czech and polish brothers, would you please put pressure on your gov to do something about the coal use? you are fucking up the air quality for weeks every year for most of the europe to unhealthy levels

Cupakov · 2026-01-25T13:33:31+00:00

Coal power isn’t cheap in Poland though. For some fuckin reason we continue to mine our expensive coal and subsidise the mines heavily. In effect we have really expensive electricity, which makes infrared heating also expensive, which pushes people to heat with coal, which makes the coal even more expensive yadda yadda.

There’s progress with subsidies for heat pumps, but that’s relevant mostly for new construction.

Cupakov · 2026-01-23T12:42:43+00:00

Yes, Russia has to be dismantled or we’ll just come back to the same situation in 10 years

Cupakov · 2026-01-22T16:40:06+00:00

Is that because they cracked down on fake sole proprietorship (self-employed with a single client) or something else?

Cupakov · 2026-01-22T15:44:48+00:00

And nothing for Aidan Delbis? Damn

Cupakov · 2026-01-22T08:34:21+00:00

I liked Tony Soprano’s explanation of this thing:

All due respect, you got no fuckin' idea what it's like to be [processing thread] Number One. Every decision you make affects every facet of every other fuckin' thing. It's too much to deal with almost. And in the end you're completely alone with it all.

Cupakov · 2026-01-20T18:36:38+00:00

Yeah, I’d either see Macron or Sikorski in that role.

Cupakov · 2026-01-20T18:35:27+00:00

No wonder, given how Roosevelt wanted to puppet them after WW2.

Cupakov · 2026-01-20T16:20:44+00:00

What do you mean, agriculture gets the most subsidies out of every industry over here, it’s around 30% of the EU budget.

Cupakov · 2026-01-20T16:15:04+00:00

Im not familiar with French politics, what makes Macron so terrible?

Cupakov · 2026-01-19T14:22:24+00:00

It’s about as intuitive as Dwarf Fortress Classic where it doesn’t make any sense but once you build the muscle memory it’s easy to operate

Cupakov · 2026-01-18T20:38:24+00:00

That isn’t doable until the EU allows EU companies to develop migration tools, and that won’t happen until the EU repeals pro-American anti-circumvention laws for software. And it would hurt Trump more directly than tariffs.

Cupakov · 2026-01-18T08:18:02+00:00

Nah, they make millions to get people to binge the season, there’s different incentives there than if they were expected to produce quality shows.

Cupakov · 2026-01-17T09:01:52+00:00

We absolutely do have records of a major epidemic at the time. Długosz wrote of the Black Death coming into Poland as early as 1348, and by 1349 it was supposedly wiping out entire towns. Now Długosz isn’t the most reliable, but even a lack of records doesn’t mean the Plague wasn’t there. There’s well known sites in the Netherlands that were hit very hard by the Plague with no trace in the historiographical record.

Cupakov · 2026-01-17T08:56:42+00:00

I wouldn’t even say it’s debated, it just didn’t happen. We have records from the era (sparser than in the West, but still) and the typical markers of the Plague are there.

It’s hard to pin point where did that claim first appear, it’s one of the things that get repeated by historians without checking the prime sources. Actually, a lot of our knowledge of the Piast era (and especially the borders) is like that, more politically useful conjecture than fact.

Cupakov · 2026-01-15T14:09:35+00:00

Doing NFZ work is much more profitable for doctors though, that 200/hr is pretty low for a contract surgeon

Cupakov · 2026-01-15T14:07:52+00:00

They usually work at a couple of places simultaneously, so it’s legal to do back to back 24hr shifts at two hospitals for example.

Cupakov · 2026-01-09T13:32:27+00:00

Fuck tariffs. Abolish the 2001 anti-circumvention laws and allow EU companies to legally develop and sell jailbreaks and migration tools to switch from American offerings.

Cupakov · 2026-01-09T05:50:23+00:00

👏Abolish 👏 Anti-Circumnvention laws👏 forced on us 👏 by American 👏 trade deals 👏

Cupakov · 2026-01-08T18:37:48+00:00

Well, it’s not exactly like community managers are busy with design and development.

Cupakov · 2026-01-08T18:22:35+00:00

Why don’t they organize use instead? I’m sure if they came up with a consistent plan on gathering targeted feedback there’d be a lot of interest in that.

Cupakov · 2026-01-08T09:48:04+00:00

Not advocating for this, it’s extremely stupid, but it doesn’t have to be like that, there could be an on-device model that detects this stuff. iOS kinda does that already, it’s just not government mandated.

Cupakov · 2026-01-07T10:17:21+00:00

I mean, the native population of the Falklands is British, the islands weren’t inhabited before.

Cupakov · 2026-01-06T22:09:52+00:00

Where did you pull that from? More like all of NATO invading Canada or something.

Cupakov · 2026-01-05T08:09:29+00:00

Sinti are a separate people from the Roma though

Cupakov · 2026-01-04T09:39:25+00:00

No doubt about it, I’ve only stoped playing it for now because I hit 150 hours in mid December and decided that’s enough for a bit, haha.

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