kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Товарищ Сталин, вы большой учёный... #stalin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohkmQfiwpZY

🇵🇱 "Ania pracuje w Świerku w Otwocku pod Warszawą, w jednym z największych instytutów badawczych w kraju – Narodowym Centrum Badań Jądrowych. A konkretnie – w reaktorze jądrowym “MARIA”. Jest tam jedną z najmłodszych osób."
https://www.girlsgonetech.pl/2020/11/05/chyba-najmlodsza-w-reaktorze/

@freemo @Gina

That's the problem with political labels - if you subscribe to any of them because you like *a few* of their postulates, it kind of comes bundled with the whole package of the worst ideas of random idiots who also happened to like a few 😂

@kmic

No problem, just be aware that this:

> pathology of my country

Is directly caused by majority of people in our country subscribing to this view:

> no need to discuss this topic further

😉

@teslas_moustache

When double checking I noticed DuckDuckGo is clever enough to return "baofeng" pages when you enter "boafeng" so no harm done 😂

@kmic

> we have short patience to abusers holding the power

The problem is that "abusers holding the power" are also Poles - once a regular person enters the government, they start doing what they've been doing all their life: cutting corners for personal benefit.

@teslas_moustache

It's OK, just reporting - it's consistently repeated across the whole article, including tables etc. Otherwise very informative text.

@kmic

This is part of the system - as I wrote previously, there's a lot of laws that regulate how lawmakers and judiciary should be operating.

If laws are enforced selectively, this applies to judges and lawmakers too, and this is precisely how you end up with corruption and incompetence.

@kmic

> common to post USSR world

It's much older than that - Polish culture generally is very individualist and show little respect to any rules 😉

Even in the communist times Poland was considered "the happiest barrack" specifically because enforcement of the Soviet laws was quite loose.

This obviously had some advantages back then but in general this attitude only leads to inflation of law and more half-baked attempts to stop negative trends, which are again enforced half-heartedly...

@teslas_moustache

> Boafeng

It's BAOfeng

@kmic

Polish culture of legislation has much improved since joining EU and the EU structural funds forced many institutions to start operating by modern standards.

The problem is that this does not apply to the most important layer: the lawmakers. There's plenty of law in Poland on how the law should be written, but it's simply ignored because the attitude is that you do not become a MP to be bound by some laws 🤦‍♂️

@kmic

So for example in Poland for years you needed a stamp on a VAT invoice, and then the invoice had to be signed.

And not only contain a signature but actually signed in a way that proved it was signed by a person, rather than printed with a copy-paste signature, so effectively you had to use a blue pen for signature.

In case of electronic invoices it was so extremely stupid and unusable that nobody actually used them because it was just risky.

@kmic

I saw involved in VAT invoicing and electronic signature legislation a lot. All that was based on EU directives, which give you a lot of options. Polish legislators always chose the worst, most idiotic combination, then added their own inventions (called "directive gold plating" in EU jargon), and then blamed this bullshit on EU. Other countries, such as UK, just implemented the most business-friendly interpretation.