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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
Have you actually read it?
A to na pewno. Jak mieszkałem w Polsce to korzystałem z ICM ale teraz widzę, że to jest po prostu http://www.meteo.pl/
As far as I'm aware:
1) very strong anti-nuclear movement
2) large industry that requires 24/7 power supply
3) 1+2= fossil gas is the only acceptable option
4) you can bully others to go anti-nuclear and resell them the gas you imported
Genetics should be a racism killer... in theory, because most nationalists/racists confronted with this dilemma just reject genetics 😂 This makes this lecture even more interesting:
"Superior - The Return of Race Science" 23 June
Churchill is a good example because in the UK he's perceived as a god who "won the war", while in Poland for example he's perceived both as a god and also someone who screwed Poles who fought for Great Britain and then screwed them second time in Yalta. Cossacks deported to USSR by his orders also might tend to differ on his assessment :)
Same as with the BCG vaccine which is against a bacteria (!) yet correlates with lower COVID-19 infections.
They key word is "could". Someone saw such correlation and wrote an interesting paper with tons of "ifs" and "coulds" and "more research needed", then idiots jump on it and make "INJECT BLEACH NOW" memes...
That's kind of my point in the light of calls to remove Churchill or Feynman (yes...). I have no doubts about Colston or Leopold II though.
Dumpling-making gun by the Saransk plant "Electrovypryamitel", photo by 🤷♂️ Alexander Ovchinnikov, USSR, 1969
(now I need to go and buy pierogi though)
When calling to remove statues of all people with racist episodes in their biographies just keep in mind that Margaret Sanger was an enthusiastic supporter of eugenics, ran a "Negro Project" & wrote about "sinister forces of the hordes of irresponsibility and imbecility"...
I know they do invest in Serbia as my colleague from Russia is helping to open a branch factory for a Russian company there. If they're just encouraging private investments then it can be only published by the Serbian government itself, but at the same time it comes with much less strings attached than direct government donation.
Prognozy są statystyczne, więc nie mogą pisać "będzie deszcz" tylko co najwyżej "na 60% będzie deszcz". To zresztą najlepiej widać właśnie na zdjęciach z radarów meteo i satelitarnych - chmura przesuwając się nad danym terytorium bardzo szybko zmienia rozmiary i kształt. Widać trend, ale czy dojdzie czy nie dojdzie to często czysta loteria.
You're 100% right and I've read a lot of similar research recently (listed below) that clearly indicates that if you engage with people, and present arguments, they are ready to change their views.
I do engage with people who I don't agree with (be it racism, be it environmental issues, be it politics) and while this can be very frustrating sometimes, I still believe it's definitely worth it.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.12568
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.12187#.XtezlXanM1o.twitter
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In other words, socializing with bigoted people can help them become both less bigoted, and less succeptible to following authoritarian leaders. If you can't handle doing that or you choose not to, no judgment. It's not compulsory and neither should it be. But maybe think twice before you accuse people of sympathizing with nasty ideas, just because they choose to socialize with people who broadcast them.
Poland, UK - all the same. This is especially ridiculous in Poland granted the amount of investments and structural funds we got from the EU and that 80% of our current exports are to EU.
But well, the problem is that EU is not really allowed to do any "direct democracy" with the citizens so all its PR is limited to small "funded by EU" plaques at some buildings etc.
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1) Violent protests aren't a good way to get your message across.
2) After relatively minimal violent protesting, both Microsoft and Amazon have ceased selling facial recognition tech to cops.
What was #1 again?
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Tech corporations demand "freedom" to exploit the software commons without contributing to it. To use open source communities and their volunteers as unpaid interns, while keeping the platforms they build on top of their work proprietary, and patent-encumbered. To ensure their ability to keep doing this, they run a constant PR offensive against copyleft licenses that oblige reciprocity, framing them as a denial of developer freedom (to prevent users and other developers using their freedoms).
Speaking of globalized digital economy, this is precisely how it works - note the "earned" part. And this is really great for global progress.
Who gives the most aid to #Serbia? In polls most people indicate China, while in reality vast majority of actual money comes from EU.
This was a huge problem in the UK as well. EU has a fundamental issue with PR as governments happily take many, present them as their achievement, and then blame EU for their own failings...
Oh I remember the reform of police and it did make a change because I was driving from Poland to Russia back then each year.
And I don't really believe in genuine popular support if you've got 24/7 propaganda going on, whitewashing all his mistakes and inflating achievements. This was 50% PR and 50% suppression of competing politicians.
It's statistically not possible that in a 140m country only 1 great politician appears... yet, somehow nobody emerged :)
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