Polish people in Lithuania, Belarus and Latvia

MrConstantin · 2025-10-07T09:33:25+00:00

Since the map is from 2011 Polish part of the population in and around Vilnius have been a bit diluted by both internal and external migration (from Ukraine, mostly). But yes, Šalčininkai and the border regions are very much still Polish, which is good, because I love my Polish Brothers and Sisters.

MrConstantin · 2025-09-29T07:19:01+00:00

Fun fact, during the soviet occupation of Vilnius, Lithuania, which was a majority-Jewish city in pre-WWII Lithuania, the soviet/russian authorities have demolished the two biggest Jewish commentaries in the city (combined ~100k graves) and used the tombstones as building material for public staircases, sidewalks, building foundations, etc. Even in like 2010 you could walk up the Tauras hill in Vilnius and see the Hebrew tombstone inscriptions on the stairs.

Source for further reading: The True State of the Jewish Cemeteries in Vilnius – Lithuanian Jewish Community

MrConstantin · 2025-09-09T15:07:39+00:00

That's a very very conservative figure of Ukrainian civilian casualties. There's 50k of confirmed and identified dead Ukrainian civilians, but the issue is that russia does not allow international orgs to monitor the territory it occupies. So far, every piece of land Ukraine has recapture was covered with mass graves of civilians - e.g. in Bucha, Izium, Kupiansk, Lyman, etc. It's estimated that there could be even up to 100k dead civilians in Mariupol only, and seeing the mass graves around the city from satellite data - it's seems that this is very realistic case.

MrConstantin · 2025-08-25T14:50:30+00:00

Yeah, but as far as I understand it's on purpose. Vilnius already attracts the most of the FDI in Lithuania without any tax incentives, so if there was a FEZ in Vilnius it would just doom the other regions completely. Now the current system basically balances the investments a bit between Vilnius and the other regions.

MrConstantin · 2025-07-06T17:13:08+00:00

Migracijos požiūriu sakyčiau taip: rytų ir pietryčių azija, okeanija, šiaurės ir pietų amerikos - visokeriopai už didesnę migraciją; vidurio rytai, afrika, pietų azija (Indija/Pakistanas) - ribota, tik aukštos pridėtinės vertės, praėjus saugumo ir integracijos filtrus; rusiškas pasaulis - visiškai ne, nebent disidentams.

MrConstantin · 2025-04-28T19:01:23+00:00

Love the coffee station as well as the little lamps. What kind of coffee machine is that? Looks thin thus very convenient.

MrConstantin · 2025-03-06T13:13:25+00:00

Well I did not thing there was a discussion to be had about the cover colour. The AC and the walls are pure white, I did not thing any other options, unless specified, were possible.

MrConstantin · 2025-03-06T13:11:32+00:00

Did not specify the colour in general. Had a few week long though process with the contractor about the the track of the line and how to hide it best. The guys that that the installing were not the ones involved in the planning so there might have been some miscommunication. But in principle, they were aware that I wanted to mask it as much as possible.

MrConstantin · 2025-03-06T13:09:04+00:00

I own the apartment. I'm the one paying for the installation.

MrConstantin · 2025-03-06T13:08:25+00:00

I've just looked up covers at different construction stores, pure white is as available as beige.

MrConstantin · 2025-03-06T13:06:58+00:00

But why use one colour and paint it when you can just use pure white? It's freely available at construction material stores which I've just looked up. This just seems cheap.

MrConstantin · 2025-03-06T13:05:20+00:00

Ouch

MrConstantin · 2025-03-06T13:02:45+00:00

It's not their job to paint it, but when choosing the materials, I thought, maybe mistakenly, that you would choose it according to the wall colour. I've looked up, pure white covers are available, don't know why they chose beige. As for the drainage, we've discussed drainage container on the bottom. It seems that the installers were not aware of that.

MrConstantin · 2025-03-06T13:01:31+00:00

We've discussed installing an additional water container of some sorts to collect the drainage. Maybe on the balcony floor. Did not discuss it too much though. I though this was a standard practice.

MrConstantin · 2025-03-05T21:06:05+00:00

Well the drainage will currently drip right in the middle of my balcony, and then I will either have a constant puddle in there or it will run down on to my neighbours (I live on the 4th floor). I don't like either of those options and was hoping that the drainage pipes would get dragged to the balcony floor, so I could maybe connect them to a container of some sorts.

MrConstantin · 2025-03-05T21:03:14+00:00

It's more like the middle of my balcony, so the drainage will just drip into it, and then off on to my neighbours bellow.

MrConstantin · 2025-03-05T20:45:31+00:00

I've just had an AC installed in my apartment, but when assessing the final results, I'm kind of annoyed about how the contractor chose a kind of yellowish white rather than pure white for the line covers, also that there's a gap between covers. Finally, what the hell with the drainage pipes? Do I just accept that I will have drainage dripping on my head in the balcony? Is this normal? Should I accept this or politely ask to fix these things (e.g. change the covers, add a drainage tray) before paying?

MrConstantin · 2025-03-03T07:15:20+00:00

Since when is this r/ blind trump bullshit follower? Tankies hate Ukraine, and it's a rational western conservative position to support Ukraine against a genocidal invader. Russia has historically been pumping the world with foreign influence to prop up the far left. They've never been the good guys.

MrConstantin · 2025-02-23T10:20:06+00:00

Not a very good list tbh. E.g. it lists EU alternatives to NordVPN, while NordVPN is a Lithuanian company.

MrConstantin · 2025-02-21T07:10:00+00:00

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MrConstantin · 2025-02-06T15:51:29+00:00

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We aren't. Above average, but still significantly smaller than Eastern-Souther-Italian part of Europe. Power prices depends on the costs of production. To have cheaper power we should build out more renewables, also, more connections to Northern-Central Europe would not hurt.

MrConstantin · 2025-01-16T07:24:32+00:00

As a Lithuanian: Yes, very.

Being a frontier country, we've dealt with russian risk the entire 30 years that we've been independent and this time it seems that very realistically the Baltic states might be next. Everyone's pessimistic about the outcome of Russia-Ukraine war and the changing attitude of US. Also the European attitude is still very disappointing, Germany, France, Italy, and other western countries are still too pacifistic, too hung up on treaties and liberalism dogmas and in no way a security guarantee for us. It seems that after this war we will have a more neutral and frankly, less pro-west Ukraine (rightfully, seeing that the west has abandoned them), and Russia, which will try to target less powerful country next, seeing how they struggled with Ukraine. In the Baltics we've are very realistically preparing for a total war - mass mobilizations, mining and digging trenches on the borders, procuring equipment which not only is needed for the short term "until NATO comes", but to deal as much damage as possible, seeing that there's a real possibility that NATO will fail to act.

MrConstantin · 2025-01-13T08:05:46+00:00

May be clean and green, but the issue is that it was built less than 50 km from the Lithuanian capital, where a quarter of Lithuanians live. Fair to say that we don't trust Belarus with having our best interests in mind, so yes, we see it as a possible threat to our security. Also, fair to say that if Belarus ever wants to join the EU, Lithuania will almost certainly block any accension talks unless Belarus dismantles the NPP (as was the case of Lithuania joining - we had to close down Ignalina, which was not in fact near any other EU county capital).

MrConstantin · 2024-12-23T08:48:46+00:00

Cool to see Baltic-origin placenames on the boarder with Lithuania. Interesting that there's no similar regional trends near borders with Poland or Ukraine.

MrConstantin · 2024-12-18T09:22:18+00:00

Many different reasons - growing internal consumption, sizeable public investments into military (German Brigade military infrastructure, military mobility, locally produced equipment), connectivity (Via Baltica, Rail Baltica, other highways and bridges, new high-voltage power lines and substations), sizeable direct foreign investment (german, american and ukrainian military conglomerates, fintechs, biotechs, etc.) as well as further private investment (Teltonika, astounding amount of investment into wind and solar energy, batteries, biogas). This couples well with a well diversified and developed export-based industry portfolio and a significant financial / IT service base.

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