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Bright Bart posted:It's certainly not progressive and this kind of joke wouldn't pass the editor for near any other ethnicity. (Poles like Czechs and Lithuanians are far too white for making fun of them with stereotypes to be considered punching down, while at the same time those stereotypes are the same ones the most privelleged white people have of other groups being less intelligent, less educated, monolingual, greedier and lazier but at the same time somehow more 'real', handy and family oriented).) But I guess we all do know this guy he very much exists: Is there a Sopranos-equivalent for Polish-Americans, doing extreme  s one after the other?
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The best street food is grilled cheese dumplings (the one that look like pierogies) from the stalls selling góralskie sery and homemade cranberry sauce. Except they started to serve pure cow's milk cheese instead of the ones they sold in block and served it with cranberry sauce out of a supermarket container rather than the stuff they sold in jars.
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Bright Bart posted:pierogies how dare you
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Feb 28, 2024 14:40
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Bright Bart posted:The best street food is grilled cheese dumplings (the one that look like pierogies) from the stalls selling góralskie sery and homemade cranberry sauce. Are you talking about oscypki or something else?
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Feb 28, 2024 14:48
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Yeah you can get small pierogi shaped oscypki and they usually grill them, unlike the larger can-sized variety.
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Feb 28, 2024 15:10
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Rappaport posted:Is there a Sopranos-equivalent for Polish-Americans, doing extreme The season of The Wire focusing on the dockyard has Polish-American gangsters. It's one loose set but the 3 main dudes are very different. Dude 1 and the children he uses as runners dress and act like they're in a bad rap video. People low-key thinks he's a bit of a clown because of this (as Dude 3 lets him know). He does have a bit more street smarts than people given him credit though. Dude 2 comes from a little bit of money and has a big daddy's boy complex. He's trying to become Scarface without putting in the work. Combined, he gets less respect than even Dude 1 not just from gangsters of other ethnicities but from his own as well. Dude 3 is Dude 2's cousin. He doesn't try to be anything he's not. This gets him some respect and so he can deal with people higher up enough in other sets and get a better deal on heroin. Even the killers don't really see a point of crossing him since he's a more serious dude. But that same pride has consequences: he is basically a part-time drug kingpin who won't give up on his dream of being a full-time union employee like his dad. So he works what in British English is called a "zero hour" contract where you must be ready to work any days of the month but are not guaranteed more than a handful, and he lives with his parents and is constantly broke despite being the nominal top dog.
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Bright Bart posted:It's certainly not progressive and this kind of joke wouldn't pass the editor for near any other ethnicity. (Poles like Czechs and Lithuanians are far too white for making fun of them with stereotypes to be considered punching down, while at the same time those stereotypes are the same ones the most privelleged white people have of other groups being less intelligent, less educated, monolingual, greedier and lazier but at the same time somehow more 'real', handy and family oriented).) But I guess we all do know this guy he very much exists: Slavs are kinda "white enough to make fun of them, not white enough to treat them equally" people, especially in Western Europe.
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Rappaport posted:Is there a Sopranos-equivalent for Polish-Americans, doing extreme Season 2 of The Wire has its story kick off due to a rivalry between two Polish Americans beefing over who gets to donate a stained glass window to the community church. 
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Feb 29, 2024 02:15
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I thought "polish jokes" were gone, but like Ted Turner they can't die. I've seen Cringey McBoomerface Jon Steward use one pretty recently.
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alex314 posted:Cringey McBoomerface Jon Stewart is pretty much square in the middle of gen x
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:Jon Stewart is pretty much square in the middle of gen x He was born in 1962, so he's late boomer.
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Feb 29, 2024 14:20
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alex314 posted:He was born in 1962, so he's late boomer. chronologically maybe, but not culturally the guy was the host of short attention span theater, hung out with janeane garofalo, and was in half baked, the guy is gen x
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Szarrukin posted:Slavs are kinda "white enough to make fun of them, not white enough to treat them equally" people, especially in Western Europe.
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Navalny’s funeral is taking place now. Over a thousand people showed up, despite access being limited by throngs of security forces and mobile reception getting jammed. The Kremlin via Peskov, being its classy self, refused to comment. Navalny’s body was not made available to the family on time. I wonder if this is the darkest moment before dawn type of situation for Russian opposition. I don’t think they’ve ever had things as dire post 89.
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I read yesterday that his family was having trouble getting his body to the church because hearse drivers were refusing to transport his body.
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It was worse - most churches and funeral parlors refused service, and its hard to say if this was purely out of fear or whether pressure was exerted. Good to see someone stepped up.
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Funeral services in Russia are a massive racket, usually controlled by ex-cops or their families, depending on administrative connections to maintain control over the client flow straight from the hospitals and over precious graveyard land.
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Mar 1, 2024 13:28
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fatherboxx posted:Funeral services in Russia are a massive racket, usually controlled by ex-cops or their families, depending on administrative connections to maintain control over the client flow straight from the hospitals and over precious graveyard land. yeah, ivan golunov's famous trumped up drug charge stemmed from an investigation into that https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/07/01/bad-company
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Mar 1, 2024 20:33
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Good news, finally found the elusive luxurious Polish product!
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Actually Polish and German and basically all European bathroom tissue is trash even the higher end rolls. Some EU agency needs to get on this. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Speaking of consumer protection GDPR is cool and all but your right to things like accessing a copy of your data or having it erased or at least have it stop being processed is inconsitantly applied. Very inconsistantly. I'd say maybe half of the times I made a GDPR request there was an adaquete response, if there was one at all. Some Spanish lawyer was saying yeah you can contact the data regulator in your country when that happens but he's done this numerous times on behalf of clients and never recieved a response to a single email or letter, that registered letters he's sent on law firm envelopes just get refused and sent back, and nobody has ever picked up the phone when he called. So he sadly doesn't even accept these cases anymore. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Mar 5, 2024 09:03
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Laws are only as good as states are willing to enforce them. The GDPR is pretty toothless in the more corrupt parts of Germany as well.
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Right to be forgotten has some serious limitations where I need to keep transaction data about you for regulatory or audit purposes.
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Rust Martialis posted:Right to be forgotten has some serious limitations where I need to keep transaction data about you for regulatory or audit purposes. Yup. Sometimes for years. But by complying with your request the company cannot store that unrequired data (which is often what you want gone), they can no longer sell or trade any of your data (well they can but it'd then be a risk of a class action lawsuit down the line as opposed to individual complaints to regulators), they can no longer use your data in new ways(*), and they won't send you email updates from different accounts you chase blocking which while not harmful are annoying since you don't want to be a user anymore anyways (unless the system just keeps doing it). So yeah, a lot of caveats. *This is the insidious one. Companies have done worse than change their privacy policy from 'Your data will be stored encrypted, entirely on EU servers. We will never sell, trade, or share your data with any outside entity. Your data will never be used for marketing purposes. We will only provide your data to law enforcement or other government agencies when we are provided with a legitimate, binding court order that has been reviewed by at least two separate members of our legal team and challenged if this is possible. We will compensate you fully for any damages that occur as the result of an unlikely data breach.' to 'Your data will be stored on carefully chosen commercial servers. We will exchange your data only with our trusted partners. Your data may be used for marketing purposes in a legal manner. We will provide your data to law enforcement or other government agencies only with a written request. We will notify you of any data breach that may affect your data should this be required by law in your jurisdiction.' Sometimes the change is all at once. And if you can't opt out of the process you can't opt out of the change in policy.
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Counting down my three favourite excuses not to comply with a request: 3. GDPR concerns user data and not user accounts on an website, application, or service or your continued status as a user. We do not delete accounts, and as your data is tied to these accounts we have no way of erasing it. 2. You are not a user, but a valued data-partner. 1. Of course we are more than happy to help our users exercise their rights. And we assuredly comply with any local, national, or European laws where this is physically possible. However our service does not currently have a process for disclosing, stopping the collection, or erasure of user data.
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Using facial recognition technology, police in Russia have started arresting people who attended Navalny's funeral. https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/03/05/russian-authorities-using-video-footage-to-identify-and-arrest-people-who-attended-navalny-s-funeral quote:Russian authorities using video footage to identify and arrest people who attended Navalny’s funeral
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Anyone here seen The Regime yet? Haven’t heard about it up until today, apparently it has Kate Winslet playing the chancellor of a non-descript eastern European country sliding into autocracy.
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In a move that shocked absolutely nobody on the left, Szymon Hołownia has decided that we don't need to discuss abortion rights in the Sejm until after the local elections are held in April. https://oko.press/holownia-mrozi-aborcje-a-jego-wyborcy-chca-tej-ustawy (Sorry for the lack of translated quote, not feeling particularly hot today)
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My hands-down favourite milk bar, conveniently just down the block, is closing at the end of the month. Other thn having spectacular food, the proprietor is the kindest business owner I've met. She hardly deserve that job description. She would offer off-menu 'half size' meals (which were a tually more than half the size) to those who looked like they needed to watch their wallets. And gave the people asking for them things like an extra meal to go if they looked like they needed that too. As for everyone else, you got freebies more often than not. Or if you went to order something small afterwards like a drink or a small dessert your wallet would get waved away too. But that is unlikely to be the cause of going under. It's right by a busy tram stop and next to a business park. It's packed all the time and the prices aren't any lower than the average. Maybe a grosz higher. She says that she can't find employees because they can't afford to live on what she can afford to pay them and she can't afford to pay what they can live on. And that she can't get by charging the prices she does, but charging enough to get by would mean nobody could afford to eat and she'd go bankrupt just as quickily. Been in business 21 years RIP to a real one
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That sucks! Milk bars are excellent and the new one that cropped up in the last few years seem to be doing great. It’s the old established ones that are packing it in.
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armpit_enjoyer posted:In a move that shocked absolutely nobody on the left, Szymon Hołownia has decided that we don't need to discuss abortion rights in the Sejm until after the local elections are held in April. surprised_pikachu.jpg I never had high hopes about our new government and yet they still manage to disappoint me.
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quality bits from eastern europe emigre academia twitter https://twitter.com/k_sonin/status/1767788769887862977 like sure there is one thing they agree on but
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:quality bits from eastern europe emigre academia twitter Okay sure that seems like patting ourselves on the back but "In the 21st century Poland leads Europe" is exactly the kind of overenthusiastic message you might come across in politics/economics-focused media written by authors from the United States, France, or Singapore who have no Polish heritage and no skin in the game. It's just a headline that's floating around right now even more so after the elections.
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Has any Czech goon here had a chance to seen The Spaceman? I'm genuinely curious if Adam Sandler's accent is a genuine attempt at a West Slavic accent, broadly eastern european maybe with some Russian or Hollywood Transylvanian thrown in, or just played for laughs as foreign e.g. Borat?
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You're asking if I voluntarily watched an Adam Sandler movie? From the trailer at least it seems that his accent isn't particularly heavy or distinctive, which I guess is better than doing a Borat in what looks like an attempted serious movie.
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mobby_6kl posted:You're asking if I voluntarily watched an Adam Sandler movie? Uncut Gems is a seriously amazing movie, don't count out adam sandler
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Oh I didn't realize it wasn't a goofball comedy. But yeah Sandler's won me over when he plays a real person and not a caricature. I didn't give that to him easily since I found him outright grating when doing schtick.
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I looked at the trailer and I don't think he is doing any accent?
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Bright Bart posted:Has any Czech goon here had a chance to seen The Spaceman? I'm genuinely curious if Adam Sandler's accent is a genuine attempt at a West Slavic accent, broadly eastern european maybe with some Russian or Hollywood Transylvanian thrown in, or just played for laughs as foreign e.g. Borat? Frankly I'm too scared to watch it
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This is my bad all over. It's not out yet and it isn't meant as a goofball comedy. I mean, I still am kind if curious how they'll get the accent but I'm putting away my pitchfork.
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