing US podcasts and YT shows and will proclaim Trump at dinner.
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Mokotow posted:People around 60 are super prone to be influenced by this poo poo. My mom and her brother both speak English, having spent a few years as kids in Canada, but have otherwise no connections there, yet they spend hours listening to right wing US podcasts and YT shows and will proclaim Trump at dinner. Right wing propagandists know this and they feed the insecurity and uneasiness that older people feel by telling them "yes you're right to be scared, society is collapsing."
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Fascinating how its mostly the language that’s the carrier, and not nationality or a more common living experience. At first glance it’s absurd to be Polish and even consider Trump a part of your reality, but since the American right wing populist media has become so adept at spreading the fear, you get poo poo like German sovereign citizens, Canadian 2nd amendment right protectors and Polish Trump voters.
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Mokotow posted:People around 60 are super prone to be influenced by this poo poo. My mom and her brother both speak English, having spent a few years as kids in Canada, but have otherwise no connections there, yet they spend hours listening to right wing US podcasts and YT shows and will proclaim Trump at dinner. Different, but related phenomena: I'm part of a facebook group for english speaking expats living in Warsaw. At one point we had to purge the member list and restart the group, because it was invaded by english speaking US citizens of Polish descent, living *in the US*, who joined the group to post anti-black, anti-semetic, and anti-everybody-who-doesn't-vote-PiS memes, many of which were in Polish. So it seems, at least from this experience, that there's some sort of community of US based ethnic poles who eat a steady diet of TVP (and radio maria or whatever else) in addition to whatever rascist american poo poo they consume.
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:Different, but related phenomena: Oh, for sure. PiS and previous nationalist parties have historically always won the abroad vote. (and, as an aside, PO usually wins the prison and mental institution vote. this makes for great rhetorical bits for a week after the results)
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It’s funny because the most politically extreme Poles, and Europeans in general, I know are either living abroad or are the children of immigrants who have never been back to Europe. But they go on and on about correcting historical wrongs from like 700 years ago and how the EU is degenerate.
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