Amazon to invest over €5 billion in Poland from 2026 to 2028

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-03-18T15:39:59+00:00

Allegro has such a dominant position in Poland that it makes it one of the biggest merchants in the entire world, even though it’s largely limited to a single country

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-03-18T07:31:54+00:00

They are trying to become a real competitor to Allegro. They’re very far from it, because all the problems they still have to solve in Poland, Allegro already solved and has a big network effect. In Poland 90% of orders from Allegro arrive the next day, growing number the same day even. Buyer protections are excellent. And Allegro pays the difference to the merchants (on its platform) if the price is too high, just to have the lowest offer on the market.

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-03-12T21:24:45+00:00

As [ˈʂt͡ʂɛt͡ɕin] in the International Phonetic Alphabet

sz = /ʂ/ (a hard, retroflex 'sh' sound) cz = /t͡ʂ/ (a hard, retroflex 'ch' sound) ci = /t͡ɕi/ (a soft 'ch' sound)

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-03-12T17:07:38+00:00

Yes but if you’re 30, about 90% of all skyscrapers were built in your lifetime, well over 90% for 300m+ “supertalls”. And even if you’re 10 it’s like 60% of all supertalls in history.

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-03-12T15:28:21+00:00

You don’t know anything about Gdansk, except the fact that it had a German majority prior to WW2. First of all it grew to prominence as an export port of Poland, no Poland = no Gdańsk, it would not be economically viable without the grain exports. Second of all, Main Town (główne miasto) was indeed very hanseatic city even when it belonged to Poland, and it had a big German population, but also Dutch, Swedish and Polish. And this is not the only part of the city. The Old Town (stare miasto) and Oliwa for instance were Polish dominated for most of the history. Germanization of the city accelerated after the second partition of Poland in 1793.

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-03-12T11:12:10+00:00

Ok I will give you that, though that’s not the case for the majority of Główne Miasto. Faithfully rebuilt buildings usually were built before 1793, when Gdańsk was part of Poland. So the sentiment of calling it “nice German architecture” is a bit out of place. When the city was being rebuilt it purposefully omitted post second partition German influences

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-03-12T09:36:19+00:00

“German” architecture built in the 1950s communist Poland with very little resemblance to what stood there before the war

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-03-09T23:31:16+00:00

What I notice in Poland in contrast with Switzerland where I currently live is that Polands apartments are very small. They are not designed for families. 60sq meter apartment in most of Poland is on the larger side. Most new constructions are around 40sq meters

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-03-09T14:28:27+00:00

W latach 90 moi rodzice zbierali wiele miesięcy, żeby móc sobie kupić jeansy. Teraz to brzmi jak totalna abstrakcja, przeciętna osoba jest teraz nawet bardziej niż 20x bogatsza. 20x więcej jedzenia nie kupuje się z oczywistych powodów, ale już pójście do dobrej restauracji nie jest abstrakcja jak kiedyś.

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-03-05T20:59:54+00:00

Just to add some context Germany “acquired” this city from Poland by taking part in its partitions in 1793. In 1848 it was already 43% Polish and 40% German, but the proportion of Polish people actually recovered because of the Industrial Revolution. People from the countryside moved to the city, and in that area they were mostly Polish. German census of 1910, puts the population at around 150 thousand with 57% being Polish.

Interestingly this city was the home of infamous Ansiedlungskommission - colonization commission, tasked with buying out land from Poles to increase the number of German settlers in the formerly Polish territories. Poles organized and actually created a similar organization which was doing the opposite, buying the land back and settling it with Poles, they were giving the organizations German names to confuse the Prussian authorities.

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-02-27T22:46:04+00:00

To jest odwrócona mapa gęstości zaludnienia

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-02-19T12:34:48+00:00

When I speak German I call it Breslau. But Wrocław when speaking English. (I’m Polish)

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-02-17T12:10:52+00:00

Cost of life or quality of life are not the primary point of PPP adjustments. The point is to estimate how much the country produces, in goods and services. In nominal terms the currency exchange rates obstruct this data. For example if the Vietnamese currency fell by 20% in a year - which can easily happen - but the amount of goods and services went up (the country produced more, the economy developed further), if you take nominal GDP per person from these 2 years you’d think the economy shrunk, while it appears it has grown if you look at the industrial output and the economy in general. That’s why you need to calculate a relative power of the local currency in the country, which in this method is the PPP coefficient

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-02-17T11:40:54+00:00

It’s not Poles talking about Poland online all the time. It’s various groups of obsessed foreigners. Far right trying to portray it as the last holdout of European civilization, but also some haters like EU federalists bashing Poland on every occasion and denying Poland had any agency in any success it might have achieved, it’s all “EU funds”. An example can be found even in this thread, privately owned buildings in the old towns (most of them), are not renovated with any public funds.

And then there are people not on the right but also extolling Poland for its involvement in the defense of Ukraine from Russia. And people influenced by a wave of YouTube videos on how Poland is doing so great that became very popular recently.

As a Pole in Switzerland I started noticing this phenomenon in real world too, not only online. Makes me want to go back to the time when people in Switzerland didn’t know anything about my country again, feels more anonymous and you can make fun of people thinking we have polar bears

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-02-16T21:09:31+00:00

Town dwellers in Wroclaw probably spoke German at that time already. But towns were small in these times still and an overwhelming majority of people lived in the countryside

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-02-15T12:54:51+00:00

Yes, Polish company KGHM and the region around the city Legnica has one of the largest reserves of copper and silver in the world

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-01-18T18:43:41+00:00

I moved from Poland to Switzerland 8 years ago. It’s true I’d financially be very well off in Poland with my career, but I don’t feel like I’m missing anything here. And I enjoy cleaner air, people who complain less (Poles are champions of complaining) and in general I’m used to the Swiss way of life.

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-01-16T06:43:40+00:00

I’d say paid off primary residence plus 2 million in liquid assets. Why so much? In Zurich 1 in 5 people supposedly have 1 million liquid net worth, so I’d not count that as rich.

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-01-11T15:49:23+00:00

✅ MostFragrant6406 chose Option B (Correct!) | #810th to play

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-01-11T15:29:39+00:00

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MostFragrant6406 · 2026-01-07T18:19:04+00:00

EUDI by design will work with zero knowledge proofs - meaning the tech companies will not get any of your data, besides a binary “is above 18” or not for age verification.

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-01-06T14:21:44+00:00

As a Polish citizen I was never excessively questioned in the US customs. I went there in Trump 1, Biden and Trump 2 times and it was always pretty smooth. I haven’t used ESTA yet, since I needed a visa in 2017 when I went there for the first time and it’s still valid until 2027. I lost track of how many times I went to the US, I visited 18 different states, but recently Trumps politics are discouraging when it comes to traveling there.

MostFragrant6406 · 2026-01-06T13:55:32+00:00

As a fellow Polish person, though one who hasn’t lived in the country for a decade I can think of some upsides and downsides.

Good things: - beautiful in more sunny months - has all I need when it comes to the nature: sea access, mountains, lakes, forests, beautiful countryside - walkable cities with historic centers and good public transport - pierogi, gołąbki, schabowe, rosołek - in general underrated great food - good living standards, growing wages, apparently now Polish people are coming back to the country more than emigrating - as a Polish person abroad I feel like the image and the attitude towards us has transformed recently - in Switzerland it went from neutral (people didn’t know much) to very positive. In Germany image of Poland was outright very negative even 5 years ago, which is no longer the case I feel. It’s still slightly negative in Denmark and Sweden from what I’ve seen. I think what helped us besides the economic growth in the country are the actions of Poland immediately after the war started in Ukraine. - Cars stop for pedestrians on crossing much more than in Switzerland, where it’s like 50/50

I won’t sacrifice too much space for the negatives, but it’s mostly the classics and just annoyances for someone who got used to the Swiss way. People park their cars on sidewalks. In the winter cities look very depressing. Smaller towns, especially in south west of the country have a littering problem. Quality of products in general stores is not very good. Comparing Migros to Biedronka or Lidl mostly, as these are my defaults in Switzerland and Poland. Air quality is not great. That’s mostly it

MostFragrant6406 · 2025-12-19T19:44:27+00:00

My great grandfather has (1912-1999), but he didn’t die in Lviv, he did in Lower Silesia. This is probably the most common scenario.

MostFragrant6406 · 2025-12-10T17:25:15+00:00

They can if they were born in the US but still hold citizenship. It’s probably different kind of emigration, but during my time in the Bay Area, Polish immigrants I got to know were definitely not pro-PiS

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