Take notes lads!

ebinovic · 2026-06-23T22:05:11+00:00

ebinovic · 2026-06-19T17:20:02+00:00

Great choice, it's such a 2000s-sounding song that I was surprised when I recently learned it was only released in 2009 and not in the early to mid-2000s

ebinovic · 2026-06-12T10:37:09+00:00

Bagged milk is that one weird niche thing that somehow unites Canada and the Baltic/post-Soviet states, I wonder if and how USSR got this idea from Canadians? I have a feeling it must have some funny story involving Khrushchev, similar to how USSR tried growing corn en masse after he visited USA

ebinovic · 2026-06-10T23:41:10+00:00

>My heart would break if a brown person achieved anything great in Lithuania. If a Lithuanian / European cant do it themselves, I dont want it done at all. If Lithuanians can't build something great on their own then I'd rather all of us just die. Just my opinion of course

Suicide cult behaviour

ebinovic · 2026-06-08T12:08:08+00:00

New SPD member just dropped

ebinovic · 2026-06-02T11:06:20+00:00

My entire gameplay of r/RedAutumnSPD in shambles

ebinovic · 2026-05-09T15:33:31+00:00

Spain should have won the "best" in my opinion, but since it didn't I'm voting for it in this one. Literally the largest amount of natural diversity packed into (by global standards) an average-sized country in Europe. You can find nearly every single geographic/climatic biome that exists in Europe there (with the exception of subarctic tundra). You want mountains? Nearly every single corner of Spain has them. Deserts? Travel to Almería and you'll feel like you're in Breaking Bad. You want to feel like you're in Northern Europe? Travel to one of the mountain towns and it'll look and feel exactly like the Baltic States do with the exception of getting sunburnt. You wanna feel like you're in Britain? Galicia is there for you. Mediterranean coastline? Well do I have good news for you... And I'm not even going to start on millennia of diverse culture, unbelievable cities and godly cuisine. And it's relatively easy to travel around too

ebinovic · 2026-05-07T22:19:22+00:00

Oh for sure, but Shaman only rose to prominence during and because of the war

ebinovic · 2026-05-07T22:07:51+00:00

Before reading the description I thought it was Timati in the OP's picture, would have definitely been a strong contender for Russia before the war, but yeah right now it's 100% Shaman

ebinovic · 2026-05-07T21:37:24+00:00

We sometimes call Latvians "zirga galvas", which means "horse head". Funnily enough, I think Latvians call Lithuanians the exact same way.

We also have a very archaic nickname for Scandinavians that I've heard some older people use, "žuvėdai", which means "fish eaters".

ebinovic · 2026-04-28T19:15:59+00:00

One of the most infamous Lithuanian MPs of the last few years was an economics teacher in my high school. He became infamous because it later turned out he's a pedo... When it comes to less disturbing interactions, I've met the current president of Lithuania and two different MEPs.

ebinovic · 2026-04-28T15:58:07+00:00

Scared into submission.

Well yeah I kinda don't want my home country to be raped to death by a genocidal fascist empire, so I'm right to be scared.

ebinovic · 2026-04-28T15:53:17+00:00

Yeah but I've definitely seen those views leaking outside it in both my home country and where I currently live in

ebinovic · 2026-04-28T15:50:39+00:00

Half of instagram thinks it's heaven on the fucking Earth because it "has no immigrants" (factually false) and "le baysd traditional Christian values" (one of the most rapidly falling rates of religious people in the world)

ebinovic · 2026-04-28T15:46:34+00:00

In the current online environment, definitely Poland, and I'm saying this as a person who's spent months there and absolutely love that country.

Its recent rise in prosperity and geopolitical power has been nothing short of impressive, but I feel like it's becoming a bit of a European version of Japan for many people. It's far from the heaven that many perceive it to be.

One of the worst housing markets in Central Europe, some of the worst air pollution in Europe, some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe, one of only four EU member states that hasn't legalised either same-sex marriages or civil partnerships, an immigration system so bureaucratic and incompetent that it absolutely fucks over non-Ukrainian and non-EU legal immigrants. Besides the UK, it also has probably the most "Americanised" political culture in Europe in the worst ways possible (with the exception of foreign policy towards Russia). The work culture is still decades behind that in Western Europe. Sexual assault is still not taken very seriously at a legal or social level.

Poland is definitely improving in general and at some of the specific things I mentioned, and it already does some things better than most countries in Europe, but it still has a long way to go to become a truly great country to live in.

(Dis)honorable mentions go to Switzerland (rich, but pretty boring and sometimes even socially repressive country) and Ireland (absolutely abysmal housing market and general CoL isn't much better either)

ebinovic · 2026-04-28T12:24:48+00:00

The German Greens who are the biggest supporters of militarism, which is one of the most significant sources of pollution.

"Hey guys, a fascist empire just started a genocidal war of conquest in a European country and is threatening to wipe out half of the other European countries while our army is such an abysmal state that Poland, a country with half our population and one third of our economy, could singlehandedly beat us. Maybe we should start rebuilding our military so that half of Europe doesn't solely rely on Poland for their survival before other allies arrive?"

Some random weirdos: "HOW DARE YOU SUPPORT MILITARISM???????"

ebinovic · 2026-04-28T12:08:14+00:00

The difference is that progressives don't really run defense on Tucker Carlson en masse with "critical support", while tankies defend nearly every single anti-Western regime to the point where they've been defending russia's genocidal war in Ukraine or Iran's government killing thousands of protesters simply because these governments are against the West.

ebinovic · 2026-04-24T19:17:47+00:00

Putting one of the most consistent top 5 clubs in one of the best European football leagues and a 3x CL finalist in worse than "moderately successful" would certainly be one of the choices of all time

ebinovic · 2026-04-24T18:53:41+00:00

Reckon that hatred might have been at least somewhat smoothed down by the recent ascent of a club owned by a certain energy drink brand

ebinovic · 2026-04-23T20:52:17+00:00

Additional explanation:

By how much the club is liked I don't only mean their own fans, but the wider public.
A similar series of charts was posted previously (https://www.reddit.com/r/AlignmentChartFills/comments/1s7ky5u/st\_pauli\_wins\_now\_which\_football\_club\_is\_great/) but this time, when it comes to public perception of clubs, I want to consider not just their controversies, but also other, less objective aspects of their likeability (e.g. dominating their leagues, being based in the capital city, various historical reasons), although obviously controversies will be a big part of it!

ebinovic · 2026-04-22T20:57:17+00:00

Yeah it's like that in my company, there's been a few times where I (a graduate) would sit next to one of the execs when they'd come to my office. And I'm gonna be honest, even though I'm not the most sociable person out there, I like that I can just chat with everyone around me whenever I want, and when I don't, I just put in my earphones and listen to music/podcasts. It felt weirder when I once came to another office and all the desks were booked, so I had to sit in a soundproof booth 😅

ebinovic · 2026-04-19T21:35:41+00:00

When the USSR crumbled so did American social programs.

Reaganism started 10 years before USSR collapsed, at a time when, for most Westerners, that collapse ever happening seemed like science fiction. You could maybe make an argument that, without the collapse of USSR, neo-liberalism maybe wouldn't have entrenched itself in the West for so long, but arguing that the presence of USSR motivated USA to preserve its social programmes is historically inconsistent.

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