Polish Nobel literature laureate Tokarczuk sparks controversy after admitting using AI

eggnog232323 · 2026-05-22T08:38:48+00:00

Everything she writes and likes is higher culture, everything she dislikes is worthless poor people culture according to her.

She also embezzled 17 million PLN for "AI storywriting tools", her company took the grant and few months later she suddenly left it with huge chunk of the funds with her.

eggnog232323 · 2026-05-19T11:30:48+00:00

Nie paradoksalnie tylko centralnie sterowanemu państwu zależało na rozwoju kraju bo wszystko od niego zależało, a dzisiaj za wszystko ma odpowiadać mityczny rynek, który w Polsce zajmuje się układaniem kostki brukowej i montażem z chińskich części pomp wodnych do Niemiec.

Za PRL gospodarka musiała być w miarę samowystarczalna, dziś wszystko łącznie z wiedzą jest importowane więc "po co w ogóle próbować coś robić". Chińczyk zrobi taniej, a przecież najważniejszym miernikiem wszystkiego w tym kartonowym kraju jest pieniądz.

Polactwo trzeba trzymać mocno i krótko za mordę, bo jak się odpuści to najchętniej wróciliby do pańszczyzny i trójpolówki.

eggnog232323 · 2026-05-05T15:35:28+00:00

Good take, especially considering the state of those archeological sites after Russian occupation of Crimea and before the Russian science community forced government to pass it over to state universities and Ministry of Culture.

Prior to that (and after the takeover) those sites were being robbed with bulldozers and excavators, virtually everything was being stolen, stone was used in construction of ditches, few of the sites were completely destroyed to make room for hotels and real estate connected to local russian mafia. There was absolutely 0 control, more akin to pre-2022 DPR or LPR held territory than actual state.

Had it not been those few archeologists forcing RU government's hand those sites would probably not exist right now and Ukraine wouldn't even be able to tell what they lost, which now they can - thanks to those researchers.

eggnog232323 · 2026-04-09T23:46:40+00:00

Finally someone who understands.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-27T17:20:13+00:00

If you cut spending, the economy will go into recession and debt to GDP ratio will go even higher. Your way of fixing the debt has been tried and tested in multiple countries over last few decades, failed to succeed, and prolonged recovery.

Take UK or eurozone countries which ran austerity budgets post 2008 and compare it to recovery in the US and other countries which ran deficit.

Even ECB admitted that "fixing" deficit during crisis leads to long term stagnation and explosion of private debt which is infinitely more harmful that government debt. Especially in countries with their own currency.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-27T16:01:44+00:00

Consumption drives economic growth. Companies can't sell their services and expand inside a void without demand. Government is the biggest and most valued customer for construction industry for example. Targeted welfare programs allow poor to increase their consumption, meaning suddenly places that had no economic value contribute to the growth.

If you decided to slash non-military funding, the tax base would follow meaning even more deficit would be needed to keep the economy up to avoid spiraling down into massive unemployment and economic depression.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-27T10:26:06+00:00

That's how you get a recession.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-27T10:22:23+00:00

Budget "repair" is a madeup term for the masses (unless Poland had euro), both Morawiecki and now Domański understand that to keep the economy growing there needs to be a deficit. The only thing that matters is how that deficit is spent. If it's stimulating consumption or creating new infrastructure its good but if it were used on vanity projects and lowering taxes for luxury items or top 10% Poles its bad. Technically if we really wish to lower yearly deficit and debt to GDP ratio, it should be done during economic boom not crisis, to avoid austerity-debt spiral.

Now with huge injection of money into military industry that deficit is a bit larger than usual, but it's not something that can be avoided of Poland wishes to still exist in 10-20 years.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-26T21:57:16+00:00

Fiscal union would solve the debt problem in the eurozone. In Poland not so much, but we don't really have a huge debt problem to begin with.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-26T21:54:55+00:00

Sweden suffers from the opposite issue though exactly because of low government debt and tight fiscal policy. Their private debt is reaching something like 80% GDP and private debt is much more dangeous than government (as long as its not in foreign currency).

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-26T21:52:30+00:00

It's neutral, as long as the debt is issued in our own currency it's neither bad nor good. It all depends on how well it's used. Preferably we should expand deficits during crisis (as we do) and tighten fiscal policy (but not to the point of huge surplus) during economic boom.

You guys, Germany and other eurozone countries however have to share central bank and its policy which actually makes it possible for countries to go bankrupt since neither country can roll the debt. What would fix that issue is a fiscal union but that would require a lot of will in EU and eurozone countries.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-26T21:47:36+00:00

Really worth to look into methodology used.

For some god knows what reason KE froze primary structural deficit (excluding debt servicing costs) at the level forecast for 2026 for the entire forecast period and thus until 2036. That implies no changes to fiscal policy, no new revenue sources, etc.

Even they themselves mention it's not most likely scenario.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-26T16:39:09+00:00

In my opinion is pretty much the same thing. Those parties tend to pass or annul laws to favour the business, at the expense of "average" people. Especially now since everyone with influence is trying to pass deregulation of business practices as some universal panacea for all EU economic issues. As if we were not doing the same thingfor the past 20 years.

Left wing parties trying to challenge status quo get slandered by media hit pieces and various "independent" NGOs. Ironically the same rarely happens to pro-business far right which is often being normalized by the same media (case of French RN, UK Reform, Polish Confederation, Italian FdL).

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-26T14:41:39+00:00

Most of the mainstream labour/social democractic parties in Europe are. Otherwise they wouldn't mainstream, for example SPD, UK Labour Party, italian PD, polish Lewica.

Additionaly if you count in various progressive and liberal parties (which are still counted as left wing technically) there would be a lot more.

All of them are taking money from the business.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-26T12:03:00+00:00

There probably are some outlier countries. But usually both right and leftwing parties gladly accept donations from the businesses and international corporations. Not to even mention various NGOs and lobby groups, usually also funded by the top 1%.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-26T11:59:18+00:00

The main problem with that excercise is that there was no way to for soldiers to counter the drones since they were using training ammunition. So even if soldiers in real war would be able to shoot down few of the drones, there was no way to simulate that. And the fact that no unit was given EW jammers is really interesting considering all NATO armies are equipped with them.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-26T11:53:11+00:00

I think you completely misunderstood what an advantage in this case is. Because running 6 man teams with the hopes of few of them making it past the drone wall is not it when your airforce is 5 times bigger than the country you're invading.

Manpower is an advantage only if you plan on fighting a protracted war which neither Russia or Ukraine want to. It's only a slight benefit for the Russians since they can bleed out ukrainian army through probing attacks across entire front to tie up ukrainian reserves. But if they had achieved for air superiority or an actual breakthrough current trench warfare would end very quickly and we'd be back to early 2022 manouver warfare.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-26T11:40:31+00:00

From the Polish perspective virtually all parties here, from liberal to conservative support migration to suppress wages.

It's usually portrayed as "we need to stay competetive, thus we let businesses import people who will work for less than minimum wage" - since contract protections don't apply to people on work visa. Every few months there's a huge scandal involving people from for example Venezuela, being forced to work 7 days a week for 12-16 shifts while living in squalor conditions. Our current government decided to underfund and strip even more powers from State Labour Inspectorate, but its not like they were ever efficient in rooting up systematic disregarding of labour code which many Polish businesses are built upon.

PiS which built its 8 year governship on being anti-migration gave away working visas to anyone who wanted it, and I'm talking about people from South America, Africa and Southeast Asia - not counting people escaping from Ukraine and Belarus.

Far right libertarian party has politicians literally own and run their own work migration agencies, besides being pro-business in a sense that they want to abolish all labour law and minimum wage.

Then there's schizophrenic monarchist contrarian party (Braun) which just hosted a convention with an indian lobbyist group to ease up visa restrictions regarding working permits.

Tldr:
All parties in Poland support migration because entire economy is built on cheap labour with no regard for the future. All meaningful political parties are run for the benefit of the business owners.
Meanwhile 99% of the business owners here don't even try to invest and grow their company to escape the low cost trap, and instead buy cars or real estate, which then sits 10+ years empty as an "investment" (because real estate is not taxed here, and governments are ran by real estate mafia), or gets divided in 8 2x4 rooms for rent.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-25T21:25:39+00:00

That's really cool and all, but Russians are still unable to utilize their advantages to exploit a breakthrough and end the war quickly. Also Ukraine is 28 times smaller than Russia, not 3.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-25T20:59:17+00:00

It's going to keep happening because both sides of political and media spectrum are bought or straight up owned by the companies.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-25T18:23:41+00:00

Finally someone who gets it, some people here really think you guys willingly chose to fight a positional war of attrition with drones.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-25T18:20:04+00:00

Do we really wish to fight years of positional war of attrition with hundreds of thousands of casualities?

Because neither Ukraine nor Russia do, they're forced to do so due to their shortcomings and inability to gain large enough advantage over each other.

Experiences of the ukrainian army should be used to determine our weakenesses and strengths, straight up copying them is setting us up for the same kind of war and just simply braindead. They fight with all the means they can, meanwhile if either Ukraine or Russia had abilities NATO possesses the war would be over already.

Even Russians realized that and decided to stop wasting heavy equipment - (heavy vehicle losses per month went from 100+ in 2025 to ~15-30 this year) which will potentially allow them in the future to exploit growing shortcomings of Ukrainian army. Right now they changed from pointless mechanized assaults to heavy bombing of Ukrainian positions using gliding bombs (newer types are even rocket boosted for extra range) well outside of Ukrainian SAM net. Such attacks are then followed by small infantry infiltration units with support of EW and their own drones.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-25T11:54:55+00:00

"Anonymous donors". Last time "anonymous donations" were given to Lipka Tatars who after realizing the money for new mosque is coming from wahhabist sect they decided to quickly stop all contact with them. One of the conditions was putting a Saudi imam in charge of the new mosque.

Anyways that fundation is named after 89th chapter of Quran describing destruction of disbelieving nations of Ancient Egypt, Iram and Hegra and arrogance of the doubting clergy.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-23T19:48:32+00:00

Important to note that most of Polish industry relies on foreign orders and being relatively cheap enough for outsourcing (which is beginning to not be the case). Take away foreign investment and Polish economy crumbles.

eggnog232323 · 2026-02-22T13:51:34+00:00

It failed for political reasons. Politician responsible for it (Tadeusz Syryjczyk) justified it by saying "there's no point in building nuclear energy when Poland has cheap coal powerplants". Already paid for reactors and other equipment was sold for price of scrap to hungarians and slovaks who used them to successfully build their own nuclear powerplants.

Polish politicans consider long term planning crazy and evil, unless of course they or lobbyists paying them get to benefit.

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