LittleKnownPoland

@Equites871 @SursautPatriote You have a lot of reading to do.

@SursautPatriote The nazi's were against russia, this is something completely new what we are witnessing. Why would a nazi support russia.

@Aurizard7 Humidity can make a huge difference. Damp and -5 is much worse than dry air at -20.

I will die on the hill that the same temp in Poland feels significantly colder than the same temperature in the USA and I can't pinpoint why

@agNavya I remember reading Harry Potter IV in a day when it came out.

Is it humanly possible to read 200 pages in a single day?

@TheGoldenDays CD drives had little motors in them, too.

If you know what this is, you had a real childhood

This is not a thing by the way. It's refering to Wierzynek in Kraków, which opened in 1945. Named after a certain Mikołaj Wierzynek who hosted a medieval gathering for European monarchs in the year 1364. A genuine contender for the title is Piwnica Świdnicka (Świdnicka Cellar) in Wrocław, which originally opened in 1273, but it depends on whether we require continuous operation. Piwnica Świdnicka was closed between 2017 and 2022, and did not function as a restaurant between 1945 and 2002.

Jan Styka - Bitwa pod Grunwaldem ​The Battle of Grunwald was fought on July 15th 1410 as part of the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War. The alliance of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the German-Prussian Teutonic Knights. ​The battle was one of the largest in Medieval Europe and is regarded as the most important victory in the history of Poland. ​Henryk Sienkiewicz later wrote: ​"The battle turned into carnage and pursuit. Those who refused to surrender, died. There had been many battles and engagements in those times across the world, but none of those alive remembered a devastation so terrible. At the great king's feet fell not only the Teutonic Order, but all of Germany, whose foremost knights supported the Teutonic avant-garde that was biting deeper and deeper into the Slavic flesh. Out of seven hundred "white cloaks" leading this Germanic deluge, only fifteen survived. More than forty thousand bodies lay in eternal sleep in this blood-soaked field."

@unchimico @salingergregor Nuts!

@salingergregor @LittleKnownPL Here in NJ, a beer at both the hockey and football stadiums is 20$+tax

has anyone told Americans tailgating is not a thing anywhere else? What is even the nice thing about having a bbq and booze in a parking lot??

@whisppy__ @lowkeyalbert Unless you're on an umowa zlecenie as a student, the exception I mentioned, you of course pay all social security contributions, that is health insurance, pension insurance, disability insurance and sickness insurance. The only thing you don't pay under 26 is personal income tax.

@LittleKnownPL @lowkeyalbert There are still things you need to pay for like insurance, but I don't think you pay security contributions. I just got a job and in the first meeting it was specifically stated that what you earn is what you get. So yes, the income is clean from any taxes.

When I was a child, I thought that if my salary is $3K a month, I’d have $9K in three months

@whisppy__ @lowkeyalbert That's only true for a specific kind of employment. With the standard employment contract that you get in your first real job after university, you're only excempt from income tax. You do pay social security contributions. What you earn is not what you get.

@lowkeyalbert In Poland you don't pay taxes until you're 26 so what you earn is what you get lol

@JamesGillespieX This debate aside, it is shocking how frequently people commenting on European history get that mixed up.

"Ackshyually, Poland wasn't in the USSR, it was only a satellite state" really isn't the argument you think it is

@salingergregor @grok research typical prices for beer and snacks at major NBA, MLB and NFL venues.

@LittleKnownPL hmm, idk what the price in the US is. Watching baseball in Toronto I found prices ok

@GringoPapist @_Zojka Fair enough

@LittleKnownPL @_Zojka I’m well aware lol. I consider myself American nationally not Polish. That being said ethnically and religiously I will always be closer than them. Don’t really care who recognizes that or not.

'Poles aren't civilised, they have to adapt to foreigners' Why? As immigrants, we should be adapting to Poland, not demanding that Poles adapt to us.

@The_Davos_Man I think what people don't understand is that you can lose a huge volume of water while the surface area doesn't shrink that much initially, depending on the lake's topography.

@PetrusRomanusX Maybe they're all doing the vegan wrap, I'll have a closer look next time!

@LittleKnownPL That's the law for Catholics. If there are any they sin. Is there something else you don't understand?

It's not a matter of personal choice in Poland. If you're a Catholic and you fail to abstain from meat on a Friday in a jurisdiction that requires it, you commit a mortal sin

@GamingMaoZedong @The_Davos_Man @grok Explain the relationship between volume and surface area in the process of a lake drying out.

The ecological devastation of the Aral Sea began in the 1960s.

@GringoPapist @_Zojka This might come as a disappointment, but most Poles today consider a black man who legally works in Poland and speaks the language more Polish than an American with "Polish heritage" who can't spell gołąbki. The latter claiming "Polishness" frequently being subject to ridicule.

@_Zojka My ancestors left Poland over a century ago and I have more Polishness in my pinky than his descendants would have in 1000 years.

@ejmarkow Those are pretty much standard now. Also for water.

The electric company Tauron came to my home in Poland today to replace the older interior electric meter with a newer, more sophisticated one. The new meter does not require a manual meter-reader to stop by, it is done by a signal (like a mobile phone) straight to the company.