Gosplan14_the_Third

joined 2 years ago

Slayers is great, especially the first two seasons, before it went anime original.

Oh hey, my family did this back in early 2010s Italy. The local gold and silver dealership proudly displayed a copy of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics near the counter, that was fun.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

New Windows feature... same as a virus?

Iowa man hauls grain, becomes involved in a minor diplomatic incident. Meanwhile, someone else on the ship wonders if he's fated to become his own ancestor.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net -1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it's a decent site. Their reviews are a good way to find out what seasonals are interesting, which are horny nonsense... and sometimes praise is given to shows that are both.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A country like Argentina, beyond its meat industry, isn't really a country with a significant impact on the environment - but this will hurt the local population.

By design even, considering what the aim of the current government is.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 45 points 9 months ago

Venezuela's economic crisis really began after oil prices fell drastically in 2014 and the west used Chavez's death/Maduro's election to increase pressure on the country via sanctions which for example made buying parts to maintain oil refineries difficult. Before that, it was doing about as well, or better (of course, failing to become independent from oil exports) compared to the other countries in Latin America.

Argentina was already in a crisis for the last ...20 years-ish, but this acceleration of the crisis happened in a week even as Milei backpedaled on some potentially damaging promises like cutting trade with China.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They will probably lose territory to Poland as well if this keeps up

Sigh

No they won't. It was a fringe position in the Polish far-right before the election and now that the libs have won it's even less likely to happen.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or, the fighting will eventually stop and the current status quo will remain permanent. It's hard to tell.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's less wacky politicians (though there undoubtedly are some that actually believe that) and more nationalist propaganda - showing Poland as an island of righteousness against the removed west or something. It's an attempt by the far-right Law and Justice Party to gain support via culture war and shocking people into disgust and hoping they back you based on that. Even at the cost of pretty blatant lies.

It works on my family, at least in part. 😕

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

0 chance. The SPD agrees, the CDU agrees, most of the AfD except the very nazi ones agree, the FDP and the Greens agree enthusiastically and likely even the Left Party is likely to have a sizeable amount of people voting for. Probably only the BSW (the left wing conservative splitter party of Sahra Wagenknecht) will vote against.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well, there's a bit of context behind it:

The name is a meme in Poland and comes from the 1969 adventure-comedy mini-series Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową (How I unleashed World War 2).

In the second episode, the main character is in hiding insideof Nazi Germany after escaping from a Prisoner of War camp. He is eventually arrested for an unrelated reason and this is the fake name he gives to the German bureaucrat using the typewriter. Unsurprisingly, he is baffled by the spelling, especially once he gets it right... since he gets an even more difficult fake birthplace to spell by the MC.

Edit: If you mean Grzegorz, it means George and isn't too difficult, I suppose.

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