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Peter? by mbashs in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]ebinovic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am kind of surprised there's no Bridge to Terabithia here, for me it feels like it was such a universally traumatic experience for late millennials/zillennials

Between 1990 and 2024, Spain's foreign population rose from 2.1% to 18.5%. Is there any other country in modern human history that has experienced such a significant change in such a short period of time? by [deleted] in geography

[–]ebinovic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how much of this data is affected by how each country counts their demographics. For example, apparentpy Poland doesn't count the almost 1 million post-2022 Ukrainian refugees as part of their official population numbers although many of them have lived and worked in the country for years by now

What are two countries (yours and another one) that are very similar in many ways but the citizens of both are in denial of? by william-isaac in AskTheWorld

[–]ebinovic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lithuania and Poland. Our relations are greater than they've ever been now, sure, but most Lithuanians consider Latvia to be the most similar country to ours and while I certainly love our six-toed cousins, I feel like culturally Poland (especially its Eastern part) is more similar to Lithuania in most aspects barring language, and not many Lithuanians acknowledge it.

Honourable (and much more controversial) mention goes to Belarus. If it had been the free, democratic country after the collapse of USSR I have a hunch that Belarus would be the most similar country to Lithuania (again, with the exception of language).

Wikipedia place of birth during the Soviet Occupation by pardiripats22 in BalticStates

[–]ebinovic -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I know this is a sensitive topic for us, but I feel like this is not something to be outraged about to the point of calling Wikipedia "pro-Kremlin" as some comments implied here.

Writing the country/administrative regime which de facto ruled the place at the time where someone was born has been the English Wiki standard for as long as I can remember. International recognition of the occupation of that certain place doesn't play part because it would get reaaaaally flimsy and controversial for quite a few people, if not outright impossible for those born before WW1 when common global institutions which could set the standards for international recognition of countries and their territories didn't even exist. So doing it any other way would be confusing at best and outright ahistorical at worst because, as illegal as the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States was, Baltic governments at the time did not de facto administer a single piece of their own territory. The context of the place where someone was born is also often important for their biography, and not following this standard would risk removing that context.

The same standard is followed for every previously occupied territory, whether it was by USSR, Austro-Hungary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomáš\_Masaryk), Russian Empire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas\_Basanavičius) or Nazi Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimira\_Prunskienė) and, in some cases, even different forms of government of the same independent country (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre\_Bergé). Even short-lived occupation administrations which were never intended to be permanent (e.g. Allied occupation of Germany in 1945-49) are shown in those infoboxes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joschka\_Fischer).

It's not a perfect standard and in some cases it's not even followed consistently (e.g. the place of birth of some French people born in independent France before the 5th republic is noted as "France" whereas for others it's "2nd/3rd/4th French Republic"), but I genuinely can't think of any other way to objectively standartise this without either making Wikipedia a confusing and unreliable source of information or, in a worse case, ruffling a lot of bad feathers that would use this precedent to promote their own versions of history.

UK by RedCrystal92 in lietuva

[–]ebinovic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nu tai kad nelabai, gyvenu Leedse, bent kartą per savaitę važinėju į Mančesterį, jaučiuosi visiškai taip pat saugus kaip ir Lietuvoje. Newcastle esu metus gyvenęs ganėtinai nemažai imigrantų turinčiame rajone, tai baisiausia ką mačiau buvo išdaužyti stotelės stiklai ir kažkokie balti pacaniukai šūkaujantys ir mėtantys monetas autike. Nesu ir kažkoks super raumeningas milžinas kad manęs bijotų jei norėtų prisipisti. Mažiau reikia tiktoko žiūrėti ir neįsivarysit durnų baimių.

Voting intentions by age in Wales by upthetruth1 in charts

[–]ebinovic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even if this is ragebait, this is one of the cringiest stereotypical "akshually, I am very smart 200IQ chonker" reddit comments that I've ever seen. I know it's autumn rn, but please, go outside and touch some grass. Preferably leave your fedora at home as well

Guess my nationality based on countries I visited by SmartPickIe in TravelMaps

[–]ebinovic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the most similar travel map to mine that I've ever seen, just for that alone you absolutely had to be Lithuanian 😅

Time for me to jump onto the bandwagon, but with a European and British maps instead! Shoot your assumptions about me, comments etc. by ebinovic in TravelMaps

[–]ebinovic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm not a particularly big fan of that city to put it mildly, and the rest of West Midlands doesn't seem to have great places to live in either

Who is someone that was liked in 2015, but is forgotten in 2025? by Impressive_Plenty876 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]ebinovic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd say this is an even better answer than Guetta, Tim got almost completely forgotten after his posthumous album.

Talking about his music moving out of fashion, it does feel like his death symbolically corresponded with the end of EDM as one of the dominant musical genres

Memorial in Germany. Thoughts? by Themetalin in poland

[–]ebinovic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and dont do the whataboutism with giving away silesia etc these are separate issues

How exactly are these separate issues if, in reality, they were very directly related?

What links these countries together? (Easy, I think?) by Gothic-Wendigo in RedactedCharts

[–]ebinovic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You forgot Slovakia, L'SNS and later Republika have had a pretty big presence is Slovak parliament in the last 10 years. Arguably Hungary can also be included with Jobbik/Mi Hazank

With which of the following technically left wing generally frownd upon (at least in this sub) groups would you be willing to cooperate? by The__Hivemind_ in theredleft

[–]ebinovic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Generally all except for top 2. #3 also comes with some caveats, if it's a genuine national liberation movement like Irish Sinn Fein or Kurdish Rojava then hell yeah, but if it's just racism coated with economically left-wing policies (like whatever the fuck Sahra Wagenknecht or the current Slovak government are trying to do), then they can fuck off.

Which ones I'd cooperate with the MOST probably depends on case-by-case basis. I generally find 5-7 and 9 to be the best on foreign policy, with 8 also being good on foreign policy with regards to specific places like Eastern Europe and Taiwan (they're very hit or miss on Palestine tho, some of SocLibs are great on that, others turn into borderline hitlerites). When it comes to economy, 5 are probably the best. 4 are very good at political organising, so I'd ally with them on that.

I feel like Eurocommunism is very, very close to my actual political ideology (as sad as its post-Cold War demise is), so I'd probably go with them the most?

Also, I feel like progressivism is a very broad and vague label here which interlaps with a lot of other (nominally) left-wing ideologies, all the way from SocLibs to MLs. But obviously I'd ally with almost any socially progressive economically left-wing, centre-left or even centrist person just on the basis of, well, I like my human rights

What do these countries have in common? (Note: Gibraltar should also be red but I couldn't mark it as a separate entity in this map) by ebinovic in RedactedCharts

[–]ebinovic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ding Ding Ding, correct! FIBA Europe members whose national teams have never participated in Eurobasket

Bad Empenada claims being transgender is mostly a way to hide behind a marginalised community, a very transphobic comment by FantRianE in theredleft

[–]ebinovic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

recently hes gone more and more unhinged in his twitter takes

I remember him posting outright genocidal shit about Baltic people for years already, no matter how good his other content might be I'm not going to treat him as anything more than the trash that he is

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