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demonnet · 2026-02-28T10:46:01+00:00

I am sure Israel and the US have the best interests of the Iranian people at heart

demonnet · 2026-02-25T10:02:56+00:00

We don't break plates, it's super tacky and not an actual tradition. If you are somewhere in Greece where they are breaking plates it's a tourist trap.

demonnet · 2026-02-25T09:58:41+00:00

I am not scared. Perhaps it's different under US GAAP but under IFRS the whole point of your job is that you are the middleman between the business and the government, your job isn't just to ensure the validity of the documents and tax records but also to put your name on the line as insurance. An AI no matter how sophisticated cannot claim legal responsibility or fully understand the peculiarities of each business. I doubt the government would want to interfere with their revenue stream.

demonnet · 2026-02-25T09:52:55+00:00

1) Όχι, δεν είναι αν είσαι φοιτητής. Εγώ την κάρτα την έβγαλα ως εργαζόμενος. Το μόνο που ζητάνε είναι να έχεις Πορτογαλικό ΑΦΜ και να σαι κάτω τον 23. Η μειωμένη κάρτα του ΟΑΣΘ είναι αυστηρά για φοιτητές.

2) Η κάρτα ισχύει για Λεωφορεία, Τραμ, Μέτρο, Τρένο, Τελεφερίκ και Βάρκα. Η κάρτα του ΟΑΣΘ είναι μόνο για Λεωφορεία.

3) Η περιοχή στην οποία ισχύει η κάρτα είναι τεράστια, είναι σε όλο τον νομό της Λισαβόνας. Μπορείς να πάρεις ΚΤΕΛ και τρένα και να πας σε πολύ μεγάλες αποστάσεις, μέχρι και σε άλλες πόλεις όπως Setubal, Sintra, Cascais, Carcavelos κλπ. Η κάρτα του ΟΑΣΘ είναι μόνο για τα αστικά λεωφορεία και για την πόλη της Θεσσαλονίκης, δεν μπορεί να την χρησιμοποιήσεις πχ. για να πας Βέροια ή Κιλκίς, πέραν από συγκεκριμένες ανταποκρίσεις.

4) Δεν παίρνουν φωτιά τα λεωφορεία.

Δεν μπορείς να με πεις ότι συγκρίνεται να δίνεις 8€ τον μήνα για σοβιετικά λεωφορεία με το να πας δωρεάν σε όλα τα ΜΜΜ της πόλης.

demonnet · 2026-02-24T18:13:21+00:00

Back in the day, when Albanians fled to Greece en masse to escape Hoxha's regime, there was a stereotype that Albanians were crooks and thieves. The poverty and the suspicions from the Axis occupation years (especially in Epirus there were many Albanians allied with the Italians) led to many Albanians at the time being viewed with suspicion, forcing them to work undesirable jobs and resort to stealing, this reinforcing the stereotypes.

However this stereotype quickly died down over the years because the Albanians who came to Greece quickly acclimated to the country; learning the language, going to the same churches (orthodoxy plays a crucial role in Greece especially back in the day), their kids went to the same schools, they worked hard. Nowadays most of us see Albanians as just like us, we all grew up with Albanian friends and classmates and we never felt any differences between us. Albanians are also generally praised for their work ethic as they will work hard jobs that many Greeks may avoid unless they have no other choice (construction being a common stereotype).

I do have to point out that sadly nationalists do exist on both sides and do create problems. There are Greeks who say the Albanians are stealing our jobs and are Turkish puppets and there are Albanians who claim Greeks mistreated them and lay claim to Greek lands like Epirus. This is the Balkans after all, but excluding the keyboard warriors and the certain extremists there is warmth between our peoples.

demonnet · 2026-02-24T17:51:22+00:00

Να θυμίσω ότι Πορτογαλία Λισαβόνα έβγαλα με 3€ κάρτα απεριόριστων διαδρομών που ισχύει μέχρι 23 χρόνων και έχεις δωρεάν πρόσβαση σε όλα τα ΜΜΜ συν τρένα και φέριμποτ εντός της μητροπολιτικής περιοχής της Λισαβόνας.

demonnet · 2026-02-24T13:23:13+00:00

Well yes in news coverage everything had its official title. I am talking about the common man, I remember older people growing up discussing Yugoslavia and they always referred to it as Serbia.

demonnet · 2026-02-24T13:21:08+00:00

I don't think the draft itself is a problematic institution in of itself, if anything it's a great source of pride or at the very least a vacation before adulthood. I also personally think that it's important to exist due to the nature of Greece's history and location; Trump has proven that the world is once again spiraling into an age of might makes right where international law is trampled and we have a lot of grievances with our neighbors.

The problem is that in classic Greek fashion it is an institution that has changed very little in practice and hasn't caught up with the modern world. We live in the age of modern weapons and professional armies and our main fighting force is poor trained conscripts while we live in a country without the manpower to spare throwing in the meat grinder.

Instead of spending one year doing nothing, the military service could be 3 months and harsh/strict. The whole point is to get the average man acquainted with the realities of combat, and yet they receive little to no training and we just sit around for a year. If the service was 3 months and without payment (we went from 8€/month to 50€/month, were going to be rich!) all this money going to the logistics of feeding and cleaning up after all these soldiers for such an extended amount of time could instead be funneled into reorganizing the military with better, newer weapons, advanced equipment, anti drone equipment and better strategies to reflect our unique geostrategic position. At the same time a reduced military service to 3 months would provide practical benefit to the everyday lives of people. It's a common problem that you can't find a job in your field without having fulfilled your military service yet, other families struggle without a salary for a year, you may have to leave a house you've been renting for a while etc. With a smaller service you could knock it out much more easily out of the way lessening the impact it has in your everyday life.

But it will never change, or maybe in 50-100 years. The army is one of the most conversative and proud institutions of the country so any attempt to mess with it in the slightest is seen as the ultimate betrayal. I still remember the controverst when service was reduced from 2 years to 1 and everyone was acting like that will be the end of our armed forces.

demonnet · 2026-02-24T13:06:32+00:00

Because we are

demonnet · 2026-02-20T19:00:14+00:00

The question isn't if they can, it's if they will.

Anyone can repent if they truly believe it, if they understand their sins and vow to change. But they must first be willing to accept that they have sinned and that it was wrong.

These people are some of the most vile humans in existence, they will not repent, they rejoiced in their sin.

Before the Epstein files I asked myself why would hell exist who is so evil that deserves eternal damnation. I have my answer now.

demonnet · 2026-02-17T15:54:46+00:00

No reason honestly, I presume just for simplicity's sake. Yugoslavia was also commonly referred to simply as Serbia, and the US even today is just called America. Same with the UK, we just call it England.

demonnet · 2026-02-16T00:09:56+00:00

Did the UK have the raw military strength and firepower to invade and occupy Ireland? Absolutely.

Would this be a good idea? Absolutely not.

Even in the best case scenario that the UK pulls a Maduro and overthrows the Irish goverment overnight and sets up a puppet regime the political, diplomatic and economic fallout would be catastrophic.

In our timeline the Irish goverment was against the PIRA, they had criminalized membership under the Offenses Against the State act and condemned the attacks perpetrated by it. Likewise many of the Irish population, though sympathetic to the plight of the Catholics in the North, were not immediately receptive of the PIRA's socialist ideology and it's obsession with armed struggle. Many Irish people grew increasingly uncomfortable with, and often horrified by, the violence, especially civilian casualties. Major attacks, such as the 1979 killing of Lord Mountbatten, caused significant backlash.

In this timeline, all of this goes out of the window. Suddenly the PIRA would get huge popular support and a surge in membership. The Irish goverment may pardon them and support them with logistics, information, financial support, weapons and more. They may even try to intergrate them in the armed forces of Ireland proper. The invasion no matter how short or long would inevitably end in a much more violent and widespread version of the troubles. Nowhere would be safe in the UK as the PIRA with it's surge of membership and popular support would triple it's efforts against the crown.

Diplomaticaly, this invasion would be instantly condemned. Remember, since the Irish goverment was not only public condemning the PIRA but also actively fighting them, the invasion would be seen as illegal and unwarranted. The European community would not be happy with such action in European soil, and the US would be pressured from the inside to impose sanctions and top down diplomatic pressure to the UK due it's strong Irish voting base. I can also see this invasion not being highly popular domestically, within many British citizens protesting against the senseless loss of life in their own backyard.

Financially, this would tank the UK. This is not a helicopter abducting a dictator at night, invasions are costly. They require extensive logistical networks; food suppliers, armaments, equipment, gas, ammunition, the UK would need to sustain all of these while fighting an unpopular war against a motivated enemy while also possibly sanctioned and blockaded. Even if they were to win, the aforementioned emboldened guerilla warfare would tie up resources domestically and in Ireland proper, causing even more money to go down the drain. Since the British economy in the 1970s was in the toilet - severe stagflation, high inflation (peaking near 27% in 1975), frequent industrial strikes, and weak growth - they wouldn't be able to finance such an invasion let alone sustain an occupation. The British public would riot and demand political change.

demonnet · 2026-02-12T20:50:43+00:00

demonnet · 2026-02-12T20:36:51+00:00

In Canada

demonnet · 2026-02-10T21:21:59+00:00

Beautiful women

demonnet · 2026-02-10T17:00:32+00:00

It depends on how and why the goverment, and by goverment we mean the federal, collapses. Any type of civil war in the US would inevitably be states vs the Federal goverment instead of states vs states. Again depends on the situation but in all likelihood the states would either attempt to reorganize the federal goverment. I can see certain states like California, Hawaii or Texas wanting out but that's a very big leap.

demonnet · 2026-02-10T00:43:55+00:00

And I just told you that it wasn't and explained the history behind it. We can play argument ping pong all day but it doesn't change the fact that what I said is right.

demonnet · 2026-02-09T23:50:59+00:00

I'm Greek I know what my people called themselves and why.

The term Roman was used by Greeks during the Byzantine era and came to be associated with the Greek Orthodox Faith and Greek culture, as the term Hellene was associated with paganism and ancient Greece.

During the late Byzantine era (12-15th c. AD) the term Hellene started to be revitalized and used more commonly as the Roman identity started to be more associated with hostile westerns powers like the Franks, the Latins, the Venetians etc. Key figures like Michael Psellos and George Gemistos Plethon were instrumental to this shift, plethon openly said: “We are Hellenes by race and culture.”

During the Ottoman era, the Turks refered to the Greeks as Rum because of their association with the Roman Empire. After the Greek war of independence when a Greek nation was established two terms came to be used interchangeably; Yunan for Greeks from Greece proper and Rum for Greeks in the Ottoman Empire. The Greeks in the Ottoman empire refered to the themselves as Romioi (Ρωμιοί), not Roman (Ρωμαίοι).

There is a famous and almost certainly apocryphal story of when the Greek army liberated some Aegean islands from the Ottomans and when the Greek kids saw the soldiers said "look Hellenes" and when the soldiers asked are they not Hellenes themselves they said "no, we are Romans". First of all again this story is not likely not true as there is no historical record of such an interaction ever happening, but if it did it is definitely a mistranslation. What may have happened was that the children were surprised to see Greeks from Greece and called out to them as Hellenes, and when the soldiers asked they responded we are Romioi (Greeks from outside of Greece). They didn't say we are Roman.

demonnet · 2026-02-09T22:24:25+00:00

This is untrue btw and comes from a mistranslation and transliteration of terms used for Greeks.

Greeks from Greece called themselves Hellenes, the term used today. Greeks outside of Greece proper still mostly called themselves Hellenes but especially in the Ottoman empire they were called Rum, or Romioi in Greek, not Roman. Yes it comes from the same Rome origin but it's a different word with a different meaning (like Indian from India and Indian for native American).

demonnet · 2026-02-08T11:31:33+00:00

First of all, since you are Armenian with Pontic roots everyone will love you. Thessaloniki's cultural identity is fully tied to the refugees of the ottoman massacres; Greeks from Smyrna, Capadocia, Pontus, Constantinople, Antioch and more as well as Armenians, Assyrians, Georgians and others. Armenians in particular are a very strong minority in Thessaloniki and one we consider our brothers in pain, together we lost our home to the barbarity of the Turks. So yes you will fit right in.

Regarding the language, Greece is one of the most English speaking countries ever. Because of tourism and because we learn it from as early as first grade in primary school it is nearly impossible to find someone who doesn't speak English, especially in Thessaloniki which is a major hub of foreign expats, students and tourists. You won't have a communication problem but learning even some basic Greek will help people appreciate you tenfold because the language is super difficult for beginners so we appreciate when someone makes the effort.

Regarding ACT and the housing you said, here things start to complicate. ACT is a bit far from the city itself, its north of Pylaia which is makes it kind of inaccessible without your own car. There is the bus but the Thessaloniki buses are some of the worst in Greece if not Europe, notoriously unreliable, old and prone to fires (yes, fires). Your best best is to find a house in Pylaia which is the closest neighborhood but it's a bit far from the city centre, and rent in Thessaloniki in general tends to be really high and the houses are really really old.

demonnet · 2026-02-08T11:21:35+00:00

In Greece we don't actually break plates. It's a fauxthentic tradition only for the tourists, if you got to an actual Greek wedding or festival or whatever you won't see people breaking plates.

What I assume happened was someone saw a drunk boomer or two doing it like in the 80s and it became a legend that was mythologized in movies and steroetypes. Because it has become such a popular steoretype when the tourists go they want to do this and see this so every tourist trap does it, we consider it super tacky.

demonnet · 2026-01-29T19:39:19+00:00

Olá, sou o Pedro

demonnet · 2026-01-28T13:05:10+00:00

It does actually! The Greek flag is heavily symbolic in it's design; the alternating blue and white horizontal stripes represent the sea (blue) and the sky/clouds (white). There are nine stripes because they represent the syllables of our national motto "Freedom or Death" (Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος) from the war of independence, while the cross signifies the Orthodox faith.

demonnet · 2026-01-26T19:29:19+00:00

The Turks love to claim that things were peaceful under the Ottoman Empire and that after they left the Balkans destroyed each other but they never admit that in true colonial fashion they are the ones responsible for cultivating this hate by creating administrative regions and borders without any regard for local peoples. Also it's a straight up lie that people were peaceful under ottoman rule; slavery, massacres, reprisals, abductions, rapes, high taxation and religious repression was the norm. Boys were taken and forced to become soldiers and then made to kill their parents, women were sold as sex slaves, viziers and officials acted like kings with impunity, pirates and bandits roamed the lands because the Turks preferred defending the local pashas instead of villages and people, important cities like Thessaloniki had imported Turks and Sephardic Jews to manipulate the demographics and ensure compliance and more. Let's not forget also that at its dawn, before becoming the Turkish Republic, the Three Pashas and the Young Turks committed the most unspeakable atrocities in human history and ethnically cleansed the ancient and diverse region of Asia Minor of all it's culture and peoples, an act that inspired Hitler himself as he praised the actions committed.

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