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Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Is the thread decontaminated now, can topics actually relevant to EE right here and now be discussed here?

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Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

I understand being sick of clancy chat theorycrafting, but what I actually meant is, is the thread decontaminated from the mindset that we need a safe space to discuss EE matters pretending there's not a loving war just around the corner.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Edit: Oops I probably replied to something posted pages ago

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

cinci zoo sniper posted:

That’s definitely not my experience, by the way. It’s a “you can open balsam in office” day, and so it’s venerated with vengeance.

Intro to balsam pls. It did the rounds in my family in the nineties, when I finally got to try it I just asked “why would anyone drink this?”.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Without going into this to the level of American weirdness I’m basically half Russian. Having been the subject of ethnicity/religion based slurs for half my childhood I decided way back that I will never stoop down to the level of saying “ruski/ruscy”, which if you spoke casually about Russia with anyone in Poland is loving weird because what are you going to say, rosjanie?

I’m having a bit of a breakdown now and I think it’s time to give in because *gently caress* man ww2 level warcrimes, which I explained to myself up to now as a thing one might do with the baggage of having to go through 5 years of war. Looks like all it takes is a week (if that) of things not going to plan in a special military operation

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Ruski is pejorative but it’s used so often I don’t think it registers as such, applies both to people and language. Rosyjski/rosjanin is the proper term.

It’s constructed in the same way that polack is, that is take a word from a foreign language and write it in your own.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Mokotow posted:

I was using the term „rusek” all my life, not even as a pejorative, but someone was saying that it’s not fair, considering it’s derived from “rus”, as in “Kyiven Rus”, “White Rus”

Nah, that would be Rusin.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Mokotow posted:

Whipped out the ‘ol PWN dictionary (kidding, googled it) and it confirms both words derive from “Ruś”.

Eh, yes and no, as they say. To tell someone that they shouldn’t be saying Rusek because that’s someone from Rus is disingenuous. In Rus times no-one in Poland was saying Rusek about Rus people.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Approaching zero

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

There is literally 1, maybe 2 evs which can accommodate a 2+3 family, especially if you want to put proper kid car seats in the back.

Not to mention the cost vs a 10 year old Volvo v70

I suppose I should have heeded the child free memo a few years back.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Oracle posted:

They don't have Toyota Prius' there?

too small - at least according to my wife

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Mr. Apollo posted:

Somewhat related, but I just learned the other day that Old Believers don’t worship the pre-Christian gods.

Why would you assume we do?

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Jesus christ what the gently caress, pis made viagra over the counter some years ago, then they criminalized abortion, now they are making cialis OTC as well. Come get your dick pills here, EE denizens.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Watch Orban do the kristallnacht but for all small business owners, not just the ones of a particular race.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Mushroom Exclusionary Eastern Europeans itt.

Good mushroom:

1. Oyster Mushroom sliced in wedges and fried a'la wiener schnitzel
2. Chanterelle in runny scrambled eggs
3. Field Mushroom wedges sautéed and tossed with lemon juice

Absolute masterclass
1. Red Pine Mushroom sautéed in butter with salt and pepper
2. Parasol Mushroom fried whole a'la wiener schnitzel (good luck not dying, since it looks abut the same like the deadliest mushroom of them all)

Give me none of any of the following (a.k.a. i reject my eastern european heritage):

- marinated slimy poo poo mushroom
- mushroom soup of any kind
- pedestrian poo poo like the dreaded common mushroom in any form


haven't tried truffles, don't care.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

SlowBloke posted:

The fried parasol is honestly mundane and subpar(if it’s not fresh it’s like eating cardboard), esp given the risk of grabbing a lepiota muscata if you don’t know the difference.

I think I only ate them fresh since you have to pick it yourself. Lmao if you trust a roadside vendor with your liver and/or life.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Apart from track gauge, aren’t there like 5 different electrification standards to unify or else you’d have to use trains which are compatible with all of them?

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Jeb obelisks indeed

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

oko.press with the @visegrad24 expose

https://oko.press/visegrad24-zwolennicy-trumpa-tajemnice-konta/

in short: run by Polish equivalent to maga chuds with ties to Polish MFA

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

mobby_6kl posted:

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/09/17/Poland-opens-canal-to-Baltic-bypassing-Russia-territory


Elbląg is the only major population center there and Gdansk is like 50km away so I dunno how much of a big deal this is in practice, but still good to get rid of this dependency. They say it's 5km west of this town, which would put the canal at the widest spot of the isthmus lol. Maybe it's supposed to be East, or there wer eother considerations.



I believe it actually is on the east side of Krynica and that’s the only thing that makes sense about it. welp…
1. It’s too narrow and shallow to be useful.
2. There was no need for it anyway. Elblag is a dead port and not for the lack of canal
3. They promised billions in amber, as in just digging the canal would pay for itself tenfold, there was no amber.

That’s of the top of my head, but there’s probably more

Anne Frank Funk fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Sep 17, 2022

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Any sort of stability on a governmental level in EE causes long term adverse effects to a much bigger extent than continuous strife, chaos and strained coalition making. To that effect Cinci, I think your guys are doing great and I wish them perpetual, tortured and fruitless effort.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

FishBulbia posted:

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1591146744196526080

New Polish ideology dropped. Anti-fascism anti-communism anti-anti-fascism anti anti communism, and contingent practice of Anti-Russian Anti Anti-Russian Anti-Ukrainophobia Ukrainophobia.

For every one of these there is always one of these

https://twitter.com/elvisco88900672/status/1591355622296981504?s=46&t=E0Xs_TeGcmDSqlfp5D0kNw

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

That last one is a mindbender

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Isn’t he as of now in prison?

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

PiS stooges at visegrad24 call for article 5 after 2 missiles hit right at the Polish border

Anne Frank Funk fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Nov 15, 2022

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

advanced statsman posted:

What I don’t get about Visegrad24 is that one day they’re Orban propaganda, then the next day they’re anti-Russian. Who actually operates it? All I know is that the website is registered in Slovakia.

Here you go:

Anne Frank Funk posted:

oko.press with the @visegrad24 expose

https://oko.press/visegrad24-zwolennicy-trumpa-tajemnice-konta/

in short: run by Polish equivalent to maga chuds with ties to Polish MFA

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Mokotow posted:

Anyhow, back in XIX-th century every partition built their train track system separately - thus this popular map, which is still up to date for the most part.


that map is accurate enough in the russian part, way too dense in the prussian part for up to datedness

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

I found out the only way I can stomach herring this year. My family refused to prepare it that way for 24th

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Pouring one out for dunkin donuts, which while dreadful in their own way were a nice respite from the tyranny of pączki both times they tried to establish in Poland.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

I would make an effort post on what’s up in Poland but I don’t have the gut for that mess. What a loving terrible mess of a country.

Anne Frank Funk fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Mar 7, 2023

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

mobby_6kl posted:

^^^
Thanks. Here's the thread unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1633242961549877248.html


Could people please post links or at least some context beyond saying how things suck? It comes across pretty cryptic especially if you read it like a day later and the story is no longer in the headlines. I think I managed to find the Guardian article on Poland though: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/07/poland-ruling-party-under-fire-after-suicide-of-opposition-mps-son

I regained my constitution somewhat. Let me put things in perspective. TW: suicide

1. there was a pedophile in the ranks of PO, he had access to children of politicians and eventually he molested and drugged kids of PO MP. The court proceedings were done in secrecy so as not to put additional stress on the victims.
2. the pedophile has been sentenced
3. concurrently we now witness breaking down of the last taboo w/r/t openly speaking about john paul 2 as a church pedophile enabler (it has long been suggested that he simply didn't know what was going on, now we have documents, including ones signed by karol wojtyła himself prior to becoming the pope, where he instructs to keep things quiet about pedophilia of his subordinates and to move them to another place - standard church procedure). To the extent that even strongly catholic media and journalists admit that it's a scandal (well, some of them because there's no fixing the cancer that is pis and its admirers.
4. since it's apparent that the pope related stuff is going to be present in the public discourse and of course pis has to regain control by any means necessary, a pis adjacent journalists posts about the up to now secret court proceedings about the PO pedophile, including easy to trace information about his victims. In no vague terms the narrative is set to imply that PO and in general political opposition want to bring the church down while at the same time hiding and protecting pedophiles in their ranks.
5. this is quickly digested by the media at large and pretty much instantly everyone knows who did what, to whom.
6. this results in the suicide of one of the victims
7. pis DOUBLES DOWN, what else could we expect. Victim blaming, blaming the mother, blaming PO representatives for deanonymizing the victims (yes, the thing that the pis lackey did is now PO's fault because, once it was already out in the open, one of the PO guys said that yes, the matter concerns children of PO politician.) Just unbelievable stuff, incessantly hammering it in public tv.
8. pis also doubles down on loving the loving pope, putting banners with him and his famous "do not be afraid" quote all over social media

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Not one, but two... two bills to put in law the protection of good name of Karol W., former head of the Vatican will be voted on in sejm. Or perhaps signed into law by acclamation?

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

USA’s hybrid warfare against Polish society actually.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

cat botherer posted:

I'll admit that I'm not massively plugged into Polish culture and politics, but drat this an incredible hill to die on.
They will not die

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

New pis narrative:

No one in the US desecrates the memory of Reagan

No one admonishes the founding fathers for owning slaves

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Precisely the point, I assume is to put people who criticize established figures on the level of “no one”

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Ziobro should be legally forbidden to be in the vicinity of a gun, not to mention actually carrying one. He is a textbook example of persecution complex

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Polish national rail decided to suck the pis dick dry and, for the glorious occasion of the 18th anniversary of the death of the greatest pedophile enabler in recent history, AIDS promoter and protector of rape induced embryos, they are giving every passenger of intercity trains in Poland a literal creampie (ok, cream something, but the creampie joke is established here already so whatever).

Papa John enjoyed his creampies as a wee lad under the protectorate of sex pest cardinal Sapieha, and so now we are forced to as well.

There is an official statement warning the passengers that they are going to get creampied during their journey, being announced through the loudspeakers of our pedolino trains today. Curiously, the blessed communique is only spoken in Polish.

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Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

Polish friends, you wish it was a fantasy of a diseased brain.

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